Number Theory – Representation Theory Seminar, University of Wisconsin–Madison

When: Thursdays at 2:30pm.
Where: Van Vleck Hall B203
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Fall 2011 Semester

Date	Speaker	Title (click to see abstract)
September 8 (Thurs.)	Alexander Fish (Madison)	Solvability of Diophantine equations within dynamically defined subsets of N
September 15 (Thurs.)	Chung Pang Mok (McMaster)	Galois representation associated to cusp forms on GL(2) over CM fields
September 22 (Thurs.)	Yifeng Liu (Columbia U.)	Arithmetic inner product formula
September 29 (Thurs.)	Nigel Boston (Madison)	Non-abelian Cohen-Lenstra heuristics
October 6 (Thurs.)	Zhiwei Yun (MIT)	Exceptional Lie groups as motivic Galois groups
October 13 (Thurs.)	Melanie Matchett Wood (Madison)	The probability that a curve over a finite field is smooth
October 20 (Thurs.)	Jie Ling (Madison)	Arithmetic intersection on toric schemes and resultants
October 27 (Thurs.)	Danny Neftin (Michigan)	Arithmetic field relations and crossed product division algebras
November 3 (Thurs.)	Zev Klagsbrun (Madison)	Selmer ranks of quadratic twists of elliptic curves
November 10 (Thurs.)	Luanlei Zhao (Madison)	TBA
November 17 (Thurs.)	Robert Harron (Madison)	TBA
November 24 (Thurs.)	No seminar (Thanksgiving)	Thanksgiving
December 1 (Thurs.)	Andrei Caldararu (Madison)	TBA
December 8 (Thurs.)	Xinwen Zhu (Harvard)	TBA
December 15 (Thurs.)	Shamgar Gurevich (Madison)	Quadratic reciprocity and the sign of the Gauss sum via the finite Weil representation