Ritabrata Munshi

Hill Assistant Professor

 

Office: Room # 216, Hill Center, Busch Campus

Email: rmunshi “at” math.rutgers.edu

Office Hour: TBA

 

Address:

Department of Mathematics, Hill Center

110 Frelinghuysen Road

Piscataway NJ 08854

 

 

Research:

 

Papers:

1.      On a double Dirichlet series. (2008)

2.      Pairs of quadratic forms. (Joint with Iwaniec) (Submitted) (2008)

3.      Density of rational points on cyclic covers of P^n. (2007) (To appear)

4.      Density of positive rank fibers in elliptic fibrations -II. (2007) (To appear in the International Journal of Number Theory)

5.      Density of rational points on elliptic fibrations -II. (Acta Arithmetica 134 (2008), 133-140.)

6.      The level of distribution of the special values of L-functions. (2007) (Submitted)

7.      Cubic polynomials and quadratic forms. (Joint with Iwaniec) (2006-2007) (Submitted)

8.      Twisted Rankin-Selberg integrals. (2006-2007)

9.      Density of rational points on elliptic fibrations. (Acta Arithmetica 129 (2007), 63-70.)

10.  Density of positive rank fibers in elliptic fibrations. (Journal of Number Theory 125 (2007), 254-266.)

 

11.  Hilbert’s Nullstellensatz. (Bulletin of BMC (1999))

                                       (See J.P. May’s article “Munshi’s proof of the Nullstellensatz Amer. Math. Monthly 110 (2003), no. 2, 133--140)

                                       (See R.G. Swan’s article “On Munshi’s proof of the Nullstellensatz”)

                                      (Also see E. Arrondo’s article “Another elementary proof of the Nullstellensatz”)

12.  Jordan curve theorem. (Part I) (Resonance 4 (1999) no. 9, 32-37)

13.  Jordan curve theorem. (Part II) (Resonance 4 (1999) no. 11, 14-20)

 

Dissertation: The Arithmetic of Elliptic Fibrations. (2006) Princeton University.

 

 

Fall 2008:

 

(1)   Introductory Linear Algebra: 640:250:01 – (i) Tentative syllabus and Practice problems 

       (ii) Grading Scheme, Exam Dates and Weekly Assignments (Check for updates regularly)

 

(2)   Theory of Numbers: 640:356:01 Information (Check for updates regularly)

 

 

Teaching Spring 2008:

     (1) Introductory Linear Algebra: 640:250

 

Teaching Fall 2007:

     (1) Introductory Linear Algebra: 640:250 (Two sections)  

 

Teaching Spring 2007:

(1)    Cryptography 640:348

 

Teaching Fall 2006:

     (1) Introductory Linear Algebra: 640:250  

(2)   Advanced Calculus I: 640:311