David M. Brown Jr.

US Citizen
Born June 22, 1982, Beeville, Tx.
Email: brownda@math.berkeley.edu
www.math.berkeley.edu/~brownda

Research Interests

Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry, Algebraic Geometry, Computational Number Theory

Education & Degrees

(expected) Fall 2004 - Present, Graduate Student in Program in Mathematics at UC Berkeley
Spring 2004, 2002 Technical University of Budapest (2 semesters of study) GPA 4.0
December 2003 BS Mathematics with Honors. The University of Arizona GPA 3.912, 21 credits of graduate study
May 2000 HS Diploma. Catalina Foothills High School, Tucson, Az

Awards

Spring 2006 NDSEG National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Spring 2005 NSF National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Publications

"The Chabauty-Coleman Bound at a Prime of Bad Reduction," David Brown; in preparation.
"Primitive Integral Solutions to x^2 + y^3 = z^10," David Brown; in preparation.
"Crack azimuths on Europa: The G1 lineament sequence revisited," Alyssa R. Sarid, Richard Greenberg, Gregory V. Hoppa, David M. Brown Jr., and Paul Geissler; Icarus, 2005; 173 (2)
"The Galois Group of Cyclotomic Fields of Fermat Primes," David Brown and Daniel Madden; in preparation.

Seminars Organized

Spring 2008: Berkeley Student Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry Seminar.
Summer 2007: TA for MSRI Deformation Theory Workshop.
Spring 2007: Student Number Theory Seminar.
Fall 2004 - Spring 2005: Co-organizer (with Adam Booth) of 'Many Cheerful Facts,' Berkeley's graduate student oriented seminar.

Presentations

2008

Secret Martin Olsson Student Seminar: "The infinitesimal site."
Secret Martin Olsson Student Seminar: "A basic introduction to rigid cohomology."
Berkeley Number Theory Seminar: "The Chabauty-Coleman bound at a prime of bad reduction."
Berkeley Student Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry Seminar: "An introduction to crystalline cohomology."

2007

STAGE: MIT Student Number Theory Seminar: "The Method of Chabauty and Coleman".
BAGS: MIT/Harvard Student Geometry Seminar: "Deformation Theory and Surface Obstructions".
D-Modules Seminar: "The Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence".
Student Number Theory Seminar: "Modular Curves as Smooth Z[1/N]-Schemes".

2006

Berkeley Graduate Student Seminar: "Number Theory for Everyone"
Derived Algebraic Geometry Seminar: "Derived Schemes"

2005

Budapest Semesters Reunion: "The Galois Group of Cyclotomic Fields of Fermat Primes."
Berkeley Graduate Student Seminar: "Generalized Fermat Equations and Descent"
Berkeley Graduate Student Seminar: "An Infinitude of Proofs" (of the infinitude of primes)

Teaching

Fall 2006, Multivariable Calculus (UC Berkeley, Math 53).
Spring 2005, Calculus II (UC Berkeley, Math 1B).
Fall 2004, Calculus I (UC Berkeley, Math 1A).