Speaker	Date	Time	Room	Topic	References
M. Zuhair	Oct 31	11:00AM	MS 5127	The Eichler-Shimura Construction	[IAT],
B. Smith	Nov 7	11:00AM	MS 5127	Shimura Curves/Sets and their Heegner Points	[Zhang, Sect. 2]
T. Padurariu	Nov 14	11:00AM	MS 5127	Level Raising of Modular Forms	[Zhang, Sect. 3], [Ribet], [DT]
A. Burungale	Nov 21	11:00AM	MS 5127	Cohomological Congruence of Heegner Points	[Zhang, Sect. 4], [BD, Sect. 9]
G. Gim	Dec 8	12:00PM	MS 5117	Rank-Lowering of Selmer Groups	[Zhang, Sect. 5] [ADT]
J. Newton	Dec 10	10:00AM	MS 5148	The Rank One Case of Kolyvagin's Conjecture	[Zhang, Sect. 6,7]
J. Lang	Dec 10	12:00PM	MS 5117	Modeling the Distribution of Ranks, Selmer Groups, and Shafarevich-Tate Groups of Elliptic Curves	[BKLPR]
S. Kalyanswamy	Dec 12	11:00AM	MS 5127	Skinner's Converse to the Theorem of Gross, Zagier, and Kolyvagin	[Skinner]
I. Coley	Dec 12	12:00PM	MS 5117	A Majority of Elliptic Curves over Q Satisfy the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture	[BSZ]

References

[BD] Bertolini, M.; Darmon, H. Iwasawa's main conjecture for elliptic curves over anticyclotomic Z_p-extensions. Ann. of Math. (2) 162 (2005), no.1, 1-64.

[DT] Diamond, F.; Taylor, R. Nonoptimal level of mod l modular representations. Invent. Math. 115 (1994), no.3, 435-462.

[ADT] Milne, J. S. Arithmetic duality theorems. Perspectives in Mathematics, 1. Academin Press, Inc., Boston, MA, 1986.

[Ribet] Ribet, K. A. Congruence relations between modular forms. Proc. International Congress of Mathematicians 1983, 503-514.

[IAT] Shimura, G. Introduction to the arithmetic theory of automorphic forms. Princeton University Press, NJ, and Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 1971.

[Zhang] Zhang, W. Selmer groups and the indivisibility of Heegner points.