Boston College NT&AG Seminar Archive
Schedule for Spring 2017
Feb 02: Ananth Shankar (Harvard), Serre-Tate theory for Shimura varieties of Hodge type.
Feb 09: Michael Kemeny (Stanford), The Prym-Green conjecture for paracanonical curves of odd genus
Feb 16: Artan Sheshmani (Harvard/Aarhus) Nested Hilbert schemes and local Donaldson-Thomas theory
Feb 23: Eric Riedl (UIC) Normal bundles of rational curves in projective space
Mar 02: Robert Lemke Oliver (Tufts) Unexpected biases in the distribution of consecutive primes
Mar 09: No seminar (Spring break)
Mar 16: Jeffery Breeding Allison Modularity of abelian varieties”
Mar 23: Hector Pasten (Harvard)Modular forms and bounds for abc triplesß
Mar 30: Shamgar Gurevich (Yale) “Small" Representations of Finite Classical Groups
Apr 06: Jared Weinstein (BU) The cohomology of local Shimura varieties
Apr 13: No seminar (Easter break)
Apr 20: Yefeng Shen, (Stanford) LG/CY correspondence in dimension one
Apr 27: Sebastian Casalaina-Martin (University of Colorado at Boulder) Descending cohomology geometrically
May 04: Peter Feller (Max Planck) Embedding problems in affine algebraic geometry.
Schedule for Fall 2016
Sep 15: Xiaolei Zhao (Northeastern) Birational geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves on the projective plane via wall-crossing
Sep 22:
Sep 29: Eli Grigsby (BC) In house colloquium series
Oct 6: Gabriele Di Cerbo (Columbia) Birational geometry of complex hyperbolic manifolds
Oct 13: Gordan Savin (Utah) Whittaker functionals via Hecke algebras
Oct 20: Omer Offen (Brandeis) On the distinguished automorphic spectrum
Oct 27: Maksym Fedorchuk (BC) In house colloquium series: Apolarity, hypersurface singularities, and invariant theory
Nov 03: Thomas Dedieu (Toulouse Mathematics Institute) Numerical characterisation of quadrics
Nov 10: David Hansen (Columbia) The geometry of p-adic period domains
Nov 17: Chao Li (Columbia)Congruences between Heegner points and Goldfeld's conjecture
Nov 24: No seminar (Thanksgiving)
Dec 01:
Dec 08: Siu-Cheong Lau (Boston University). Non-commutative mirror construction using immersed Lagrangians
Schedule for Spring 2016
Jan 21: Jarod Alper (ANU) A Luna etale slice theorem for algebraic stacks Abstract
Jan 28: Barbara Bolognese (Northeastern) Generic Strange Duality and Verlinde numbers on abelian surfaces Abstract
Feb 04: Leo Goldmakher (Williams College) Characters and their nonresidues Abstract
Feb 11:No seminar
Feb. 18: Alexander Perry (Harvard) Derived categories of Gushel-Mukai varieties Abstract
Feb 25:
Mar 3: Jason Bland (Harvard) Raising the 2-Selmer rank of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves Abstract
Mar 10: No seminar (spring break)
Mar 17: Scott Mullane (BC) Divisors from the strata of abelian differentials Abstract
Mar 24: No seminar (Easter)
Mar 31: Jayce Getz (Duke) Limiting forms of trace formulae and triple product $L$-functions Abstract
Apr 07: Alexander Isaev (ANU) Isolated hypersurface singularities and associated forms. Abstract
Apr 14: No seminar (Distinguished Lecture in Mathematics)
Apr 21: Adrian Zahariuc (Harvard) Deformation of Quintic Threefolds to the Chordal Variety Abstract
Apr 28: Vasily Dolgushev (Temple University) A manifestation of the Grothendieck-Teichmueller group in geometry Abstract
May 5 at 2:30pm (Note special time!): Ila Varma (Harvard) The average size of 3-torsion elements in ray class groups of quadratic fields Abstract
Schedule for Fall 2015 (Seminar room, Maloney Hall 5th floor)
Sep. 10: Ian Petrow (Ecole Polytechnique) A twisted Motohashi formula Abstract
Sep. 17: Arul Shankar (Harvard) Cohen Lenstra heuristics in thin families of number fields. Abstract
Sep. 24:
Oct. 01: Xiaowei Wang (Rutgers) Moduli space of Fano Kahler-Einstein manifolds Abstract
Oct. 08: Carl Wang Erickson (Brandeis) Modularity of ordinary Galois representations via coarse moduli Abstract
Oct. 15: Pitale, Ameya (U. of Oklahoma) Restrictions of modular forms Abstract
Oct. 22: Fan Gao (Purdue) The Langlands-Shahidi L-functions for Brylinski-Deligne covering groups Abstract
Oct. 29: Ari Shnidman (BC) Selmer groups in families of cubic twists Abstract
Nov. 05: Beth Romano (BC) The Local Langlands Correspondence: New Examples from the Epipelagic Zone Abstract
Nov. 12: Sam Grushevsky (Stony Brook) Shimura curves contained in the loci of Jacobians of small genus Abstract
Nov. 19: Mihai Fulger (Princeton)Hilbert functions and volumes Abstract