Rebecca M. Bellovin

Assistant professor of mathematics

Mathematics Department
Henry Ruthven Mansfield Building
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Mansfield, CT

E-mail: my first initial dot my middle initial dot last name at uconn dot edu

I am a mathematician studying algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry; I also have a long-standing interest in cryptography. I am currently an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut. I was previously a member at the Institute for Advanced Study, a Rankin–Sneddon Fellow at the University of Glasgow, and a Imperial College Research Fellow and postdoc. Prior to that, I was an NSF postdoc at UC Berkeley and a graduate student at Stanford. I received my Ph.D. in 2013 under the supervision of Brian Conrad, and my thesis was on p-adic Hodge theory in rigid analytic families.

Here is my academic cv and here is my industry cv.

Papers and preprints:

Preprint. Irregular loci in the Emerton-Gee stack for GL_2. To appear, J. Reine Angew. Math.

arXiv, journal. Modularity of trianguline Galois representations. Forum of Mathematics, Sigma. 12 (2024), e3.

arXiv, journal. Cohomology of (phi, Gamma)-modules over pseudorigid spaces. International Mathematics Research Notices 2023.

arXiv, journal. Galois representations over pseudorigid spaces. Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux 35 (2023) no. 1, pp. 283-334.

arXiv, journal G-valued local deformation rings and global lifts (with T. Gee). Algebra & Number Theory 13 (2019), no. 2, pp. 333-378.

arXiv, journal Wach modules, regulator maps, and epsilon-isomorphisms in families (with O. Venjakob). International Mathematics Research Notices 2019, no. 16, pp. 5127-5204.

arXiv, journal p-adic Hodge theory in rigid analytic families. Algebra & Number Theory 9 (2015), no. 2, pp. 371-433.

arXiv, journal Generic smoothness for G-valued potentially semi-stable deformation rings. Annales de l'Institut Fourier 66, no. 6 (2016), pp. 2565-2620.

arXiv Newton polygons for a variant of the Kloosterman family (with S. Garthwaite, E. Ozman, R. Pries, C. Williams, and H.J. Zhu). Women in numbers 2: research directions in number theory 2013, pp. 47-63.

Teaching

In Fall 2024, I am teaching two sections of Math 2410Q: Elementary Differential Equations at UConn.

In Spring 2023, I taught 1C at the University of Glasgow to first-year undergraduates.

In Autumn 2022, I taught 2C Introduction to Real Analysis at the University of Glasgow to second-year undergraduates.

In Spring 2022, I taught 4H/5E Galois Theory at the University of Glasgow.

In Spring 2017, I taught M3/4/5P12 Group Representation Theory at Imperial College London.

Expository notes

Here are some things I've written, on various topics.

Raynaud's results on F-vector group schemes. These are notes I wrote for a talk in the learning seminar on Faltings's proof of the Mordell conjecture. They are actually part 2; part 1 was given by Melanie Wood.

Mordell conjecture. These are notes I wrote for another talk in the learning seminar on Faltings's proof of the Mordell conjecture.

Notes on Galois Cohomology. These are notes I wrote for a talk in the modularity lifting seminar.

Calculating Deformation Rings, for \ell \neq p. These are notes I wrote for another talk in the modularity lifting seminar.

Cryptography: Authentication, Blind Signatures, and Digital Cash. These are notes I wrote up for a talk on David Chaum's amazing work on digital cash. I've given the talk twice, once to high school students (at PROMYS) and once to undergraduates (at Stanford).

Cracking the Enigma. These are the slides for a talk I gave to Stanford undergraduates on an early Polish break of Enigma.