Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar

BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Winter Semester 2001/2002


October 31, 2001

Amnon Besser (BGU)

Picard-Fuchs equations associated with families of abelian varaieties over Shimura curves.

(abstract )


November 7, 2001

Amnon Besser (BGU)

Picard-Fuchs equations associated with families of abelian varaieties over Shimura curves (Part II).

(abstract )


November 21, 2001 (13:00 at room 201, note time and place change)

Uri Bader (Technion)

Conformal actions of Lie-groups

(abstract )


November 28, 2001

Tatiana Bandman (Bar Ilan University)

Low-dimensional affine varieties admitting C-actions

(abstract )


December 10, 2001

A. J. Scholl (University of Cambridge)

Zeta elements and modular forms

(abstract )


Dec 19, 2001

Avishay Vaaknin (Hebrew University)

K_1 for Triangulated Categories

(abstract )


December 26, 2001

Erez Lapid (Ohio State University)

Non-negativity of L-functions at the center of symmetry


January 2, 2002

Irwin Kra (SUNY Stony Brook)

One variable theta-constant identities: In Ramanujan's Shadow

(abstract )


January 9, 2002

David Lehavi (Hebrew University)

Any smooth plane quartic can be reconstructed from its bitangents

(abstract )


January 16, 2001

Ido Efrat (BGU)

Arithmetic decompositions of fields


January 23, 2002

Ehud Hrushovski (Hebrew University)

Modularity

(abstract )


January 30, 2002

Amnon Yekutieli (BGU)

Perverse sheaves and dualizing complexes over noncommutative ringed schemes

(abstract )


February 12, 2002

Nadya Gurevich (Princeton University and the Institute of Advanced Studies)

Mulitplicities of square-integrable representations


Seminars normally take place at 14:15 in room 201, mathematics building


Past years:

Spring semester 1999

Winter semester 1999/2000

Spring semester 2000

Winter semester 2000/2001

Spring semester 2001


Other links:

Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Research Group at BGU


For inquiries please contact Amnon Besser

bessera@math.bgu.ac.il