Texas A&M Number Theory Seminar
2005-2006

Department of Mathematics
Milner 317
Wednesdays, 12:30-1:30 PM

Fall 2005 Schedule

• September 7
  Organizational Meeting

• September 12-16
  Preda Mihailescu (University of Göttingen)
  Frontiers Lectures, Milner 317, 4:00:
  Titles: (Abstracts)
  Sept. 12: Primes and the beauty of algorithms: an introduction
  Sept. 13: Primes and the beauty of algorithms
  Sept. 15: Cyclotomic norm equations
  Special Algebra Seminar:
  Sept. 16, 12:30, Milner 317: Cyclotomic norm equations II

• September 21
  Doug Hensley (Texas A&M University)
  Title: Simultaneous rational approximations to the cube roots of 2 and 4, and more   (Abstract)

• September 28
  Marcos Zarzar (University of Texas)
  Title: Error-correcting codes on low rank surfaces   (Abstract)

• October 5
  No seminar

• October 12
  Ahmad El-Guindy (Texas A&M University)
  Title: An exposition of "Hecke Operators on Gamma_0(m)" by Atkin and Lehner   (Abstract)

• October 19
  Lenny Fukshansky (Texas A&M University)
  Title: The Frobenius problem and the covering radius of a lattice   (Abstract)

• October 24, Monday, 12:30, Milner 216
  Michael Fried (University of California-Irvine and Montana State-Billings)
  Title: Dihedral groups: Comparing cusps on modular curves to their MT generalization   (Abstract)

• November 2, Milner 313
  Bogdan Petrenko (Texas A&M University)
  Title: TBA   (Abstract)

• November 9
  Ben Brubaker (Stanford University)
  Title: Eisenstein series, L-functions, and Young tableaux   (Abstract)

• November 16
  Min Ru (University of Houston)
  Title: Integral points and the complex hyperbolicity on the complements of divisors   (Abstract)

• November 23
  No seminar (Thanksgiving)

• November 30
  Paul Jenkins (University of Wisconsin)
  Title: Maass-Poincare series and p-divisibility of traces of singular moduli   (Abstract)

Spring 2006 Schedule

• January 25
  Lenny Fukshansky (Texas A&M University)
  Title: Effective theorems for quadratic spaces over Q-bar   (Abstract)

• February 1
  Bogdan Petrenko (Texas A&M University)
  Title: Orbits of normal basis generators I   (Abstract)

• February 8
  Bogdan Petrenko (Texas A&M University)
  Title: Orbits of normal basis generators II   (Abstract)

• March 1
  Matt Papanikolas (Texas A&M University)
  Title: Hypergeometric functions over finite fields

• March 8
  Matt Papanikolas (Texas A&M University)
  Title: Hypergeometric functions over finite fields

• March 15
  Spring Break

• March 22
  Chris Hall (University of Texas)
  Title: Finite orthogonal groups and twists of elliptic curves   (Abstract)

• April 12
  Michael Joyce (Tulane University)
  Title: Rational points on del Pezzo surfaces   (Abstract)

• April 17, Monday, 3:00, Milner 216
  Francisco Portillo Bobadilla (UNAM)
  Title: Computations on the Mazur-Tate conjecture   (Abstract)

• April 26, 4:00, Milner 317
  Chris Rasmussen (Rice University)
  Title: TBA

2003-04 Seminar Schedule

2004-05 Seminar Schedule

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