Tufts Algebra, Geometry, and Number Theory Seminar
Spring 2024
Thursdays, 4:30 PM
Joyce Cummings Center 502
Organizers: Robert Lemke Oliver, Carl Lian
All talks will be in the Joyce Cummings Center, room 502, unless otherwise noted. External visitors are welcome, provided they comply with Tufts' COVID policy guidelines: https://coronavirus.tufts.edu/visitors
January 18:
January 25:
February 1:
February 8:
February 15: Alex Betts (Harvard)
Unexpected points in quadratic Chabauty loci
February 22: no seminar [Tufts Monday schedule]
February 29: Sachi Hashimoto (Brown)
An algorithm for isolated j-invariants
March 7: Nicola Tarasca (VCU)
Coinvariants of metaplectic representations and abelian varieties
March 14:
March 21: no seminar [spring break]
March 28:
April 4: Veronica Arena (Brown)
A weighted version of blow-up formulas of Fulton and Keel
April 11: Shiyue Li (IAS)
K-rings of wonderful varieties and matroids
April 18: Ashvin Swaminathan (Harvard)
A positive proportion of hyperelliptic curves have no unexpected quadratic points
April 25: Santiago Arango-Piñeros (Emory)
Counting 5-isogenies of elliptic curves over the rationals
May 2: Samir Canning (ETH Zürich)
Tautological non-relations
If you would like to be added to the email list, please feel free to contact Robert Lemke Oliver.