Mathematics

This is Martin Bright's mathematical home page.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the American University of Beirut. I work in the area of Diophantine equations and arithmetic geometry, specifically on the Brauer–Manin obstruction and related questions about rational points on varieties.

Teaching

In the 2012–13 academic year I am teaching:

• MATH 101: Calculus & Analytic Geometry I
• MATH 261: Number Theory
• MATH 345E: Algebraic Number Theory
• MATH 102: Calculus & Analytic Geometry II (Moodle)

Articles

Here is a list of my publications and preprints, together with slides from some talks.

Look me up on Google Scholar or MathSciNet.

Conferences and workshops

Where I'll be

• 25–27 April 2013: Workshop on Number Theory, American University of Beirut
• 27–31 May 2013: Rational Points – Geometric, Analytic and Explicit Approaches, University of Warwick, UK
• 21–27 July 2013: Rational Points 2013, Thurnau, Germany

Where I have been recently

• 1–24 January 2013: visiting the MAGMA group, University of Sydney, Australia
• 10–14 September 2012: Workshop on Cohomological Methods in Arithmetic Geometry, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• July–September 2012: Rational Points and Algebraic Cycles, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
• 12–14 July 2011: Computational Number Theory workshop at FoCM '11, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
• 5 December 2010–10 January 2011: visiting the MAGMA group, University of Sydney, Australia
• 25–29 October 2010: Arithmetic of Surfaces, Lorentz Center, Leiden University, Netherlands
• 6–10 September 2010: GTEM final conference, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
• 19–23 July 2010: ANTS IX, INRIA, Nancy, France
• 4–10 July 2010: Rational Points 3, Thurnau, Germany
• 25–29 May 2010: Rational Points – Theory & Experiment, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 17– 21 May 2010: Workshop on Computational Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, Leuven, Belgium

Things I have organised

• From Easter 2010 to summer 2011 I organised the Warwick number theory seminar.
• Ronald van Luijk, Damiano Testa and I gave an instructional workshop on the geometry and arithmetic of surfaces at Warwick in April 2008, organised by Samir Siksek and ourselves.
• Tim Browning and I organised Diophantine Equations via Analytic Number Theory (DEViANT), 9–12 July 2007, Bristol.

Other resources

My PhD research (2002) involved doing some computations on diagonal quartic surfaces. Here are some bits of code and results.