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

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

Fall 2016 Semester

Date	Speaker (click for homepage)	Title (click for abstract)
Sep 8	Arunabha Biswas (Queen's University)	Limiting values of higher Mahler Measure and cyclotomic polynomials.
Sep 15	Naser T Sardari (UW Madison)	Discrete Log problem for the algebraic group PGL_2
Sep 22	Alex Smith (Harvard)	Statistics for 8-class groups and 4-Selmer groups
Sep 29	Steve Lester (KTH)	Quantum unique ergodicity for half-integral weight automorphic forms
Oct 6	Nicole Looper (Northwestern)	Arboreal Galois representations of higher degree polynomials and Odoni's Conjecture
Oct 13	Ling Long (LSU)	Potentially GL(2)-type Galois representations associated to noncongruence modular forms
Oct 20	Jack Klys (Toronto)	The distribution of p-torsion in degree p Galois fields
Oct 27	Vlad Serban (Northwestern)	Infinitesimal p-adic Manin-Mumford and an application to Hida theory
Nov 3
Nov 10	Sid Sankaran (University of Manitoba, Canada)	Twisted Hilbert modular surfaces, arithmetic intersections and the Jacquet-Langlands correspondence.
Nov 17	Katherine Stange (Colorado)	Visualising the arithmetic of imaginary quadratic fields
Nov 24	Thanksgiving
Dec 1
Dec 8	Vlad Matei (UW-Madison)	Counting low degree covers of the projective line over finite fields
Dec 15	Efrat Bank (Michigan)	Primes in short intervals on curves over finite fields
Dec 22

The seminar webpage for next semester, Spring 2017 is here.

The seminar webpage for last semester, Spring 2016 is here.