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The schedule for the 5-minute talks on January 26 is here.

Seminars

• Postdoc Seminar

• "default" meeting time: Mondays 10 - 10:50

• Members Seminar

• "default" meeting time: Thursdays 10:30 - 11:30 or 11 - 12

• Graduate Seminar

• "default" meeting time: Monday 2-2:50

Weekly Meeting Groups

• Bhargava-Shankar

• "default" meeting time: Tuesdays 11-12 or 1-2 (see schedule)

• Explicit formula working group

• "default" meeting time: Tuesdays 1:30-2:30

• Low-lying zeros seminar

• "default" meeting time: Wednesdays 1.30 - 2.30

• Paramodular Forms

• "default" meeting time: Thursdays 1:30-2:30

• Quadratic twists of elliptic curves: 2-Selmer rank

• "default" meeting time: Fridays 11-12

• FRG on L-functions and modular forms data

• "default" meeting time: Fridays 1:30

• Cohen-Lenstra heuristics

• No longer meeting, merged with Bhargava-Shankar

UC Berkeley Math Department

• Mondays 4:10-5pm - 60 Evans - MSRI/Evans Lectures
• Wednesdays 3:40-5pm - 740 Evans - Number Theory Seminar
  • Jan. 26 - Xinyi Yuan (Columbia University) - the Gross--Zagier formula and its generalizations
  • Feb. 9 - Robert Miller (MSRI) - Proving the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
  • Feb. 23 - Sonal Jain (MSRI) - On the minimum canonical height for an elliptic curve over C(t)
• Thursdays 4:10pm - 60 Evans - Colloquium

  • Jan. 27 - Vladimir Rokhlin (Yale University) - DiPerna Memorial Lecture: "A Randomized Approximate Nearest Neighbors Algorithm"

  • http://math.berkeley.edu/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=187

  • Alexandre Chorin will be organizing a dinner for the speaker after the lecture.

  • Feb. 3 - Bjorn Poonen - x^2 + y^3 = z^7

  • http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/math.html?event_ID=39632

  • Ken Ribet will be organizing a dinner after the talk.
  • Mar. 3 - Keith Conrad - Why do we care about the Riemann Hypothesis?

  • http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/math.html?event_ID=40497

• Faculty Club wine dinner, Feb. 25

• Bay Area Algebraic Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry Day, April 2

General question group

• (e.g., average ap ’s, Sato-Tate (the statement), etc.) Not yet scheduled.

Calendar of program events

• Date	Time	Location	Event
  Week 3: 24-28 January
  Tue. 25	11am-12pm	Baker boardroom if available	reading group on the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics
  	2-3pm	Simons Auditorium	Melanie Wood, Bhargava-Shankar informal study group
  Wed. 26	9:30-10:30am	Simons Auditorium	5-minute presentations / introductions
  	11am-12pm	Simons Auditorium	5-minute presentations / introductions
  	12-1pm	Baker boardroom	Iwaniec-Luo-Sarnak study group / lunch
  	1:30-3pm	Simons Auditorium	5-minute presentations / introductions
  Thu. 27	all day	see link	Connections for Women lecture notes
  Fri. 28
  Week 4: 31 January - 4 February
  all week		see link	Introductory Workshop,Lecture notes
  Week 5: 7-11 February
  Mon. 7	10-10:50am	Simons Auditorium	Andrew Yang - “Low-lying zeros of Dedekind zeta functions”
  	4:10pm	60 Evans Hall-UC Berkeley	Dr. Henryk Iwaniec - “Counting Integers”
  Tue. 8	11-12	Baker Boardroom	Informal reading group on the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics
  Wed. 9	11-12	Baker Boardroom	Low lying zeros reading group
  Thu. 10	11-12	Simons Auditorium	Carl Pomerance - "Order and Chaos"
  Fri. 11	11-12	Baker room	Informal reading group on Quadratic Twists
  Fri. 11	1:30-later	Baker room	frg working group
  Week 6: 14-18 February
  Mon 14 -- Wed. 16			Workshop on math journals
  Mon. 14	10-10:50	Baker room	Gonzalo Tornaria - "The Brandt module of ternary quadratic forms"
  Mon. 14	2-3	Baker room	Dan Kane - "A problem related to the ABC conjecture"
  Mon. 14	4:10-5	60 Evans hall, UCB	Jon Hanke - The Arithmetic of Quadratic Forms
  Tue. 15	1-2	Baker room	Bhargava-Shankar "Q & A" with Manjul Bhargava
  Tue. 15	2-3	Baker room (if avail.)	Ranks of Twists with Daniel Kane II
  Wed. 16	1:30-2:30	Baker room	David Farmer- What you need to know about RMT
  Fri. 18	1:30-5	Baker room	FRG Friday
  Feb 21-25	all day	Baker room	FRG push
  Th. Mar 3	11-12	Simons	Seminar speaker: Kumar Murty
  Week 7: 22-25 February
  all week		Baker room	FRG workshop
  Wed. 23	1:30-2:30	Simons Auditorium	Andrew Knightly - Petersson's formula and related topics (low lying zeros group)
  Week 8: 28 February-4 March
  Wed. 2	1:30-2:30	Baker room	Duc Khiem Huynh - Lower order terms for the one-level density of elliptic curve L-functions: (low lying zeros group)