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Five College Number Theory Seminar
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Where and When
| Five College Number Theory Seminar talks are generally held at Amherst College in the Seeley Mudd building , which houses Amherst College's Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Unless noted otherwise, all talks take place at 4:00 p.m. in room Seeley-Mudd 207. Refreshments are served at 3:30 p.m. in Seeley-Mudd 208. |
Driving Direction to Amherst College
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Campus map of Amherst College
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UMass Hotel
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Parking Directions
| To find the parking lot in back of Seeley Mudd, drive east on College Street (Route 9) past the Amherst town common on your left. Two blocks after the common, turn right onto the College campus (just before you go under a railroad overpass). Take your second right and follow it until the road ends at the Seeley Mudd parking lot. From the parking lot, take the stairs in the Life Sciences building, just to the right of Seeley Mudd, up one flight, exit and turn left toward Seeley Mudd. |
Campus maps for Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, and UMass
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Meet our seminar members
Amherst College
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| Rob Benedetto Gregory Call Djordje Milicevic David Cox Rebecca Torrey | |
Mount Holyoke College
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| Giuliana P. Davidoff Margaret Robinson | |
Smith College
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| Michael Bush | |
UMass Amherst
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| Paul Gunnells Farshid Hajir Thomas Weston Siman Wong | |
Western New England College
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| Jennifer Beineke |
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Jan 31 |
Steven J. Miller (Mount Holyoke/Smith/Williams Colleges) |
Benford's Law, Values of L-Functions and the 3x+1 Problem, or: Why the IRS should care about Number Theory |
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Feb 7 |
Organization Meeting |
Organization Meeting |
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Feb 21 |
Farshid Hajir (UMass Amherst) |
Algebraic properties of Laguerre polynomials |
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Feb 28 |
Jonah Leshin (Brown Univ) |
Applications of Serre's Conjecture |
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March 6 |
Mathew Rogers (Univ Montreal) |
From Ramanujan to the Bloch-Beilinson conjectures |
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March 13 |
Alex Kontorovich (Yale Univ) |
On Zaremba's Conjecture |
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March 27 |
no talk |
no talk |
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April 3 |
Chris Rasmussen (Wesleyan Univ) |
Class number formulas from isogenies |
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April 10 |
Rafe Jones (Holycross College) |
Periodic points over finite fields: an approach through complex dynamics |
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April 17 |
No talk (Monday schedule) |
No talk |
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April 24 |
David Pollack (Wesleyan Univ) |
A trace formula for Sp_4 |
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May 1 |
Wai Kiu Chan (Wesleyan Univ) |
A finiteness results on the representations of quadratic polynomials |
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Speaker |
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Sept 13 |
Organization Meeting |
Organization Meeting |
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Sept 20 |
Farshid Hajir (UMass) |
Heuristics for p-class towers of imaginary quadratic fields |
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Sept 27 |
Margaret Robinson (Mount Holyoke College) |
Counting fixed points, two-cycles, and collisions of the discrete logarithm using p-adic method |
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Oct 4 |
John Cullinan (Bard College) |
The Plesken Lie algebra over finite fields |
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Oct 11 |
No Talk |
(Monday schedule) |
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Oct 18 |
David Cox (Amherst College) |
Kronecker's lost theorem |
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Oct 25 |
Alvaro Lozano-Robledo (UConn) |
Serre's uniformity question and bounds on torsion subgroups of elliptic curves |
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Nov 1 |
Amanda Folsom (Yale) |
Mock modular forms and characters of Kac-Wakimoto |
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Nov 8 |
Elisabeth Malmskog (Wesleyan) |
Automorphisms of Certain Maximal Curves |
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Nov 15 |
Juan Rivera-Letelier (Brown) |
Ergodic theory of p-adic rational maps |
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Nov 22 |
No Talk |
(Thanksgiving) |
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Nov 29 |
Byungchul Cha (Muhlenberg college) |
Prime number races in function fields |
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Dec 6 |
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