Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar

Welcome! The Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar hosts research talks on a broad range of number theory and related topics, including analytic and algebraic number theory, modular forms, Diophantine equations, automorphic forms and L-functions, and more. We are friendly, engaged and mathematically open-minded; we support work in progress and ask and answer many questions.

The seminar will meet on Wednesday afternoons in the Spring of 2023, rotating through Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore College, and Temple University. Tea and cookies will be served before each talk.

The seminar is currently co-organized by Djordje Milićević at Bryn Mawr College, Ian Whitehead and Cathy Hsu at Swarthmore College, and Jackie Lang at Temple University. The seminar was previously organized by Helen Grundman. Until Spring 2014, the seminar met at Temple University; see previous talks there.

We gather number theorists from Philadelphia's and nearby math departments, including Bryn Mawr, CUNY, Drexel, Franklin & Marshall, Haverford, Muhlenberg, Penn, PSU, Rowan, Swarthmore, Temple, Villanova, West Chester, and others. If you are a number-theorist visiting Philadelphia, we would love to host your talk; please contact any of the organizers to arrange for a specific week.

Previous seminar seasons: Fall 2014 • Spring 2015Summer 2015 Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 • Spring/Summer 2017 • Fall 2017Spring/Summer 2018 • Fall 2018Spring/Summer 2019 • Fall 2019Spring 2020Fall 2020 • Fall 2021 • Spring 2022 


Spring 2023

Date

Speaker/Title of Talk

Location

Wednesday

Jan 25

Ravki (The University of Pennsylvania)

"Serre curves relative to obstruction modulo 2"

Temple

Wednesday

Feb 1

Liyang Yang (Princeton University)

"Relative Trace Formula and L-functions for GL(n + 1) × GL(n)"

Bryn Mawr

Wednesday

Feb 15

Ingrid Vukusic (University of Salzberg and Franklin & Marshall College)

"The Cancelling Game"

Bryn Mawr

*Monday

Feb 20

Please note special day and time on flyer

Valentin Blomer (University of Bonn, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics)

"Quantum Chaos, Quadratic Forms and Fibonacci Numbers"

Joint Talk with Bi-Co Math Colloquium

Bryn Mawr

Wednesday

Mar 1

Zvi Shem-Tov (Institute for Advanced Study)

"Arithmetic Quantum Unique Ergodicity for
3-Dimensional Hyperbolic Manifolds"

Bryn Mawr

Wednesday

Mar 8

SPRING BREAK - NO SEMINAR

 

Wednesday

Mar 15

Samit Dasgupta (Duke University)

"Ribet’s Lemma, the Brumer-Stark Conjecture, and the Main Conjecture"

Temple

Wednesday

Mar 22

Christopher Lutsko (Rutgers University)

"Fine Scale Properties of Sequences Modulo 1"

Bryn Mawr

Wednesday

Mar 29

Frauke Bleher (University of Iowa)

"Massey Products and Elliptic Curves"

Temple

Wednesday

Apr 5

Rahul Dalal (Johns Hopkins University)

"Applications of the Endoscopic Classification to Statistics of Cohomological Automorphic Representations on Unitary Groups"

Bryn Mawr

Wednesday

Apr 12

Sam Mundy (Princeton University)

"The Nonvanishing of Selmer Groups for Certain Symplectic Galois Representations"

Temple

Wednesday

Apr 26

Kalyani Kansal (Johns Hopkins University)

"Intersections of Components of Emerton-Gee stack for GL2"

Temple

Fall 2022

Date Speaker / Title of Talk Location

Tuesday

Aug 30

Manami Roy (Fordham University)
 

"Dimensions of Spaces of Siegel Cusp Forms of Degree 2"

Temple

Tuesday

Sep 6

Luochen Zhao (John's Hopkins University)
 

"Explicit period formulas for totally real p-adic L-functions, a la Cassou-Nogues"

Swarthmore

Tuesday

Sep 13

Djordje Milićević (Bryn Mawr College)
 

"Nonvanishing of Dirichlet L-functions"

Temple

Tuesday

Sep 20

Louis Gaudet (Rutgers Universitiy)
 

"The least Euler prime via a sieve approach"

Bryn Mawr

Tuesday

Sep 27

Renee Bell (CUNY Lehman)
 

"How Do Points on Plane Curves Generate Fields? Let Me Count the Ways."

Swarthmore

Tuesday

Oct 4

Catherine Hsu (Swarthmore College)
 

"Explicit Non-Gorenstein R = T via Rank Bounds"

Bryn Mawr

Tuesday

Oct 11


FALL BREAK - NO SEMINAR
 

Tuesday

Oct 18

Ellen Eischen (University of Oregon)
 

"p-adic Aspects of Modular Forms and L-functions"

Swarthmore

Tuesday

Oct 25

Amanda Folsom (Amherst College)
 

"Symmetry, almost"

Swarthmore

Tuesday

Nov 1

Debanjana Kundu (University of British Columbia)
 

"Heuristics for Anti-cyclotomic Zp-extensions"

Bryn Mawr

Tuesday

Nov 15

Louis-Pierre Arguin (Baruch College, CUNY)
 

"Large Values of the Riemann zeta function on the Critical Line"

Bryn Mawr


Directions to Bryn Mawr College

By Regional Rail: It is super-easy to come by train. Take the SEPTA Paoli-Thorndale Line from any of the downtown stations (Temple, Market East, Suburban, or 30th Street). Almost all trains stop at Bryn Mawr. Walk on Morris (which is the street you see first getting off the train), cross Montgomery Ave, and take the next left onto Yarrow St, which soon meets Merion Ave; you are now on campus and, from here, anyone should be able to point you to the Park Science Center, or you can use the local map.

Other transit options: We can also be reached from the Bryn Mawr stop on the Norristown High-Speed Line (NHSL) (but this walk is a bit longer). Buses 105 and 106 stop nearby on Lancaster Ave.

Department of Mathematics

Contact Us

Park Science Building
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010-2899

Phone: 610-526-5348
Fax: 610-526-6575

Tina Fasbinder
Academic Administrative Assistant
tfasbinder@brynmawr.edu
610-526-5348