Patrick Brosnan at UBC Mathematics

Teaching and Advising

• Math 223
• Math 422/501
• Math 120
• Advising

Important Links

• Mathematics Links
• Google
• Banff Hodge Theory 2008

Interesting Links

• My Beans Game
• My Brother's (Anthony's) Web page
• UBC Mathematics
• UBC Libraries
• Random Bookmarks

Interesting Papers

• Steenrod Operations in Chow Theory --- final version in Trans. Am. Math. Soc.
• Matroids, motives and a conjecture of Kontsevich (with P. Belkale ) --- final version in Duke Mathematical Journal
• Periods and Igusa zeta functions (with P. Belkale ) --- final version in IMRN
• A Short proof of Rost nilpotence --- final version in Documenta Mathematica
• On motivic decompositions arising from the method of Białynicki-Birula --- final version in Inventiones Mathematicae
• The essential dimension of a g dimensional complex abelian variety is 2g --- final version in Transformation Groups
• The zero locus of an admissible normal function (with G. Pearlstein ) --- to appear in Annals of Mathematics
• Cohomology operations and inverting the motivic Bott element (with R. Joshua )
• Essential dimension and algebraic stacks (with Z. Reichstein and A. Vistoli )
• Singularities of admissible normal functions (with Hao Fang , Zhaohu Nie and Gregory Pearlstein ) --- to appear in Inventiones Mathematicae
• Essential dimension of abelian varieties over number fields (with Ramesh Sreekantan ) --- final version in CRAS
• Zero loci of admissible normal functions with torsion singularities (with G. Pearlstein ) ) --- to appear in Duke Mathematical Journal
• Essential dimension, spinor groups and quadratic forms (with Z. Reichstein and A. Vistoli ) --- to appear in Annals of Mathematics
• A generalization of the Néron models of Green, Griffiths and Kerr (with G. Pearlstein and M. Saito )

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