JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR

SCHEDULE  OF TALKS 2004-2005


Date
Place and Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title

September
23


NYU, COURANT INSTITUTE

  TALK: 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00

 TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the    Math Lounge on the 13th floor.


Manjul Bhargava



 
Princeton University




THE DENSITY OF QUARTIC AND
QUINTIC NUMBER FIELDS





September
30
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

TALK:  520 Math, 5:30-7:00

TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor.


Herve Jacquet


Columbia University


A GEOMETRIC INTERPRETATION OF QUADRATIC BASE CHANGE





October
7
CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

TALK:  Room C198, 5:30-7:00

TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.


Calin Adrian Diaconu


Lehman College, CUNY


MOMENTS OF QUADRATIC DIRICHLET L-FUNCTIONS


abstract


October
14
CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

TALK:  Room C198, 5:30-7:00

TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.


Minhyong Kim


University of Arizona
&
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign



THE MOTIVIC FUNDAMENTAL GROUP
AND DIOPHANTINE GEOMETRY




October
21
NYU, COURANT INSTITUTE

  TALK: 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00

 TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in  the    Math Lounge on the 13th floor.


Akshay Venkatesh


Clay Institute
& NYU


EQUIDISTRIBUTION, PERIODS,
AND SUBCONVEXITY


abstract


October
28
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

TALK:  520 Math, 5:30-7:00

TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor.


Wenzhi Luo


Ohio State University

NEW NONVANISHING THEOREMS FOR
 AUTOMORPHIC L-FUNCTIONS
ON GL(n)




November
4
CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

TALK:  Room C198, 5:30-7:00

TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.


Catherine O'Neil


 MIT


EXPLICIT DESCENT ON
ELLIPTIC CURVES


 

November
11
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

TALK:  520 Math, 5:30-7:00

TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor.


Hershy Kisilevsky


Concordia University


VANISHING AND NON-VANISHING
CENTRAL VALUES OF TWISTED
ELLIPTIC L-FUNCTIONS




November
18
NYU, COURANT INSTITUTE

  TALK: 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00

 TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in  the    Math Lounge on the 13th floor.


John Friedlander

University of Toronto
&
IAS, Princeton




DIVISOR PROBLEMS





November
25

THANKSGIVING


HOLIDAYS

THANKSGIVING

HOLIDAYS



December
2
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

TALK:  520 Math, 5:30-7:00

TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor.


Jacques Tilouine


Universite Paris 13
& UCLA



RANK FOUR GALOIS REPRESENTATIONS AND MODULAR FORMS









December
9
NYU, COURANT INSTITUTE

  TALK: 13th Floor, 5:30-7:00

 TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in  the   Math Lounge on the 13th floor


Phillipe Michel


Montpellier


JULIA'S METHOD OF OVERLAPPING INTERVALS AND SUBCONVEXITY



December
16
CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

TALK:  Room C198, 5:30-7:00

TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.


Armand Brumer


Fordham University


l-DIVISION FIELDS AND CONDUCTORS OF ABELIAN VARIETIES