NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR TALKS - SPRING, 2007


April 17th, 2007, Trevor Arnold, University of Washington
Modular forms, Iwasawa theory, and vanishing of L-functions, Abstract


April 24th, 2007, William Stein, Christopher Swierczewski, University of Washington
The Sato-Tate Conjecture and Beyond, Abstract


April 27th, 2007, Bisi Agboola, UCSB, Padelford C-401, 4:00 - 5:00 PM
On special values of p-adic L-functions associated to CM elliptic curves. Abstract


May 1st, 2007, Robert Bradshaw, University of Washington
Explicit Coleman Integration, Abstract


May 8th, 2007, Abhinav Kumar, Microsoft Research
Introduction to deformation theory of Galois representations, Abstract


May 15th, 2007, Tak-Lun Koo, University of Washington
Irreducibility of the characteristic polynomials for Hecke operators


May 22nd, 2007, Dimitar Jetchev, University of California, Berkeley
Global Divisibility of Heegner Points and Tamagawa Numbers, Abstract


May 29th, 2007, Christian Wuthrich, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and McGill University,
Self-points on elliptic curves, Abstract