UvA Number theory - Intercity seminar 97-98
Intercity number theory seminar 1997-98
PROGRAM
Friday September 26, 1997 - Universiteit van Amsterdam
Jaap Top -
Computing Mordell-Weil groups of elliptic curves
Tim Dokshitzer -
Galois representations arising from elliptic curves
Friday October 17, 1997 - Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht
Jaap Top -
Explicit descent on certain jacobians
Fabrizio Andreatta -
Definition and properties of the Serre group
Friday October 31, 1997 - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Marco Garuti -
Locally algebraic abelian representations
Robert Perlis (LSU, Baton Rouge) -
Arf-equivalence of number fields
Frits Beukers -
Computation of rational points on curves of genus >1
Friday November 14, 1997 - Universiteit van Amsterdam
Peter Stevenhagen -
Galois representations arising form elliptic curves, I
Bart de Smit -
Galois representations arising form elliptic curves, II
Friday November 28, 1997 - Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
Frits Beukers -
Computation of rational points on curves of genus >1
Rob Tijdeman -
A proof of Mahler's conjecture on the values of the modular function
Alex Heinis -
On balance and stiffness
Friday December 12, 1997 - Universiteit van Amsterdam
Nils Bruin -
Computation of rational points on curves of genus >1
Hans Roskam -
Galois representations arising from CM-elliptic curves
Friday January 23, 1998 - Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
Hendrik Lenstra -
Zeros of lacunary polynomials
Don Zagier -
Differentiating modular forms, with applications in
number theory
Friday February 20, 1998 - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Irene Bouw -
Coverings in characteristic p
Marius van der Put -
The inverse problem of differential Galois theory
Jaap Top -
Coverings of P^1 minus three points with group SL(2,F_q)
Tuesday March 3, 1998:
Artin Reciprocity Celebration
Friday March 6, 1998 - Universiteit van Amsterdam
Bart de Smit -
Arithmetically equivalent fields and elliptic curves
Tom Schmidt -
The geometry of Markoff numbers
Friday March 20, 1998 - Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
Lily Khadjavi -
On a theorem of Belyi's
Wayne Whitney -
Continuous cohomology
Friday April 3, 1998 - Universiteit van Amsterdam
Jim Borger -
Non-classical ramification theory
Hans Roskam -
Artin's conjecture on primitive roots and applications
April 16-17, 1998:
Nederlands Wiskundig Congres
Friday April 24, 1998:
Ostrowski Prize Award Ceremony
The prize is awarded to Nesterenko and Pisier.
The morning talks are of number theoretic interest.
R. Tijdeman -
On the nature of the numbers e and pi
Y.V. Nesterenko -
Transcendental numbers: results and problems
Friday May 8, 1998:
Computational number theory day, CWI, Amsterdam
R. P. Brent -
Integer factorization algorithms illustrated by the factorization
of Fermat numbers
M. Honsbeek -
Nested radicals
S. Gebre-Egziabher -
On a sign question in the Lucas-Lehmer test
M. Wolf -
Some conjectures on the gaps between consecutive primes
Tuesday May 19, 1998 - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Vasili Shabat -
Curves over finite fields with many points - explicit construction
Roland Auer -
Equations and formulas for ray class fields of global function fields
Marius van der Put -
Analytic theory of Drinfeld modules of rank 2
Jaap Top -
Algebraic results on Drinfeld modular curves
Heinz-Georg Quebbemann -
Extremal lattices in Euclidean spaces