The purpose of this seminar is to read and discuss current and relevant research papers on a weekly basis. The topic for this semester is modular forms, elliptic curves, and Shimura varieties.
The papers for each week and the person who will lead the discussion are listed in the following table:
Date |
Paper* | Discussion Leader |
|---|---|---|
8/26/09
|
Organizational Meeting | |
9/2/09
|
Zagier, Modular points, modular curves, modular surfaces & modular forms | Kim Hopkins |
9/9/09
|
(Continuation of above paper) | |
9/16/09
|
K. Ribet, A modular construction of unramified p-extensions of Q(\mu_p) , extra notes | David Helm |
9/23/09 |
(Continuation of above paper) | |
10/7/09 |
J. Tate, Fourier Analysis in Number Fields and Hecke's Zeta-Functions , extra notes | David Paige |
10/14/09 |
(Continuation of above paper) | |
10/21/09 |
W. Duke, O. Imamoglu, and A. Toth, Cycle integrals of the j-function and mock modular forms | Kim Hopkins |
10/28/09 |
(Continuation of above paper) | |
11/4/09 |
Thomas C. Hales, A statement of the fundamental lemma | Carl Mautner |
11/11/09 |
(Continuation of the above paper) | |
* Some links are directly to papers but some work only from on campus. Email me if you would like to see my personal copy of a paper.