Brown University Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminars, Fall 2008 (academic year 08/09)
Mondays at 4 (MacMillan 115), Fridays at 3 (Kassar 205)

Contact: Alex Kontorovich (alexk), Joe Silverman (jhs), Dan Abramovich (abrmovic)

Schedule of upcoming talks:

Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

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) TBA
Wednesday October 22, 2008 Thomas Geisser, USC Regularity, K-regularity and negative K-theory
Friday October 24, 2008 Davesh Maulik (MIT/Clay) TBA
Monday October 27, 2008 Ram Murty (Queen's) TBA
Friday October 31, 2008
Monday November 3, 2008 Farshid Hajir (UMass Amherst) TBA
Friday November 7, 2008 Fred van der Wyck (Harvard) TBA
Monday November 10, 2008 Benedict Gross (Harvard) Integral zeta values and the number of automorphic representations
Friday November 14, 2008
Monday November 17, 2008 Henri Darmon (McGill) Exotic Heegner points and cycles on Kuga-Sato varieties
Friday November 21, 2008
Monday November 24, 2008 Alex Gamburd (UCSC / Northwestern) TBA
Friday November 28, 2008 Thanksgiving vacation No seminar
Monday December 1, 2008 Michael Rosen (Brown) Class numbers in function fields
Friday December 5, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008 Exam period No seminar

Spring preview
Date & Time Speaker Title
Monday, January 29, 2009 Ted Chinburg (UPenn) TBA
Monday, February 2, 2009 Rob Benedetto (Amherst) TBA
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