Matilde Lalín          

      Address: Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
                       632 Central Academic Building
                       University of Alberta
                       Edmonton, AB T6G 2G1, Canada
           Office:  621 CAB
           Phone: (780) 492-3613.
           E-mail:  ac.atreblau.htamTAnilalm (reverse order of characters)

• Personal Information
• Curriculum Vitae
  
• Preprints and Publications
• Talks
• Seminar Talks at UT
• Teaching, organizing, etc
• Other Stuff
  

Personal Information:

• Soy de Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Estudie Licenciatura en  Matematicas en la  Universidad de Buenos Aires
• I did one year of graduate studies in Mathematics  at Princeton University
• I did my PhD under the supervision of Fernando Rodríguez Villegas  in Number Theory at the Department of Mathematics  at  University of Texas at Austin where I was a Harrington fellow
• I was a member at IAS and MSRI
• J'ai été visiteur à IHES. Look for me in the poster!!!
  
• I was also guest at MPIfM
• After my PhD I was also a Clay Mathematics Institute Liftoff fellow
• I was a PIMS postdoctoral fellow at UBC, working with David Boyd. I was a member of the PIMS/SFU/UBC Number Theory Group.
• I currently belong to the Alberta Number Theory group
• I am married to Pablo Bianucci, we are proud parents of Marco
  

Curriculum Vitae:

• CV

Preprints and Publications:

• Introduccion a las Curvas Elipticas (Introduction to Elliptic Curves), Tesis de Licenciatura, Universidad de Buenos Aires (1999), in Spanish.
• Some relations of Mahler measure with hyperbolic volumes and special values of L-functions, Doctoral Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin (2005).
• Some examples of Mahler measures as multiple polylogarithms, J. Number Theory 103 (2003), no. 1, 85--108.
• Mahler measure and volumes in hyperbolic space,  Geom. Dedicata  107 (2004), no. 1, 211--234.
• Mahler measure of some n-variable polynomial families, J. Number Theory 116 (2006), no. 1, 102--139.
• On certain combination of colored multizeta values, J. Ramanujan Math. Soc. 20 (2006), no. 1, 115--127.
• with Carlos A. D'Andrea, On the Mahler measure of resultants in small dimensions, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 209 (2007), no. 2, 393--410.
• An algebraic integration for Mahler measure, Duke Math. J. 138 (2007), no. 3, 391--422.
• Mahler measure and computations with regulators , J. Number Theory 128 (2008), no. 5, 1231--1271.
• with Mathew D. Rogers, Functional equations for Mahler measures of genus-one curves, Algebra Number Theory 1 (2007), no. 1, 87--117.
• with Oliver T. Dasbach, Mahler measure under variations of the base group, Forum Math. 21 (2009), no. 4, 621--637.
• with Oliver T. Dasbach, On the recurrence of coefficients in the Lück-Fuglede-Kadison determinant, Proceedings of the "Segundas Jornadas de Teoría de Números" (Madrid 2007), Bib. Rev. Mat. Iberoam. (2008) 119--134 (refereed)
• with Nobushige Kurokawa and Hiroyuki Ochiai , Higher Mahler measures and zeta functions, Acta Arith. 135 (2008), no. 3, 269--297.
• On a conjecture by Boyd, to appear in Int. J. Number Theory
• with Pablo Bianucci, Marco Leonardo Bianucci (also available: first draft, revised version, journal proofs), Royal Alex. Hosp. Apr 30 (2009), w. 4230, l. 560
• with Alina Bucur, Chantal David, and Brooke Feigon, Statistics for traces of cyclic trigonal curves over finite fields, to appear in Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN
• with Alina Bucur, Chantal David, and Brooke Feigon, Biased statistics for traces of cyclic p-fold covers over finite fields, submitted

Talks:

• Examples of Mahler Measures as Multiple Polylogarithms, notes,  slides  and video from my talk at The many aspects of Mahler's measure, a workshop organized by PIMS in Banff. Here is a picture of the participants of the workshop.
  
• Examples of Mahler Measures as special values of the Riemann Zeta fucntion and L-series, notes and slides from my talk at Mahler's Measure of Polynomials, a workshop organized by PIMS and SFU in Vancouver.
• Introduction to Mahler Measure,  notes from my talk at Universidad de Buenos Aires.
• On Mahler measures of several-variable polynomials and polylogarithms, notes  and slides from my talk at the Zeta Functions Seminar at UC Berkeley.
  
• Some aspects of Mahler measure, notes and slides from my talk at University of Colorado at Boulder.
• Some aspects of Mahler measure, notes and slides from my talk at Texas A&M University. 
• An algebraic integration for Mahler measure, slides from my talk at Variations on Mahler's Measure, a workshop at CIRM in Luminy.
• I've also gave a couple of talks at the Oberseminar Geometrie at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
• Slides from my last talk at Universidad de Buenos Aires.
• Mahler measure and values of regulators, slide show from my short talk at IAS
• Regulators and computations of Mahler measure notes and slide show from my talk at Mahler Measure in Mobile, Alabama
• On the Mahler measure of resultants in small dimensions, notes and slide show from my talk at AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, Texas
• Mahler measures as values of regulators, notes and slide show from my talk at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• My talk at the Topology seminar at Louisiana State University
• My talk at the Members seminar at IAS
• My talk at the Geometry-Topology seminar at Georgia Institute of Technology (GaTech)
• My talk at the Postdoc Seminar at MSRI
• My talk at the MSRI Number Theory Seminar at UC Berkeley
• My talk at the Barcelona Number Theory Seminar
• Notes and some slides from my talk in Paris
• Functional equations for Mahler measures of genus-one curves, slides and notes from my talk at MPIfM
  
• Slides and notes from my talk at Bristol
  
• Mahler measure of multivariable polynomials, my talk at Norwich
• My talk at SFUBC-PIMS Number Theory seminar
• I crashed into a topology class in Louisiana State University and gave an Introduction to modular forms!!!
• A few hours after I gave a talk at the Topology seminar!!!
• My talk at Alberta
• My talk at Chicago
• My talk Mahler measure under variations of the base group at the conference A second time around the Volume Conjecture in LSU
• Notes and slides from Polylogarithms and Hyperbolic Volumes, my EXPOSITORY talk at Hyperbolic Volume 2007 at Fribourg
• Slides from my talk at the 25th Journées Arithmétiques
• Slides from my talk at the Lunch Number Theory Seminar in MPIfM
• Slides from my talk at Segundas Jornadas de Teoria de Numeros
• My talk at the Low-dimensional Topology and Number Theory workshop in Banff
• My talks at the Mahler measures conference at the Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Slide show from my talk about the history of the Riemann Hypothesis at the GAME Seminar here at U of A.
• Slide show from my talk at the Colloquium in Calgary
• Slide show from my talk at the AMS 2008 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Slide show from my talk at the ABC Algebra Workshop, Simon Fraser University
• Slide show from my talk at the Annual North/South Dialogue in Mathematics, University of Calgary
• Slide show from my talk at the Number Theory Day at the University of Lethbridge
• My talk at the CNTA
• My talk at the Université de Montréal
• My talks in Okinawa
• My talk at the MIT Women in Mathematics Lecture Series
• My talk at the Workshop on Discovery and Experimentation in Number Theory

Seminar Talks at UT:

• Dilogarithm, a cool function ,  Junior Number Theory Seminar.
• On certain examples of Mahler Measures as Multiple Polylogarithms , the candidacy talk that I gave at the Number Theory Seminar.
• Every Positive Integer is the Sum of Four Squares! (and other exciting problems) ,  about Lagrange's Theorem and Waring's problem at the Sophex Seminar.
• A nice condition for linearity, Sophex  Seminar.
• The zeta function strikes back!!!, a talk I gave about an example of a five-variable polynomial whose Mahler measure is esentially zeta(5) at the Junior Algebra / Number Theory Seminar.
• Mahler Measure and Hyperbolic Volumes, notes and slides from my talk at the Junior Number Theory Seminar.
• An algebraic integration for Mahler Measure, my talk at the Junior Number Theory Seminar.
• On the friendship between Mahler measure and polylogarithms, notes and slides of my talk at the Number Theory Seminar. Don't miss the bonus slide!!!
• There's something about Mahler measure, notes and slides from my talk at the Junior Number Theory Seminar.
• My defense.
  
• My last talk as a student at UT was about Bernoulli Numbers at the Junior Number Theory Seminar.
  

Teaching, organizing, etc:

• Past teaching: Math 228 Introduction to Ring Theory (Winter 2009 U of A)
  Math 512 Algebraic Number Theory (Fall 2008 U of A)
  Math 682 Introduction to Elliptic Curves (Winter 2008 U of A)
  Math 324 Elementary Number Theory (Fall 2007 U of A)
  Math 103 Integral Calculus with Applications to Life Sciences (Spring 2007 UBC)
  M427K Advanced Calculus for applications I (Fall 2005 UT Austin)

• Co-organized (with Nils Bruin and Greg Martin) West End Number Theory, a Special Session at the AMS 2008 Fall Western Section Meeting (October 2008 UBC)

• Co-organized (with James Lewis and Xi Chen) Regulators and Heights in Algebraic Geometry (April 2008 U of A)

• Organized the Niven lectures (March 2007 UBC)

Other Stuff:

• Cool places to learn Math: Arxivs, MathSciNet, Mathworld
• My favorite number is  127
• My favorite comic strips:   Ph.D, the unfeasible adventures of Beaver and Steve, and Order of the stick
  
• My favorite blog is Female Science Professor
• I am very fond of  Mathematical Olympiads
• If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics...
• Visit Matilde, the Danish Mathematical Society's newsletter!!!
• I got married on July 23rd, 2004!!!
• 42
• Cute Overload for cute pictures,  Baruchito for cute stories.
  
• Nerdy stuff: News for nerds, Thinkgeek (this is where I get my cool T-shirts)
• Getting info: Google, Standard repository of human knowledge and wisdom aka Wikipedia! (at least until I get some copies of the Encyclopedia Galactica or the HHG2G).
• Massive (geeky music). Here is one for music with Physics lyrics. I think this song should be my favorite. Pandora for more conventional music.
  
• Movies: imdb, rotten tomatoes, and the movie spoiler

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