JOINT NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR

The Arithmetic Geometry Seminars for the fall 2002 semester were as follows:

Thursday, Sept 19th: Ram Murty, Queens University, Ontario
Title: "Elliptic Curves mod p "

Thursday Sept 26th: Tom Tucker, Graduate Center
Title: "Primality in Polynomial Time (after Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena) (I)"

Thursday Oct 3rd: Carlos Moreno, Baruch College
Title: "Primality in Polynomial time (II)

Thursday Oct. 10th:Carl Pomerance, Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies
Title: "Primality in Polynomial time (III)

Thursday Oct. 17th: Rachel Pries , Columbia University
Title: "Deformations of wildly ramified covers"

Thursday Oct. 24th: James Arthur , I.A.S.
Title: "Universal groups in the theory of automorphic forms"

Thursday Oct. 31st: Raymond Hoobler , City College & the Graduate Center)
Title: "The work of Voevodsky"

Thursday Nov. 7th: D. Ulmer , University of Arizona
Title: "Speculations on the ranks of elliptic curves"

Thursday Nov. 14th: Dorian Goldfeld , Columbia University
Title: "Counting congruence subgroups" (2:00-300pm)
II Speaker: Hans Schoutens (Ohio State University) (4:00-5:00pm)
Title: "The Frobenius in characteristic zero and its use in Commutative Algebra and Singularity Theory"

Thursday Dec. 5th: Jonathan Pila (I.A.S.)
Title: "Some problems on entire arithmetic functions"