Schedule of talks, Fall 2008

TIME: Thursdays, 2:30pm
PLACE: Kemeny 73

Date Speaker Title
September 25
No talk this week.
October 2 Mitsuo Kobayashi
Dartmouth College
Perfect Numbers, Amicable Numbers, and Beyond: Studying the Distribution of Sociable Numbers
October 9 Tom Shemanske
Dartmouth College
Split Orders and Affine Buildings
October 16 Tom Shemanske
Dartmouth College
Split Orders and Affine Buildings
October 23 Ben Linowitz
Dartmouth College
An Introduction to Elliptic Curves and the Congruent Number Problem
October 30 Ralf Rueckriemen
Dartmouth College
Complex Tori and Elliptic Curves Part I
November 6 Enrique Trevino
Dartmouth College
Twin Niven Numbers
November 13 John Tate
Class Field Theory from Gauss to the Present
Note: This talk will be held at UVM. Email Lola if you need a ride.
November 18 Ken Ono
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Unearthing the Visions of a Master: The Legacy of Ramanujan's last letter
Note: This will be the annual Prosser Lecture and will be accessible to undergrads.
Location: Room 008 at 7pm
November 19 Ken Ono
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Freeman Dyson's Challenge For The Future: The Mock Theta Functions
Note: This will be the week's colloqium talk (Room 007 at 4pm)
November 20 Ralf Rueckriemen
Dartmouth College
Complex Tori and Elliptic Curves Part II
November 27
Thanksgiving!
December 3 Prasad Tetali
Georgia Institute of Technology
Pollard's Rho, Kangaroo and a Birthday Theorem
Note: This will be on Wednesday at 3pm

Last Updated: November 25, 2008

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