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Faculty Member

Dan Abramovich

Professor of Mathematics

CONTACT INFO

Office: 118 Kassar-Gould House
Phone: (401) 863-7968
Fax: (401) 863-9013
Email: abrmovic<at>math.brown.edu

Mailing Address:

    Mathematics Department
    Box 1917
    Brown University
    Providence, RI 02912

COURSE SCHEDULE

Spring 2006

Math 252: Algebra

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry

BACKGROUND

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University, 1991.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Algebraic orbifold quantum products. Orbifolds in mathematics and physics (Madison, WI, 2001), 1--24, Contemp. Math., 310, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2002. (w/ Graber, Tom; Vistoli, Angelo)

Moduli of twisted spin curves. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 131 (2003), no. 3, 685--699 (electronic). (w/ Jarvis, Tyler J.)

Torification and factorization of birational maps. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (2002), no. 3, 531--572 (electronic). (w/ Karu, Kalle; Matsuki, Kenji; W\l odarczyk, Jaros\l aw)

Uniformity of stably integral points on principally polarized abelian varieties of dimension $\le2$. Israel J. Math. 121 (2001), 351--380. (w/ Matsuki, Kenji)

Compactifying the space of stable maps. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (2002), no. 1, 27--75 (electronic). (w/ Vistoli, Angelo)

Complete moduli for fibered surfaces. Recent progress in intersection theory (Bologna, 1997), 1--31, Trends Math., Birkhäuser Boston, Boston, MA, 2000. (w/ Vistoli, Angelo)

The formula $12=10+2\times 1$ and its generalizations: counting rational curves on $\bold F\sb 2$. Advances in algebraic geometry motivated by physics (Lowell, MA, 2000), 83--88, Contemp. Math., 276, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2001. (w/ Bertram, Aaron)

Stable maps and Hurwitz schemes in mixed characteristics. Advances in algebraic geometry motivated by physics (Lowell, MA, 2000), 89--100, Contemp. Math., 276, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2001. (w/ Oort, Frans)

Correction:"A note on the factorization theorem of toric birational maps after Morelli and its toroidal extension" Tohoku Math. J. (2) 51 (1999), no. 4, 489--537; (w/ Matsuki, Kenji)

Alterations and resolution of singularities. Resolution of singularities (Obergurgl, 1997), 39--108, Progr. Math., 181, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2000. (w/ Oort, Frans)

Weak semistable reduction in characteristic 0. Invent. Math. 139 (2000), no. 2, 241--273. (w/ Karu, K.)

A note on the factorization theorem of toric birational maps after Morelli and its toroidal extension. Tohoku Math. J. (2) 51 (1999), no. 4, 489--537. (w/ Matsuki, Kenji; Rashid, Suliman)

Smoothness, semistability, and toroidal geometry. J. Algebraic Geom. 6 (1997), no. 4, 789--801. (w/ de Jong, A. J.)

Lang maps and Harris's conjecture. Israel J. Math. 101 (1997), 85--91.

A high fibered power of a family of varieties of general type dominates a variety of general type. Invent. Math. 128 (1997), no. 3, 481--494.

Uniformity of stably integral points on elliptic curves. Invent. Math. 127 (1997), no. 2, 307--317.

Equivariant resolution of singularities in characteristic $0$. Math. Res. Lett. 4 (1997), no. 2-3, 427--433. (w/ Wang, Jianhua)

A linear lower bound on the gonality of modular curves. Internat. Math. Res. Notices 1996, no. 20, 1005--1011.

Lang's conjectures, fibered powers, and uniformity. New York J. Math. 2 (1996), 20--34, electronic. (w/ Voloch, JoséFelipe)/I>

Uniformité des points rationnels des courbes alébriques sur les extensions quadratiques et cubiques. (French) [Uniformity of rational points of algebraic curves over quadratic and cubic extensions] C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. 321 (1995), no. 6, 755--758

Formal finiteness and the torsion conjecture on elliptic curves. A footnote to a paper: "Rational torsion of prime order in elliptic curves over number fields" [Astérisque No. 22 (1995), 3, 81--10] by S. Kamienny and B. Mazur. Columbia University Number Theory Seminar (New York, 1992). Astérisque No. 228 (1995), 3, 5--17.

Subvarieties of semiabelian varieties. Compositio Math. 90 (1994), no. 1, 37--52.

Toward a proof of the Mordell-Lang conjecture in characteristic $p$. Internat. Math. Res. Notices 1992, no. 5, 103--115.(w/ Voloch, José Felipe

Lectures on Arakelov geometry. With the collaboration of D. Abramovich, J.-F. Burnol and J. Kramer. Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, 33. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992. viii+177 pp. ISBN: 0-521-41669-8 (Soulé, C).

Abelian varieties and curves in $W\sb d(C)$. Compositio Math. 78 (1991), no. 2, 227--238. (w/ Harris, Joe)