NTSGrad

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

• When: Tuesdays, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
• Where: Van Vleck B235

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.

Fall 2016 Semester

Date	Speaker (click for homepage)	Title (click for abstract)
Sept 6	Brandon Alberts	Introduction to the Cohen-Lenstra Measure
Sept 13	Vlad Matei	Overview for the Discrete Log Problem
Sept 20	Wanlin Li	Gauss's Genus Theory and 2-Selmer Groups of Elliptic Curves
Sept 27	Ewan Dalby	Modular forms of half integral weight
Oct 4	Daniel Hast	Introduction to arboreal Galois representations
Oct 11	Peng Yu	Modular Forms and Elliptic Curves
Oct 18	Soumya Sankar	Cohen Lenstra Heuristics for p=2, or the lack thereof
Oct 25	Solly Parenti	Complex Multiplication
Nov 1	Brandon Boggess	Splitting Varieties for Cup Products
Nov 8	none
Nov 15	David Wagner	Apollonian Circle Packings
Nov 22	none
Nov 29	Daniel Hast	Introducation to p-adic Hodge Theory
Dec 6	Wanlin Li	Supersingular Elliptic Curves
Dec 13	Jiuya Wang	Chebotarev Density Theorem
Dec 20	Daniel Ross	A Primer on the Main Conjecture of Iwasawa Theory

Organizers

Brandon Alberts (blalberts@math.wisc.edu)

Megan Maguire (mmaguire2@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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