Spring 1999 Berkeley Number Theory Seminar

Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Spring 1999 Number Theory Seminar Schedule

Week of	WEDNESDAY	FRIDAY
January 11		Pierre Berthelot, Rennes Crystalline cohomology and $\cal D$-module theory
January 18	Organizational Meeting
January 25	Tom Scanlon Diophantine Geometry of Torsion Modules in Positive Characteristic	Tom Scanlon Some details for Wednesday's talk on torsion modules
February 3	Richard Taylor, Harvard The local Langlands conjecture	Richard Taylor On the bad reduction of certain Shimura varieties
Febuary 10	David Carlton, Stanford "Moduli for pairs of elliptic curves with isomorphic p-torsion"
Febuary 17	No lecture schedualed	Daqing Wan, UCI On the Proof of Dwork's Conjecture
Febuary 24	Matt Baker The Coleman-Kaskel-Ribet Conjecture
March 3	Pascale Kaulmann Dimension of symmetric or skew-symmetric matrices of given minimal polynomial}	William Stein, UCB Visibility of Tate-Shafarevich Groups of Optimal Quotients of J_0(N).
March 10	Mike Rubinstein, MSRI "Zeros of L-functions: Evidence for a Spectral Interpretation".	Glenn Stevens, BU $p$-adic Analytic Families and $p$-Adic Periods of Modular Forms
March 17
March 24	Spring Break
March 31	Shuzo Takahashi Parametrizations of Elliptic Curves by Shimura Curves	Adrian Iovita, UW Anticyclotomic $p$-adic L-functions attached to higher weight modular forms
April 7	Amod Agashe, UCB "On the ratio of the L-value to the real period for winding quotients of level a product of two distinct primes"
April 14	Lawren Smithline UCB "Slopes of 3-adic overconvergent modular forms"
April 21	Bjorn Poonen, UCB Algebraic families of nonzero elements of Shafarevich-Tate groups	Ken Ribet, UCB
April 28	Adrian Vasiu, UCB The Langlands-Rapoport conjecture
May 5	S. Zhang Distribution of almost division points

The Number Theory Seminar meets Wednesdays and Fridays at 3:12pm in 891 Evans Hall. Lectures last 50 minutes and are followed by a short question period. The mathematical public is cordially invited to attend.

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