The Number Theory Group at UCLA

UCLA Number Theory Group

UCLA has a well-established research group in Number Theory. The group is led by 5 core faculty members, and currently has 5 post-doctoral members. Numerous graduate students, at all stages of their education, actively participate in the courses and seminars of the group. Additionally, a number of UCLA faculty members specialize in closely affiliated areas, such as K-theory, quadratic forms, additive combinatorics, and cryptography.

Seminar

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If you would like to be informed via email about upcoming number theory related events at UCLA or if you would like to give a talk, contact Jared Weinstein or Rizwanur Khan. (Our respective fields are algebraic and analytic number theory, if that makes any difference.)

Spring 2009

Organizers: Jared Weinstein and Rizwanur Khan., Talks will take place in MS 6221 from 4:00-4:50 unless indicated otherwise.

Mar. 30
Masoud Kamgarpour, Univ. British Columbia
Stacky Abelianization of Algebraic Groups

Mar. 31 (special Tues. talk: MS 6627 at 4 pm)
Par Kurlberg, KTH Sweden
Number theory related to quantum chaos

Apr. 6
Rizwan Khan, UCLA
The second moment of Dirichlet twists of Hecke L-functions

Apr. 13
Olivier Fouquet, Ecole Polytechnique / Osaka U.
Dihedral Iwasawa theory of ordinary automorphic forms

Apr. 20

Apr. 27

May 1 (special Friday talk: 4-5pm, Chair's conference room)
Gordan Savin, Univ. of Utah
Reducing minimal representation modulo l

May 4
Ralph Greenberg, U. Washington
Galois representations with open image

May 5 (special Tuesday talk: MS 6627 at 4pm)
Mahesh Kakde, Princeton
Congruences in non-commutative Iwasawa theory

May 7 (Colloquium: 4pm, MS 6627)
Ralph Greenberg, U. Washington
Projective modules and Iwasawa theory

May 8 (special Friday talk: 3:30 pm, Chair's conference room)
Ralph Greenberg, U. Washington
Iwasawa theory for elliptic curves with supersingular reduction

May 11
Cornelius Greither, Univ. der Bundeswehr Munchen
Fitting ideals of Tate modules of Jacobians, and of class groups of curves over finite fields

May 18
Florian Herzig, Northwestern
Weight Cycling and Serre-type Conjectures

June 1
Lin Chen, UCLA
Galois deformation with triangular frame

June 5 (Fri., in MS 6221, 1 pm) Solomon Friedberg, Boston College
Metaplectic Eisenstein series, twisted Euler products, and crystal graphs

Past seminars

People

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Senior Faculty

Don Blasius

William Duke

Haruzo Hida

Chandrashekhar Khare

Jonathan Rogawski

Junior Faculty

Iftikhar Burhanuddin

Paul Jenkins

Rizwanur Khan

Keith Ouellette

Jared Weinstein

Affiliated Faculty

Richard Elman

Alexander Merkurjev

Rafail Ostrovsky

Amit Sahai

Terence Tao

Veeravalli S. Varadarajan

Graduate Students

Miljan Brakocevic

Paul Bunn

Jack Buttcane

Lin Chen

Craig Citro

Will Conley

Brett Hemenway

Michael Hofmann

Matt Lane

Wenjian Liu

Steve Lu

Romanos Malikiosis

Curtis Paul

Courses

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		Fall 2008: NTG Seminar (Weinstein) M 4:00-5:00 Venue: MS 5148 Math 207A: Topics in Number Theory (Khan) MWF 2:00-3:15 Venue: MS 7608 Math 207B: Topics in Number Theory (Khare) M 12:00-1:15 Venue: MS 6621
Past courses

Events

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Upcoming Conferences
	SAGE Days 5: Computational Arithmetic Geometry, September 30-October 3, 2007, Clay Institute, Cambridge Southern California Number Theory Day, October 27, 2007, Irvine SAGE Days 6: Cryptography, November 10-14, 2007, Heilbronn Institute, Bristol West Coast Number Theory Conference December 16-20, 2007, Monterey Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics January 6, 2008, San Diego Special Session on Low Genus Curves and Applications January 7-8, 2008, San Diego Special Session on Modular Forms and Modularity January 7-8, 2008, San Diego SAGE Days 7: Combinatorics, February 5-9, 2008, UCLA Expanders in Pure and Applied Mathematics, February 11 - 15, 2008, UCLA Partitions, q-series and Modular Forms Workshop and Conference March 8-16, 2008, Gainesville Automorphic Forms Workshop March 8-11, 2008, Texas A&M Arizona Winter School March 15-19, 2008, Tuscon Recent Developments in Number Theory: Selmer Groups, L-functions, and Galois Deformations March 24-29, 2008, Los Angeles Eighth Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium ANTS-VIII May 17-22, 2008, Banff Canadian Number Theory Association X July 13-18, 2008, Waterloo Conferences in Arithmetic Geometry (Kiran Kedlaya) Number theory conferences, old and new (Keith Matthews) Conferences in Algebraic Geometry (Ravi Vakil)
Local Area Seminars
		California Institute of Technology (Caltech) University of California, Irvine (UCI) University of Southern California (USC)

Links

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The Number Theory Web is worth checking out daily.
Front for the Mathematics ArXiv is a link to the most recent preprints in Number Theory on the arXiv.
The NMBRTHRY mailing list is is a listserv with postings of varying interest. Often equal parts interesting conference announcements and "proofs" of major theorems by cranks.
American Institute of Mathematics
Clay Mathematics Institute
MSRI maintains a collection of their lectures in streaming video here.

Website design by Craig Citro
Maintained by Jared Weinstein

Spring 2009
Organizers: Jared Weinstein and Rizwanur Khan., Talks will take place in MS 6221 from 4:00-4:50 unless indicated otherwise.
Mar. 30	Masoud Kamgarpour, Univ. British Columbia Stacky Abelianization of Algebraic Groups
Mar. 31 (special Tues. talk: MS 6627 at 4 pm)	Par Kurlberg, KTH Sweden Number theory related to quantum chaos
Apr. 6	Rizwan Khan, UCLA The second moment of Dirichlet twists of Hecke L-functions
Apr. 13	Olivier Fouquet, Ecole Polytechnique / Osaka U. Dihedral Iwasawa theory of ordinary automorphic forms
Apr. 20
Apr. 27
May 1 (special Friday talk: 4-5pm, Chair's conference room)	Gordan Savin, Univ. of Utah Reducing minimal representation modulo l
May 4	Ralph Greenberg, U. Washington Galois representations with open image
May 5 (special Tuesday talk: MS 6627 at 4pm)	Mahesh Kakde, Princeton Congruences in non-commutative Iwasawa theory
May 7 (Colloquium: 4pm, MS 6627)	Ralph Greenberg, U. Washington Projective modules and Iwasawa theory
May 8 (special Friday talk: 3:30 pm, Chair's conference room)	Ralph Greenberg, U. Washington Iwasawa theory for elliptic curves with supersingular reduction
May 11	Cornelius Greither, Univ. der Bundeswehr Munchen Fitting ideals of Tate modules of Jacobians, and of class groups of curves over finite fields
May 18	Florian Herzig, Northwestern Weight Cycling and Serre-type Conjectures
June 1	Lin Chen, UCLA Galois deformation with triangular frame
June 5 (Fri., in MS 6221, 1 pm)	Solomon Friedberg, Boston College Metaplectic Eisenstein series, twisted Euler products, and crystal graphs