Alina Carmen Cojocaru

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Alina Carmen Cojocaru is a Romanian mathematician who works in number theory and is known for her research on elliptic curves, arithmetic geometry, and sieve theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a researcher in the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy. [1]

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Cojocaru earned her Ph.D. from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 2002. Her dissertation, Cyclicity of Elliptic Curves Modulo p, was jointly supervised by M. Ram Murty and Ernst Kani. [2]

Cojocaru was elected to be an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Council member at large from February 1st, 2023, to January 31st, 2024. [3]

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  1. Alina Carmen Cojocaru, University of Illinois at Chicago , retrieved 2018-05-28
  2. Alina Carmen Cojocaru at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "Council". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
  4. Reviews of An Introduction to Sieve Methods and their Applications: