NTSGrad Fall 2018

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

• When: Tuesdays, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
• Where: B113 Van Vleck

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 2018 Semester: Schedule

Date	Speaker (click for homepage)	Title (click for abstract)
September 11	Brandon Boggess	Praise Genus
September 18	Solly Parenti	Asymptotic Equidistribution of Hecke Eigenvalues
September 25	Asvin Gothandaraman	Growth of class numbers in [math]\displaystyle{ \mathbb{Z}_p }[/math] extensions
October 2	Soumya Sankar	Etale Cohomology: the Streets
October 9	Qiao He	Basics of Trace Formula
October 16	Ewan Dalby	Etale Fundamental Groups - Some Examples
October 23	Niudun Wang	Brauer-Siegel Ratio for Abelian varieties over Function Fields
October 30	Wanlin Li	Siegel Varieties and CM points
November 6	Sun Woo Park	Kloosterman Sums and Kuznetsov Trace Formula
November 13	Sun Woo Park	Equidistribution of Heegner Points
November 20	Solly Parenti	What the ad-hell is a modular form?
November 27	Yu Fu	Models of Algebraic Varieties over Function Fields of Curves
December 4	Brandon Boggess	Height Functions on Varieties
December 11	Weitong Wang
December 18

Organizer(s)

Soumya Sankar (ssankar3@wisc.edu)

Former Organizers

Brandon Alberts

Megan Maguire

Ryan Julian

Other Graduate NTS Pages

The seminar webpage for Spring 2018 is here.
The seminar webpage for Fall 2017 is here.
The seminar webpage for Spring 2017 is here.
The seminar webpage for Fall 2016 is here
The seminar webpage for Spring 2016 is here
The seminar webpage for Fall 2015, is here.

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