UvA Number theory - Intercity seminar

Intercity number theory seminar

The intercity number theory seminar is the seminar of the participants of the SMC-funded
Groot Project Getaltheorie. It is one of the activities of Stieltjes number theory. The seminar meets every second Friday at one of the participating universities.

PROGRAM

In the spring of 1999, the intercity seminar will host a series of lectures by Ed Schaefer (Santa Clara), who is currently visiting Leiden University (January - May 1999). His lectures focus on Rational points on algebraic curves.

During the period April - June 1999, there will be a number of talks by `Kloostermanhoogleraar' Andrew Granville.

The weekly Stieltjes course on class field theory by Hendrik Lenstra takes place on Friday mornings (10.00 - 12.45) and starts January 22. On intercity days, the location of the course and the intercity talks coincide.

Friday June 4, 1999 - Universiteit Leiden

Tiling the integers with translates of one finite set

Special values of theta functions

Character sums - heuristics, conjectures and theorems

Friday May 21, 1999 - Universiteit Leiden

Some results towards Cohen-Lenstra heuristics

Diophantine approximation on elliptic curves

Uniformity properties of curves over function fields

Friday May 7, 1999 - Universiteit Leiden

The proportion of quadratic residues up to x

Geometric Methods for Improving Bounds on the Number of Rational Points on Curves over Finite Fields

Thursday April 29, 1999 - Universiteit Leiden

Prime values of quadratic polynomials

April 12-23, 1999 - Advances in Number Theory, Lorentz Center, Leiden

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April 12:

Diophantine equations today

April 15: joint meeting with the intercity seminar, room 201

Chabauty and Covering Techniques, Part 1

Chabauty and Covering Techniques, Part 2

Intersecting a variety with multiplicative algebraic groups

The abc conjecture applied to analytic number theory

April 16: joint meeting with the intercity seminar, room 201

Heights on the Jacobians of genus two curves

Polynomial exponential equations

Chabauty using elliptic curves

Tamagawa Numbers

April 23: joint meeting with the intercity seminar, room 201

The distribution of values of L(1,chi)

The Schottky problem over finite fields, and improved Weil bounds

April 8-9, 1999 - Nederlands Wiskundig Congres, Utrecht

Friday April 2, 1999 - Good Friday, no meeting

Friday March 19, 1999 - Universiteit Leiden

Rational points on algebraic curves V

From Hasse-Witt matrix to characteristic polynomial

Friday March 5, 1999 - Universiteit Leiden

Rational points on algebraic curves IV

Polynomial maps

Friday February 19, 1999 - Universiteit Leiden

Rational points on algebraic curves III

Newton polygons and higher ramification

Friday February 5, 1999 - Universiteit van Amsterdam

Rational points on algebraic curves II

Lichtenbaum-Tate duality for varieties over p-adic fields

Friday January 22, 1999 - Universiteit van Amsterdam

Rational points on algebraic curves I

The size function for number fields

Friday December 11, 1998 - no program

Friday November 27, 1998 - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Modular curves and class number one

Class number one (following Chen & Edixhoven)

Friday November 13, 1998 - Universiteit van Amsterdam

Analytic number theory and the class number one problem

Lower bounds for imaginary quadratic class numbers (following Goldfeld-Oesterlé)

Friday October 30, 1998 - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (!)

Elliptic curves over

p with a given number of points

Abelian varieties over finite fields (after Honda-Tate)

The inaugural lecture of Sjoerd Verduyn-Lunel starts at 15.45 in the Aula of the VU.

Friday October 16, 1998 - Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen

Will the Jacobian Conjecture make it to the next century?

The class number one problem for imaginary quadratic fields

Friday October 2, 1998 - Rijksuniversiteit Leiden

A Gelfand-Beurling formula for height on endomorphisms rings

Artin's conjecture for arithmetic progressions

Choosing better polynomials for the number field sieve

Friday September 18, 1998 - Universiteit van Amsterdam

Effectivity of Arakelov divisors

Linearly equivalent actions of solvable groups

Program in previous years:

1997-98

1996-97

Maintained by Peter Stevenhagen (psh@wins.uva.nl)
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