Stanford University Number Theory Seminar 2014-15

Stanford Number Theory Seminar, 2014-2015

Mondays, 12pm, 383N

Fall

September 26	Aaron Pollack (Stanford)	Rankin-Selberg integrals associated to non-unique models
October 3	Jared Weinstein (MSRI/BU)	The absolute Galois group of Q_p as a geometric Galois group
October 10	Wee Teck Gan (MSRI/NUS)	The Langlands-Weissman program for Bryinkski-Deligne extensions
October 17	Cheng-Chiang Tsai (MSRI/Harvard)	Local character expansions, hyperelliptic curves, and endoscopy
October 24	Christian Johansson (MSRI/Oxford)	Control theorems for overconvergent automorphic forms
October 31	Sarah Zerbes (MSRI/UCL)	Euler systems and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
November 7	Kai-Wen Lan (MSRI/UMinn)	Higher Koecher principle
November 14	Jim Arthur (Toronto)	On the classification of representations and Langlands’ automorphic Galois group
November 15 (at Berkeley!)	Caraiani, Conrad, Herzig, Kudla, Suh	Bay Area Algebraic Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry Day
November 17 (special talk!) 4:15pm in 380Y	Ryan Vinroot(William&Mary)	Contragredient representations of p-adic classical and similitude groups
November 21	Rachel Ollivier (MSRI/UBC)	Torsion pairs in the representation theory of Iawhori-Hecke algebras
November 28	Thanksgiving -- No Seminar
December 5	Francois Charles (Orsay)	Frobenius distributions for pairs of elliptic curves and exceptional isogenies

Winter

January 5	Ila Varma	The mean number of 3-torsion elements in ray class groups of quadratic fields
January 12	Samit Dasgupta (UCSC)	Gross’ Tower of Fields Conjecture
January 19	No seminar (MLK Day)
January 26	Carl Pomerance	Some thoughts on aliquot sequences
February 2	Philippe Michel (EPFL)	On moments of L-functions
February 9	Victor Rotger (UPC Barcelona)	Euler systems and the BSD Conjecture in ranks 0, 1, and 2
February 16 (12:30-1:30)	Paul Pollack (UGA)	Two analytic problems on CM elliptic curves
February 21 (Saturday!)	BAANTAG	BAANTAG information
February 23	Greg Brumfiel (Stanford)	Galois theory, places, and Birational Section Conjectures
March 2	Sol Friedberg (Boston College)	Higher theta functions
March 9	Persi Diaconis	TBA

Spring

March 30	Sary Drappeau (CRM Montreal)	The error term in the dispersion method
April 6	Brad Rodgers (Univ. Zurich)	Tail bounds for counts of zeros and the mean value of ratios of the zeta function
April 13	David Zureick-Brown (Emory)	Uniformity of rational points and tropical geometry
April 20	Adam Harper (Cambridge)	Prime number races with very many competitors
April 27	Tony Varilly-Alvarado (Rice)	Kodaira dimension of orthogonal modular varieties
May 4	Sug Woo Shin (Berkeley)	Galois representations for general symplectic groups
May 11	Sheng-Chi Liu (Wash. State)	The L^2 restriction norm of a Maass form on GL_{n+1}
May 15 (2:30-3:30, 384H)	Haruzo Hida (UCLA)	Analytic variation of Tate-Shafarevich groups
May 23 (Saturday, at UCSD!)	Poonen, Scholze, Yun, W. Zhang	Southern California Number Theory Day
May 26--30	Coleman conference	Berkeley
June 1	Sandro Bettin (CRM Montreal)	On moments of Dirichlet L-functions

* = to be confirmed.

Organizers: Daniel Bump, Brian Conrad, Kannan Soundararajan, Akshay Venkatesh, Zhiwei Yun.

Last year’s seminar.

For out-of-town seminar speakers: The San Francisco (SFO) and San Jose (SJC) airports are both located nearby. We recommend you reserve a ride with Super Shuttle or similar company instead of using a taxi from the airport. (Super Shuttle is around $25+tip in comparison with $100+ for taxi.) We generally arrange for our speakers to stay at the Cardinal Hotel. Safe Travels.