Address: Dept of Math, McGill University, Burnside Hall, Montreal, PQ.

E-mail:  darmon at math.mcgill.ca

Web Page: http://www.math.mcgill.ca/darmon

Telephone:         Work: (514) 398-2263                 FaX: (514) 398-3899

Born:  Oct. 22, 1965 in Paris, France.

Citizenship: Canadian, French and Swiss.

Education:
Ph.D. Mathematics, Harvard University, 1991.
B.Sc. Mathematics and Computer Science, McGill University, 1987.
 

University Positions:
2005-2012. James McGill Professor.
June 2000-Present.  McGill University, Professor.
Sept 1997-June 2000. McGill University, Associate Professor.
Sept 1994-Aug 1997. McGill University, Assistant Professor.
                                    (On leave from Sept 1995 to August 1996.)
Sept 1994-Aug 1996. Princeton University, Assistant Professor.
                                    (On leave from Sept 1994 to August 1995.)
Sept 1991-August 1994. Princeton University, Instructor.
 

Other Positions:
2005-present. External member, European network in Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry (Milano node).
1999-present. Member, CRM (Centre de Recherches Mathématiques)
1998-present. Director, CICMA (Centre Interuniversitaire en Calcul Mathématique Algébrique).
1994-present. Chercheur Universitaire, CICMA.
1991-1994: Cercheur hors Québec, CICMA.
 

Visiting Positions:
2009, January. Tate Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay.
2008, June-July. Université Paris-Sud.
2006, December 24-31. NCTS, Taipei.
2006, December 17-23. Visitor, Harish-Chandra Institute, Allahabad.
2006, June 15-July 15. Visiting Professor, CRM, Barcelona, Spain.
2004, June-July, Visiting Professor, Université Paris VI (Jussieu), Paris.
2003, September-December, Visiting Professor, Princeton University.
2003, June-July, Visiting Professor, Université Paris VI (Jussieu), Paris.
2003, June-July, Visitor, Morningside Center, Beijing, China. [Cancelled because of the SARS epidemic]
2002, December, Visiting Professor, Saga University, Japan.
2001, November, Visiting Professor, Korean Institute for Advanced Study.
2001, June, Visiting Researcher, Universita di Padova.
1999, July, Visiting Professor, Universita di Pavia.
1998, Spring. Visiting Professor and Nachdiplom lecturer, ETH, Zurich.
1997, June. Visiting Professor, Université Paris VI (Jussieu), Paris.
1997, May. Visitor, Institut Henri-Poincaré, Paris.
1996, March. Visiting professor and guest lecturer, University of Barcelona
1996, Spring. Visiting member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley.
1995, June 1-August 31, Visiting Professor, Universita di Pavia.
1991, July 1 - August 31, Visiting member, IHES, Paris.

Research-based distinctions:
2008. John L. Synge award of the Royal Society of Canada.
2008. Killam Fellowship of the Canada Council of the Arts.
2003. Elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
2003. Earle Raymond Hedrick Lecturer of the MAA
2002. Ribenboim Prize, Canadian Number Theory Association.
2002. E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship
1998. Coxeter-James Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society.
1997. Prix André Aisenstadt.
1996. G. De B. Robinson Award.
1996-98. Alfred P. Sloan Research Award.
1990-91. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
 

Teaching Awards
2003. Carrie M. Derick Award for graduate teaching and supervision.
1993. Princeton Engineering Council's Excellence in Teaching Award.
 

Grants:
2002-2004. NSERC Steacie supplement (120,000$ and 135,000$).
2001-2005. NSERC research grant (47,000$ per year).
1997-2001. NSERC research grant (32,000$ per year).
1994-1997. NSERC research grant (18,000$ per year).
1991-92. NSERC Post-Doctoral research award.
1987-90. NSERC '67 Doctoral Award.
1994-97. FCAR "Nouveaux chercheurs" grant.
2001. Visiting fellowship from CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche).
1999. Visiting fellowship from CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche).
1995. Visiting fellowship from CNR (Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche).
1992-94. NSF grant in Algebra and Number Theory.
 

PhD Thesis:
Refined class number formulas for derivatives of L-series, PhD. thesis, Harvard,1991, under the direction of B.H. Gross.
 

Refereed Publications: (If you have access to MathSciNet, here are some of the reviews.)
 

Service:
Membership of Editorial Boards
2005- . International Journal of Number Theory.
2003-2007. Commentari Mathematici Helvetici
2001-2005: Editor-in-chief, Canadian Journal of Mathematics
1999-2005: Journal of Number Theory.
1996-2000. Annales des Sciences Mathématiques du Quebec.
Organization of conferences
Arithmetic Geoemtry session, Canada-France Meeting. Montreal, June 2008. (With Gaetan Chenevier.)
Organizer, Clay Institute summer school on the arithmetic of curves, surfaces and varieties. Gottingen, July-August 2006. (With Hassett and Tschinkel).
Organizer, CRM Special year in Number Theory, Montreal, September-December 2005. (With David and Granville).
Organizer, CRM Workshop on intersection of arithmetic cycles and automorphic forms, Montreal. December 2005. (With Goren)
Organizer, CRM Workshop on p-adic representations, Montreal, September 2005. (With Iovita).
Organizer, CRM-McGill workshop on Computational aspects of p-adic cohomology, Far Hills, January 2004. (With Pila).
Organizer, Princeton/AIM workshop on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, November 2003. (With Skinner and Wiles).
Organizer, concentration period on the Geometric Langlands program, CRM, April-May 2002. (With Hurtubise).
Organizer, CRM-McGill workshop on Hilbert modular forms and varieties, Far Hills, January 2002. (With Goren).
Organizer, MSRI workshop on special values of Rankin L-series, December 2001. (With Shouwu Zhang).
Organizer, CRM special year on automorphic forms and number theory in 1998-99. (With Kisilevsky).
Special session organizer, AMS meeting in Montreal, September 1997.
Special session organizer, Colloque des Sci. Math. du Quebec, Montreal, April 1997.
Special Session organizer, AMS meeting in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, October 1996. (With Rodriguez-Villegas).
Organizing committee, CNTA-5 Conference, Ottawa, August 1996.
Special Session organizer, AMS Annual meeting in Orlando Florida, January 1996. (With Granville).
University Committees
2004-2005. Dean's Advisory Committee on the Selection of a new Chair.
1996-2001. Mathematics Department Advisory Committee.
1998-1999. Dean's Advisory Committee on the Selection of a new Chair.
1996-1997. Dean's Advisory Committee on the Selection of a new Chair.
1994-1996. Mathematics Department Library Committee.
National Committees
2004-2008. Fields Institute Scientific Advisory Panel.
2004-2007. NSERC Grant Selection Committee.
2002-2003. NSERC Circle.
2001-2005. CMS prize committee.
2000-2002. Steering committee, Banff International Research Station (BIRS).
1998-2003. CMS International Affairs Committee.
1999-2004. CMS Board of Directors.
Other contributions
Regular contributor to Math Reviews .
 

Graduate Students

Teaching experience:
Modular Forms II, Spring 2008.
Algebra 2 (189-251B), Spring 2006.
Basic Algebra 1 (189-235A), Fall 2005.
Rational points on modular elliptic curves, weekly seminar, Princeton University, Fall 2003.
Introduction to automorphic forms (189-709B), Spring 2002.
Higher Algebra II (189-571B), Spring 2001.
Higher Algebra I (189-570A), Fall 2000.
Higher Algebra II (189-571B), Spring 2000.
Higher Algebra I (189-570A), Fall 1999.
Modular forms and the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Graduate course, CRM, Fall 1998.
Galois theory, Diophantine equations, and Modular forms, Nachdiplom-Vorlesung at the ETH, Zurich, Spring 1998.
Algebra II (189-251B), Spring 1997.
Algebraic number fields , (189-726A), Fall 1996.
Basic Algebra I (189-235A), Fall 1996.
Honors Linear Algebra, Princeton University, Fall 1995.
Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, McGill University, Spring 1995.
History and Philosophy of Mathematics, McGill University, Fall 1994.
Differential Geometry of curves and surfaces, McGill University, Fall 1994.
Student-initiated seminar on Galois theory, Princeton University, Spring 1994.
Evolution of mathematical concepts, Princeton University, Spring 1994.
Topics in Algebra, Princeton University, Fall 1993.
Algebraic Number Theory and Elliptic Curves, Princeton Junior Seminar, Spring 1993.
Mathematics for Economists, Princeton, Spring 1993.
Multivariable Calculus, Princeton, Spring 1991 and Fall 1992.
Calculus of one variable, Princeton, Fall 1991.
``Topics in Galois theory", Senior Tutorial seminar, Harvard, Spring term 199O.
 
 

Invited talks and conference participations:

1990:
Number Theory Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park.
Quebec Vermont Number Theory Seminar, McGill University, Montreal.

1991:
Number theory seminar, University of California, Berkeley.
Conference on p-adic monodromy, Boston University, Massachusetts.
Number Theory seminar, Boston University.
Number Theory seminar, Harvard University.
Quebec Vermont Number Theory Seminar, Concordia University, Montreal.

1992:
Number Theory Seminar, Columbia University.
Number Theory Seminar, University of Pennsylvania.
Number Theory Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park.
Number Theory Seminar, Princeton University.
Conference on Elliptic curves and related Topics, Ste-Adele, Quebec.
Conference on Serre's conjectures, Sundance, Utah.
Number Theory seminar, Universitá di Pavia, Italy.

1993:
February, Colloquium and Seminar, Université Laval.
February, Number Theory seminar, University of Michigan.
March, Seminar on harmonic analysis and number theory, IAS, Princeton.
April, Quebec Vermont Number Theory seminar, Mcgill University.
April, Number Theory seminar, Rutgers University in Newark.
May, Number Theory seminar, Brown University.
July, Conference on elliptic curves, Anogeia, Crete.
August, AMS-CMS special session on Number Theory, Vancouver.
October, Five College Number Theory Seminar, Amherst College, Mass.
November, Quebec Vermont Number Theory Seminar, Université Laval.

1994:
January, Quebec Vermont Number Theory seminar, University of Vermont.
February, Number theory seminar, Columbia University.
February, Colloquium and Number Theory seminar, University of Georgia.
July, Plenary lecture on Wiles' work, CNTA 4 conference, Halifax.
July, Invited lecture for undergraduates at Boston University's PROMYS program.
October, Number Theory seminar, Boston University.
October, Number Theory seminar, University of Ottawa.
October, Quebec Vermont Number Theory seminar.

1995:
February 1995, University of California, Berkeley, Number Theory seminar.
February, Colloquium, Queens University.
March, AMS special session on arithmetic geometry, Chicago.
April, Number Theory Seminar, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
May, Current Developments in Mathematics, Harvard and MIT.
May, AMS special session on arithmetic geometry, Jerusalem.
May, Number Theory Seminar, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
July, Number Theory Seminar, Universitá di Pavia, Italy.
August, Invited lecture, seminar on Fermat's Last Theorem held at Boston Univ.
September, Colloquium, University of Vermont.
October, Princeton-Rutgers Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory Seminar.
October, Plenary address, Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec.
November, Algebra Seminar, UPenn.
November, Number Theory Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park.
November, Number Theory Seminar, Columbia University.

1996:
January, Number theory conference, Tiruchirapalli, India.
January, Plenary address, Annual meeting of the AMS, Orlando, Florida.
March, 3 hour lecture series, Barcelona, Spain.
March, conference on elliptic curves and computation, Edinburgh, Scotland.
April, Number theory seminar, UC Berkeley.
April, Arithmetic geometry seminar, University of Michigan.
April, Number theory seminar, Université Laval.

1997:
January, Colloquium, University of Ottawa.
January, Sampson Lectures, Bates College, Maine.
March, Japan-US conference on Elliptic Curves and Applications, Johns Hopkins University.
April, Number theory seminar, UC Berkeley.
May, International Conference on Number Theory, Fez, Morocco.
May, Colloquium, University of Fez, Fez, Morocco.
May, Colloquium, University of Oujda, Oujda, Morocco.
May, Number Theory Seminar, Université Paris VI, Jussieu.
June, Workshop on arithmetic geometry, Institut Henri Poincaré.
July, Conference on Topics in Number theory, Penn State University.
October, Conference on Arithmetic applications of modular forms, Barcelona, Spain.
October, Colloquium, University of Essen, Germany.
November, Algebra Seminar, Boston University

1998:
February, Millican Lecture, University of North Texas.
February, Princeton-IAS-Rutgers Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory Seminar, Princeton.
March, Colloquium, University of Utah.
March, Lecture series, conference on the ABC conjecture, Arizona Winter School, Tucson.
April, Colloquium, ETH, Zurich.
June, Number Theory seminar, ETH, Zurich.
July, Mini-conference on number theory, Laval University, Quebec.
October, Quebec-Vermont number theory seminar.
November, Number Theory seminar and colloquium, Columbia University.
November, Colloquium, McMaster University.
December, Coxeter-James lecture of the CMS, Kingston.

1999:
May, Lie group seminar, Cornell.
May, Colloqium, Cornell University.
May, CRM workshop on arithmetic geometry.
June, CNTA conference, Winnipeg. Plenary lecture.
July, worskshop in arithmetic geometry, Oberwohlfach.
July, Invited 3-hour lecture series, Workshop on modular forms and Galois representations, Rome.
October, Workshop on Galois Actions and Geometry, MSRI, Berkeley.
October, Plenary Lecture, Colloque de l'AMQ, Sherbrooke.
October, General audience lecture on Fermat's Last Theorem, Dawson CEGEP.
December, Colloquium lecture, MSRI, Berkeley.
December, Seminar lecture, MSRI, Berkeley.

2000:
January, Colloquium lecture, York University, Toronto.
January, Number Theory seminar, University of Toronto.
March, Number Theory Seminar, Columbia University.
April, Theory of Numbers seminar, Harvard University.
September, Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern Joint Colloquium.
October, Quebec-Maine Conference.
November, AMS meeting, Columbia University.
December, MSRI workshop on arithmetic, Berkeley.

2001:
February, Colloquium, Howard University.
March, Seminar Lecture, CUNY Graduate Center.
April, Plenary lecture, 53rd British Mathematical Colloquium, University of Glasgow.
April, Quebec-Vermont Number Theory Seminar, Montreal.
May, ISM algebra and number theory day, Montreal.
May, Number Theory Seminar, Universite Paris VI, Jussieu.
June, Lecture series, workshop on the mathematical heritage of Bernard Dwork, Villa Monastero, Italy.
June, workshop in Oberwohlfach.
August, NSF-CBMS lecture series, Orlando, Florida.
October, Number Theory seminar, Courant institute (NYU).
November, Short Course on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Korean Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea.
December, Lecture series, MSRI, Berkeley.

2002:
February, Five College Number Theory seminar, Amherst.
February, Undergraduate Colloquium, Mount Holyoke.
May, Ribenboim Prize lecture, CNTA meeting, Montreal.
June, CMS special session, Quebec City.
July. Mini-course at Universite Paris VI, Jussieu, on Modular elliptic curves and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.
July. Invited speaker, Modular curves and abelian varieties conference in Barcelona, Spain.
August. Invited speaker, Conference on Stark's Conjectures, Baltimore, Maryland.
December, Conference on algebraic number theory and related topics, RIMS, Kyoto.
December, Lecture series, Saga University, Japan.

2003:
May. Number theory conference, Casablanca and Marrakech, Morocco.
June-July. Lecture series, Morningside Center, Beijing. [Cancelled because of the SARS epiemic.]
July. Séminaire de Théorie des nombres de Jussieu, Paris (Chevaleret).
August. Hedrick lecture series, MAA Mathfest, Boulder, Colorado.
August. Conference on number theory and non-commutative geometry, Max Planck Institut, Bonn.
October. Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory seminar.
October. Fields Institute, Toronto.
November. Workshop on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Princeton University.
November. Number Theory Seminar, UPenn.

2004:
January, Quebec-Vermont number theory seminar, Burlington.
February. Colloquium, Yale.
April. Colloquium, University of Maryland.
May. Number Theory Seminar, UC Berkeley.
June. Colloquium, Jussieu, Paris (Chevaleret).
June. Séminaire de Théorie des nombres de Jussieu, Paris (Chevaleret).
June. Séminaire de Théorie des nombres de Paris-Nord.
June. Séminaire Arithmétique et Géométrie Algébrique d'Orsay (SAGA).
July. Plenary Lecture, First Joint Canada-France meeting of the mathematical sciences. Toulouse, France.
August. Contributed lecture, Conference in honor of Harold Stark's 65th birthday. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
September. Invited talk, Conférence Québec-Maine, Université Laval.
October. Invited Talk, Midwest Number Theory Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago.

2005:
April. Seminar and Colloquium, McMaster University.
May 25-27. Workshop on p-adic methods in automorphic forms. Columbia University, New York.
June 4-6. Symposium on L-functions and algebraic curves, Waterloo.
June 13-17. Open questions and recent developments in Iwasawa Theory. In honor of Ralph Greenberg's 60th birthday. Boston, Massachusetts.
August 1-10. Number theory conference, Morningside Center, Beijing, China.

2006:
February 20-25. Advanced course on Arakelov geometry and Shimura varieties. Barcelona, Spain.
April 6-7. Number Theory Days, ETH, Zurich.
April 17-18. Number Theory Seminar and Colloquium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
May 14-19. Semester on p-adic families of modular forms, Harvard, Cambridge Mass.
July 10-15. Workshop on Arakelov geometry and Shimura varieties. Barcelona, Spain.
July 17-21. Instructional conference on p-adic modular forms. Luminy, France.
July 22-August 10. Clay Institute Summer School, Gottingen.
August 22-30. International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid (Number Theory section).
December 18. Seminar and colloquium, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.
December 27. Seminar and colloquium, NCTS, Taipei.

2007:
March 25-30. "Geometrie et Arithmetique". Les Diablerets (Switzerland).
April 27-29. Geometry and Symmetry, from the Neolithic Scots to John McKay. CRM, Montreal.
April 30-May 5. Kuweit Foundation Lecture in Cambridge, UK.
May 18-22. Conference on "L-functions and Automorphic forms", Columbia University.
June 3-8. BIRS workshop on Modular forms: arithmetic and computation. (Banff)
July 8-13. BIRS Workshop on L-functions, ranks of elliptic curves, and random matrix theory. (Banff)
Sept. 30. Quebec-Maine conference.
October 15. UCSB number theory seminar.

2008:
February 28. Colloquium, Harvard.
March 8. Lecture on modular forms, Bellairs Research Station, Barbados.
April 30. Algebraic geometry seminar, University of Chicago.
May 1. Colloquium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
June 30. Colloquium for the Centenary of the Wolfskehl Prize, University of Darmstadt.
July. Arithmetic seminar, Université Paris-Sud (Orsay).
July. Colloquium, Université Paris 6-7, Jussieu.
July 13, Plenary lecture, CNTA X, Waterloo.
October 4-5, Quebec-Maine conference, Laval University, Quebec City.
October 17. Seminar and colloquium, University of Indiana.
November 17. Number theory seminar, Brown.
November 18. Boston College-MIT Number Theory Seminar.

2009:
January 24-February 8. Visit of the Tata Institute in Bombay.
April 1-3. Colloquium, Iowa State University.
May 3-10. Conference at the Bellairs Research Station of McGill University, St. James, Barbados.
June 22-July 3. CRM NATO Advanced Study Institute, CRM, Montreal.
July 12-18. Meeting on effective methods in number theory, Oberwohlfach.
August 13-15. Canada-Mexico meeting, Vancouver.
August 17-21, 2009. "Noncongruence modular forms and modularity". AIM conference center, Palo Alto, California.