Five College Number Theory Seminar Meetings 1998-99

Fall Semester

• Tuesday, Sept. 17, Organizational Meeting
  
  
• Thursday, Sept. 24 (4:00 p.m.), UMASS Math Colloquium (LGRT 1634), Prof. Carl Pomerance, University of Georgia, "Smooth Numbers"
  
  
• Tuesday, Sept. 29 (4:00 p.m.), Amherst College Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium (Seeley Mudd 206), Dr. Rebecca Wright, AT&T Labs, "Experimental Performance of Shared RSA Modulus Generation"
  
  
• Tuesday, Oct. 6, Prof. Jeff Achter, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "How to Deform an Abelian Variety"
  
  
• Tuesday, Oct. 20, Prof. David Hayes, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Computing partial zeta-functions at s=0"
  
  
• Tuesday, Nov. 10, Sukaina Alarakhia (MHC, '99) and Tom Wexler (Amherst, '00), "Weight Distributions of Minimal Cyclic Codes for p > 2"
  
  
• Tuesday, Nov. 17, Scott Ahlgren, Pennsylvania State University, "Gaussian hypergeometric series, a modular variety, and the Apery number supercongruence"
  
  
• Tuesday, Dec. 1, Prof. Dorothy Wallace, Dartmouth College, "Ergodic properties of induced flows on number theoretic manifolds and graphs"
  
  
• Tuesday, Dec. 8, Prof. Jordan Ellenberg, Princeton University, "Hilbert modular forms and diophantine equations"

Spring Semester

• Tuesday, Feb. 2, Organizational Meeting
  
  
• Tuesday, Feb. 9 (4:00 p.m.), UMASS Computer Science Theory Seminar (LGRC A339), William Hesse, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Quantum Factoring: Shor's Algorithm"
  
  
• Tuesday, Feb. 16, Prof. Susan Goldstine, McMaster University, "Spin representations of lattices"
  
  
• Thursday, Feb. 25 (2:30 p.m.), UMASS Candidate Talk (LGRT 1634), Prof. Siman Wong, Brown University, "Automorphic Forms and Ideal Class Groups"
  
  
• Tuesday, Mar. 23, Prof. Cristian Popescu, University of Texas at Austin, "L-functions, Curves, and Roots of Unity"
  
  
• Monday, Mar. 29 (7:00 p.m.), Undergraduate Connecticut Valley Colloquium at Amherst College (Seeley Mudd 206), Prof. Barry Mazur, Harvard University, "What did 16th century mathematicians think about when they thought about number?"
  
  
• Tuesday, Mar. 30, Prof. Barry Mazur, Harvard University, "p-adic analytic variation of modular eigenforms"
  
  
• Tuesday, Apr. 6, Profs. Jeffrey Achter and Clifton Cunningham, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Counting Curves with Kottwitz"
  
  
• Thursday, Apr. 15 (4:00 p.m.), UMASS Math Colloquium (LGRT 1634), Prof. Helen Grundman, Bryn Mawr College, The Bunting Institute, and Boston University, "Classification of Hilbert Modular Varieties"
  
  
• Tuesday, Apr. 27 (4:30 p.m.), Connecticut Valley Colloquium at Smith ((McConnell 404), Prof. John Coates, University of Cambridge, "The mysteries of number theory"
  
  
• Wednesday, Apr. 28 (7:00 p.m.), Undergraduate Connecticut Valley Colloquium at Smith (McConnell 404), Prof. John Coates, University of Cambridge, "The Oldest Unsolved Problem"
  
  
• Tuesday, May 4, Maura Murray, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Sign codes in number fields"