Asher Natan Auel

Department of Mathematics
University of Pennsylvania
209 South 33rd Street, DRL 3E2
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Tel: (215) 898-8175
Email: auela AT math.upenn.edu
Web: www.math.upenn.edu/~auela/

Born: 1981, Oregon (US citizen)
Languages: English (native), French (fluent), Hebrew (working).
Programming: HTML/CSS, LaTeX, Maple, Magma, GAP, C.

Education

2009 May	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Ph.D. Mathematics (expected) Ted Chinburg, Ph.D. dissertation adviser Title: Cohomological invariants of line bundle-valued quadratic forms Research areas: arithmetic geometry, quadratic forms, K-theory
2004 Jul	Université Paris-Sud XI Orsay, Paris, France Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (DEA) Mathématiques Pures Guy Henniart, DEA thesis adviser Title: Une démonstration d'un théorème de Bernstein sur les représentations de quasi-carré-intégrable de GL_n(F)* où F est un corps local non archimédien*
2003 May	Reed College, Portland, OR A.B. Mathematics Joe P. Buhler, undergraduate thesis adviser Title: Volumes of integer polynomials over local fields

Academic Awards and Fellowships

2009 Feb	NSF Mathematics Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Emory University
2008 Nov	Carlitz-Zippin Thesis Prize Mathematics Department, University of Pennsylvania
2008 Fall	School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship University of Pennsylvania
2004-2008	Calabi Fellow Mathematics Department, University of Pennsylvania
2003-2004	U.S. Advanced Student Fulbright Grant (France) Université Paris-Sud XI Orsay
2002-2003	Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Reed College
2001-2003	James B. Small Scholarship Mathematics Department, Reed College
1998	Bronfman Youth Fellowship in Israel

Teaching Awards

2007	School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Teaching University of Pennsylvania
2007	Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students University of Pennsylvania
2005-2007	Good Teaching Award Mathematics Department, University of Pennsylvania

Teaching

2007 Sum	Course Instructor: Ideas in Mathematics, topics is graph theory, history of mathematics, tilings and symmetries, and sudoku University of Pennsylvania
2006 Sum	Course Instructor: Ideas in Mathematics, mathematical logic and foundations. University of Pennsylvania
2006-2007	Teaching Assistant: Abstract Algebra I/II University of Pennsylvania
2006 Spr	Teaching Assistant: Proving Things (Algebra) University of Pennsylvania
2005 Fall	Teaching Assistant: Calculus I University of Pennsylvania
2004-2005	Review Leader: Sunday Math Review University of Pennsylvania
2002-2003	Paper Grader: Calculus, Abstract Algebra Reed College
2001-2003	Review Leader: Math Review Center Reed College

Service

2009 Jan	Chaired AMS Session on Number Theory, III, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Wednesday, January 7th, 2009, together with Emma Previato.
2007-2008	Member of a graduate student committee (together with Andrew Obus and Shea Vela-Vick) spearheading the development of an honors calculus course, Math 116/260, to be first offered at Penn in Fall 2008.
2006-2008	Member of the Penn Mathematics Department Master TA Program, responsible for organizing a week long teacher training program in the Fall and conduct long-term evaluation of incoming graduate students.
2004-2008	Bicycle Mechanic Volunteer Facilitator, Neighborhood Bicycle Works, Philadelphia, PA. A nonprofit educational organization that seeks to increase opportunities for urban youth through bicycling.
2001, 2003	Type II Wildland Firefighter (Squad Boss), Eagle Pass Reforestation Inc., Jacksonville, OR. Responsible for safety and personnel management of a 20 person hand crew during summer wildland fire seasons.

Papers/Notes

2008	Cohomological invariants of line bundle-valued quadratic forms, in preparation
2004	Une démonstration d'un théorème de Bernstein sur les représentations de quasi-carré-intégrable de GL_n(F)* où F est un corps local non archimédien* (DEA Thesis, Paris-Sud Orsay XI, July 2004), with advisor Guy Henniart
2003	Volumes of integer polynomials over local fields (Undergraduate Thesis, Reed College, May 2003), with adviser Joe P. Buhler

Workshops Attended/Visits

2008	MIMS short-term visitor School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, May 7-June 6, visiting Martin Taylor
2008	IMB Number Theory Group (A2X) research visiter Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, Université Bordeaux I, May 19-25, visiting Philippe Cassou-Noguès
2007	Fields Institute Summer School in Iwasawa Theory Mathematics Department, McMaster University, August 9-13. Full funding to attend.
2007	Arizona Winter School 2007: p-adic geometry Mathematics Department, University of Arizona, March 10-14. Full funding to attend.
2006	Clay Mathematics Institute 2006 Summer School: Arithmetic Geometry Mathematisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, July 17-August 11. Full funding to attend.

Talks

2009 Jan	Characteristic classes and root numbers for motives associated to GO_n Joint Mathematics Meetings 2009, Washington, DC
2008 Dec	Characteristic classes for essentially self-dual Galois representations Galois Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
Nov	From quaternion algebras to conic sections Mathematics Colloquium, Reed College
Nov	Cohomological invariants of line bundle-valued quadratic forms Number Theory Seminar, Mathematics Department, University of California San Diego
Nov	Self-dual Galois representations Center for Communications Research (CCR) West, La Jolla, CA
May	Invariants «modulo 4» de formes quadratiques à valeurs dans des fibres Graduate Student Number Theory Seminar, IMB Université Bordeaux I
Mar	Theta divisors and fundamental groups of curves in characteristic p Galois Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
Feb	Simple Values of Sine and Cosine Graduate Student Pizza Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
2007 Aug	Iwasawa theory over imaginary quadratic fields Fields Institute Summer School in Iwasawa Theory, McMaster University
Apr	Orthogonal Galois theoretic characteristic classes I/II (two talks) Galois Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
Feb	The co-site of modules over a non-commutative ring I/II (two talks) Graduate Student Non-Commutative Algebraic Geometry Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
2006 Nov	Abelian varieties: canonical maps and functorial characterizations Graduate Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
Oct	Can the automorphism group of an infinite field be so large? Galois Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
Sep	Abelian varieties over C Graduate Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
Feb	Fields of moduli of 3-point covers with mild reduction, Galois Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
2005 Oct	An introduction to model theory Topics Course on Model Theory and Quadratic Forms, University of Pennsylvania
Oct	A generating function of étale algebras over a local field Graduate Student Pizza Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
Jun	Zapponi's work on the Galois action on diameter four trees I/II (two talks) Galois Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
2004 Oct	The probability that a p-adic polynomial splits Graduate Student Pizza Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
Jan	Expose de courbes elliptiques sur C Course on Modular Forms and Modular Curves, Paris-Sud XI Orsay
2002 Dec	p-adic polynomials Mathematics Colloquium, Reed College
Oct	Distributions: how to think about the Dirac δ-function Student Exposition Series, Reed College
Feb	Classifying locally compact topological groups Student Exposition Series, Reed College

Curriculum Vitae