University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Number Theory Seminar at UIUC. Fall, 2007.

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


Schedule

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Date Speaker Title
August 28 Bruce Berndt Cranks -- Really the Final Problem
August 30 Andrew Schultz Hilbert 90 for Biquadratic Extensions
September 4 Jeremy Rouse Iterated endomorphisms of abelian algebraic groups
September 6 Heini Halberstam A conjecture in prime number theory
September 11 Jonah Sinick A short and elementary proof of a good upper bound for the partition function
September 13 Kevin Ford Thin additive bases
September 18 George Purdy (Univ. of Cinncinati, CS) Calculating the Jacobi symbol
September 20 Isaac Goldbring Elliptic Curves and Bezout Domains
September 25 Harold Diamond Approximating the Laplace transform of the Gaussian function
September 27 Khang Tran The transcendence of pi
October 2 No seminar
October 4 No seminar
October 9 Scott Ahlgren Rank generating functions as weakly holomorphic modular forms
October 11 Jeremy Rouse Bounds for the coefficients of powers of the Delta function
October 16 Jonah Sinick Cubic reciprocity and x^2 + 27y^2
October 18 Kenneth Stolarsky Some interactions of metric geometry with number theory, especially Diophantine approximation
October 23 Bruce Berndt First V. Ramaswamy Aiyer Centennial Lecture, Ramanujan's Series for $1/\pi$: A Survey
October 25 Amanda Folsom (UW-Madison) Duality involving the mock theta function f(q) and and analytic properties of Kloosterman-Selberg zeta functions
October 30 No seminar
November 1 Rob Rhoades (University of Wisconsin) Eulerian Series as Modular Forms
November 6 Renate Scheidler (University of Calgary) Construction of Hyperelliptic Function Fields of High Three-Rank
November 8 Ivan Horozov (Brandeis University) Non-Commutative Two Dimensional Modular Symbols
November 13 Bruce Reznick On the non-monotonicity of the sequence { | Im(z^n) | }
November 15 Mr. Cevallos Euler and the Zeta function
November 27 Rafe Jones (UW-Madison) Arboreal Galois representations and arithmetic dynamics
November 29 Paul Pollack (Dartmouth College) The distribution of irreducible polynomials over finite fields
December 4 Scott Parsell (Butler University) Quantitative issues for diophantine inequalities
December 6 Atul Dixit Ramanujan's circular summation of theta functions


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