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.)	Melanie Matchett Wood	Jacobians of Random Graphs and Cohen Lenstra heuristics

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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