Bernadette Faye

Bernadette is actually an assistant lecturer at the University Gaston Berger of Saint Louis (UGB) in Senegal. She recently obtained her Ph.D. degree in analytic number theory in a dual program between the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and the University of Dakar (UCAD) under the co-supervision of Prof. Florian Luca from Wits University and Prof. Djiby Sow from UCAD. The main objective of her Ph.D. was the study of Diophantine equations with arithmetic functions and binary recurrent sequences. After obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, she was selected to pursue a Master’s program in cryptography and information security at the Department of Mathematics and computer science at UCAD. In 2012, she joined the African Institute for Mathematical Science (AIMS) in Senegal where she obtained a Master’s degree in mathematical sciences. Then, she was awarded a Ph.D. fellowship from the TWAS-OWSD which allowed her to start a Ph.D. in co-supervision between UCAD and the University of Wits in Johannesburg. She graduated in December 2017. Since 2018, she has been working on Thue equations over numbers fields, which are very nice mathematical objects that have been studied by many authors. The main objective is to find all solutions of these equations which are algebraic numbers in a given numbers field. She is interested in solving Families of Thue equations over Functions fields and finding analog problems in this setting.