Research Interests

I am currently thinking about arithmetic statistics of curves over finite and global fields.
Even the notion of what it means to be a ``general," genus g curve over these fields
is an interesting problem and I would love to understand the arithmetic of
non-superelliptic curves over (say) F_q. My other research interests on my mind
(but perhaps not at the forefront) include:
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Explicit number theory/diophantine geometry
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Point counting on elliptic curves & abelian varieties
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Applications to post-quantum cryptography
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Diophantine equations and approximation
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S-units equations and algebraic tori
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Continued fractions/badly approximable numbers
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Definability and decidability
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Hilbert's Tenth Problem over arithmetically significant rings
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Computational complexity of decision problems
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Algebraic Model Theory
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Transfer principles and o-minimality as applied to algebraic geometry
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Publications
Published/Accepted:
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Handley, H., Simanek, B. Discrete m-functions with doubly palindromic continued fraction coefficients. Ramanujan J 67, 9 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-025-01067-w, link
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Continued Fractions: an Arithmetic and Analytic Study
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Baylor Repository: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.06653
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Preprints
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First-Order Definability of Darmon Points in Number Fields (with Juan Pablo De Rasis) - submission in progress
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Efficient Zero-Knowledge Outer Products and Matrix Multiplication (with Jessica Bennett, Shuhong Gao, Aram Lindroth, Emily Sundberg, & Marvin Jones) - in preparation
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All Evils Great and Small (with Levi Durham) - submission in progress
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Philosophy of religion, formal epistemology, and decision theory
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Expository Notes
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What is Completeness? - Introductory notes on Gödel's Completeness Theorem and applications of complete theories to graph theory, algebra, and geometry, developed for OSU's What is? seminar.