Number Theory Seminar
Fall 2003
- 3:30 Tuesday, September 16 , CW120
Speaker: Jeremy Coffelt.
Jeremy will talk about trinomial exponential sums and counting the
number of solutions
to certain simultaneous Diophantine equations mod p.
- 3:30 Tuesday, September 23, CW120
Speaker: Dominic Lanphier.
Title: "Rankin-Cohen brackets and nonvanishing of L-functions".
- 3:30 Tuesday, September 30, CW120
Dominic will continue with "Rankin-Cohen brackets and nonvanishing of L-functions".
- 3:30 Tuesday, October 7, CW120
Speaker: Zhiyong Zheng.
Affiliation: Tsinghua University in Beijing
Title: Distribution of primitive roots of composite moduli.
- 3:30 Tuesday, October 28, CW120
Speaker: Todd Cochrane.
Title: Waring's problem mod p
Abstract: We'll start going through the (1976) paper of Dodson and Tietavainen
and
see if we can sharpen their work to prove the Heilbronn conjecture,
\gamma(k)= O(k^{1/2})