Québec-Vermont Number Theory Seminars 
Schedule for 1996-97 
Fall 1996 
- Thursday, September 12 (in Montréal):
 AM - Lisa Fastenberg, CICMA, Mordell-Weil groups in procyclic extensions
 PM - Yiannis Petridis, McGill University, Special values of nonholomorphic Eisenstein series and Rankin-Selberg convolutions
 
 
- Thursday, September 26 (in Montréal):
 AM - Massimo Bertolini, Universitá di Pavia, p-adic uniformization and p-adic L-functions
 PM - Berhnard Kock, Universitat Karlsruhe, On Adams operations on locally free classgroups
 
 
- Thursday, October 10 (in Montréal):
 AM - Jean-Pierre Serre, Collège de France, Equipartition of Frobenius angles
 AM - Doug Ulmer, University of Arizona, L-series of automorphic forms over function fields
 
 
- Thursday, October 24 (in Montréal): 
 AM - Lindsay Childs, SUNY at Albany, Taming wild extensions with Hopf algebras
 PM - Jurgens Klueners, Technical University (Berlin) and CICMA, On Computing Subfields of Algebraic Number Fields
 
 
- Thursday, November 7 (in Vermont): 
 AM - Daniel Goldstein, University of Vermont, Tamely ramified representations of p-adic groups
 PM - Ken-Ichuro Kimura, Queen's University, K_2 of a Fermat quotient and the value of its L-function
 
 
- Thursday, November 21 (in Montréal): 
 AM - Bjorn Poonen, Princeton University, Explicit descent on Jacobians of cyclic covers of the projective line
 PM - Andreas Schweizwer, CICMA, Strong Weil curves over F_2(T)
 
 
- Thursday December 5 (in Montréal): 
 AM - Anna Rio, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Some questions regarding the modularity of octahedral Galois representations
 PM - Adrian Iovita, CICMA, Good Reduction of Abelian Varieties and Fontaine's Theory
 
 
- Thursday, December 19 (in Montréal): 
 AM - Ram Murty, McGill University / Queen's University, Autour de ABC
 PM - Omar Kihel, CICMA, Pell's equation and elliptic curves
 
Winter 1997 
- Thursday, January 16 (in Montréal):
 AM - Fred Diamond, MIT, Liberating deformations of Galois representations
 PM - Robert Coleman, University of California at Berkeley, p-adic perturbations
 
 
- Thursday, January 30 (in Montréal):
 AM - Sol Friedberg, Boston College / University of California at Santa Cruz, L-functions attached to metaplectic automorphic forms
 PM - Henri Darmon, McGill University, Stark-Heegner points over real quadratic fields
 
 
- Thursday, February 13 (in Vermont):
 AM - David Cardon, Queen's University, A Riemann Hypothesis for Metaplectic Whittaker Functions
 PM - Lloyd Simons, Saint Michael's College, On Demuskin Formations for p=2
 
 
- Thursday, February 27 (in Montréal):
 AM - Kamal Khuri-Makdisi, Harvard University, Representations of SL(2)xG when SL(2)xG is not quite a dual pair
 PM - Helena Verrill, Queen's University, The L-series of a certain pencil of K3 surfaces
 
 
- Thursday, March 20 (in Montréal):
 AM - Serge Lang, Yale University, Eigenfunction expansions of the Heat Kernel on Pos_n / GL_n (Z)
 PM - René Schoof, Universitá di Roma Tor Vergata, Wiles's criterion for complete intersections
 
 
- Thursday, March 27 (in Montréal):
 AM - Richard Taylor, Harvard University, Modularity of some more elliptic curves
 PM - YuanLin Li, Memorial University Newfoundland, Generalized Unitary Units in Integral Group Rings
 
 
- Thursday, April 10 (in Montréal):
 AM - Glenn Stevens, Boston University, p-Adic Modular Forms and Modular Curves
 PM - Glenn Stevens, Boston University, p-Adic Integration and Families of Modular Forms
 
 
- Thursday, April 17 (in Montréal):
 AM - Hershy Kisilevsky, Concordia University Vanishing of twists of L-values
 PM - Loic Merel, University of California at Berkeley, Even modular Galois representations?
 
 
- Thursday, April 24 (in Montréal):
 AM - Ram Murty, McGill University / Queen's University, The exponents of class groups of imaginary quadratic fields
 PM - Michael Rosen, Brown University, Elliptic Surfaces - Conjectures of Nagao and Tate
 
 
- Thursday, May 1 (in Montréal):
 AM - Eyal Goren, Harvard University, Special values of theta functions of genus 2
 PM - Andrew Odlyzko, The 10^21-st zero of the Riemann zeta function
 
 
- Thursday, June 18 (in Montréal):
 AM - Gautami Bhowmik, Université de Valenciennes, Zeta Function Associated to Subgroups of Finite Abelian Groups
 PM - Chantal David, Concordia University, Curves with surjective Galois representations