The first meeting of the seminar will be on Wednesday September 4. Please come to volunteer give a talk.
See here for details and references on what each talk should cover. You may also email Melanie (mmwood) to volunteer to give a talk.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| September 4 | Melanie Matchett Wood | Introduction and organization |
| September 11 | Thomas Browning | Moments determining a distribution and Class group counting as field counting |
| September 18 | Ian Gleason | Grothendieck-Lefschetz trace formula |
| September 25 | Michael Seaman | Introduction to Hurwitz spaces |
| October 2 | Yanshuai Qin | More Hurwitz spaces |
| October 9 | CANCELLED | Berkeley closed due to power outage |
| October 16 | Zixin Jiang | Algebraic lifting invariants I and components of Hurwitz spaces over the complex numbers |
| October 23 | NO MEETING | NO MEETING |
| October 30 | Libby Taylor | Algebraic lifting invariants II |
| Nov 6 | Sander Mack-Crane and Roy Zhao | Example: the 5-part of real quadratic fields for large q, and Implications of Homological Stability |
| November 13 | Alexander Bertoloni Meli | Homological Stability I |
| November 20 | Rahul Dalal | Homological Stability II |
| December 4 | DongGyu Lim | Homological Stability III |