Québec-Vermont Number Theory Seminar 2026-2027
Schedule: Fall,
Winter.
General Information.
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 1104,
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
deviations from the standard timetable.
Instructions for speakers:
Faced with the prospect of giving a 90 minute talk,
the QVNTS invitee will often adopt one of the following stances (or a combination theoreof):
A. "After my customary 60 minute lecture
concluding with a statement of the main result and a sketch of its proof
in a special case,
I will now, thanks to the extra 30 minutes,
be able to present my proof in all its
details, paying fond attention to what happens
when p=2 and my spectral sequence fails to degenerate after the 17-th stage."
B. "I've heard this seminar audience is large and takes an active interest
in the lectures, asking many questions of the speaker along the way.
So I'll plan essentially for a 60-70 minute talk, delivered at a more leisurely pace.
Like this I will not be nervous about finishing on time if the audience peppers me with
questions and comments."
C. "I will use the extra 30 minutes at the beginning
to present the big picture which provides the background and motivation for the
mathematics that I've done. This will also be helpful to the students
and non-experts in attendance." (There are bound to be many of those: the QVNTS is a
number theory seminar for generalists, the interests of its regular participants ranging from
p-adic Hodge theory to additive combinatorics.)
Needless to say, strategies B and C are widely preferred to A!! As a general rule, you should strive to make
the first 30 minutes
(at least!) of your lecture accessible to the proverbial audience of graduate students
with a bit of Cassels-Frolich, Davenport, Silverman and Hartshorne behind their belts, and not much else...
Schedule for 2026-2027
Fall 2026
- Thursday, October 8, 2026.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 1104
10:15-11:45.
David Corwin (Ben Gurion University)
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Yingkun Li (Wisconsin)
- Thursday, October 22, 2026.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 1104
10:15-11:45.
Ben Forras (Ottawa)
Title TBA
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. Manuel Hauke-Treuer (Graz)
- Thursday, November 5, 2026.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 1104
10:15-11:45.
TBA (TBA)
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. TBA (TBA)
- Thursday, November 19, 2026.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 1104
10:15-11:45.
Preston Wake (Michigan)
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. TBA (TBA)
December 11-14, 2026.
CMS Winter Meeting, Hilton Doubletree Hotel.
There will be a number theory special session at this meeting organised by
Yu-Ru Liu, Carlo Pagano, and Henri Darmon. If ever you can not find a suitable QVNTS slot it could be an option to settle for a CMS meeting slot.
Winter 2027
-
Thursday, January 14, 2026.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 1104
10:15-11:45.
TBA (TBA)
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. David Zureick-Brown (Amherst)
-
Thursday, January 28, 2026.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 1104
10:15-11:45.
TBA (TBA)
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. TBA (TBA)
-
Thursday, February 11, 2026.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 1104
10:15-11:45.
TBA (TBA)
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. TBA (TBA)
-
Thursday, February 25, 2026.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 1104
10:15-11:45.
TBA (TBA)
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. TBA (TBA)
-
Thursday, March 11, 2026.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 1104
10:15-11:45.
TBA (TBA)
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. TBA (TBA)
-
Thursday, March 25, 2026.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 1104
10:15-11:45.
TBA (TBA)
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. TBA (TBA)
-
Thursday, April 8, 2026.
McGill University, Burnside Hall 1104
10:15-11:45.
Jàn Minac (UWO)
Concordia University, Library building
2:00-3:30. TBA (TBA)