Number theory and representation theory seminar
Fall 2007

The seminar meets in East Hall 4096, 3:10-5pm, with a short tea break at 4pm. The first part of the talk should be more expository in nature, and the second part can (but need not!) be more technical.

Schedule of Talks

Click on the name of the speaker for the abstract (if available).

September 10, 3:10-5 pm
Tate's conjecture in fibers of a pencil
Chris Hall (UM)
September 17, 3:10-5 pm
Bilinear forms invariant under algebraic groups
Skip Garibaldi (Emory U.)
September 24, 3:10-5 pm
On the special values of L-functions
A. Raghuram (Oklahoma U.)
October 1, 3:10-5 pm
Generic p-rank of semistable fibrations
Junmyeong Jang (Purdue U.)
October 8, 3:10-5 pm
Algebraic independence of values of the exponential function
Damien Roy (Univ. of Ottawa)
October 15, 3:10-5 pm
No meeting this week
Fall break
October 22, 3:10-5 pm
The rigid-analytic Shimura lifting
Nick Ramsey (UM)
October 29, 3:10-5 pm
Point-counting problem for Shimura varieties
Sug Woo Shin (IAS)
November 5, 3:10-5 pm
Algebraic cycles and exotic Heegner points
Kartik Prasanna (Univ. of Maryland)
November 12, 3:10-5 pm
Generic supercuspidal representations of classical groups
Ju-Lee Kim (MIT)
November 19, 3:10-5 pm
Newton integral motives over finite fields
Junecue Suh (MIT)
November 26, 3:10-5 pm
Coxeter groups, their subgroups, and Kac-Moody algebras
Anna Felikson (IUM)
December 3, 3:10-5 pm
A refined converse theorem for GL(2)
Muthu Krishnamurthy (Univ. of Iowa)
December 10, 3:10-5 pm
Equicharacteristic Galois representations of local function fields
Carl Miller (UM)



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