John Swallow

Brief Curriculum Vitae as of June 2012

2012—
Provost and Professor of Mathematics
The University of the South

1994—2012
Kimbrough Professor of Mathematics and Humanities
Davidson College

Selected Publications

Ideas in the Ascendant. The Chronicle Review. July 1, 2011. Online

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

Exploratory Galois Theory. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. EGT on the web

Beautiful Numbers. The American Scholar 64:4 (Autumn 1995), 572--578.

Selected Lectures

Vann Lecture "Education and Intellectual Habits, Old and New" at The McCallie School, Chattanooga, Tennessee, February 2011

Davidson College Alumni "Back-to-School" Lecture "From Cult to Church" available on Davidson's iTunes site, 2009.
Plenary Lecture "Galois cohomology groups as Galois modules, and applications" at Linear algebraic groups and related structures, Banff International Research Station, September 2009

Invited Lectures, Mathematical Association of America New Jersey section meeting, March 2009;
Southern California-Nevada section meeting, March 2008; Indiana section meeting, October 2007; Southeastern section meeting, March 2007

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

Selected Leadership at Davidson College

Vice Chair pro tem of the Faculty, 2009—2011

Presidential Search Committee, 2010—2011

Faculty Executive Committee, 2006—2011

Strategic Planning:

Graduation Requirements Team, Convener, 2010—2011

Implementation Team, 2009—2010

Ad Hoc Faculty Advisory Committee on Curriculum Development, Chair, 2008—2009

Curriculum Study Group, Chair, 2008

Advisory Council on Finance, Personnel, and Development, Chair, 2004—2005

External Board Work

The University of the South, Board of Regents, 2007—2011, Secretary 2010—2011; 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—2010 (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)

Education

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

The University of the South, English Literature (honors) and Mathematics (honors), B. A. 1989

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