Scott Ahlgren

Scott Ahlgren is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. His research focuses on Number Theory, particularly modular forms, partition functions, and congruences. He has advised numerous PhD students and contributed significantly to algebraic and analytic number theory through over 50 publications.

Education details are not explicitly stated, but his academic career includes extensive research at top-tier institutions. Research interests emphasize modular forms, congruences, and connections between number theory and combinatorics.

His recent work explores congruences for the partition function, modular forms modulo primes, and applications of mock theta functions. Earlier contributions include studies on elliptic curves, modular curves, and hypergeometric series.

He teaches advanced courses in abstract algebra, number theory, and proof techniques, mentoring students at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Advising includes over 10 PhD graduates, many now in academic or research roles.