Number Theory Seminar

Schedule of Talks

August 2005
Fri 19	Stephen Meagher	Twisting Curves (4:05-4:55)
November 2005
Thu 10	John Voight	Quadratic forms that represent almost the same primes (4:05-5:00)
January 2006
Thu 19	Ben Smith	Explicit real multiplication from cyclotomic coverings of curves (3:05-4:00)
February 2006
Thu 16	Robert Carls	3-adic canonical lifting (3:05-4:00)
March 2006
Thu 23	Ralf Gerkmann	Relative rigid cohomology and point counting on hypersurfaces (4:05-4:55) [slides in pdf]
Thu 30	Ralf Gerkmann	Relative rigid cohomology and point counting on hypersurfaces (4:05-4:35) [slides in pdf]

Special Lecture Series: Shimura Curves

John Voight will give a serie of lectures on "Shimura Curves" [Lectures notes in pdf].

April 2006
Tue 4	John Voight	Shimura curves: A survey (3:05-4:00) Carslaw 373
Fri 7	John Voight	Shimura curves as moduli spaces (1:05-2:00) Carslaw 251
Tue 11	John Voight	Computational aspects of Shimura curves (3:05-4:00) Carslaw 373

Special Lecture Series: Complex multiplication of abelian varieties

This lecture series will follow the book "Abelian varieties with complex multiplication and modular functions" of Goro Shimura. Lectures will be by and for postgrads, postdocs, and other interested researchers.

August 2005
Fri 19	Steve Ward	Preliminaries on Abelian varieties (3:05-3:55)
Thu 25	Steve Ward	Preliminaries on Abelian varieties II (4:05-4:55)
September 2005
Thu 1	Steve Ward	Preliminaries on Abelian varieties III (4:05-4:55)
Thu 8	David Gruenewald	Polarized abelian varieties and their fields of definition. (4:05-4:55)
Thu 15	David Gruenewald	Polarized abelian varieties. (4:05-4:55) [lecture notes in pdf]
October 2005
Thu 06	Alex Unger	Structure of Endomorphism Rings of Abelian Varieties (4:05-5:30)
Fri 14	Alex Unger	Structure of Endomorphism Algebras of Abelian Varieties II (3:05-4:00)
Thu 20	Alex Unger	Structure of Endomorphism Algebras of Abelian Varieties III (4:05-4:30) [lecture notes in ps]
Thu 20	Robert Carls	Kummer varieties attached to abelian varieties (4:40-4:40) [lecture notes in pdf]
November 2005
Thu 3	Robert Carls	Transforms of abelian varieties with multiplication (4:05-5:00) [lecture notes in pdf]
March 2006
Thu 30	Robert Carls	Transformations and ideal section points (4:45-5:45)
April 2006
Thu 6	Ley Wilson	CM-types (4:05-4:55)
Thu 13	David Kohel	The reflex of a CM type (4:05-4:55)
Thu 27	John Voight	Fields of definition for CM-types (4:05-4:55)
May 2006
Thu 4	David Gruenewald	An introduction to Néron Models (4:05-4:55)
Thu 11	David Gruenewald	An introduction to Néron Models (part II) (4:05-4:55)
Thu 25	David Gruenewald	Néron Models (the end) (4:05-4:55)
June 2006
Thu 1	Steve Ward	Class Field Theory and the Kronecker Weber Theorem (4:05-4:55)
Thu 8	Steve Ward	The main theorem of complex multiplication for abelian varieties (4:05-5:30)
Thu 22	Steve Ward	The main theorem of complex multiplication (4:05-5:00)

Beach BBQ Seminar

The Number Theory Seminar may be preceded or followed by a Beach BBQ Seminar at Clovelly.