Ramin Takloo-Bighash

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Ramin Takloo-Bighash
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Sharif University of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Known forSpinor L-Functions, rational points
Scientific career
Fields Number Theory
Arithmetic Geometry
Harmonic Analysis
Institutions University of Illinois at Chicago
Princeton University
Doctoral advisor Joseph Shalika
Website http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~rtakloo/

Ramin Takloo-Bighash (born 1974) is a mathematician who works in the field of automorphic forms and Diophantine geometry and is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Mathematical career

Takloo-Bighash graduated from the Sharif University of Technology, where he enrolled after winning a Silver medal at the 1992 International Mathematical Olympiad. In 2001, Takloo-Bighash graduated under Joseph Shalika from Johns Hopkins University. He spent 2001-2007 at Princeton University, first as an instructor and then as an assistant professor. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Research

Takloo-Bighash computed the local factors of spinor L-function attached to generic automorphic forms on the symplectic group GSp(4).[ citation needed ] He has joint works with Joseph Shalika and Yuri Tschinkel on the distribution of rational points on certain group compactifications.[ citation needed ] He is a co-author, with Steven J. Miller, of An Invitation To Modern Number Theory (Princeton University Press, 2006).

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