Québec-Vermont Number Theory Seminar 2007-2008
Schedule: Fall,
Winter.
General Information.
Organizers: Eyal Goren and Henri Darmon.
Explanations for schedule:
This year the Quebec-Vermont Number Theory seminar will be meeting every
other week, on Thursdays. Typically the first lecture
will be in the morning from 10:30 to 12:00 at McGill in room 920,
and the afternoon lecture from 2:00 to 3:30 in the Concordia
Library building, on the 9th floor.
But be sure to check the detailed schedule below for possible
exceptions to the rule!
Schedule for 2007-2008
Fall 2007
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Thursday, September 20, 2007.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Payman Kassaei (London)
Canonical subgroups of abelian varieties
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Wee-Teck Gan (UCSD)
The local Langlands conjecture for GSp(4)
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September 29-30: Quebec-Maine conference.
All participants of the Quebec-Vermont seminar are strongly encouraged to
attend!
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Thursday, October 18, 2007.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Jeehoon Park (CICMA)
The Eisenstein-Siegel distribution and p-adic zeta
function of real
quadratic fields.
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Bryden Cais (CICMA)
Integral structures on the de Rham cohomology of curves and abelian
varieties
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Thursday, November 1, 2007.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Akshay Venkatesh (NYU)
Analytic number theory over function fields and related
questions in geometry and topology
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Riad Masri (CICMA)
Average values of Hecke L-functions via Galois suborbits of Heegner
points
Concordia University, Library building
4:00-5:00. Isabelle Déchène (Ottawa)
Uses of generalized Jacobians in cryptography
Note: The CRM-ISM
colloquium of Friday, November 2, will be given
by Akshay Venkatesh.
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Thursday, November 22, 2007.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Ben Green (Cambridge)
Equidistribution of nilsequences
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Arnaud Chadozeau
TBA
Concordia University, Library building
4:00-5:30. Masataka Chida (Tohoku)
On the equivariant Tamagawa number conjecture for Hecke characters
Note: The CRM-ISM
colloquium of Friday, November 23, will be given
by Ben Green.
Winter 2008
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Special interview seminar
Monday, January 21, 2008.
McGill University, Otto Maass Building, Room 217.
2:00-3:30. Matthias Strauch (Cambridge)
p-adic Galois representations and geometric constructions of
Banach space representations
Note the unusual room, in the Chemistry building adjoining Burnside Hall. If you do not know where it is, allow for some extra time to find the room.
Note: The lecture will be divided into two halves,
the first being aimed at a general mathematical
audience and the second at a more specialised group.
There will be a short break in the middle to allow the general audience
to escape.
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Thursday, March 13, 2008.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Matilde Lalin (University of Alberta)
Mahler measures and regulators
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Adrian Iovita
Jacquet-Langlands correspondence for p-adic families of modular forms
Note There will be a special banquet that evening by the mathematics
department at McGill to mark the retirement of John Labute. If you would like to come
please contact Christina at chairsec.math@mcgill.ca so she can have an accurate head count. Speakers are of course invited.
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Thursday, May 8, 2008.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Abhinav Kumar (MIT)
Kummer surfaces, Shioda-Inose Structures, and
real multiplication
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Christophe Breuil (IHES and Columbia)
Towards a modulo p Langlands correspondence for GL2(F)
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Quebec-Vermont Number Theory Days: May 27-28, 2008.
Note the unusual time! The Quebec-Vermont number theory days
which traditionally mark the end of the
seminar will be held on
Tuesday and Wednesday
to avoid conflicting with the
graduation ceremony at McGill on Thursday.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Ritabrata Munshi (Rutgers)
Counting rational points on cubics and quartics
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Tong Liu (Upenn)
A bound on ramification of pn-
torsion semistable representations
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Gaetan Chenevier (Paris)
Zariski density of modular points for U(3)
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Brian Conrad (Michigan)
Finiteness of class numbers over
global function fields
Concordia University, Library building
4:00-5:30. Andrea Miller (Harvard)
On a Conjecture of Murre for some mixed Shimura varieties
Monday, June 2 to Thursday, June 5:
Canada-France Meeting