NTS Spring 2015

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

  • When: Thursdays, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
  • Where: Van Vleck B105
  • Please join the NT/RT mailing list: (you must be on a math department computer to use this link).

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

Spring 2015 Semester

Date Speaker (click for homepage) Title (click for abstract)
Jan 22 (no speaker)
Jan 29 Lillian Pierce Averages and moments associated to class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields
Feb 05 Keerthi Madapusi Heights of special divisors on orthogonal Shimura varieties
Feb 12
Feb 19 David Zureick-Brown The canonical ring of a stacky curve
Feb 26 Rachel Davis Origami and Galois representations
Mar 05 Hongbo Yin Some non-congruence subgroups and the associated modular curves
Mar 12 Tonghai Yang Informal tutorial on the Heisenberg group and Weil representation
Mar 19 Brian Cook Forms in many variables and subsets of the integers
Mar 26
Apr 02 (spring break)
Apr 09 Daniel Ross Boston-Bush-Hajir heuristics: Moments and function fields
Apr 16 Nigel Boston Beauville Surfaces and Groups
Apr 23 Filip Najman Mordell-Weil groups of elliptic curves over number fields
Apr 30 David Roberts Hurwitz Belyi Maps
May 07 Jesse Wolfson Geometry and Arithmetic of Spaces of Rational Maps
May 14 Quoc Ho Average Size of 2-Selmer Groups of Elliptic Curves over Function Fields


Organizer contact information

Sean Rostami (srostami@math.wisc.edu)


The seminar webpage for last semester, Fall 2014, is here.


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