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Wiki for organizing things at the Arithmetic Statistics program at MSRI.

PLEASE HELP TO WRITE OUR ARTICLE FOR THE EMISSARY DESCRIBING OUR PROGRAM: Emissary Article

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The schedule for the 5-minute talks on January 26 is here.

Seminars

Postdoc Seminar
"default" meeting time: Mondays 10 - 10:50
Members Seminar
"default" meeting time: Thursdays 10:30 - 11:30 or 11 - 12
Graduate Seminar
"default" meeting time: Monday 2-2:50

Weekly Meeting Groups

Bhargava-Shankar
"default" meeting time: Tuesdays 11-12 or 1-2 (see schedule)
Explicit formula working group
"default" meeting time: Wednesday 11:00-12:00
Low-lying zeros seminar
"default" meeting time: Wednesdays 1.30 - 2.30
Paramodular Forms
"default" meeting time: Thursdays 1:30-2:30
Quadratic twists of elliptic curves: 2-Selmer rank
Not meeting until April 5.
FRG on L-functions and modular forms data
"default" meeting time: Fridays 1:30
Cohen-Lenstra heuristics
No longer meeting, merged with Bhargava-Shankar

UC Berkeley Math Department

Mondays 4:10-5pm - 60 Evans - MSRI/Evans Lectures
- Mar. 14 - Barry Mazur
- Apr. 18 - Melanie Wood
Wednesdays 3:40-5pm - 740 Evans - Number Theory Seminar
- Jan. 26 - Xinyi Yuan (Columbia University) - the Gross--Zagier formula and its generalizations
- Feb. 9 - Robert Miller (MSRI) - Proving the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
- Feb. 23 - Sonal Jain (MSRI) - On the minimum canonical height for an elliptic curve over C(t)
- March. 9 - George Schaeffer, UC Berkeley - The Hecke stability method and isogeny graphs
Thursdays 4:10pm - 60 Evans - Colloquium
- Jan. 27 - Vladimir Rokhlin (Yale University) - DiPerna Memorial Lecture: "A Randomized Approximate Nearest Neighbors Algorithm"
- http://math.berkeley.edu/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=187
- Alexandre Chorin will be organizing a dinner for the speaker after the lecture.
- Feb. 3 - Bjorn Poonen - x^2 + y^3 = z^7
- http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/math.html?event_ID=39632
- Ken Ribet will be organizing a dinner after the talk.
- Mar. 3 - Keith Conrad - Why do we care about the Riemann Hypothesis?
- http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/math.html?event_ID=40497
- Mar. 17 - Vaughan Jones - Random matrices, von Neumann algebras and (2+1)-dimensional topological quantum field theories
- http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/math.html?event_ID=41811
Faculty Club wine dinner, Feb. 25
Bay Area Algebraic Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry Day, April 2

General question group

(e.g., average ap ’s, Sato-Tate (the statement), etc.) Not yet scheduled.

Calendar of program events

Date	Time	Location	Event
Week 3: 24-28 January
Tue. 25	11am-12pm	Baker boardroom if available	reading group on the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics
Tue. 25	2-3pm	Simons Auditorium	Melanie Wood, Bhargava-Shankar informal study group
Wed. 26	9:30-10:30am	Simons Auditorium	5-minute presentations / introductions
	11am-12pm	Simons Auditorium	5-minute presentations / introductions
	12-1pm	Baker boardroom	Iwaniec-Luo-Sarnak study group / lunch
	1:30-3pm	Simons Auditorium	5-minute presentations / introductions
Thu. 27	all day	see link	Connections for Women lecture notes
Fri. 28	all day	see link	Connections for Women lecture notes
Week 4: 31 January - 4 February
all week		see link	Introductory Workshop,Lecture notes
Week 5: 7-11 February
Mon. 7	10-10:50am	Simons Auditorium	Andrew Yang - “Low-lying zeros of Dedekind zeta functions”
Mon. 7	4:10pm	60 Evans Hall-UC Berkeley	Dr. Henryk Iwaniec - “Counting Integers”
Tue. 8	11-12	Baker Boardroom	Informal reading group on the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics
Wed. 9	11-12	Baker Boardroom	Low lying zeros reading group
Thu. 10	11-12	Simons Auditorium	Carl Pomerance - "Order and Chaos"
Fri. 11	11-12	Baker room	Informal reading group on Quadratic Twists
Fri. 11	1:30-later	Baker room	frg working group
Week 6: 14-18 February
Mon 14 -- Wed. 16			Workshop on math journals
Mon. 14	10-10:50	Baker room	Gonzalo Tornaria - "The Brandt module of ternary quadratic forms"
Mon. 14	2-3	Baker room	Dan Kane - "A problem related to the ABC conjecture"
Mon. 14	4:10-5	60 Evans hall, UCB	Jon Hanke - The Arithmetic of Quadratic Forms
Tue. 15	1-2	Baker room	Bhargava-Shankar "Q & A" with Manjul Bhargava
Tue. 15	2-3	Baker room (if avail.)	Ranks of Twists with Daniel Kane II
Wed. 16	1:30-2:30	Baker room	David Farmer- What you need to know about RMT
Fri. 18	1:30-5	Baker room	FRG Friday
Week 7: 22-25 February
all week		Baker room	FRG workshop
Wed. 23	1:30-2:30	Simons Auditorium	Andrew Knightly - Petersson's formula and related topics (low lying zeros group)
Week 8: 28 February-4 March
Wed. 2	1:30-2:30	Baker room	Duc Khiem Huynh - Lower order terms for the one-level density of elliptic curve L-functions: (low lying zeros group)
Thu. 3	11-12	Simons	Kumar Murty - Title: The field of Fourier coefficients of a modular form. (members' seminar)
Thu. 10	11-12	Simons	Henri Cohen - Fun talk on high precision computation of number theoretical constants cohen_high_precision.pdf
Thu. 17	11-12	Simons	Haluk Sengun - Cohomology of Bianchi Groups and Arithmetic
Fri 18	10-5	Library	FRG Friday
Mar 31	4:10	60 Evans	Hendrik Lenstra's "Modelling ﬁnite ﬁelds"
Wed Apr 6	1:30	Simons	Wenzhi Luo- Central values of the symmetric square L-functions
Apr 6	3:40	740 Evans	Rob Rhoades -- "Arithmetic of Harmonic Maass Forms"
Th Apr 28	11:00	TBA	Dan Goldston -- "Jumping Champions"

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-Temporary wiki for organizing the informal reading groups at the Arithmetic Statistics program at MSRI.
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PLEASE HELP TO WRITE OUR ARTICLE FOR THE EMISSARY DESCRIBING OUR PROGRAM:
[[/EmissaryArticle| Emissary Article]]
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-== Cohen-Lenstra heuristics ==
+The schedule for the 5-minute talks on January 26 is [[http://math.ucsd.edu/~alina/5min.html|here]].
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- * chair: Bjorn Poonen
 * The first meeting of the reading group will be Tuesday, January 25, 11-12. (Bjorn will be away the preceding week.) It will be in the 2nd floor seminar room if that room is available.
 * Informal reading group on the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics
 * Reading list (in increasing order of sophistication):
+== Seminars ==
 * [[/PostdocSeminar|Postdoc Seminar]]
 . "default" meeting time: Mondays 10 - 10:50
 * [[/MembersSeminar|Members Seminar]]
 . "default" meeting time: Thursdays 10:30 - 11:30 or 11 - 12
 * [[/GraduateSeminar| Graduate Seminar]] 
 . "default" meeting time: Monday 2-2:50
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-   * MR0750661 Cohen, H. ; Lenstra, H. W., Jr.  Heuristics on class groups. Number theory (New York, 1982), 26--36, Lecture Notes in Math., 1052, Springer, Berlin, 1984.
+== Weekly Meeting Groups ==
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-   * MR0756082 (85j:11144) Cohen, H. ; Lenstra, H. W., Jr.  Heuristics on class groups of number fields.  Number theory, Noordwijkerhout 1983 (Noordwijkerhout, 1983), 33--62, Lecture Notes in Math., 1068, Springer, Berlin, 1984.
+ * [[/BhargavaShankar|Bhargava-Shankar]]
 . "default" meeting time: Tuesdays 11-12 or 1-2 (see schedule)
 * [[/ExplicitFormula|Explicit formula working group]]
 . "default" meeting time: Wednesday 11:00-12:00
 * [[/ILS|Low-lying zeros seminar]]
 . "default" meeting time: Wednesdays 1.30 - 2.30
 * [[/ParamodularForms|Paramodular Forms]]
 . "default" meeting time: Thursdays 1:30-2:30
 * [[/QuadraticTwists|Quadratic twists of elliptic curves: 2-Selmer rank]]
 . Not meeting until April 5.
 * [[http://wiki.l-functions.org/MSRI_FRG|FRG on L-functions and modular forms data]]
 . "default" meeting time: Fridays 1:30
 * [[/CohenLenstra|Cohen-Lenstra heuristics]]
 . No longer meeting, merged with Bhargava-Shankar
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-   * MR1837670 (2003a:11065) Delaunay, Christophe.  Heuristics on Tate-Shafarevitch groups of elliptic curves defined over Q. Experiment. Math. 10 (2001), no. 2, 191--196.
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-   * PDFs of these three papers have been placed in my public directory at MSRI, which I think can be accessed by typing `cd ~bpoonen/Public` at a terminal prompt.

== Iwaniec-Luo-Sarnak ==

 * chair: Kaneenika Sinha
 * times: Wednesdays 11-12
 * Wed. 19 Jan in the Common Room: Henryk Iwaniec, ''Introduction to low lying zeros of L-functions'' 
   Please note: The first meeting on 19 Jan will be from 2-3 pm in the Baker boardroom. 
   Abstract: The content of the paper "Low lying zeros of families of L-functions" by Iwaniec, Luo and Sarnak will be described in general terms.
 * H. Iwaniec, W. Luo, and, P. Sarnak, Low lying zeros of families of L-functions, Publ. IHES, 2000.
    [[attachment:Iwaniec-Luo-Sarnak.pdf]]
 * there is also a study guide and reading list by Steven Miller, at Williams: http://www.williams.edu/go/math/sjmiller/public_html/ntandrmt/

== Bhargava-Shankar ==

 * chair: Barry Mazur
 * times: Thursdays 11-12
 * pp. 2-9 (i.e., the Introduction) of Binary quadratic forms having bounded invariants, and the boundedness of average ranks of elliptic curves

== Quadratic twists of elliptic curves: 2-Selmer ranks ==

 * chair: Jamie Weigandt
 * times: Fridays 11-12
 * Reading list:
   * MR1292115 (95h:11064) Heath-Brown, D. R. The size of Selmer groups for the congruent number problem. II. With an appendix by P. Monsky. Invent. Math. 118 (1994), no. 2, 331–370.
   * MR2464773 (2010d:11059) Swinnerton-Dyer, Peter. The effect of twisting on the 2-Selmer group. Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 145 (2008), no. 3, 513–526.
   * Kane, Daniel. On the Ranks of the 2-Selmer Groups of Twists of a Given Elliptic Curve. Preprint. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1009.1365v1
   * PDFs of these papers have been placed in my public directory at MSRI, which can be accessed by typing `cd ~weigandt/Public` at a terminal prompt.
+ * Mondays 4:10-5pm - 60 Evans - MSRI/Evans Lectures
   * Mar. 14 - Barry Mazur
   * Apr. 18 - Melanie Wood
 * Wednesdays 3:40-5pm - 740 Evans - Number Theory Seminar
   * Jan. 26 - Xinyi Yuan (Columbia University) - the Gross--Zagier formula and its generalizations
   * Feb. 9 - Robert Miller (MSRI) - Proving the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
   * Feb. 23 - Sonal Jain (MSRI) - On the minimum canonical height for an elliptic curve over C(t)
   * March. 9 - George Schaeffer, UC Berkeley - The Hecke stability method and isogeny graphs 
 * Thursdays 4:10pm - 60 Evans - Colloquium
   * Jan. 27 - Vladimir Rokhlin (Yale University) - DiPerna Memorial Lecture: "A Randomized Approximate Nearest Neighbors Algorithm"
   . http://math.berkeley.edu/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=187
   . Alexandre Chorin will be organizing a dinner for the speaker after the lecture.
   * Feb. 3 - Bjorn Poonen - $x^2 + y^3 = z^7$
   . http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/math.html?event_ID=39632
   . Ken Ribet will be organizing a dinner after the talk.
   * Mar. 3 - Keith Conrad - Why do we care about the Riemann Hypothesis?
   . http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/math.html?event_ID=40497
   * Mar. 17 - Vaughan Jones - Random matrices, von Neumann algebras and (2+1)-dimensional topological quantum field theories
   . http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/math.html?event_ID=41811
 * Faculty Club wine dinner, Feb. 25
 * [[http://people.ucsc.edu/~sdasgup2/BAANTAG2.html|Bay Area Algebraic Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry Day]], April 2
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+== Calendar of program events ==

 || Date         || Time  || Location          || Event       ||
 ||||||||<tablestyle="width: 80%">'''Week 3: 24-28 January'''||
 ||<rowspan=2> Tue. 25 || 11am-12pm || Baker boardroom if available || reading group on the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics ||
 || 2-3pm || Simons Auditorium || Melanie Wood, Bhargava-Shankar informal study group ||
 ||<rowspan=4> Wed. 26 || 9:30-10:30am || Simons Auditorium || [[http://math.ucsd.edu/~alina/5min.html|5-minute presentations / introductions]]      ||
 || 11am-12pm || Simons Auditorium || [[http://math.ucsd.edu/~alina/5min.html|5-minute presentations / introductions]]      ||
 || 12-1pm || Baker boardroom || Iwaniec-Luo-Sarnak study group / lunch ||
 || 1:30-3pm || Simons Auditorium || [[http://math.ucsd.edu/~alina/5min.html|5-minute presentations / introductions]]      ||
 || Thu. 27 ||<rowspan=2> all day       ||<rowspan=2> see link ||<rowspan=2> [[http://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/workshops/show/-/event/Wm538|Connections for Women]] [[/ConnectionsForWomenLectureNotes|lecture notes]]||
 || Fri. 28 ||
 ||||||||<tablestyle="width: 80%">'''Week 4: 31 January - 4 February'''||
 |||| all week || see link || [[http://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/show/-/event/Wm539|Introductory Workshop]],[[http://wiki.l-functions.org/IntroductoryWorkshopLectureNotes|Lecture notes]] ||
 ||||||||<tablestyle="width: 80%">'''Week 5: 7-11 February''' ||
 ||<rowspan=2> Mon. 7 || 10-10:50am || Simons Auditorium || Andrew Yang - “Low-lying zeros of Dedekind zeta functions” ||
 || 4:10pm || 60 Evans Hall-UC Berkeley || Dr. Henryk Iwaniec - “Counting Integers” ||
 || Tue. 8 || 11-12 || Baker Boardroom || Informal reading group on the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics ||
 || Wed. 9 || 11-12 || Baker Boardroom || Low lying zeros reading group ||
 || Thu. 10 || 11-12 || Simons Auditorium || Carl Pomerance - "Order and Chaos" ||
 || Fri. 11 || 11-12 || Baker room || Informal reading group on Quadratic Twists ||
 || Fri. 11 || 1:30-later || Baker room || frg working group ||
 ||||||||<tablestyle="width: 80%">'''Week 6: 14-18 February''' ||
 || Mon 14 -- Wed. 16 || || || [[http://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/workshops/show/-/event/Wm549|Workshop on math journals]] ||
 || Mon. 14 || 10-10:50 || Baker room || Gonzalo Tornaria - "The Brandt module of ternary quadratic forms" ||
 || Mon. 14 || 2-3 || Baker room || Dan Kane - "A problem related to the ABC conjecture" ||
 || Mon. 14 || 4:10-5 || 60 Evans hall, UCB || Jon Hanke - The Arithmetic of Quadratic Forms ||
 || Tue. 15 || 1-2 || Baker room || Bhargava-Shankar "Q & A" with Manjul Bhargava ||
 || Tue. 15 || 2-3 || Baker room (if avail.) || Ranks of Twists with Daniel Kane II ||
 || Wed. 16 || 1:30-2:30 || Baker room || David Farmer- What you need to know about RMT ||
 || Fri. 18 || 1:30-5 || Baker room || FRG Friday ||
 ||||||||<tablestyle="width: 80%">'''Week 7: 22-25 February''' ||
 || all week || || Baker room || FRG workshop ||
 || Wed. 23 || 1:30-2:30 || Simons Auditorium || Andrew Knightly - Petersson's formula and related topics (low lying zeros group) ||
 ||||||||<tablestyle="width: 80%">'''Week 8: 28 February-4 March''' ||
 || Wed. 2 || 1:30-2:30 || Baker room || Duc Khiem Huynh - Lower order terms for the one-level density of elliptic curve L-functions: (low lying zeros group) ||
 || Thu. 3 || 11-12 || Simons || Kumar Murty - Title: The field of Fourier coefficients of a modular form. (members' seminar) ||
 || Thu. 10 || 11-12 || Simons || Henri Cohen - Fun talk on high precision computation of number theoretical constants [[attachment:cohen_high_precision.pdf]] ||
 || Thu. 17 || 11-12 || Simons || Haluk Sengun - Cohomology of Bianchi Groups and Arithmetic ||
 || Fri 18 || 10-5 || Library  || FRG Friday ||
 || Mar 31 || 4:10 || 60 Evans || Hendrik Lenstra's "Modelling ﬁnite ﬁelds" ||
 ||  Wed Apr 6 || 1:30 || Simons || Wenzhi Luo- Central values of the symmetric square L-functions ||
 || Apr 6  || 3:40 || 740 Evans || Rob Rhoades -- "Arithmetic of Harmonic Maass Forms" ||
 || Th Apr 28  || 11:00  || TBA || Dan Goldston -- "Jumping Champions" ||