Number Theory Seminar

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY AND PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR

SPRING 2011

THURSDAY
4:30 P.M.
FINE 214 or S-101 at IAS

** PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND/OR LOCATION**

DATE LOCATION	SPEAKER	TOPIC
Feb. 10 Fine Hall 214	David Masser University of Basel, Switzerland	Impossible intersections for elliptic curves
Feb. 17 S-101 at IAS	Sonal Jain NYU	Heuristics for lambda invariants
Feb. 24 Fine Hall 214	Daniel Bump Stanford University	Whittaker Functions and Demazure Characters
Mar. 3 S-101 at IAS	Kartik Prasanna University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Periods of quaternionic Shimura varieties
Mar. 10 Fine Hall 214	Alireza Golsefidy Princeton University	Affine sieve and expanders
Mar. 17 S-101 at IAS	Wladimir de Azevedo Pribitkin College of Staten Island, CUNY	Niebur Integrals and Mock Automorphic Forms
Mar. 24 S-101 at IAS	Bjorn Poonen MIT	Random maximal isotropic subspaces and Selmer groups
Apr. 21 Fine Hall 214	Henri Darmon McGill University	Algebraic cycles and Euler systems for real quadratic fields
Apr. 28 S-101 at IAS	P. Salberger Chalmers University	Serre´s conjectures on the number of rational points of bounded height
May 12 Fine Hall 214	T. Schlank Hebrew University	Relative Homotopy type and obstructions to the existence of rational points
May 19 Simonyi Hall Seminar Room at IAS	Ingrid Daubechies Duke University	Finding (dis)similarities between surfaces using conformal geometry
May 20 Simonyi Hall Seminar Room at IAS	David Brady Duke University	Forward model coding in compressive optical imagers