Spring 2016 Semester

Date	Speaker (click for homepage)	Title (click for abstract)
DATE	SPEAKER	[ TITLE]
Jan 26	David Bruce	Counting Categorically
Feb 2	Ewan Dalby	Representation theory and random walks on finite groups
Feb 9	Daniel Hast	The Local-to-Global Principle and Approximation Theorems
Feb 16	Wanlin Li	Conductors and Minimal Discriminants of Elliptic Curves
Feb 23	Jason Steinberg	Borcherds product expansions
Mar 1	Brandon Alberts	Heights on Projective Space
Mar 8	Joseph Gunther	moved to Thursday
Mar 15	Megan Maguire	Stable and Unstable Homology of Configuration Spaces
Mar 22		Spring Break, no talk
Mar 29	Jiuya Wang	Introduction to Honda-Tate Theory
Apr 5	Vlad Matei	Random Matrix theory and L-functions
Apr 12	Soumya Sankar	On the p-torsion of abelian varieties over characteristic p
Apr 19	Solly Parenti	What's the point of curves of genus greater than 1?
Apr 26	Zachary Charles	Schoof's algorithm for counting points on elliptic curves
May 3	Daniel Ross	Introduction to additive combinatorics

Organizers

Brandon Alberts (blalberts@math.wisc.edu)

Megan Maguire (mmaguire2@math.wisc.edu)

Ryan Julian (mrjulian@math.wisc.edu)

The seminar webpage for last semester, Fall 2015, is here.