DATE:         May 5 2005
TIME:         12:10 in Weber 117
SPEAKER:      Jeremy Muskat (CSU)
TITLE:        Determining congruence zeta functions.

ABSTRACT:     Zeta functions are mathematical objects that appear in
many different disciplines of mathematics.  Their applications may be
viewed in analysis, number theory, and geometry to name just a few.
This talk will focus on determining congruence zeta functions of
projective hypersurfaces.  This will be accomplished by one of three
methods.  Using Jacobi sums, the Weil conjectures, or by comparison to
the smooth form of the hypersurfaces.