Faculty

Skip Garibaldi
Associate Professor
Office: W412
Phone: 404-727-1971
Research groups: Algebra
Office hours
  • By appointment
Teaching: Spring 2010
  • MATH 425S (000): Mathematical Economics, TuTh 10:00am - 11:15am
  • MATH 522 (000): Algebra II, TuTh 1:00pm - 2:15pm
Research
  • Classical and exceptional algebraic groups, algebras with involution, exceptional algebraic structures, Galois cohomology
Recent publications
  • Kneser-Tits for a rank 1 form of E6, Compositio Mathematica 143 (2007), 191-200.
  • The characteristic polynomial and determinant are not ad hoc constructions, American Mathematical Monthly 111 (2004), 761-778.
  • Books: Cohomological invariants in Galois cohomology, with A. Merkurjev and J-P. Serre, AMS, 2003.
  • The Rost invariant has trivial kernel for quasi-split groups of low rank, Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 76 (2001), 684-711.
Education
  • Ph.D. (1998) UC San Diego (Mathematics)
  • B.S. (1992) Purdue (Mathematics and Computer Science)
Activities
  • Member: AMS, MAA
  • MAA Departmental Liaison