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.
The seminar meets Thursdays at 4:00pm in 2-143 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.
DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
|
September 13 | COLLOQUIUM Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv) |
Symplectic Quasi-States (Rm. 4-370) | |
September 20 | David Whitehouse (MIT) |
Applications of the relative trace formula to central L-values | |
September 27 | COLLOQUIUM Paul Sally (Chicago) |
Supercuspidal representations (Rm. 4-370) | |
October 4 | Fernando Rodriguez Villegas (UT-Austin)  |
Mixed polynomials of character varieties | |
October 11 | Karl Mahlburg (MIT)  |
Partition statistics, Quasi-mock theta functions, and weak Maass Forms | |
October 18 | Ken Ono (Wisconsin)  |
Heegner divisors, L-functions, and Maass forms | |
October 25 | John Voight (Vermont)  |
Enumeration of Totally Real Fields | |
November 1 | Henry Cohn (Microsoft Research)  |
Hyperbolic Sphere Packing | |
November 8 | COLLOQUIUM Jeffrey Adams (Maryland) |
TBA (Rm. 4-370) | |
November 15 | FIELD TRIP (TO BC)  |
Akshay Venkatesh to speak in the BC colloq. | |
November 22 | NO SEMINARS | THANKSGIVING | |
November 29 | COLLOQUIUM Carlos Kenig (Chicago) |
TBA (Rm. 4-370) | |
December 6 | Abhinav Kumar (MIT) |
K3 surfaces and real multiplication |