Number theory seminar Winter 2026


The number theory seminar meets at 10:00 - 11:00 on Tuesdays in MC 5479.

Organizers: Alex Cowan, Zhenchao Ge, Jerry Wang

  Week     Date     Speaker     Affiliation     Title  
  1     Jan 20     Stephen Melczer     University of Waterloo     Analytic Combinatorics in One and Several Variables  
  2     Jan 27     Erica Liu     University of Waterloo     Toric Compactifications and Critical Points at Infinity in Analytic Combinatorics  
  3     Feb 3     Carlo Pagano     Concordia University     Reconstructing curves from their set of points as Galois sets  
  4     Feb 10     Nikita Lvov         Random Walks arising in Random Matrix Theory  
  5     Feb 24     Chi Hoi Yip*     Georgia Tech     Inverse sieve problems  
  6     Mar 3     Mathilde Gerbelli-Gauthier     University of Toronto     Equidistribution of Root Numbers  
  7     Mar 10     Matt Young*     Rutgers University     The shifted convolution problem for Siegel modular forms  
  10     Mar 31     Damaris Schindler     University of Gottingen     Quantitative weak approximation and quantitative strong approximation for certain quadratic forms  
  11     Apr 7     Ila Varma     University of Toronto     Counting Number Fields by P^1 height  

* = online talks





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  
  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