UCSB Math Department

Graduate Number Theory Seminar

Organizers: Mulun Yin (Current), David Nguyen , Garo Sarajian .

Meets weekly each quarter.


Each quarter, we pick a topic and discuss relevant books/papers/notes.


Due to a server move, old files have been lost.


Date Topic
2017 Fall Individual topics
2018 Spring Individual topics
2018 Fall The article by D. R. Heath-Brown and X. Li, "Prime values of \(a^2 + p^4\)"
2019 Winter Individual topics
2019 Spring Modular forms
2019 Fall The article by Yitang Zhang, "On the zeros of zeta`(s) near the critical line"
2020 Winter The book "A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography" by Neal Koblitz
2020 Spring The book "The pair correlation of zeros of the zeta function" by Hugh Montgonery
2020 Fall The book "Lecture notes on the Riemann zeta function" by Henryk Iwaniec
2021 Winter The book "Introduction to Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms" by Neal Koblitz
2021 Spring The paper "2^\infty-Selmer groups, 2^\infty-class groups, and Goldfeld's conjecture" by Alexander Smith
2021 Fall The book "Cohomology of Number Fields" by Jurgen Neukirch, Alexander Schmidt and Kay Wingberg.
2022 Winter The book "Cohomology of Number Fields" by Jurgen Neukirch, Alexander Schmidt and Kay Wingberg.
2022 Spring The book "Etale Cohomology and the Weil Conjecture" by Eberhard Freitag and Reinhardt Kiehl.
2022 Fall The book "Elementary theory of L-functions and Eisenstein series" by Haruzo Hida.
2023 Winter Notes from 2023 Preliminary Arizona Winter School.
2023 Spring No Meeting.
2023 Fall Individual topics in algebraic number theory and analytic number theory.
2024 Winter Individual topics related to analytic class number formula and BSD conjecture.
2024 Spring Individual topics related to automorphic forms and Iwasawa Theory.
2024 Fall Individual topics related to moduli spaces of elliptic curves.