Chan Ieong Kuan

Office: Kassar 018
Office Hours: TW 10:30-11:30 and by appointment
My email address is ck9[at]math[dot]brown[dot]edu

Teaching

Fall 2010: Math 0100 (TA)
Spring 2011: Math 0180 (TA)
Fall 2011: Math 0100 (TF)
Spring 2012: Math 0520 (TF)
Fall 2012: Math 0100 (TF)
Fall 2013: Math 0170 (TF)

TA is Teaching Assistant and TF is Teaching Fellow (instructor).

Research

My advisor is Jeffrey Hoffstein. My research up to now has been about automorphic forms and their associated L-functions.

Papers

1.

The Sign of Fourier Coefficients of Half-Integral Weight Cusp Forms
joint with T. Hulse, E.M. Kıral, L. Lim
arXiv

2.

Counting Square Discriminants
joint with T. Hulse, E.M. Kıral, L. Lim
arXiv

A little about me

I am a fifth-year graduate student at Brown university. For this semester, I will be teaching Math 0170.

I was born in Macau, China. Macau is a city that's very close to Hong Kong, and had been a Portugal colony before Dec 20, 1999. I speak Cantonese most comfortably (we use traditional Chinese characters), with English being the next one. Although I can read most of the simplified Chinese characters, my Mandarin is really broken (for those who had heard of it...).

My first 2 undergraduate years I was at a community college in Santa Monica, California. I transferred to UC Berkeley after that, and finished a double major of Maths and CS.

Below is a picture of me with my advisor, Jeffrey Hoffstein, and my mathematical siblings as of Spring 2012: Thomas Hulse, Mehmet Kıral and Li-Mei Lim. This is taken after the talks of one of the conference days in India. From left to right: myself, Li-Mei, Jeff, Tom and Mehmet.

My math family

Last updated: September 10, 2013
A fun little something

If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be David Eisenbud's Commutative Algebra with a view towards Algebraic Geometry.

I am an attempt to write on commutative algebra in a way that includes the geometric ideas that played a great role in its formation; with a view, in short, towards Algebraic Geometry. I cover the material that graduate students studying Algebraic Geometry - and in particular those studying the book Algebraic Geometry by Robin Hartshorne - should know. The reader should have had one year of basic graduate algebra.

Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test