Fall 2014 Lectures and Events

Date Room Speaker Title Host
August 22
2:30pm 		LC 405 Jesse Kass
University of South Carolina		 What is the limit of a line bundle on a nonnormal variety?
August 29
2:30pm 		LC 405 Matthew Ballard
University of South Carolina		 Wall crossings of moduli problems with G_m stabilizers and semi-orthogonal decompositions of derived categories
September 5
4:30pm 		LC 412 Hugh Montgomery
University of Michigan		 HPrimes, Zeros, and Random Matrix Theory
 Colloquium
September 6-7 Palmetto Number Theory Series XXII South Carolina State
September 19
2:30pm		 LC 405 Matthew Boylan
University of South Carolina		 Arithmetic properties of a distinguished subspace of modular forms
September 26
2:30pm 		LC 405 Frank Thorne
University of South Carolina		 An algebraic approach to enumerating field extensions
October 3
2:30pm 		LC 405 Daniel Kamenetsky
University of South Carolina		 Exponential sums for the space of binary quartic forms
October 17
2:30pm		 LC 405 Damaris Schindler
University of Bonn/Duke University		 Manin's conjecture for certain smooth hypersurfaces in biprojective space
 Frank Thorne
October 17
3:30pm		 LC 312 Mike Lipnowski
Duke University		 Torsion in the growth of homology groups
 Frank Thorne
November 6
4:30pm		 LC 412 David Favero
University of Alberta		 Some constructions of 'mirror' manifolds and why they don't always agree
 Colloquium
November 7
2:30pm 		LC 405 Sho Tanimoto
Rice University		 Distribution of S-integral points on SL_2-orbital closures of binary forms
 Frank Thorne
November 14
2:30pm 		LC 405 Patricio Gallardo
University of Georgia		 On the compactification problem for moduli spaces
 Matthew Ballard
November 21
2:30pm 		LC 405 Daniel Kamenetsky
University of South Carolina		 Selmer groups and ranks of elliptic curves
December 6-7 Palmetto Number Theory Series XXI University of South Carolina

Last semester's seminar.