Number Theory – Representation Theory Seminar, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Fall 2011 Semester

Date	Speaker	Title (click to see abstract)
September 8 (Thurs.)	Alexander Fish (Madison)	Solvability of Diophantine equations within dynamically defined subsets of N
September 15 (Thurs.)	Chung Pang Mok (McMaster)	Galois representation associated to cusp forms on GL(2) over CM fields
September 22 (Thurs.)	Yifeng Liu (Columbia U.)	Problem and Solution
September 29 (Thurs.)	Nigel Boston (Madison)	Problem and Solution
October 6 (Thurs.)	Zhiwei Yun (MIT)	Problem and Solution
October 13 (Thurs.)	Melanie Matchett Wood (Madison)	The probability that a curve over a finite field is smooth
October 20 (Thurs.)	Jie Ling (UW-Madison)	Problem and Solution
October 27 (Thurs.)	Zev Klagsbrun (Madison)	Problem and Solution
November 3 (Thurs.)	Who (from where)	Problem and Solution
November 10 (Thurs.)	Luanlei Zhao (UW-Madison)	Problem and Solution
November 17 (Thurs.)	Robert Harron (Madison)	Problem and Solution
November 24 (Thurs.)	No seminar (Thanksgiving)	Thanksgiving
December 1 (Thurs.)	Andrei Calderaru (Madison)	Problem and Solution
December 8 (Thurs.)	Xinwen Zhu (Harvard)	Problem and Solution
December 15 (Thurs.)	Shamgar Gurevich (Madison)	Quadratic reciprocity and the sign of the Gauss sum via the finite Weil representation

Zev Klagsbrun

Also of interest is the Grad student seminar which meets on Tuesdays.
Next semester's seminar page is here. Last semester's seminar page is here.

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