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Lea Beneish

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Mathematics

College: College of Science

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, Emory University, 2020
    Major: Mathematics

Current Scheduled Teaching

MATH 5530.001Modern AlgebraSpring 2025
MATH 4900.703Special ProblemsSpring 2025

Previous Scheduled Teaching

MATH 5520.001Modern AlgebraFall 2024 SPOT
MATH 5520.601Modern AlgebraFall 2024 SPOT
MATH 4900.705Special ProblemsFall 2024
MATH 5900.704Special ProblemsFall 2024
MATH 3510.002Abstract Algebra ISpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
MATH 2700.005Linear Algebra and Vector GeometryFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MATH 2700.009Linear Algebra and Vector GeometryFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Journal Article

  • Babei, A., Beneish, L., Roy, M., Swisher, H., Tobin, B., Tu, F. (2024). Generalized Ramanujan–Sato Series Arising from Modular Forms. 87-131. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51677-1_3
  • Beneish, L., Berg, J., Goedhart, E., Kadhem, H.M., Serrano López, A., Treneer, S. (2024). Replicable functions arising from code-lattice VOAs fixed by automorphisms. Journal of Algebra. 642 159-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2023.12.008
  • Beneish, L., Kundu, D., Ray, A. (2024). Rank Jumps and Growth of Shafarevich--Tate Groups for Elliptic Curves in ℤ/pℤ-Extensions. Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. 116 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1446788723000034
  • Beneish, L., Darmon, H., Gehrmann, L., Roset, M. (2024). The Gross–Kohnen–Zagier theorem via p-adic uniformization. Mathematische Annalen. . (.) 49. Berlin, Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-024-03061-x
  • Beneish, L., Keyes, C. (2023). On the proportion of locally soluble superelliptic curves. Finite Fields and Their Applications. 85 (102128) 85 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ffa.2022.102128
  • Adžaga, N., Arul, V., Beneish, L., Chen, M., Chidambaram, S., Keller, T., Wen, B. (2023). Quadratic Chabauty for Atkin-Lehner Quotients of Modular Curves of Prime Level and Genus 4, 5, 6. Acta Arithmetica. 208 15--49. https://www.impan.pl/en/publishing-house/journals-and-series/acta-arithmetica/online/115146/quadratic-chabauty-for-atkin-lehner-quotients-of-modular-curves-of-prime-level-and-genus-4-5-6
  • Beneish, L. (2021). Module constructions for certain subgroups of the largest Mathieu group. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 25 (7) 1703--1734. https://www.intlpress.com/site/pub/pages/journals/items/atmp/content/vols/0025/0007/a002/index.php
  • Beneish, L., Mertens, M. (2021). On Weierstrass mock modular forms and a dimension formula for certain vertex operator algebras. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 297 (1-2) 59-80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00209-020-02499-4
  • Aricheta, V., Beneish, L. (2019). Moonshine modules and a question of Griess. Journal of Algebra. 536 215--228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2019.06.039
  • Beneish, L. (2019). Quasimodular moonshine and arithmetic connections. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 372 (12) 8793--8813. https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/7874
  • Beneish, L., Frechette, C. (2016). p-Adic properties of coefficients of certain half-integral weight modular forms. Journal of Number Theory. 168 413-432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnt.2016.04.002
  • Beneish, L., Larson, H. (2015). Traces of singular values of Hauptmoduln. International Journal of Number Theory. 11 (3) 1027--1048. https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S1793042115500542
  • Beneish, L., Holmes, B., Johnson, P., Lai, T. (2012). Two Kinds of Frobenius Problems in Z[\sqrt{m}]. International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science. 7 (2) 93-100. http://ijmcs.future-in-tech.net/7.2/R-Johnsonpjtwo.pdf

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Beneish, L., "Simons MP-TSM," sponsored by Simons, Private, $42000 Funded. (2024 - 2029).
  • Beneish, L. (Principal), Richter, O.K. (Co-Principal), Shepler, A.V. (Co-Principal), "TORA Conference Grant NSF (DMS-2347096)," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $20000 Funded. (2024 - 2026).
  • Beneish, L., "LEAPS-MPS: Geometric Arithmetic Statistics: on the relative abundance of points on plane curves (DMS-2418835)," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $249971 Funded. (2024 - 2026).
  • Beneish, L. (Principal), Bertoloni-Meli, A. (Co-Principal), Kundu, D. (Co-Principal), Richter, O.K. (Co-Principal), "NSF (DMS-2442586) Conference: Workshop on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $33800 Funded. (2025 - 2025).
  • Beneish, L., "AIM Squares grant," sponsored by American Institute for Mathematics, National, $30000 Funded. (2021 - 2025).
  • Beneish, L., "Number Theory Foundation grant for TORA Conference," sponsored by Number Theory Foundation, National, $2000 Funded. (2024 - 2024).
  • Beneish, L., "AMS-Simons Travel Grant," sponsored by American Mathematical Society and Simons, Private, $5000 Funded. (2022 - 2024).
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