Québec-Vermont Number Theory Seminar 2008-2009
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 2008-2009
Fall 2008
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Thursday, October 2, 2008.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Jonathan Pottharst (Boston)
Selmer groups over eigenvarieties
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Zeev Rudnick (Tel Aviv)
L-functions and their statistics over function fields
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Thursday, November 13, 2008.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Yuri Bilu (Bordeaux and ALGANT)
Galois representations and Runge's method
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Donghoon Park (Brown)
1-motives with torsion and Cartier duality
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Thursday, December 4, 2008.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Jayce Getz (IAS)
Relative trace formulae with a view towards unitary groups
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Matt Greenberg (Calgary)
L-invariants of modular forms
and completed cohomology of Shimura curves
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Friday, December 5, 2008.
McGill University, BH1205
4:00-5:00. Jayce Getz (IAS)
Trace Formulae and Locally Symmetric Spaces
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008.
McGill University, BH 1205
4:00-5:00 PM. Mirela Ciperiani (Columbia)
Genus one curves over the rationals
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008.
McGill University, BH 1205
4:00-5:00 PM. Cristian Virdol (Columbia)
On zeta functions of twisted modular curves
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Thursday, December 11, 2008.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Cristian Virdol (Columbia)
On the Tate conjecture for quaternionic Shimura varieties
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. John Voight (UVM)
Computing automorphic forms on Shimura curves
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008.
McGill University, BH 1205
4:00-5:00. Ritabrata Munshi (Rutgers)
Rational Points on Surfaces
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Thursday, December 18, 2008.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Ritabrata Munshi (Rutgers)
Nonvanishing of L-functions
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Xander Faber (CICMA)
Prime factors of dynamical sequences
Winter 2008
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009.
McGill University, Room 708
4:00-5:00 PM. Mike Zieve (IAS)
Polynomial mappings
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Thursday, January 15, 2009.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Mike Zieve (IAS)
The intersection of subfields of K(x)
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Andrea Miller (Harvard)
This talk is postponed to May due to an unforeseen circumstance.
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Friday, January 23, 2009.
Note that Chantal David will be givng the CRM-ISM colloquium on that day.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Matthew Young (Texas)
Quadratic and cubic twists of L-functions
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Mahesh Kakde (Princeton)
Congruences in non-commutative Iwasawa theory
*** Note that this talk is now
cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances ***
Special non-qvnts-but-qvnts-related lecture series
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Thursday, February 19, 2009.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Gerard Freixas (CICMA)
Introduction to the arithmetic Riemann-Roch theorem, I
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Gerard Freixas (CICMA)
Introduction to the arithmetic Riemann-Roch theorem, II
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Thursday, March 12, 2009.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 920
10:30-12:00. Chantal David (CICMA)
Statistics for the traces of cyclic trigonal curves
over finite fields
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. David Zywina (UPenn)
Explicit Hilbert Irreducibility