Academic Year 2018/19

DateSpeakerTopic
October 2, 2018Henna Koivusalo (UWien)Cut and project sets and Diophantine approximation
October 9, 2018Nick Rome (Bristol)Local solubility for families of conic bundles
October 30, 2018Adelina Mânzateanu (IST)Le Rudulier over function fields
November 6, 2018Kevin Destagnol (IST)Malle vs Manin
November 13, 2018Arne Smeets (Nijmegen)Orbifold Mordell
November 20, 2018Tim Browning (IST)The Getz adelic delta function I
November 27, 2018Tim Browning (IST)The Getz adelic delta function II
December 4, 2018Hongjie Li (IST)Grothendieck ring of varieties
December 12, 2018*Alec Shute (IST)Random cubic surfaces
December 18, 2018Kevin Destagnol (IST)Malle vs Manin redux
January 8, 2019Alina Ostafa (UNSW Sydney)Multiplicative dependence in value sets and orbits of rational functions
January 22, 2018Nick Rome (Bristol)Fields of definition of sets of rational curves of a given degree
January 29, 2019Kevin Destagnol (IST)Points of bounded height and degree via height zeta functions
Febuary 5, 2019Adelina Mânzateanu (IST)Hilbert property for varieties
Febuary 12, 2019Tim Browning (IST)Mixed Waring’s problem and counting Campana points on orbifolds
Febuary 26, 2019Adelina Mânzateanu (IST)0-cycles and analytic number theory
March 5, 2019 *3-4pmBryce Kerr (UNSW Sydney)Points on polynomial curves in small boxes modulo an integer.
March 19, 2019Alec Shute (IST)33 cracked: a description of Booker’s algorithm
March 26, 2019Kevin Destagnol (IST)Châtelet surfaces, real quadratic fields and a distant hope
April 9, 2019Ranita Biswas (IST)Topological properties of digital conics through Diophantine relaxation
May 14, 2019Julian Lyczak (IST)Integral Hasse principle and del Pezzo surfaces of degree 5, I
May 28, 2019Julian Lyczak (IST)Integral Hasse principle and del Pezzo surfaces of degree 5, II