For Spring 2006 schedule click here.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Sept. 8 | Nigel Boston |
UW-Madison |
Galois groups of tamely ramified p-extensions. |
| Sept. 15 | Andrew Shallue | UW-Madison | Deterministically finding points on elliptic curves over
finite fields. |
| Sept. 22 | Ben Brubaker |
Stanford U. |
Recent Progress on Dirichlet Series Associated to Weyl Groups |
| Sept. 29 | Ken Ono |
UW-Madison |
Modular forms, infinite products, and singular moduli |
| Oct. 6 | Jordan Ellenberg | UW-Madison | Speculations about asymptotic formulas for number of rational points on varieties over number fields and function fields |
| Oct. 13 | |||
| Oct. 20 | Rafe Jones |
UW-Madison |
The density of prime divisors of quadratic recurrences |
| Oct. 27 | David P. Roberts |
U. Minnesota-Morris |
2-adic ramification in some 2-extensions of Q |
| Nov. 3 | Tal Sutton |
UW-Madison | Theta Liftings and Central Values of Automorphic L-Functions |
| Nov. 10 | Jeremy Rouse | UW-Madison |
Traces of Singular Moduli on Hilbert Modular Surfaces |
| Nov. 17 | Doug Ulmer |
Arizona |
Ranks of Jacobians over function fields |
| Nov. 24 | Thanksgiving | ||
| Dec. 1 | Rachel Pries |
Colorado State |
p-torsion of curves in characteristic p |
| Dec. 8 | Kathrin Bringmann | UW-Madison |
Freeman Dyson's "Challenge for the Future": The mock theta functions |
| Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| Sept . 6 |
Jayce Getz |
UW-Madison |
A very brief introduction to Shimura varieties and automorphic forms I |
| Sept. 13 |
Jayce Getz | UW-Madison | A very brief introduction to Shimura varieties and automorphic forms II |
| Sept. 20 |
Paul
Jenkins |
UW-Madison |
On some applications of
automorphic forms to number theory (pretalk to Brubaker's talk) |
| Sept. 27 |
Jeremy Rouse |
UW-Madison | The Weil Conjectures I |
| Oct. 4 |
Jeremy Rouse |
UW-Madison | The Weil Conjectures II |
| Oct. 11 |
Chris
Holden |
UW-Madison |
Mod p representations on
elliptic curves |
| Oct. 18 |
Hue Xue (regular seminar) | U. Michigan |
Central values of L-functions over CM fields (for abstract see Thursday seminar abstracts) |
| Oct. 25 |
Frank Thorne |
UW-Madison |
Ramanujan's Ternary Quadratic Form |
| Nov. 1 |
Ben Kane |
UW-Madison |
Bounding Special Values, Twists, and Tate-Shafarevich |
| Nov. 8 |
Adam
Logan (regular seminar) |
U. Liverpool/CRM | Descent by Richelot isogeny on the Jacobians of plane quartics |
| Nov. 15 |
Matt Darnall |
UW-Madison |
The Picard group |
| Nov. 22 |
Rob Rhoades | UW-Madison | p-adic and Combinatorial Properties of Modular Form Coefficients |
| Nov. 29 |
Patrick Rault |
UW-Madison | Arakelov Theory |
| Dec. 6 |
David Dueber | UW-Madison | Lower Bounds on Discriminants |