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Jonathan Sands

Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Alma mater(s)
  • Harvard College A.B. 1977
  • University of California at San Diego M.S. 1979 and Ph.D. 1982

BIO

  • Ph.D. advisee of Professor Harold M. Stark at University of California at San Diego 1979-82
  • Ph.D. advisor to Jason Price at University of Vermont 2007-2009
  • Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Maine at Orono, 1982-85
  • Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., Fall 1985
  • Instructor, The Ohio State University, Winter-Spring 1986
  • Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Vermont, 1986-91
  • Guest Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Saarland, Saarbr ̈ucken, Germany, 1992-93
  • Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Vermont, 1991-1999
  • Visitor, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 1999-2000
  • Professor of Mathematics, University of Vermont, 1999-present
  • Visitor, Department of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego, 2006-2007
  • Visitor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2015.
  • Visitor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, California State University at Chico, 2018

Courses

  • Real Analysis
  • Complex Analysis
  • Measure Theory
  • Algebraic Number Theory
  • Commutative Algebra
  • Algebraic Topology
  • Cryptography
  • Algebraic Geometry
  • Abstract Algebra
  • Fundamentals of Mathematics
  • Linear Algebra
  • Calculus

Area(s) of expertise

L-functions, Algebraic Number Theory, Algebraic K-Theory, and Algebraic Graph Theory.

Bio

  • Ph.D. advisee of Professor Harold M. Stark at University of California at San Diego 1979-82
  • Ph.D. advisor to Jason Price at University of Vermont 2007-2009
  • Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Maine at Orono, 1982-85
  • Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., Fall 1985
  • Instructor, The Ohio State University, Winter-Spring 1986
  • Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Vermont, 1986-91
  • Guest Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Saarland, Saarbr ̈ucken, Germany, 1992-93
  • Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Vermont, 1991-1999
  • Visitor, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 1999-2000
  • Professor of Mathematics, University of Vermont, 1999-present
  • Visitor, Department of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego, 2006-2007
  • Visitor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2015.
  • Visitor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, California State University at Chico, 2018

Courses

  • Real Analysis
  • Complex Analysis
  • Measure Theory
  • Algebraic Number Theory
  • Commutative Algebra
  • Algebraic Topology
  • Cryptography
  • Algebraic Geometry
  • Abstract Algebra
  • Fundamentals of Mathematics
  • Linear Algebra
  • Calculus

Areas of Expertise

L-functions, Algebraic Number Theory, Algebraic K-Theory, and Algebraic Graph Theory.

Publications

  • Numerical evidence for higher order Stark-type conjecture (with K.
    McGown and D. Vallieres), Mathematics of Computation 88.315 (2019), 389-420.
  • Computing annihilators of class groups from derivatives of L-series (with B.A. Tangedal), Mathematics of Computation 87.314 (2018), 2937-2953.
  • Zeta-functions and ideal classes of quaternion orders, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 47.4 (2017).
  • Twisted zeta-functions of quaternion orders, Journal of Number Theory 160 (2016), 32-43.
  • L-functions for quadratic characters and annihilation of motivic cohomology groups, Canadian Math. Bulletin 58.3 (2015), 620–631.