Past Seminars

Spring 2007

Organizers: Nathan Ryan, Paul Jenkins
Date Speaker & Title
Talks in MS6229 from 5-6 unless noted differently
April 2 Lin Weng, Kyushu University
High Rank Zeta and Its Zeros
April 9 Eknath Ghate, Tata Institute
Deformation Theory and Galois Representations
MS6229 from 5-6
April 23 Rob de Jeu, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / Caltech
The p-adic Beilinson conjecture for number fields
MS6229 from 5-6
Note Different Day:
April 27
Tonghai Yang, Wisconsin
An arithmetic intersection formula on a Hilbert modular surface
MS6229 from 5-6
April 30 Eknath Ghate, Tata Institute
Split Selmer in the Reducible Case
MS6229 from 5-6
May 1 Shouwu Zhang, Columbia (DLS Speaker)
Rational points on curves
MS 6627 from 2-3
May 2 Shouwu Zhang, Columbia (DLS Speaker)
Gross-Zagier formula and Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
MS 6621 from 2-3
May 3 Shouwu Zhang, Columbia (DLS Speaker)
Triple L-series and effective Mordell conjecture
MS 5217 from 2-3
May 7 Christopher Storm, Dartmouth College
Hypergraph zeta functions
MS6229 from 5-6
Note Different Day:
May 9
Brian Conrad, University of Michigan
Lifting CM abelian varieties to characteristic 0

MS6229 from 5-6
May 14 Jacques Tilouine, Paris 13
Companion forms and BGG dual complex, I
MS6229 from 5-6
May 21 Jacques Tilouine, Paris 13
Companion forms and BGG dual complex, II
MS6229 from 5-6

Winter 2007

Organizers: Nathan Ryan, Paul Jenkins
Date Speaker & Title
January 22 Paul Jenkins, UCLA
Borcherds products, Zagier duality, and traces of singular moduli
4:30 - 6:00 in MS 5127
February 5 Nathan Ryan, UCLA
Efficient Verfication of Tunnell's Criterion
4:30 - 6:00 in MS 5127
February 20 William Stein, University of Washington
SAGE -- Free Mathematics Software for Algebra, Geometry, Number, and more.
4:30 - 6:00 in MS 5148 (note day and room change)
February 26 Haesang Sun, UCLA
Abelian Modular symbols and $\mu$-invariant
4:30 - 6:00 in MS 5127
March 5 Margaret Upton, UCLA
Galois Representations Attached to Picard Curves
5:00 - 6:00 in MS 5127 note later start
March 8 Guido Kings, Regensburg
Colloquium - TBA
4:15-5:05 in MS 6627
March 19 TBA
TBA
4:30 - 6:00 in MS 5127

Fall 2006

Organizers: Nathan Ryan, Paul Jenkins
Date Speaker & Title
Oct 9 Eliot Brenner, Ben Gurion University
Heat Eisenstein Series and Applications
4:30 - 6:00 in MS6943
Oct 11 Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University
Inversions
4:00 - 5:00 in MS6943
Oct 11 Joseph Silverman, Brown University
Dynamical Systems from an Arithmetical Viewpoint
5:15 - 6:15 in MS6943
Oct 19 Chandrashekhar Khare, University of Utah
Colloquium: Galois representations and modular forms
4:15 - 5:15 in MS6627
Oct 20 Chandrashekhar Khare, University of Utah
Serre's modularity conjecture
4:00-5:30 in MS6229
Oct 26 Tetsushi Ito, Kyoto University
Colloquium: Hasse invariants and the bad reduction of unitary Shimura varieties I
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm in MS6627
Oct 26 Joel Bellaiche, Columbia University
Colloquium: A conjecture of Bloch-Kato and automorphic forms
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm in MS6627
Oct 27 Tetsushi Ito, Kyoto University
Hasse invariants and the bad reduction of unitary Shimura varieties II
4:00-5:10 in MS6943
Oct 27 Joel Bellaiche, Columbia University
Geometry of eigenvarieties and Selmer groups.
5:20-6:30 in MS6943
Nov 6 Luis Dieulefait, Universitat de Barcelona
Geometric families of Galois representations: existence, ell-independence, modularity and other properties
4:30 - 6:00 in MS6943
Nov 13 Charles Denis, Microsoft
The computational complexity of modular forms
4:30 - 6:00 in MS6943
Tues
Dec 5
Alf van der Poorten, Centre for Number Theory Research
Paperfolding, automata, and rational functions
4:30 in MS 5147

Spring 2006 Lectures

Regular meeting time: Mondays 4:30 to 6:00pm
Place: MS 6221 except as noted below

Date Speaker Affiliation Title and Abstract (Click on title for the abstract)
Thursday, April 6, 2-3pm in MS 6221 Roger Heath-Brown University of Oxford Rational points on cubic hypersurfaces
April 10 Alex Ghitza McGill & MSRI A theta operator for Siegel modular forms (mod p)
April 19, 4.30 -6.00 pm, MS 5217
Note special date and time
R. Parimala
Emory University, Tata Institute & MSRI

Zeros of quadratic forms over function fields of p-adic curves
April 24 Brian Conrad Michigan Asymptotics related to prime specialization and average behavior of the Mobius function over finite fields
May 1 Mirela Ciperjani
Columbia/MSRI
Solvable points on genus one curves
May 8
Alina Cojocaru Princeton & MSRI
Frobenius fields for Drinfeld modules of rank 2
May 15 William McCallum University of Arizona Shafarevich-Tate groups of Jacobians of Fermat Curves: A Survey of Old and New Results
May 22 V. Srinivas
Tata Institute

Some examples of Chow groups over p-adic fields
June 5 Jens Groth UCLA Non-interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs from Elliptic Curves

Winter 2006 Lectures

Regular meeting time: Mondays 4:30‒6:00pm
Place: *MS 5147* except as noted below

Date Speaker Affiliation Title and Abstract (Click on title for the abstract)
January 9 Eric Wambach Caltech Special Values of L functions
January 23 Ameya Pitale Ohio State Lifting of Cusp forms from $\tilde{SL_2}$ to $GSpin(1,4)$
January 30 Jason Colwell UCSD The Conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer for elliptic curves with complex multiplication by a nonmaximal order
February 6 Amanda Folsom UCLA Modular Units
Tuesday, February 14, 12 - 1pm in MS 6627 Mihran Papikian Stanford
On the number of rational points on Drinfeld modular varieties over finite fields
February 27
Ravi Ramakrishna Cornell
The reducible case of Serre's conjectures
March 6 Iftikhar Burhanuddin USC Some computational problems motivated by the BSD conjecture
March 13, 5-6pm MS 5147 Hiroyuki Yoshida

On p-adic absolute CM periods I
March 15, chair's conference room 4:30pm Hiroyuki Yoshida

On p-adic absolute CM periods II






Fall 2005 Lectures

Regular meeting time: Mondays 4:30--6:00pm
Place: MS 5137 except as noted below

Date Speaker Affiliation Title and Abstract (Click on title for the abstract)
Oct. 10 Matthias Flach Caltech Weil-etale cohomology
Oct. 18,  Tuesday 4:30‒6:00pm in MS 6627 Daqing Wan UCI Arithmetic Mirror Symmetry
Oct. 24 Yangbo Ye University of Iowa Subconvexity bounds for Rankin-Selberg L-functions for congruence subgroups
Oct. 31 Jayce Getz Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison Hilbert modular generating functions with coefficients in intersection homology
Nov. 7 Brooke Feigon UCLA A relative trace formula in the local setting
Nov. 14 Kartik Prasanna UCLA Elliptic curves, quadratic twists and p-(in)divisibility of L-values
Nov. 21, 1.00-2.00 pm, HAINES A20 Erez Lapid Hebrew University Base change and values of automorphic forms
Nov. 21, 4.30-5.30 pm, MS 5137 Matt Young AIM Analytic number theory and elliptic curves
Nov. 28 Nathan Ryan UCLA Siegel modular forms and their Satake parameters
Dec. 2, Friday (1st talk) 10-11am in MS 5128 William Stein UCSD Verification of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture for Specific Elliptic Curves
Dec. 2, Friday (2nd talk) 3pm in MS 5127 Jacques Tilouine Univ. Paris 13 Siegel varieties and Siegel modular forms
Dec. 5 Keith Ouellette UCLA A new proof of the Plancherel formula in the adelic setting
Dec. 12 Eknath Ghate Tata Institute On the local behaviour of ordinary Galois representations
Dec. 15, Thursday Lin Weng Kyushu University Non-abelian L-functions

Spring 2005 Lectures

Meeting time:   Mondays 4:30--5:30pm
Place: MS 6221 except as noted below

Date Speaker Affiliation Title and Abstract (Click on title for the abstract)
April 4
Lillian Pierce
  Princeton
A Bound for the 3-Part of Class Numbers of Quadratic Fields via the Square Sieve
April 11    
no talk
                     

April 18
no talk
   
April 25
Jason Lucier  
 University of Waterloo
Intersective Sets
April 29, Friday 4pm MS 6943
Brian Conrad  
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
 TBA
May 2
Hee Oh
 Caltech  Equidistribution of rational matrices in their conjugacy classes
May 9
Andrew Booker
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Effective computation of Maass cusp forms
May 16
  ---


May 23
Kathrin Bringmann
  University of Wisconsin, Madison
Traces of Singular Moduli on Hilbert Modular Surfaces
May 30
 no talk


June 6
Arvind Nair
Tata Institute
On the motive of a Shimura variety






Winter 2005 Lectures

Regular meeting time: Tuesdays 4:30--5:30pm
Place: MS 6627 except as noted below

Date Speaker Affiliation Title and Abstract (Click on title for the abstract)
January 11,  11:00 -12:00pm in the Chair's conference room
 Jordan Ellenberg
  Princeton
Descent bounds for rational points on varieties
January 11   (regular time and place)
 Terence Tao
  UCLA                               
Long arithmetic progressions in the primes
Friday, January 14,  
 4:00 -5:00pm
 MS 6627
Note:  Special Day             
 Dorian Goldfeld
 Columbia
Multiple Dirichlet series, an historical survey
January 18
 EricUrban
 Columbia
Eigenvarieties for reductive groups and applications
January 25
  no talk


February 1
 Martin Weissman
 UC Berkeley
D4 modular forms
February 8
 Akshay Venkatesh              
 CMI
Weyl's law for cusp forms
February 15
 no talk


February 22
 HaeSang Sun
 UCLA
Rational Function Measure and Non-vanishing mod $p$ of $L$-values
March 1
 no talk


March 8
 Alice Silverberg
 UCI
Algebraic tori in cryptography
March 15
 Claus Sorensen
 Caltech
Level-raising for Saito-Kurokawa  forms






Fall 2004 Lectures

Regular meeting time: Tuesdays 4:30--5:30pm
Place: MS 6627 except as noted below

Date Speaker Affiliation Title and Abstract (Click on title for the abstract)
Oct. 5 No talk -- --
Oct. 12, 4.15-5.15 pm Note: Special time Haruzo Hida UCLA The integral basis problem of Eichler
Oct. 19, Room: MS 5127 Note: Special room Karl Rubin UC Irvine Selmer modules and skew-hermitean matrices
Oct. 21, 1:00pm, MS 6627. Note: Special day and time Steve Gelbart Weizmann Institute Lower bounds for L-functions
Oct. 26 Nathan Jones UCLA Almost all elliptic curves are Serre curves
Oct. 28, 2:00pm, MS 6627. Note: Special day and time Serge Lang Yale ABC conjecture
Nov. 2 Kenneth Tignor UCLA Semi-stable curves + the weight-monodromy conjecture
Nov. 9 David Savitt Mcgill On a conjecture of Conrad, Diamond and Taylor
Nov. 16 Jens Funke New Mexico Traces of special values of modular functions
Mon, Nov. 22, Note: Special day Daniel Bump Stanford Automorphic Summation Formulae Moments of the Riemann Zeta Function
Nov. 30 Meera Thillainatesan UCLA A Kernel for Automorphic L-functions
Dec. 7 Jacques Tilouine University of Paris, 13 Low weight rank four Galois representations and Siegel modular forms


Spring 2004 Lectures

Date Speaker Affiliation Title and Abstract (Click on title for the abstract)
April 20 Patrick Brosnan UCLA Periods, motives and Feynman amplitudes
April 27 Brian Conrad University of Michigan Root numbers and ranks over global function fields
May 4 Jeff Stopple UCSB Deuring-Heilbronn phenomenon and Euler's idoneal numbers
May 18 Ben Brubaker Stanford Applications of Eisenstein series on the metaplectic group
June 1 Michael Harris Jussieu Congruences of endoscopic and stable forms and applications to p-adic L-functions; Special time and place: 4.00pm, MS 6627

Winter 2004 Lectures

Regular meeting time: Mondays 4:30--5:30pm
Place: MS 6221

Date Speaker Affiliation Title and Abstract (Click on title for the abstract)
Jan. 19 No seminar --- Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
Jan. 26 Don Blasius UCLA Zeta functions of quaternionic Shimura varieties
Feb. 2 Samit Dasgupta UC Berkeley Elliptic units for real quadratic fields Note: Special time and room: 1.00pm-2.00pm, MS 6943
Feb. 3 Erez Lapid Hebrew University Classification of the generic unitary dual for classical groups over a local field Note: Special time and room: 2.00pm-3.00pm, MS 6118
Feb. 4 Erez Lapid Hebrew University Explicit trace identities Note: Special time and room: 1.00pm-2.00pm, MS 6943
Feb. 9 Kapil Paranjape IMSc., Chennai A geometric characterisation of arithmetic varieties Special Time : 5.00 pm
Feb. 16 No seminar --- President's day holiday
Mar. 8 Dinakar Ramakrishnan Caltech Average L-values, class numbers and rational points

Fall 2003 Lectures

Regular meeting time: Mondays 4:30--5:30pm
Place: MS 6221

Date Speaker Affiliation Title and Abstract (Click on title for the abstract)
Oct. 6 Adebisi Agboola UC Santa Barbara Anticyclotomic main conjectures for CM elliptic curves
Oct. 27 Wee Teck Gan UC San Diego Counting embeddings of cubic rings and Fourier coefficients
Nov. 3 Cristian Virdol UCLA Zeta functions of twisted quaternionic Shimura varieties
Nov. 10 Edray Goins Caltech On the modularity of wildly ramified Galois representations         Notes for this talk
Nov. 17 Mladen Dimitrov Univ. Paris 13 Galois representations modulo p and cohomology of Hilbert modular varieties         Notes for this talk
Nov. 24 Kartik Prasanna UCLA Integrality of a period ratio and level-lowering congruences
Dec. 1 Ryan Daileda UCLA Zero Density of $L$-functions and Extreme Class Numbers
Dec. 8 A. Yamagami Hokkaido On $p$-adic automorphic forms over totally real fields