University of Sydney
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Computational Algebra Seminar
Talks in 2001
February
Thursday 22nd
Josef Schicho
The Method of Adjoints for Surfaces
Friday 23rd
Sebastian Pauli
Factoring Polynomials over Local Fields
March
Thursday 1st
Bettina Eick
Computation with (infinite) polycyclic groups
Thursday 8th
Gunter Malle
Which simple group is it?
Thursday 15nd
Pierrick Gaudry
Counting points of genus 2 curves over finite fields
Thursday 22nd
Allan Steel
Some New Advanced Matrix Algorithms
Thursday 29th
Gavin Brown
Geometry of surfaces for people who know about curves
April
Thursday 5th
Martine Girard
The group generated by the Weierstrass points of some plane quartics
May
Thursday 3rd
Helena Verrill
Picard-Fuchs equation for families of elliptic curves
Thursday 10th
Helena Verrill
Fundamental domains for congruence subgroups
Thursday 17th
Jon Carlson
Computing cohomology of groups and algebras
Thursday 24th
William A. Stein
Visualizing an Element of a Shafarevich-Tate group
Thursday 31st
John Coates
Euler characteristics of p-adic Lie groups and related arithmetic questions.
June
Thursday 7th
Graham Norton
Cyclic codes and Groebner bases over a principal ideal ring.
Thursday 14th
Nils Bruin
Bounding the rank of an elliptic curve.
July
Thursday 19th
Special dual computational algebra session:
2:00pm
Paul Norbury
An application of computers to a topological problem in algebraic geometry.
3.30pm
Miles Reid
Graded rings, K3 surfaces, ...
Winter Break
Spring Break
November
Thursday 22nd
Emmanuel Thomé
Some sparse linear algebra algorithms
Thursday 29th
David Kohel
Fundamental domains for Shimura curves
December
Thursday 6th
Pierrick Gaudry
Counting points on elliptic curves in characteristic 2 with the Arithmetic-Geometric Mean (AGM) method
The original source of this page is by Andrew Mathas. Modifications by Gavin Brown, David Kohel and Volker Gebhardt.
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Volker Gebhardt