Alina Carmen Cojocaru
Alina Carmen Cojocaru is a Romanian mathematician who works in number theory and is known for her research on elliptic curves, arithmetic geometry, and sieve theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a researcher in the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy.
Cojocaru earned her Ph.D. from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 2002. Her dissertation, Cyclicity of Elliptic Curves Modulo p, was jointly supervised by M. Ram Murty and Ernst Kani.
Cojocaru was elected to be an American Mathematical Society Council member at large from February 1, 2023, to January 31, 2024.
Books
Cojocaru is an author of the book- An Introduction to Sieve Methods and their Applications.
- Women in Numbers: Research Directions in Number Theory.
- ''Scholar: A Scientific Celebration Highlighting Open Lines of Arithmetic Research: Conference in Honour of M. Ram Murty's Mathematical Legacy on His 60th Birthday''
Selected publications
- Cojocaru, Alina Carmen; Murty, M. Ram, "Cyclicity of elliptic curves modulo and elliptic curve analogues of Linnik's problem". Math. Ann. 330, no. 3, 601–625. .
- Cojocaru, Alina Carmen, "On the surjectivity of the Galois representations associated to non-CM elliptic curves. With an appendix by Ernst Kani". Canad. Math. Bull. 48, no. 1, 16–31.
- Cojocaru, Alina Carmen; Hall, Chris. "Uniform results for Serre's theorem for elliptic curves". Int. Math. Res. Not., no. 50, 3065–3080. .