Chris Pinner's Vita

July 2002

Education

The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Ph.D. in mathematics (Number Theory), August 1992
Advisor: Jeffrey Vaaler
Thesis Title: On the number of irreducible factors of a polynomial.
Oxford University, New College, Oxford, England
M.Sc. in mathematics (by research), July 1989
Advisor: Roger Heath-Brown
Thesis Title: Topics in analytic number theory.
University of York, York, England
B.Sc. Mathematics. Hons. (First Class), June 1985

Professional Experience

Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas:
Assistant Professor, August 2000 onwards
University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada:
Assistant Professor (Instructor 1998), September 1998 to August 2000
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada:
Postdoctoral Assistant, November 1997 to August 1998
Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia:
Research Associate, November 1996 to November 1997
University of British Columbia & Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada:
Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, September 1994 to November 1996
The University of Texas, Austin, Texas:
Lecturer, September 1993 to August 1994
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California:
Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, Jan 1993 to June 1993
Special Session in Transcendence and Diophantine Problems.
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia:
Associate Lecturer, July 1992 to Jan 1993
The University of Texas, Austin, Texas:
Teaching Assistant, Assistant Instructor, Fall 1988 to Spring 1992

Publications

Published Papers

C. G. Pinner, N. Saradha & A. J. van der Poorten : Some infinite products with interesting continued fraction expansions, J. Theorie des Nombres, Bordeaux 5 (1993), 187-216.
C. G. Pinner & J. D. Vaaler: The number of irreducible factors of a polynomial, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 339 (1993), 809-834.
C. G. Pinner & J. D. Vaaler : The number of irreducible factors of a polynomial, II, Acta Arith. 78 (1996), 125-142.
C. G. Pinner: On sums of fractional parts {na+b}, J. Number Th. 65 (1997), 48-73.
P. Borwein & C. G. Pinner: Polynomials with {0,+1,-1} coefficients and a root close to a given point, Canad. J. of Math. 49 (1997), 887-915.
C. G. Pinner: Repeated values of the divisor function, Quart. J. Math. Oxford (2) 48 (1997), 499-502.
F. Beaucoup, P. Borwein, D. W. Boyd & C. G. Pinner: Power series with restricted coefficients and a root on a given ray, Math. Comp. 67 (1998), 715-736.
D. Borwein, J. Borwein & C. G. Pinner: Convergence of Madelung-like lattice sums, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 350 (1998), 3131-3167.
F. Beaucoup, P. Borwein, D. W. Boyd & C. G. Pinner: Multiple roots of [-1,1] power series, J. London Math. Soc. 57 (1998), 135-147.
M. J. Mossinghoff, C. G. Pinner & J. D. Vaaler: Perturbing polynomials with all their roots on the unit circle, Math. Comp. 67 (1998), 1707-1726.
C. G. Pinner: Bounding the elliptic Mahler measure, Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. (1998), 521--529.
G. R. Everest & C. G. Pinner: Bounding the elliptic Mahler measure, II, J. London Math. Soc. 58 (1998), 1-8.
C. G. Pinner: Double roots of [-1,1] power series and related matters, Math. Comp. 68 (1999), 1149-1178.
C. G. Pinner & J. D. Vaaler: The number of irreducible factors of a polynomial, III. Number Theory in Progress, Vol. 1 (Zakopane-Koscielisko, 1997), 395-405, de Gruyter, Berlin, 1999.
C. G. Pinner: On the one-sided boundedness of sums of fractional parts ({na+b}-1/2), J. Number Th. 81 (2000), 170-204.
C. G. Pinner & D. Wolczuk: On the inhomogeneous Hall's ray of period one quadratics, Experimental Math. 10 (2001), 487-495.
C. G. Pinner: More on inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation, J. Theorie des Nombres, Bordeaux. 13 (2001), 539-557.

Accepted Papers

P. Borwein, C. G. Pinner & I. Pritsker: Monic integer Chebyshev problem, Experimental Math.
T. Cochrane, C. G. Pinner & J. Rosenhouse: Bounds on exponential sums and the polynomial Waring's problem mod p, J. London Math. Soc.

Submitted Papers

T. Cochrane & C. G. Pinner: An improved Mordell type bound for exponential sums, Amer. Math. Soc.
T. Cochrane & C. G. Pinner: Stepanov's method applied to binomial exponential sums, Quart. J. Math. Oxford
T. Cochrane, C. G. Pinner & J. Rosenhouse: Sparse polynomial exponential sums, Acta. Arith.
C. G. Pinner: Bounds on the largest point in the inhomogeneous Lagrange spectrum, Acta. Arith.

Additional Preprints

P. Borwein, C. G. Pinner & J. D. Vaaler: Approximating an algebraic number by a root of a polynomial of fixed height and degree.
W. Moran, C. G. Pinner & A. Pollington: On non-homogeneous diophantine approximation.
W. Moran, C. G. Pinner & A. Pollington: On the Barnes-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.

Most of these papers can be down-loaded in postscript form from my publications page (http://www.math.ksu.edu/~pinner/research.html)

Research Grants

Four year NSERC grant No. 227440-00, June 2000- May 2004 (relinquished on leaving Canada).
NSF Kansas EPSCoR grant, EPS-9874732, Feb 2001 - Jan 2002

Conferences Attended

CECM Summer Conference, Burnaby, BC, Canada, July 27-28, 2001.
First Northern Conference on Prime Numbers, Lille, France, June 25-29, 2001.
Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting, Saskatoon, June 2-4, 2001,
(A bound for a complete exponential sum, mod p).
Millenial Conference on Number Theory, University of Illinois, May 21-26, 2000.
The Sixth Conference of the Canadian Number Theory Association (CNTA '99), Winnipeg, June 20-24, 1999.
Fifth Conference of the Canadian Number Theory Association, Ottawa 1996.
(Approximating points by roots of {0,1,-1} polynomials).
Canadian Number Theory Association Conference, Kingston 1991.
Fifteenth Journees Arithmetiques, Ulm 1987.
Colloquium talks: University of Waterloo 2000, Kansas State University 2000, Brigham Young University 1999, University of Northern British Columbia 1999, Lakehead University 1998.
Seminar talks: Kansas State, University of Toronto, Ottawa University, Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia, Macquarie University, MSRI Berkeley.

Professional Societies

Member of American Mathematical Society

Personal

Born August 12, 1964, (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England)
Citizenships : United Kingdom & Canada
Home Page: http://www.math.ksu.edu/~pinner/

Research Interests

Courses Taught

Vector Calculus (2 times)
Complex Analysis
Calculus I (4 times)
Enriched Calculus
Business Finite Math (2 times)
Business Calculus II and III
Number Theory (2 times)
Discrete Math
Applicable Math
Precalculus (2 times)
Diophantine Approximation
Additional TA experience: Calculus, Vector Calculus, College Algebra, Mathematics for non-mathematicians, Differential Equations & Linear Algebra.

Current Address

pinner@math.ksu.edu

Reference Letter Providers

vaaler@math.utexas.edu

Prof. David W. Boyd
Department of Mathematics
University of British Columbia
Vancouver
Canada, V6T 1Z2
tel: (604) 822-4457
fax: (604) 822-6074
email: boyd@math.ubc.ca

Prof. Peter Borwein
Mathematics & Statistics
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Canada
tel: (604) 291-4376
fax: (604) 291-5614
email: pborwein@cecm.sfu.ca

Prof. Andy Pollington
Dept. of Mathematics
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602
USA
tel: (801) 378-6888
fax: (801) 378-3703
email andy@math.byu.edu

Teaching Letter

keener@unbc.ca

rossmann@science.uottawa.ca

Christopher G. Pinner, Department of Mathematics, 138 Cardwell Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506. -- pinner@math.ksu.edu