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Dr. Wade Michael Hindes

  • Associate Professor - Mathematics
Portrait of Dr. Wade Michael Hindes

Biography and expertise

Wade Hindes, an Associate Professor at Texas State, received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Brown University in 2015. After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Hindes was a postdoctoral fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research interests are in number theory, specifically, arithmetic geometry and arithmetic dynamics.

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Mathematics

Brown University, 2015

Master's Degree

MS in Mathematics

Brown University, 2012

Bachelor's Degree

BS in Mathematics

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2010

Research Interests

  • Hindes, Wade Michael. Texas State Library New Faculty Startup Fund, Texas State University, $1000. (Funded: 2019 - April 2019). Grant.
  • Hindes, Wade Michael. Research Enhancement Program (REP): Stochastic Canonical Heights, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: October 2018, Funded: January 2019 - Present). Grant.
  • Hindes, W. M. (2025). On the proportion of irreducible polynomials in unicritically generated semigroups. Journal of Algebra, 677, 394–429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2025.04.011
  • Hindes, W. M., Carney, A., & Tucker, T. (2023). Isotriviality, integral points, and primitive primes in orbits in characteristic p. Algebra and Number Theory, 19, 1573–1594.
  • Hindes, W. M. (2022). Counting points of bounded height in monoid orbits. Mathematische Zeitschrift, 301, 3395–3416.
  • Hindes, W. M., & Jones, R. (2019). Riccati equations and polynomial dynamics over function fields. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 323, 1555–1575.
  • Hindes, W. M. (2018). Average Zsigmondy sets, dynamical Galois groups, and the Kodaira-Spencer map. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 370(9), 6391–6410.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: MSRI membership. January 2022 - May 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Departmental Award For Research Excellence, Texas State. December 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Departmental Award for Teaching Excellence. December 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Graduate student teaching award, Brown University. 2015
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Mathematics Merit Prize, University of Michigan. 2010
  1. Other

    Department of Mathematics

  2. Member

    Mathematics Department Graduate Committee

  3. Member

    Mathematics Department Committee on Committees

  4. Other

    Teaching Forum Leader, Linear Algebra

  5. Reviewer / Referee

    zbMATH

  6. Member

    Math Grad Expo Committee

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