Number Theory Seminar - Fall  2006

Tuesdays and Thursday 2:30 - 3:45 pm
B131 Van Vleck 

Talks marked * are part of Math 941, which is the VIGRE graduate participation seminar. These talks are generally on Tuesdays. This semester's theme is the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.

 

 Abstracts

Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
Tuesday, Sept. 5*
Math 941 introductory meeting (B131)
 
 
 
Thursday, Sept. 7
Takashi Goto
Tokyo University
Non-directed graph related to Selmer group of certain elliptic curve 
Tuesday, Sept. 12* Seyfi Turkelli
UW-Madison
Introduction to Selmer groups and the Weak Mordell-Weil Theorem
Thursday, Sept. 14
Christian Eholtz
University of London
Combinatorial prime number theory
Tuesday, Sept. 19* Jayce Getz
UW-Madison Introduction to Galois Cohomology  
Thursday, Sept. 21
Yannan Qiu
UW-Madison
Tate Classes on Siegel 3-folds
Tuesday, Sept. 26*
Katherine Rouse
UW-Madison
Introduction to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
Thursday, Sept. 28
Ben Kane
UW-Madison
Quadratic Forms and CM Lifts of Supersingular Elliptic Curves
Tuesday, Oct. 3* Guillermo Mantilla-Soler
UW-Madison
Local fields and elliptic curves over local fields
Thursday, Oct. 5 Dihua Jiang
University of Minnesota
On Cuspidal Automorphic Forms of SO(2n+1)
Tuesday, Oct. 10*
Rob Rhodes
UW-Madison
Introduction to subconvexity
Thursday, Oct. 12
Jianya Liu
Shandong University
A Weyl-like bound for automorphic L-functions
Tuesday, Oct. 17*
Jeremy Rouse
UW-Madison
Local structures on Selmer groups
Thursday, Oct. 19
Kevin Ford
University of Illinois 
Estimating the density of the union of arithmetic progressions
Tuesday, Oct. 24*
Ekin Ozman
UW-Madison 
BSD over function fields I
Thursday, Oct. 26
Scott Ahlgren

University of Illinois

Congruences between modular forms of weights two and four
Tuesday, Oct. 31*
Patrick Rault
UW-Madison
BSD over function fields II
Thursday, Nov. 2
Michael Larsen
University of Indiana
Functoriality and the inverse Galois problem
Tuesday, Nov. 7*
Harris Nover
UW-Madison
Global structures on Selmer groups, part I
Thursday, Nov. 9
Aaron Levin
Brown University
Ideal Class Groups, Hilbert's Irreducibility Theorem, and Integral Points of Bounded Degree on Curves
Tuesday, Nov. 14*
Luanlei Zhao
UW-Madison
Global structures on Selmer groups, part II
Thursday, Nov. 16
Sharon Garthwaite
UW-Madison
Arithmetic and analytic properties of exceptional q-series
Tuesday, Nov. 21*
Matija Kazalicki
UW-Madison
BSD and the analytic class number formula
Thursday, Nov. 23
Thanksgiving
 
Local turkey theory with a view towards applications
Tuesday, Nov. 28*
Michael Woodbury
UW-Madison
Calculations in Galois cohomology I
Thursday, Nov. 30
Allison Pacelli
Williams
High n-Rank in Class Groups of Function Fields
Tuesday, Dec. 5*
Matt Darnall
UW-Madison
Calculations in Galois cohomology II
Thursday, Dec. 7
Frank Thorne
UW-Madison
Bounded Gaps Between Products of Primes and Applications
Tuesday, Dec. 12*
 
 
 


Links to Previous Seminars

Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003