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Kevin DESTAGNOL

Assistant Professor

Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay (LMO)
Arithmetic and algebraic geometry
Building 307
Office 2C22
Université Paris-Sud
F-91405 Orsay Cedex
France

Email: kevin.destagnol (at) math.u-psud.fr

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Research

I am currently an assistant professor (maître de conférences) in Paris-Saclay university since september 2019, where I am working in the Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay (LMO) and more specifically in the Arithmetic and Algebraic Geometry group.

I defended my PhD thesis in June 2017 under the supervision of Régis de la Bretèche at Paris 7 university in the Number theory team of the Mathematical Institute of Jussieu before spending one year as a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institut für Mathematik between September 1, 2017 and August 31, 2018. I was then a postdoctoral fellow at IST Austria between september 2018 and August 2019, working with Tim Browning and member of the Browning Group.

I am working mainly at the interface between number theory (and especially analytic number theory) and arithmetic geometry. My research is mainly focused on the existence and distribution of rational points on algebraic varieties.

Documents

First, a Curriculum Vitae.

Then, some mathematics :

The list of my papers:

  1. My first paper on “Manin's conjecture for Châtelet surfaces”, published in Acta Arithmetica, 174.1 (2016) 31-97
  2. My second paper on “Manin's conjecture for a family of varieties in higher dimension”, pulsihed in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 166.3 (2019) 433-486
  3. My third paper giving a “Description of certain quasi-versal torsors for a family of conic bundle surfaces.”, submitted for publication, (2017)
    [arXiv:1711.01882]
  4. My fourth paper, joint with Efthymios Sofos, entitled «Rational points and prime values of polynomials in moderately many variables», (2018) , accepted for pulbication in Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques
    [arXiv:1801.03082]
  5. My fifth paper, joint with Sandro Bettin, entitled «The power-saving Manin-Peyre conjecture for a senary cubic», (2018), accepted for pulbication in Mathematika
    [arXiv:1805.02756"]
  6. My sixth paper joint with Régis de la Bretèche, Jianya Liu, Jie Wu et Yongqiang Zhao «On a certain non-split cubic surface», (2018), accepted for pulbication in Science China Mathematics
    [arXiv:1709.09476]

A few paper(s) in preparation:

  1. A paper in collaboration with Efthymios Sofos on «The density of fibres with a rational point for a fibration over hypersurfaces of low degree»
  2. A paper «Counting points of a given degree and bounded height via the height zeta function»

Conferences and invited talks

Upcoming conferences

Past conferences

Invited talks at conferences or seminars

Prix

Kevin Henriot Prize 2018

Seminars

A few seminars I attend regularly and one seminar that I co-organized with Alisa Sedunova and Pieter Moree at the Max Planck Institut für Mathematik :

Teaching and Supervision

During the first semester 2013-2014, I was in charge of the exercises session of the course “ Elementary mathematics ” for first year bachelor students in biology (LSV1) in Paris 7 university.

During the second semester 2014-2015, I was in charge of the exercises session of the course “ Elementary analysis and algebra II ” for second year bachelor students in maths (MM4) in Paris 7 university.

During the second semester 2015-2016, I was in charge of the exercises session of the course “ Elementary analysis and algebra II ” for second year bachelor students in economics (MA4) in Paris 7 university.

During the first semester 2016-2017, I was in charge of the exercises session of the course “ Topology and calculus ” for third years bachelor students in maths in Paris 7 university.

During the second semester 2016-2017, I was in charge of the course and of the exercises session of the course “ Preparation in maths to a contest for biology students” for second and third year students in biology (AGR-VET) in Paris 7 university.

I supervised a second year bachelor student for an initiation to analytic number theory during June and July 2017 in Paris 7 university.

I supervised several students during a month in September 2017 for an initiation to the research in mathematics at Max Planck Institut für Mathematik.

I was in charge during the second semester 2017-2018 of a master course entitled « Selected topics in algebra : Interactions between analytic number theory and arithmetic geometry» at Bonn's university.

Institut IST Austria - Browning Group