Emory algebra seminar schedule (fall 2009)

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Organizers: Eric Brussel | Skip Garibaldi (main) | R. Parimala | Vicki Powers

The seminar usually meets Tuesdays at 4pm in MSC W303, but there are many exceptions.

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WeekDayDateSpeakerTitle
1Tu1 SeptBen McReynolds (Chicago)Bertrand's Postulate and subgroup growth
2Tu8 SeptAsher Auel (Emory) Mod 4 invariants of line-bundle-valued quadratic forms
3Tu15 SeptNo seminar - Banff conference
4Tu22 SeptV. Suresh (Emory & Hyderabad)Motives of quadrics, I
5Mon28 Sept Ha Nguyen (Emory) Monday talk at 4pm in W303
Polynomials non-negative on non-compact semialgebraic sets
Tu29 SeptSuresh Motives of quadrics, II
6Th8 OctBud Brown (Virginia Tech) Undergraduate talk Thursday at 7pm in W201
Chocolate key cryptography
7 Th15 OctManjul Bhargava (Princeton) Colloquium at 5:30pm in MSC E208
Counting problems in number theory
8 Mon19 OctKarl Mahlburg (Princeton)Monday talk at 4pm in W303
The coefficients of q-series and asymptotics for partition ranks and cranks
Tu20 OctAthens-Atlanta Number Theory Seminar in W201
4pm-5pm: Doug Ulmer (Georgia Tech) : Constructing elliptic curves of high rank over function fields
5:15pm-6:15pm: Jonathan Hanke (U. Georgia) : Using mass formulas to enumerate definite quadratic forms of class number one
9Mon26 OctKrishna Alladi (Florida)Monday seminar at 4pm in W303
A theorem of Gollnitz and its place in the theory of partitions
Tue27 OctAsher Auel (Emory)Thursday seminar at 4pm in W303
Steenrod squares in Chow groups
10Fri6 NovGopal Prasad (Michigan)Friday seminar at 4:15pm in W303
Pseudo-reductive groups
11Tu10 NovAbhinav Kumar (MIT & Princeton)Lattices, sphere packings, spherical codes, and energy minimization
Th12 NovAsher AuelThursday seminar at 3pm in E406
Steenrod squares in Chow groups II
12Tu17 NovSureshChow motives
Wed18 NovDavid Borthwick (Emory) Celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Riemann Hypothesis at 4pm in W201
Riemann's zeros and the rhythm of the primes
13Mon23 NovSureshMonday seminar at 4pm in E408
Chow motives II
14Tu1 DecPatrick Corn (Emory)Title TBA
Wed2 DecSkip GaribaldiGraduate student seminar at 4pm in W201
Title TBA
15Tu8 Dec

You can also see the schedules of seminars from past semesters or the Department's official listing of algebra seminars.