Number Theory Seminar 2010–11
The seminars are held on Mondays at 15:00 in Room B3.03 – Mathematics Institute
Organiser: Martin Bright
2010–2011, Term 3
| 2 May 2011 | No seminar: bank holiday |
| 9 May 2011 | Antonio Lei (Monash) Elementary divisors and Iwasawa theory for modular forms |
| 16 May 2011 | John Coates (Cambridge) Some enigmatic number theoretic problems |
| 23 May 2011 Room MS.05 |
Shaun Stevens (UEA) Towards explicit L-packets |
| 30 May 2011 | No seminar: bank holiday |
| 6 June 2011 Room MS.05 |
Andrei Yafaev (UCL) The André–Oort conjecture |
| 13 June 2011 | Hung Bui (Oxford) Zeros of the Riemann zeta function |
| 20 June 2011 | Nigel Byott (Exeter) Realisable Galois module classes for some metabelian extensions |
| Tuesday 28 June 2011 3pm, room B3.03 |
Daniel Delbourgo (Monash) Zeros of L-functions of elliptic curves |
2010–2011, Term 2
| 10 January 2011 | Samir Siksek (Warwick) Mordell–Weil generators for cubic surfaces |
| 17 January 2011 | Martin Bright (Warwick) What I did in the holidays |
| 24 January 2011 | Damiano Testa (Oxford) Conics on the Fermat quintic threefold |
| Friday 28 January 2011 2pm, room B3.02 |
Minhyong Kim (UCL) Non-abelian cohomology and Diophantine geometry |
| 31 January 2011 | Graeme Taylor (Bristol) Cyclotomic Matrices and Graphs |
| 7 February 2011 | Tom Fisher (Cambridge) Height bounds on coverings of elliptic curves |
| 14 February 2011 | Adam Epstein (Warwick) Integrality and rigidity for postcritically finite polynomials |
| 21 February 2011 | Gihan Marasingha (Bristol) Average values of shifted convolutions of d3(n) |
| 28 February 2011 | No seminar |
| 7 March 2011 | Christian Wuthrich (Nottingham) Parity conjectures for elliptic curves in positive characteristic |
| 14 March 2011 | Jan Tuitman (Oxford) Effective bounds for Frobenius structures on connections |
2010–2011, Term 1
| 4 October 2010 | Fred Diamond (King's College London) Hilbert modular forms, Galois representations and Langlands correspondences (mod p) |
| 11 October 2010 | Johan Bosman (Warwick) Computing Galois representations associated to modular forms |
| 18 October 2010 | Robert Miller (Warwick) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for curves of small conductor |
| 25 October 2010 | Marco Streng (Warwick) Igusa class polynomials |
| 1 November 2010 | Homero Gallegos Ruiz (Warwick) S-integral points on hyperelliptic curves |
| 8 November 2010 | Andreas Langer (Exeter) A de Rham–Witt complex for rigid cohomology |
| 15 November 2010 | Soma Purkait (Warwick) Eigenforms of half integral weight and some applications |
| 22 November 2010 | Alexei Skorobogatov (Imperial) The transcendental Brauer group, with special reference to diagonal quartic surfaces |
| 29 November 2010 | Anthony Flatters (UEA) Zsigmondy theorems |
| 6 December 2010 | Jonathan Pila (Oxford) A model-theoretic approach to certain Diophantine equations |