ProDoc Seminar

The seminar takes place on Thursday from 15:15-17:00 in HG G 19.2.

Upcoming talks:

TBA

Current members of the seminar:

Ayoub, Joseph
Bruin, Peter Jan
Choudhury, Utsav
Doran, Brent
Fazlija, Bledar
Fuchs, Clemens
Gallauer, Martin
Giansiracusa, Noah
Huicochea, Mario
Jermann, Jonas
Kresch, Andrew
Kühne, Lars
Lamberti, Lisa
Paulin, Roland
Pepin Lehalleur, Simon
Pham Duc, Hiep
Preu, Thomas
Scheimbauer, Claudia
Schmidt, Andrin
Skowera, Jonathan
Steiger, Andreas
Wüstholz, Gisbert
Yu, Jun
Ziegler, Paul

Previous talks:

FS 2012

29.03.2012: Jeffrey Hoffstein (Brown University)
Multiple Dirichlet Day Dreams

08.03.2012: Umberto Zannier (SNS Pisa)
Sharpening 'Manin-Mumford' for certain algebraic groups of dimension 2

HS 2011

10.11.2011: Roland Paulin (ETH Zürich)
Minimal degree of morphisms between curves

26.10.2011: Heinz-Hopf Symposium in HG D7.2
Ngô Bao Châu (University of Chicago) at 11 am: Abelian fibration associated with the geometric side of the trace formula
Stephen Kudla (University of Toronto) at 3 pm: Modular generating series for arithmetic special cycles
Guy Henniart (Université Paris-Sud 11) at 4 pm: Modular Langlands correspondence: new avatars

29.09.2011: Cormac O'Sullivan (Bronx Community College / CUNY Graduate Center)
Taylor coefficients of modular forms

FS 2011

09.06.2011: Martin Gallauer (UZH)
Preparation for Alpbach III: proof that standard cohomology theories obey axioms, proof of theorem of de Rahm

07.06.2011 from 15:15-17:00 in HG G 19.1: Mario Huicochea, Hiep Pham Duc (ETHZ)
Preparation for Alpbach II: axiomatic theory of (co-)homology theories on smooth manifolds, introduction of some standard (co-)homology theories on smooth manifolds

26.05.2011: Bledar Fazlija (ETHZ)
Preparation for Alpbach I: integration of forms over cycles on smooth manifolds, theorem of Stokes, basics on homological algebra, integration of cohomology classes against homology classes

19.05.2011: Solomon Friedberg (Boston College)
15:15-16:00: Metaplectic Eisenstein Series and Multiple Dirichlet Series
Abstract: In this hour I give an introduction to metaplectic Eisenstein series and multiple Dirichlet series. No prior background concerning these topics will be assumed.
16:15-17:00: Ice Models and Automorphic Forms
Abstract: In this hour I show how ice models from statistical mechanics can be used to model automorphic forms and also multiple Dirichlet series that are related to metaplectic Eisenstein series. Once again, the relevant concepts will be described from first principles.

10.05.2011 from 17:15-18:15 in HG G 43 (HWZ): Paula Tretkoff (Texas A&M University)
An Introduction to the Analytic Subgroup Theorem and its Applications (part II)

09.05.2011 from 17:15-18:15 in HG G 43 (HWZ): Paula Tretkoff (Texas A&M University)
An Introduction to the Analytic Subgroup Theorem and its Applications (part I)

07.05.2011 from 11:00-12:00 in GR A3 32 at EPFL: Paula Tretkoff (Texas A&M University)
Variations of Hodge Structure and the Analytic Subgroup Theorem
This first talk of the Minicourse is part of the ETH Number Theory Days 2011 (for more information see here).

07.04.2011: Martin Gallauer (Uni Zürich)
Lefschetz-Verdier trace formula and a generalization of a theorem of Fujiwara

31.03.2011: Gergely Berczi (University of Oxford)
Recent progress on the Green-Griffiths-Lang conjecture

10.03.2011: Lisa Lamberti (ETH Zurich)
Cluster categories and their geometrical model

03.03.2011: Rafael von Känel (ETH Zurich)
On the Modular Degree Conjecture

24.02.2011: Mingxi Wang (ETH Zurich)
Dynamical Mordell-Lang for the polydisk

HS 2010

16.12.2010: Jörg Jahnel (Universität Siegen):
K3 surfaces and their Picard groups

09.12.2010: Thomas Preu (Uni Zürich):
The Brauer-Manin Obstruction

25.11.2010: Noah Giansiracusa (Brown University):
Conformal blocks and rational normal curves

04.11.2010: Patrik Hubschmid (ETH Zurich):
The André-Oort Conjecture for Drinfeld moduli spaces

14.10.2010: Gyula Karolyi (Eötvös University, Budapest / EPFL):
On the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz and its applications (part II)

07.10.2010: Gyula Karolyi (Eötvös University, Budapest / EPFL):
On the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz and its applications (part I)

23.09.2010: Anna von Pippich (Basel):
Elliptic Eisenstein series

FS 2010

03.06.2010: Dzmitry Doryn (Essen):
Cohomology of graph hypersurfaces and counting of points

06.05.2010
Jun Yu (ETH Zürich): On the dimension data problem (Summary of the talk)
Rafael von Känel (ETH Zürich): An effective Shafarevich theorem for elliptic curves

29.04.2010 Paul Ziegler (ETH Zürich): Classification of F-Zips

13.04.2010: Heinrich Massold (Zürich):
Transcendence degrees and algebraic approximation

25.03.2010: Clemens Fuchs (ETH Zürich):
On decomposable lacunary rational functions (part III)

18.03.2010: Clemens Fuchs (ETH Zürich):
On decomposable lacunary rational functions (part II)

11.03.2010: Charles Doran (University of Alberta, Edmonton):
Normal forms for Lattice Polarized K3 Surfaces and the Kuga-Satake Hodge Conjecture

04.03.2010: Clemens Fuchs (ETH Zürich):
On decomposable lacunary rational functions (part I)

14.01.2010: Hironori Shiga (Waseda University Tokyo):
Period Differential Equations for Some Families of K3 Surfaces in Connection with the Hilbert Modular Group for Q(Sqrt[5])
(Prof. Shiga's script for the talk is available)

HS 2009

10.12.2009: Fritz Hörmann (ETH Zürich):
Arithmetic and geometric volume of Shimura varieties of orthogonal type (part II)

03.12.2009: Fritz Hörmann (ETH Zürich):
Arithmetic and geometric volume of Shimura varieties of orthogonal type (part I)

26.11.2009: Daniel Haase (ETH Zürich):
Arithmetic Group Determinants (Slides for the talk)

19.11.2009: Maria Petkova (ETH Zürich):
Ball Quotient Curves and Quaternion Algebras

12.11.2009: Simon Pepin-Lehalleur (Université Paris 13):
Triangulated categories of motives and compactifications of Shimura varieties

29.10.2009: Tzanko Matev (Bayreuth):
The p-adic analytic subgroup theorem

26.10.2009: Umberto Zannier (SNS Pisa):
Some problems of integral points on varieties over function fields (part IV)
(exceptional time and place: the talk takes place on monday in room HG G19.2 at 15-17h).

22.10.2009: Umberto Zannier (SNS Pisa):
Some problems of integral points on varieties over function fields (part III)

15.10.2009: Umberto Zannier (SNS Pisa):
Some problems of integral points on varieties over function fields (part II)

08.10.2009: Umberto Zannier (SNS Pisa):
Some problems of integral points on varieties over function fields (part I)

24.09.2009 Alena Pirutka (ENS/Paris 11):
R-equivalence on low degree complete intersections and rationally simply connected varieties

FS 2009

07.05.2009: Utsav Choudhury (Uni Zürich):
Rational connectivity and A¹-connectivity

23.04.2009 Mingxi Wang (ETH):
Meromorphic maps on Riemann surfaces and transcendence

02.04.2009 Carlo Gasbarri (Univesità di Roma "Tor Vergata"):
Transcendence and Nevanlinna theory

26.03.2009 René Birkner (FU Berlin):
An introduction to toric Hilbert schemes

19.03.2009 Jean-Pierre Wintenberger (University of Strasbourg)
Construction of the Galois representation associated to a weight 2 modular form (part IV)

12.03.2009 Jean-Pierre Wintenberger (University of Strasbourg)
Construction of the Galois representation associated to a weight 2 modular form (part III)

05.03.2009 Jean-Pierre Wintenberger (University of Strasbourg)
Construction of the Galois representation associated to a weight 2 modular form (part II)

26.02.2009 Jean-Pierre Wintenberger (University of Strasbourg)
Construction of the Galois representation associated to a weight 2 modular form (part I)

(Notes (updated 07.05.2009) from Prof. Wintenberger are available)

Previously

Seminars before 2008 are listed on the old ProDoc site.