K-theory, Quadratic Forms and Number Theory Seminar 2006-2007

27/9: Robert Osburn (UCD), “Gaussian hypergeometric series and supercongruences”

4/10: Kevin Hutchinson (UCD), “Galois groups, cup products and K-theory”

11/10: David Lewis (UCD), “Similitudes of algebras with involution under odd-degree extensions”

18/11: Chris Smyth (Edinburgh), “Integer symmetric matrices with small eigenvalues”

8/11: Graham Everest (East Anglia), “The divisibility of some divisibility sequences”

15/11: Werner Nahm (DIAS), “K3(Q) and modular forms”

29/11: Amit Kulshrestha (UCL), “Similarity factors of hermitian forms over number fields”

29/11: Melanie Raczek (UCL), “Certain subspaces of order 3 matrices and their automorphisms”

6/12: Colin Wilmott (UCD), “Breaking RSA Encryption with a quantum computer: Shor’s factoring algorithm”

13/12: Andrew Ranicki (Edinburgh), “Noncommutative localization in algebra and topology”

2/2: Peter Schneider (Muenster), “Introduction to noncommutative Iwasawa theory”

14/2: Jose Ramon Mari, “On the Lefschetz Standard Conjecture”

28/2: Nadya Markin (UCD), “Realization of nilpotent groups with restricted ramification over number fields”

28/3: Max-Albert Knus (ETHZ), “From etale algebras to Clifford algebras”

25/4: Gary McGuire (UCD), “Fourier transforms on finite fields and an application of Stickelberger’s theorem”

2/5: Kevin Hutchinson (UCD), “An introduction to Milnor-Witt K-theory”

6/6: Stefan de Wannemacker (KU-Leuven), “Annihilating polynomials rings”

22/6: Sandro Mattarei (Trento), “Character degrees and conjugacy class sizes of a finite group”

22/6: Susanne Pumpluen (Nottingham), “How to extend classical results from the theory of quadratic forms to forms of higher degree”

17/7: Vincent Astier (Konstanz), “Generic splitting for abstract Witt rings”