Date | Speaker | Title (Click on title for abstract, if available) | Notes |
August 25 | Organizational meeting |
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September 1 | Jesse Brinker |
Complex multiplication and abelian extensions of Q(i) | 3:00 sharp! |
September 8 | Roger Baker |
The values of quadratic forms at square-free points | 3:00-3:50 |
September 8 | Pedro Berrizbeita |
AKS with Gaussian Sums abstract | 4:00-4:50 |
September 15 | Hiro Abo |
Arrangements of planes in P^4 formed from the Petersen graph | 3:10-4:00 |
September 22 | Hiro Abo |
Smooth general-type surfaces in P^4 with many 7-secant lines | 3:10-4:00 |
October 6 | Stefan Erickson |
Variations on a Theme of Stark | 3:10-4 |
October 13 | |
Yom Kippur-no seminar | |
October 18 | FRNTC in Boulder: Michael John Jacobson, Jr. |
Computing Class Groups of Quadratic Fields | 3-4 |
October 18 | FRNTC in Boulder: Renate Scheidler |
Construction of Hyperelliptic Function fields of High Three-Rank | 4-5 |
October 20 | Anton Dzhamay |
Frobenius manifolds | 3:10-4 |
October 27 | Cheryl Praeger |
Simple groups, permutation groups, and a problem about primes | 3:10-4 |
November 3 | |
Math Day- no seminar | |
November 10 | Holger Kley |
So what is a toric variety anyway? | 12:10-1 |
November 10 | Diane Maclagan |
GIT and Chow quotients of toric varieties | 3:10-4 |
November 15 | FRNTC in Laramie: Trevor Wooley |
The density of rational points on large dimensional hypersurfaces | 4-5 pm |
November 15 | FRNTC in Laramie: Suion Ih. |
5-6 pm | |
November 24 | |
Thanksgiving - no seminar | |
December 1 | Warm-up talk: Hulpke and Achter |
What is a modular form? What is a Newton polygon? | 3-4 pm |
December 8 | FRNTC in Fort Collins: Ken Ono |
Modular Forms, Infinite Products, and Singular Moduli | 3-4 pm |
December 8 | FRNTC in Fort Collins: June Zhu |
From L-functions of exponential sums to moduli of abelian varieties | 4-5 pm |