Number Theory Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison

When: Thursdays at 2:30pm, with the exception of December 7 and 16, which are Tuesdays (see below).
Where: Van Vleck Hall B105
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Fall 2010 Semester

Date	Speaker	Title (click to see abstract)
Sept. 9 (Thurs.)	Jordan Ellenberg, UW Madison	Expander graphs, gonality, and Galois representations
Sept. 16 (Thurs.)	Shuichiro Takeda, Purdue	TBA
Sept. 23 (Thurs.)	Xinyi Yuan, Harvard and Clay Math Institute	Volumes of arithmetic line bundles and equidistribution
Sept. 30 (Thurs.)	Jared Weinstein, IAS	Semistable reduction of modular curves
Oct. 7 (Thurs.)	David Zywina , U. Penn	Bounds for Serre's open image theorem
Oct. 14 (Thurs.)	Soroosh Yazdani, UBC and SFU	Local Szpiro Conjecture
Oct. 21 (Thurs.)	Zhiwei Yun, MIT	From automorphic forms to Kloosterman sheaves
Oct. 28 (Thurs.)	Bryden Cais, UW	TBA
Nov. 4 (Thurs.)	David Brown, UW	TBA
Nov. 11 (Thurs.)	Jay Pottharst, Boston University	Iwasawa theory at nonordinary primes
Nov. 16 (TUESDAY, 3:40pm)	Danny Neftin, Technion	TBA
Nov. 18 (Thurs.)	Alex Paulin, Berkeley	TBA
Nov. 25 (Thurs.)	Thanksgiving	NO SEMINAR
Dec. 2 (Thurs.)	Samit Dasgupta, UC Santa Cruz	TBA
Dec. 7 (TUESDAY)	David Geraghty, Princeton and IAS	TBA
Dec. 9 (Thurs.)	Toby Gee	TBA

Also of interest is the Grad student seminar: which meets on Tuesdays.