Number Theory Seminar

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Fall 2009

Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30-3:30 pm

Van Vleck Hall B105

 * Means Student Seminar

 Date

 Speaker

 Affiliation

 Title

 Th. Sept. 3

 Amanda Folsom

 University of Wisconsin

 Kac-Wakimoto characters and universal mock theta functions

Tu. Sept. 8*

 Marie Jameson and Robert Lemke-Oliver

 University of Wisconsin

 Proof of the Alder-Andrews conjecture

Th.  Sept. 10

 Tong Hai Yang

 University of Wisconsin

 Moduli space of CM abelian surfaces with special endomorphisms

Tu.  Sept. 15*

 Mike Woodbury

 University of Wisconsin

 Rankin-Selberg L-functions

Th.  Sept. 17

 Ekin Ozman

 University of Wisconsin

 Points on quadratic twists of X_0(N)

Tu. Sept. 22*

 Matija Kazalicki

 University of Wisconsin

 p-adic modular forms

Th. Sept. 24

 Bryden Cais

 McGill University

 Hida Families for GL_2 and p-adic Hodge theory

Tu.  Sept. 29

 Michael Dewar

 University of Illinois

 Ramanujan-type congruences in partition-theoretic counting functions

Th. Oct. 1

 Jin-Yi Cai

 University of Wisconsin

 Why Gauss sums?

Tu.  Oct. 6*

 Yong Qiang Zhao

 University of Wisconsin

 Introduction to Hurwitz spaces

Th. Oct. 8

 Michael Fried

 UC Irvine Emeritus

 Connectedness of spaces of sphere covers

Tu. Oct. 13*

 NO SEMINAR

 

 

Th.  Oct. 15

 Alexander Fish

 University of Wisconsin

 Sumsets in infinite countable abelian groups

Tu.  Oct. 20*

 Christelle Vincent

 University of Wisconsin

 Drinfeld modular forms modulo p

Th.  Oct. 22

 Guillermo Mantilla

 University of Wisconsin

 Mordell-Weil ranks on towers of Jacobians of principal modular curves

Tu.  Oct. 27*

 Derek Garton

 University of Wisconsin

 Cohen-Lenstra heuristics over function fields

Th. Oct. 29

 NO SEMINAR

 

 

Tu. Nov. 3*

 Evan Dummit

 University of Wisconsin

 Hecke polynomials, congruence zeta functions, and the Eichler-Selberg trace formula

Th.  Nov. 5

 Hui June Zhu

 SUNY-Buffalo

 Serre weights over totally real fields and crystalline representations

Tu.  Nov. 10*

 Brian Rice

 University of Wisconsin

 

Th.  Nov. 12

 Jeremy Rouse

 University of Illinois

 Critical L-values of level p newforms (mod p)

Tu. Nov. 17*

 Irena Wang

 University of Wisconsin

 

Th. Nov. 19

 Jan Bruinier

 TU-Darmstadt

 Regularized theta lifts for orthogonal groups over totally real fields

Tu. Nov. 24*

 

 

 

Th. Nov. 26

 NO SEMINAR

 

 

Tu.  Dec. 1

 

 

 

Friday, Dec. 4

 Alex Gamburd (Note the special date!)

 UCSC

 TBA

Tu. Dec. 8*

 

 

 

Th. Dec. 10

 

 

 

Tu. Dec. 15*

 

 

 




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