Evan O'Dorney: Residence
Evan O'Dorney: Residence
Evan O'Dorney: Residence
RESIDENCE
Born in Seattle, WA, Sep. 16, 1993
Living in Danville, CA since 1998
Permanent address:
119 Shelterwood Lane
Danville, CA 94506
Permanent email: emo916math@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. student at Princeton (expected class of 2020)
Part III of the Mathematical Tripos, Cambridge University (class of 2016)
B.A. summa cum laude in mathematics at Harvard College (class of 2015)
Homeschooled through Venture School in San Ramon, CA (1998-2011)
Part-time student at University of California, Berkeley (2007-2011)
HONORS
Mathematical
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award (2016)
Morgan Prize Honorable Mention (2015)
Hoopes Prize for an outstanding Harvard senior thesis (2015)
Mumford Prize for Harvard’s most outstanding mathematics student of the year (2015)
Churchill Scholarship for one year of study at Cambridge (2015)
Putnam Fellow (2011, 2012, 2013)
International Mathematical Olympiad: gold medals (2010, 2011), silver medals (2008, 2009)
USA Mathematical Olympiad winner (2008, 2010, 2011)
Intel Science Talent Search national champion (2011)
“Who Wants to Be a Mathematician” national champion (2010, 2011)
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair finalist (2010)
Clay Olympiad Scholar Award for most original solution to a USA Mathematical Olympiad
problem (2008)
Non-mathematical
Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum Student Composition Competition winner for a choral
anthem (2015)
Phi Beta Kappa (2014)
Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion (2007)
PUBLICATIONS
In peer-reviewed journals
On a remarkable identity in class numbers of cubic rings. J. Number Theory 176 (2017), pp.
302–332, DOI 10.1016/j.jnt.2016.12.002
“Rings of small rank over a Dedekind domain and their ideals.” Research in the Mathematical
Sciences, issue 3(1) (2016), pp. 1–36, DOI 10.1186/s40687-016-0054-0
“Canonical rings of Q-divisors on P¹.” Annals of Combinatorics vol. 19, issue 4 (2015), pp.
765–784.
“Continued fractions and linear fractional transformations.” Integers vol. 15 (2015), Paper A1,
23 pp.
“Minimizing the Cayley transform of an orthogonal matrix by multiplying by signature
matrices.” Linear Algebra and Its Applications (2014), pp. 97–103.
“Degree asymptotics of the numerical semigroup tree.” Semigroup Forum vol. 87, issue 3
(2013), pp. 601–616.
“Visibly irreducible polynomials over finite fields. To appear in Amer. Math. Monthly.
In miscellaneous venues
“Four proofs of the Integer Side Theorem.” Harvard College Mathematics Review vol. 4
(2012), pp. 54–57.
PRESENTATIONS
“A number theorist's introduction to Galois cohomology.” Graduate Student Seminar, Princeton
Univ, Sep. 20, 2018.
“Remarkable identities in the counting functions for cubic and quartic rings.” Graduate Student
Seminar, Princeton Univ, Feb. 9, 2017.
“An identity on class numbers of cubic rings.” Univ of Cambridge, May 17, 2016.