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\begin{document}

\name{Jason Michael Starr}

\businessAddress{
Stony Brook University \\
Dept. of Math., 4-108 Math Tower \\ 
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3651 \\
(631) 632-8270,  Fax: (631) 632-7631 \\
jstarr@math.sunysb.edu} 

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\begin{vita}


\begin{Degrees}
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\item{B.A. Univ. of Calif. Berkeley, May 1996}

\item{Ph. D. Harvard University, June 2000}

\end{Degrees}



\begin{Positions}
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\item Invited Professor, Institut Henri Poincar\'e, June 2010
\item Associate Professor, Stony Brook Univ., June 2009 -- present
\item Assistant Professor, Stony Brook Univ., September 2006 -- May 2009
\item Assistant Professor, M. I. T., July 2003 -- June 2007
\item C. L. E. Moore Instructor, M. I. T.,
July 2000 -- June 2003
\item MSRI Postdoctoral Fellow, January 2002 -- May 2002

\end{Positions}



\begin{Honors}
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\item Chancellor's Scholarship, September 1992 -- May 1996

\item W. L. Putnam Competition, Honorable Mention, 1994 Competition

\item Graduated With Highest Honors, May 1996

\item N. S. F. Graduate Research Fellowship, Sept. 1996 -- Aug. 1999

\item Alfred P. Sloan Thesis Fellowship, Sept. 1999 -- June 2000

\item N. S. F. Postdoctoral Fellowship -- awarded and I declined

\item Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Sept. 2005 -- Sept. 2009

\end{Honors}

\begin{Grants}
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\item NSF Grant DMS-0353692, ``Birational geometry and spaces of
  rational curves''
\item NSF Grant DMS-0201423, ``Birational geometry and rational
connectedness'' 
\item NSF Grant DMS-0553921,
``Collaborative Research: FRG: Geometry of moduli spaces
of rational curves with applications to Diophantine problems over
function fields''
\item NSF Grant DMS-0758521,
``Higher rational connectedness and applications''
\item NSF Grant DMS--0846972,
``CAREER:  Higher rational connectedness, higher Fano manifolds, and
applications''  
\end{Grants}


%\begin{Memberships}
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%\item American Mathematical Society, September 1996 -- June 2000
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\begin{Publications}
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\item[1. \ ]
J. Starr,
\textbf{Rational curves in hypersurfaces in projective $N$-space},
Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, June 2000.

\item[2. \ ]
A. J. de Jong and J. Starr,
\textbf{Every rationally connected variety over the 
function field of a curve has a rational point}, \emph{Amer. J. of
  Math.}, \textbf{125} (2003), 567--580.

\item[3. \ ]
T. Graber, J. Harris and J. Starr, 
\textbf{Familes of rationally connected varieties},
\emph{J. Amer. Math. Soc.}, textbf{16} (2003), 57--67,
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0109220+

\item[4. \ ]
A. J. de Jong and J. Starr, \textbf{Cubic fourfolds and spaces of
rational curves}, \emph{Illinois J. Math.}, \textbf{48} (2004), 415--450,
\newline available at 
\verb+http://www-math.sunysb.edu/~jstarr/papers+.

\item[5. \ ]
T. Graber, J. Harris, B. Mazur and J. Starr,
\textbf{Arithmetic questions related to rationally connected
  varieties}, in 
\emph{The legacy of Niels Henrik Abel}, 531--542, Springer, Berlin,
2004.

\item[6. \ ]
T. Graber, J. Harris, B. Mazur and J. Starr,
\textbf{Jumps in Mordell-Weil rank and arithmetic surjectivity}, in 
\emph{Arithmetic of higher-dimensional algebraic varieties (Palo Alto,
  CA, 2002)}, 141--147, Birkh\"auser, Boston, 2004.

\item[7. \ ]
J. Harris, M. Roth, and J. Starr,
\textbf{Rational curves on hypersurfaces of low degree},
\emph{J. Reine Angew. Math.}, \textbf{571}  (2004), 73--106,
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0203088+

\item[8. \ ]
M. Olsson and J. Starr,
\textbf{Quot functors for Deligne-Mumford stacks. Special issue in
  honor of Steven L. Kleiman}, \emph{Comm. Algebra},
\textbf{31} (2004), 4069--4096, 
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0204307+

\item[9. \ ]
T. Graber, J. Harris, B. Mazur, and J. Starr, 
\textbf{Rational connectivity and sections of families over curves},
\emph{Ann. Sci. Ecole Norm. Sup.(4)}, \textbf{38} (2005), 671--692, 
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0210225+

\item[10.]
J. Harris and J. Starr,
\textbf{Rational curves on hypersurfaces of low degree, {II}},
\emph{Compos. Math.}, \textbf{141} (2005), 35--92,
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0207257+

\item[11.]
J. Harris, M. Roth, and J. Starr, 
\textbf{Curves of small degree on cubic threefolds}, \emph{Rocky
  Mountain J. Math.}, \textbf{35} (2005), 761--817, 
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0202067+

\item[12.]
I. Coskun and J. Starr,
\textbf{Divisors on the space of maps to {G}rassmannians}, 
\emph{Int. Math. Res. Not.} 2006, Art. ID 35273, 25 pp. 
\newline available at 
\verb+http://www-math.sunysb.edu/~jstarr/papers+.

\item[13.]                 
T. D. Browning and D. R. Heath-Brown, with an appendix by J. Starr,
\textbf{The density of rational points on non-singular
  hypersurfaces. II.},
\emph{Proc. London Math. Soc.}, \textbf{93} (2006), 273--303.

\item[14.]
A. J. de Jong and J. Starr, \textbf{Higher Fano manifolds and rational
surfaces}, \emph{Duke Math. J.}, \textbf{139} (2007), 173--183.

\item[15.]
R. Beheshti and J. Starr, \textbf{Rational surfaces in index-one Fano
  hypersurfaces}, \emph{J. Algebraic Geom.}  \textbf{17}  (2008), 
255--274.   

\item[16.]
\textbf{Brauer groups and Galois cohomology of function fields of
  varieties.} \emph{Publica\c{c} \~{o}es Matem\'{a}ticas do
  IMPA. [IMPA Mathematical Publications]}, Rio de Janeiro, 2008, 111 pp.

\item[17.]
I. Coskun, J. Harris and J. Starr, \textbf{The effective cone of the
  Kontsevich moduli space}, \emph{Canad. Math. Bull.}  \textbf{51}
(2008), 
519--534. 

\item[18.]
I. Coskun, J. Harris and J. Starr, \textbf{The ample cone of the
  Kontsevich moduli space}, \emph{Canad. J. Math.} \textbf{61} (2009),
109-123.  

\item[19.]
J. Starr, \textbf{Arithmetic over function fields},
in \emph{Arithmetic Geometry}, 375-418, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence,
2009. 

\item[20.]
J. Starr, \textbf{A pencil of Enriques surfaces of index one with no
  section}, 
\emph{Algebra and Number Theory} \textbf{3} (2009), 637-652.
%% \newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0109220+

\item[21.]
I. Coskun and J. Starr, \textbf{Rational curves on smooth cubic
  hypersurfaces}, \emph{Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN} \textbf{2009},
\textbf{no. 24}, 4626-4641.

\item[22.]
A. J. de Jong and J. Starr, \textbf{Almost proper GIT-stacks and
  discriminant avoidance}, accepted to \emph{Doc. Math.}

\end{Publications}

\begin{Submitted}

\item[23.]
J. Starr, \textbf{Degenerations of rationally connected varieties and
  PAC fields}, submitted to \emph{Proc. of the Amer. Math. Soc.},
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602649+

\item[24.]
A. J. de Jong, X. He and J. Starr, \textbf{Families of rationally
  simply connected varieties over surfaces and torsors for semisimple
  groups}, submitted to \emph{Publ. Math. Inst. Hautes \'Etudes Sci.}, 
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.5224+

\item[25.]
X. He and J. Starr, \textbf{Semi-stable locus of a group
  compactification},
submitted to \emph{Represent. Theory}
\newline available at
\verb+http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~jstarr/papers/index.html+

\item[26.]
J. Starr, \textbf{Rational points of rationally connected and
  rationally simply connected varieties}, submitted as book chapter to
\emph{Panor. Synth. (Soc. Math. Fr.)}.

\end{Submitted}

\begin{Preprint}

\item[27.]
J. Starr, \textbf{The Kodaira dimension of spaces of rational curves
  on low degree hypersurfaces}, 
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0305432+

\item[28.]
J. Starr, \textbf{The maximal free rational quotient},
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602640+

\item[29.]
J. Starr, \textbf{Hypersurfaces of low degree are rationally
  simply-connected}, 
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602641+

\item[30.]
A. J. de Jong and J. Starr, \textbf{Divisor classes and the virtual
  canonical bundle for genus 0 maps}, 
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602642+

\item[31.]
A. J. de Jong and J. Starr, \textbf{A note on Fano manifolds whose
  second Chern character is positive}, 
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602644+

\item[32.]
A. J. de Jong and J. Starr, \textbf{Very twisting families of pointed
  lines on Grassmannians}, 
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602645+

\item[33.]
J. Starr, \textbf{Artin's axioms, composition and moduli spaces},
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602646+

\item[34.]
J. Starr, \textbf{Fano varieties and linear sections of
  hypersurfaces},
\newline available at \verb+http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607133+

\item[35.]
A. J. de Jong and J. Starr, \textbf{Low degree complete intersections
  are rationally simply connected},
\newline available at
\verb+http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~jstarr/papers/index.html+

\item[36.]
T. Graber and J. Starr, \textbf{Restriction of sections for
  families of Abelian varieties}, 
\newline available at
\verb+http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~jstarr/papers/index.html+

\end{Preprint}

\begin{Professional activities}
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\item Served as Assoc. Director for Undergraduates, Stony Brook
  University mathematics department, December 2009 -- present.  

\item Served on Simons Lecture Committee, Stony Brook University
  mathematics department, Fall 2009 -- present.  

\item Served as director of the Secondary Teacher Option Master's
  Degree program of the Stony Brook University mathematics department,
  March 2008 -- December 2008. 

\item Served as departmental senator on University Senate and College
  of Arts and Sciences Senate, September 2007 -- December 2008.

\item Referee 
Algebra Number Theory,
Adv. Math.,
Amer. J. Math.,
Canad. Math. Bull.,
Compos. Math.,
Duke Math. J.,
Indag. Math. (N.S.),
Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN,
Invent. Math.,
J. Algebra,
J. Algebraic Geom.,
J. Number Theory,
J. Pure Appl. Algebra,
Manuscripta Math.,
Math. Ann.,
Math. Z.,
Michigan Math. J.,
Pacific J. Math.,
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.,
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.

\item Co-organizer of NSF sponsored workshop, ``AGNES: Algebraic
  Geometry Northeastern Series'' at Stony Brook U., November 2009.

\item Co-organizer of Amer. Inst. Math. Workshop, 
``Rational curves and A1-homotopy theory'', October 2009.

\item Co-organizer of NSF Focused Research Group Conference, 
``Spaces of curves and their interaction with diophantine problems'',
Summer 2009.

\item Co-organizer of NSF Focused Research Group Workshop, ``Algebraic
  and Symplectic Geometry of Uniruled and Rationally Connected
  Manifolds'', Spring 2008. 

\item Co-organizer of Clay Mathematics Workshop, ``Rational Curves and
  Diophantine Problems over Function Fields'', Fall 2007.

\item Co-organized ``Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar'', Fall 2001,
Fall 2002--Spring 2006.

\item Co-organized ``Algebra, Geometry and Physics Seminar'' at Stony
  Brook University, Fall 2006--present.

\item Organized the ``Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar'' at Stony
  Brook University, Spring 2009, Summer 2009, Spring 2010.

\item Organized the ``Mathematics Writing Seminar'' at Stony Brook
  University, Fall 2009.  

\item Research grant reviewer for NSA, Dutch National Science Council

\item Co-advised Ph.D. candidate Rebecca Lehman at MIT (with
  I. Coskun); thesis completed Fall 2007. 
Advised Ph.D. candidate Yusuf Mustopa at Stony Brook U.; thesis
completed Fall 2008.
Currently advising Ph.D. candidates Rob Findley, Jan Gutt,
Zhiyu Tian, and Yi Zhu at Stony
  Brook U.

\item Advised 7 undergraduate math majors at MIT.

\item Served on 8 doctoral qualifying commitees at MIT,  
and 7 doctoral qualifying committees at Stony Brook U.

\item Served on 6 thesis committees at MIT, 1 at Harvard, 1 at Boston
  U., 3 at Columbia U., and 4 at Stony Brook U.  Served as thesis
  committee ``opponent'' at KTH, Stockholm.  
 
\end{Professional activities}

\begin{Teaching experience}
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\item
\textbf{Summer 1999}

\item

Calculus I.  Recitation Instructor. Harvard Summer School. 

\item 
\textbf{Fall 1999}

\item
\textbf{1. \ } 
Graduate Algebraic Geometry, 260A.  Recitation Instructor.  Harvard. 

\item
\textbf{Fall 2000}

\item
\textbf{2. \ } 
Multivariable Calculus, 18.01. Recitation Instructor. MIT.

\item
\textbf{Spring 2001}

\item
\textbf{3.\ } 
Honors Differential Equations, 18.034. Recitation
Instructor. MIT. 

\item
\textbf{4. \ } 
Measure theory and Fourier analysis, 18.103. Instructor. MIT. 

\item
\textbf{Fall 2001}

\item
\textbf{5.\ } 
Linear algebra, 18.700.  Instructor. MIT.

\item
\textbf{6. \ } 
Undergraduate seminar in algebra and number theory, 18.704.
Instructor. MIT.

\item
\textbf{Fall 2002}

\item
\textbf{7. \ } 
Undergraduate seminar in algebra and number theory, 18.704.
Instructor. MIT. 

\item
\textbf{8. \ } 
Graduate Algebraic Geometry, 18.725.  Instructor. MIT.

\item
\textbf{Spring 2003}

\item
\textbf{9. \ } 
Differential Equations, 18.03.  Recitation Instructor.  MIT. 

\item
\textbf{Fall 2003}

\item
\textbf{10.} 
Single variable calculus, 18.01. Instructor and course head.
MIT.

\item
\textbf{Spring 2004}

\item
\textbf{11.} 
Honors Differential Equations, 18.034. Instructor. MIT. 

\item
\textbf{Fall 2004}

\item
\textbf{12.} 
Linear algebra, 18.700.  Instructor. MIT.

\item
\textbf{13.} 
Graduate Algebraic Geometry, 18.725.  Instructor.  MIT.

\item
\textbf{Spring 2005}

\item
\textbf{14.} 
Topics in algebraic geometry: quantum cohomology, 18.727.
Instructor.  MIT.

\item
\textbf{Fall 2005}

\item
\textbf{15.} 
Single variable calculus, 18.01. Instructor and course head.
MIT.

\item
\textbf{Spring 2006}

\item
\textbf{16.} 
Graduate Algebraic Geometry, second semester, 18.726.
Instructor. MIT.

\item
\textbf{17.} 
Independent activities, 18.099. MIT. 

\item
\textbf{Fall 2006}

\item
\textbf{18.} 
Algebra III: Commutative algebra, MAT536.  Instructor.  Stony Brook
U.  

\item
\textbf{19.} 
Calculus I, MAT131.  Instructor (not head instructor).  Stony Brook
U.  

\item
\textbf{Spring 2007}

\item
\textbf{20.} 
Independent study in special topics, MAT487. Stony Brook U.

\item
\textbf{21.} 
Independent study, MAT698.  Stony Brook U. 

\item
\textbf{22.} 
Dissertation research on campus, MAT699. Stony Brook U.

\item
\textbf{Fall 2007}

\item
\textbf{23.} 
Calculus I, MAT131.  Head instructor.  Stony Brook
U.  

\item
\textbf{24.} 
Introduction to linear algebra, MAT211.  Instructor.  Stony Brook
U.  

\item
\textbf{Spring 2008}

\item
\textbf{25.} 
Dissertation research on campus, MAT699. Stony Brook U.

\item
\textbf{Fall 2008}

\item
\textbf{26.} 
Calculus I, MAT131.  Head instructor.  Stony Brook
U.

\item
\textbf{27.}
Algebra III, MAT536.  Stony Brook U.

\item
\textbf{28.}
Independent study, MAT698.  Stony Brook U. 

\item
\textbf{29.}
Dissertation research on campus, MAT699. Stony Brook U.

\item
\textbf{Spring 2009}

\item
\textbf{30.}
Independent study, MAT698.  Stony Brook U. 

\item
\textbf{31.}
Dissertation research on campus, MAT699. Stony Brook U.

\item
\textbf{Fall 2009}

\item
\textbf{32.}
Logic, Language and Proof, MAT 200. Stony Brook U.

\item
\textbf{33.}
Algebra I, MAT 534. Stony Brook U.

\item
\textbf{34.}
Independent study, MAT 698. Stony Brook U.

\item
\textbf{35.}
Dissertation research on campus, MAT699. Stony Brook U.

\item
\textbf{Spring 2010}

\item
\textbf{36.}
Algebra II, MAT 535. Stony Brook U.

\item
\textbf{37.}
Independent study, MAT 698. Stony Brook U.

\item
\textbf{38.}
Dissertation research on campus, MAT699. Stony Brook U.

\end{Teaching experience}

\begin{Talks}
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\item Seminar talks at Harvard, Univ. Mich. Ann Arbor, Princeton,
  U. C. Berkeley, Cornell, Columbia, Stanford, Ohio State U.,
  Univ. Ill. Urbana-Champaign, Univ. Quebec \'a Montreal, Rice Univ., 
  Brown, Inst. de Math. Jussieu, Ecole Norm. Sup., Stony Brook U.,
  Univ. of Md., Caltech., U. C. Davis, Queen's U., U. British Columbia

\item Colloquium talks at Princeton, U. Mass. Amherst, Rutgers,
  Univ. Wisc. Madison., Washington U., U. of Utah., Hong Kong Univ. of
  Sci. and Tech., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Univ.

\item Invited speaker in conferences at Math. Forsch. Oberwolfach,
  MSRI, Austr. Natl. Univ., Rice Univ., Univ. Mich. Ann Arbor,
  Univ. of Miami, Colorado State U., Univ. de Nice, Univ. of
  Washington, Johns Hopkins Univ., CRM Montreal,
  Natl. Taiwan U., Levico Terme., Univ. of Mo., Banff Int. Res. Sta.,
  Ohio State U., U. T. Austin

\item Delivered mini-courses at Inst. Math. Pure and Applied in
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Clay Math. Inst. Summer School in
  G\"ottingen, Germany,  
  Soc. Math. de France workshop in Strasbourg, France,  Zhejiang
  Univ. in Hangzhou, China, Inst. Fourier ``\'Ecole d'\'et\'e'' in
  Grenoble, France.

\item Delivered the M. S. Keeler Lectures at the Univ. Mich. Ann
  Arbor, February 2009.

\item Invited professor, Institut Henri Poincar\'e, June 2010.

\end{Talks}

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%% \item Rational curves on hypersurfaces \\ University of Michigan, Ann
%% Arbor, October 1999, etc. 
%% %\\ Harvard University, Spring 2000 \\
%% %Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Summer 2000 

%% \item Rational connectedness of spaces of rational curves \\ Harvard
%% University, Fall 2000, etc. 
%% %\\ Princeton University, Spring 2001 \\
%% %Australian National University, Summer 2003

%% \item Quot functors of Deligne-Mumford stacks \\ MSRI, Spring 2002

%% \item A generalized Lefschetz hyperplane theorem \\ U. C. Berkeley,
%%   Spring 2002, etc. 
%% %\\ Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Summer
%% %  2002 

%% \item Kodaira dimensions of spaces of rational curves \\ Princeton
%%   University, Spring 2003, etc.
%% % \\ U. C. Berkeley, Spring 2004

%% \item Sections of varieties over the function field of a surface \\
%%   Australian National University, Summer 2003, AMS Summer Research
%%   Inst. in Seattle, Summer 2005, etc.
%% % \\ Texas Geometry and
%% %  Topology Conference, Rice Univ., Fall 2003 \\
%% %  OSU/U. Mich. Alg. Geom. Workshop, U. Mich., Fall 2003 \\ Univ. of
%% %  Miami, Winter 2004 \\ Stanford Univ., Spring 2004 

%% \end{Talks}



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