Previous semesters

Spring 2025

Date Name Affiliation Title
January 29 Julia Bernatska University of Connecticut An analogue of Velu’s formulae in genus two
February 5 Wonwoo Kang University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Skein relations for punctured surfaces
February 12 Matt Broe Boston University The Beilinson-Bloch conjecture over function fields
February 19 Hyun Kyu Kim KIAS Canonical bases for moduli spaces of local systems on a surface
February 26 Tyler Genao Ohio State University Uniform polynomial bounds on torsion from rational geometric isogeny classes
March 5 Andreea Iorga Cornell University Realising certain semi-direct products as Galois groups
March 12 Jeffrey Yelton Wesleyan University Split degenerate superelliptic curves, clusters, and l-adic representations
March 19 Spring Break
March 26 No meeting
April 2 Joseph Dominick DiCapua Parametrization of Formal Norm Compatible Sequences
April 9 Eric Zhu Brown University Brauer-Manin Obstructions on Generalized Kummer Varieties
April 11 (Special meeting) Vasily Dolgushev Temple University Exploration of Grothendieck-Teichmueller (GT) shadows
April 16 Rebecca Bellovin University of Connecticut Characterizing perfectoid covers of abelian varieties
April 23 Á​lvaro Lozano-Robledo and Jared Weinstein
 Various Number Theory Day
April 30 Emir Eray Karabiyik Cornell University A Classification of Low Genus Modular Curves

Fall 2024

Date Name Affiliation Title
August 29 Kyu-Hwan Lee, Álvaro Lozano-Robledo, and Ralf Schiffler University of Connecticut Faculty introductions
September 4 Linli Shi University of Connecticut On higher regulators of Picard modular surfaces
September 11 Mihai Fulger University of Connecticut Reading geometric invariants from Newton-Okounkov bodies
September 18 Linli Shi University of Connecticut Regularized periods of some Eisenstein series
September 25 Yaacov Kopeliovich University of Connecticut Generalizations of Teitelbaum's lambda function to super-elliptic Mumford curves
October 4 (on a Friday) Steven Creech Brown University Bounds on Hecke Eigenvalues over Quadratic Progressions and Mass Equidistribution on Cocompact Surfaces
October 9 Julia Bernatska University of Connecticut Explicit computation of characteristics quantities of non-hyperelliptic curves
October 16 Marcella Manivel University of Minnesota Automorphic Differential Operators and Zeros of Zeta
October 23 Feliks Rączka Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Frobenius pushforwards of vector bundles on projective spaces
October 30 Griff Elder University of Connecticut Recent results in (local, additive) Galois module theory
November 6 Barinder Banwait Boston University Machine learning approaches to the Shafarevich-Tate group of elliptic curves
November 13 Michael Chitayat University of Ottawa Rationality of Pham-Brieskorn varieties
November 20 Benjamin Oltsik University of Connecticut Basic monomial ideals
November 27 Thanksgiving No meeting
December 4 Grant Moles Union College Factorization relationships between number rings and their orders

Spring 2024

Date Name Affiliation Title
January 17 Asimina Hamakiotes University of Connecticut Elliptic curves with complex multiplication and abelian division fields
January 24-February 14 No meeting
February 21 Kayla Wright University of Minnesota 🌱 Higher Dimers, Webs and Grassmannian Cluster Algebras 🌱
February 28 Juanita Duque-Rosero Boston University Triangular modular curves
March 6
Francesco Bastianelli
 Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro" Moving curves of least gonality on symmetric products of curves
March 13 No meeting University of Connecticut Spring Break
March 20 Türkü Özlüm Çelik Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey Riemann Theta Functions today
March 27 Andrei Bud Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany Results in Prym-Brill-Noether theory
April 3 Blake Jackson University of Connecticut A topology on the poset of quiver mutation classes
April 10 No meeting
April 17 (special time 7pm) Tohru Nakashima Japan Women's University, Tokyo, Japan Seshadri constants and AG codes from vector bundles
April 24 No meeting

Fall 2023

 

Date Name Affiliation Title
August 30 Keith Conrad, Mihai Fulger, Thomas Roby University of Connecticut Faculty Introductions
September 6 Mihai Fulger University of Connecticut Computing volumes on some 3-folds
September 20 Julia Bernatska University of Connecticut Extension of Igusa’s map to vanishing modular forms
September 27 Yaacov Kopeliovich University of Connecticut The fundamental group of Algebraic curves as branched covers of the Sphere
October 4 Ralf Schiffler University of Connecticut Higher dimer covers of snake graphs and higher continued fractions
October 9 (non-standard) Lori Watson Trinity College Minimal torsion curves in geometric isogeny classes
October 18 Jonathan Boretsky Harvard University The totally nonnegative Tropical Flag Variety
October 25 Blake Jackson University of Connecticut Answering two OPAC problems involving Banff quivers
November 1 Amanda Burcroff Harvard University Dyck path expansion formulas for rank 2 cluster algebras
November 8 Benjamin Oltsik University of Connecticut Symbolic defect for monomial ideals
November 29 Mihai Pavel Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy Moduli spaces of sheaves in higher dimensions

 

Past semesters (Spring 2019 – Spring 2023)

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