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Temporary wiki for organizing things at the Arithmetic Statistics program at MSRI.

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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

Weekly Meeting Groups

• Bhargava-Shankar

• "default" meeting time: Tuesdays 11-12

• Low-lying zeros seminar

• "default" meeting time: Wednesdays 11-12

• Quadratic twists of elliptic curves: 2-Selmer rank

• "default" meeting time: Fridays 11-12

• FRG on L-functions and modular forms data

• "default" meeting time: Fridays 1:30

UC Berkeley Math Department

• Mondays 4:10-5pm - 60 Evans - MSRI/Evans Lectures
• Wednesdays 3:40-5pm - 740 Evans - Number Theory Seminar
  • Jan. 26 - Xinyi Yuan (Columbia University) - the Gross--Zagier formula and its generalizations
• 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.
• Faculty Club wine dinner, Feb. 25

General question group

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

Calendar of (informal(?)) program events

• Date	Time	Location	What
  Week 3: 24-28 January
  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
  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
  Fri. 28
  Week 4: 31 January - 4 February
  all week		see link	Introductory Workshop
  Week 5: 7-11 February
  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 Boardroom	Informal reading group on Quadratic Twists

Upcoming events

• Kumar Murty, 3 March?, 1pm? 2pm?