UCLA Number Theory Group

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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 Iftikhar Burhanuddin or Paul Jenkins

Spring 2008
Organizers: Iftikhar Burhanuddin, Paul Jenkins Talks will take place in MS 5128 from 4:30-5:30 unless indicated otherwise
Date	Speaker & Title
March 31	Paul Jenkins, UCLA Integral traces of singular values of Maass forms Pictures Audio
April 07	Leo Goldmakher, Michigan/Stanford Pretentious characters and the Polya-Vinogradov theorem Pictures Audio
April 10	Eric Friedlander, USC Elementary Representation Theory (Algebra Colloquium) Pictures Audio
April 14
April 16 2:00-2:50pm MS 6221	Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research Class Invariants of Quartic CM Fields
April 17 1:50-2:50pm MS 6943	Terence Tao, UCLA On the permanent of a random Bernoulli matrix (Combinatorics Seminar) Pictures Audio
April 17 4:15-5:05pm MS 6227	Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research Applications of Ramanujan graphs in Cryptography (Number Theory Colloquium) Audio
April 21
April 22 2-3pm MS 6627	Ngo Bao Chau, IAS / Paris 9 (Orsay) Hitchin fibration and fundamental lemma
April 28
May 05 MS 6221 2-3pm	Jim Borger, ANU / Chicago Witt vectors, Lambda-rings, and absolute algebraic geometry
May 05	Wayne Raskind, USC Totally degenerate reduction in the non-archimedean and archimedean cases
May 12	Shamgar Gurevich, UC Berkeley Quadratic reciprocity and sign of Gauss sum via the finite Weil representation
May 12-16	John Coates, Cambridge UCLA Math Distinguished Lecture Series Iwasawa Theory
May 15 3:00-3:50pm MS 6627	Gopal Prasad, Michigan (Number Theory Colloquium)
May 19	Craig Citro, UCLA L-invariants of p-adic L-functions
May 26	Memorial Day, Holiday
June 02
June 09

Winter 2008
Organizers: Iftikhar Burhanuddin, Paul Jenkins Talks will take place in MS 5128 from 4:00-5:00 unless indicated otherwise
Date	Speaker & Title
January 7	No Seminar --- AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings
January 9 2-3pm MS 6627 January 10 2-3pm MS 6221 January 11 2-3pm MS 6627	Avi Wigderson, IAS --- UCLA Math Distinguished Lecture Series Some topics in computational complexity Abstract Lecture 1: The power and weakness of randomness in computation Pictures Audio Audio Q&A Tao's Notes Lecture 2: Expander Graphs -- Constructions and Applications Pictures Audio Audio Q&A Tao's Notes Lecture 3: Algebraic computation Pictures Audio Tao's Notes
January 11 4-5pm MS 5138	Ravi Ramakrishna, Cornell Ranks for new parts of Hecke algebras Pictures Audio
January 14	Gordan Savin, Utah Langlands lift from G_2 to PGSp(6) Pictures Audio
January 21	No Seminar --- MLK Jr. Day
January 28	Michelle Manes, USC Uniform Boundedness Conjectures and Theorems for Dynamical Systems Pictures Audio
February 7 Lakretz 101 3-4pm	Alex Ghitza, Colby College Computing Hecke eigensystems (mod p) Pictures Audio
February 7 MS 6627 4:15-5:05pm	Kiran Kedlaya, MIT Effective Bounds for Solutions of p-adic Differential Equations Pictures Audio
February 11	Dimitar Jetchev, UCB Global Divisibility of Heegner Points and Tamagawa Numbers Pictures Audio
February 18	No Seminar --- Presidents Day
February 25	Jesse Elliott, CSU Channel Islands Rings of Integer-Valued Polynomials Slides Audio part 1 Audio part 2
February 29 4:30-5:30pm MS 5137	Jayce Getz, Princeton The relative trace formula with a view towards simple Shimura varieties Pictures Audio
March 3	Nir Avni, Hebrew University / UCLA Representation Growth of Arithmetic Groups Pictures Audio
March 10	Jim Brown, Caltech Saito-Kurokawa lifts and lower bounds on Selmer groups
March 12 4:30-5:30pm MS 5137	Paul-Olivier Dehaye, Oxford New approaches to Random Matrix Theory problems motivated by Number Theory
March 17 MS 5118	Lin Weng, Kyushu university Weyl Symmetry and the Riemann Hypothesis

Fall 2007
Organizers: Iftikhar Burhanuddin, Paul Jenkins Talks will take place in MS 6627 from 4:30-5:30 unless indicated otherwise
Date	Speaker & Title
October 1	No seminar
October 8	Iftikhar Burhanuddin, UCLA Some computational problems motivated by the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture Slides Audio
October 15	Rizwanur Khan, UCLA Non-vanishing of the central value of the symmetric square L-function
October 22	Jared Weinstein, UCLA Local Langlands and the stable reduction of modular curves Pictures Audio
October 29	Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna Effective theorems for quadratic spaces via height Pictures Audio
October 31 4:00-4:50pm MS 5128	Haruzo Hida, UCLA Igusa Varieties I
November 5	Mirela Çiperiani, Columbia University Tate-Shafarevich groups over anticyclotomic Z_p extensions at supersingular primes Pictures Audio
November 7 1:00-1:50pm MS 5128	Haruzo Hida, UCLA Igusa Varieties II
November 7 4:00-4:50pm MS 5128	Gebhard Böckle, IEM, Essen Drinfeld modular forms and Hecke characters Pictures Audio
November 12	No seminar --- Veterans Day
November 14 4:00-4:50pm MS 5128	Haruzo Hida, UCLA Igusa Varieties III
November 19	Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University Lang-Trotter and Sato-Tate conjectures on average Pictures Audio
November 26	Ahmad El-Guindy, Texas A&M University Fourier Expansions with Modular Form Coefficients Pictures Audio
November 28 4:00-4:50pm MS 5128	Haruzo Hida, UCLA Igusa Varieties IV
December 3	John Leo, UCLA Fourier Coefficients of Triangle Functions Pictures Audio
December 5 4:00-4:50pm MS 5128	Katherine Stange, Brown University Elliptic Nets Pictures Audio

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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 John Leo Wenjian Liu Steve Lu Romanos Malikiosis Curtis Paul

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