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Wayne Raskind

Professor of Mathematics

Contact Information
Office: KAP 108
Phone: (213)740-2400
E-mail: raskind@math.usc.edu

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Education

B.A. Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, 1/1981
M.A. Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, 1/1981
Ph.D. Mathematics, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, England, 1/1985
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Professor, University of Southern California, 09/01/1999-  
Associate Professor, University of Southern California, 09/01/1992-08/31/1999  
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, University of Cologne, Germany, 12/01/1993-12/01/1994  
Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, 08/01/1990-04/01/1992  
Research Fellow, University of Tokyo, 07/01/1989-07/01/1990  
Assistant Professor, Benjamin Peirce Lecturer, Harvard University, 09/01/1985-06/01/1989  
Research Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 08/01/1986-06/01/1987  
Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University, 08/01/1984-05/01/1985  
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Raskind's research interests include algebraic geometry, number theory, algebraic K-theory, cryptography, and mathematics education.
 

Conferences and Other Presentations

Conference Presentations

"p-adic intermediate Jacobians", The mathematical heritage of Spencer Bloch, Talk, Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, Invited, 2006-2007   
"The discrete logarithm problem in abelian algebraic groups over finite fields", Number Theory and Cryptography: Open Problems, Talk, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA , Invited, 2006-2007   
"Totally degenerate reduction and the conjectures of Hodge and Tate", Southern California Number Theory Day, Talk, San Diego, California, Invited, 2006-2007   
"Totally degenerate reduction and the conjectures of Hodge and Tate", American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting, Talk, Tucson, Arizona, Invited, 2006-2007   
 

Publications

Book

Raskind, W. M. (2006). Class field theory of arithmetic schemes. Class field theory of arithmetic schemes.
 

Conference Proceeding

Raskind, W. M., Huang, M. (2006). Signature Calculus and Discrete Logarithm Problems. In F. Hess, S. Pauli and M. Pohlst (Ed.), pp. 558-572. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
 

Journal Article

Raskind, W. M., Xarles, X. (2007). On p-adic intermediate Jacobians. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society/American Mathematical Society. Vol. 359, pp. 6057-6077.
Raskind, W. M., Huang, M. (2007). Global duality, signature calculus and the discrete logarithm problem. Vol. n/a
Raskind, W. M., Xarles, X. (2007). On the cohomology of algebraic varieties with totally degenerate reduction over p-adic fields. Journal of Mathematics of the Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo. Vol. 14, pp. p. 261-291.
Raskind, W. M., Stroila,, M. (2006). Arithmetic rigidity. No Journal Defined. Vol. n/a
Raskind, W. M., Spiess, M. (2000). Milnor K-groups and 0-cycles on products of curves. Compositio Mathematica. Vol. volume 121, pp. pp. 1-33.
Raskind, W. M., Langer, A. (1999). 0-cycles on the self product of a CM elliptic curve. Journal fur die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Vol. Volume 516, pp. p. 1-26.
Raskind, W. M., Guralnick, R., Jaffe, D., Wiegand, R. (1996). On the Picard group: torsion and the kernel induced by a faithfully flat map. Journal of Algebra. Vol. 183, pp. 420-455.
 

Proceedings

Raskind, W. M. (2005). A generalized Hodge-Tate conjecture for varieties with totally degenerate reduction over p-adic fields. Algebra and Number Theory, proceedings of the Silver Jubilee Conference University of Hyderabad, India/Hindustan Book Agency.
Raskind, W. M., Scharaschkin, V. (2004). Descent on simply connected surfaces over algebraic number fields. pp. p. 185-204. Arithmetic of Higher Dimensional Varieties/Academic Press.
 

Service to the University

Administrative Appointments

USC College Dean of Faculty, 07/2005-04/2007  
 

Service to the Profession

Conferences Organized

Co-organizer, The Tate Conjecture, American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), Palo Alto, CA, This conference was featured in an article in the Wall Street Journal on August 1, 2007, 07/23/2007-07/27/2007  
 

Editorships and Editorial Boards

Associate Editor, Journal of Computer and Systems Science, 06/01/2005-06/01/2010  
Associate Editor, Bulletin de la Societe Mathematique de France, 10/01/1997-06/01/2004  
 
 
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