university of toronto
department of mathematics
40 st. george street
toronto, on m5s 2e4
canada
email: bds at math dot toronto dot edu
phone: +1 416-978-5099
office: ba 6256
office hours: tuesdays and thursdays 12-1, and by appointment
common abbreviations used in my lectures pdf
cv pdf
my research is in arithmetic and algebraic geometry, and more specifically in shimura varieties and classification problems related to abelian varieties, p-divisible groups, and formal lie groups
papers:
Orthogonal Shimura varieties of PEL type and local models, in preparation.
Topological flatness of local models for ramified unitary groups. II. The even dimensional case, 83 pp., submitted (updated October 28, 2011) pdf
with G. Pappas and M. Rapoport: Local models of Shimura varieties, I. Geometry and combinatorics, to appear in the Handbook of Moduli, 86 pp. (updated August 29, 2011) pdf
Topological flatness of local models for ramified unitary groups. I. The odd dimensional case. Adv. Math. 226 (2011), no. 4, 3160-3190 pdf
Admissibility and permissibility for minuscule cocharacters in orthogonal groups, Manuscripta Math. 136 (2011), no. 3-4, 295-314 pdf
Topological flatness of orthogonal local models in the split, even case. I. Math. Ann. 350 (2011), no. 2, 381-416 pdf
On the moduli stack of commutative, 1-parameter formal groups. J. Pure Appl. Algebra 215 (2011), no. 4, 368-397 pdf (a condensed version of my thesis)
some old course notes for kottwitz's autumn 2003 course "topics in algebra" (really an
introductory course on algebraic stacks) pdf
these contain some minor errors introduced by yours truly, but for now the source
file is lost.
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