Boston College and MIT will join forces again this coming year to create a Number Theory Seminar series. The seminar will meet 6 times per year with two speakers each time, with 3 meetings at BC and 3 meetings at MIT. The first talk each week will begin at 3 p.m. The goal is to create a seminar series that will attract number theorists from the greater Boston area and to feature important advances in modern number theory.
The organizers are Sol Friedberg and Ben Howard at BC, and Ben Brubaker and Bjorn Poonen at MIT.
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Here is a schedule of the talks for 2009-2010:
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Tuesday, September 22 (MIT) Room 4-153 New Room |
3:00 p.m.:Yiannis Sakellaridis (University of Toronto) "A 'relative' Langlands program and periods of automorphic forms" & 4:30 p.m.: Matthew Emerton (Northwestern University) "p-adically completed cohomology and the p-adic Langlands program" |
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Tuesday, October 20 (BC) |
3:00 p.m.: Ze'ev Rudnick (Tel-Aviv University and IAS) "Statistics of the zeros of zeta functions over a function field" & 4:30 p.m.: Haruzo Hida (UCLA) "Characterization of abelian components of the 'big' Hecke algebra" |
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Tuesday, November 17 (MIT) Room 4-153 New Room |
3:00 p.m.: Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford University) & |
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Tuesday, February 9 (BC) |
3:00 p.m.: Gautam Chinta (CUNY) & 4:30 p.m.: Mihran Papikian (Pennsylvania State University) |
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Tuesday, March 9 (MIT) |
3:00 p.m.: Elena Mantovan (Caltech) & 4:30 p.m.: Karl Rubin (UC Irvine) |
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Tuesday, April 13 (BC) |
3:00 p.m.: Shou-Wu Zhang (Columbia University) & |
The first year of the BC-MIT Number Theory Seminar series was 2008-2009, and consisted of talks by 12 distinguished number theorists. It was organized by Sol Friedberg and Ben Howard at BC, and Ben Brubaker and Kiran Kedlaya at MIT. Here is a schedule of those talks:
| 2008-2009 | |
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Tuesday, September 23 (MIT) 3-4 p.m.: Room 4-163 4-6 p.m.: Room 4-149 |
3:00 p.m.: Wee Teck Gan (UC San Diego) "Towards a Gross-Prasad Conjecture for A-Packets" & 4:30 p.m.: Daniel Bump (Stanford) "Metaplectic Whittaker Functions and Crystal Bases"
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Tuesday, October 28 (BC) 3-6 p.m.: McElroy Conference Room |
3:00 p.m.: Steve Kudla (Toronto) "Arithmetic Cycles for Unitary Groups" & 4:30 p.m.:Chris Skinner (Princeton) "Some Remarks on p-adic Galois Representations for GL(2) and Other Groups" |
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Tuesday, November 18 (BC) 3-6 p.m.: McElroy Conference Room |
3:00 p.m.: Henri Darmon (McGill) "On the Gross-Stark Conjecture" & 4:30 p.m.: Peter Sarnak (Princeton) "Recent Progress on the QUE Conjecture" |
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Tuesday, February 17 (MIT) 3-6 p.m.: Room 4-270 |
3:00 p.m.: Brooke Feigon (Toronto) "Unitary periods" & 4:30 p.m.: Kartik Prasanna (Maryland) "Heegner cycles, p-adic L-functions and rational points" |
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Tuesday, March 17 (BC) 3-6 p.m.: McElroy Conference Room |
3:00 p.m.: Dorian Goldfeld (Columbia) "Symmetry types of higher rank Rankin-Selberg L-functions" & 4:30 p.m.: Brian Conrad (Stanford) "Pseudo-reductive groups" |
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Tuesday, April 28 (MIT) 3-6 p.m.: Room 4-149 NEW LOCATION |
3:00 p.m.: Matt Papanikolas (Texas A&M) "Periods and logarithms of Drinfeld modules and algebraic independence" & 4:30 p.m.: Dinakar Ramakrishnan (Caltech) "Hyperbolic 3-manifolds of arithmetic type, S^1 fibrations, and modular forms on quaternion algebras" |
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