Renee Bell

Department of Mathematics
Office: DRL 4N61
Email: rhbellx@sas.upenn.edu, except without the x.

I am now a Hans Rademacher Instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. I'm interested in algebraic geometry and number theory. I received my Ph.D. from MIT in 2018. My Ph.D. thesis advisor was Bjorn Poonen. I received my B.A. from UC Berkeley in 2013. Here is my CV.

Research Interests

Galois covers of curves in characteristic p
Fundamental groups of curves
Ramification theory
Abhyankar's conjectures

Research

Tamely Ramified Covers of the Projective Line with Alternating and Symmetric Monodromy, with Jeremy Booher, William Chen, and Yuan Liu

Local-to-Global Extensions to Wildly Ramified Covers of Curves

Constants in Titchmarsh divisor problems for elliptic curves, with Clifford Blakestad, Alina Carmen Cojocaru, Alexander Cowan, Nathan Jones, Vlad Matei, Geoffrey Smith, and Isabel Vogt

Energy Measures of Harmonic Functions on the Sierpinski Gasket, with Ching-Wei Ho and Robert Strichartz, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 63 (2014), 831-868.

Teaching

This semester, I am teaching

Math 314.

Other

I am a moderator for the online server of People Online In Number Theory, a network for early-career number theorists.
My ursine postdoc