Schedule
Spring 2024
Date Topic Speaker
February 20 Practice prelim presentation Rohit
February 27 Primer on Sarah Peluse's NT seminar Rena
March 5 Primer on John Voight's NT seminar Kyrie
April 17 Primer on Kiran Kedlaya's NT seminar Fernando
Fall 2023
Date Topic Speaker
September 4: Labour Day (no meeting)
September 11: Intro to sieve theory Kyrie
September 18: Intro to algebraic groups Zixuan
September 25: Intro to Iwasawa theory Rohit
October 2: Brun's sieve Rena
October 9: Characterisation of LAAGs HaoYun
October 16: Fall break (no meeting)
October 23: The Mahler transform HaoYun
October 30: Bounded gaps between primes Chun-Hsien
November 6: GIT quotients Zixuan
November 13: Euler systems Kyrie
November 20: Thanksgiving (no meeting)
November 27: The Large Sieve Rena
December 4: Proof of the Main Conjecture Fernando
Spring 2023
Date Topic Speaker
January 16: Étale Maps Rohit
January 23: Intro to Stark's Conjectures Kyrie
January 30: Intro to Vinogradov MVT Rena
February 6: Sites, sheaves, & cohomology Rohit
February 13: Introduction to DDP11 Kyrie
February 20: Zero-free regions Kyrie
February 27: Étale cohomology Rohit
March 6: Gross-Stark to cohomology Zixuan
March 20: Waring's Problem Chun-Hsien
March 27: Spectral sequences Chongyao
April 3: Hilbert Modular Forms Rohit
April 17: Exponential Sums Rena
April 24: Rep'ns to cohomology Fernando
Fall 2022
Date Speaker, Topic
September 5: Kyrie, “What is Fermat’s Last Theorem?”
September 12: Rena, “What is Pólya-Vinogradov?”
September 19: Rohit, “What is a Galois representation?”
September 26: Jin, “What is sheaf cohomology?”
October 3: Zixuan, “What is the Riemann zeta function (an Adelic approach)?”
October 10: Fall break (no meeting)
October 17: Chongyao, "What is mirror symmetry doing in NT?"
October 24: Kyrie, “What is deformation theory?”
October 31: Rena, “What is the circle method?”
November 7: Rohit, “What is an elliptic curve?”
November 14: Alex, "What is the Riemann zeta function (an analytic approach)?"
November 21: Thanksgiving (no meeting)
November 28: Kyrie and Rena, "Organisational Meeting"