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Dr. Wade Michael Hindes

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

Biography and education

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.

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. (2023). The size of semigroup orbits modulo primes. Pacific Journal of Mathemtics, 325, 281–297. https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.2023.325.281
  • 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
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    Mathematics Department Committee on Committees

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    Teaching Forum Leader, Linear Algebra

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    zbMATH

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    Math Grad Expo Committee

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    Library Committee

  6. Graduate Advisor

    Mathematics Department PhD Program

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