Number Theory Seminar

                                                       Spring 2008,  Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30-3:30pm

 * means student seminar


Abstract


Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
Tuesday Jan. 22 *



Tuesday Jan. 29*
Organizing meeting

Thursday   Jan. 31
Tonghai Yang
UW-Madison
Arithmetic intersection and Chowla-Selberg formula
Tuesday Feb. 5* Frank Thorne
UW-madison
Tate's thesis I
Thur. Feb. 7 Rob Roades
UW-Madison
Title: Differential Operators, Maass Forms, and Rationality
Tuesday Feb. 12* Frank Thorne UW-madison Tate's thesis II
Thur. Feb. 14
 Paul Jenkins
UCLA
Integral traces of singular values of Maass forms
Tuesday Feb. 19* Rob Rhoades
UW-madison Class Groups, Quadratic Forms, and Homogenous Spaces
Thur. Feb. 21
Ramin Takloo-Bighash
UIC
"Gross-Prasad Conjecture for GSp(4)"
Tuesday Feb. 26* Rob Rhoades UW-madison Class Groups, Quadratic Forms, and Homogenous Spaces II
Thur. Feb. 28



Tuesday  Mar.  4* Matija Kazalicki
UW-Madison
Galois representations and central values of L-functions
Thur. Mar. 6
Gebhard Boeckle
U. Duisburg-Essen (Germany) Hecke characters and compatible systems of abelian Galois representations
Tuesday  Mar. 11* Jie Ling
 UW-Madison
Intersection of Modular polynomials
Thur.  Mar. 13
Christian Zorn
Ohio State University
Explicit computations in the theory of local theta lifts
Spring Break



Tuesday  Mar. 25
Kathrin Bringmann
U. Minosota
Asymptotic and exact formulas for weak Mass forms
Thur. Mar. 27
Eric Errthum
Winona State University
Singular Moduli of Shimura Curves
Tuesday  Apr. 1* Guillermo Mantilla  UW-Madison
Witt Rings
Thur.  Apr. 3
Farshid Hajir
U. Mass.
Asymptotically Good Families
Tuesday Apr. 8* Christelle Vincent
UW-Madison
 Drinfeld Modules I
Thur. Apr. 10
Wei Zhang
Columbia University
Gross-Zagier formula for GL(2)
Tuesday Apr. 15  Patrick Rault
UW-Madison
Thesis Defense (On uniform bounds for rational points on rational curves and thin sets)
Thur. April 17
Brian Conrad
U. Michigan/Stanford
Finiteness of class numbers for group varieties over global function fields
Tuesday Apr. 22* Derek  Garton
UW-Madison
Drinfeld Modules II
Thur. Apr. 24
Andrew Granville U. Montreal Pretentiousness in analytic number theory.
  Andrew Granville, University of Montreal
Tuesday Apr. 29*
Yongqiang Zhao
UW-Madison
Higher composition laws I: Quadratic generalizations of Gauss composition
Thurs. May 1
Jeremy Rouse
UIUC
Bounds for the coefficients of powers of the Delta-function
Tuesday May 6*
Yongqiang Zhao UW-Madison
Higher composition laws II: Cubic analogues of Gauss composition.
Thursday May 8
Ye Tian
Morningside Center of Mathematics at Beijing,
and Columbia University
Heegner points over False Tate curve extensions



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