Number Theory Seminar

Schedule of Talks

August 2003
Fri 22	Tom Womack	Four descent on elliptic curves
Fri 29	Nils Bruin	Show your Sha
October 2003
Fri 10	Michael Harrison	Kedlaya's method for counting points on hyperelliptic curves
Fri 17	Rene Schoof	Catalan's conjecture (d'apres Mihailescu) (3:30-4:30)
Fri 24	Rene Schoof	Catalan's conjecture (d'apres Mihailescu) (3:30-5:00)
November 2003
Fri 14	David Kohel	Introduction to Topics on Modular Curves (2:05-2:55)
Fri 21	David Kohel	Topics on Modular Curves II (2:00-2:50)
February 2004
Thurs 05	Keith Tognetti	LSD, Dirty Books and Accountancy Fraud (3:05-3:55)
Thurs 19	David Lubicz	Theta functions and moduli spaces of abelian varieties (3:05-3:55)
March 2004
Fri 12	Christian Virdol	Zeta functions for twisted modular curves (4:05-4:55)
July 2004
Fri 9	Mark Kisin	Modularity (3:05-4:55)

Special Lecture Series: Rigid Cohomology

October 2003
Fri 10	Daniel Caro	Rigid Cohomology (4:15-5:15, following Harrison's talk)
Fri 17	Daniel Caro	Rigid Cohomology (2:05-2:55, preceding Schoof's talk)
Fri 24	Daniel Caro	Rigid Cohomology (2:05-2:55, preceding Schoof's talk)
Fri 31	Daniel Caro	Rigid Cohomology (Back to usual time: 3:05-3:55)
November 2003
Fri 7	Daniel Caro	Rigid Cohomology (3:05-3:55)
Fri 14	Daniel Caro	Rigid Cohomology (3:35-4:25, following Kohel's talk)
Fri 21	Daniel Caro	Rigid Cohomology (3:05-3:55) -- Final talk in series.

Special Lecture Series: Modular forms and functions

March 2004
Fri 12	King Fai Lai	Automorphic forms for SL_2 (3:05-3:55)
Fri 26	Ben Smith	Modular forms and functions [Milne Ch.1,2] (3:05-4:00+)
April 2004
Fri 02	Hai Trung Ho	Modular forms and functions [Milne Ch.3,4] (3:05-3:55;4:05+)
Fri 08	David Gruenewald	Modular forms and functions [Milne Ch.5,6] (3:05-3:55;4:05+)
Fri 16	Alan Stapledon	The Riemann-Roch Theorem [Following Lang] (3:05-3:55)
Fri 23	David Kohel	Modular forms and functions [Genus formulas and algebraic models] (3:05-3:55)
Fri 23	Martine Girard	Modular forms and functions [Milne Ch.8,10] (4:05-4:55)
Fri 30	Mike Harrison	Modular forms and functions [Milne 10,11] (3:05-3:55;4:05+)
June 2004
Fri 04	David Kohel	Complex multiplication and modular curves.

Beach BBQ Seminar

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