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The seminar webpage for last semester, Fall 2015, is [[NTSGrad_Fall_2015|here]].<br>
The seminar webpage for Spring 2016 is [[NTSGrad_Spring_2016|here]]<br>
The seminar webpage for Fall 2015, is [[NTSGrad_Fall_2015|here]].<br>
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Return to the [[NTS|Number Theory Seminar Page]]
Return to the [[NTS|Number Theory Seminar Page]]


Return to the [[Algebra|Algebra Group Page]]
Return to the [[Algebra|Algebra Group Page]]

Revision as of 16:11, 30 August 2016

Graduate Student Number Theory / Representation Theory Seminar, University of Wisconsin – Madison

  • When: Tuesdays, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
  • Where: Van Vleck B129

The purpose of this seminar is to have a talk on each Tuesday by a graduate student to help orient ourselves for the Number Theory Seminar talk on the following Thursday. These talks should be aimed at beginning graduate students, and should try to explain some of the background, terminology, and ideas for the Thursday talk.

Spring 2016 Semester

Date Speaker (click for homepage) Title (click for abstract)
DATE SPEAKER [ TITLE]
Jan 26 David Bruce Counting Categorically
Feb 2 Ewan Dalby Representation theory and random walks on finite groups
Feb 9 Daniel Hast The Local-to-Global Principle and Approximation Theorems
Feb 16 Wanlin Li Conductors and Minimal Discriminants of Elliptic Curves
Feb 23 Jason Steinberg Borcherds product expansions
Mar 1 Brandon Alberts Heights on Projective Space
Mar 8 Joseph Gunther moved to Thursday
Mar 15 Megan Maguire Stable and Unstable Homology of Configuration Spaces
Mar 22 Spring Break, no talk
Mar 29 Jiuya Wang Introduction to Honda-Tate Theory
Apr 5 Vlad Matei Random Matrix theory and L-functions
Apr 12 Soumya Sankar On the p-torsion of abelian varieties over characteristic p
Apr 19 Solly Parenti What's the point of curves of genus greater than 1?
Apr 26 Zachary Charles Schoof's algorithm for counting points on elliptic curves
May 3 Daniel Ross Introduction to additive combinatorics


Organizers

Brandon Alberts (blalberts@math.wisc.edu)

Megan Maguire (mmaguire2@math.wisc.edu)

Ryan Julian (mrjulian@math.wisc.edu)


The seminar webpage for Spring 2016 is here
The seminar webpage for Fall 2015, is here.


Return to the Number Theory Seminar Page

Return to the Algebra Group Page