Congratulations to Olav Richter for winning a 2014 UNT Mathematics Department Faculty Service Award.

Professor Richter's research area is number theory, and he specializes in discontinuous groups and automorphic forms, and particularly Jacobi forms, Siegel modular forms, Maass forms, mock theta functions, and related objects. Modular and automorphic forms are complex functions whose Fourier coefficients encode important arithmetic information. A recent highlight of Professor Richter's research is his joint work with Özlem Imamoglu and Martin Raum on holomorphic projections and Ramanujan's mock theta functions, which recently appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Professor Richter is an exemplary citizen of the department. He undertakes every task that he agrees to take on with diligence and efficiency. Everyone who has served on committees with Professor Richter greatly values the contributions he makes to the committees' work. Professor Richter has served on the CAS Graduate Curriculum Committee, the math department Executive Committee, and the complex qualifying exam committee. However, Dr. Richter's most important service to the department has been his service as the department's Colloquia Coordinator. During his tenure as Colloquia Coordinator, the number of colloquium talks per semester in the department's Millican Colloquium more than doubled, reaching a historical high of 25 during the 2013-14 academic year. Colloquim attendence by the graduate students has also been increasing, and Professor Richter helped bring a number of high profile speakers to campus for the department's more recent undergraduate colloquium series. Professor Richter has also been admired for his excellent organizational skills in his role as a member of the organizing committee for the very successful TORA (Texas Oklahoma Representations and Automorphic forms) regional conference series.

Professor Richter enjoys teaching linear algebra, calculus and number theory, and his sections of linear algebra and multivariable calculus are often among the first to fill up.

Professor Richter received his Ph.D. from UC San Diego in 1999. His doctoral dissertation was tilted, "Theta Functions of Quadratic Forms" and was done under the supervision of Harold Stark.