Fall 2013 Lectures and Events

Date Room Speaker Title Host
August 20
3:20pm 		LC 405 Guillermo Mantilla-Soler
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne		 The spinor genus of the integral trace and local arithmetic equivalence
 Frank Thorne
September 7-8 Palmetto Number Theory Series XX Davidson College
September 11
10:40am 		LC 312 Jesse Kass
University of South Carolina		 How does a n-by-(n+1) matrix deform?
September 18
10:40am 		LC 312 Matthew Ballard
University of South Carolina		 Stratifications in Geometric Invariant Theory
September 20
3:20pm		 LC 405 Adam Harper
Université de Montréal/University of Cambridge		 Sharp bounds for moments of the Riemann Zeta Function
 Frank Thorne
September 25
10:40am 		LC 312 Frank Thorne
University of South Carolina		 Prehomogeneous vector spaces and field extensions
October 2
10:40am 		LC 312 Adela Vraciu
University of South Carolina		 Examples of quasi-complete intersection ideals
October 4
3:20pm		 LC 405 Joseph Vanderhey
University of Georgia		 Continued fractions on the Heisenberg group
 Frank Thorne
October 9
10:40am		 LC 312 Jim Coykendall
Clemson University		 An overview of factorization: algebraic and graphical
 Andy Kustin
October 11
3:20pm		 LC 405 Marie Jameson
Emory University		 Quadratic polynomials, period polynomials, and Hecke operators
 Frank Thorne
October 16
10:40am 		LC 312 Andy Kustin
University of South Carolina		 Blowups and fibers of morphisms
October 18-20 Georgia Algebraic Geometry Symposium University of Georgia
October 23
10:40am 		LC 312 Matthew Ballard
University of South Carolina		 Geometric Invariant Theory and derived categories
October 30
10:40am 		LC 312 Cameron Atkins
University of South Carolina		 Göbel's bound for the degrees of the generators of rings of invariants
November 8
4:30pm		 LC 412 Robin Hartshorne
University of California-Berkeley		 Set-theoretic complete intersections and divisor class groups
 Colloquium
November 8-10 Commutative Algebra-Algebraic Geometry in the Southeast University of South Carolina
November 11
10:45am		 LC 312 Ken-ichiroh Kawasaki
Nara University of Education		 Several results on characterizations of cofinite complexes
 Adela Vraciu
November 15
3:20pm		 LC 405 Andrew Obus
University of Virginia		 The Oort Conjecture and the Local Lifting Problem
 Frank Thorne
December 3
10:00am		 LC 312 Rob Rhoades
Center for Communications Research		 The story of a 'strange' function
 Frank Thorne
December 4
10:40am 		LC 312 Michael Filaseta
University of South Carolina		 The genus behind Hilbert's Irreducibility Theorem
December 7-8 Palmetto Number Theory Series XXI Clemson University

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