Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Number Theory
Year 2008-2009


Monday, September 29, 2008

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Frank Calegari,   Northwestern
Title: What is an arithmetic group?
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 6, 2008

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Alex Gamburd,   UCSC/Northwestern
Title: Sum-product, expanders, and sieving
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Monday, October 13, 2008

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Ramin Takloo-Bighash,   UIC
Title: Gross-Prasad for GSp(4)
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 20, 2008

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Matthew Emerton,   Northwestern
Title: Elliptic curves and modular forms
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 27, 2008

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor John Flynn,   Northwestern
Title: Galois groups and the image size of rational maps
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Monday, November 3, 2008

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Mark Reeder,   Boston College
Title: Simple supercuspidal representations and simple wild parameters
Abstract and details available


Monday, November 10, 2008

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Tong Liu,   Purdue
Title: Lattices in semi-stable representations
Abstract and details available


Monday, November 17, 2008

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Stephen Kudla,   Toronto
Title: Arithmetic cycles for unitary groups
Abstract and details available


Monday, November 24, 2008

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Fucheng Tan,   MIT
Title: Galois eigenvarieties
Abstract and details available


Monday, December 1, 2008

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor David Helm,   UT Austin
Title: On p-adic families of admissible representations of GL_2(Q_l).
Abstract and details available


Monday, January 5, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Alina Cojocaru,   UIC
Title: Twin primes for elliptic curves
Abstract and details available


Monday, January 12, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Nathan Dunfield,   UIUC
Title: Increasing the number of fibered faces of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Abstract and details available


Monday, January 26, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Emmanuel Breuillard,   Paris 11
Title: Diophantine geometry and the Tits alternative
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 2, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Ben Howard,   Boston College
Title: Intersection theory on Shimura surfaces
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 9, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 104, 3:00PM
Suh-Hyun Choi,   Harvard
Title: Deformation lifting spaces of mod l representations and their properties
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 16, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 104, 3:00PM
Professor Kiran Kedlaya,   MIT
Title: Towards a slope filtration theorem with nondiscrete coefficients
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 23, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 104, 3:00PM
Professor Jay Pottharst,   Boston College
Title: Selmer groups over eigenvarieties
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 104, 3:00PM
Professor Michael Harris,   Paris 7
Title: Automorphic realization of residual Galois representations
Special Note: Special Session
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Monday, March 2, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 104, 3:00PM
Professor Sug Woo Shin,   Chicago
Title: Construction of automorphic Galois representations
Abstract and details available


Monday, March 9, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 104, 3:00PM
Professor Kannan Soundararajan,   Stanford
Title: Recent progress on Quantum Unique Ergodicity
Abstract and details available


Monday, March 30, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Dick Gross,   Harvard
Title: Restriction problems for classical groups.
Abstract and details available


Monday, April 6, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Brian Conrad,   Stanford
Title: Pseudo-reductive groups
Abstract and details available


Monday, April 13, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Barry Mazur,   Harvard
Title: Elliptic Curves and Hilbert's Tenth problem
Abstract and details available


Monday, April 20, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Matthew Emerton,   Northwestern
Title: p-adic L-functions and Iwasawa theory --- an introduction
Abstract and details available


Monday, April 27, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Matthew Emerton,   Northwestern
Title: p-adic L-functions and Iwasawa theory --- an introduction, part II
Abstract and details available


Monday, May 4, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Mark Kisin,   Chicago
Title: The Grothendieck-Katz conjecture for certain locally symmetric varieties
Abstract and details available


Monday, May 11, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Tom Barnet-Lamb,   Harvard
Title: Potential automorphy for certain Galois representations to GL(n)
Abstract and details available


Monday, May 18, 2009

Number Theory       Lunt 107, 3:00PM
Professor Jordan Ellenberg,   Madison
Title: Stable topology of Hurwitz spaces and arithmetic counting problems
Abstract and details available



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