Robert Pollack's Home Page - Boston University

Robert Pollack
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Boston University

Office: MCS Room 232
Phone: 617-353-4692
E-mail: rpollack@math.bu.edu
Office hours: By appointment

Teaching

BU number theory seminar

Harvard math seminars

Film roles

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, 111 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215

Papers in preparation

Tables of Iwasawa invariants

Stark-Heegner point software (MAGMA)

OMS software (SAGE)

in preparation	Explicit computations of Hida families via overconvergent modular symbols Evan Dummit, Marton Hablicsek, Robert Harron, Lalit Jain, Robert Pollack, Daniel Ross
in preparation	Explicit reciprocity laws and Iwasawa theory for modular forms Matthew Emerton, Robert Pollack, Tom Weston
in preparation	Iwasawa invariants of elliptic curves at supersingular primes Ralph Greenberg, Adrian Iovita, Robert Pollack

Publications and preprints

Overconvergent modular symbols
(a survey article based on my AWS and Heidelberg lectures)
    Robert Pollack

Critical slope p-adic L-functions
   to appear in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society
    Robert Pollack, Glenn Stevens

On μ-invariants of anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions of elliptic curves
   Compositio Mathematica, 147 (2011) no. 5, 1353--1381.
    Robert Pollack, Tom Weston

Hilbert modular forms and the Gross-Stark conjecture
   Annals of Mathematics, 174 (2011) no. 1, 439--485.
    Samit Dasgupta, Henri Darmon, Robert Pollack

Mazur-Tate elements of non-ordinary modular forms
   Duke Mathematical Journal, 156 (2011) no. 3, 349--385.
    Robert Pollack, Tom Weston

Overconvergent modular symbols and p-adic L-functions
    Annales Scientifiques de l'Ecole Normale Superieure, serie 4, 44 fascicule 1 (2011), 1--42.
        Robert Pollack, Glenn Stevens

A construction of rigid analytic cohomology classes for congruence subgroups of SL(3,Z)
    Canadian Journal of Mathematics 61 (2009) no. 3, 674--690.
        David Pollack, Robert Pollack

Two p-adic L-functions and rational points on elliptic curves with supersingular reduction
    L-Functions and Galois Representations (Durham, 2007), 300--332, London Math Society LNS 320
        Masato Kurihara, Robert Pollack

Kida's formula and congruences of modular forms
    Documenta Mathematica, 2006, extra volume (in honor of John Coates)
        Robert Pollack, Tom Weston

Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves at supersingular primes over Z_p-extensions of number fields
    Journal fur die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik, 598 (2006), 71--103
        Adrian Iovita, Robert Pollack

The efficient calculation of Stark-Heegner points via overconvergent modular symbols
    Israel Journal of Mathematics, 153 (2006), 319--354
        Henri Darmon, Robert Pollack

Variation of the Iwasawa invariants in Hida families
    Inventiones Mathematicae, 163 (2006), no. 3, 523--580
        Matthew Emerton, Robert Pollack, Tom Weston

An algebraic version of a theorem of Kurihara
    Journal of Number Theory (special issue in honor of Arnold Ross), Vol 110/1 (2005), 164-177
        Robert Pollack

The main conjecture for CM elliptic curves at supersingular primes
    Annals of Mathematics, 159 (2004) no. 1, 447-464
        Robert Pollack, Karl Rubin

On the p-adic L-function of a modular form at a supersingular prime
    Duke Mathematical Journal, 118 (2003) no. 3, 523-558
        Robert Pollack

My research is currently supported by NSF grant DMS-1001768.

	Overconvergent modular symbols (a survey article based on my AWS and Heidelberg lectures) Robert Pollack
	Critical slope p-adic L-functions to appear in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society Robert Pollack, Glenn Stevens
	On μ-invariants of anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions of elliptic curves Compositio Mathematica, 147 (2011) no. 5, 1353--1381. Robert Pollack, Tom Weston
	Hilbert modular forms and the Gross-Stark conjecture Annals of Mathematics, 174 (2011) no. 1, 439--485. Samit Dasgupta, Henri Darmon, Robert Pollack
	Mazur-Tate elements of non-ordinary modular forms Duke Mathematical Journal, 156 (2011) no. 3, 349--385. Robert Pollack, Tom Weston
	Overconvergent modular symbols and p-adic L-functions Annales Scientifiques de l'Ecole Normale Superieure, serie 4, 44 fascicule 1 (2011), 1--42. Robert Pollack, Glenn Stevens
	A construction of rigid analytic cohomology classes for congruence subgroups of SL(3,Z) Canadian Journal of Mathematics 61 (2009) no. 3, 674--690. David Pollack, Robert Pollack
	Two p-adic L-functions and rational points on elliptic curves with supersingular reduction L-Functions and Galois Representations (Durham, 2007), 300--332, London Math Society LNS 320 Masato Kurihara, Robert Pollack
	Kida's formula and congruences of modular forms Documenta Mathematica, 2006, extra volume (in honor of John Coates) Robert Pollack, Tom Weston
	Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves at supersingular primes over Z_p-extensions of number fields Journal fur die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik, 598 (2006), 71--103 Adrian Iovita, Robert Pollack
	The efficient calculation of Stark-Heegner points via overconvergent modular symbols Israel Journal of Mathematics, 153 (2006), 319--354 Henri Darmon, Robert Pollack
	Variation of the Iwasawa invariants in Hida families Inventiones Mathematicae, 163 (2006), no. 3, 523--580 Matthew Emerton, Robert Pollack, Tom Weston
	An algebraic version of a theorem of Kurihara Journal of Number Theory (special issue in honor of Arnold Ross), Vol 110/1 (2005), 164-177 Robert Pollack
	The main conjecture for CM elliptic curves at supersingular primes Annals of Mathematics, 159 (2004) no. 1, 447-464 Robert Pollack, Karl Rubin
	On the p-adic L-function of a modular form at a supersingular prime Duke Mathematical Journal, 118 (2003) no. 3, 523-558 Robert Pollack