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 AllisonModularity 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
Jan 28: Barbara Bolognese (Northeastern)Generic Strange Duality and Verlinde numbers on abelian surfaces
Feb 04: Leo Goldmakher (Williams College)Characters and their nonresidues
Feb 11:No seminar
Feb. 18: Alexander Perry (Harvard)Derived categories of Gushel-Mukai varieties
Feb 25:
Mar 3: Jason Bland (Harvard)Raising the 2-Selmer rank of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves
Mar 10: No seminar (spring break)
Mar 17: Scott Mullane (BC)Divisors from the strata of abelian differentials
Mar 24: No seminar (Easter)
Mar 31: Jayce Getz (Duke)Limiting forms of trace formulae and triple product $L$-functions
Apr 07: Alexander Isaev (ANU)Isolated hypersurface singularities and associated forms.
Apr 14: No seminar (Distinguished Lecture in Mathematics)
Apr 21: Adrian Zahariuc (Harvard)Deformation of Quintic Threefolds to the Chordal Variety
Apr 28: Vasily Dolgushev (Temple University)A manifestation of the Grothendieck-Teichmueller group in geometry
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
Schedule for Fall 2015 (Seminar room, Maloney Hall 5th floor)
Sep. 10: Ian Petrow (Ecole Polytechnique)A twisted Motohashi formula
Sep. 17: Arul Shankar (Harvard)Cohen Lenstra heuristics in thin families of number fields.
Sep. 24:
Oct. 01: Xiaowei Wang (Rutgers)Moduli space of Fano Kahler-Einstein manifolds
Oct. 08: Carl Wang Erickson (Brandeis)Modularity of ordinary Galois representations via coarse moduli
Oct. 15: Pitale, Ameya (U. of Oklahoma)Restrictions of modular forms
Oct. 22: Fan Gao (Purdue)The Langlands-Shahidi L-functions for Brylinski-Deligne covering groups
Oct. 29: Ari Shnidman (BC)Selmer groups in families of cubic twists
Nov. 05: Beth Romano (BC)The Local Langlands Correspondence: New Examples from the Epipelagic Zone
Nov. 12: Sam Grushevsky (Stony Brook)Shimura curves contained in the loci of Jacobians of small genus
Nov. 19: Mihai Fulger (Princeton)Hilbert functions and volumes