LuCaNT: LMFDB, Computation, and Number Theory volume to appear

This is the proceedings of the LMFDB, Computation, and Number Theory (LuCaNT) 2025 conference, held at ICERM July 7–11, 2025 and partially supported by the Collaboration. It is edited by John W. Jones,  Arizona State University; Jennifer Paulhus, Mount Holyoke College; and collaboration PIs Andrew V. Sutherland and John Voight.  It is scheduled to appear in print in June 2026 as volume 840 of the Contemporary Mathematics series of the American Mathematical Society.

Edgar Costa

Costa wins MIT award

Research scientist Edgar Costa was awarded the 2025 MIT Prize for Open Data from the MIT School of Science and MIT Libraries for his involvement with the LMFDB.  The prize is selected from nominees representing 30 different departments, labs, centers, and institutes across MIT.

Collaboration PI Balakrishnan to speak at ICM

Collaboration PI Jennifer Balakrishnan with speak in the “Number Theory” section at the July 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians in Phildelphia.

code4math.org led by Collaboration researcher David Lowry-Duda

The Consortium of digital ecosystems for mathematics code4math.org is an AIM Research Community dedicated to the advancement of mathematical research through the development of high-quality sociotechnical infrastructure: software, databases, communities, and more. It is led by Steven Clontz, David Lowry-Duda, and Christelle Vincent; Lowry-Duda has been supported by the Collaboration. They group will launch with a virtual Grand Opening Symposium in September 2025, where they will host several presentations and tutorials facilitated by members of the community.

David Roe to take up MIT research faculty position

Collaboration member David Roe has been appointed as a Principal Research Scientist at MIT!

Record breaking elliptic curve!

Quanta has reported on Collaboration PI Noam Elkies and Zev Klagsbrun, who found the first elliptic curve defined over the rational numbers with rank at least 29. Assuming the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, the rank is exactly 29. The previous record, with rank 28, dates from 2006. The new curve was found by a sieve search on a rank-17 elliptic fibration of a K3 surface – the same surface used to find the rank-28 curve – using the techniques described in their ANTS-XIV (2020) paper. For each specialization that was a candidate for high rank, they searched for points outside the fibration’s generic rank 17 subgroup of rational points; for the new curve this search found 12 more independent points.

Collaboration members contributing ANTS XVI papers

Collaboration affiliates contributed 10 manuscripts to the ANTS XVI conference, whose proceedings will appear in a special issue of “Research in Number Theory”.

Maass forms in the LMFDB

Rigorous Maass forms are now in the LMFDB! The computations use work of Kieran Child, David Lowry-Duda, and Andrei Seymour-Howell. Background may be found in Lowry-Duda’s blog post.

Murmurations research profiled in Quanta magazine

The Quanta magazine article Elliptic Curve `Murmurations’ Found with AI Take Flight profiles research by collaboration PI Andrew Sutherland and research scientist David Lowry-Duda. These phenomena were discovered through analysis of elliptic curves in the LMFDB.

 

work of Jerson Caro to appear in Inventiones

The manuscript “A Chabauty-Coleman bound for surfaces”, by collaboration research scientist Jerson Caro and Hector Pasten, will appear in Inventiones mathematicae! This work provides the first application of this beautiful technique to higher-dimensional varieties. The preprint is available at arXiv:2102.01055.

 

Kieffer to assume permanent research position in France

Congratulations to collaboration research scientist Jean Kieffer, who will take up a position with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique! He will join the Caramba team led by Emmanuel Thomé, in Nancy, starting January 1st.

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