Chantal David

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Chantal David
Born1964 (1964)
Nationality French Canadian
Alma mater McGill University
Known forResearch in analytic number theory
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics, Analytic Number Theory
Institutions Concordia University
Thesis Supersingular Drinfeld Modules  (1993)
Doctoral advisor Ram Murty

Chantal David (born 1964) [1] is a French Canadian mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Concordia University. Her interests include analytic number theory, arithmetic statistics, and random matrix theory, and she has shown interest in elliptic curves and Drinfeld modules. She is the 2013 winner of the Krieger–Nelson Prize, given annually by the Canadian Mathematical Society to an outstanding female researcher in mathematics. [2] [3]

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Education and career

David completed her doctorate in mathematics in 1993 at McGill University, under the supervision of Ram Murty.

Her thesis was entitled Supersingular Drinfeld Modules. [4]

In the same year, she joined the faculty at Concordia University.

She became the deputy director of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques in 2004. [3]

In 2008, David was an invited professor at Université Henri Poincaré. [2]

She spent September 2009 through April 2010 at the Institute for Advanced Study. [5]

From January through May 2017, she co-organized a program on analytic number theory at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. [6]

Research

In 1999, David published a paper with Francesco Pappalardi which proved that the Lang–Trotter conjecture holds in most cases. [7]

She has shown that for several families of curves over finite fields, the zeroes of zeta functions are compatible with the Katz–Sarnak conjectures.

She has also used random matrix theory to study the zeroes in families of elliptic curves. David and her collaborators have exhibited a new Cohen–Lenstra phenomenon for the group of points of elliptic curves over finite fields. [3]

Awards and honors

David was awarded the Krieger-Nelson Prize by the Canadian Mathematical Society in 2013. [3]

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References

  1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-04.
  2. 1 2 Jeewanjee, Gertrud (2014-01-07). "Krieger-Nelson Prize" (PDF). 2013 CMS Summer Meeting: 86, 92. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-09-28.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Concordia Mathematician Recognized for Research Excellence". Canadian Mathematical Society . 2013-04-15. Archived from the original on 2017-02-01. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  4. Chantal David at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Chantal David". Institute for Advanced Study . Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  6. Tao, Terence (2015-08-01). "Analytic Number Theory program at MSRI: Jan-May 2017". terrytao.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  7. David, Chantal; Pappalardi, Francesco (1999-01-01). "Average Frobenius distributions of elliptic curves". International Mathematics Research Notices. 199 (4): 165–183. doi: 10.1155/S1073792899000082 .