Number Theory 2014-15

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

2014-15, Term 3

Organiser: Alex Bartel

20 April 2015	Andrew Granville (UCL) Expanding pretension in analytic number theory
27 April 2015	John Coates (Cambridge) Quadratic twists of elliptic curves
11 May 2015	Ariel Pacetti (Buenos Aires) Constructing Heegner points when the "Heegner hypothesis" is not satisfied
18 May 2015	Rob de Jeu (Amsterdam) On K_2 of curves
1 June	Tim Dokchitser (Bristol) Local arithmetic of hyperelliptic curves
8 June	Adam Harper (Cambridge) Prime Number Races with very many competitors
15 June	Andrew Wiles (Oxford) Class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields
22 June	Arno Fehm (Konstanz) Sums of two squares in polynomial rings over finite fields

2014-15, Term 2

Organiser: Alex Bartel

5 January 2015	Jack Thorne (Cambridge) Galois representations attached to cohomological automorphic forms
12 January 2015	Netan Dogra (Oxford) A quadratic Chabauty's method for rational points on higher genus curves
19 January 2015	Henri Johnston (Exeter) Applications of hybrid p-adic group rings and hybrid Iwasawa algebras to arithmetic conjectures
26 January 2015	John Cremona (Warwick) Some density results in number theory
2 February 2015	Luis Garcia (Imperial College London) Regularized theta lifts and currents on orthogonal Shimura varieties
3 February 2015, 16:00, MS03	Harald Helfgott (CNRS) The ternary Goldbach conjecture
9 February 2015	Bruno Angles (Caen) Units and Class Modules in the Arithmetic of Global Function Fields
16 February 2015	Abhishek Saha (Bristol) Sup norms of modular forms in the level aspect
23 February 2015	Levent Alpoge (Cambridge) The average elliptic curve has few integral points
2 March 2015	Tommaso Centeleghe (Heidelberg) On abelian varieties over F_p
9 March 2015	Jan Vonk (Oxford) Semi-stable reduction of correspondences

2014-15, Term 1

Organiser: Alex Bartel

29 Setepmber 2014	Jim Stankewicz (Bristol) Torsion points on cm elliptic curves over prime degree fields
6 October 2014	Lassina Dembélé (Warwick) Supercuspidal types and the Jacquet-Langlands correspondence
13 October 2014	Aurel Page (Warwick) Computing Klein modular forms
20 October 2014	Victor Abrashkin (Durham) Galois groups of local fields, Lie algebras and ramification
27 October 2014	Nigel Byott (Exeter) Galois scaffolds and (generalised) Galois module structure
3 November 2014	Nicolas Mascot (Warwick) Computing modular Galois representations
10 November 2014	Masha Vlasenko (University College Dublin) Dwork's congruences for periods of families of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces
17 November 2014	Jack Thorne (Cambridge) E_6 and integral points on genus 3 curves
24 November 2014	Toby Gee (Imperial College London) The weight part of Serre's conjecture
1 December 2014	Efthymios Sofos (Bristol) Counting rational points on smooth cubic surfaces