Tufts Algebra, Geometry, and Number Theory Seminar
Fall 2023
Thursdays, 4:30 PM
Joyce Cummings Center 502
Organizers: Robert Lemke Oliver, Carl Lian
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
September 28: Carl Lian (Tufts)
Counting meromorphic functions
October 5: Aaron Landesman (Harvard/MIT)
The distribution of Selmer groups and ranks of abelian varieties in quadratic twist families over function fields
October 12:
October 19:
October 27: (note: Friday!) Lena Ji (Michigan) in JCC 302
On rationality criteria for threefolds over non-closed fields
November 2: Miguel Prado (BC)
Counting differentials with fixed residues
November 9: Andrés Pedroza (Universidad de Colima)
The Geometry of Lagrangian Submanifolds
November 16: Alex Smith (UCLA)
Simple abelian varieties over finite fields with extreme point counts
November 30: Lea Beneish (UNT)
Degree d points on hyperelliptic curves
December 7: Melissa Sherman-Bennett (MIT)
Braid varieties and cluster algebras
December 14: (Finals week -- probably no seminar?)
If you would like to be added to the email list, please feel free to contact Robert Lemke Oliver.