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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
Nov 8
Nov 15 David Wagner
Nov 22
Nov 29
Dec 6
Dec 13 Jiuya Wang
Dec 20 Daniel Ross


Organizers

Brandon Alberts (blalberts@math.wisc.edu)

Megan Maguire (mmaguire2@math.wisc.edu)


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


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