Scott Carnahan (G)(M)

Employment Data

• Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at University of Tsukuba, starting Nov. 2012.
• Postdoctoral Scholar at Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo, 2010-2012.
• C.L.E. Moore Fellow at MIT, 2007-2010.
• Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, May 2007.
  • Advisor: Richard Borcherds.
  • Dissertation: Monstrous Lie algebras and generalized moonshine.

Selected Papers (full list)

Generalized Moonshine II: Borcherds products

Duke Mathematical Journal 161:5 (2012), 893-950. (arXiv)

Generalized Moonshine I: Genus zero functions

Algebra and Number Theory 4:6 (2010) 649-679 (arXiv)

Recent Research Talks (full list)

• Borcherds products in monstrous moonshine:
  1. September 14, 2010, Math-String seminar, IPMU
  2. November 17, 2010, Representation theory seminar, RIMS
  3. November 25, 2010, Workshop on Lattices, Reflection Groups, and Algebraic Geometry, Nagoya University
  4. November 29, 2010, IPMU Komaba seminar, University of Tokyo
• Conformal blocks on nodal curves:
  1. June 3, 2011, CMS meeting, University of Alberta
  2. September 11, 2011, AMS sectional meeting, Cornell University
  3. September 20, 2011, CFT2011, University of Heidelberg
• Generalized moonshine, January 24, 2012, University of Alberta
• Conformal blocks on log-smooth curves I-IV, March-April 2012, IPMU

Grants

• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for young scientists (B) 2012-2015

Contact info

• Address: 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, 277-8583 Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
• Office Phone: +81-04-7136-6539
• Email: scott [dot] carnahan [at-sign] ipmu [dot] jp

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