John Swallow

Brief Curriculum Vitae

Academic Positions

Kimbrough Professor of Mathematics and Humanities, Davidson College, 2007—

Kimbrough Associate Professor of Mathematics and Humanities, Davidson College, 2000—2007

Kimbrough Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Davidson College, 1998—2000

MacArthur Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Davidson College, 1995—1997

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Davidson College, 1994—2000

Education

Yale University, Ph. D. 1994, M. Phil., M. S. 1991

Sewanee: The University of the South, B. A. 1989

Selected Lectures

Plenary Workshop, Mathematical Association of America MD/VA/DC section meeting, November 2007

Plenary Lecture, MAA Indiana section meeting, October 2007

Section Lecture, MAA Southeastern section meeting, March 2007

Plenary Lecture "Galois module structure of Galois cohomology," at Algebraic groups, quadratic forms, and related topics, Banff International Research Station, September 2006

Selected Publications

Exploratory Galois theory (Book). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. EGT on the web

Detecting pro-p-groups that are not absolute Galois groups (with D. Benson, N. Lemire, and J. Mináč), Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle's Journal) 613: 175—191 (2007). Arxiv.org page

Galois module structure of Galois cohomology and partial Euler-Poincaré characteristics (with N. Lemire and J. Mináč), Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle's Journal) 613: 147—173 (2007). Arxiv.org page

Reality Conditions by Alex Kasman (Fiction review). Notices of the American Mathematical Society 53: 761—763 (2006). Notices page

also 16 other published research articles; a forthcoming expository mathematical article; a review of a research monograph; and an essay

Selected Service at Davidson

Faculty Executive Committee, 2006—

Advisory Council on Finance, Personnel, and Development, 2002—2005

Chair and Trustee Liaison, 2004—2005

Budget Working Group, 2003—2005

External Board Work

Sewanee: The University of the South, Board of Regents, 2007—2013, Board of Trustees, 2001—2007

American Mathematical Society, Notices Editorial Board, 2007—

Mathematical Association of America Southeastern Section, Executive Committee, 2006—2007

Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, Board of Regional Representatives, 2003—2006

External Awards and Honors

National Science Foundation, 2006—2009 (Research in Undergraduate Institutions Award); 1998—1999 (International Research Fellowship); 1994—1998 (Career Award); 1989—1992 (Graduate Fellowship)

National Security Agency, 2002—2004 (Young Investigator Award)

Salzburg Seminar, 2007 (Young Leaders Summit: Global Scenarios and Strategies for 2030, December 2007)

Visiting Positions

Chercheur invité, Université Bordeaux I, 2005—2006

Professeur invité et rapporteur de thèse, Université Valenciennes, June 2004

Visiting scientist, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, 1998—1999

Maître de conférences invité, Université Lille I, May—June 1997

References

upon request