Notes from seminar talks
These are notes I have taken at various seminars. Any errors are most likely due to my lack of understanding or not being able to keep up.
- The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture through Siegel modular forms and Galois representations by Chris Skinner (U of Mich. 9-16-2002)
- Main conjectures for modular forms by Chris Skinner (U. of Mich. 3-29-2004)
- Anticyclotomic μ-invariants of elliptic curves by Tom Weston (Ohio State 1-22-2007)
- The Skinner-Wiles trick for GSp(4) by Claus Sorenson (Caltech 2-14-2008)
- Aspects of non-abelian Lubin-Tate theory by Teruyoshi Yoshida (Caltech 3-8-2008)
- p-adic Beilinson and Bloch-Kato conjectures by Tejawi Navilarekallu (Caltech 5-1-2008)
- Galois representations arising from some compact Shimura varieties by Sug Woo Shin (Caltech 5-8-2008)
- Solving Diophantine equations with analysis by Tonghai Yang (Clemson 2-5-2009)
- Introduction to the number theory of function fields and Drinfeld modules by Matt Papanikolas (Clemson 4-16-2009)
- Drinfeld modular forms and Drinfeld modular curves by Matt Papanikolas (Clemson 4-16-2009)
- Arithmetic of function field gamma and zeta functions by Matt Papanikolas (Clemson 4-17-2009)
- Introduction to the Hodge conjecture by Jim Brown (Clemson REU 6-18-2009)
- Arithmetic Avatars of Analytic Objects: A case study using the Yoshida lift by Johnson Jia (Clemson 12-03-09)
- A primitive p-integral Yoshida lift by Johnson Jia (Clemson 12-04-09)
- Quantum Unique Ergodicity and Number Theory by Kannan Soundararajan (Univ. of South Carolina Colloquium 12-04-09)
- The degree five L-function for GSp(4) and Bessel coefficients by Dan File (Clemson University 2-19-10)
- On sums of three squares by Jim Cogdell (Clemson University 2-19-10)
- Moments of zeta and L-functions by Kannan Soundararajan (Athens-Atlanta Number Theory Seminar 2-1-11)
- Modularity of residually reducible Galois representations by Kris Klosin (Clemson University 12-1-11)
- Polynomial equations modulo p by Matt Boylan (Clemson REU 6-14-12)
- Introduction to modular symbols by Rodney Keaton (Clemson University 9-5-12)
- Conic theta functions by Winfried Kohnen (Clemson University 11-29-12)
- p-adic families of Eisenstein series for unitary groups by Ellen Eischen (Clemson University 4-24-13)
- An explicit semi-factorial model of the Neron model by Jesse Kass (Clemson University 3-26-14)
- Level stripping for genus 2 Siegel modular forms by Rodney Keaton (Clemson University 4-19-14)
- Geometry of Numbers Methods over Number Fields by Arul Shankar (Athens-Atlanta Number Theory Day Fall 2014)
- Kolyvagin's Conjecture on Heegner Points by Wei Zhang (Athens-Atlanta Number Theory Day Fall 2014)
- The Chowla-Selberg formula for quartic abelian CM fields by Robert Cass (Clemson University 3-24-14)
- The mean number of 3-torsion elements in ray class groups of quadratic fields by Ila Varma (Clemson University 3-26-15)
- Motivic cohomology actions and the geometry of eigenvarieties by David Hansen (Columbia University 9-11-15)
- The Iwasawa main conjecture for elliptic curves at supersingular primes by Florian Sprung (Joint NYC Seminar 10-1-15)
- The BSD conjecture and generalized Kato classes by Henri Darmon (Joint NYC Seminar 10-8-15)
- On vanishing of torsion in the cohomology of Shimura varieties by Ana Caraiani (Joint NYC Seminar 10-23-15)
- Algebraic flows on abelian varieties and Shimura varieties by Emmanuel Ullmo (Joint NYC Seminar 11-5-15)
- Average numbers of integral points in dynamical orbits by Wade Hindes (CUNY Collaborative Number Theory Seminar 11-13-15)
- Local Langlands for simple supercuspidal representations of SO($2 \ell + 1, F)$ by Moshe Adrian (CUNY Collaborative Number Theory Seminar 11-20-15)
- Congruence ideals and Selmer groups for symmetric powers by Jacques Tilouine (Columbia Automorphic Forms Seminar 2-5-16)
- Congruence primes for automorphic forms on unitary groups by Jim Brown (CUNY Collaborative Number Theory Seminar 2-5-16)
- Algebraic knot invariants, arithmetic knot theory, and asymptotics by Alison Miller (Joint NYC Seminar 2-11-16)
- A quantum algorithm for computing the unit group of a number field by Kirsten Eisentraeger (Joint NYC 2-18-16)
- Rationality of canonical heights by Laura DeMarco (Joint NYC 2-25-16)
- On the Drinfeld moduli problem of $p$-divisible groups by Michael Rapoport (Columbia 2-26-16)
- The asymptotic behavior of periods of automorphic forms by Simon Marshall (Joint NYC 3-3-16)
- Euler systems for Rankin-Selberg convolutions and generalizations by Sarah Zerbes (Columbia 3-4-16)
- Higher regulators and non-critical values of degree 8 $L$-functions for GSp$(4) \times$ GL$(2)$ by Francesco Lemma (Columbia 3-25-16)
- Oddness of residually reducible Galois representations by Tobias Berger (Queens College 3-28-16)
- An automorphic version of the Deligne Conjecture by Jie Lin (Columbia 4-8-16)
- Distribution of rational points on some homogeneous varieties by Ramin Takloo-Bighash (Joint NYC 4-8-16)
- Generalized Heegner cycles and congruences of $p$-adic $L$-functions by Daniel Kriz (Columbia 4-15-16)
- On the integral kernel for a multiple Dirichlet series associated to Siegel cusp forms by Yves Martin (CUNY 5-13-16)
- $p$-converse to a theorem of Gross-Zagier, Kolyvagin, and Rubin by Ashay Burungale (Caltech 10-11-18)
- Generalization of Dasgupta's factorization of $p$-adic Rankin $L$-series by Aprameyo Pal (Caltech 10-25-18)
- Slopes in eigenvarieties for definite unitary groups by Lynnelle Ye (Caltech 11-8-18)
- Developments for $p$-adic $L$-functions with a view towards unitary groups by Ellen Eischen (Caltech 11-15-18)
- Euler systems and local representations by Chris Skinner (Caltech 1-24-19)
- Algebraic twists of $\textrm{GL}(3)$ modular forms by Philippe Michel (Caltech 2-7-19)
- Dynamics of continued fractions and Mazur-Rubin conjecture by Hae-Sang Sun (Caltech 2-14-19)
- Malle's conjecture for octic $D_4$ fields by Ila Varma (Caltech 5-3-19)
- Iwasawa theory for function fields by Bryden Cais (Caltech 5-16-19)
- Heegner Points in Hida families and non-vanishing of central derivatives by Francesc Castella (Caltech 1-23-20)
- Recent progress on BSD by Chris Skinner (Caltech 1-28-20)
- On the modularity of elliptic curves over imaginary quadratic fields by Patrick Allen (Caltech 2-20-20)
- Tame derivatives and the Eisenstein ideal by Preston Wake (Caltech 3-5-20)
- A conjectural endoscopic classification via Galois representations by Sug Woo Shin (Caltech 3-28-22)
- Higher modularity of elliptic curves by Jared Weinstein (Caltech 12-2-22)
- Algebraicity and p-adic interpolation for L-functions with a view towards Spin L-functions for GSp(6) by Ellen Eischen (Caltech 2-16-23)
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