Slides of Talks from Academic Year 2025/6 (reverse chronological order)
Slides of Talks from Academic Year 2025/6 (reverse chronological order)
2nd June 2026
Title: Computing Darmon - Dasgupta units via generating series
Speaker: Mateo Crabit (IMJ-PRG Paris)
Link to a recording of Mateo's talk to appear.
19th May 2026
Title: Finite Heisenberg groups, indefinite theta functions, and the heat equation
Speaker: Kenz Kallal (Princeton)
Link to a recording of Kenz' talk to appear.
5th May 2026
Title: Gross-Stark units for real quadratic fields via p-adic Zeta-functions
Speaker: Marti Roset Julia (IMJ-PRG, Paris)
Link to a recording of Marti's talk to appear.
21st April 2026
Title: Exact SIC-POVMs in Smaller Fields via Permutation Symmetries
Speaker: Markus Grassl (Gdansk)
Link to a recording of Markus' talk to appear.
24th March 2026
Title: On the phases of Stark units
Speaker: Henri Darmon, McGill
Link to a recording of Henri's talk to appear.
10th March 2026
Title: The arbitrary rank abelian Stark Conjecture and its refinements
Speaker: Cristian Popescu, UCSD
Link to a recording of Cristian's talk to appear.
24th February 2026
Title: Towards a geometrization of Shintani invariants
Speaker: Bora Yalkinoglu, Strasbourg
Link to a recording of Bora's talk to appear
10th Feb 2026, (postponed from 20th October)
Title: Generating SICs using the necromancy algorithm and Zauner.jl
Speaker: Steve Flammia
Link to a recording of Steve's talk to appear.
15th Dec 2025
Title: Constructions of (Gross-)Stark units over fields of p-adic numbers
Speaker: Jan Vonk
Link to recording of Jan's talk to appear.
1st Dec 2025
Title: SICs from Stark Units -- Looking for Special Cases
Speaker: Ingemar Bengtsson
Link to recording of Ingemar's talk to appear.
17th Nov 2025
Title: Convolution and square in abelian groups
Speaker: Yves Benoist, Orsay
3rd Nov 2025
Title: Stark units above number fields with exactly one complex place
Speaker: Perre Morain, IMJ-PRG
Link to recording to appear. (First few minutes of talk not recorded).
6th Oct 2025
Title: Heisenberg groups over number rings: Weil representations and p-adic limits
Speaker: David Solomon
22nd Sept 2025
Title: Everything you always wanted to know about SICs but were afraid to ask
Speaker: Marcus Appleby
Slides below:
8th Sept 2025
Title: The Shintani–Faddeev modular cocycle: Stark units from q-Pochhammer ratios
Speaker: Gene Kopp, LSU