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