Québec-Vermont Number Theory Seminars
Schedule for 1998-99
1998-1999 is a
special year in Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry in Montréal, and some of the activities of the special year will take place on Thursday as the Québec-Vermont Number Theory Seminars.
Time and location - Special Year Seminars
Thursday morning: 10:30-12:00, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt Room 5340
Thursday afternoon: 2:15-3:45, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt Room 5340
Fall 1998
- Thursday, September 17 -- QVNTS
AM - Massimo Bertolini, Universita de Pavia, Mini-course: Iwasawa theory of modular forms I
PM - David Solomon, King's College, Stark's Conjecture in terms of twisted Zeta-functions
- Thursday, September 24 -- Special Year Seminar
AM - Massimo Bertolini, Universita de Pavia, Mini-course: Iwasawa theory of modular forms III
PM - Werner Bley, Augsburg University (RFA), Elliptic curves and Galois module structure
- Thursday, October 1 -- QVNTS
AM - Alexandru Zaharescu, CICMA, Mod p reduction of algebraic varieties, discrepancies and short exponential sums
PM - Stephen Kudla, University of Maryland, A peculiar modular form of weight 1
- Thursday, October 8 -- Special Year
Workshop on Algebraic modular forms and modular forms mod p
- Thursday, October 15 -- QVNTS
AM - Chris Skinner, Institute for Advanced Study, Mini-course: Ordinary representations and modular forms I
PM - Chris Skinner, Institute for Advanced Study, Mini-course: Ordinary representations and modular forms II
- Thursday, October 22 -- Special Year Seminar
AM - Chris Skinner, Institute for Advanced Study, Mini-course: Ordinary representations and modular forms IV
PM - Henri Darmon, McGill University, p-adic uniformization and the Birch Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
- Thursday, November 5 -- QVNTS
AM - Ram Murty, Queens University, Special Year course: Survey of Sieve methods I
PM - C. S. Rajan, Tata Institute, Mini-course: Rankin-Selberg L-functions I
- Thursday, November 12 -- Special Year Seminar
AM - Ram Murty, Queens University, Special Year course: Survey of Sieve methods III
PM - C. S. Rajan, Tata Institute, Mini-course: Rankin-Selberg L-functions III
- Thursday, November 19 -- Special Year Seminar
AM - Ram Murty, Queens University, Special Year course: Survey of Sieve methods V
PM - Cornelius Greither, Laval University, Galois - Cohen - Lenstra heuristics
- Thursday, December 10 -- in Vermont
AM - Xavier Roblot, CICMA, Stark's Conjectures and Hilbert's Twelfth Problem
PM - Jonathan Sands, University of Vermont, The Story of Base Change for the Brumer-Stark Conjecture
Winter 1999
- Thursday, January 7 -- QVNTS
AM - Imin Chen, CICMA, Mini-course: Modular Forms and Modular Curves I
PM - Saar David Hersonsky, Caltech, Diophatine approximation and hyperbolic geometry
- Thursday, January 14 -- QVNTS
AM - Imin Chen, CICMA, Mini-course: Modular Forms and Modular Curves III
PM - Katia Consani, MIT, Algebraic cycles and arithmetic on degenerations
- Thursday, January 21 -- QVNTS
AM - Andreas Schweizer, CICMA, Mini-course: Automorphic Forms over Function Fields I
PM - Jeff Achter, University of Masachussetts, Hilbert-Siegel moduli spaces in positive characteristic
- Thursday, January 28 -- Special Year Seminar
AM - Andreas Schweizer, CICMA, Mini-course: Automorphic Forms over Function Fields III
PM - Adrian Iovita, University of Washington, The p-adic Abel-Jacobi map and p-adic L-functions of modular forms
- Thursday, February 4 -- QVNTS
AM - Adrian Iovita, University of Washington, Mini-course: Topics in p-adic Galois Representations I
PM - Neal Koblitz, University of Washington, Description and Analysis of Joseph Silverman's Attack on the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem
- Thursday, February 11 -- Special Year Seminar
AM - Adrian Iovita, University of Washington, Mini-course: Topics in p-adic Galois Representations III
PM - Francesco Pappalardi, University of Rome III, On binary Egyptian fractions
- Thursday, February 18 -- QVNTS
AM - Eyal Goren, CICMA, Mini-course: Hilbert Modular Varieties I
PM - Eyal Goren, CICMA, Mini-course: Hilbert Modular Varieties II
- Thursday, March 4 -- QVNTS
AM - Andrew Granville, University of Georgia, Mini-course: The spectrum of multiplicative values I
PM - Bill Banks, University of Missouri, Some expressions for the values of the Riemann zeta function at odd positive integers
- Thursday, March 11 -- Special Year Seminar
AM - Daniel Lieman, University of Missouri, Bounds on exponential sums and applications to cryptography
PM - Alexandru Zaharescu, CICMA, Trace on C_p , generating degrees and p-adic L-functions
- Thursday, March 18 -- QVNTS
AM - Jean-Francois Mestre, Université de Paris VII, Mini-course: Polynomial Constructions, Galois Theory and Elliptic Curves I
PM - Serge Lang, Yale University, Spherical Transforms, Harish-Chandra Inversion & the Heat Kernel
- Thursday, March 25 -- Special Year Seminar
AM - Jean-Francois Mestre, Université de Paris VII, Mini-course: Polynomial Constructions, Galois Theory and Elliptic Curves III
PM - Jorge Morales, Louisiana State University, On the Hasse-Witt invariant of the Killing form
- Thursday, April 8 -- QVNTS
AM - Johan de Jong, MIT, Stratification by Newton Polygon
PM - Eyal Goren, CICMA, Cobordism and modular forms
- Thursday, April 15 -- QVNTS
AM - Abdellah Sebbar, CICMA, Classification theorem for congruence groups
PM - Torsten Wedhorn, MIT, A generaliztion of Eichler-Shimura theory
- Thursday, April 22 -- Special Year Seminar
AM - Masato Kuwata, Université de Caen, Points on elliptic curves defined over cyclic cubic fields and generalized Kummer surfaces
PM - Fiona Murnaghan, University of Toronto, Mini-course: Representations of reductive p-adic groups II
- Thursday, April 29 -- Special Year Seminar
PM - Fiona Murnaghan, University of Toronto, Mini-course: Representations of reductive p-adic groups IV
- Thursday, May 13 -- in Vermont
AM - Brett Tangedal, College of Charleston, Computing with Stark's Rank One Abelian Conjecture
PM - David Hayes, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Aligning Brumer-Stark elements into a Hecke character
- Thursday, June 17 -- QVNTS
PM - Yann Bugeaud, Université de Strasbourg, Autour de l'equation diophantienne (x^n - 1)/(x - 1) = y^q