Brown University Number Theory Group
Schedule
Spring 2005
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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| Jan. 31 | Alf van der Poorten Centre for Number Theory Research (Sydney) |
Hyperelliptic curves, continued fractions, and Somos sequences |
| Feb. 7 | Jeff Hoffstein Brown University |
Some conjectures related to theta functions on the n-fold cover of GL(2) |
| Feb. 14 | Jordan Ellenberg Princeton University |
Selmer groups of elliptic curves over towers of function fields |
| Feb. 21 | No Seminar (Presidents' Day) |
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| Feb. 28 | Grigor Grigorov Harvard University |
Kato's Euler system and lower bounds on Tate-Shafarevich groups |
| Mar. 7 | Emma Previato Boston University |
Parshin's KP hierarchy |
| Mar. 14 | Armand Brumer Fordham University |
\ell-division fields and conductors of abelian varieties |
| Mar. 21 | Noam Elkies Harvard University |
Rank speculation |
| Mar. 28 | No Seminar (Spring Break) |
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| Apr. 4 | No Seminar |
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| Apr. 11 | Fred Diamond Brandeis University |
The weight part of Serre's conjecture over totally real fields |
| Apr. 18 | Vladimir Fock Brown University |
Cluster varieties |
| Apr. 25 | Ken Ono University of Wisconsin |
Traces of singular moduli on Hilbert modular surfaces |
Schedule
Fall 2004
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 13 | Steven Miller Brown University |
Random matrix theory models for zeros of L-functions near the central point |
| Sept. 20 | Michael Zieve CCR |
Automorphism groups of ordinary curves |
| Sept. 27 | No Seminar |
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| Oct. 4 | Michael Joyce Brown University |
Counting rational points on some rational surfaces |
| Oct. 11 | No Seminar (Columbus Day) |
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| Oct. 18 | Alvaro Lozano-Robledo Colby College |
On elliptic units and Galois representations |
| Oct. 25 | Siman Wong UMass |
Specializations of one-parameter families of polynomials |
| Nov. 1 | Shou-wu Zhang Columbia University |
Equidistribution of CM-points on quaternion Shimura varieties |
| Nov. 8 | Jay Jorgenson CCNY |
Expressing analytic Arakelov invariants using hyperbolic geometry |
| Nov. 15 | Samit Dasgupta Harvard University |
Stark-Heegner points on modular Jacobians |
| Nov. 22 | Karen Acquista Brown University |
A generalization of class field theory |
| Nov. 29 | Robert Pollack Boston University |
Efficient computations of p-adic L-functions via overconvergent modular symbols |
| Dec. 6 | Solomon Friedberg Boston College |
Theta functions on odd orthogonal groups |