Québec-Vermont Number Theory Seminars
Schedule for 1997-98
Fall 1997
- Thurday, September 11 (in Vermont):
AM - Imin Chen, McGill University, Relations between jacobians of certain modular curves
PM - Christian Popescu, University of Texas at Austin, Stark-type conjectures "over Z"
- Thursday, September 25 (in Montréal):
AM - Hendrik Lenstra, University of California at Berkeley, On the factorization of lacunary polynomials
PM - Andrew Granville, University of Georgia, Mean values of multiplicative functions: Decay and Superdecay
- Thursday, October 11 (in Montréal):
AM - Ravi Ramakrishna, Yale University, Deforming an even Galois Representation
PM - Adrian Iovita, CICMA, p-Adic Height Pairings for Abelian Varieties with Semistable Ordinary Reduction
- Thursday, October 16 (in Montréal):
AM - Amir Akbary, Concordia University, Non-Vanishing of Modular L-Functions with Large Level
PM - Andreas Schweizer, CICMA, On elliptic curves over function fields of characteristic 2
- Thursday, November 6 (in Montréal):
AM - Christopher Skinner, Institute for Advanced Studies, Ordinary modular forms and Galois representations
PM - Henri Darmon, McGill University, Hyperelliptic curves, Hilbert modular forms, and Fermat's Last theorem
- Thursday, November 20 (in Montréal):
AM - Nike Vatsal, University of Toronto, Heegner points and hyperbolic periods
PM - Pietro Cornacchia, University of Pisa, Ideal class groups of cyclotomic fields
- Thursday, December 4 (in Vermont):
AM - David Dummit, University of Vermont, Report on some work of Anderson and Das - Algebraic products of Gamma function values
PM - Gaeten Haché, CICMA, Effective Riemann-Roch Theorem
Winter 1998
- Thursday, January 22 (in Montréal):
AM - Wenzhi Luo, Princeton University, On the distribution of values of symmetric square L-functions at 1
PM - Niranjan Ramachandran, University of Michigan, Naive introduction to mixed Hodge structures and motives
- Thursday, January 29 (in Montréal):
AM - Kamal Khuri-Makdisi, Harvard University, On the curves associated to certain rings of automorphic forms
PM - Francesco Sica, McGill University, Order of vanishing of L-functions at the center of the critical strip
- Thursday, February 5 (in Montréal):
AM - Eyal Goren, CICMA, Hilbert modular varieties in positive characteristic
PM - Greg Anderson, University of Minnesota, Fermionic Fock space over a local ring
- Thursday, February 19 (in Montréal):
AM - Georgios Pappas, Princeton University, Galois modules and L-functions
PM - Ernst-Ulrich Gekeler, Universitat des Saarlandes, On the cuspidal group of a Drinfeld modular curve
- Thursday, March 5 (in Montréal):
AM - Dihua Jiang, Yale University, Nonvanishing of special values of automorphic L-functions
PM - Gerhard Niklasch, Technische Universitat Munichen, Unit equations
- Thursday, March 19 (in Montréal):
AM - Tonghai Yang, University of Michigan, Special Values of L-functions at the center
PM - Serge Lang, Yale University, Twisting Eisenstein series with the heat kernel
- Thursday, March 26 (in Montréal):
AM - David Goss, Ohio State University, Analytic continuation of integrals in characteristic p, I
PM - David Goss, Ohio State University, Analytic continuation of integrals in characteristic p, II
- Thursday, April 16 (in Québec):
AM - Chantal David, Concordia University, Galois representations with non-surjective traces
PM - Hershy Kisilevsky, Concordia University, Vanishing of twists of L-functions
- Thursday, April 30 (in Montréal):
AM - Barry Mazur, Harvard University, p-adic interpolation of modular forms
PM - Abdellah Sebbar, CICMA, Weight 4 automorphic forms for some Fuchsian groups