Alexander Wang

About Me:

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in mathematics at the University of Toronto Mississauga, interested in arithmetic geometry, number theory, and related things (CV). My mentor is Julie Desjardins.

I completed my Ph.D. in Spring 2026, in mathematics at the University of Washington, advised by Bianca Viray.

Previously, I was an undergraduate mathematics student at the University of Michigan. Go Blue!

Contact Information:

• Email:
• Office: Deerfield Hall (DH) 3097C
• Mail:

  Alexander Wang
  Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences
  3097C Deerfield Hall
  3359 Mississauga Road
  Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
  

Mathematics:

Research

I am interested in arithmetic geometry, number theory, and related areas. My research primarily focuses on rational points on curves and surfaces and the Brauer-Manin obstruction.

1. Superelliptic degree sets over Henselian fields, with Alex Galarraga.
   Accepted, J. Théor. Nombres Bordeaux.
   arXiv:2511.15951
2. On the Hasse Principle for conic bundles over even degree extensions, with Sam Roven.
   Res. number theory 12, 35 (2026).
   arXiv:2508.07564
3. Centrally symmetric and balanced triangulations of $\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{S}^{d-3}$ with few vertices, with Hailun Zheng.
   European J. Combinatorics 85 (Mar. 2020), 103043.
   arXiv:1811.08505

Teaching

In Fall 2026, I am teaching MAT334H1.

I have worked extensively as an instructor as well as a teaching assistant.

• In 2023, I was awarded the University of Washington Department of Mathematics Excellence in Teaching award.
• In 2025, I was nominated for the University of Washington Excellence in Teaching Award.

You can find information about my past teaching here.

Miscellaneous:

Here are some projects that I have worked on.

• Zpordle. A number guessing game with a p-adic twist.
• Complex Mapping Visualizer. Plots points in the domain and codomain of a complex mapping.
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