Update
Sep 8, 2011





in deep thought















































       Mathematics
Name/Contact Info:
   Sungkon Chang,
       Sungkon.Chang@armstrong.edu
             Students in my courses, please, use the Vista mail.
       Phone: 912-344-2889

Education Curriculum Vitae

    
Research Interest:
  • Arithmetic of abelian varieties
  • Modular curves
          and Automorphic forms
  • Algebraic number theory
  • Circle Packing Problems

Introduction for general audience
Invitation to Research

Number Theory Web
A gateway to number theory

My Student Hall of Fame

Activities

Conferences/Seminars:
  • 2011 Southeast Regional Meeting on Numbers.
  • Spring Problem Session and Fall Putnam Seminar
  • Palmetto Number Theory Series X at Savannah, GA
Article Reviews

Recent Talks:
  • Apr, 2012:
    The geometry of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Part I
    Hudson Colloquia, AASU
  • Nov, 2011: Introduction to Differential Geometry,
    Hudson Colloquia, AASU
  • Apr, 2011: Reflection on the 71th Putnam Competition,
    Hudson Colloquia, AASU
  • Oct, 2010: The algebra of Grand Unified Theories,
    Hudson Colloquia, AASU

    • Talk(s) coming:
  • The geometry of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Part II,
    (Fall 2012) Hudson Colloquia, AASU
  • Diophantine Approximation,
    Hudson Colloquia, AASU
  • Mathematics and Music,
    Hudson Colloquia, AASU
 Slides of my talks.


Research/Teaching

Teaching in Fall 2011:
  • Calculus II, College Algebra
  • Course websites are set up at Vista
  • Look up your Vista ID at Pirates' Cove
Publications
  • Paper, 2010: The equal circle packing problem, in prep.
  • Note, 2011: A lesson on derivatives, To appear in The American Mathematical Monthly.
  • Animation, 2009: Taylor Polynomials Approximated by Interpolations, demonstrations.wolfram.com.
  • Paper, 2008: Quadratic twists of an elliptic curve with small Selmer rank, Acta Arith 141 (2010) 345--367.
  • Paper, 2005: On the arithmetic of twists of superelliptic curves, Acta Arith 124 (2006) 371--389. [AMS Review by Bjorn Poonen]
  • Paper, 2005: Note on the rank of quadratic twists of Mordell equations, J. Number Theory 118 (2006) 53--61. [AMS Review by Pavlos Tzermias]
  • Technical Report, 2003: Implementation of the 3-descent on a Mordell's elliptic curve, selmer3.html.
Projects:
  • Finding a curve over the rationals with arbitrarily large genus with MW rank 0
  • Verification of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture for quadratic twists of elliptic curves.
  • Generalization of my thesis: twists on cyclic covering of curves of positive genus.
  • Quadratic reciprocity on Galois conjugates