Lillian B. Pierce, Nicholas J. and Theresa M. Leonardy Associate Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Duke Box 90320 120 Science Drive,, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://math.duke.edu/~pierce

Teaching (Spring 2020):

• MATH 304.01, INTRODUCTION TO CRYPTOGRAPHY Synopsis

  Old Chem 116, MW 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

Education:

Ph.D.	Princeton University	2009
MScRes	University of Oxford	2004
M.Sc.	Oxford University (U.K.)	2004
AB	Princeton University	2002
B.A.	Princeton University	2002

Specialties:

Number Theory
Analysis

Keywords:

Harmonic analysis • Number theory

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Pierce, LB; Yung, PL, A polynomial Carleson operator along the paraboloid, Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (2018), European Mathematical Society
2. Carneiro, E; Madrid, J; Pierce, LB, Endpoint Sobolev and BV continuity for maximal operators, Journal of Functional Analysis, vol. 273 no. 10 (November, 2017), pp. 3262-3294, Elsevier BV [doi]
3. Heath-Brown, DR; Pierce, LB, Averages and moments associated to class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields, Compositio Mathematica, vol. 153 no. 11 (November, 2017), pp. 2287-2309, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]  [abs]
4. Pierce, LB, The Vinogradov Mean Value Theorem [after Wooley, and Bourgain, Demeter and Guth], Astérisque (July, 2017), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique  [abs]
5. Heath-Brown, DR; Pierce, LB, Simultaneous integer values of pairs of quadratic forms, Journal Fur Die Reine Und Angewandte Mathematik, vol. 2017 no. 727 (June, 2017), pp. 85-143, WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH [doi]  [abs]

Recent Grant Support

• CAREER: Research and Training at the Intersection of Number Theory and Analysis, National Science Foundation, 1652173, 2017/09-2022/08.      
• Sloan Foundation Fellowship for Lillian Pierce in Mathematics, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, FG-2018-10749-year 1, 2018/09-2020/09.      
• Re:boot Number Theory, National Security Agency, H98230-16-1-0005, 2016/02-2018/01.      
• The circle method, character sums, and sieves: Applications to number theory and harmonic analysis, National Science Foundation, DMS-1402121, 2014/09-2017/08.