Brown University Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminars, Fall 2008 (academic year 08/09)
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Contact: Alex Kontorovich (alexk), Joe Silverman (jhs), Dan Abramovich (abrmovic)
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
| Monday September 8, 2008 | Algebra Seminar | Organizational meeting |
| Friday September 19, 2008 | Algebraic Geometry Seminar | Organizational meeting |
| Monday September 22 | No seminar | |
| Friday September 26, 2008 | No seminar | |
| Monday September 29, 2008 | Joseph H. Silverman (Brown) | A survey of (global) arithmetic dynamics |
| Friday October 3, 2008 | Joseph H. Silverman (Brown) | Families of dynamical systems and their associated moduli spaces |
| Monday October 6, 2008 | Alex Kontorovich (Brown) | First Non-Vanishing Theorems |
| Friday October 10, 2008 | Steffen Marcus (Brown) | Very twisted stable maps |
| Monday October 13, 2008 | Columbus day | No seminar |
| Friday October 17, 2008 | ||
| Monday October 20, 2008, at 3:00 | Leo Goldmakher (Michigan/Stanford) | Pretentious behavior in number theory |
| Monday October 20, 2008, at 4:15 | Henry Cohn (Microsoft research New England) | Symmetry and symmetry breaking in optimization problems |
| Wednesday October 22, 2008 | Thomas Geisser, USC | Regularity, K-regularity and negative K-theory |
| Friday October 24, 2008 | Davesh Maulik (MIT/Clay) | Gromov-Witten theory of K3 surfaces |
| Monday October 27, 2008 | Ram Murty (Queen's) | Transcendence of special values |
| Friday October 31, 2008 | Donghoon Park | 1-motives with torsion |
| Monday November 3, 2008 | Farshid Hajir (UMass Amherst) | Asymptotically Good Families for Codes, Curves, Fields, and Graphs |
| Friday November 7, 2008 | Fred van der Wyck (Harvard) | Moduli of crimping data |
| Monday November 10, 2008 | Benedict Gross (Harvard) | Integral zeta values and the number of automorphic representations |
| Friday November 14, 2008 | Jesse Kass (Harvard) | A Riemann Singularity Theorem for Singular Curves |
| Monday November 17, 2008 | Henri Darmon (McGill) | Exotic Heegner points and cycles on Kuga-Sato varieties |
| Friday November 21, 2008 | Jenya Tevelev (UMass) | TBA |
| Monday November 24, 2008 | Alex Gamburd (UCSC / Northwestern) | TBA |
| Friday November 28, 2008 | Thanksgiving vacation | No seminar |
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| Friday December 5, 2008 | Michael Rosen (Brown) | Class numbers in function fields |
| Monday, December 8, 2008 | Liang-Chung Hsia (NCU, Taiwan) | TBA (Weak Neron models for Lattes maps) |
| Friday, December 12, 2008 | Exam period | No seminar |
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title | Spring preview
| Monday, January 29, 2009 | Ted Chinburg (UPenn) | TBA |
| Monday, February 2, 2009 | Rob Benedetto (Amherst) | TBA |
| Monday, February 9, 2009 | Dan Katz (Brown) | TBA | Monday, March 16, 2009 | Nick Katz (Princeton) | TBA |