Dr Payman Kassaei
Telephone: +44 020 7848 2245
Email: payman.l_kassaei@kcl.ac.uk
Office: S4.07a, Strand Building, Strand Campus
Title: Lecturer in Number Theory
Biography
Dr Kassaei obtained his PhD at MIT under the supervision of Professor Steven Kleiman. After his PhD he has had positions at MSU, Brandeis and McGill University before moving to King's College in September 2006.
Research Interests
Payman's general area of interest is Arithmetic Geometry. He investigates the geometry of arithmetic varieties of interest and employs them to study automorphic forms (generalised modular forms) especially from a p-adic viewpoint. He am interested in p-adic overconvergent automorphic forms and the role they play and the guidance they provide in the ongoing formulation of a p-adic Langlands programme.
Selection of Publications
P-adic Modular Forms over Shimura Curves over Totally Real Fields Compositio Mathematica. 140(2004), no. 2, 37 pages.
A Gluing Lemma And Overconvergent Modular Forms. Duke Math. Journal 132 (2006), no. 3, 21 pages.
A ``Subgroup-Free'' Approach To Canonical Subgroups. (joint with E. Goren) Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici Commentarii 81 (2006), 25 pages.
Overconvergence, analytic continuation, and classicality: the case of curves. Journal fur die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle) 631 (2009), 31 pages.