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, Jan. 23* |
Ben Kane | UW-Madison |
Introduction to Gross-Zagier |
| Thursday, Jan. 25 |
Dongho Byeon | Seoul National University | Rank-one quadratic twists of an infinite familly of elliptic curves |
| Tuesday, Jan. 30* |
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| Thursday, Feb. 1 |
Jeff Achter | Colorado State | Monodromy of hyperelliptic and trielliptic curves |
| Tuesday, Feb.6* |
no seminar | ||
| Thursday, Feb. 8 |
David Penniston | Furman | Divisibility and distribution of some arithmetic functions |
| Tuesday, Feb. 13* |
Frank Thorne | UW-Madison | Mordell-Weil ranks in families of elliptic curves |
| Thursday, Feb. 15 | William Hoyt | Arithmetic for twisted Legendre equations associated with six lines in the plane | |
| Tuesday, Feb. 20* |
Jie Ling | UW-Madison | Heegner points (re)visited |
| Thursday, Feb. 22 |
Matt Darnall | UW-Madison | Bounds on the Star discrepancy in the Unit Square |
| Tuesday, Feb. 27* |
Loizos Solomou | UW-Madison | Euler system of Heegner points, I |
| Thursday, March 1 | Maosheng Xiong | UIUC | Selmer groups and Tate-Shafarevich groups for the congruent number problem |
| Tuesday, March 6* |
Harris Nover | UW-Madison | Euler system of Heegner points, II |
| Thursday, March 8 | Frank Calegari | Northwestern | Deformations of Galois representations over arbitrary number fields |
| Tuesday, March 13* |
Harris Nover | UW-Madison | The Euler system of Heegner points III |
| Thursday, March 15 |
Alina Cojocaru | UIUC | Twin primes for elliptic curves |
| Tuesday, March 20* |
Andrew Shallue | UW-Madison | Computational verification of BSD |
| Thursday, March 22 |
Paul Garrett | University of Minnesota | Integral moments of automorphic L-functions, and applications |
| Tuesday, March 27* |
Matija Kazalicki | UW-Madison | Mod-p representations on elliptic curves |
| Thursday, March 29 |
Rafe Jones | UW-Madison | Iterated endomorphisms of abelian algebraic groups |
| March 31 - April 8 | Spring Break | ||
| Tuesday, April 10* |
Frank Thorne | UW-Madison | Existence of rank 0 quotients of modular Jacobians |
| Thursday, April 12 | Jan Bruinier | University of Cologne | Twisted Borcherds products on modular curves |
| Tuesday, April 17* |
Jordan Ellenberg | UW-Madison | Formal immersion and consequences |
| Thursday, April 19 |
Samit Dasgupta | Harvard University |
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| Tuesday, April 24* |
Melanie Ruiz |
UW-Madison | Potentially good reduction and reducible p-torsion |
| Thursday, April 26 |
George Andrews |
Penn State |
Partitions, Durfee Symbols and the Atkin-Garvan Moments of Ranks |
| Tuesday, May 1* |
Ekin Ozman |
UW-Madison |
Beyond Mazur |
Thursday, |
Amanda Folsom |
UW-Madison |
Duality involving the mock theta function f(q) and analytic properties of Kloosterman-Selberg zeta functions |
| Tuesday, May 8* |
Seyfi Turkelli |
UW-Madison |
Beilinson's conjectures |
| Thursday, May 10 |
David Solomon | King's College | L-functions at s=1 and Reciprocity Laws for Rubin-Stark Elements |
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