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Fall 1999 Berkeley Number Theory Seminar

Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Fall 1999 Number Theory Seminar Schedule



Week of WEDNESDAY FRIDAY
August 25 Cathy O'Neil, MIT

Jacobians of Curves of Genus One

Organizational Meeting

September 1 Kevin Buzzard, Imperial College, London

Some new cases of a
conjecture of Artin

Greg Anderson

*Some Geometry of
Automorphic Forms

September 8 Arthur Ogus, UCB

Singularities of the height strata
in the moduli of K3 surfaces.

William Stein

*A modular icosahedral Galois
representation of conductor 2^5*43

September 15 Nadya Gurevich, Weizmann Institute

"New example of the
theta-correspondence"

 

September 22 Chandrashekhar B. Khare

Congruences between
automorphic representations

 
September 29 Amod Agashe, UCB

A generalization of the Manin constant
and the relationship between
congruence primes and modular degrees

William Stein

*The Manin index
of optimal quotients of J_0(N)

October 6 Ahmed Abbes

The Grothendieck--Ogg--Shafarevich
formula for arithmetic surfaces

Pierre Colmez

Semi-stable representations

October 13 Paul Vojta, UCB

On Hilbert's 10th problem and
the ``n squares'' problem

 
October 20 John Flynn

Near-exceptional polynomials.

David Harbater

"The Shafarevich Conjecture
and Geometry".

October 27 Noriko Yui, Univ. of Toronto

The modularity conjecture for
rigid Calabi-Yau threefolds over Q.

Matt Papanikolas

Gamma Values and Linear
Independence in Characteristic p

November 3 David Romano

Strongly Eisenstein polynomials

Jordan Ellenberg

"Modularity of Q-curves and a Diophantine equation."

November 10 Bjorn Poonen, UCB

Sums of values of a rational function

Jeremy Teitlebaum, UIC

p-adic boundary values

Novemeber 17 Robert Coleman

*Wan's proof of Dwork's Conjecture

Robert Coleman

(continued)

November 24 Thanksgiving!
December 1 Bart de Smit

"On Imin Chen's jacobian relations"

 


The Number Theory Seminar meets Wednesdays in 332 Evans and Fridays in 330 Evans at 3:12pm. Lectures last 48 minutes. Talk abstracts marked by "*" contain links to notes.

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