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Five College Number Theory Seminar
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Where and When
| Five College Number Theory Seminar talks are generally held at Amherst College in the Seeley Mudd building , which houses Amherst College's Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Unless noted otherwise, all talks take place at 4:00 p.m. in room Seeley-Mudd 207. Refreshments are served at 3:30 p.m. in Seeley-Mudd 208. |
Driving Direction to Amherst College
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Campus map of Amherst College
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Map of Lord Jeffrey Inn
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Parking Directions
| To find the parking lot in back of Seeley Mudd, drive east on College Street (Route 9) past the Amherst town common on your left. Two blocks after the common, turn right onto the College campus (just before you go under a railroad overpass). Take your second right and follow it until the road ends at the Seeley Mudd parking lot. From the parking lot, take the stairs in the Life Sciences building, just to the right of Seeley Mudd, up one flight, exit and turn left toward Seeley Mudd. |
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Campus maps for Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, and UMass
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Meet our seminar members
Amherst College
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| Rob Benedetto Gregory Call David Cox Susan Goldstine Thomas Weston | |
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Mount Holyoke College
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| Giuliana P. Davidoff Margaret Robinson | |
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Smith College
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| Leanne Robertson Yoonjin Lee | |
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UMass Amherst
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| Paul Gunnells Farshid Hajir David Hayes Siman Wong Huan Yang | |
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Western New England College
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| Jennifer Beineke | |
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Westfield State College
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| Anne Schwartz |
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Date |
Speaker |
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Feb 3 |
Organization Meeting |
Organization Meeting |
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Feb 10 |
David Pollack (Wesleyan) |
p-adic rigidity in the cohomology of GL_n(Z) |
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Feb 17 |
Paul Gunnells (UMass Amherst) |
Lattice polytopes, Hecke operators, and the Ehrhart polynomial |
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Feb 24 |
Andrew Granville (Univ. Montréal) |
Some distribution problems in arithmetic |
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Feb 25 (Wed) |
Andrew Granville (Univ. Montréal) |
Uncertainty principles in arithmetic (Amherst College CVC) |
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March 2 |
David Cox (Amherst College) |
Geometry and Number Theory on Clovers |
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March 9 |
Tom Weston (Amherst College) |
Power residues of Fourier coefficients of modular forms |
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March 16 |
Spring break |
Spring break |
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March 23 |
Samit Dasgupta (Berkeley) |
Elliptic units for real quadratic fields |
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March 30 |
Steve Kudla (Univ of Maryland) |
Cycles of Shimura curves and modular forms |
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April 6 |
Keith Conrad (UConn) |
Variation of Root Numbers |
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April 12 (Monday) |
Jacob Sturm (Rutgers) |
Picard's Big Theorem (Mount Holyoke UCVC) |
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April 13 |
Jacob Sturm (Rutgers) |
Algebraic estimates and local zeta functions |
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April 20 |
Steven J. Miller (Ohio State) |
Random Matrix Theory and Families of Elliptic Curves: Evidence for the Underlying Group Symmetries |
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April 27 |
Harold Stark (UCSD & Univ. Vermont) |
Class-Numbers of CM fields and Siegel Zeros |
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May 3 (Mon) |
Glenn Stevens (Boston University) |
Number Theoretic Analysis (UMass UCVC) |
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May 4 |
Glenn Stevens (Boston University) |
p-adic L-Functions and the Evil Twin |
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May 11 |
Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas (UT Austin) |
Hypergeometric funtions and the Bezoutian |
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Speaker |
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Sept 9 |
Organization Meeting |
Organization Meeting |
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Sept 16 |
Tom Weston (Amherst College) |
Variation of Iwasawa invariants in Hida families |
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Sept 23 |
Siman Wong (UMass Amherst) |
Density of number fields |
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Sept 30 |
Farshid Hajir (UMass Amherst) |
Newton polygons and irreducibility for one-variable polynomials |
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Oct 7 |
Joe Buhler (Reed College) |
Polynomials over Local Fields |
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Oct 14 |
No Talk |
No Talk |
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Oct 16 (Thursday) |
Joe Buhler (Reed College) |
Dickenson Lecture at Smith College |
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Oct 21 |
Sharon Frechette (Holy Cross) |
Gaussian Hypergeometric Functions, and Traces of Hecke Operators |
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Oct 28 |
Allison Pacelli (Williams College) |
Subgroups of Any Order in Class Groups of Global Function Fields |
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Nov 4 |
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Nov 11 |
Robert Pollack (University of Chicago) |
Congruences and the supersingular main conjecture |
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Nov 13 (Thursday) |
Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth College) |
TBA (McCoy Faculty Lecture at Smith) |
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Nov 18 |
Alvaro Lozano-Robledo (Boston University) |
Elliptic units and Galois representations |
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Nov 25 |
No talk |
(Thanksgiving) |
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Dec 2 |
Ravi Ramakrishna |
Lifting Galois representations and various pathologies |
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Dec 9 |
Josh Lansky (Bucknell University) |
Depth zero base change for U(2,1) |
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