SNT 2019-2020

Student Number Theory Seminar 2019-20

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NOTE: The seminar is now online. Talks will be delivered via Zoom at the permanent link HERE

Meeting time: Mondays 3:35-4:25
Location: Vincent Hall 570 (MOVED ONLINE AS OF 3/18)
Organizers: Joe Dickinson and Andy Hardt

Spring 2020

• 1/27/20: Dev Hegde -- Automorphic Forms Since 1950
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• 2/3/20: Paul Garrett -- Self-adjoint operators and zeta functions
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• 2/10/20: Meagan Kenney -- The Conditional Probability That an Elliptic Curve Has a Rational Subgroup of Order 5 or 7
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• 2/17/20: Claire Frechette -- New Yang-Baxter Equations for Metaplectic Ice
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• 2/24/20: John O'Brien -- The Satake equivalence I: The classical formulation
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• 3/2/20: John O'Brien -- The Satake equivalence II: The geometric formulation
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• 3/9/20: No seminar (Spring break)
• 3/16/20: No seminar (Spring break)
• 3/23/20: Andy Hardt -- Iwahori Hecke algebras in multiple contexts
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• 3/30/20: Emily Tibor -- Introduction to Klyachko Models for GL_n
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• 4/6/20: Discussion and Feedback Session
• 4/13/20: Katy Weber -- Whittaker Functions and Demazure Operators
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• 4/20/20: Jacob Hegna -- Elliptic cohomology and topological modular forms
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• 4/27/20: Trevor Karn -- Three proofs of the Cauchy-Davenport inequality
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• 5/4/20: In-Place Showcase
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Fall 2019

• 9/9/19: Andy Hardt -- What is Number Theory?
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• 9/16/19: Joe Dickinson -- A Brief Introduction to L-Functions
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• 9/23/19: Claire Frechette -- What is This Thing Called An 'Elliptic Curve'?
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• 9/30/19: Dev Hegde -- Leading up to Dirichlet's class number formula
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• 10/7/19: Katy Weber -- A Tour of the p-adic Representation Theory of GL_2
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• 10/14/19: Eric Stucky -- Arithmetic Speculation on a Combinatorial Lemma
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• 10/21/19: David DeMark -- Representation Stability, Etale Cohomology and Combinatorics of Configuration Spaces over Finite Fields
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• 10/28/19: David DeMark -- Representation Stability, Etale Cohomology and Combinatorics of Configuration Spaces over Finite Fields (cont.)
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• 11/4/19: Claire Frechette -- Introduction to Ice Models in Number Theory
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• 11/11/19: Shengmei An -- Introduction to Rankin-Selberg Method
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• 11/18/19: Emily Tibor -- The Casselman-Shalika Formula for GL_2
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• 11/25/19: Shengkai Mao -- Crystalline cohomology and Katz's conjecture
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• 12/2/19: Henry Twiss -- Moments of Multiple Dirichlet L-Series
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• 12/9/19: SNT Secret Santa
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