| Email: | joswallow@davidson.edu |
| Phone: | (704) 894-2316 |
| Fax: | (704) 894-2005 |
| Admin. Ass't: | (704) 894-2315, Ms. Vanessa Victor |
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Department of Mathematics Davidson College Box 7046, Davidson, NC 28035-7046 (USPS) 209 Ridge Road, Davidson, NC 28036 (FedEx, UPS, DHL) USA |
J. T. Kimbrough Professor of Mathematics and Humanities
Davidson College
Regent (2007—2013)
The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
Associate Editor, Notices
American Mathematical Society
| TeachingI enjoy teaching in the Department of Mathematics and in Davidson's Humanities Program. Collaboration with undergraduates has included Nat Thiem, summer student from 1998 and former post-doc at Stanford, who is an assistant professor at Colorado; Andy Schultz '02, now a post-doc at Illinois after finishing his Ph.D. at Stanford; and Frank Chemotti '05. This year I am working with Adam Topaz '08. |
Exposition I have developed a minicourse on teaching an undergraduate Galois theory, with dissemination at mathematical conferences supported by the NSF through 2009. This year I am speaking at several MAA sections on topics related to Galois theory. I also enjoy opportunities to write essays, expository articles, book reviews, and, time permitting, texts. |
| Research My research concerns the patterns which appear when one considers the roots of polynomials with integer coefficients. My interests range from Galois embedding problems to the Galois module structure of pth power classes and more general Galois module structure of Milnor K-theory. | Grants and Awards Salzburg Seminar Young Leaders Summit, 2007; MAA Section Lectureship, 2006-2007; NSF RUI grant, 2006-2009; NSA Young Investigator Award, 2002-2003; NSF International Research Fellowship, 1998-1999; NSF REU Supplement, 1998; NSF Career Grant, 1995-1999. |
| Visiting Positions Chercheur invité, Bordeaux, France, 8/05-7/06; Professeur invité et rapporteur de thèse, Valenciennes, France, 5/04; Visiting Scientist, Technion--Israel Institute of Technology, 9/98-8/99; Maître de conférences invité, Lille, France, 5/97-6/97. |
Conference, Lecture, and Meeting Schedule Indiana MAA meeting, 10/07; DC/MD/VA MAA meeting, 11/07; Salzburg Seminar, Austria, 12/07; Algebra Seminar, Duke University, 12/07; Joint mathematics meetings, San Diego, 1/08; Board meeting, Sewanee, 2/08 |