Rate My Professor Matthew Boylan

A number theorist with primary interests in modular forms and their applications, Boylan has delivered more than 50 invited talks at institutions worldwide. His research has been funded by multiple National Science Foundation grants, including solo principal investigator awards such as NSF DMS-0901068 for Harmonic Maass Forms (2009–2012) and NSF DMS-0600400 for Modular Forms and Number Theory (2006–2009). He co-founded the Palmetto Number Theory Series (PANTS) with colleagues at USC and Clemson, securing continuous NSF and NSA funding, and serves as principal organizer for the Southeast Regional Meeting on Numbers (SERMON). Notable publications include "Arithmetic properties of the partition function" with S. Ahlgren in Inventiones Mathematicae (2003); "Coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms modulo ℓ^j" with S. Ahlgren in Mathematische Annalen (2005); "2-adic properties of Hecke traces of singular moduli" in Mathematics Research Letters (2005); "Central critical values of modular L-functions and coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms modulo ℓ" with S. Ahlgren in American Journal of Mathematics (2007); "Congruences for the partition function modulo prime powers" with J. Webb in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (2013); and "U_p-operators and congruences for Shimura images" in Journal of Number Theory (2020). His honors include the University of South Carolina Rising Star Award (2011), Project NExT Fellow (2005–2006), and West Coast Number Theory Conference Selfridge Prize (2003).