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Number Theory Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison

When: Thursdays at 2:30pm, with the exception of May 2, which is on Monday at 4pm (see below).
Where: Van Vleck Hall B129
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Date	Speaker	Title (click to see abstract)
January 20 (Thurs.)	Anton Geraschenko (UC Berkeley)	Moduli of Representations of Unipotent Groups
January 27 (Thurs.)	Keerthi Madapusi (University of Chicago)	A rationality property of Hodge cycles on abelian varieties, with an application to arithmetic compactiﬁcations of Shimura varieties
February 3 (Thurs.)	Bei Zhang (Northwestern University)	p-adic L-function of automorphic form of GL(2)
February 10 (Thurs.)	David Brown	Explicit modular approaches to generalized Fermat equations
February 17 (Thurs.)	Tony Várilly-Alvarado Rice	TBA
February 24 (Thurs.)	Wei Ho Columbia	TBA
March 3 (Thurs.)	Rob Rhoades Stanford	TBA
March 10 (Thurs.)		TBA
March 17 (Thurs.)	No seminar (spring break)	TBA
March 24 (Thurs.)	Chris Davis UC Irvine	TBA
March 31 (Thurs.)	Andrew Obus Columbia	TBA
April 7 (Thurs.)	Bianca Viray Brown	TBA
April 14 (Thurs.)	Frank Thorne (Stanford)	SECONDARY TERMS IN COUNTING FUNCTIONS FOR CUBIC FIELDS
April 21 (Thurs.)	Rafe Jones	TBA
April 28 (Thurs.)	Liang Xiao (U. Chicago)	TBA
May 2 (Monday, 4pm)	Winnie Li, Penn State U and NCTS	TBA

Also of interest is the Grad student seminar: which meets on Tuesdays.
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-associated to a modular form. In this talk, I will explain how to
-generalize this powerful tool to the construction of p-adic L-functions
-attached to an automorphic representation on GL_{2}(A) where A is the ring
-of adeles over a number field. This is a joint work with Matthew Emerton.#Bei_Zhang | <font color="black"><em>p-adic L-function of automorphic form of GL(2)</em></font>]]
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