University of Maryland
Algebra-Number Theory Seminar Schedule
Location: Math Bldg. 1310
Time: 3 PM. Moved to 1PM for the spring semester.
Day: Wednesday
Organizer: Larry Washington
Schedule 2000-2001
| September 6: |
Basics of Central Simple Algebras |
| Niranjan Ramachandran (UMCP), atma@math.umd.edu |
| September 13: |
Basics of Central Simple Algebras (II) 4PM, this day only |
| Niranjan Ramachandran (UMCP), atma@math.umd.edu |
| September 20: |
Basics of Central Simple Algebras (III) |
| Niranjan Ramachandran (UMCP), atma@math.umd.edu |
| September 27: |
Introduction to Modular Curves |
| Larry Washington (UMCP) |
| October 4: |
Introduction to Shimura Curves, I |
| Steve Kudla (UMCP) |
| October 11: |
Introduction to Shimura Curves, II |
| Steve Kudla (UMCP) |
| November 29: |
Periods of elliptic curves |
| Niranjan Ramachandran (UMCP) |
| January 31: |
organizational meeting (joint with Representation Theory Seminar) |
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| February 7: |
Introduction to Heegner Points |
| Larry Washington (UMCP), lcw@math.umd.edu |
| March 28: |
Visibility in class groups and Shafarevich-Tate groups |
| Larry Washington (UMCP), lcw@math.umd.edu |
| May 25: |
Existence of algebraic Hecke characters special time: 10 AM |
| Tonghai Yang (Univ. of Wisconsin) |
| May 25: |
On the maximum rank of an elliptic curve
as a function of its conductor special time: 11 AM |
| Douglas Ulmer (Univ. of Arizona) |
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