Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Filip Saidak, Assistant Professor

Filip Saidak

Office: Petty 104
Email address: f_saidak at uncg dot edu
Personal web page: www.uncg.edu/~f_saidak/

Education

Ph.D. in Mathematics, Queens University (2001)

Teaching

Office hours: MWF 11:00 AM-12:00
Fall 2011
  • MAT 150 (Precalculus I), PETT 136, MWF noon-12:50 PM
  • MAT 151 (Precalculus II), NMOR 130, MWF 10:00 AM-10:50 AM
Spring 2012
  • MAT 151 (Precalculus II), PETT 213, MWF noon-12:50 PM
  • MAT 151 (Precalculus II), BRYN 105, MWF 10:00 AM-10:50 AM

Research Interests

Number Theory

Recent Publications

  • Howard, Fred T. ; Saidak, Filip . Zhou's theory of constructing identities. Congr. Numer. 200 (2010), 225--237.
  • Berenhaut, Kenneth S. ; O'Keefe, Augustine B. ; Saidak, Filip . Remarks on linear recurrence of the form $y_n=y_{n-1}+a_{n-1}y_{n-2}$. Congr. Numer. 200 (2010), 141--151.
  • Banks, William D. ; Güloğlu, Ahmet M. ; Nevans, C. Wesley ; Saidak, Filip . Descartes numbers. Anatomy of integers, 167--173, CRM Proc. Lecture Notes, 46, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2008.
  • Saidak, Filip . On the prime number lemma of Selberg. Math. Scand. 103 (2008), no. 1, 5--10.
  • Berenhaut, Kenneth S. ; O'Keefe, Augustine B. ; Saidak, Filip . Bounds for recurrences on ranked posets. Int. J. Contemp. Math. Sci. 2 (2007), no. 17-20, 929--942.

Brief Bio

Dr. Saidak received his B.Sc. at The University of Auckland in New Zealand, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in number theory at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. He then held postdoctoral and visiting positions at the University of Calgary (Alberta), University of Missouri (MO), Macquarie University (Sydney), and Wake Forest University (NC).

He is mainly interested in classical questions concerning prime numbers and their distribution, which he investigates using analytic and probabilistic methods. A special topic of his interest is the location of zeros of the Riemann zeta function and its derivatives; others include problems centering around the differences between consecutive primes, distribution and divisibility properties of primes of special forms, as well as values of various arithmetical functions.