Seminars Sorted by Series

We resolve Manin's conjecture for all Châtelet surfaces over $Q$ (surfaces given by equations of the form $x^2 + ay^2 = f(z)$) -- we establish asymptotics for the number of rational points of increasing height. The key analytic ingredient is...

Quaternionic modular forms (QMFs) are a type of non-holomorphic automorphic function that exist on certain forms of the exceptional groups, and on orthogonal groups SO(4,n) with n at least 3.  They have a robust notion of Fourier coefficients...

We show that for every quadratic extension of number fields K/F, there exists an abelian variety A/F of positive rank whose rank does not grow upon base change to K. By work of Shlapentokh, this implies that Hilbert's tenth problem over the ring of...

I will discuss recent results for algebraicity of critical values of Spin L-functions for GSp_6. I will also discuss ongoing work toward the construction of p-adic L-functions interpolating these values. I will explain how this work fits into the...

I will discuss joint work in progress with Will Sawin on function field multiple Dirichlet series constructed based on a set of axioms from algebraic geometry. These series have applications to moments of Dirichlet L-functions for characters of...

A construction of Thurston assigns a hyperbolic 3-manifold to any polyhedron; a natural question is: which such are arithmetic? We report on ongoing work aiming to answer this question. 

I will talk about a unification of two bounded height results around abelian varieties. One is due to Silverman from 1983, which states, for an abelian scheme A/C with no fixed part over a curve C, that the set of points on C where the generic...

How many algebraic integers of bounded height have a minimal polynomial with a given Galois group? One approach to this problem is via Malle's conjecture. In this talk we will discuss an alternative approach using a construction with the Galois...

In recent work with Hajir, Larsen and Maire, we have proved that a large class of finitely generated pro-p groups G can be realized as tamely ramified extensions of a number field K, though ramification at an infinite number of primes is required...

For an elliptic curve E defined over Q, the Mordell-Weil group E(Q) is a finitely generated abelian group. We prove that there are infinitely many elliptic curves E over Q for which E(Q) has rank 2. Our elliptic curves will be given by explicit...

Large sieve inequalities are a fundamental tool used to investigate prime numbers and exponential sums. In this lecture I will explain my work that resolves a 1978 conjecture of S. Patterson (conditional on the Generalized Riemann hypothesis)...

The Kronecker limit formula is an equality relating the Faltings height of an CM elliptic curve to the sub-leading term (at s=0) of the Dirichlet L-function of an imaginary quadratic character. Colmez conjectured a generalization relating the...

Central predictions of arithmetic quantum chaos such as the Quantum Unique Ergodicity conjecture and the sup-norm problem ask about the mass distribution of automorphic forms, most classically in terms of their weight or Laplace eigenvalue (for...

I will give an overview of recent progress in random multiplicative functions (random models for multiplicative functions) and their connection to the study of the Fyodorov-Hiary-Keating conjecture and Polya's question on nonnegative character sums...

We propose and study a new arithmetic invariant of non-hyperelliptic genus-4 curves: a canonical “quadratic” point on the Jacobian, defined by the two natural degree-2 maps to projective lines. Building on Xue’s result, that this point is...

Borel proved that every holomorphic map from a product of punctured unit discs to a complex Shimura variety extends to a map from a product of discs to its Bailey-Borel compactification. In joint work with Oswal, Zhu, and Patel, we proved a p-adic...

It is possible to form "theta series" in other geometric contexts, e.g. for counting problems involving abelian varieties. It is expected that these theta series again have additional automorphic symmetry.


I will explain some “near-central”...

In this talk, I will present recent work on the intersection theory of modular correspondences. Specifically, we study the intersection numbers of modular correspondences of square-free level, focusing both on the nonsingular intersections and the...

In this talk, we continue to discuss the intersection of modular correspondences but on the self-product of two Shimura curves. This is partially motivated by a classical work of Kudla-Rapoport for the single Shimura curve case and by the self...

I will report on joint work with Aurel Page on a number/representation theoretic approach to the question "Can you hear the shape of a drum". We use quaternion algebras over number fields to construct pairs of manifolds that "sound the same", but...

The main source for the works of Archimedes is a medieval manuscript, written originally around in 975 CE and then erased and covered with a prayerbook in the year 1229. Briefly studied in 1906, the full contents of the manuscripts were finally...

In this talk, I will explain how the Ruelle invariant of a symplectomorphism and the Ruelle invariant of a Reeb flow are related via the open book construction. As an application, I will construct examples of Reeb flows on the sphere that are...