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

When: Thursdays, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Where: Van Vleck B129
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There is also an accompanying graduate-level seminar, which meets on Tuesdays.

Spring 2016 Semester

Date	Speaker (click for homepage)	Title (click for abstract)
Jan 21
Jan 28	Nigel Boston	The 2-class tower of Q(√-5460)
Feb 04	Shamgar Gurevich	Low Dimensional Representations of Finite Classical Groups
Feb 11	Naser T. Sardari	Optimal Strong Approximation for Quadratic Forms
Feb 18	Padmavathi Srinivasan	Conductors and minimal discriminants of hyperelliptic curves with rational Weierstrass points
Feb 25
Mar 03	Jordan Ellenberg	Beyond Batman
Mar 10	Joseph Gunther	Integral Points of Bounded Degree in Dynamical Orbits
Mar 17	Jinhyun Park	Algebraic cycles and crystalline cohomology
Mar 24	Spring Break
~~Mar 31~~
Apr 07	Jose Rodriguez	Numerically computing Galois groups for applications
Apr 14	Eyal Goren	Unitary Shimura varieties in positive characteristic
Apr 21	Rafael von Känel	Integral points on moduli schemes
Apr 28	Jacob Tsimerman	Counting Abelian varieties over finite fields
May 05	Mirela Çiperiani	Divisibility questions for genus one curve
May 12	Kevin Hughes	Beyond Waring's problem
June 09	Bobby Grizzard	09 Slicing the stars