# Graduate Student Number Theory / Representation Theory Seminar, University of Wisconsin – Madison

• When: Tuesdays, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
• Where: B113 Van Vleck

The purpose of this seminar is to have a talk on each Tuesday by a graduate student to help orient ourselves for the Number Theory Seminar talk on the following Thursday. These talks are generally aimed at beginning graduate students, and try to explain some of the background, terminology, and ideas for the Thursday talk.

# Spring 2019 Semester: Schedule

 Date Speaker (click for homepage) Title (click for abstract) January 29 Ewan Dalby Approximating the mean square of the product of the Riemann zeta function with Dirichlet polynomials Feb 5 Sun Woo Park Representations of $GL_n(\mathbb{F}_q)$ February 12 Hyun Jong Kim The integrality of the j-invariant on CM points February 19 Qiao He L-functions, Heegner points and Euler systems February 26 Soumya Sankar Representation stability and counting points on varieties March 5 (Arizona Winter School) No Talk March 12 Solly Parenti $p$-adic modular forms March 19 (Spring Break) No Talk March 26 Wanlin Li The existence of infinitely many supersingular primes for every elliptic curve over $\mathbb{Q}$ April 2 Weitong Wang On $\ell$-torsion in class groups of number fields April 9 Sang Yup Han Ergodicity and Sarnak’s Conjecture on Randomness of the Mobius Function April 16 Niudun Wang The march towards Malle's conjecture April 23 Asvin Gothandaraman Insufficiency of the Brauer Manin obstruction April 30 Yu Fu The Cohen-Lenstra Heuristics May 7 Brandon Boggess TBA

# Organizer(s)

Brandon Boggess (bboggess@math.wisc.edu)

Soumya Sankar (ssankar3@wisc.edu)

Brandon Alberts

Megan Maguire

Ryan Julian