NTS Spring Semester 2020

Number Theory / Representation Theory Seminar, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• When: Thursdays, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
• Where: Van Vleck B321
• Please join the NT/RT mailing list: (you must be on a math department computer to use this link).

There is also an accompanying graduate-level seminar, which meets on Tuesdays.

You can find our Fall 2018 speakers in Fall 2018.
You can find our previous speakers in Spring 2018.

Schedule

Date	Speaker (click for homepage)	Title (click for abstract)
Jan 24	Hassan-Mao-Smith--Zhu	The diophantine exponent of the $\mathbb{Z}/q\mathbb{Z}$ points of $S^{d-2}\subset S^d$
Jan 31	Kyle Pratt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)	Breaking the $\frac{1}{2}$-barrier for the twisted second moment of Dirichlet $L$-functions
Feb 7	Shamgar Gurevich (UW-Madison)	Harmonic Analysis on $GL_n$ over finite fields
Feb 14	Tonghai Yang (UW-Madison)	The Lambda invariant and its CM values
Feb 21	No Seminar
Feb 28	Brian Lawrence (the University of Chicago)	Diophantine problems and a p-adic period map.
March 7	Masoud Zargar (Regensburg)	Sections of quadrics over the affine line
March 14	Elena Mantovan (Caltech)	p-adic automorphic forms, differential operators and Galois representations
March 21	Spring Break
March 28	Adebisi Agboola (UCSB)	Relative K-groups and rings of integers
April 4	Wei-Lun Tsai (Texas A&M University)	Hecke L-functions and $\ell$ torsion in class groups
April 11	Taylor McAdam (UCSD)	Almost-prime times in horospherical flows
April 18	Ila Varma (UCSD)	Malle's Conjecture for octic $D_4$-fields.
April 25 10:00-11:00 Room VV 911	Michael Bush (Washington & Lee)	Interactions between group theory and number theory
April 25 11:15-12:15 Room VV 911	Rafe Jones (Carleton College)	Eventually stable polynomials and arboreal Galois representations
April 25	Jen Berg (Rice University)	Rational points on conic bundles over elliptic curves with positive rank
April 25 4:00-5:00 Room VV B239	Judy Walker (Nebraska)	Derangements of Finite Groups
May 2	Melanie Wood (UW-Madison)	Unramified extensions of random global fields
May 9	David Zureick-Brown (Emory College of Arts and Sciences)	Arithmetic of stacks

*to be confirmed