NUMBER THEORY

FALL 2005
WEDNESDAY 2:00-3:00 pm

Fine Hall 314 and IAS (TBA)


DATE
LOCATION
SPEAKER
TOPIC
Sept. 21
Fine Hall 314
Mark Kisin,
University of Chicago
Modularity and the Breuil-Mezard conjecture
Sept. 28
Fine Hall 314
Ram Murty,
Queen's University
Multiple Hurwitz zeta functions
Oct. 5    
Oct. 12    
Oct. 19    
Oct. 26
Fine Hall 314
Ramin Takloo-Bighash,
Princeton University
Distribution of rational points on equivariant compactifications of semi-simple groups
Nov. 2
Fine Hall 314
Frank Calegari,
Harvard University
Rational Homology Spheres and Automorphic Forms
Please note special date, time, and location
Mon, Nov. 7
2:15 p.m.
Fine 224
Karl Rubin,
University of California at Irvine
Growth of Selmer groups in dihedral extensions
Nov. 9
Fine Hall 314
Audrey Terras,
University of Callifornia at San Diego
What are zeta functions of graphs and what are they good for?
Nov.16    
Nov. 23    
Dec. 7
Ron Livne,
IAS and Hebrew University
Universal Kummer families over Shimura Curves

Please note special date and location
Fri, Dec. 9
2:00 p.m.

IAS SH-101

Chandrashekhar Khare,
University of Utah
Serre's modularity conjecture