The University of Toronto Number Theory/Representation Theory Seminar 
2003: Wednesday 2:10pm-3:30pm, 5017A Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto  


The seminar is organized jointly by Jim Arthur and myself (Katia Consani). For more information contact us at arthur@math.toronto.edu, kc@math.toronto.edu respectively. [Note: the technology for this page was borrowed from the Arithmetic Seminar page at A^2 (= University of Michigan Ann Arbor).]


Schedule of the Spring Term talks:

DATE and TIME  SPEAKER  TITLE 
Jan 8 
Wednesday, 2:10pm-3:30pm 
C. Doran 
(Columbia U.) 
Integral structures and mirror symmetry 
Jan 15 
Wednesday, 2:10pm-3:30pm 
E. Lapid 
(Fields Inst.) 
Spectral expansion of Jacquet's relative trace formula 
Jan 22 
Wednesday, 2:10pm-3:30pm 
P. Mezo 
(UofT) 
Unitary representations of metaplectic general linear groups 
Jan 29 
Wednesday, 2:10pm-3:30pm 
M. Krishnamurthy 
(IAS) 
The Asai transfer to GL(4): Via the Langlands-Shahidi method  
Feb 5 
Wednesday, 2:10pm-3:30pm 
M. Papikian 
(U. of Michigan, A^2) 
Optimal elliptic curves, discriminants and the degree conjecture over function fields 
Feb 12 
Wednesday, 2:10pm-3:30pm 
Y. Ouyang 
(UofT) 
The growth of Selmer ranks in unramified towers 
Feb 19  READING WEEK 
 
NO SEMINAR 
Feb 26 
Wednesday, 2:10pm-3:30pm 
R. Sreekantan 
(UofT) 
Drinfeld Modular Curves and Special Values of L-functions 
Mar 3 
Monday, 2:10pm-3:30pm 
G. Pappas 
(Michigan State U.) 
Galois lattices and cubic structures 
Mar 12 
Wednesday, 2:10pm-3:30pm 
T. Haines 
(UMD College Park) 
Structure constants for Hecke and representation rings NOTE: CANCELLED! 
Mar 19 
Wednesday, 2:10pm-3:30pm 
A. Granville 
(U of Montreal) 
An uncertainty principle in arithmetic 
Mar 26 
Wednesday, 2:10pm-3:30pm 
J. Korman 
(UofT) 
A formula for characters of p-adic groups in terms of the building 
Mar 27 
Thursday, 2:10pm-3:30pm (FIELDS INSTITUTE) 
T. Haines 
(UMD College Park) 
Structure constants for Hecke and representation rings  
Apr 2 
Wednesday, 2:10pm-3:30pm 
A. Pal 
(CRM Montreal) 
The rigid analytical regulator and the K2 of Drinfeld modular curves  
Apr 9 
Wednesday, 2:10pm-3:30pm 
J. Gordon 
(Fields Institute) 
Character values and motivic integration 


Schedule of the Winter Term talks