Summer 2005 Number Theory Seminar

Thursdays, 12:00 pm, 159 Altgeld Hall

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Organizer:

• Timothy Kilbourn (tkilbour@math.uiuc.edu)

Description:

We will continue to work through A First Course in Modular Forms by Fred Diamond and Jerry Shurman. See here for information on the previous seminar. Our goal is to work through as much of Chapter 6 as possible, beginning Chapter 7 if possible.

Schedule of Talks:

• Friday, June 10: Timothy Kilbourn (UIUC)
  Jacobians and Modularity (Chapter 6, Section 1).

• Friday, June 17: Stephanie Treneer (UIUC)
  Maps Between Jacobians (Chapter 6, Section 2).

• Friday, June 24: Stephanie Treneer (UIUC)
  Maps Between Jacobians II (Chapter 6, Section 2).

• Friday, June 24: Timothy Kilbourn (UIUC)
  Modular Jacobians and Hecke Operators (Chapter 6, Section 3).

• Thursday, June 30: Scott Ahlgren (UIUC)
  Algebraic Eigenvalues (Chapter 6, Section 5).

• Thursday, July 7: Timothy Kilbourn (UIUC)
  Algebraic Eigenvalues (part II) (Chapter 6, Section 5).

• Thursday, July 14: Samuel Kadziela (UIUC)
  Eigenforms, Abelian Varieties, and Modularity (Chapter 6, Section 6).

Last updated: Thu Apr 19 16:39:49 CDT 2007