K-theory, Quadratic Forms and Number Theory Seminar 2009-2010

16/9: David Brink (UCD), “Simultaneous representation of primes by quadratic forms”

23/9: Ronan Flatley (UCD), “Trace forms of symbol algebras”

30/9: Heng Huat Chan (NUS), “Ramanujan and the theory of modular forms”

7/10: Filippo Nuccio (Heidelberg), “Cyclotomic units and Greenberg’s conjecture”

14/10: Luca Caputo (UCD), “Brauer relations”

28/10: Dermot Mccarthy (UCD), “p-adic hypergeometric series and supercongruences”

4/11: Marc Hindry (Paris 7), “Analogs of the Brauer-Siegel theorem for abelian varieties over global fields”

11/11: Winfried Kohnen (Heidelberg), “Generalized modular functions and their Fourier coefficients”

18/11: Julia Hartmann (aachen), “Applications of patching to quadratic forms”

25/11: Cornelius Greither (Muenchen), “The Tate module of Deligne’s 1 motive and class groups as Galois modules”

20/1: Fernando Rodriguez Villegas (UT-Austin), “The arithmetic of hypergeometric functions”

27/1: Zsolt Balogh (IMI, Hungary), “Involutions and symmetric elements in group algebras”

3/2: David Brink (UCD), “The density of integers of the form u2 + nv2”

10/2: Lara Thomas (EPFL), “On the Galois module structure of extensions of local fields”

17/2: Alessandro Cobbe (Pisa), “Steinitz classes of tamely ramified Galois extensions of algebraic number fields”

24/2: Pawel Gladki (Silesia), “Quotients of the space of orderings of the field Q(x)”

3/3: Alexei Zaytsev (UCD), “Some properties of the Galois closure of an optimal tower”

24/3: David Solomon (King’s College), “Generalising Stickelberger: Annihilators (and more) for class groups of number fields”

7/4: Omran Ahmadi (UCD), “On the distribution of the number of points on algebraic curves in extensions of finite fields”

14/4: Henri Johnston (Cambridge), “A non-abelian Stickelberger theorem”

28/4: Jan Bruinier (Darmstadt), “Mock modular forms and infinite products”

5/5: Shabnam Akhtari (MPIM), “Representation of integers by binary forms”