Boston University Algebra Seminar

Boston University Algebra Seminar -- Spring 2009

Mondays, 4:30pm in MCS B33

(Tea/Cookies at 4:00pm in MCS 180)



Schedule of talks (all talks at 4:30 in room MCS B33)

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
Feb 2 Karl Rubin
(UC Irvine)
Refined class number formulas and Kolyvagin systems
Feb 9 Ellen Eischen
(Univ. of Michigan)

p-adic differential operators on automorphic forms and applications
Feb 17
(Special TUESDAY seminar)
Robert Harron
(Princeton Univ.)
The L-invariant of the symmetric square of an ordinary elliptic curve
Feb 19
(Special THURSDAY seminar)
Shahab Shahabi
(McGill Univ.)
p-adic Deformation of Shintani and Stark-Heegner Cycles on Shimura Curves
Feb 23 --- No seminar
Mar 2 Russell Prime
(Univ. of Connecticut)
(POSTPONED DUE TO SNOW)
Mar 9 --- No seminar
Mar 16 Robert Pollack
(Boston Univ.)
The Gross-Stark Conjecture
Mar 23 Wansu Kim
(Univ. of Michigan)
Galois Deformation Theory for Norm Fields
Mar 30 Russell Prime
(Univ. of Connecticut)
Averaging Quadratic L-Functions over Function Fields
Apr 6 Henry Cohn
(Microsoft)
Symmetry and symmetry breaking in optimization problems
Apr 13 Thomas Barnet-Lamb
(Harvard Univ.)
Potential automorphy for certain Galois representations to GL(n)
Apr 20 --- No seminar
Apr 27 Abhinav Kumar
(MIT)
Parameterizing Hilbert modular surfaces via K3 surfaces

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