Number Theory Seminar
Number Theory Seminar: April 16, 2026
Apr. 9, 2026—Speaker: Jayashree Kalita (Vanderbilt University) Date: Thursday, April 16, location: SC1404, time: 12:30-1:30 Title: From a Conjecture of Andrews to Almost Alternating Sign Patterns Abstract: Computer experiments led Andrews, in 1986, to conjecture striking sign patterns and growth phenomena for the coefficients of five partition-theoretic q-series from the Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook. The first of these...
Number Theory Seminar: April 14, 2026
Apr. 3, 2026—Speaker: William Duke, UCLA Date: Tuesday, April 14, Location: SC1404, Time: 10:00-11:00 Title: New directions in the geometry of numbers Abstract: The geometry of numbers is a relatively old and highly developed area of number theory. One basic problem here is to estimate the minimal absolute value of a real homogeneous polynomial $P$ on $\R^n$...
Number Theory Seminar: November 5, 2024
Nov. 5, 2024—Speaker: Eleanor McSpirit (Vanderbilt University) Title/Abstract: TBA
Number Theory Seminar: October 21, 2024
Oct. 21, 2024—Location: 12 p.m. in Buttrick Hall, room 206 Speaker: Hui Xue (Clemson University) Title: Subspaces spanned by eigenforms with nonzero central L-values Abstract: In this talk, we discuss explicit spanning sets for two vector spaces. One is the subspace generated by integral-weight Hecke eigenforms with nonzero central L- values. The other is a subspace generated by...
Number Theory Seminar: October 18, 2024
Oct. 18, 2024—Location: 12:10 p.m. in Stevenson Center, room 1310 Speaker: Walter Bridges (University of North Texas) Title: Zero attractors and sign changes in partition polynomials Abstract: I will discuss new methods in the asymptotic theory of integer partitions with applications to the following two problems. The first problem concerns secondary terms in asymptotic equidistribution. For example, if $p(a,b,n)$ denotes...