Michael Lipnowski : Curriculum Vitae Current Position I am an Elliott Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Mathematics Department. I completed my PhD in the Stanford Mathematics Department under the guidance of Akshay Venkatesh. Personal Data Address: Mathematics Department Duke University, Box 90320 Durham, NC 27708-0320 E-mail: [email protected] Citizenship: Canada. US permanent resident. Education • Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA. PhD in Mathematics, Summer 2013. Dissertation: Equivariant Torsion and Base Change. Advisor: Akshay Venkatesh. • University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Bachelor of Mathematics - Honors Pure Mathematics (with distinction), 2008. Research Interests • Number theory, representation theory, automorphic forms, cohomology of locally symmetric spaces, and applications. Publications • Lipnowski. The equivariant Cheeger-M¨uller theorem on locally symmetric spaces. Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, available on CJO2014. doi:10.1017/S1474748014000310. • Lipnowski. Equivariant torsion and base change. arXiv:1312.2540 [math.NT]. Accepted for publication in Algebra and Number Theory. 1 • Bergeron, Lipnowski. Twisted limit formula for torsion and cyclic base change. arXiv:1409.6749 [math.NT]. Submitted. • Lipnowski, Tsimerman. How large is Ag(Fp)? arXiv:1511.02212 [math.NT]. • Freixas i Montplet, Lipnowski, Schaeffer. Growth of torsion for weight 1 modular forms. In preparation. • Getz, Hahn, Lipnowski. Relative Weyl law and spectral sparsity of distinguished representations. In preparation. Mentoring • I currently supervise Tony Qiao under the auspices of the Duke Math Department's PRUV undergraduate research program. Teaching experience 2015 Math 212 ×3 (Duke University) Instructor for a multivariable calculus course. Math 605 (Duke University) Graduate course on the arithmetic of elliptic curves. 2014 Math 212 (Duke University) Math 502 (Duke University) Instructor for a second course in abstract algebra. Math 305S (Duke University) Instructor for a seminar course in number theory. 2013 Math 353 (Duke University) Instructor for an applied course in ODE and PDE. Math 42 (Stanford University) Teaching assistant for an accelerated single-variable calculus course. Math 51 (Stanford University) Teaching assistant for a linear algebra and multi-variable calculus course. 2011 Math 51 (Stanford University) Teaching assistant for a linear algebra and multi-variable calculus course. 2010 Math 41 (Stanford University) Teaching assistant for a single-variable calculus class. 2009 Math 53 (Stanford University) Teaching assistant for a class on ordinary differential equations. 2008 Math 151 (Stanford University) Course assistant for an undergraduate honors class in real analysis. 2 Honors, Awards, and Fellowships 2015-present AMS-Simons travel grant recipient (Duke University). 2009-2012 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship D (Stanford University). Canada Graduate Scholarship D declined. 2008 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship M (Stanford University). Canada Graduate Scholarship M declined. 2008 Governor General's Silver Medal (University of Waterloo). Awarded to the undergraduate with the highest grade point average at each Canadian university. 2007 CMS-NSERC Math in Moscow Scholarship (University of Waterloo). 2005-2008 NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (University of Waterloo). 2004-2007 Descartes National Math Scholarship (University of Waterloo). 2004 Putnam compeitition 4th place team member and Honorable Mention individually (University of Waterloo). Invited Talks 06/2015 UCLA Number Theory Seminar. UCLA. 03/2015 29th Automorphic Forms Workshop. Ann Arbor. 12/2014 Families of Automorphic Forms and the Trace formula. Banff. 11/2014 AMS Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics. UNC Greensboro. 10/2014 University of Chicago Number Theory Seminar. University of Chicago. 10/2014 Northwestern Number Theory Seminar. Northwestern University. 10/2014 University of South Carolina Number Theory Seminar. University of South Carolina, Columbia. 11/2013 Wisconsin Number Theory Seminar. University of Wisconsin, Madison. 11/2013 Quebec-Vermont Number Theory Seminar. McGill University. 09/2013 Duke-UNC Number Theory Seminar. Duke University. 06/2013 Periods of automorphic forms and applications. Stanford University. 03/2013 Stanford Number Theory Seminar. Stanford University. 12/2012 Canadian Math Society Winter Meeting, Satellite Number Theory Conference. Centre de Recherches Math´ematiques(CRM). 3 Conference Participation 2015 29th Automorphic Forms Workshop (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Advances in Homogeneous Dynamics (MSRI, Berkeley). Geometric Structures on 3-manifolds (IAS, Princeton). 2014 New Geometric Methods in Number Theory (MSRI, Berkeley). AMS Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics (UNC Greensboro). Families of Automorphic Forms and the Trace Formula (Banff). Peter Sarnak 61st Birthday Conference: Analysis, Spectra, and Number Theory (Princeton). 2013 Arizona Winter School 2013: Modular forms and modular curves (University of Arizona, Tucson). Periods of automorphic forms and applications (Stanford). 2012 Torsion in the homology of arithmetic groups (Banff). 2011 L-functions, Galois representations, and Iwasawa theory (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Sch´emasen groupes: SGA III (Luminy, France). Periods of automorphic forms and applications to L-functions (Columbia). 2010 Iwasawa theory and p-adic L-functions (UCLA). SAGE Days 22: Computing with elliptic curves (Berkeley). 2009 Arithmetic of L-functions (PCMI, Park City). Service • Co-organizer of Duke's Number Theory seminar. • Referee for Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society and Annales de'l Institut Fourier. References • Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford University; thesis advisor): [email protected] • Nicolas Bergeron (Institut de Math´ematiques de Jussieu): [email protected] • Jordan Ellenberg (University of Wisconsin): [email protected] • Sug Woo Shin (UC Berkeley): [email protected] • Mark Stern (Duke University): [email protected] • Leslie Saper (Duke University): [email protected] 4 • Jayce Getz (Duke University): [email protected] • Richard Hain (Duke University): [email protected] • Clark Bray (Duke University; teaching reference): [email protected] 5.