Our PhD reading seminar is a more informal, discussion-based seminar where we read through selected papers as a collective. While the seminar is open to everyone, we are proposing "professor-free" sessions to keep the informal tone. Since we read through the papers together, we don't set a fixed agenda for each session, but simply continue with the paper as far as time allows.
During the semester this seminar will be held on Thursdays from 11:30 - 12:30 in Übungsraum 2 of the Mathematical Institute. At 12.30 there will be an informal discussion on questions arising from research.
For more information on the seminar please email Josh Males at jmales@math.uni-koeln.de.
We start this semester by discussing the paper "Periods" by Kontsevich & Zagier. Dates and the first few (tentative) topics are below
| Date: | Time: | Title: | Discussion lead by: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15.03.19 (Friday) | 13:30 - 14:30 | Introduction to Periods | Jonathan Schürr |
| 22.03.19 (Friday) | 13:30 - 14:30 | Periods and Differential Equations I | Christina Röhrig |
| 29.03.19 (Friday) | 13:30 - 14:30 | Periods and Differential Equations II | Stephan Ehlen |
| 04.04.19 | 12:00 - 13:00 | Question session | - |
| 11.04.19 | 12:00 - 13:00 | Apéry's Differential Equation | Jonas Kaszian |
| 18.04.19 | 12:00 - 13:00 | Introduction to L-functions | Josh Males |
| 25.04.19 | 11:30 - 12:30 | Question session | - |
| 02.05.19 | 11:30 - 12:30 | Periods and L-functions | Jonathan Schürr |
| 09.05.19 | 11:30 - 12:30 | L-functions of Modular Forms and Periods | Christina Röhrig |
| 16.05.19 | 11:30 - 12:30 | Question session | - |
| 23.05.19 | 11:30 - 12:30 | Periods and elliptic curves | Joint |
| 30.05.19 (Bank holiday) | - | - | - |
| 06.05.19 | 11:30 - 12:30 | BSD Conjecture | Jonathan Schürr |
| 13.06.19 (Pentecost holiday) | - | - | - |
| 21.06.19 (Friday) | 15:30 - 16:30 | Colmez Conjecture and motives | Josh Males |
For two weeks we have the some talks on current research in number theory.
| Date: | Time: | Title: | Speaker(s): |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27.06.19 | 12:00 - 13:00 | Generalisations of Period Polynomials | Steffen Löbrich & Markus Schwagenscheidt |
| 11.07.19 | 12:00 - 13:00 | Higher Green's Functions | Stephan Ehlen |
Our second topic this semester is a short introductory seminar on Siegel modular forms given by Christina Röhrig.
| Date: | Time: | Title: |
|---|---|---|
| 18.07.19 | 12:00 - 13:00 |