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	Brandon Boggess	Splitting Varieties for Cup Products
Nov 8	none
Nov 15	David Wagner	Apollonian Circle Packings
Nov 22	none
Nov 29	Daniel Hast	Introducation to p-adic Hodge Theory
Dec 6	Wanlin Li	Supersingular Elliptic Curves
Dec 13	Jiuya Wang	Chebotarev Density Theorem
Dec 20	Daniel Ross	A Primer on the Main Conjecture of Iwasawa Theory

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.