Lenny Fukshansky
Address
Department of
Mathematics
3368 TAMU
Texas A&M
University
College Station, TX
77843-3368
Phone: (979) 845-7797
Email:
lenny@math.tamu.edu
Webpage: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~lenny/
Personal
- Citizenship: USA
- Born in Leningrad, Russia
- Fluent in Russian (native) and English languages
- Member of AMS
Education
- Ph.D. in Mathematics, August 2004
University of Texas at Austin
Advisor: Prof. J. D. Vaaler
- B.S. in Applied Mathematics with Specialization in Computing, 1995
University of California at Los Angeles
Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College, 2007 - present
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, 2004 -
2007
- Assistant Instructor and Teaching Assistant, University of Texas
at Austin, 1998 - 2004
- Teaching Assistant, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Spring 1998
- Software Engineer, IBM, General Magic, Compuware, and Compaq
corporations, 1995 - 1998
Visiting Positions
- Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifique (IHES), Bures-sur-Yvette,
France, July 2007
- Max Planck Institut für Mathematik (MPI), Bonn, Germany,
July/August 2006
Research Interests
Number theory, arithmetic geometry, discrete and
convex geometry, in particular:
- Diophantine approximations, equations, and problems
- Classical and adelic geometry of numbers
- Quadratic and linear forms; polynomials
- Theory of height functions, rational points on varieties,
Mahler's measure, and connections
with arithmetic
geometry
- Geometric combinatorics, lattice point counting, Erhart polynomial
- Lattices, linear Diophantine problem of
Frobenius
Publications
- Algebraic points of
small height with additional arithmetic conditions, Ph.D.
Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, August 2004
- Small zeros of quadratic forms with linear conditions, Journal of Number Theory,
vol. 108 no. 1 (2004), pg. 29-43
- Lattice points in
homogeneously expanding compact domains, One section of
the omnibus Problems Article "Problems from the Cottonwood Room" (M.
Beck, B. Chen, L. Fukshansky, C. Haase, A. Knutson, B. Reznick, S.
Robins, A. Schuermann), Contemporary Mathematics 374
(2005), 179-191, Proceedings of the Summer 2003 AMS/MAA/SIAM Conference
on Integer
Points in Polyhedra
- Integral points of
small height outside of a hypersurface, Monatshefte
für Mathematik, vol. 147 no. 1 (2006), pg. 25-41
- Siegel's lemma with
additional conditions, Journal
of Number Theory, vol. 120 no. 1 (2006), pg. 13-25
- (with Sinai Robins) Frobenius
problem and the covering
radius of a lattice, Discrete
and Computational Geometry, vol. 37 no. 3 (2007), pg. 471-483
- On effective Witt
decomposition and
Cartan-Dieudonné theorem, to appear in Canadian Journal of Mathematics
- Search bounds for zeros
of
polynomials over the algebraic closure of Q, to appear in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics
- Small zeros of
quadratic forms over the algebraic closure of Q, to appear in International
Journal of Number Theory
- On distribution of well-rounded
sublattices of Z^2, submitted for publication
- On similarity classes
of well-rounded sublattices of Z^2, submitted for publication
Honors, Awards, Scholarships
- AMS/NSF travel grant for ICM 2006, August 2006
- NSF VIGRE postdoctoral fellowship, Texas A&M University,
2004-2005
- Graduate Research Assistanship, University of Texas at
Austin, Summer 2002
- NSF VIGRE traveling support, University of Texas at Austin,
December 2001
- Dodd Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin, 2000
- First year summer fellowship, Department of Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin, 1999
- CalGrant Scholarship, University Scholarship, and College of
Letters
and Science Honors, UCLA, 1992-1993
Invited talks
- Frobenius number,
covering radius, and well-rounded lattices, Colloquium, George Mason University, February 2007
- Frobenius number,
covering radius, and well-rounded lattices, Colloquium, Bucknell University,
February 2007
- Frobenius number,
covering radius, and well-rounded lattices, Colloquium, Claremont McKenna College,
January 2007
- Effective
decompositions of quadratic spaces via heights, Number Theory
Seminar, Max Planck
Institut für Mathematik - Bonn, July 2006
- Frobenius number,
covering radius, and ESM lattices, Number Theory Seminar, University of Göttingen,
June 2006
- Quadratic forms and
height functions, Colloquium
of the Graduiertenkolleg, University
of Göttingen,
June 2006
- On the linear
Diophantine problem of Frobenius, Oberseminar
des Institutes für Algebra und Geometrie , University of
Magdeburg, June 2006
- On the Frobenius problem,
Algebra-Geometry-Combinatorics
Seminar, San Francisco State
University, May 2006
- Frobenius number of ESM
lattices, Number
Theory Seminar, University of
Texas at Austin, February 2006
- The Frobenius problem
and the covering radius of a lattice, Colloquium,
Temple University,
February 2006
- Effective theorems for
quadratic spaces over the algebraic closure of Q, AMS
Special Session on Mahler Measure and Heights, Joint Mathematics
Meeting, San Antonio, TX, January 2006
- Effective structure
theorems for quadratic spaces and their isometries, Number
Theory Seminar, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 2005
- Heights and Diophantine problems,
Colloquium,
Rice University,
September 2004
- Small zeros of
quadratic polynomials, Number Theory
Seminar, Texas A&M
University, November 2003
- Small zeros of quadratic forms with linear conditions, Mahler's
Measure of Polynomials Conference, Simon Fraser University, June 2003
Contributed talks
- Effective theorems for
quadratic spaces via height, Seminaire
de theorie des nombres de Chevaleret, Institut de
Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris, France, July 2007
- On distribution of
integral well-rounded lattices in dimension two, Illinois Number
Theory Fest, May 2007
- Effective theorems for
quadratic spaces, ICM 2006,
Madrid, Spain, August 2006
- Frobenius problem and
the covering radius of a lattice, West
Coast Number Theory, Pacific Grove, CA, December 2005
- Some effective
Diophantine results over the algebraic closure of Q,
XXIVth
Journées Arithmétiques, Marseilles, France, July 2005
- Effective
decompositions of quadratic spaces, ArithmeTexas,
College Station, TX, April 2005
- Counting lattice points
in admissible adelic sets, MNTCG2, Urbana-Champaign,
IL, February 2005
- On effective Witt decomposition and
Cartan-Dieudonné theorem, West
Coast Number Theory Conference, Las Vegas, NV, December 2004
- Siegel's lemma with
additional conditions, CNTA8,
Toronto, June 2004
- Integral points of
small height outside of a hypersurface, Illinois Number Theory
Conference, Urbana-Champaign, May 2004
- Lattice points of small
height in projective varieties, Integer points
in polyhedra, Joint Summer
research conferences, Snowbird, Utah, July 2003
- On a Discrete Analogue of the Tarski Plank Problem, West Coast Number Theory
Conference,
SFSU, San Francisco, December 2002
- Points of small height
outside
of a collection of subspaces, CNTA7,
Montreal,
Canada, May 2002
- Small Zeros of Quadratic Forms over a Number Field, West
Coast Number Theory Conference, Pacific Grove, CA, December 2001
Educational and expository talks
- Mahler's measure and
Lehmer's conjecture, Mathematics
Graduate Student Organization Seminar, Texas A&M
University, October 2006
- Packing oranges and
constructing error correcting codes, invited lecture to school
students as a part of Math
Awareness Month, Texas A&M
University, April 2006
- Simultaneous
Diophantine approximations and a conjecture of Minkowski, Introduction
to Mathematical Research seminar series, University of
Texas at Austin, March 2006
- Semester review of
calculus, invited lecture to freshmen engineering students as a
part of Texas A&M Leaders
in Freshman Engineering final review series, December 2005
- Diophantine equations:
the mystery of numbers, invited lecture to high school students
as a
part of Texas A&M Summer Honors
Invitational Program (SHIP), June 2005
Seminar talks
- On the distribution of
integral well-rounded lattices in dimension two, Part II, Number Theory
Seminar, Texas A&M
University, February 2007
- On the distribution of
integral well-rounded lattices in dimension two, Number Theory
Seminar, Texas A&M
University, September 2006
- Effective theorems for
quadratic spaces over Q-bar, Number Theory
Seminar, Texas A&M
University, January 2006
- The Frobenius problem
and the covering radius of a lattice, Number Theory
Seminar, Texas A&M
University, October 2005
- Some effective
Diophantine results over Q-bar, Number Theory
Seminar, Texas A&M
University, April 2005
- On effective Witt
decomposition and Cartan-Dieudonné theorem, Number Theory
Seminar, Texas A&M
University, September 2004
- Points of small height
with arithmetic conditions, Number
Theory Seminar, University of
Texas at Austin, November 2003
Other special programs and conferences attended
- SMS-NATO
ASI 2005: Equidistribution in Number
Theory, Montreal, Canada, July 2005
- Arizona
Winter School: Number Theory and
Physics, Austin, TX, March 2004
- NSF-CBMS Special
Program: Web of Modularity, Urbana, IL, June 2003
- MSRI Summer Program: Excursions in Computational Number
Theory -
Polynomials with integer coefficients, Vancouver, Canada, June
2002; Project and presentation: Heights of products
of
cyclotomic polynomials
- Illinois
Number
Theory Conference, Urbana, IL, May 2002
- Arizona
Winter School: Periods, Tucson, AZ, March 2002
Professional activities and service
Special Teaching Activities
- Speaker and contest problem grader for Math Awareness event for
elementary, middle, and high school students, 2006
- Assistant Instructor for an REU/VIGRE course, 2005
- Participated in Texas A&M Summer Honors
Invitational Program (SHIP) for high school students, 2005
- Instructor for Emerging Scholars Program (ESP), 2001-2002
- Instructor for Supplemental Instruction Program (SI), 2001
Courses Taught
- Diophantine
Approximations and Geometry of Numbers (graduate special topics
course), Texas A&M University,
Instructor
- Linear Algebra (Honors) for math and science majors, Texas A&M
University, Instructor
- Linear Algebra for engineering majors, Texas A&M
University, Instructor
- Analytic Geometry and Calculus for math and science majors, Texas A&M University, Instructor
- Engineering Calculus II (Honors), Texas A&M University, Instructor
- REU/VIGRE Course: Algebraic Methods in Computational Biology, Texas A&M University, Assistant
Instructor
- Methods of Applied Mathematics I (graduate course), Texas A&M University, Instructor
- Elementary Functions and Coordinate Geometry (Precalculus), University of Texas at Austin,
Instructor
- Differential and Integral Calculus (first and second semesters), University of Texas at Austin,
Teaching Assistant
- Calculus for Business and Economics, University of Texas at Austin,
Teaching Assistant
- Differential Equations, University
of Texas at Austin, Teaching Assistant
Computing Skills
- Various UNIX-type operating systems, Windows, Mac OS
- C, C++, Java, SQL, and other programming languages
- TCP/IP, SGI, ASP, and other communication protocols
- DB2, Oracle, and other database systems