Temporary wiki for organizing the informal reading groups at the Arithmetic Statistics program at MSRI.
Cohen-Lenstra heuristics
- chair: Bjorn Poonen
- times: Tuesdays 11-12
Iwaniec-Luo-Sarnak
- chair: Kanieenika Sinha
- times: Wednesdays 11-12
- H. Iwaniec, W. Luo, and, P. Sarnak, Low lying zeros of families of L-functions, Publ. IHES, 2000.
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
- H.P.F. Swinnerton-Dyer. The effect of twisting on the 2-Selmer group. Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 145 (2008) 513-526.
- prereq(?): Heath-Brown paper
- Dan Kane... (?)
General question group
- (e.g., average ap ’s, Sato-Tate (the statement), etc.) Not yet scheduled.