Ahmed Matar

Curriculum Vita

Contact
Information

Department of Mathematics
University of Bahrain
P.O. Box 32038
Sukhair, Bahrain

Phone: 17437805 /Cell: 39683217
E-mail: amatar@uob.edu.bh
URL: www.ahmedmatar.net

ResearchInterests

Number theory and arithmetic geometry. More specifically, my interests lie in
Iwasawa theory and the arithmetic of elliptic curves.

Education
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona USA• Ph.D., Mathematics, May 2010
Thesis: Selmer Groups and the Fontaine-Mazur Conjecture
Advisor: Nancy Childress
University of Bahrain, Isa Town, Kingdom of Bahrain• B.S., Physics, August 1998

Employment
Associate Professor, University of Bahrain, Spring 2023 - Present
Assistant Professor, University of Bahrain, Fall 2011 - Spring 2023
• Courses Taught: Calculus with Analytic Geometry I,II,III, Business Calculus, Linear Algebra, Elementary Number Theory, Abstract Algebra, Galois
TheoryInstructor, Arizona State University, Fall 2010 - Spring 2011
• Courses Taught: Calculus I and College Mathematics
Graduate Teaching Associate, Arizona State University, Fall 2004 - Spring 2008
• Courses Taught: College Algebra, College Mathematics, Precalculus, Business Calculus, Calculus with Analytic Geometry I,II,III.
Grants andAwards

Fellow of the Higher Educational Academy, Feb 2015
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship - Lille1 University, Sept 2012-Feb 2013
Graduate Student Research Award, Arizona State University, 2010
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Publications
Boundedness of Iwasawa invaraints of fine Selmer groups and Selmer groups(with Sören Kleine), submitted
On the MH (G)-property (with Ramdorai Sujatha and Sören Kleine), submitted
Kolyvagin’s work and anticyclotomic tower fields: the supersingular case, Acta
Arithmetica, Vol 201, No. 2 (2021), pp. 131-147
Plus/Minus Selmer Groups and Anticyclotomic Zp -extensions, Research in Number Theory, Vol 7, 43 (2021)
On the Lambda-cotorsion subgroup of the Selmer group, Asian Journal of Math,
Vol 24, No. 3 (2020), pp. 437-456
Kolyvagin’s result on the vanishing of the Tate-Shafarevich group and its consequences for anticyclotomic Iwasawa theory (with Jan Nekovar), J. Theorie desNombres de Bordeaux, Vol 31, No. 2 (2019), pp. 455-501
Fine Selmer Groups, Heegner points and Anticyclotomic Zp -extensions, International Journal of Number Theory, Vol 14, No. 5 (2018), pp. 1279-1304
Selmer Groups and Anticyclotomic Zp -extensions, Mathematical Proceedings ofthe Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol 161, No. 3 (2016), pp. 409-433
Selmer Groups and Generalized Class Field Towers, International Journal of
Number Theory, Vol 8, No. 4 (2012), pp. 881-909

Mentoring and Supervised Mohammed Mansoor’s senior project “Commutative rings and theService
Zariski Toplogy”, Fall 2021
Supervised Mohammed AlFardan’s senior project “An introduction to homological algebra”, Fall 2020
Member of Fayadh Kadhem’s senior project committee, Spring 2016
Supervised Jasim Isameel’s senior project “An introduction to p-adic analysis”,Fall 2015
Served on many department committees at the University of Bahrain. Most
notably, head of website and e-learning committee Fall 2014-present and headof senior project committee Spring 2016
Referee for the International Journal of Number Theory
Talks

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Selmer Groups and Generalized Class Field Towers
Oct. 2012, Number Theory Seminar, Lille1 University
Selmer Groups and the Fontaine-Mazur Conjecture
Feb. 2010, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar, University of Arizona
Selmer Groups and Class Field Towers
Nov. 2009, Number Theory Seminar, Arizona State University
Euler Characteristics and Elliptic Curves
Feb. 2009, Number Theory Seminar, Arizona State University
Selmer groups and Mazur’s Control Theorem
Sept. 2008, Number Theory Seminar, Arizona State University
Central Simple Algebras and Galois Cohomology
Sept. 2006, Number Theory Seminar, Arizona State University
Conferencesand workshops Iwasawa 2019 Conference, Bordeaux, France June 24-28, 2019attended
Iwasawa 2012 Conference, Heidelberg, Germany July 30-August 3, 20122011 Joint Mathematics Meeting, New Orleans, LA January 6-9, 20112010 Joint Mathematics Meeting, San Francisco, CA January 13-16, 20102010 Southern California Number Theory Day, Caltech May 15, 2010
Conference
International Conference on Emerging Trends in Pure and Applied Mathematics
and Workshop (ICETPAM) June 21-22 2021, Steering committee for the conference
organization
LATEXworkshop Spring 2012, workshop for university faculty members on using
LATEX
MathXL workshops 2013-2017, conducted workshops for faculty members onusing the online homework system MathXL
Professional
certificates

Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, University of Bahrain 2014

Languages

English (Fluent), Arabic (Native)

Citizenship

Kingdom of Bahrain

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