I am a second-year PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Samir Siksek and Prof. Minhyong KimLink opens in a new window. I am currently working on the study of Diophantine equations over totally real fields, using the modularity of certain elliptic curves and the study of S-unit equations. However, my interests include more vast aspects of algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry, and more recently isogeny-based cryptography.

I previously finished my MMath degree at the University of Oxford. My dissertation was on "Profinite Groups as Galois Groups" under the supervision of Prof. Nikolay NikolovLink opens in a new window.

Writings:

• "Mary Somerville's Diophantine Equations" (PDF ), under the supervision of Minhyong Kim;
• "Asymptotic Fermat for signatures (p,p,2) and (p,p,3) over totally real fields" (PDF )(arXivLink opens in a new window), based on the first-year summer project under the supervision of Samir Siksek;
• "Elliptic Curves in Cryptography" (PDFLink opens in a new window ), handout as part of MBL 2021Link opens in a new window (not attended in person due to unexpected circumstances).

Teaching and Other Responsibilities:

• Supervisor (online) to first-year Mathematics and Statistics undergraduates for Mathematical Analysis I and II, Linear Algebra, Terms 1 and 2, 2020-2021;
• Exam marking for the third-year module Algebraic Number Theory, Term 3, 2021;
• TA for MA3E1: Groups & Representations, Term 1, 2021;
• TA for MA473: Reflection Groups, Term 2, 2022.

Conferences, Seminars, and Summer Schools Attended:

• Isogeny-based Cryptography School (online), July-September 2021;
• Arithmetic, Geometry, Cryptography and Coding Theory, CIRM (online), May-June 2021;
• WIMP (Warwick-Imperial) Autumn 2020 Conference (online), 28-29th November 2020;
• Warwick Number Theory Seminar, University of Warwick (online), 2020-2021.

Talks given:

• "Group Schemes", Mazur's Torsion Theorem (linkLink opens in a new window), 4th April 2022;
• "Prime Ideal Theorem", Random Polynomials Reading Group, University of Warwick, 25th February 2022;
• "Elliptic Curves in Cryptography" (slidesLink opens in a new window), Postgraduate Seminar, University of Warwick, 26th January 2022;
• "Cartan's classification and connected Shimura varieties", Shimura Varieties Reading Group (online), University of Warwick, 14th May 2021;
• "Elliptic curves over the complex numbers and lattices", Modular Forms Reading Group (online), University of Warwick, 5th February 2021;
• "Borel Subgroups", Algebraic Groups Reading Group (online), University of Warwick, 25th November 2020;
• "Galois Cohomology", Class Field Theory Reading Group (online), University of Warwick, 30th October 2020.

Contact:

Mathematics Institute
Zeeman Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL

Office: B3.04

diana dot mocanu at warwick dot ac dot uk