Schedule

(tentative)

Update 10/16/2020: The conference will be held online November 14-15.

Update 3/12/2020: The Berkeley Undergraduate Number Theory Conference has been postponed until Fall 2020 due to concerns about the current coronavirus outbreak. This page will be updated when more information is available.

All talks, sessions, and panels will be on Zoom. Specific meeting numbers will be sent out to all participants by e-mail. All times below are Pacific Time.

Saturday, November 14

9:15-9:30 Welcome

9:30-10:30 Plenary lecture 1: Martin Weissman, The arithmetic of arithmetic Coxeter groups , related journal article can be found here.

10:30-10:40 Break

10:40-11:30 Breakout session 1

11:30-1 Break

1-1:30 Grad student talk: Kristina Nelson, Counting Integer Matrices of Fixed Rank, slides.

1:30-2 Postdoc talk: Kristin DeVleming, slides

2-3 Panel discussion on the graduate student experience

3-3:30 Break

3:30-4:30 Breakout session 2

4:30-5:30 Plenary lecture 2: Elena Fuchs, What network optimization has to do with number theory

Sunday, November 15

9:30-10:30 Plenary lecture 3: Emily Riehl, Categorifying cardinal arithmetic., slides

10:30-10:40 Break

10:40-11:30 Undergraduate talks/discussion

11:30-1 Break

1-1:30 Grad student talk: Libby Taylor, Combinatorial methods in the arithmetic of curves, slides

1:30-2 Postdoc talk: Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins, slides , the tool used the talk can be found here.

2-3 Panel discussion on applying to graduate school

3-3:30 Break

3:30-4:30 Breakout Session 3

4:30-5:30 Plenary lecture 4: Sug Woo Shin, A tale of L-functions