NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR TALKS - WINTER, 2007


January 16th, 2007: Abhinav Kumar, Microsoft Research
K3 surfaces of high rank and Kummer surfaces, Abstract

January 24th, 2007, 5:00 - 6:00 PM, Max Lieblich, Princeton University
A geometric approach to the period-index problem for the Brauer group, Abstract

February 13th, 2007: William Stein, University of Washington
Explicitly computing information about Shafarevich-Tate groups of elliptic curves using L-functions, Euler Systems, and Iwasawa theory, Abstract

February 27th, 2007: William Stein, University of Washington
The full Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture for specific elliptic curves, Abstract

February 28th, 2007 at 4:00 in Loew 115, Dustin Moody, University of Washington
Discrete logs and Diffie-Hellman problems in generic groups, Abstract

March 5th, 2007, Ralph Greenberg, University of Washington
Ideal class groups and Bernoulli numbers - a theorem of Herbrand, Abstract