Spring 99

Department of Mathematics
Johns Hopkins University

Past Number Theory Seminars

Tuesday, January 19, 4:00 pm in Krieger 300
Marcin Mazur of University of Chicago will speak on Finite Arithmetic Groups of GL(n).
 
Wednesday, January 27, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Nikolaos Diamantis of Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik will speak on Hecke operators and cocyles associated to derivatives of L-functions.
 
Wednesday, February 3, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Stephen Kudla of University of Maryland will speak on Central derivatives of Eisenstein series and height pairings.

Wednesday, March 3, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Stephen Lichtenbaum of Brown University will speak on Cohomology of Weil Groups.

Thursday, March 4, 4:00 pm in Krieger 308
Ehud Moshe Baruch of Yale University will speak on Bessel distributions, Bessel functions and special values of L-functions.
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 in Krieger 209.

Wednesday, March 17, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Kazuhiro Fujiwara of Nagoya University will speak on Congruences and level optimization for Hilbert modular forms.

Wednesday, March 24, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Victor Kolyvagin of Johns Hopkins University will speak on Fermat's equations over cyclotomic fields.

Wednesday, March 31, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Christopher Skinner of the Institute for Advanced Study will speak on Modular forms and residually reducible representations.  Abstract.
 
Wednesday, April 7, 4:00 pm in Krieger 308
JOINT ALGEBRAIC & COMPLEX GEOMETRY/NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Yuri Tschinkel of University of Illinois at Chicago will speak on Rational points on algebraic varieties.

Wednesday, April 14, 4:30 pm in Krieger 308
Avner Ash of Ohio State University/Boston University will speak on An analogue for GL(n) of Serre's conjecture.