Current Quarter (Spring 2009)
Mondays, 3:30-5:30, Padelford C-36
4/6 -- Trevor Arnold, Skinner & Urban's recent work
- 4/13 -- Robert Bradshaw, Dokchitser's algorithm for computing L-functions
- 4/20 -- Craig Citro, L-invariants
Possible Topics
- Kartik Prasanna's thesis (William has skimmed this recently)
- Johan Bosman's thesis: compute f(z), construct galois repns (Craig is happy to do this in a few weeks if people are interested)
- Automorphic forms
- Piatetski-Shapiro, Classical and adelic automorphic forms, Craig
- Sato-Tate, Rob Miller
- Convergence Acceleration of Alternating Series, by Henri Cohen, Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, and Don Zagier
Previous Quarters
Fall 2008
BLM 408, 11-12:20 Wednesdays
???, 11-12:20 Fridays
Here's the schedule right now:
- Dokchitser's paper on computing L-functions
- 11/12, William
- Gross-Zagier
- 11/14, Heegner points intro, Rob Miller (30 min)
- 11/14, Gross-Zagier, chs 1, 5, William
- 11/19, Gross-Zagier, William
- Watkins, Delauney
- Petersson inner products, Rob Bradshaw
- Rob Bradshaw
- Kolyvagin, structure of Sha, Selmer
- William
- Congruences between modular forms
- Ghate: Intro, Ribet: Mod p Hecke operators
- Doi, Hida, Ishii