My name is Winston Spencer Leslie, but I always go by my middle name, Spencer. I am an Assistant Professor at Boston College. I am currently funded by NSF CAREER grant DMS-2440741 (2025-2030).

I am interested in representation theory, with emphases in automorphic, p-adic, and geometric representation theory. In particular, I enjoy thinking about:

  • Automorphic representations of reductive groups or their covers
  • Relative trace formulas and the corresponding local harmonic analysis
  • Generalization of the Hitchin Fibration
  • Fourier coefficients and Whittaker functions

Click here for my CV (updated: July 2025)

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Here is a photo of my wife and me from our wedding day!

Contact Info

Department of Mathematics, Boston College
Maloney Hall
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
USA
Email:  spencer.leslie[at]bc[dot]edu
Office: Maloney 543