Québec-Vermont Number Theory Seminars
Schedule for 1995-96
Fall 1995
- Thursday, September 7 (in Montréal):
AM - Ram Murty, McGill University, On the abc conjecture
PM - David Dummit, University of Vermont, Computing Stark units for totally real cubic fields
- Thursday, September 21 (in Montréal):
AM - Linghsueh Shu, University of Vermont, Class numbers of cyclotomic extensions of function fields
PM - Cornelius Greither, Université Laval, On Chinburg's second conjecture
- Thursday, October 5 (in Vermont):
AM - C.S. Rajan, McGill University, On the size of the Shafarevich-Tate groups of elliptic curves over function fields
PM - David Hayes, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, How to use Stark's conjecture to solve a^2 + b^2 = p
- Thursday, October 19 (in Montréal):
AM - Harold Stark, University of California at San Diego, Path Zeta Functions of Graphs
PM - Seon-In Kwon, CICMA, Quaternion Covers of Elliptic Curves
- Thursday, November 2 (in Montréal):
AM - Hershy Kisilevsky, Concordia University, Survey talk on Iwasawa theory
PM - William Banks, CICMA, The nonexistence of Siegel zeroes on GL(3)
- Thursday, November 16 (in Montréal):
AM - Barry Mazur, Harvard University, Families of modular eigenforms
PM - Guenther Frei, Université Laval, On the development leading to Artin's reciprocity law
- Thursday, November 30 (in Vermont):
AM - Jiu-Kang Yu, Princeton University, The Cohen-Lenstra heuristic in the function field case
PM - Li Guo, Institute for Advanced Studies, Special values of L-functions and Iwasawa theory
- Thursday, December 14 (in Montréal):
AM - Damien Roy, University of Ottawa, Simultaneous approximation and algebraic independence
PM - Ted Chinburg, University of Pennsylvania, The inverse problem of Galois module structure theory
Winter 1996
- Thursday January 25 (in Montréal):
AM - Ram Murty, McGill University, Artin's conjecture on primitive roots and elliptic analogues
PM - David Hayes, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Analytic continuation via Fourier analysis
- Thursday February 8 (in Vermont):
AM - Nigel Boston, University of Illinois, Some developments in Galois representations
PM - Nigel Boston, University of Illinois, Dirichlet series attached to (pro)infinite groups
- Thursday February 22 (in Montréal):
AM - Cornelius Greither, Université Laval, Integral normal bases in tame abelian extensions of imaginary quadratic fields
AM - Werner Lutkebohmert, Ulm University / IAS, The structure of proper p-adic groups
- Thursday March 7 (in Montréal):
AM - C.S. Rajan, McGill University, Density results for characters, strong multiplicity one, and non-normal cubic lift
PM - Josep Gebel, CICMA, Computing integer points on elliptic curves over the rationals with applications to Mordell's equation
- Thursday March 21 (in Montréal):
AM - Serge Lang, Yake University, Zeta functions and Heat Kernels on Hilbert-Asai Modular varieties
PM - Serge Lang, Yake University, Recent work on the Shafarevich Conjecture for K3 Surfaces
- Friday March 29 (in Montréal):
PM - Ravi Raghunathan, Yale University, A converse theorem for Dirichet series with poles
PM - Yuri Zarhin, Pennsylvania State University, p-adic abelian integrals and Neron pairings
- Thursday April 4 (in Montréal):
AM - Linghsueh Shu, University of Vermont, Periodic and non-periodic counting sequences
PM - David Dummit, University of Vermont, Two remarks: on a theorem of Armitage-Frohlich and on embedding global torsion in local torsion
- Thursday April 18 (in Vermont):
AM - Karl Rubin, Ohio State University, Euler systems for p-adic representations I
PM - Karl Rubin, Ohio State University, Euler systems for p-adic representations II
- Thursday May 2 (in Montréal):
AM - Ken Kramer, Queen's College (CUNY), Bounding conductors of abelian varieties over local fields
PM - Francesco Pappalardi, University of Rome III, On the existence of normal basis over finite fields related to the Gauss Sums