Curriculum Vitae

Contact

Name: Darko Trifunovski

Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
Science and Engineering Offices (M/C 249)
851 S. Morgan St.
Chicago, IL 60607-7045

Email: dtrifu2@uic.edu

Education

University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, IL.
PhD in Mathematics. August 2013 - December 2019.
  • Thesis: "Rankin-Selberg L-functions for the Unitary Similitude Group of Order Two"
  • Specialization: Number Theory
  • Advisor: Ramin Takloo-Bighash
Reed College. Portland, OR.
BA in Mathematics. August 2009 - May 2013.
  • Thesis: "Computing the Extreme Core of Siegel Modular Forms"
  • Advisor: Jerry Shurman
  • Phi Beta Kappa

Publications

Papers:

  1. PDF Specializations of Generalized Rikuna Polynomials (with C. Cass, J. Cullinan and A. Rasmussen)
    International Journal of Number Theory 10, 585 (2014)

Other:

  1. PDF Sage Computing the Extreme Core of Siegel Modular Forms
    Undergraduate Thesis

Teaching Experience

University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Intermediate Algebra Summer Workshop (Summer 2014, Summer 2016, Summer 2018)
  • Intermediate Algebra (Fall 2013)
  • Mathematical Reasoning (Fall 2016)
  • Precalculus (Spring 2014)
  • Calculus for Business (Summer 2017)
  • Calculus II (Spring 2015, Summer 2015)
  • Calculus III (Spring 2019)
  • Elementary Linear Algebra (Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017)
  • Differential Equations (Fall 2018)
  • Applied Linear Algebra (Spring 2018, Summer 2019)

Talks

Departmental Talks

  1. Local Class Field Theory, UIC Class Field Theory Seminar, October 2016.
  2. Tate's Thesis, UIC Automorphic Forms Seminar, March 2015.
  3. Representation Theory of Sp(n), UIC RTG Seminar in Representation Theory & Algebraic Geometry, October 2014.
  4. Specializations of Generalized Rikuna Polynomials, UIC Graduate Student Number Theory Seminar, October 2014.
  5. Introduction to Siegel Modular Forms, UIC Graduate Student Number Theory Seminar, March 2014.

Conference Attendance

  1. 2017 Atkin Memorial Lecture and Workshop: Height Zeta Functions, Chicago, IL, April 2017.
  2. Arizona Winter School 2017: Perfectoid Spaces, Tucson, AZ, March 2017.
  3. Arizona Winter School 2015: Arithmetic and Higher-Dimensional Varieties, Tucson, AZ, March 2015.