Québec-Vermont Number Theory Seminars 2004-2005
Organizers for 2004-2005:
Andrew Granville -- andrew@dms.umontreal.ca
Chantal David -- cdavid@mathstat.concordia.ca
Time and location - McGill/Concordia
Thursday morning: 10:30-12:00, McGill University,
Burnside Hall 920.
Thursday afternoon:
14:15-15:45, Concordia University, Library Building LB-540.
16:15-17:00,
Concordia University, Library Building LB-540.
Time and location -
Université de Montréal
Thursday
morning: 10:30-12:00, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt,
Room 6214.
Thursday afternoon: 14:15-14:45, Pavillon
André-Aisenstadt, Room 6214.
16:15-17:00, Pavillon
André-Aisenstadt, Room 6214.
Time and location -
Burlington
Thursday
morning: 10:30-12:00, University of Vermont, Mathematics
Conference Room.
Thursday afternoon: 14:15-15:45,
University of Vermont, Mathematics Conference Room.
Fall 2004
- Thursday, September 16, 2004
Université de Montréal
10h30-12h00
Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Room 6214
Speaker: Dino Lorenzini
(University of Georgia)
Title: Some consequences of a theorem of M.
Raynaud
14h15-15h45 Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Room 6214
Speaker: Kartik Prasanna (UCLA)
Title: Arithmetic properties
of the theta correspondence and periods of modular forms
16h15-17h00 Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Room 6214
Speaker:
Chantal David (Concordia)
Title: Vanishing of L-functions and
Random Matrix Theory
There will be a welcome-back reception
after the last talk in the Salon Maurice L'Abbé, Room 6245
- Thursday, September 23, 2004
McGill University/Concordia University
10h30-12h00 Burnside Hall, Room 920
Speaker: Haruzo Hida
(UCLA)
Title: The integral basis problem of Eichler
14h15-15h45 Library Building, Room LB-540
Speaker: Ye Tian
(CICMA)
Title: Euler systems of CM points over totally real fields
- Thursday, October 7, 2004
McGill University/Concordia University
10h30-12h00 Burnside Hall, Room 920
Speaker: Jean-Louis
Colliot-Thelene (Paris-Sud)
Title: Points rationnels et zéro-cycles
sur les groupes linéaires
14h15-15h45 Library Building, Room
LB-540
Speaker: Harald Helfgott (CICMA)
Title: On the number
of elliptic curves of a given conductor
- Thursday, October 14, 2004
McGill University/Concordia University
10h30-12h00 Burnside Hall, Room 920
Speaker: Payman Kassaei
(CICMA)
Title: On classicality of overconvergent modular forms
14h15-15h45 Library Building, Room LB-540
Speaker: Marvin
Knopp (Temple University)
Title: Vector Valued Modular Forms
- Thursday, October 28, 2004:
Université de Montréal
10h30-12h00
Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Room 6214
Speaker: Guillaume Ricotta
(CICMA)
Title: Real zeros and size of Rankin-Selberg L-functions in
the level aspect
14h15-15h45 Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Room 6214
Speaker: Yoshikata Hachimori (CICMA)
Title: On Iwasawa
theory for p-adic Lie extensions
- Thursday, November 11, 2004:
McGill University/Concordia University
10h30-12h00 Burnside Hall, Room 920
Speaker: Akshay Venkatesh
(NYU/CMI)
Title: Equidistribution and subconvexity
14h15-15h45 Library Building, Room LB-540
Speaker: Manfred
Einsiedler (Universitat Wien and Princeton)
Title: Applying measure
rigidity for the Cartan action, Littlewood's conjecture and more
16h15-17h00 Library Building, Room LB-540
Speaker: Peter Clark
(CICMA)
Title: Bounds for torsion on anisotropic abelian varieties
- Thursday, December 9, 2004:
McGill University/Concordia University
10h30-12h00 McGill, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Speaker: Mark Kisin
(Chicago)
Title: F-crystals and crystalline representations
14h15-15h45 Concordia, Library Building, Room LB-540
Speaker:
Jordan Ellenberg (Wisconsin)
Title: Descent bounds for rational
points on some curves and higher-dimensional varieties
16h15-16h45
Concordia, Library Building, Room LB-540
Speaker: Gabor Kun (Eotvos
Universtity, Budapest)
Title: On the prime values of reducible
polynomials
Winter 2005
- Thursday, January 6, 2005:
McGill University/Concordia University
10h30-12h00 McGill, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Speaker: John
Labute (McGill)
Title: Galois Groups of p-Extensions Q With
Restricted Ramification
14h15-15h45 Concordia, Library Building,
Room LB-540
Speaker: Eyal Goren (McGill)
Title: Progress on
the problem of constructing higher analogues of elliptic units
- Thursday, January 20, 2005:
McGill University/Concordia University
10h30-12h00 McGill, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Speaker: Romyar
Sharifi (McMaster)
Title: Cup products, Iwasawa theory, and the
Eisenstein ideal
14h15-15h00 Concordia, Library Building, Room
LB-540
Speaker: Alexandru Ghitza (CICMA)
Title: Weight 1
weirdness
15h15-16h00 Concordia, Library Building, Room LB-540
Speaker: Jonathan Pila (McGill)
Title: Density of rational
points
- Thursday, February 3, 2005:
McGill University/Concordia University
10h30-12h00 McGill, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Speaker: Wenzhi Luo
(Ohio State)
Title: Nonvanishing theorems for automorphic
L-functions on GL(n)
14h15-15h45 Concordia, Library Building, Room
LB-540
Speaker: Damien Roy (University of Ottawa)
Title:
Diophantine approximation in small degree
16h15-17h00 Concordia,
Library Building, Room LB-540
Speaker: Andrew Granville (Universite
de Montreal)
Title: The Polya-Vinogradov Theorem revisited
- Thursday, February 17, 2005:
McGill University/Concordia University
10h30-12h00 McGill, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Speaker: David
McKinnon (Waterloo)
Title: Rational approximation of rational
points on varieties
14h15-15h45 Concordia, Library Building, Room
LB-540
Speaker: Denis Thérien (McGill)
Title:
Number-theoretic issues in boolean circuit complexity
- Thursday, March 3, 2005:
McGill University/Concordia University
10h30-12h00 McGill, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Speaker: Farshid
Hajir (Amherst)
Title: Finitely Ramified Iterated Monodromy
Representations
14h15-15h45 Concordia, Library Building, Room
LB-540
Speaker: Jason Lucier (Waterloo)
Title: Differences
of integers
- Thursday, March 17, 2005:
McGill University/Concordia University
10h30-12h00 McGill, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Speaker: Alexandru
Popa (Princeton)
Title: Closed geodesics on modular curves and
special values of L-series
14h15-15h15 Concordia, Library
Building, Room LB-540
Speaker: Jorge Devoto (Buenos Aires)
Title: An introduction to elliptic cohomology and K3 cohomology
15h45-16h45 Concordia, Library Building, Room LB-540
Speaker:
Nora Ganter (Urbana-Champaign)
Title: Introduction to
equivariant elliptic cohomology
- Thursday, March 31, 2005:
McGill University/Concordia University
10h30-12h00 McGill, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Speaker: Ali Ozluk
(University of Maine)
Title: One-Level Density Conjecture for
Quadratic Dirichlet L-functions
14h15-15h45 Concordia, Library
Building, Room LB-540
Speaker: Pierre Charollois (Bordeaux)
Title: Stark units and periods of Hilbert modular forms
- Thursday, April 7, 2005:
McGill University/Concordia University
10h30-12h00 McGill, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Speaker: John
Cremona (Nottingham)
Title: Finding all elliptic curves with good
reduction outside a given set of primes
14h15-15h45 Concordia,
Library Building, Room LB-540
Speaker: Gergely Harcos (University
of Texas)
Title: A Burgess-like subconvex bound for twisted L-functions
16h15-17h00 Concordia, Library Building, Room LB-540
Speaker:
Nyandwi Servat (Université de Tunis El Manar)
Title: Moyenne de
la fonction de Piltz sur les entiers sans grand facteur premier
- Thursday, April 21, 2005:
McGill University/Concordia University
10h30-12h00 McGill, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Speaker: David
Savitt (CICMA)
Title: The level 1 case of Serre's conjecture (after
Khare and Khare-Wintenberger) I
14h15-15h45 Concordia, Library
Building, Room LB-540
Speaker: David Savitt (CICMA)
Title:
The level 1 case of Serre's conjecture (after Khare and Khare-Wintenberger) II
- Thursday, May 5, 2005:
McGill University/Concordia University
10h30-12h00 McGill, Burnside Hall, Room 920
Speaker: R. Sujatha
(Tata Institute)
Title: Iwasawa theory over p-adic Lie
extensions
14h15-15h45 Concordia, Library Building, Room LB-540
Speaker: Peter Clark (CICMA)
Title: Arithmetic of algebraic
curves with Galois Belyi maps
16h00-17h00 Concordia, Library
Building, Room LB-540
Speaker: John Coates (Cambridge)
Title: Iwasawa Theory for the False Tate Curve Extension
- Thursday, May 26, 2005:
Université de Montréal
10h30-12h00
Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Room 5340
Speaker: Gregory Freiman (Tel
Aviv)
Title: TBA
14h15-15h45
Speaker:
Title: