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Clifton Cunningham

Job Title:

  • Associate Professor
  • Calgary Site Director, Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Phone:

  • +1 (403) 220-6888

Office:

  • MS 528

Degrees:

Member of:

Erdös Number:

  • My Erdös Number is 4: Clifton Cunningham - Anne-Marie Aubert - Roger Howe - László Lovász - Paul Erdös

Collaborators:

  • Jeffrey Achter (Colorado State U.), Anne-Marie Aubert (CNRS, Paris), Raf Cluckers (Leuven), Lassina Dembele (Warick), Julia Gordon (U. British Columbia), Thomas Hales (U. Pitt.), M. Nevins (U. Ottawa), Hadi Salmasian (U. Ottawa), Loren Spice (Texas Christian U.).

PIMS West End Number Theory Seminar (WENTS):

  • WENTS is part of the PIMS Collaborative Research Group in Number Theory and has participants at the University of Alberta, the University of British Columbia, the University of Calgary, the University of Lethbridge and Simon Fraser University. Visit the WENTS Seminar list for the schedule of talks or the Number Theory Collaborative Research Group website for more information.

Students:

  • Doctoral students: Aaron Christie (2007 - ), Jason Nicholson (2005 - ).

    Masters students: Aaron Christie (2004 - 2006), Ryan Stratford (2006 - 2008), Brendan Ossen (2001 - 2003), Tracy Walker (2003 - 2005).

    Undergraduate students: Colin Grabowski (2006), Tom Kuwahara (2006), Paul Dickinson (2003), Patrick Walls (2003), Vladimir Papish (2002).

Meetings and Seminars:

  • American Mathematical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, 13-19 January 2010

    University of Massachusetts Number Theory Seminar, 16 February 2010

    Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting, Vancouver, December 2010

    Banff International Research Station (BIRS) 5-Day Workshop on L-packets, 26 June - 1 July, 2011.

Research Interests:

  • Langlands Programme
  • Algebraic geometry, especially as related to representations of algebraic groups over finite and p-adic fields.
  • Group Representation Theory and Number Theory: l-adic representations of p-adic groups.
  • Mathematical physics

Masters Students:

  • Razieh Hosseini
  • Ryan Stratford (2008)
  • Aaron Christie (2006)
  • Tracy Walker (2005)

Past Courses:

  • MATH041 - INDUCTION AND RECURSION
  • MATH211 - Linear Methods I
  • MATH221 - LINEAR ALGEBRA FOR SCIENCE & ENGG
  • MATH249 - INTRODUCTORY CALCULUS
  • MATH251 - CALCULUS I
  • MATH253 - Calculus II
  • MATH263 - Enriched Calculus II
  • MATH271 - DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
  • MATH311 - LINEAR METHODS II
  • MATH353 - Calculus IV
  • PMAT315 - ABSTRACT ALGEBRA
  • PMAT431 - GROUPS, RINGS AND FIELDS
  • PMAT613 - INTRODUCTION TO FIELD THEORY
  • PMAT685.8 - Topics In Algebra
Representative Publications:
Journal Paper
Cunningham, Clifton and Dembele, Lassina. "Computation of genus 2 Hilbert-Siegel modular forms on $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{5})$ via the Jacquet-Langlands Correspondence" Experimental Mathematics 18.3 (2009)
Cunningham, Clifton and Gordon, Julia. "Motivic proof of a character formula for SL(2)" Experimental Mathematics 18.1 (2009): 11-44
Cunningham, Clifton. "Report from the Ambassasor to Cida-2" College Mathematics Journal (2008)
Cunningham, Clifton and Thomas Hales. "Good Orbital Integrals" Representation Theory 8 (2004): 414-457
Achter, Jeffrey D. and Cunningham, Clifton. "Isogeny classes of {H}ilbert-{B}lumenthal abelian varieties over finite fields" Journal of Number Theory 92.2 (2002): 272-303
Cunningham, Clifton. "Characters of depth-zero, supercuspidal representations of the rank-2 symplectic group" Canadian Journal of Mathematics. Journal Canadien de Math\'ematiques 52.2 (2000): 306-331
Other
Cunningham, Clifton. Exercises in Algebraic Geometry (2009)
Cunningham, Clifton and Salmasian, Hadi. Character Sheaves of Algebraic Groups Defined Over Non-Archimedean Local Fields (2009)
Cluckers, Raf, Cunningham, Clifton, Gordon, Julia and Spice, Loren. On the computability of some positive-depth characters near the identity (2009)
Book
Cunningham, Clifton and Nevins, Monica. Ottawa Lectures on Admissible Representations of p-adic Groups Fields Institute Monograph Series (2009): 207 pages
Preprint
Cunningham, Clifton and Aubert, Anne-Marie. "Character Sheaves and depth-zero representations" (2006)
Cunningham, Clifton and Anne-Marie Aubert. "Adic groups, parahoric subgroups and fundamental strata" (2001)
Conference Proceedings
Aubert, A. and Cunningham, Clifton. An introduction to sheaves on adic spaces for {$p$}-adic group representation theory 46, Univ. Aarhus, Aarhus (2002): 11-51
Cunningham, Clifton. Characters of depth-zero supercuspidal representations (1999)