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Contact Information

Department of Mathematics
449 Altgeld Hall, MC-382
1409 W. Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801

Research Areas

Professor

Research Description

Number theory

Education

PhD, Princeton University, 1995

Awards and Honors

Fellow, American Mathematical Society, 2017
Associate, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, 2004-05; 2013-14
LAS Dean's Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2010

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Mathematics

Recent Publications

Basak, D., Thorner, J., & Zaharescu, A. (2026). Remarks on Landau–Siegel zeros. Algebra and Number Theory, 20(1), 209-217. https://doi.org/10.2140/ant.2026.20.209

Anderson, J., Boca, F. P., Cobeli, C., & Zaharescu, A. (2025). Angular distribution toward the points of the neighbor-flips modular curve seen by a fast moving observer. Mathematische Nachrichten, 298(5), 1617-1632. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/mana.12016

Anderson, J., Boca, F., Cobeli, C., & Zaharescu, A. (Accepted/In press). On the distribution of SL(2,N)-saturated Farey fractions. Indagationes Mathematicae. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indag.2025.11.004

Basak, D., & Zaharescu, A. (2025). Connections between number theory and the theory of turbulence. Communications in Number Theory and Physics, 19(2), 415-471. https://doi.org/10.4310/CNTP.250531032229

Basak, D., Robles, N., & Zaharescu, A. (2025). Exponential sums over Möbius convolutions with applications to partitions. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.4153/S0008414X24000701

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