Number theory seminar Fall 2025


The number theory seminar meets at 10:00 - 11:00 on Tuesdays in MC 5417 (except for 3).

  Week     Date     Speaker     Affiliation     Title  
  1     Sep 16     Steve Gonek*     University of Rochester     The Density of the Riemann Zeta Function on the Critical Line  
  2     Sep 23     Chantal David     Concordia University     Non-vanishing for cubic Hecke L-functions  
  3     Oct 1     Karl Dilcher     Dalhousie University     Heronian triangles, Gauss primes, and some linear recurrences  
  4     Oct 7     Alex Cowan     University of Waterloo     Murmurations from functional equations  
  5     Oct 21     Ali Alsetri*     University of Kentucky     Burgess-type character sum estimates over generalized arithmetic progressions of rank 2  
  6     Oct 28     Muhammad Afifurrahman*     University of New South Wales     Counting multiplicatively dependent integer vectors on a hyperplane  
  7     Nov 4     Liam Orovec     University of Waterloo     Greedy and Lazy Parry Numbers  
  8     Nov 11     Stanley Xiao     University of Northern British Columbia     Elliptic curves admitting a rational isogeny of prime degree, ordered by conductor  
  9     Nov 18     Yunqing Tang     Univeristy of California, Berkeley     The arithmetic of power series and applications to irrationality  
  10     Nov 25              
  11     Dec 2     Qirui Li     Pohang University of Science and Technology / Toronto     The higher linear Arithmetic Fundamental Lemma over function fields  

* = online talks
3: This talk will be in MC 4064 from 2:30pm - 3:30pm





Number theory seminar Winter 2025


The number theory seminar meets at 10:00 - 10:50 on Tuesdays in MC 5479 (except for 6a, 6b, 18, 19).

  Week     Date     Speaker     Affiliation     Title  
  1     Jan 21     Krishnarjun Krishnamoorthy*     BIMSA     Moments of non-normal number fields  
  2     Jan 28     Akash Singha Roy*     University of Georgia     Residue-class distribution and mean values of multiplicative functions  
  3     Feb 4     Kevin Hare     University of Waterloo     Computational progress on the unfair 0-1 polynomial Conjecture  
  4     Feb 11     Roy Zhao*     Tsinghua & Caltech     Unlikely Intersection Problems and The Pila-Zannier Method  
  5     Feb 25     Miao Gu     University of Michigan     On Triple Product L-functions  
  6a     Mar 7     Habiba Kadiri     University of Lethbridge     An explicit version of Chebotarev’s Density Theorem  
  6b     Mar 7     William Verreault     University of Toronto     On the minimal length of addition chains  
  7     Mar 18     Emily Quesada-Herrera     PIMS, Lethbridge     Fourier optimization and the least quadratic non-residue  
  8     Mar 25     Sourabhashis Das     University of Waterloo     On the distributions of divisor counting functions: From Hardy-Ramanujan to Erdős-Kac  
  9     Apr 1     Zahra Janbazi     University of Toronto     Extensions of Birch-Merriman and Related Finiteness Theorems  
  18     June 3     Paul Pollack     University of Georgia     How nonunique is your factorization?  
  19     June 10     Micah Milinovich     University of Mississipi     Hilbert spaces and low-lying zeros of L-functions  

* = online talks
6a: This talk will be in MC 2034 from 1:30 - 2:20pm
6b: This talk will be in MC 2034 from 2:30 - 3:20pm
18, 19: These two talks will be in MC 5417 from 10:00 - 11:00am





Number theory seminar Fall 2024


  Week     Date     Speaker     Affiliation     Title  
  1     Sep 17     John Yin     Ohio State University     A Chebotarev Density Theorem over Local Fields  
  2     Sep 24     Alex Cowan     University of Waterloo     Statistics of modular forms with small rationality fields  
  3     Sep 31     Agniva Dasgupta     University of Texas at Dallas     Second Moment of GL(3) L-functions  
  4     Oct 8     David McKinnon     University of Waterloo     How crowded can rational solutions be?  
  5     Oct 22     Kunjakanan Nath*     IECL Nancy     Circle method and binary correlation problems  
  6     Oct 29     Valeriya Kovaleva     University of Montreal     Correlations of the Riemann Zeta on the critical line  
  7     Nov 5     Sunil Naik*     Queen's University     On a question of Christensen, Gipson and Kulosman  
  8     Nov 12     Rizwanur Khan*     University of Texas at Dallas     Eisenstein series and the Random Wave Conjecture  
  9     Nov 19     Stanley Xiao     University of Northern British Columbia     On Buchi's problem  
  10     Nov 26     Owen Patashnick     King's College London     Motive-ating formal periods via special values of L-functions  

* = online talks