January 27 Matt Papanikolas
(Texas A&M University)
Title: Galois groups and transcendence in characteristic p
(Abstract)
February 4, Friday, 4:00, Milner 216 Niranjan Ramachandran
(University of Maryland)
Title: Values of zeta functions at s=1/2
(Abstract)
February 10 Gergely Harcos
(University of Texas)
Title: The subconvexity problem for Rankin-Selberg L-functions
and equidistribution of Heegner points
(Abstract)
February 17 Kevin James
(Clemson University)
Title: The Lang-Trotter conjecture on average
(Abstract)
February 24 Jeff Thunder
(Northern Illinois University)
Title: Some geometry of numbers in function fields
(Abstract)
March 3 Ahmad El-Guindy
(Texas A&M University)
Title: Galois actions on Weierstrass points of X_0(p)
(Abstract)
March 10 Matilde Lalin
(University of Texas)
Title: Some aspects of Mahler measure
(Abstract)
March 17
Spring Break
March 24 Angel Kumchev
(University of Texas)
Title: The Waring-Goldbach problem
(Abstract)
March 31 Paul Feit
(University of Texas-Permian Basin)
Title: Is it time for "object-arrow" topology?
(Abstract)
April 4-8 Joseph Silverman (Brown University) Frontiers
Lectures, Milner 317, 4:00
Titles:
Apr. 4: A number theorist's perspective on dynamical systems
Apr. 6: Arithmetic dynamics: periodic rationals and wandering integers
Apr. 7: Further topics in arithmetic dynamics
April 14 Scott Ahlgren
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Title: Arithmetic of singular moduli and class polynomials
(Abstract)
April 19, Tuesday, 1:00-2:00 Min Ru
(University of Houston)
Title: Recent results in Diophantine approximation
(Abstract)
April 28 Lenny Fukshansky
(Texas A&M University)
Title: Some effective Diophantine results over Q-bar
(Abstract)
September 9 Marc Huttner
(Université de Lille 1)
Title: The Riemann-Hilbert problem and diophantine approximations of
polylogarithmic functions
(Abstract)
September 23 Lenny Fukshansky
(Texas A&M University)
Title: On effective Witt decomposition and Cartan-Dieudonné theorem
(Abstract)
September 30 & October 1 Alf van der Poorten
(Centre for Number Theory Research, Sydney)
Titles and Venues:
Sept. 30, Number Theory Seminar, 1:00-2:00, Milner 317: Elliptic sequences and
continued fractions
(Abstract)
Sept. 30, Graduate Seminar, 4:00-5:00, Milner 317: Folded continued fractions
(Abstract)
Oct. 1, Algebra/Combinatorics Seminar, 3:00-4:00, Milner 317: Paperfolding, automata,
and rational functions
(Abstract)
October 7 Pavel Guerzhoy (Temple University)
Title: The Borcherds-Zagier isomorphism and a
p-adic version of the Kohnen-Shimura map
(Abstract)
October 14 Matt Baker (Georgia Institute
of Technology)
Title: Adelic equidistribution theorems for dynamical systems
(Abstract)
November 4 Matt Boylan
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Title: Half-integral weight modular forms with few non-vanishing
coefficients
(Abstract)
November 11 Bogdan Petrenko
(Texas A&M University)
Title: On the distribution of distances between the points of affine
curves over finite fields
(Abstract)
December 2 & 3 Michel Waldschmidt
(Université de Paris VI)
Titles and Venues:
Dec. 2, Number Theory Seminar, 1:00-2:00, Milner 216: Duality in diophantine
approximation
(Abstract)
Dec. 2, Graduate Seminar, 3:00-4:00, Milner 317: Transcendental numbers: history
and development
(Abstract)
Dec. 3, Algebra/Combinatorics Seminar, 3:00-4:00, Milner 317: Multiple zeta values
(Abstract)