NUmber Theory Seminar 2018
TL;DR: Finding modular abelian surfaces; parts of Behrend's introduction to
stacks
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23 February 2018: Explicit modular abelian surfaces, by Frank Calegari
(University of Chicago)
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28 February 2018: Explicit modular abelian surfaces II, by Frank Calegari
(University of Chicago)
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2 March 2018: Point counting on curves and random matrices, by Frank
Calegari (University of Chicago)
- 7 March 2018: Point counting on genus 2 curves, working group
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18 April 2018: A geometric approach to Maass' operator on Siegel modular
forms I, by Owen Colman
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2 May 2018: A geometric approach to Maass' operator on Siegel modular forms
II, by Owen Colman
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16 May 2018: Chevalley--Warning Theorem and application to a problem in
additive number theory, by Alex Ghitza
- 23 May 2018: Springer theory and characters, by Cheng-Chiang Tsai (Stanford)
- 8 August 2018: Intro to stacks -- Organisational meeting
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15 August 2018: Intro to stacks -- Groupoids, continuous families, by Alex
Ghitza
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22 August 2018: Intro to stacks -- Classifying triangles up to similitude,
by Alex Ghitza
- 29 August 2018: Intro to stacks -- Coarse moduli spaces, by Alex Ghitza
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5 September 2018: Intro to stacks -- Triangles with extra structure, by Alex
Ghitza
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12 September 2018: Sums over twin primes, by Tim Trudgian (UNSW Canberra at
ADFA)
- 3 October 2018: Intro to stacks -- Versal families, by Alex Ghitza
- 10 October 2018: Intro to stacks -- More versal families, by Alex Ghitza
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17 October 2018: Intro to stacks -- Formalism of topological stacks, by Alex
Ghitza
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7 November 2018: Conics and elliptic curves in number theory and
cryptography, by Abdullatif Altheyab