GLNT Seminar
Winter 2011

The seminar meets in East Hall 4096, 3:10-5pm, with a short tea break at 4pm, except as noted below.
The first part of the talk should be more expository in nature, and the second part can (but need not!) be more technical.

Schedule of Talks

Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

January 10, 3:10-5 pm
Keerthi Madapusi (Chicago)
A rationality property of Hodge cycles on abelian varieties,
with an application to arithmetic compactifications of Shimura varieties
January 17, 3:10-5 pm
No meeting
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 19, 2:10 - 3:00 pm
EH 3866, Note special day and time
Wushi Goldring (Harvard)
Galois representations associated to holomorphic limits of discrete series
January 24, 3:10-5 pm
David Jordan (MIT)
Quantization of multiplicative quiver varieties
January 31, 3:10-5 pm
Jared Weinstein (UCLA/IAS)
Resolution of singularities on modular curves, and "maximal varieties"
February 7, 3:10-5 pm
Sonal Jain (NYU)
Heuristics for lambda invariants
February 14, 3:10-5 pm
John Voight (Vermont)
Explicit methods for Hilbert modular forms
February 17, 3:10 - 4 pm
EH 2866, Note special day and time
Alireza Salehi Golsefidy (Princeton)
Counting lattices in a simple Lie group (Joint with Topology seminar)
February 21, 3:10-5 pm
Robert Harron (BU)
The L-invariant of the symmetric sixth power of an ordinary cusp form
February 28, 3:10-5 pm
No meeting
Winter break
March 7, 3:10-5 pm
Mikhail Ershov (Univ. of Virginia)
Property (T) for groups graded by root systems
March 14, 3:10-5 pm
Bob Griess (UM)
A new existence proof of the Monster by VOA theory
March 21, 3:10-5 pm
Chongying Dong
Quantum dimension and quantum Galois theory
March 28, 3:10-5 pm
Michael Geline (N. Illinois Univ.)
Blocks and irreducible character heights in finite groups
April 4, 3:10-5 pm
George Pappas (Michigan State)
Local models for reductions of Shimura varieties
April 11, 3:10-5 pm
Travis Schedler (MIT)
Geometrization of regular principal series representations
April 18, 3:10-5 pm
Evgeny Shinder (Northwestern)
Motivic cohomology of some non-split algebraic groups



Fall 2010 Schedule


Current Schedule


Fall 2011 Schedule


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