Rutgers-Newark Junior Number Theory Days 2016

Schedule

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Friday 18 November

All lectures in Conklin Hall Room 100, 175 University Avenue, Newark.

09:00

Welcoming remarks.

09:10

Padmavathi Srinivasan: Conductors and minimal discriminants of hyperelliptic curves with rational Weierstrass points.

09:55

Coffee break.

10:15

Anastassia Etropolski: Sporadic Torsion on Elliptic Curves.

11:10

Wade Hindes: Integral points in dynamical orbits.

12:00

Lunch break.

13:30

Joel Specter: The macroscopic properties of polynomials over finite fields.

14:25

Brett Frankel: Fq-Local systems on abelian varieties of low p-rank.

15:10

Coffee break.

15:40

Eugenia Rosu: Integers that can be written as the sum of two cubes.

16:35

Will Chen: Moduli Interpretations for Noncongruence Modular Curves.

18:15

Meet at Hilton Newark Penn Station lobby.

18:30

Dinner at Casa Vasca, 141 Elm Street, Newark.

Non-speakers: please register here for dinner.

Saturday 19 November

All lectures in Boyden Hall Room 100, 195 University Avenue, Newark.

09:10

Ryan Ronan: An asymptotic for the growth of Markoff-Hurwitz tuples.

09:55

Coffee break.

10:15

Alexandra Florea: The mean value of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions in function fields.

11:10

Liyang Zhang: QUE of Degenerate Eisenstein series.

12:00

Lunch break.

13:30

Yuanqing Cai: Unique functionals on theta representations and Rankin-Selberg integrals for covering groups.

14:25

Vladislav Petkov: Cuspidal Theta representations.

15:10

Coffee break.

15.40

Jon Cohen: Transfer of representations and the Bernstein center for inner forms of GL(n).

16:35

Chen Wan: Multiplicity one theorem for the Ginzburg-Rallis model.