Kevin Childers | Curriculum Vitae 294 Wymount Ter. Provo, UT 84604 | 8014136396 [email protected] | math.byu.edu/~childers
Education
M.S. Mathematics Brigham Young University Provo, UT 2014 2015 Expected. Currently 4.0 GPA
B.S. Mathematics Brigham Young University Provo, UT 2009 2013 Magna Cum Laude, 3.92 GPA overall, 3.99 GPA in major courses
Teaching Experience
Instructor MATH 118 Finite Mathematics Winter 2015 Math for finance and business students
Teaching Assistant MATH 372 Abstract Algebra 2 Fall 2014 Fields and Galois theory
Instructor MATH 112 Calculus 1 Summer 2014 Limits and derivative calculus with applications
Teaching Assistant MATH 113 Calculus 2 Winter 2014 Integral calculus, series, and applications. Taught recitation sections.
Teaching Assistant MATH 313H Honors Linear Algebra Winter 2010 Taught lab on programming in MATLAB using linear algebra
Publications Kevin Childers: Galois Representations. M.S. Thesis, Brigham Young University, 2015 (in progress)
Kevin Childers and Darrin Doud: Proof of a conjecture of Wong concerning octahedral Galois representations of prime power conductor. J. Number Theory (submitted)
Awards
Orson Pratt Award, BYU Winter 2013
Outstanding Student Award, BYU Winter 2013
Dean’s List, BYU Fall 2012
Outstanding Student Award, BYU Winter 2010
Induction into the National Honor Society, BYU 2010
Outstanding Student Award, BYU Fall 2009 Heritage Scholarship, BYU 2009 2013
Talks Given
S4extensions with a common cubic subfield, Workshop on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2015 (future)
Cubic subfields of S4 extensions, BYU Spring Research Conference, Provo, UT, March 2015 (future)
Reducible Galois representations attached to the homology of subgroups of GL(2,Z), BYU Spring Research Conference, Provo, UT, March 2014
Targeted Hunter searches for degree 6 polynomials ramified at a single prime, BYU Spring Research Conference, Provo, UT, March 2013
Weakly modular forms of weight 16, BYU Spring Research Conference, Provo, UT, March 2010
Graduate Courses Taken (*Future enrollment)
*MATH 6772 Homological Algebra 2 Winter 2015 Professor’s notes
*MATH 695R Readings in Mathematics (Algebraic Geometry) Winter 2015 William Fulton, Algebraic Curves
*MATH 554 Topology 2 Winter 2015 James Munkres, Topology, Part II
*MATH 686R Topics in Algebraic Number Theory (Primes of the form x2+Ny2) Winter 2015 David Cox, Primes of the form x2+Ny2
MATH 541 Real Analysis Fall 2014 Frank Jones, Lebesgue Integration on Euclidean Space
MATH 553 Topology 1 Fall 2014 James Munkres, Topology, Part I
MATH 677 Homological Algebra Fall 2014 M. Scott Osborne, Basic Homological Algebra
MATH 686R Topics in Algebraic Number Theory (Computational Number Theory) Spring 2014 Henri Cohen, A Course in Computational Algebraic Number Theory
MATH 675R Topics in Algebra (Representations of Sn) Winter 2014 Tullio CeccheriniSilberstein, Fabio Scarabotti, and Filippo Tolli, Representation Theory of the Symmetric Groups
MATH 686R Topics in Algebraic Number Theory (Elliptic Curves, Modular Forms, Winter 2014 and Galois Representations) Various papers and books related to Fermat's Last Theorem
MATH 676 Commutative Algebra Winter 2014 David Eisenbud, Commutative Algebra with a View Toward Algebraic Geometry
MATH 572 Algebra 2 Winter 2014 David Dummit and Richard Foote, Abstract Algebra, second half
MATH 571 Algebra 1 Fall 2013 David Dummit and Richard Foote, Abstract Algebra, first half
MATH 586 Algebraic Number Theory Fall 2013 Daniel Marcus, Number Fields
MATH 655 Differential Topology Fall 2013 Frank Warner, Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups
MATH 587 Analytic Number Theory Winter 2013 Tom Apostol, Introduction to Analytic Number Theory
Memberships
BYU mathematics department student advisory council
American Mathematical Society
BYU number theory group
BYU algebra group