Graduate Colloquium Fall 2017
McHenry Library Room 4130
Refreshments served at 3:30 in room 4161
For further information, please contact Sean Gasiorek or call 831-459-2969
October 4, 2017
No Colloquium
October 11, 2017
Joe Ferrara, University of California, Santa Cruz
A p-adic Stark Conjecture in the context of Quadratic FieldsIn the 1980's Stark made precise conjectures about the leading term of the Taylor expansion at s=0 for Artin L-functions, refining Dirichlet's class number formula. Around the same time Barsky, Cassou-Nogues, and Deligne and Ribet for totally real fields, along with Katz for CM fields defined p-adic L-functions of ray class characters. Since then Stark-type conjectures for these p-adic L-functions have been formulated, and progress has been made in some cases. The goal of this talk is to discuss a new definition of a p-adic L-function and Stark conjecture in the context of a mixed signature character of a real quadratic field or any ray class character of an imaginary quadratic field. After stating the definition and conjecture, theoretical and numerical evidence will be discussed.
October 18, 2017
No Colloquium
October 25, 2017
No Colloquium
November 1, 2017
Andrew Lee, University of California, Santa Cruz
Introduction to the Atiyah-Floer Conjecture
The Atiyah-Floer Conjecture aims to relate two different homology theories as a way to better distinguish 3- manifolds, using tools from symplectic geometry and gauge theory. In this talk we’ll learn the necessary ideas from geometry and low-dimensional topology to understand its statement.
November 8, 2017
No Colloquium
November 15, 2017
No Colloquium
PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL DAY
Monday, November 20, 2017
Vince Bonini and Oren Rosen
Careers in Mathematics Panel
Vince and Oren both got their PhDs from the Math department at UC Santa Cruz a few years ago. Vince went into an academic track after finishing and is now a Professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Oren chose a career in industry and works at Welton Investment Partners, a quantitative investment company in Carmel. They will share some of their experience after graduate school and give some advice about the different application processes and opportunities for Math PhDs.
PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL DAY
Thursday, November 30, 2017
No Colloquium
December 6, 2017
No Colloquium
