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F. Rodriguez-VillegasProfessor

Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas is professor of mathematics and a member of the ICES Applied Mathematics Group. He obtained the degree of Licenciado en Ciencias Matematicas from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1985 and a Ph.D. in mathematics from The Ohio State University in 1990. He was a junior faculty member at Princeton University before joining the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin in 1998. He held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study; the Max Planck Institut, Bonn; Harvard University; the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Universite de Bordeaux I and the Universite de Paris VI, France; and was a visiting fellow at All Souls and Wadham Colleges at Oxford University, UK. His main research interests are in number theory, algebra and combinatorics, with an emphasis on their computational aspects. He was a John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow; his research is currently funded by the Clay Mathematics Institute and the National Science Foundation. Rodriguez-Villegas has written numerous research articles and one book, “Experimental Number Theory,” advocating the use of the computer as a research and discovery tool in mathematics. He has given many popular talks around campus and abroad; he has supervised 14 graduate students.

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Email:villegas@math.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-1137
Office: RLM 9.164
Homepage:http://www.math.utexas.edu/users/villegas/