Colorado State University Department of Mathematics

Algebra Seminar (a.k.a. M592 section 03) 

Current meeting time and place:  Thursday 3:00-4 pm in Weber 117. 

The NSF (grant DMS 04-00461) and D. Rudolph (Yates chair) have provided partial support for the algebra and FRNTC seminars since fall 2004. We would like to thank both of them.


Schedule for Fall Semester 2006


Date Speaker Title (Click on title for abstract, if available) Notes
Aug 24 Maurice Rojas (also on 8/22)
On the Effectivity of Number Theory in Polynomial System Solving   10 am!  
Aug 31 Ciro Ciliberto
Algebro-geometric treatment of the Monge-Ampere equation and homaloidal polynomials   3 pm  
Sept 7 Arsen Elkin - warm-up talk
What is a Jacobian variety?   4 pm  
Sept 14 FRNTC in FC- Taku Ishii
Archimedean zeta functions   4 pm  
Sept 14 FRNTC in FC- C. Rasmussin
On the arithmetic of Jacobians of modular curves   5 pm  
Sept 21 Justin Sawon - warm-up talk
What is a K3-surface?   4 pm  
Sept 28 Harold Stark in Boulder
  4 pm  
Oct 12 FRNTC in Boulder- Audrey Terras
   
Oct 12 FRNTC in Boulder- Pedro Berrizbeitia
   
Oct 26 Rachel Pries - warm-up talk
New phenomena for curves in characteristic $p$    
Nov 9 FRNTC in FC- Felipe Voloch
The Brauer-Manin obstruction for curves   4 pm  
Nov 9 FRNTC in FC- Arsen Elkin
Endomorphisms of hyperelliptic Jacobians   5 pm  
Dec 6 Colloquium - Everett Howe
Higher-order Carmichael numbers   4 pm  
Dec 7 FRNTC in Boulder- Everett Howe
The distribution of Frobenius eigenvalues for principally polarized abelian varieties   Center for Communication Research  
Dec 7 FRNTC in Boulder- Sinnou David
Points of small height on group varieties, an overview  University of Paris VI  
Dec 14 Griff Elder
One-dimensional elementary abelian extensions   4 pm  

Schedule for Spring Semester 2006


Date Speaker Title (Click on title for abstract, if available) Notes
January 19 FRNTC in Laramie: Hugh Williams
Searching for a successor to Euler's polynomial x^2+x+41    
January 26 Organizational meeting
   
February 2 Pam Peters
Gaussian Maps for Double Covers of Smooth Toric Surfaces   Prelim. exam  
February 9 Khalil Krubaii
Teaching algebra in a community college   3:30  
February 16 Rachel Pries
p-torsion of curves in characteristic p    
February 24 FRNTC in Fort Collins: Doug Ulmer
Jacobians of high rank over function fields   Friday! 2 sharp!  
February 24 FRNTC in Fort Collins: Michael Jacobson
Imaginary Cyclic Quartic Fields with Large Minus Class Numbers   Friday! 3 sharp!  
March 9 FRNTC in Laramie: Allison Pacelli
Unit rank and the rank of the class group of a global function field   2:10  
March 9 FRNTC in Laramie: Jeff Achter
Function field class numbers are often divisible   3:10  
3/29-4/1 20th annual workshop on automorphic forms
Information:   Boulder  
April 10 Anna Cadoret
Modular towers and torsion on abelian varieties   Monday!  
April 13 Magnus lecture
   
May 11 Anton Dzhamay
Integrable Hierarchies, Soliton Equations, and the Riemann-Schottky Problem.    



Algebra seminar:  Current schedule   


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