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


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