Ph.D. Students

Student, year of Ph.D., thesis title, and papers based on the thesis or a continuation of the thesis work.

Bester, Michal; 1976.
       Thesis: Local Flat Duality of Abelian Varieties.
        Local flat duality of abelian varieties. Math. Ann. 235 (1978), no. 2, 149--174.

Blass, Piotr; 1977.
       Thesis: Zariski Surfaces.
        Zariski surfaces. C. R. Math. Rep. Acad. Sci. Canada 2 (1980/81), no. 1, 31--33.
        Zariski surfaces. Dissertationes Math. (Rozprawy Mat.) 200 (1983), 81 pp .
        Families of Zariski surfaces. (with Marc Levine) Duke Math. J. 49 (1982), no. 1, 129--136.
        Picard groups of Zariski surfaces. , Compositio Math. 54 (1985), no. 1, 3--40.
        Zariski surfaces and differential equations in characteristic p> 0 (with Jeffrey Lang). Monographs and Textbooks in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 106. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1987. viii+441 pp.
        and many other papers.

DeLong, Matthew; 1998.
       Thesis: Relating Elliptic Curves to Three-Ranks of Quadratic Number Fields.
        A formula for the Selmer group of a rational three-isogeny. Preprint(pdf)

Giguere, Pierre; 1998.
       Thesis: On the Conjecture of Langlands and Rapoport.

Hawkins, William; 1982.
       Thesis: The Etale Cohomology of Certain p-torsion Sheaves.
        The étale cohomology of p-torsion sheaves. I. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 301 (1987), no. 1, 163--188.
        The étale cohomology of p-torsion sheaves. II. Ulam Quart. 1 (1992), no. 2, 33ff., approx. 11 pp.

Pfau, Matthias; 1993.
       Thesis: The Reduction of Connected Shimura Varieties at Primes of Good Reduction.
        The conjecture of Langlands and Rapoport for certain Shimura varieties of non-rational weight. J. Reine Angew. Math. 471 (1996), 165--199. Preprint(ps.gz)
        A conjecture about the reduction of connected Shimura varieties at good primes. Preprint, 37 pages.

Scharaschkin, Victor; 1999.
       Thesis: Local-Global Problems and the Brauer-Manin Obstruction.
        The Hasse Principle Modulo nth Powers. Acta Arithmetica, 87 #3, 269--285, 1999
        The Brauer-Manin Obstruction for Curves. Preprint, December 16, 1998. [pdf]

Treatman, Stefan; 1996.
       Thesis: Euclidean Systems.
        Euclidean systems. J. Number Theory 73 (1998), no. 2, 277--291.

Vazzana, Anthony; 1998.
       Thesis: 4-Ranks of K 2 of Rings of Integers in Quadratic Number Fields.
        Elementary abelian 2-primary parts of K 2 O and related graphs in certain quadratic number fields. Acta Arith. 81 (1997), no. 3, 253--264.
        On the 2-primary part of K 2 of rings of integers in certain quadratic number fields. Acta Arith. 80 (1997), no. 3, 225--235.
        8-ranks of K 2 of rings of integers in quadratic number fields, Jour. Number Theory 76 (1999), 248--264.

Wei, Wafa; 1993.
        Thesis: Weil Numbers and Generating Large Field Extensions.
        Moduli fields of CM-motives applied to Hilbert's 12th problem, Preprint(ps.gz)