CURRICULUM VITAE
BRIAN SMITHLING
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Mathematics
3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[email protected]
http://www.math.jhu.edu/~bds/
+1 410 516 4047
Research interests
Arithmetic and algebraic geometry, especially Shimura varieties and moduli problems related
to abelian varieties, p-divisible groups, and formal Lie groups
Employment
Johns Hopkins University, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 2012–present
University of Toronto, Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics, 2008–12
Visiting positions
Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Junior Trimester Program participant,
January–April 2010
Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Visitor, 2007–8
Education
University of Chicago, M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2001–7 (Thesis advisor: R. Kottwitz)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.B. in Mathematics and Physics, 1997–2001
Publications
Published and in press:
(1) On the moduli stack of commutative, 1-parameter formal groups, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 215
(2011), no. 4, 368–397.
(2) Topological flatness of orthogonal local models in the split, even case. I. Math. Ann. 350
(2011), no. 2, 381–416.
(3) Admissibility and permissibility for minuscule cocharacters in orthogonal groups, Manuscripta Math. 136 (2011), no. 3–4, 295–314.
(4) Topological flatness of local models for ramified unitary groups. I. The odd dimensional
case, Adv. Math. 226 (2011), no. 4, 3160–3190.
(5) Local models of Shimura varieties, I. Geometry and combinatorics, with G. Pappas and
M. Rapoport. Handbook of Moduli, Vol. III (G. Farkas and I. Morrison, eds.), 135–217,
Advanced Lectures in Mathematics, vol. 26, International Press, Somerville, MA, USA,
2013.
(6) Topological flatness of local models for ramified unitary groups. II. The even dimensional
case, J. Inst. Math. Jussieu 13 (2014), no. 2, 303–393.
(7) On the moduli description of local models for ramified unitary groups, Int. Math. Res. Not.
2015 (2015), no. 24, 13493–13532.
(8) On the arithmetic transfer conjecture for exotic smooth formal moduli spaces, with M.
Rapoport and W. Zhang, to appear in Duke Math. J., 91 pp.
(9) Regular formal moduli spaces and arithmetic transfer conjectures, with M. Rapoport and
W. Zhang, to appear in Math. Ann., 69 pp.
In preparation:
(10) Arithmetic diagonal cycles on unitary Shimura varieties, with M. Rapoport and W. Zhang.
(11) Orthogonal analogs of some schemes considered by De Concini.
(12) Orthogonal Shimura varieties of PEL type and local models.
Grants and awards
NSA Young Investigator Award #141014, 2016–2018
Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians #359425, 2015–2020
Professor of the Year, Johns Hopkins University Department of Mathematics, 2015 and 2017
Frederick V. Atkinson Teaching Award, University of Toronto Department of Mathematics,
2011
Lawrence and Josephine Graves Teaching Prize, University of Chicago Department of Mathematics, 2005
Talks
University of Chicago number theory seminar, May 2017
Northwestern University number theory seminar, May 2017
Arbeitsgemeinschaft: Higher Gross Zagier Formulas, Oberwolfach, April 2017 (expository talk)
Nisyros conference on automorphic representations and related topics, June 2016
2016 AS-NCTS Summer school and workshop on Shimura varieties and related topics (summer
school lecturer and conference speaker), Taipei, May–June 2016
Rice University algebraic geometry and number theory seminar, September 2015
Workshop on local models of Shimura varieties and related topics, ESI, Vienna, April 2015
University of Maryland Lie groups and representation theory seminar, March 2015
Harvard University number theory seminar, October 2014
Rutgers Newark colloquium, April 2014
AMS special session on “Recent Progress in the Langlands Program,” Baltimore, January 2014
Caltech number theory seminar, January 2014
Johns Hopkins University algebraic geometry/number theory seminar, December 2013
CUNY collaborative number theory seminar, November 2013
University of Maryland Lie groups and representation theory seminar, October 2013
Workshop on arithmetic geometry of orthogonal and unitary Shimura varieties, BIRS, June
2012
Johns Hopkins University algebraic geometry/number theory seminar, January 2012
Wayne State University algebra seminar, November 2011
University of Queensland seminar, May 2011
University of Chicago number theory seminar, March 2011
University of Utah number theory seminar, February 2011
Australia National University algebra and topology seminar, February 2011
University of Maryland Lie groups and representation theory seminar, February 2011
University of Alberta algebra seminar, January 2011
University of Toronto number theory/representation theory seminar, December 2010
BC-MIT number theory seminar, November 2010
Universität Bonn Arbeitsgemeinschaft Arithmetische Geometrie, January 2010
University of Toronto geometric representation theory seminar, October 2009
University of Chicago representation theory seminar, March 2009
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University of Maryland Lie groups and representation theory seminar, February 2009
University of Toronto number theory/representation theory seminar, January 2009
Michigan State University algebra seminar, December 2008
University of Toronto number theory/representation theory seminar, November 2008
Johns Hopkins University topology seminar, November 2008
Séminaire Groupes Réductifs et Formes Automorphes, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu,
Paris, June 2008
Universität Bonn Arbeitsgemeinschaft Arithmetische Geometrie, April–May 2008
Universität Bonn Arbeitsgemeinschaft Arithmetische Geometrie, October 2007
MPIM Oberseminar, Bonn, September 2007
University of Maryland Lie groups and representation theory seminar, February 2007
Northwestern University topology seminar, January 2007
AMS Special Session on topics in representation theory, University of Notre Dame, April 2006
Conferences and workshops attended
Johns Hopkins–University of Maryland Algebra and Number Theory Day, once each fall and
spring (co-organizer), 2012–
Reductions of Shimura varieties, Oberwolfach, August 2015
Automorphic forms, Shimura varieties, Galois representations, and L-functions, MSRI, December 2014
Conference and summer school on the Gan–Gross–Prasad conjectures, Paris, June 2014
Conference on arithmetic algebraic geometry, Paderborn, October 2013
Montreal–Toronto workshop in number theory, CRM, Montreal, April 2012
Workshop on the p-adic Langlands program: recent developments and applications, Fields
Institute, Toronto, April 2012
Workshop on cohomology of Shimura varieties: arithmetic aspects and the construction of
Galois representations, Fields Institute, Toronto, March 2012
Workshop on Galois representations, Shimura varieties, and automorphic forms, Fields Institute,
Toronto, March 2012
L-packets, BIRS, June 2011
Montreal–Toronto workshop in number theory, Fields Institute, Toronto, April 2011
Workshop on Galois representations and automorphic forms, IAS, March 2011
Montreal–Toronto workshop in number theory, CRM, Montreal, September 2010
Conference in honor of Benedict Gross’s 60th birthday, Harvard University, June 2010
Workshop on p-divisible groups and stable homotopy theory, UIUC, June 2009
Workshop on geometry related to the Langlands programme, University of Ottawa, May 2009
Conference on arithmetic algebraic geometry on the occasion of Michael Rapoport’s 60th birthday, Universität Bonn, October 2008
The stable trace formula, automorphic forms, and Galois representations, BIRS, August 2008
Homotopical group theory and topological algebraic geometry, University of Copenhagen and
MPIM, June 2008
G. Harder 70th birthday event, MPIM, Bonn, March 2008
Winter school and conference on moduli spaces, MPIM and Universität Bonn, January 2008
Workshop on compactifications of moduli spaces and tropical geometry, various locations in
Germany, November, December, and January 2007–8
Workshop on the cohomology of nonarchimedean period domains and related moduli spaces,
MPIM, Bonn, September 2007
Master class on elliptic cohomology and derived algebraic geometry, University of Oslo, August
2006
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G. Lusztig 60th birthday conference, MIT, May 2006
Midwest representation theory conference, University of Chicago, March 2006
Summer school on harmonic analysis, Shimura varieties, and the trace formula, Fields Institute,
Toronto, June 2003
Teaching
Johns Hopkins University, 2012–present
• Undergraduate courses taught: Calculus I (for the physical sciences and engineering), Calculus II (for the biological and social sciences), Advanced algebra I and II, Real analysis I,
Introduction to topology
• Graduate courses taught: Algebra II, Number theory I, Algebraic geometry II
• Undergraduate reading course in algebraic geometry
University of Toronto, 2008–12
• Undergraduate courses taught: Applied linear algebra (for engineers), Linear algebra I (once
as course co-coordinator), Polynomial equations and fields
University of Chicago, 2001–7
• Undergraduate courses taught: Calculus 1-2-3, Multivariable calculus and linear algebra
(for the biological and social sciences), Elementary number theory and Euclidean geometry
• Teaching assistant for Honors calculus 1-2-3
• Directed Reading Program mentor for a project in topology
Service
Co-organizer (with T. Haines) for the Johns Hopkins–University of Maryland Algebra and
Number Theory Day, 2012–present
Referee for Advances in Mathematics, Annales de l’Institut Fourier, and IMRN
Reviewer for Zentralblatt Math, 2008–present
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