Michael Zieve Department of Mathematics University of Michigan 530 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109‒1043, USA

Office: East Hall, Room 3835 Phone: (734) 615‒3650 Fax: (734) 763‒0937 email: zieve at umich.edu

I am a Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Michigan.

Want to know more about me? Here is my curriculum vitae.

Trying to find me? Here is my schedule.

Teaching

I will teach Math 593 and Math 676 in the Fall.

My current PhD students are Sijun Liu, Alex Mueller, and Zach Scherr. My first two students, Brian Wyman and Ben Weiss, graduated in 2010 and 2011, respectively.   (Electronic resources for UMich number theory students)

Since arriving in Michigan in Fall 2009, I have run the Number Theory Learning Seminar, aimed at exposing graduate students to various topics. In Winter 2010 this included background lectures in preparation for the Michigan Lectures in Number Theory.   I also organized the 2010 Midwest Number Theory Day and Midwest Number Theory Conference for Graduate Students.  Here is my full list of educational activities.

Research

My research covers topics in algebra, number theory, algebraic geometry, dynamical systems, discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science, and cryptography.  I have written 40 papers with 43 coauthors.  I previously worked at the Center for Communications Research in Princeton, where I wrote over thirty proprietary papers.

Selected papers

See also my full publication list and list of abstracts.

33.		Linear relations between polynomial orbits, with D. Ghioca and T. Tucker, Duke Math. J., to appear.
27.		A new family of exceptional polynomials in characteristic two, with R. Guralnick and J. Rosenberg, Annals of Math. 172 (2010), 1367–1396.
26.		Polynomials with PSL(2) monodromy, with R. Guralnick, Annals of Math. 172 (2010), 1321–1365.
24.		Intersections of polynomial orbits, and a dynamical Mordell-Lang conjecture, with D. Ghioca and T. Tucker, Inventiones Math. 171 (2008), 463–483.
12.		Curves of every genus with many points, II: Asymptotically good families, with N. Elkies, E. Howe, A. Kresch, B. Poonen and J. Wetherell, Duke Math. J. 122 (2004), 399–422.

Coauthors

I am not a midwestern artist versed in eastern spirituality, a Minneapolis motorcyclist nicknamed "The Dude", or an MIT basketball player who played high school tennis in Seattle. However, I am the winner of the Cryan tennis tournament and other tournaments in New Jersey.