Boston University Algebra Seminar

Boston University Algebra Seminar -- Spring 2008

Mondays, 4:15pm in MCS B33
Tea/Cookies at 3:45pm in MCS 180



Schedule of talks (all talks at 4:15 in room MCS B33)

   DATE         SPEAKER                  TITLE           
Feb 4 Robert Pollack
(Boston University)
Stickelberger elements of non-ordinary modular forms
Feb 11 No speaker ---
Feb 18 No speaker President's day
Feb 25 Mark Behrens
(MIT)
Congruences amongst modular forms and periodic families of elements in the stable homotopy groups of spheres
Mar 3 Alina Bucur
(MIT)
Multiple Dirichlet Series
Mar 10 No speaker Spring recess
Mar 17 Maria Sabitova
(University of Illinois at Urbana)
Orbit method for totally disconnected groups
Mar 24 Sharon Frechette
(College of the Holy Cross)
Multiple Dirichlet Series for Bn
Mar 31 Avner Ash
(Boston College)
Stable Group Homology and Hecke Operators
Apr 7 Ryota Matsuura
(Boston University)
Root numbers of elliptic curves, semistable at primes above 2 and 3
Apr 14 Giuliana Davidoff
(Mt. Holyoke College)
Asymptotics of class numbers and fundamental units in real quadratic fields
Apr 21 No speaker Patriot's Day
Apr 28 Jeehoon Park
(McGill University)
p-adic construction of arithmetic units

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