JOINT NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR

The Arithmetic Geometry Seminars for the Spring 2003  semester were as follows:

February 13th:

Speaker: Janos Kollar (Princeton University)

Title: "Rationally connected varieties over finite fields"

February 20th:

Speaker: Luc Illusie (Orsay)

Title: Alterations, Brauer theory and Swan traces, after I. Vidal"

February 27th:

Speaker: Amritanshu Prasad (Centre de recherches mathamatiques)

Title: "On automorphic representations for a rational function field"

March 6th:

Speaker: Karl Rubin (Stanford University)

Title: "Kolyvagin Systems"

March 13th:

Speaker: Yiannis Petridis, Lehman College
Title: "The distribution of modular symbols"

March 20th:

Speaker: Preda Mihailescu (University-GH Paderborn)

Title: "Zooming into Catalan's Conjecture"

March 27th:

Speaker: Shou-Wu Zhang (Columbia University)

Title:  "Periods Integrals of Cycles on Hilbert Modular Surfaces"

April 3rd: [Today's talk at 2:30pm]

Speaker: Peter Sarnak (New York University)

Title: "Quantum Versus Classical Fluctuations for the Modular Surface"

April 10th:

Speaker: Angus Macintyre (Univ. of Edinburgh)

Title: "The logic of the real, p-adic and complex exponentials"

May 1st: [Two talks today]

2:00 - 3:00 pm:

Speaker: Carlos Moreno (Braruch College/CUNY and the Graduate Center]

Title: Langlands theory of local root numbers, I

3:30 - 4:30 pm:

Speaker: Aaron Wan (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: Langlands theory of local root numbers, II