University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Number Theory Seminar at UIUC. Spring, 2008.

The seminars are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays in room 241 of Altgeld Hall, from 1:00-1:50 pm. For info about seminars from Fall 2007, go here.


Schedule

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Date Speaker Title
January 15 Edray Goins (Purdue University) Does There Exist an Elliptic Curve $E/Q$ with Mordell-Weil Group $\Z_2 \times \Z_8 \times \Z^4$?
January 17 Mehmet Haluk Sengun (UW-Madison) Galois Representations of Small Quadratic Fields
January 22 Kevin Ford Random partitions and random factorizations
January 24 Jonah Sinick Every natural number is the sum of a bounded number of primes
January 29 Kenneth Stolarsky Sets with few products have many sums
January 31 Bruce Berndt Modular relations, functional equations, and equivalent identities
February 5 Kevin Ford Pratt trees and random fragmentations
February 7 Jeremy Rouse Lehmer's conjecture
February 12 Paul Jenkins (UCLA) Integral traces of singular values of Maass forms
February 14 Leon McCulloh Stickelberger evolution--an alternate branch
February 19 Andrew Schultz Absolute Galois groups via module theory
February 21 Paul Bateman Famous Conjectures in Number Theory
February 26 Eunmi Kim The Erdos-Turan theorem
February 28 Kevin Ford Local injectivity of Carmichael's function
March 4 Dohoon Choi (Korea Aerospace University) Divisibility of traces of CM values of modular functions
March 6 Byungchan Kim Combinatorial proofs of certain identities involving partial theta functions
March 11 Harold Diamond Properties of the Dickman function
March 13 Jonah Sinick Quaternion algebras, the Hasse-Minkowski theorem and quadratic reciprocity
March 25 Nathan Dunfield Increasing the number of fibered faces of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds
March 27 Ling Long (Iowa State) Finite index subgroups of the modular group and their modular forms
April 1 Scott Ahlgren Vanishing of Fourier coefficients of modular forms at infinity
April 3 Karl Dilcher (Dalhousie) Divisibility properties of some classes of binomial sums
April 8 Ghaith Hiary (Minnesota) Fast methods to compute the Riemann zeta function
April 10 Michael Dewar Overpartitions and Maass forms
April 15 Kevin Ford Report on the Analytic Number Theory workshop (Oberwolfach, March 2008)
April 17 Byoung Du Kim (Northwestern) Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves for supersingular primes
April 22 Khang Tran Shapiro Conjecture
April 24 András Sárközy (Eötvös) Equations in finite fields with restricted solution sets
April 29 Hei-Chi Chan (Springfield) From Ramanujan's cubic continued fraction to an analog of Ramanujan's "Most Beautiful Identity"
May 1 Nadia Masri Higher Weierstrass Points on X_0(p) and Supersingular j-Invariants


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