I am highly interested in doing research in either of
1- Transcendental Number Theory and Algebraic Independence;
2- Diophantine Approximation and Geometry of Numbers.
There is no person working on these areas in the university that I want to study MSc. So I wanthave to choose a "close""closer" research area infor MSc so that I can switch the subject to work on the mentioned primary research interests of mine infor PhD.
The reason that I am asking this from this community is because for some (complicated) reasons I can't get advice from the faculty: I need to choose the area of research by myself before choosing abefore meeting the would-be supervisor sobecause I can'twant to be prepared by reading some of his/her papers beforehand (like preparing for an interview) to get advice from the facultya chance of admission...
The list of areas of research in the department are:
1- Analytic Number Theory, Additive Problems in Number Theory, Sparse Sequences, Exponential/Character Sums, Automorphic Forms and L-Functions, Density Theorems;
2- Algebraic Number Theory, Elliptic Curves, Complex Multiplication,The Class Numbers of Ray Class Fields of Imaginary Quadratic Fields, Arithmetically Exceptional Mappings;
3- Functional Analysis.
Which area of research is the closest to 1- Transcendental Number Theory and Algebraic Independence, or/and Diophantine Approximation and Geometry of Numbers?
Thank you!