K-theory, Quadratic Forms and Number Theory Seminar 2008-2009

17/9: Nigel Boston (UCD), “Random groups in number theory and topology”

24/9: Thomas Unger (UCD), “Towards a reduced theory of hermitian forms”

1/10: Kevin Hutchinson (UCD), “The homology of the special Linear group and quadratic forms”

8/10: Alexei Zaytsev (UCD), “Curves with many rational points”

15/10: Kazufumi Kimoto (Ryukyus), “Arithmetic aspects of the non-commutative harmonic oscillator”

22/10: Wilberd van der Kallen (Utrecht), “Cohomological Invariant Theory”

29/10: David Lewis (UCD), “Involutions of Incidence Algebras”

14/11: Detlev Hoffmann (Nottingham), “Differential forms and bilinear forms under simple field extensions”

19/11: Sander Zwegers (UCD), “Mock modular forms”

26/11: Judith Millar (Belfast), “K-theory of Azumaya algebras”

4/2: Brundaban Sahu (UCD), “Rankin-Cohen brackets and van der pol-type identities for Ramanujan’s tau function”

11/2: Klass-Tido Ruehl (EPFL), “The structure of annihilating polynomials for quadratic forms”

18/2: Luca Caputo (UCD), “Realizability problem for etale wild kernels of number fields”

25/2: Vincent Astier (UCD), “Finding fields to realize the axiomatic theory of quadratic forms”

4/3: Samir Siksek (Warwick), “Diophantine equations after Fermat’s theorem”

25/4: Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (EPFL), “Lattices and number Fields”

1/4: Mat Rogers (UIUC), “Lattice sums and Mahler measure”

8/4: Emmanuel Royer (Clermont-Ferrand), “A few examples of combinatorics in number theory”

15/4: Robert Rhoades (EPFL), “Lifting modular forms: Hecke eigenvalues, Poincare series, and differential operators”

22/4: Thomas Unger (UCD), “The Procesi-Schacher conjecture and Hilbert’s 17th problem for algebras with involution”

29/4: Alina Cojocaru (UIC), “Serre curves in one-parameter families”