New York Joint Columbia CUNY NYU Number Theory Seminar

Rotating between Columbia University, CUNY Graduate Center and NYU. 

Mathematics Ph.D. Program
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 4208, New York, NY 10016-4309
Phone: 212-817-8546 • Fax: 212-817-1527

Schedule of Spring 2012 talks. 

RTG Number Theory Seminar for GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POST DOC ONLY
Thursdays from 4:00 to 4:45

For Fall 2011 talks click here

For previous talks click here



Date
Place and Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
Abstracts

February 2

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45
(Room 622)

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30-7:00
(Room 312)

TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in Math Lounge on the 5th Floor

Kumar Murty

University of Toronto

 

BOUNDED GENERATION, CONGRUENCE SUBGROUPS, AND SPLITTING OF PRIMES

 

 

abstract

 

February 9

 

CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30-7:00
(Room 4214)

TEA: 5:00-5:30

 

David Brown

 

Emory University

RTG talk: An introduction to cohomology and crystals

 

RIGID COHOMOLOGY OF ALGEBRAIC STACKS

 

abstract

 

February 16

NYU, COURANT INSTITUTE

RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30-7:00


ALL NYU TALKS WILL BE IN MEYER HALL (PHYSICS DEPT.) ROOM 121 AT #4 WASHINGTON PLACE

TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Meyer Hall Lobby

Arul Shankar
Princeton University
THE AVERAGE SIZE OF THE 2-TORSION IN CLASS GROUPS OF CUBIC FIELDS

February 23

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45 in Room 622
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30-7:00 in Room 312

TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor.

Lucien Szpiro

CUNY

LOCAL AND GLOBAL INVARIANTS OF POLARIZED SELF MAPS

March 1

CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30-7:00
(all talks in Room C198)

TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.

Mike Zieve
University of Michigan

 

RTG TALK: Galois theory of fibered products

 

A UNIFORM BOUNDEDNESS THEOREM FOR POLYNOMIAL MAPS

 

 

March 8

NYU, COURANT INSTITUTE

RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30-7:00


ALL NYU TALKS WILL BE IN MEYER HALL (PHYSICS DEPT.) ROOM 121 AT #4 WASHINGTON PLACE

TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Meyer Hall Lobby

Rob Harron
University of Wisconsin
L-INVARIANTS OF SYMMETRIC POWERS OF MODULAR FORMS
March 15

Spring Break (Columbia, NYU)

Spring Break
Spring Break
Spring Break
March 22

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45 in Room 622
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30-7:00 in Room 312

TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor.

 

Daniel Bump

Stanford University

WHITTAKER FUNCTIONS AND DEMAZURE OPERATORS

 

 

March 29

CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30-7:00
(all talks in Room 9206)

TEA: 5:00-5:30

 

 

Dino Lorenzini

 

University of Georgia

THE INDEX OF AN ALGEBRAIC VARIETY

April 5

NYU, COURANT INSTITUTE

RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30-7:00


ALL NYU TALKS WILL BE IN MEYER HALL (PHYSICS DEPT.) ROOM 121 AT #4 WASHINGTON PLACE

TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Meyer Hall Lobby

 

Tony Varilly
Rice University
FAILURE OF THE HASSE PRINCIPLE ON GENERAL K3 SURFACES
April 12

Spring Break (CUNY)

Spring Break
Spring Break
Spring Break

 

April 19

 

RITT LECTURES!

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45 in Room 622
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30-7:00 in Room 312

TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor.

 

Pierre Colmez
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

p-ADIC ANALYSIS AND GALOIS REPRESENTATIONS

April 20

RITT LECTURES!

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

RTG Seminar: 4:00-4:45 in Room 622
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30-7:00 in Room 312

TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor.

Pierre Colmez
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
p-ADIC ANALYSIS AND GALOIS REPRESENTATIONS
April 26

DOUBLE HEADER

CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

FIRST TALK: 4:30-5:30

 

SECOND TALK: 6:00-7:00
(all talks in Room 9206)

TEA: 5:30-6:00

 

 

R. Parimala

 

 

Paul Vojta

 

 

Emory University

 

 

UC, Berkeley

 

R-EQUIVALENCE IN ALGEBRAIC GROUPS AND KNESER-TITS CONJECTURE

 

UNDERSTANDING DYSON'S LEMMA FOR PRODUCTS OF ARBITRARY CURVES

abstract

 

 

abstract

 

 

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