Student Seminar: Number Theory and Automorphic Forms

Organizers: Lior Silberman, Julia Gordon, Bill Casselman.

Contact: lior

math.ubc.ca

MATX 1112

604-827-3031

Fall 2010: A Course in Arithmetic

The seminar will take place on Thursaday afternoons, mainly in MATH 126 (the seminar room in the lounge).
We have a short syllabus (PDF).
You can take the course for credit, in which case your grade will be based on your lectures
Reading Course number: MATH 620A, section 101

Agenda

(references are to Serre's book unless noted otherwise)

Meeting	Location & Time	Title	Speaker	Notes & References
1. 9/9	AUDX 142, 10am	Organization
2. 16/9	AUDX 142, 10am	Quadratic reciprocity	Asif Zaman	Ch. I
3. 23/9	MATX 1118, 12:30-2pm	p-adic numbers	Carmen Bruni	Ch. II
4. 30/9	MATX 1118, 2-4pm	Hilbert symbol	Jerome Lefebvre	Ch. III
5. 7/10	MATH 126, 12:30-2pm	Quadratic Forms I	Carmen Bruni	Ch. IV-1
6. 14/10	MATH 126, 2-4pm	Quadratic Forms II	Asif Zaman	Ch. IV-1
7. 21/10	MATH 126, 12:30-2pm	Quadratic forms over finite and p-adic fields	Pooya Ronagh	Ch. IV-2,3
8. 28/10	MATH 126, 12:30-2pm	Quadratic forms over p-adic fields	Jerome Lefebvre	Ch. IV-3
9. 4/11	MATH 126, 2-4pm	Hasse-Minkowski	Asif Zaman	Ch. IV-
10. 18/11	MATH 126, 12:30-2pm	Sums of two squares	Pooya Ronagh	[2. Ch. 10]
11. 25/11	MATH 126, 2-4pm
12. 2/12	MATH 126, 12:30-2pm

References

	Author(s)	Title	Data
[1]	J-P. Serre	A Course in Arithmetic	GTM 007
[2]	E. Stein and R. Shakarchi	Complex Analysis

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