University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Number Theory Seminar. Fall, 2009.

The seminars are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Room 241 of Altgeld Hall, from 1:00-1:50 pm.

Please visit the departmental seminar calendar for abstracts.


To volunteer a talk, please contact one of the organizers: Scott Ahlgren or Jeremy Rouse.

Date Speaker Title
Tuesday, Sept. 1 Iwan Duursma Triangles, tetrahedrons, modular towers and self-dual codes
Thursday, Sept. 3 Andy Schultz A Number Theoretic Invitation to K-theory
Tuesday, Sept. 8 Kevin Ford The Central Limit Theorem in number theory
Thursday, Sept. 10 Philippe Cassou-Nogues (Bordeaux) Invariants of quadratic forms
Tuesday, Sept. 15 Harold Diamond A biased coin calculation with a biased number theoretic outcome
Thursday, Sept. 17 Heini Halberstam Looking for primes
Tuesday, Sept. 22 Michael Dewar The number of modular forms with Ramanujan-type congruences
Thursday, Sept. 24 A J Hildebrand Number Theory and Computing at Illinois
Tuesday, Sept. 29 Ken Stolarsky Zeros of Polynomials in Analysis and Number Theory.
Thursday, October 1 Alexandru Zaharescu Farey fractions and Kloosterman sums
Tuesday, October 6 Joseph Vandehey Irrationality of Lambert Series
Thursday, October 8 Bruce Berndt Ramanujan's Lost Notebook
Tuesday, October 13 Jeremy Rouse Theorems and conjectures about elliptic curves and L-functions
Thursday, October 15 CANCELLED  
Tuesday, October 20 Bruce Reznick Sums of two cubes
Thursday, October 22 Scott Ahlgren Central values of modular L-functions mod p
Tuesday, October 27 Harold Diamond Weak logarithmic density estimates for Beurling generalized numbers
Thursday, October 29 S. Bhargava (Mysore) On a function which unifies the cubic analogues of the Jacobian theta function
Tuesday, November 3 NO SEMINAR  
Thursday, November 5 10 minute talks  
Tuesday, November 10 Youn-Seo Choi Combinatorial interpretation of third and sixth order mock theta function identities
Thursday, November 12 Mat Rodgers Three open problems associated with the odd values of the Riemann zeta function.
Tuesday, November 17 Youness Lamzouri On the Distribution of large values of L-functions at the edge of the critical strip
Thursday, November 19 Andrew Shallue Enumerating class group structures of real quadratic number fields
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Last Updated November 9, 2009.