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Brigham Young University
Math Department

Darrin Doud

314 TMCB
Department of Mathematics
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602

phone:(801)422-1204
fax:(801)422-0504
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Education

  • BS (Mathematics) 1992, Brigham Young University
  • MS (Mathematics) 1993, Brigham Young University
  • MS (Teaching Mathematics) 1999, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Ph.D. (Mathematics) 1999, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Positions

  • NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University, 1999-2001
  • Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, 2001-2007
  • Associate Professor, Brigham Young University, 2007-present
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, 2008-present

Publications

  1. A procedure to calculate torsion of elliptic curves over Q
    Manuscripta Mathematica 95(1998), 463-469.

  2. S4 and extensions of Q ramified at only one prime
    Journal of Number Theory 75(1999), 185-197.

  3. Three-dimensional Galois representations with conjectural connections to arithmetic cohomology
    in Number Theory for the Millenium, A.K. Peters, Boston, 2002, 365-375.

  4. Galois representations with conjectural connections to arithmetic cohomology
    with Avner Ash and David Pollack
    Duke Mathematical Journal 112(2002), 521-579.

  5. Wild ramification in number field extensions of prime degree
    Archiv der Mathematik 81 (2003), 646-649.

  6. Wildly ramified Galois representations and a generalization of a conjecture of Serre
    Experimental Mathematics 14:1 (2005), 119-127.

  7. Even icosahedral Galois representations with prime conductor
    with Michael W. Moore
    Journal of Number Theory 118:1, (2006), 62-70

  8. Explicit Frobenius computations supporting a generalization of a conjecture of Serre
    with Brian Hansen
    JP Journal of Algebra, Number Theory and Applications, 6 (2006), 381-398.

  9. Bond-valence methods for pKs prediction. II. Bond-valence, electrostatic, molecular geometry, and solvation effects.
    Barry Bickmore, Kevin M. Rosso, Christopher J. Tadanier, Eric J. Bylaska and Darrin Doud
    Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70 (2006), 4057-4071.

  10. Supersingular Galois representations and a generalization of a conjecture of Serre
    Experimental Mathematics 16:1 (2007), 119-128

  11. Distinguishing contragredient Galois representations in characteristic two
    Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 38:3 (2008), 835-848.

  12. Local corrections of discriminant bounds and small degree extensions of quadratic base fields
    with Sharon Brueggeman
    International Journal of Number Theory 4 (2008), 349-361

  13. Finding Galois representations corresponding to certain Hecke eigenclasses
    with Meghan DeWitt
    International Journal of Number Theory 5 (2009), 1-11

  14. LLL reduction and a conjecture of Gunnells
    with Russell Ricks
    Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 138 (2010), 409-415, to appear

  15. p-adic properties of coefficients of weakly holomorphic modular forms
    with Paul Jenkins
    http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2997v1, (2009) in review.

  16. Reducible three-dimensional Galois representations and boundary cohomology
    In preparation

Awards and Grants

Graduate Students Supervised

  • Michael W. Moore, M.S. 2004
  • Glen Simpson, M.S. 2004
  • Brian Hansen, M.S. 2005
  • Heather Florence, M.S 2005
  • Jon Blackhurst, M.S. 2006
  • Wayne Rosengren, M.S. 2008

Conferences and Seminars Attended

* indicates that I gave a talk, ♦ indicates that I was an organizer.
  • Halberstam Conference, Urbana, IL, May 1995
  • *Magma Mini-conference, Montreal, Canada, July 1995
  • Fermat's Last Theorem Conference, Boston, MA, Aug. 1995
  • *Fourth Annual Midwest Algebraic Number Theory Day, Urbana, IL, Mar. 1997
  • *AMS Special Session on Number Theory, Chicago, IL, Sep. 1998
  • *AMS Special Session on Galois Representations, Urbana, IL, Mar. 1999
  • *Ohio State University Number Theory Seminar, Columbus, OH, Nov. 1999
  • *Harvard University Number Theory Seminar, Boston, MA, Feb. 2000
  • *Brigham Young University Mathematics Colloquium, Provo, UT, Mar. 2000
  • *Millennial Conference on Number Theory, Urbana, IL, May 2000
  • *Boston College Number Theory Seminar, Boston, MA, Nov. 2000
  • *Ohio State University Number Theory Seminar, Columbus, OH, Apr. 2001
  • *California Institute of Technology Number Theory Seminar, Pasadena, CA, May 2002
  • *AMS Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, Salt Lake City, UT, Oct. 2002
  • *AMS Special Session, Madison, WI, Oct. 2002
  • *West Coast Number Theory Conference, San Fransisco, CA, Dec. 2002
  • *Wesleyan University Number Theory Seminar, Middletown, CT, April 2004
  • *Illinois Number Theory Conference, Urbana, IL, May 2004
  • *Canadian Number Theory Association VIII Meeting, Toronto, Canada, July 2004
  • *AMS Special Session on Modularity of Galois Representations, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 2004.
  • *West Coast Number Theory Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Dec. 2004
  • *Southeast Regional Meeting on Numbers (SERMON 2005), Columbia, SC, April 2005
  • *Wesleyan University Number Theory Seminar, Middletown, CT, April 2005
  • *Workshop on Automorphic Forms, Modular Forms and related moduli spaces, Rome, Italy, Sep. 2005
  • *West Coast Number Theory Conference, Monterey, CA, Dec. 2005
  • Pacific Northwest Number Theory Conference, Redmond, WA, Feb. 2006
  • *Southeast Regional Meeting on Numbers (SERMON 2006), Greenville, SC, March 2006
  • *Canadian Number Theory Association IX Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2006
  • *AMS Special Session on Number Theory, Salt Lake City, UT, October 2006
  • *University of Illinois Number Theory Fest, Urbana, IL, May 2007
  • *West Coast Number Theory Conference, Monterey, CA, Dec. 2007
  • *Canadian Number Theory Association X Meeting, Waterloo, Canada, July 2008
  • *Western Number Theory Conference, Fort Collins, CO, Dec. 2008
  • *Wesleyan University Algebra Seminar, Middletown, CT, March 2009
  • *23rd Annual Workshop on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics, Lewisburg, PA, March 2009
  • *2009 Intermountain Sectional Meeting of the MAA, Provo, UT, March 2009
  • Illinois Number Theory Celebration, Urbana, IL, March 2009
  • *Spring 2009 Central Section Meeting of the AMS, Urbana, IL, March 2009
  • ♦Summer Graduate Workshop on Zeta Functions, L-functions and Applications, Orem, UT, June 2009

Maintained by Darrin Doud.

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