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 (Ҵý)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 (Ҵý)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 (Ҵý)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 (Ҵý)Selmer groups in families of cubic twists

Nov. 05: Beth Romano (Ҵý)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