IDA in the Research Community

IDA Research Staff participate actively in various professional activities – both within their disciplines and ancillary to them – including publishing in the open literature. Below are some recent citations of IDA Researchers and their work.

Ahrens Wins Number Theory Prize
Katie Ahrens was awarded the 2024 Emma and Dick Lehmer Prize for best talk at the West Coast Number Theory (WCNT) meeting last month. Her presentation, “Searching for Defective Prime Powers in Low Genus,” focused on a technique she developed with Jon Grantham. Number theorists gather annually for the WCNT meeting, first organized by Emma and Dick Lehmer in 1969.