Number Theory and FRNTC seminar
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado at Boulder

Meeting time and place:  Tuesdays or Thursdays in MATH 220 or MATH 350.  

Schedule for Spring Semester 2008
Date Speaker Title (Click on title for abstract, if available) Time
February 19 Joseph Silverman
Primitive Divisors in Divisibility Sequences   4 pm  
March 4 FRNTC at CU: Hans-Peter Schlickewei
Approximation of Algebraic Numbers   4 pm  
March 4 FRNTC at CU: Hedi Daboussi
On a convolution method   5 pm  
March 20 Michael Bennett
Powers in progression, Chebotarev and Hilbert Class Polynomials   4 pm  
April 3 FRNTC at CSU: Jonathan Sands
Dedekind Zeta functions at s=-1 and the Fitting ideal of the tame kernel in a relative quadratic extension   4 pm  
April 3 FRNTC at CSU: Vinod Radhaknishnan
Non-Serre elliptic curves   5 pm  
April 15 Roger Baker
A mean square asymptotic formula for sums of two k-th powers   4 pm  
April 29 FRNTC at CU: Jasbir Chajal
A great theorem for an undergrad number theory course   4 pm  
April 29 FRNTC at CU: David Farmer
Modeling the Riemann zeta function   5 pm  

The Front Range Number Theory Colloquium (FRNTC) is a joint seminar between the mathematics departments at
the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) and Colorado State University (CSU).
Talks at CSU are in Weber 117.