Curriculum Vitae

Leslie D. Saper

110 Physics Bldg
Durham, NC 27708 		(919) 660-2843 (office)
(email)
Personal

Born: 17 October 1957
Place: West Chester, PA
Citizenship: US

Education

Ph.D.Princeton University1984
B.S., M.S.Yale University1979
Areas of Research

Locally symmetric varieties, Automorphic forms,
L2-cohomology and intersection cohomology, Geometrical analysis of singularities

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Professor, Mathematics, 2005 - present
Associate Profesor, Mathematics, 1988 - 2005
(tenure granted, 1989)
Assistant Professor, Mathematics, 1986-88
M.I.T.
C. L. E. Moore Instructor, Mathematics, 1984-86
Visiting Positions
Member, Tata Institue for Fundamental Research, December 2005 - February 2006
Member, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, March-April 2000
Visiting Scholar, UCSD, June-August, 1996-97
Hermann Minkowski Gastprofessur, Katholische Universität Eichstätt, May-August 1995
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1992-93
Visiting Scholar, UCSD, June-August, 1990-94
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, 1988-89
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1987-88
Visiting Scholar, UCSD, June-August, 1984-87
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians, Kyoto, Japan, August 1990
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1989-93
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1989-95
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 1987-91
Major Grant Support

NSF DMS-0502821
NSF DMS-9870162
NSF DMS-9005129
NSF DMS-8957216
NSF DMS-8504029

Conferences Organized

Workshop on Locally Symmetric Spaces, co-organizer with S. Kudla, J. Rohlfs, and B. Speh, May 18, 2008 - May 23, 2008
Professional Service

Math-Physics Librarian Search Committee, February 22, 2008 - present
Associate Chair, July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2009
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Mathematics, Duke University, 2001-03
Editor, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1996-2000
Editorial board member, Duke Mathematical Journal, 1991-94
Selected Invited Talks

Quadratic Reciprocity from Euler to Langlands, Graduate/faculty Seminar, Duke University, [abstract], September 28, 2007
Geometry and Topology of Locally Symmetric Spaces, Conference on Geometry, Topology, and their Interactions in honor of Farrell-Jones, Instituto de Matemáticas Unidad Morelia, Mexico, January 8, 2007
Cohomology of Locally Symmetric Spaces, International conference and instructional workshop on discrete groups, Morningside Center of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China [slides], July 17 - August 4, 2006
L2-Harmonic Forms on Locally Symmetric Spaces, Colloquium at Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India [slides], January 19, 2006
L2-cohomology of locally symmetric spaces, International Conference In Memory of Armand Borel: Algebraic groups, arithmetic groups, automorphic forms and representation theory, Center of Mathematical Sciences at Zhejiang University, China, 26 - 30 July, 2004
Cohomology of compactifications of locally symmetric spaces, a series of 4 talks at the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan [talk 1, talk 2, talk 3, talk 4], 16 - 30 December 2003
On the Cohomology of Locally Symmetric Spaces and of their Compactifications (two lectures), Conference on Current Developments in Mathematics 2002, Harvard University, [talk 1,talk 2], 15-17 November 2002
The Rapoport-Goresky-MacPherson Conjecture, JAMI Conference on Shimura Varieties and Automorphic Forms, Johns Hopkins Universty, 23 March 2001
Rapoport's conjecture on the intersection cohomology of the reductive Borel-Serre compactification, Conference on Galois representations and automorphic representations, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, 25 April 2000
L2-cohomology of Algebraic Varieties, Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians, Kyoto, Japan, 23 August 1990
Doctoral Theses Directed

Dan Yasaki, On the Existence of Spines for Q-rank 1 Groups, (January 1, 2001 - May 15, 2005)
Charles Vuono, The Kodaira Embedding Theorem for Kähler Varieties with Isolated Singularities, (September 1, 1989 - May 31, 1992)
Professional Affiliations

Member: AMS

Publications

Papers Published

  1. Leslie D. Saper, L2-cohomology of locally symmetric spaces. I, Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly, vol. 1 no. 4 (2005), pp. 889–937.
  2. Leslie D. Saper, $\mathscr L$-modules and the conjecture of Rapoport and Goresky-MacPherson, in Formes Automorphes (I) -- Actes du Semestre du Centre Émile Borel, printemps 2000, Astérisque, edited by J. Tilouine, H. Carayol, M. Harris, M.-F. Vignéras, vol. 298 (2005), pp. 319--334, Société Mathématique de France.
  3. Leslie D. Saper, Geometric rationality of equal-rank Satake compactifications, Math. Res. Lett., vol. 11 no. 5 (2004), pp. 653–671.
  4. Leslie D. Saper, On the cohomology of locally symmetric spaces and of their compactifications, in Current developments in mathematics, 2002, edited by David Jerison, George Lusztig, Barry Mazur, Tom Mrowka, Wilfried Schmid, Richard Stanley, & S.-T. Yau, Current developments in mathematics, 2002 (2003), pp. 219–289, Int. Press, Somerville, MA (reprinted in Lie Groups and Automorphic Forms, edited by L. Ji, et al., AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, vol. 37, 2006.).
  5. Leslie D. Saper, Tilings and finite energy retractions of locally symmetric spaces, Comment. Math. Helv., vol. 72 (1997), pp. 167-202.
  6. Leslie D. Saper, L2-cohomology of the Weil-Petersson metric, Mapping Class Groups and Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces (C.-F. Bödigheimer and R. Hain, eds.), Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 150, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, 1993, pp. 345-360 .
  7. Leslie D. Saper, L2-cohomology of Kähler varieties with isolated singularities, J. of Differential Geometry, vol. 36 no. 1 (1992), pp. 89–161.
  8. Leslie D. Saper and Mark Stern, Appendix to: On the shape of the contribution of a fixed point on the boundary. The case of Q-rank one, by M. Rapoport, in The Zeta Functions of Picard Modular Surfaces, edited by R. Langlands and D. Ramakrishnan (1992), Les Publications CRM, Montréal (pp. 489-491.).
  9. Nathan Habegger and Leslie D. Saper, Intersection cohomology of cs-spaces and Zeeman's filtration, Inventiones Math. 105 (1991), pp. 247-272 .
  10. Leslie D. Saper and Steve Zucker, An introduction to L2-cohomology, Several Complex Variables and Complex Geometry (E. Bedford et al., eds.), Proc. Symp. Pure Math., vol. 52, Part 2, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, 1991, pp. 519-534 .
  11. Leslie D. Saper, L2-cohomology of algebraic varieties, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, August 21-29, 1990, Kyoto (I. Satake, ed.), vol. 1, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1991, pp. 735-746 .
  12. Leslie D. Saper and Mark Stern, L2-cohomology of arithmetic varieties, Annals of Math. 132 (1990), pp. 1-69 .
  13. Leslie D. Saper and Mark Stern, L2-cohomology of arithmetic varieties, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 84 (1987), pp. 5516-5519 .
  14. Leslie D. Saper, L2-cohomology and intersection homology of certain algebraic varieties with isolated singularities, Inventiones Math. 82 (1985), pp. 207-255 .

Papers Accepted

  1. Leslie D. Saper, $\mathscr L$-modules and micro-support, Annals of Math. (latest revision 1/05).
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