UIUC Number Theory Seminar, Fall 2013

 

Schedule of talks

Date

Speaker

Title

Thursday, Aug. 29

Kevin Ford (UIUC)

The range of Carmichael's universal exponent function

Tuesday, Sept. 10

Katie Anders (UIUC)

Properties of digital representations

Thursday, Sept. 26

James Sellers (Penn State Univ)

Arithmetic properties of overpartitions

Thursday, Oct. 3

Bruce Berndt (UIUC)

Colored Partition Identities Arising from Ramanujan's Formulas for
Multipliers

Thursday, Oct. 10

Bruce Berndt (UIUC)

Colored Partition Identities Arising from Modular Equations

Thursday, Oct. 17

Mehmet Haluk Sengun (University of Warwick / ICERM)

Torsion homology of Bianchi Groups and Arithmetic

Tuesday, Oct. 29

Daniel Schultz (UIUC)

Cubic Theta Functions

Thursday, Nov. 7

Atul Dixit (Tulane University)

A series identity, possibly connected with a divisor problem, in
Ramanujan's Lost Notebook

Thursday, Nov. 14

Yitang Zhang (Univ. New Hampshire)

The Siegel zero and zeros of other L-functions

Tuesday, Nov. 19

Karl Mahlburg (Louisiana State Univ)

Schur's partition theorem and mixed mock modular forms

Thursday, Nov. 21

Martin Luu (Stanford Univ)

Congruences between modular forms and consequences for automorphic Galois representations

Monday, Dec. 2
joint number theory/
ergodic theory seminar

Elena Fuchs (Univ. California, Berkeley)

Thin groups: arithmetic and beyond

Thursday, Dec. 5

Maksym Radziwill (IAS Princeton)

Quadratic forms and the distribution of Fourier coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms

Tuesday, Dec. 10

Nick Anderson (UIUC)

A mock modular form for the partition function