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

When: Thursdays, 2:30pm–3:30pm.
Where: Van Vleck B131
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Spring 2014 Semester

Date	Speaker	Title (click to see abstract)
Jan 23 (Thurs.)	Majid Hadian-Jazi (University of Illinois at Chicago)	On a motivic method in Diophantine geometry
Jan 30 (Thurs.)	Alexander Fish (University of Sydney, Australia)	Ergodic Plunnecke inequalities with applications to sumsets of infinite sets in countable abelian groups
Feb 6 (Thurs.)	No talk	---
Feb 13 (Thurs.)	John Voight (Dartmouth)	Numerical calculation of three-point branched covers of the projective line
Feb 20 (Thurs.)	Nir Avni (Northwestern)	Representation zeta functions
Feb 27 (Thurs.)	Jennifer Park (MIT)	Effective Chabauty for symmetric power of curves
Mar 6 (Thurs.)	Perfectoid talkoid	(First half of adic spaces talk)
Mar 13 (Thurs.)	No talk	--
Mar 20 (Thurs.)	No talk Spring break!	Spring break!
Mar 27 (Thurs.)	No talk	--
Apr 3 (Thurs.)	No talk	--
Apr 10 (Thurs.)	Kartik Prasanna (Michigan)	Algebraic cycles and Rankin-Selberg L-functions
Apr 17 (Thurs.)	Davide Reduzzi (Chicago)	Galois representations and torsion in the coherent cohomology of Hilbert modular varieties
Apr 24 (Thurs.)	Arul Shankar (Harvard)	The average 5-Selmer rank of elliptic curves
May 1 (Thurs.)	who? (where?)	tba
May 8 (Thurs.)	Reserved	tba

Sean Rostami

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

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