Alex Cowan

Email: cowan@math.harvard.edu

About

I'm a research scientist working with the Simons Collaboration on Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory, and Computation at Harvard.
The main person I work under is Noam Elkies. I did my PhD with Dorian Goldfeld.
I'm interested in analytic number theory, arithmetic statistics, computational number theory, and elliptic curves.

Here is my CV.

Papers and preprints

• Moduli for rational genus 2 curves with real multiplication for discriminant 5, with Martin [arXiv].
• Computing modular forms using supersingular isogeny graphs. [arXiv] Data and code.
• Conjecture: 100% of elliptic surfaces over Q have rank zero. [arXiv] To appear in the Simons Symposia.
• Non-random behaviour in sums of modular symbols. [arXiv] International Journal of Number Theory 2022.
• The distribution of multiples of real points on an elliptic curve. [arXiv] Journal of Number theory 2020.
• Constants in Titchmarsh divisor problems for elliptic curves, with Bell, Blakestad, Cojocaru, Jones, Matei, Smith, and Vogt [arXiv] Research in Number theory 2020.