BC NT/RT Seminar

This is a “getting to know you” seminar for the number theory / representation theory faculty at Boston College. The point is to facilitate understanding of each other's work on a level that is a bit deeper than results from the usual seminar/colloquium. To this end, some rules:

1. The talk should be instructive, giving an overall picture, and why one cares, yet also giving some technical insight.
2. The first 20 minutes must be understandable to grad students.
3. You must prove something. (It's ok to state without proof a standard theorem/tool in the subject and use it to prove something.)
4. You must do a non-trivial example.

This seminar meets during weeks when there is no joint MIT/BC seminar. In the joint seminar, each session consists of two speakers, on a Tuesday at 3pm and 4:30pm. In this seminar, in each session one speaker has two 45 minute chunks, on a Thursday at 3:15pm and 4:15pm. Longer times are available upon request.

Here is the schedule for Fall 2008. Days with two speakers are joint seminar days, and are Tuesdays. All other days are Thursdays (unless noted).

Contact: The BC NT/RT seminar organizers are Jay Pottharst and Mark Reeder.