MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Mathematics
Seminars and colloquia
Number Theory Seminar

For the academic year 2007-2008, this seminar is being co-organized by Ben Brubaker and Kiran Kedlaya. For more information about the seminar, contact Ben Brubaker.

This semester, the seminar meets Thursdays at 4:00pm in 4-149 unless a colloquium talk is scheduled at MIT (as indicated on the dates below) or otherwise noted.

Abstracts are linked from the talk titles, as provided. The schedule from the Fall semester can be viewed here.

Upcoming talks:

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE
February 7  COLLOQUIUM
Dennis Sullivan
(CUNY) 		Master Equation Package up to homotopy (Rm. 4-370)
February 14  Kathrin Bringmann
(Minnesota) 		 Hypergeometric series, automorphic forms, and mock theta functions (4-149)
February 21  HARVARD COLLOQUIUM
Peter Sarnak
(Princeton/IAS) 		Equidistribution and primes (Science Center D)
February 28  HARVARD COLLOQUIUM
Henri Darmon
(McGill University) 		 Rational points on elliptic curves and cycles on Shimura varieties (Science Center D)
March 6  NO SEMINAR
Peter March (NSF DMS) speaking 		 An overview of the NSF division of mathematical sciences
March 13  Scott Carnahan
(MIT) 		 The Generalized Moonshine Conjecture (4-149)
March 20  COLLOQUIUM
Ehud Hrushovski
(Hebrew University/Yale) 		Model theory of valued fields (Rm. 4-370)
March 27  NO SEMINAR MIT SPRING BREAK
April 7  Igor Shparlinski
(Macquarie Univ.) 		 Fermat Quotients
April 10  Grace Lyo
(MIT) 		 Semisimple group rings and their modules
April 17  Mirela Çiperiani
(Columbia) 		 Tate-Shafarevich groups over anticyclotomic Z_p extensions at supersingular primes
April 24  Peter McNamara
(MIT) 		 Arizona Winter School Redux
May 1  Alex Kontorovich
(Brown) 		 Almost-Primes in Thin Orbits
May 8  COLLOQUIUM
Rick Schoen
(Stanford) 		TBA (Rm. 4-237)
May 15  COLLOQUIUM
Hans Duistermaat
(Universiteit Utrecht) 		TBA (Rm. 4-370)