MAGIC: Michigan - Arithmetic Geometry Initiative

MAGIC

Michigan – Arithmetic Geometry Initiative – Columbia

MAGIC is an online seminar starting in May. The topic is arithmetic geometry, broadly construed to include parts of algebraic geometry and number theory, focusing on concrete problems.

The seminar is organized by Wei Ho (University of Michigan) and Will Sawin (Columbia University).

MAGIC meets Thursdays, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm CDT, on Zoom (password is the order of the finite simple group A₆).
That is 10:30 am - 11:30 am PDT, 18:30 - 19:30 BST, and 19:30 - 20:30 CET.

Talk Schedule

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May 7 1:30 EDT	Daniel Loughran	University of Bath	Probabilistic Arithmetic Geometry
May 14 1:30 EDT	Nick Rome	University of Bristol	Weak Approximation on Quadric Surface Bundles
May 21 1:30 EDT	Ananth Shankar	MIT → Wisconsin	Finiteness results for reductions of Hecke orbits
May 28 1:30 EDT	Andrew Sutherland	MIT	Computing L-functions of modular curves
June 4 1:30 EDT	Yuan Liu	University of Michigan	Presentations of Galois groups of maximal extensions with restricted ramifications
June 11 1:30 EDT	Tony Feng	MIT	The Galois action on symplectic K-theory
June 18 1:30 EDT	Peter Koymans	Max Planck Institute	Integral points on quadratic equations
June 25 1:30 EDT	Shabnam Akhtari	University of Oregon	A positive proportion of quartic binary forms does not represent 1
July 2 1:30 EDT	Jiuya Wang	Duke	Pointwise Bound for ℓ-torsion of Class Groups
July 9 1:30 EDT	Tim Browning	IST Austria	Del Pezzo surfaces by degrees
July 16 1:30 EDT	Stephanie Chan	UCL	A density of ramified primes
July 23 1:30 EDT	Mark Shusterman	Harvard	The quadratic Bateman-Horn conjecture over function fields
July 30 1:30 EDT			Informal arithmetic geometry discussion (bring your questions)
August 6 1:30 EDT	Seoyoung Kim	Queen's University	From the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture to Nagao's conjecture
August 13 1:30 EDT	Richard Griffon	Universität Basel	Elliptic curves with large Tate-Shafarevich groups over F_q(t)
August 20 1:30 EDT	Levent Alpoge	Columbia University	Effectivity in Faltings' Theorem
September 3 1:30 EDT (pre-talk) 2:10 EDT (main talk)	Hannah Larson	Stanford Univeristy	Brill--Noether theory over the Hurwitz space (with a pre-talk on limit linear series)
September 10 1:30 EDT	Jennifer Berg	Bucknell University	Conic bundles over elliptic curves
September 24 1:30 EDT	Max Lieblich	University of Washington	Moduli spaces in computer vision
October 8 1:30 EDT	Jacob Tsimerman	University of Toronto	Independence of CM points in Elliptic curves
October 22 1:30 EDT	Myrto Mavraki	Harvard University	Statistics in arithmetic dynamics
November 5 1:30 EDT	Arul Shankar	University of Toronto	The number of D₄-extensions of Q
November 19 1:30 EDT	Andrew Granville	University of Montreal	The distribution of primes in short intervals