Spring 2009
Organizers: Jared Weinstein and Rizwanur Khan., Talks will take place in MS 6221 from 4:00-4:50 unless indicated otherwise.
Mar. 30	Masoud Kamgarpour, Univ. British Columbia Stacky Abelianization of Algebraic Groups
Mar. 31 (special Tues. talk: MS 6627 at 4 pm)	Par Kurlberg, KTH Sweden Number theory related to quantum chaos
Apr. 6	Rizwan Khan, UCLA The second moment of Dirichlet twists of Hecke L-functions
Apr. 13	Olivier Fouquet, Ecole Polytechnique / Osaka U. Dihedral Iwasawa theory of ordinary automorphic forms
Apr. 20
Apr. 27
May 1 (special Friday talk: 4-5pm, Chair's conference room)	Gordan Savin, Univ. of Utah Reducing minimal representation modulo l
May 4	Ralph Greenberg, U. Washington Galois representations with open image
May 5 (special Tuesday talk: MS 6627 at 4pm)	Mahesh Kakde, Princeton Congruences in non-commutative Iwasawa theory
May 7 (Colloquium: 4pm, MS 6627)	Ralph Greenberg, U. Washington Projective modules and Iwasawa theory
May 8 (special Friday talk: 3:30 pm, Chair's conference room)	Ralph Greenberg, U. Washington Iwasawa theory for elliptic curves with supersingular reduction
May 11	Cornelius Greither, Univ. der Bundeswehr Munchen Fitting ideals of Tate modules of Jacobians, and of class groups of curves over finite fields
May 18	Florian Herzig, Northwestern Weight Cycling and Serre-type Conjectures
June 1	Lin Chen, UCLA Galois deformation with triangular frame
June 5 (Fri., in MS 6221, 1 pm)	Solomon Friedberg, Boston College Metaplectic Eisenstein series, twisted Euler products, and crystal graphs

Winter 2009
Organizers: Jared Weinstein and Rizwanur Khan., Talks will take place in MS 6221 from 4:00-4:50 unless indicated otherwise.
Date	Speaker & Title
Jan. 26	Marc-Hubert Nicole, Jussieu Purity of level m stratifications
Feb. 6 (Fri., in MS 6229.)	K. Soundararajan, Stanford Recent progress on quantum unique ergodicity
Feb. 9	Martin Weissman, UC Santa Cruz Backwards functoriality from classical groups to G_2
Feb. 13 (Fri., in Lakretz 120)	Benedict Gross, Harvard On the restriction of irreducible representations of the group U_n(k) to the subgroup U_{n-1}(k)
Feb. 23	Hisa-aki Kawamura, Hokkaido U. On p-adic congruences of the Duke-Imamoglu-Ikeda lifts
Feb. 28 at 2 pm in MS 3915A	Michael Speiss p-adic periods and p-adic L-functions of elliptic curves
Mar. 2	René Schoof, Roma Buchman's algorithms and Arakelov class groups of number fields
Mar. 6, 2 pm in MS 3915A	Tomokazu Kashio, Kyoto U. Stark units, CM-periods and multiplegamma functions
Mar. 9	V. Varadarajan, UCLA Airy Functions on Local Fields
Mar. 16	Lin Weng, Kyushu U. Stability and Arithmetic

Fall 2008
Organizers: Jared Weinstein and Rizwanur Khan., Talks will take place in MS 5148 from 4:00-4:50 unless indicated otherwise.
Date	Speaker & Title
Sept. 29	No Seminar.
Oct. 6	Haseo Ki, Yonsei University Siegel zeros and zeros of the derivative of the Riemann zeta function
Oct. 13	Boris Bukh, UCLA Sums of Dilates
Oct. 20	Jared Weinstein, UCLA The Jacquet-Langlands Correspondence via Fourier Analysis
Oct. 27	TBA
Nov. 3	Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna Siegel's lemma outside of a union of varieties
Nov. 10	Chung Pang Mok, UC Berkeley Heegner points and p-adic L-functions for elliptic curves over totally real fields.
Nov. 17	Matthias Flach, Caltech On the cyclotomic main conjecture for the prime 2
Nov. 19	Jack Buttcane, UCLA Sums of Powers of Primes (Wed. talk!)
Nov. 24	Robert Guralnick, USC Rational Functions that are Bijective modulo infinitely many primes
Dec. 1	Thomas Geisser, USC Duality via cycle complexes
Dec. 8	Aftab Pande, Cornell Deformations of Galois representations and some distribution conjectures

Spring 2008
Organizers: Iftikhar Burhanuddin, Paul Jenkins Talks will take place in MS 5128 from 4:30-5:30 unless indicated otherwise
Date	Speaker & Title
March 31	Paul Jenkins, UCLA Integral traces of singular values of Maass forms Pictures Audio
April 07	Leo Goldmakher, Michigan/Stanford Pretentious characters and the Polya-Vinogradov theorem Pictures Audio
April 10	Eric Friedlander, USC Elementary Representation Theory (Algebra Colloquium) Pictures Audio
April 14
April 16 2:00-2:50pm MS 6221	Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research Class Invariants of Quartic CM Fields
April 17 1:50-2:50pm MS 6943	Terence Tao, UCLA On the permanent of a random Bernoulli matrix (Combinatorics Seminar) Pictures Audio
April 17 4:15-5:05pm MS 6227	Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research Applications of Ramanujan graphs in Cryptography (Number Theory Colloquium) Audio
April 21
April 22 2-3pm MS 6627	Ngo Bao Chau, IAS / Paris 9 (Orsay) Hitchin fibration and fundamental lemma
April 28
May 05 MS 6221 2-3pm	Jim Borger, ANU / Chicago Witt vectors, Lambda-rings, and absolute algebraic geometry
May 05	Wayne Raskind, USC Totally degenerate reduction in the non-archimedean and archimedean cases
May 12	Shamgar Gurevich, UC Berkeley Quadratic reciprocity and sign of Gauss sum via the finite Weil representation
May 12-16	John Coates, Cambridge UCLA Math Distinguished Lecture Series Iwasawa Theory
May 15 3:00-3:50pm MS 6627	Gopal Prasad, Michigan (Number Theory Colloquium)
May 19	Craig Citro, UCLA L-invariants of p-adic L-functions
May 26	Memorial Day, Holiday
June 02
June 09

Winter 2008
Organizers: Iftikhar Burhanuddin, Paul Jenkins Talks will take place in MS 5128 from 4:00-5:00 unless indicated otherwise
Date	Speaker & Title
January 7	No Seminar --- AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings
January 9 2-3pm MS 6627 January 10 2-3pm MS 6221 January 11 2-3pm MS 6627	Avi Wigderson, IAS --- UCLA Math Distinguished Lecture Series Some topics in computational complexity Abstract Lecture 1: The power and weakness of randomness in computation Pictures Audio Audio Q&A Tao's Notes Lecture 2: Expander Graphs -- Constructions and Applications Pictures Audio Audio Q&A Tao's Notes Lecture 3: Algebraic computation Pictures Audio Tao's Notes
January 11 4-5pm MS 5138	Ravi Ramakrishna, Cornell Ranks for new parts of Hecke algebras Pictures Audio
January 14	Gordan Savin, Utah Langlands lift from G_2 to PGSp(6) Pictures Audio
January 21	No Seminar --- MLK Jr. Day
January 28	Michelle Manes, USC Uniform Boundedness Conjectures and Theorems for Dynamical Systems Pictures Audio
February 7 Lakretz 101 3-4pm	Alex Ghitza, Colby College Computing Hecke eigensystems (mod p) Pictures Audio
February 7 MS 6627 4:15-5:05pm	Kiran Kedlaya, MIT Effective Bounds for Solutions of p-adic Differential Equations Pictures Audio
February 11	Dimitar Jetchev, UCB Global Divisibility of Heegner Points and Tamagawa Numbers Pictures Audio
February 18	No Seminar --- Presidents Day
February 25	Jesse Elliott, CSU Channel Islands Rings of Integer-Valued Polynomials Slides Audio part 1 Audio part 2
February 29 4:30-5:30pm MS 5137	Jayce Getz, Princeton The relative trace formula with a view towards simple Shimura varieties Pictures Audio
March 3	Nir Avni, Hebrew University / UCLA Representation Growth of Arithmetic Groups Pictures Audio
March 10	Jim Brown, Caltech Saito-Kurokawa lifts and lower bounds on Selmer groups
March 12 4:30-5:30pm MS 5137	Paul-Olivier Dehaye, Oxford New approaches to Random Matrix Theory problems motivated by Number Theory
March 17 MS 5118	Lin Weng, Kyushu university Weyl Symmetry and the Riemann Hypothesis

Fall 2007
Organizers: Iftikhar Burhanuddin, Paul Jenkins Talks will take place in MS 6627 from 4:30-5:30 unless indicated otherwise
Date	Speaker & Title
October 1	No seminar
October 8	Iftikhar Burhanuddin, UCLA Some computational problems motivated by the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture Slides Audio
October 15	Rizwanur Khan, UCLA Non-vanishing of the central value of the symmetric square L-function
October 22	Jared Weinstein, UCLA Local Langlands and the stable reduction of modular curves Pictures Audio
October 29	Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna Effective theorems for quadratic spaces via height Pictures Audio
October 31 4:00-4:50pm MS 5128	Haruzo Hida, UCLA Igusa Varieties I
November 5	Mirela Çiperiani, Columbia University Tate-Shafarevich groups over anticyclotomic Z_p extensions at supersingular primes Pictures Audio
November 7 1:00-1:50pm MS 5128	Haruzo Hida, UCLA Igusa Varieties II
November 7 4:00-4:50pm MS 5128	Gebhard Böckle, IEM, Essen Drinfeld modular forms and Hecke characters Pictures Audio
November 12	No seminar --- Veterans Day
November 14 4:00-4:50pm MS 5128	Haruzo Hida, UCLA Igusa Varieties III
November 19	Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University Lang-Trotter and Sato-Tate conjectures on average Pictures Audio
November 26	Ahmad El-Guindy, Texas A&M University Fourier Expansions with Modular Form Coefficients Pictures Audio
November 28 4:00-4:50pm MS 5128	Haruzo Hida, UCLA Igusa Varieties IV
December 3	John Leo, UCLA Fourier Coefficients of Triangle Functions Pictures Audio
December 5 4:00-4:50pm MS 5128	Katherine Stange, Brown University Elliptic Nets Pictures Audio

Spring 2007
Organizers: Nathan Ryan, Paul Jenkins
Date	Speaker & Title Talks in MS6229 from 5-6 unless noted differently
April 2	Lin Weng, Kyushu University High Rank Zeta and Its Zeros
April 9	Eknath Ghate, Tata Institute Deformation Theory and Galois Representations MS6229 from 5-6
April 23	Rob de Jeu, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / Caltech The p-adic Beilinson conjecture for number fields MS6229 from 5-6
Note Different Day: April 27	Tonghai Yang, Wisconsin An arithmetic intersection formula on a Hilbert modular surface MS6229 from 5-6
April 30	Eknath Ghate, Tata Institute Split Selmer in the Reducible Case MS6229 from 5-6
May 1	Shouwu Zhang, Columbia (DLS Speaker) Rational points on curves MS 6627 from 2-3
May 2	Shouwu Zhang, Columbia (DLS Speaker) Gross-Zagier formula and Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture MS 6621 from 2-3
May 3	Shouwu Zhang, Columbia (DLS Speaker) Triple L-series and effective Mordell conjecture MS 5217 from 2-3
May 7	Christopher Storm, Dartmouth College Hypergraph zeta functions MS6229 from 5-6
Note Different Day: May 9	Brian Conrad, University of Michigan Lifting CM abelian varieties to characteristic 0 MS6229 from 5-6
May 14	Jacques Tilouine, Paris 13 Companion forms and BGG dual complex, I MS6229 from 5-6
May 21	Jacques Tilouine, Paris 13 Companion forms and BGG dual complex, II MS6229 from 5-6

Winter 2007
Organizers: Nathan Ryan, Paul Jenkins
Date	Speaker & Title
January 22	Paul Jenkins, UCLA Borcherds products, Zagier duality, and traces of singular moduli 4:30 - 6:00 in MS 5127
February 5	Nathan Ryan, UCLA Efficient Verfication of Tunnell's Criterion 4:30 - 6:00 in MS 5127
February 20	William Stein, University of Washington SAGE -- Free Mathematics Software for Algebra, Geometry, Number, and more. 4:30 - 6:00 in MS 5148 (note day and room change)
February 26	Haesang Sun, UCLA Abelian Modular symbols and $\mu$-invariant 4:30 - 6:00 in MS 5127
March 5	Margaret Upton, UCLA Galois Representations Attached to Picard Curves 5:00 - 6:00 in MS 5127 note later start
March 8	Guido Kings, Regensburg Colloquium - TBA 4:15-5:05 in MS 6627
March 19	TBA TBA 4:30 - 6:00 in MS 5127

Fall 2006
Organizers: Nathan Ryan, Paul Jenkins
Date	Speaker & Title
Oct 9	Eliot Brenner, Ben Gurion University Heat Eisenstein Series and Applications 4:30 - 6:00 in MS6943
Oct 11	Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University Inversions 4:00 - 5:00 in MS6943
Oct 11	Joseph Silverman, Brown University Dynamical Systems from an Arithmetical Viewpoint 5:15 - 6:15 in MS6943
Oct 19	Chandrashekhar Khare, University of Utah Colloquium: Galois representations and modular forms 4:15 - 5:15 in MS6627
Oct 20	Chandrashekhar Khare, University of Utah Serre's modularity conjecture 4:00-5:30 in MS6229
Oct 26	Tetsushi Ito, Kyoto University Colloquium: Hasse invariants and the bad reduction of unitary Shimura varieties I 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm in MS6627
Oct 26	Joel Bellaiche, Columbia University Colloquium: A conjecture of Bloch-Kato and automorphic forms 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm in MS6627
Oct 27	Tetsushi Ito, Kyoto University Hasse invariants and the bad reduction of unitary Shimura varieties II 4:00-5:10 in MS6943
Oct 27	Joel Bellaiche, Columbia University Geometry of eigenvarieties and Selmer groups. 5:20-6:30 in MS6943
Nov 6	Luis Dieulefait, Universitat de Barcelona Geometric families of Galois representations: existence, ell-independence, modularity and other properties 4:30 - 6:00 in MS6943
Nov 13	Charles Denis, Microsoft The computational complexity of modular forms 4:30 - 6:00 in MS6943
Tues Dec 5	Alf van der Poorten, Centre for Number Theory Research Paperfolding, automata, and rational functions 4:30 in MS 5147

Spring 2006 Lectures

Regular meeting time: Mondays 4:30 to 6:00pm
Place: MS 6221 except as noted below

Winter 2006 Lectures

Regular meeting time: Mondays 4:30‒6:00pm
Place: *MS 5147* except as noted below

Fall 2005 Lectures

Regular meeting time: Mondays 4:30--6:00pm
Place: MS 5137 except as noted below

Spring 2005 Lectures

Meeting time:   Mondays 4:30--5:30pm
Place: MS 6221 except as noted below

Winter 2005 Lectures

Regular meeting time: Tuesdays 4:30--5:30pm
Place: MS 6627 except as noted below

Fall 2004 Lectures

Regular meeting time: Tuesdays 4:30--5:30pm
Place: MS 6627 except as noted below

Winter 2004 Lectures

Regular meeting time: Mondays 4:30--5:30pm
Place: MS 6221

Fall 2003 Lectures

Regular meeting time: Mondays 4:30--5:30pm
Place: MS 6221