Spring 2000 Berkeley Number Theory Seminar

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Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Spring 2000 Number Theory Seminar Schedule



Week of WEDNESDAY FRIDAY
January 26 Ahmed Abbes

The Lefschetz fixed point formula for arithmetic surfaces

Febuary 2 Frank Calegari

Almost rational torsion points on elliptic curves

Febuary 9 Ahmed Abbes

On the graph construction of Fulton and MacPherson

 

Febuary 16 Robert Coleman

Conjectures and Rumors of Conjectures*

 
Febuary 23 Arthur Ogus

"Hodge numbers of modular motives"

March 1 Jim Borger

March 8 Bjorn Poonen

An introduction to Drinfeld modules

March 15 No Lecture

 
March 22 Lawren Smithline

The Newton Polygon of the U_p operator

March 29 Spring Break
April 5 Emiliano Gomez

Deformations of pseudorepresentations

April 12 David Goss

"A Riemann hypothesis and simplicity conjecture
for characteristic $p$ $L$-series"

April 17 Bjorn Poonen

Computing torsion points on curves

April 26

 
May 3 Ken McMurdy

Models for Modular Curves

 


The Number Theory Seminar meets Wednesdays and Fridays in 891 Evans at 3:12pm. Lectures last 48 minutes. Talk abstracts marked by "*" contain links to notes.

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