Fall 1998 Berkeley Number Theory Seminar

Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Fall 1998 Number Theory Seminar schedule

Week of	WEDNESDAY	FRIDAY
September 2		Daniel Bertrand, Pari 6 Exponents on non-Fuchsian systems and values of E-functions
September 9	Kevin Buzzard, Imperial College, London Gouvea-Mazur conjectures for Hilbert modular forms	Continuation
September 16	Amod Agashe, Berkeley Invisible elements of Sha.
September 23	Dave McKinnon, Berkeley An Arithmetic Be'zout Theorem	Gisbert Wuestholz Connections between Hilbert's Seventh and Twelfth Problems
September 30	Paul Vojta, Berkeley A more general abc conjecture
October 7	Bjorn Poonen, Berkeley Mordell-Lang plus Bogomolov
October 14	Bjorne Poonen (Mordell-Lang)+(Bogomolov)+ (Equidistribution) implies (Mordell-Lang + Bogomolov)
October 21	Arthur Ogus, Berkeley Hodge numbers of Scholl's modular motives	Matt Baker, Berkeley Trigonal Modular Curves
October 28	Alice Silverberg, Ohio State University Representations of finite groups and applications to abelian varieties	Jim Borger, Berkeley Refined ramification theory and a generalized Hasse-Arf theorem
November 4	Bowen lectures: Barry Mazur, Harvard University Arithmetic inspired by the ABC Conjecture	Ken Ribet, Berkeley 2-dimensional lambda-adic representations in the ramified case
November 11	Barry Mazur, Harvard University "Visualizing elements of order three in the Shafarevich-Tate group."	Hendrik Lenstra, Berkeley Images of Galois representations
November 18	Adrian Vasiu, Berkeley Shimura varieties, K3-surfaces, and Hecke orbits	Hendrik Lenstra Algebras with the same zeta function
November 25	Week of Thanksgiving holiday
December 2	Lily Khadjavi, Berkeley Covering maps and a theorem of Belyi's
December 9	Marius van der Put, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Nederland Grothendieck's conjecture for differential equations.

The Number Theory Seminar meets Wednesdays at 4:12pm in 891 Evans Hall or Fridays in 330 Evans Hall. Lectures last 50 minutes and are followed by a short question period. The mathematical public is cordially invited to attend.

Robert F. Coleman
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