Number theory and representation theory seminar
Winter 2008

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

Schedule of Talks

January 7, 3:10-5 pm
Representing integers by ternary quadratic forms
Jon Hanke (Duke)
January 14, 3:10-5 pm
A p-adic approach to Hilbert's 12th Problem
Samit Dasgupta (Harvard)
January 21, 3:10-5 pm
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
No seminar this week
January 28, 3:10-5 pm
Hyberbolic reflective lattices and Coxeter polytopes
Pasha Tumarkin (MSU)
February 4, 3:10-5 pm
Hypergeometric functions, automorphic forms, and mock theta functions
Kathrin Bringmann (U. Minn.)
February 11, 3:10-5 pm
The relative trace formula with a view towards simple Shimura varieties
Jayce Getz (IAS)
February 18, 3:10-5 pm
Tate-Shafarevich groups over anticyclotomic Z_p-extensions at supersingular primes
Mirela Ciperiani (Columbia)
February 25, 3:10-5 pm
Winter recess
No seminar this week
March 3, 3:10-5 pm
A dyadic exercise in the construction of supercuspidal representations and types
Jiu-Kang Yu (Purdue)
March 10, 3:10-5 pm
A report on functoriality
Jim Cogdell (OSU)
March 17, 3:10-5 pm
A bound for ramification of p-torsion semistable representations
Tong Liu (U. Penn.)
March 24, 3:10-5 pm
Relationships between characters of real and p-adic groups
Peter Trapa (Utah)
March 31, 3:10-5 pm
Modular varieties and the Weil-Deligne bound
Mihran Papikian (Penn State)
April 7, 3:10-5 pm
TBA
Dmitriy Boyarchenko (U. Chicago)
April 14, 3:10-5 pm
Compactifications of PEL-type Shimura varieties
Kai-Wen Lan (Harvard)



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