Number Theory 2013-14

Unless otherwise specified, the seminars are held on Mondays at 15:00 in Room B3.03 – Mathematics Institute

2013-14, Term 3

Organiser: Alex Bartel

28 April 2014	Lenny Taelman (Leiden) Arithmetic of Drinfeld modules
5 May 2014	bank holiday
12 May 2014 11 am, B3.03	Elisa Lorenzo Garcia (Barcelona) On some arithmetic properties of the twists of the Klein quartic
12 May 2014	James Newton (Cambridge) Level optimisation for p-adic Hilbert modular forms
19 May 2014	Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer (Cambridge) Solubility and insolubility of certain diagonal quartic surfaces
26 May 2014	bank holiday
2 June 2014	Robert Osburn (University College Dublin) The mock modularity of q-hypergeometric series
9 June 2014	Peter Bruin (Warwick) Computation aspects of modular Galois representations
16 June 2014	Fredrik Strömberg (Nottingham) Subgroups of the modular group and symmetries
23 June 2014	David Loeffler (Warwick) The finiteness of p-parts of Tate--Shafarevich groups

2013-14, Term 2

Organiser: Alex Bartel

6 January 2014	Adam Morgan (Bristol) Parity of two-Selmer ranks of hyperelliptic curves over quadratic extensions
13 January 2014	Herbert Gangl (Durham) Multiple polylogarithms in weight 4
20 January 2014	Chris Blake (Cambridge) A Deuring criterion for abelian varieties
27 January 2014	Marc Masdeu (Warwick) Darmon points for fields of mixed signature
3 February 2014	Rachel Newton (Leiden/Bonn) Computing transcendental Brauer groups of products of CM elliptic curves
4 February 2014 3pm, A1.01	Bart de Smit (Leiden) Galois theory of radical groups
10 February 2014	Tim Browning (Bristol) Arithmetic of large dimensional complete intersections
17 February 2014	Samir Siksek (Warwick) Elliptic curves over real quadratic fields are modular
24 February 2014	Tom Sanders (Oxford) Arithmetic progressions of primes: why?
3 March 2014	Minhyong Kim (Oxford) Diophantine geometry and non-abelian reciprocity
4 March 2014 3pm, MS.05	René Pannekoek (Imperial College London) The Brauer-Manin obstruction and ranks of quadratic twists

2013-14, Term 1

Organiser: David Loeffler

30 September 2013	Abhishek Saha (Bristol) Determination of modular forms by fundamental Fourier coefficients — slides
7 October 2013	Jenny Cooley (Warwick) One point suffices: generating rational points on cubic surfaces over finite fields
14 October 2013	Martin Orr (UCL) Unlikely intersections in abelian varieties and Shimura varieties
21 October 2013	Julio Brau (Cambridge) Selmer groups of elliptic curves in degree p extensions
28 October 2013	Francesco Lemma (Paris VII) On higher regulators of Siegel threefolds: the vanishing on the boundary
4 November 2013	Daniel Barrera (Paris XI) Overconvergent cohomology of Hilbert modular varieties and p-adic L-functions
11 November 2013	Jennifer Balakrishnan (Oxford) P-adic heights and integral points on hyperelliptic curves — slides
18 November 2013	Jayanta Manoharmayum (Sheffield) Universal deformation rings and the inverse deformation problem
25 November 2013	Vladimir Dokchitser (Warwick) Parity of 2-Selmer ranks for hyperelliptic curves
2 December 2013	Samuele Anni (Warwick) Residual modular Galois representations and their images - slides