Number Theory Seminar - Spring 2006

Tuesdays and Thursday 2:30 - 3:45 pm
B115 Van Vleck

Thursdays

Date Speaker Affiliation Title

Jan. 19

Jan. 26 Ben Kane UW-Madison
   On the boundary behavior of automorphic forms

Feb. 2 Ameya Pitale Ohio State University Lifting of Cusp forms from fSL2 to GSpin(1, 4)
Ameya Pitale

Feb. 9 Jennifer Johnson- Leung Brandeis University The equivariant Tamagawa number conjecture and Iwasawa's main conjecture

Feb. 16 Jordan Ellenberg
UW-Madison
    p-torsion of class groups of number fields

Feb. 23 Harris Nover
UW-Madison
Computation of the Galois Groups of Pro-p Extensions

March 2 Chris Holden
UW-Mamdison
Elliptic Curves and mod 4 Galois Representations

March 9 Nadya Markin
UIUC
Realization of Nilpotent Groups with Restricted Ramification

March 16 Spring Break

March 23 Shuichi Hayashida University of Siegen Siegel modular forms of half-integral weight and plus space
of degree two (joint work with T.Ibukiyama)

March 30 Sid Graham Central Michigan University Small Gaps Between Products of Two Primes

April 6 Zhi-Wei Sun Nanking University/UC-Irvine Recent progress on congruences involving binomial coefficients

April 13 Patrick Rault
UW-Madison
The Heegner Point Algorithm

April 20 Matt Papanikolas
Taxas A & M U.
Galois groups of Frobenius difference equations and transcendence

April 27 Dongho Byeon
Seoul National University and UW-Madison
Rank-one quadratic twists of elliptic curves

May 4 JinTai Ding
University of Cincinnati
Internal Perturbation of Multivariate Public Key Cryptosystems

May 5 (Special)
        Don Cartwright
University of Sydney and Rutgers University
Groups acting simply transitively on the vertices of a building.

Tuesdays

Abstract and Reference

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Jan. 17	Jorge Jimenez-Urroz	University of Barcelona	Small gaps between primes and almost primes; Recent work of Goldston, Pintz and Yildirim.
Jan. 24	Haluk Sengun	UW-Madison	Serre's Conjecture On Imaginary Quadratic Fields
Jan. 31	Jeremy Rouse (regular seminar)	UW-Madison	Almost-Square Primes
Feb. 7	Karl Mahlburg	UW-Madison	Some properties of partitions by Atkin and Swinnerton-Dyer
Feb. 14	Masataka Chida	Tohoku University and UW-Madison	Indivisibility of orders of Selmer groups for modular forms
Feb. 21	Harris Nover	UW-Madison	Introduction to Class Field Theory, Infinite Galois Theory and Pro-p Groups
Feb. 28	Sharon Garthwaite	UW-Madison	Fourier Expansion of vector valued Poincare series
March 7	Mike Woodbury	UW-Madison	"Non-Vanishing of L-functions, Waldspurger's Theorem and Ranks of Elliptic Curves"
March 14	Spring Break
March 21			No Seminar due to Perspective graduate students visit
March 28	Frank Thorne	UW-Madison	Introduction to Sieve methods
April 4	Zhi-Wei Sun	Nanking University/UC-Irvine	Some curious results on Bernoulli and Euler polynomials
April 11	Edray Goins	Purdue University	Extending the Serre-Faltings Method for $\mathbb Q$-Curves
April 18	Adrian Diaconu	University of Minnesota	INTEGRAL MOMENTS AND BOUNDS FOR AUTOMORPHIC L-FUNCTIONS
April 25	Matt Darnall	UW-Madison	Roth's Theorem
May 2

Links to Previous Seminars

Fall 2005
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Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Jan. 19
Jan. 26	Ben Kane	UW-Madison	On the boundary behavior of automorphic forms
Feb. 2	Ameya Pitale	Ohio State University	Lifting of Cusp forms from fSL2 to GSpin(1, 4) Ameya Pitale
Feb. 9	Jennifer Johnson- Leung	Brandeis University	The equivariant Tamagawa number conjecture and Iwasawa's main conjecture
Feb. 16	Jordan Ellenberg	UW-Madison	p-torsion of class groups of number fields
Feb. 23	Harris Nover	UW-Madison	Computation of the Galois Groups of Pro-p Extensions
March 2	Chris Holden	UW-Mamdison	Elliptic Curves and mod 4 Galois Representations
March 9	Nadya Markin	UIUC	Realization of Nilpotent Groups with Restricted Ramification
March 16	Spring Break
March 23	Shuichi Hayashida	University of Siegen	Siegel modular forms of half-integral weight and plus space of degree two (joint work with T.Ibukiyama)
March 30	Sid Graham	Central Michigan University	Small Gaps Between Products of Two Primes
April 6	Zhi-Wei Sun	Nanking University/UC-Irvine	Recent progress on congruences involving binomial coefficients
April 13	Patrick Rault	UW-Madison	The Heegner Point Algorithm
April 20	Matt Papanikolas	Taxas A & M U.	Galois groups of Frobenius difference equations and transcendence
April 27	Dongho Byeon	Seoul National University and UW-Madison	Rank-one quadratic twists of elliptic curves
May 4	JinTai Ding	University of Cincinnati	Internal Perturbation of Multivariate Public Key Cryptosystems
May 5 (Special)	Don Cartwright	University of Sydney and Rutgers University	Groups acting simply transitively on the vertices of a building.

Number Theory Seminar - Spring 2006

Thursdays

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