Graduate Colloquium Fall 2017

Wednesdays - 4:00 p.m.
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 Fields
    In 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