NTSGrad

Graduate Student Number Theory / Representation Theory Seminar, University of Wisconsin – Madison

• When: Tuesdays, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
• Where: Van Vleck B129

The purpose of this seminar is to have a talk on each Tuesday by a graduate student to help orient ourselves for the Number Theory Seminar talk on the following Thursday. These talks should be aimed at beginning graduate students, and should try to explain some of the background, terminology, and ideas for the Thursday talk.

Spring 2016 Semester

Date	Speaker (click for homepage)	Title (click for abstract)
DATE	SPEAKER	[ TITLE]
Jan 26	David Bruce	Counting Categorically
Feb 2	Ewan Dalby	Representation theory and random walks on finite groups
Feb 9	Daniel Hast	The Local-to-Global Principle and Approximation Theorems
Feb 16	Wanlin Li	Conductors and Minimal Discriminants of Elliptic Curves
Feb 23	Jason Steinberg	Borcherds product expansions
Mar 1	Brandon Alberts	Heights on Projective Space
Mar 8	Joseph Gunther	moved to Thursday
Mar 15	Megan Maguire	Stable and Unstable Homology of Configuration Spaces
Mar 22		Spring Break, no talk
Mar 29	Jiuya Wang	Introduction to Honda-Tate Theory
Apr 5	Vlad Matei	Random Matrix theory and L-functions
Apr 12	Soumya Sankar	On the p-torsion of abelian varieties over characteristic p
Apr 19	Solly Parenti	What's the point of curves of genus greater than 1?
Apr 26	Zachary Charles	Schoof's algorithm for counting points on elliptic curves
May 3	Daniel Ross	Introduction to additive combinatorics

Organizers

Brandon Alberts (blalberts@math.wisc.edu)

Megan Maguire (mmaguire2@math.wisc.edu)

Ryan Julian (mrjulian@math.wisc.edu)

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The seminar webpage for Spring 2016 is here
The seminar webpage for Fall 2015, is here.

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