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General Information

Full Name Béranger Seguin
Contact math@beranger-seguin.fr
Languages French (native), English, German. Beginner in Dutch and Hungarian

Academic Interests

  • Arithmetic geometry and number theory
    • Arithmetic statistics, asymptotics of field extensions
    • Moduli spaces of ramified covers of curves
    • Absolute Galois groups of local fields, wild ramification
    • Function fields, finite fields, positive characteristic
    • Rational points and local-global principles
    • Inverse Galois theory
    • Galois representations, deformation rings
    • Grothendieck-Teichmüller theory, dessins d'enfants
  • Side interests
    • Non-commutative algebra, central simple algebras
    • Logic, model theory, proof theory, formalized mathematics
    • General topology

Publications, teaching, outreach, talks

Employment

  • 2023-now
    Postdoctoral researcher
    Institut für Mathematik, Universität Paderborn, Germany
    Arbeitsgruppe Computeralgebra und Zahlentheorie
  • 2020-2023
    PhD Candidate
    Laboratoire Paul Painlevé, Université de Lille, France
    DMA, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Education

  • 2023
    PhD in Mathematics ­— Geometry and Arithmetic of Components of Hurwitz Spaces
    Université de Lille, France
    Defended on July 6th, 2023
    Supervised by Pierre Dèbes and Ariane Mézard
  • 2016-2020
    Student (élève normalien) — ENS Graduate Degree
    École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
  • 2019
    Master — Fundamental Mathematics
    Sorbonne Université (formerly Jussieu), Paris, France
  • 2014-2016
    Scientific preparatory classes
    Lycée Fabert, Metz, France
  • 2014
    AbiBac — High School Diploma (German Abitur and French Baccalauréat)
    Lycée Jean-Victor Poncelet, Saint-Avold, France

Internships

Other

  • Mathematical software
  • Programming/Web
    • Python, C#, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS, PHP
  • Hobbies
    • Music
    • Linguistics and language learning, Esperanto
    • Bike travel and hiking
    • Crochet