Algebra and Number Theory Seminar, Spring 2006

Tuesdays, 2:00-3:00, Room 402, Math 402

The seminar of the research groups in number theory and group theory.

Algebra/Number Theory Lunch

Every Tuesday at 12:30. Gather by the elevators. And remember, it's not just a number theory lunch!

Schedule

Date Speaker Title
January 31 Nick Rogers Ranks of Congruent Number Elliptic Curves
February 7 Dinesh Thakur Multizeta and Ihara power series for function fields
February 14 Nick Rogers Integer Factorization (AWS prep)
February 21 Kirti Joshi Computations in Algebraic Geometry (AWS prep)
February 28 William McCallum Tropical Algebraic Geometry (AWS prep)
March 7 Lisa Berger Algorithms for Diophantine Equations (AWS prep)
March 14 No seminar (AWS)
March 21 Francisco Portillo Computations on the Mazur-Tate Conjecture
March 28 Lee Jacobi Solving x 4 + y 4 + z 4 + w 4 = x + y + z + w 4 (MathML)
April 4 Ryan Vinroot The characteristic maps for symmetric, finite general linear, and finite unitary groups
April 11 Ryan Vinroot Gelfand-Graev characters of finite general linear and unitary groups
April 18 Brad Shelton, University of Oregon PBW deformations of graded algebras (Joint work with T. Cassidy
April 25 James Cossey Irreducible Specht modules of the Symmetric group
May 2 Cam McLeman Class Field Towers: A Survey

William McCallum <wmc@math.arizona.edu>
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