Rate My Professor Enrique Trevino

Enrique Treviño is the Ernest H. Volwiler Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Lake Forest College. He joined the college in 2013 as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018, full Professor in 2024, and to the endowed professorship in 2025. Treviño earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Dartmouth College in 2011, with a dissertation titled 'Numerically Explicit Estimates for Character Sums' supervised by Carl Pomerance. He also holds an M.A. from Dartmouth College and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2006.

Treviño specializes in analytic number theory and computational number theory, with research focusing on estimates for character sums, the least quadratic non-residue, the least inert prime in real quadratic fields, and inequalities combining analysis and computing. He has produced over 30 publications, including in the American Mathematical Monthly ('The primes that Euclid forgot' with Paul Pollack, 2014; 'Probabilistic Proof that 1+2+…+n = n(n+1)/2', 2019), Journal of Number Theory ('The Burgess inequality and the least k-th power non-residue', 2015), and others such as 'The least quadratic non-residue' with K. McGown (2021, Contemporary Mathematics AMS). He translated the book 'Cuban Mathematical Olympiads' (2017). Awards include a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant in 2020 for research and lecturing at Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, Swarthmore College Research Award (2011-2013), GAANN Fellowship (2006-2007), and Top 200 in the 66th Putnam Competition (2005). Treviño serves as co-editor-in-chief of the USA Mathematical Olympiad (since 2022), associate editor of the College Mathematics Journal and Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana, member of the Mexican Mathematical Olympiad Committee (since 2015), and co-coach for Team Mexico at the International Mathematical Olympiad (since 2015), securing three medals and one honorable mention in 2024.