UIC Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry Seminar
Fall 2007



The seminar meets in SEO 636 at 2-3pm each Wednesday.
For comments/suggestions, please contact Prof. Cojocaru or Prof. Gillet.

Related seminars:
UIC Algebraic Geometry Seminar
UIC Graduate Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Other talks of interest:
November 19, 20, 21 (3pm): Michael A. Mandell (Indiana), Lectures on Algebraic K-Theory





Schedule of Talks

Click on the title for the abstract (if available).

September 12
Alina Carmen Cojocaru (UIC)
Frobenius fields for elliptic curves
September 19
Henri Gillet (UIC)
Hasse-Schmidt derivations and minimal fields of definition for varieties in positive characteristic
September 26
Dubravka Ban (Southern Illinois)
Arthur parameters and R-group
October 3
Tonghai Yang (Wisconsin, Madison)
Arithmetic intersection and Chowla-Selberg formula
October 10
BD Kim (Northwestern)
Iwasawa theory for supersingular primes
October 17
Olga Kashcheyeva (UIC)
Generating sequences of valuations
October 24
Christophe Soulé (IHÉS)
On secant varieties of projective curves
October 31
Chris Hall (Michigan)
Tate conjectures in fibers of a pencil
November 7
Pete Clark (Georgia)
On curves without rational points
November 14
Jorge Jimenez Urroz (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
On the factorization of RSA moduli
November 21
Thanksgiving week
No seminar.
November 28
Andreas Stein (Wyoming)
Approximating Euler Products, Class Number Computations and Heuristics in Algebraic Function Fields
November 30
Dorian Goldfeld (Columbia University)
COLLOQUIUM
December 5
Jordan Ellenberg (Wisconsin, Madison)
Congruence subgroups of mapping class groups, stable cohomology of Hurwitz spaces, and distributional conjectures in number theory





Number Theory, Arithmetic and Algebraic Geometry Group at UIC



A.O.L. Atkin (Emeritus), Ph.D. Cambridge, 1952. Modular forms; number theory.

Daniel Bernstein (Professor), Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, 1995. Computational number theory; computational commutative algebra; cryptography; computer security.

Alina Carmen Cojocaru (Assistant Professor), Ph.D. Queen's University, 2002. Arithmetic geometry; number theory.

Izzet Coskun (Assistant Professor), Ph.D. Harvard University, 2004. Algebraic geometry.

Lawrence Ein (Professor), Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, 1981. Algebraic geometry.

Henri Gillet (Professor), Ph.D. Harvard University, 1978. Arithmetic geometry; algebraic geometry; algebraic k-theory.

Christian Haesemeyer (Assistant Professor), Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2003. Algebraic K-theory and algebraic cycles.

Olga Kashcheyeva (Lecturer), Ph.D. University of Missouri, 2003. Algebraic geometry and commutative algebra.

Anatoly S. Libgober (Professor), Ph.D. Tel-Aviv University, 1977. Topology of algebraic varieties; theory of singularities; mirror symmetry.

Alina Marian (Assistant Professor), Ph.D. Harvard University, 2004. Algebraic geometry.

Mihnea Popa (Associate Professor), Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2001. Algebraic geometry.

Ramin Takloo-Bighash (Assistant Professor), Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 2001. Number Theory.

Jeremy Teitelbaum (Professor), Ph.D. Harvard University, 1986. Number theory.

Jan Verschelde (Professor), Ph.D. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1996. Computational algebraic geometry; symbolic-numeric computation; combinatorial and polyhedral methods; development of mathematical software; high performance computing; numerical analysis.

Stephen Yau (Professor), Ph.D. SUNY Stonybrook, 1976. Algebraic geometry, singularity theory; complex geometry; CR geometry; nonlinear filtering theory; algebraic geometry code; information theory; control theory; financial math; image database; computer software testing, bioinformatics.