Dr. Xander Faber       McGill University       Department of Mathematics and Statistics       Office: 1248 Burnside Hall       Mailing Address:            Department of Mathematics and Statistics            McGill University            805 Sherbrooke Street West            Montréal, Qc H3A 2K6            CANADA       Phone: 514.398.2998 (try my email first please)       Fax: 514.398.3899       Email: xander@math.mcgill.ca My research is currently funded by a National Science Foundation                       Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.

(Photo by Jeff Mozzochi)

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Current and Upcoming Events:

• Québec-Vermont Number Theory Seminar (organized by John Voight and me)


• Arizona Winter School 2010 -- Number Theory and Dynamics -- March 13-17, 2010
• Bellairs Workshop in Number Theory -- Moduli Spaces and the Arithmetic of Dynamical Systems -- May 2-9, 2010

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Recent Events:

• Joint Mathematics Meetings at San Francisco, California -- Special Session on Arithmetic and Non-Archimedean Dynamics -- Jan. 13-16, 2010
  Slides from my talk: The Berkovich Ramification Locus for Rational Functions
• CMS Winter Meeting at Windsor, Ontario -- Scientific Session on Number Theory -- Dec. 5-7, 2009
  Slides from my talk: Prime Factors of Dynamical Sequences
• AMS Fall Southeastern Meeting at Boca Raton, Florida -- Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry -- Oct. 30 - Nov. 1, 2009
  Slides from my talk: Prime Factors of Dynamical Sequences

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Research: My research interests fall into several disparate fields of mathematics. Lately I've been working in arithmetic geometry, algebraic dynamical systems, and tropical geometry. All of my research is motivated strongly by number theory or dynamics in some way. The graphic at the right was designed for my recent paper with Matt Baker; it illustrates a compact tropical curve of genus 2 embedded in its Jacobian. Unfortunately, the colors don't print too well in black and white, so there's a more staid graphic in the article. (Image produced with Mathematica 6.0.1.0.) My list of papers as well as links to download them can be found here.

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Current Teaching:

• I am taking a hiatus from teaching for the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 academic years in order to devote my full time to research.
  Beginning in the fall of 2011, I will be lecturing at the University of Georgia.

Previously Taught Courses

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Places I go sometimes when I'm thinking about math:

• Québec-Vermont Number Theory Seminar
• Séminaires courants du CRM --- Seminars, workshops, and conferences of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques
• Jordan Ellenberg's Blog
• Terence Tao's Blog

Places I've gone in the past while thinking about math:

• Mathematically Correct Breakfast A great construction by George W. Hart at Stonybrook.
• Outside Walks around Columbia were my favorite for getting new ideas. (Photo by X. Faber)
• Shou-Wu Zhang's page He was my PhD thesis advisor at Columbia University.
• New York Joint Number Theory Seminar --- Columbia, CUNY and NYU
• MSRI Okay, so that's just a photo I took from beside MSRI. The actual site is here. (Photo by X. Faber)
• The graveyard where Carl Friedrich Gauss is buried. (Photo by X. Faber)
• MR Collaboration Distance. This is like the oracle of Bacon, but it uses the Mathematics Reviews Database. For instance,
  it shows I have Erdős number 4.

Places I go sometimes when I'm not thinking about math:

• Alana and Xander's Public House This is primarily Alana's blog, but I occasionally make some commentary.
• My Awesome Wedding Pictures We ran away to Scotland and got married in a 12th century abbey.
• Footbag Worldwide The gateway to the most fun sport I've ever found. I've actually competed at the professional level!
• xkcd A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
• Post-Graduate Students' Society at McGill University --- Among other things, they run Thomson House, which has its own
  pub and restaurant explicitly for the use of postdocs and grad students.

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