Chad Schoen, Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	191 Physics Bldg
Office Phone:	919 660 2813
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.math.duke.edu/~schoen

Teaching (Fall 2008):

• MATH 200.01, ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES I Synopsis

  Physics 227, MWF 03:05 PM-03:55 PM

• MATH 272.01, RIEMANN SURFACES Synopsis

  Physics 205, MWF 10:20 AM-11:10 AM

Office Hours:

Monday 9:45-10:45
Friday 9:45-10:45
or by appointment

Education:

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry

I work on the geometry and arithmetic of figures defined by polynomial equations. I am especially interested in the geometry of algebraic curves, surfaces, threefolds and fourfolds over the complex numbers, over numbers fields, over finite fields and over fields of transcendence degree one over finite fields. More specifically I study elliptic surfaces, elliptic threefolds, Calabi-Yau varieties, abelian varieties and surfaces of general type. I am interested in Chow groups of algebraic varieties and the relationship between a variety's Chow groups and its arithmetic and geometric properties.

Areas of Interest:

Geometry of algebraic varieties
Algebraic Cycles
Chow Groups

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. C. Schoen, A family of surfaces constructed from genus 2 curves, International Journal of Mathematics, vol. 18 no. 5 (May, 2007), pp. 585-612
2. C. Schoen and J. Top, Drinfeld modules and torsion in the Chow groups of certain threefolds, Proceedings London Mathematical Society, vol. 95 no. 3 (2007), pp. 545-566
3. C. Schoen, Albanese standard and albanese exotic varieties, J. London Math. Soc., vol. 74 (2006), pp. 304-320
4. C. Schoen, Specialization of the torsion subgroup of the Chow group, Mathematische Zeitschrift,, vol. 252 (2006), pp. 11-17
5. C. Schoen, Fermat covers, Fermat hypersurfaces, and abelian varieties of Fermat type,, Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, vol. 57 no. 4 (2006), pp. 539-554

Recent Grant Support

• Geometry and Chow groups of projective varieties, NSA, H98230-06-1-0009, 2006/01-2008/01.      
• Chow groups of projective varieties, NSF, 2002/06-2006/05.      
• Chow groups of smooth projective varieties, NSF, 1999/05.