Edray H Goins

Last updated on April 9, 2013.

All talks will be held on Fridays in MATH 215 from 4:30 PM - 5:20 PM. For more information, contact Edray Goins at egoins@math.purdue.edu. I also run the Automorphic Forms Seminar and maintain the Mathematics Club Calendar. If you are interested in events pertaining to diversity in mathematics, I maintain a calendar of events with Talitha Washington entitied Living a Math Life.

January 18		Alejandra Alvarado Purdue University	Questions About Powers of Numbers
January 25		Jeremy Fuller Purdue University	Questions about Number
February 1		Jeffrey A. Oaks University of Indianapolis	Polynomials and Equations in Medieval Algebra and in Diophantus
February 15		Kevin Mugo Purdue University	Lang's Height Conjecture and Szpiro's Conjecture
February 22		Alejandra Alvarado Purdue University	Congruence ABC implies ABC
March 1		Alex Barrios Purdue University	On Some Consequences of the ABC Conjecture in Arithmetic and Logic
March 8		Jamie Weigandt Purdue University	The ABC-Theorem, Davenport's Inequality and Elliptic Surfaces
April 5		Abhishek Parab Purdue University	ABC Implies no "Siegel Zeros" for L-Functions of Characters with Negative Discriminant
April 26		Kevin Mugo Purdue University	On the ABC Conjecture and Diophantine Approximation by Rational Points
April 30		Noam Elkies Harvard University	How many elliptic curves can have the same prime conductor?

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Fall 2012

Talks were held on Fridays in MATH 215 from 4:30 PM - 5:20 PM.

December 7		Kevin Mugo Purdue University	A 60,000 digit prime number of the form x2 + x + 41
November 30		Jeremy Fuller Purdue University	The Bruhat Decomposition
November 16		Edray Goins Purdue University	Ranks of Elliptic Curves via Class Groups of Number Fields
November 2		Jamie Weigandt Purdue University	The Fifteen Theorem and Generalizations, Part II
October 26		Jamie Weigandt Purdue University	The Fifteen Theorem and Generalizations, Part I
October 19		Alex Barrios Purdue University	Elasticity of Factorization in Number Fields, Part II
October 5		Alex Barrios Purdue University	Elasticity of Factorization in Number Fields, Part I
September 28		Alejandra Alvarado Purdue University	Belyi Maps and Dessins d'Enfants
September 21		Alejandra Alvarado Purdue University	Belyi's Theorem
September 14		Abhishek Parab Purdue University	The ABC Conjecture for Polynomials
September 7		Edray Goins Purdue University	From Klein's Platonic Solids to Kepler's Archimedean Solids: Elliptic Curves and Dessins d'Enfants, Part II
August 31		Edray Goins Purdue University	From Klein's Platonic Solids to Kepler's Archimedean Solids: Elliptic Curves and Dessins d'Enfants, Part I

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Spring 2012

Talks were held on Fridays in MATH 215 from 3:30 PM - 4:20 PM.

April 6		Alex Barrios Purdue University	Mill's Prime Representing Function
March 30		Kevin Mugo Purdue University	Noether's Problem for A5, Part II
March 23		Kevin Mugo Purdue University	Noether's Problem for A5, Part I
March 2		David Chapman Valparaiso University	An Algebraic Approach to Greenberg's Question
February 24		Alejandra Alvarado Purdue University	On Square Values of Quadratics
February 17		Alain Togbe Purdue University - North Central	Diophantine Equations with Products of Consecutive Values of a Quadratic Polynomial
February 10		Jeremy Fuller Purdue University	Class Number Formulas via 2-Isogenies of Elliptic Curves, Part II
February 3		Jeremy Fuller Purdue University	Class Number Formulas via 2-Isogenies of Elliptic Curves, Part I
January 27		Jamie Weigandt Purdue University	Selmer's Conjecture and Families of Elliptic Curves

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Fall 2011

Talks were held on Thursdays in MATH 215 from 3:30 PM - 4:20 PM, following a break after the Automorphic Forms Seminar.

November 30 REC 114		Jeremy Fuller Purdue University	Modular Forms via Quaternion Algebras: Some Explicit Examples
November 11 MATH 211		Ted Chinburg University of Pennsylvania	Small Generators for Arithmetic Groups
November 10		Jamie Weigandt Purdue University	Computing Modular Forms on Definite Quaternion Algebras, Part II
October 20		Jamie Weigandt Purdue University	Computing Modular Forms on Definite Quaternion Algebras, Part I
October 6		Edray Goins Purdue University	Mazur's Control Theorem, Part III
September 29		Edray Goins Purdue University	Mazur's Control Theorem, Part II
September 22		Edray Goins Purdue University	Mazur's Control Theorem, Part I
September 15		Kevin Mugo Purdue University	Lambda-Modules in Iwasawa Theory, Part II
September 8		Kevin Mugo Purdue University	Lambda-Modules in Iwasawa Theory, Part I
September 1		Edray Goins Purdue University	An Introduction to Iwasawa Theory for Elliptic Curves, Part II
August 25		Edray Goins Purdue University	An Introduction to Iwasawa Theory for Elliptic Curves, Part I

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Spring 2009

All talks will be held on Thursdays in MATH 215 from 4:30 PM - 5:20 PM, following a break after the Automorphic Forms Seminar.

April 30 BRNG B247 at 3:30 PM		Ling Long Iowa State University	Noncongruence Modular Forms and Modularity
April 9		Alain Togbe Purdue University - North Central	On Families of Diophantine Triples
March 12		Alfred Noël University of Massachusetts, Boston	Algorithmic and Theoretical Considerations for Computing Generators of the Centralizer of K in U(g)
February 12		Tong Liu Purdue University	Lattices in semi-stable representations
January 15		Lloyd Kilford University of Bristol	An Introduction to Overconvergent Modular Forms

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Spring 2008

Talks were held on Thursdays in BRNG 1248 from 3:30 PM - 4:20 PM, following a break after the Automorphic Forms Seminar.

February 7		Ning Shang Purdue University	Low Genus Curves and Cryptography
January 31 MATH 731		Edray Goins Purdue University	Distributions of 2-Selmer Ranks for Elliptic Curves, Part III
January 24 MATH 731		Edray Goins Purdue University	Distributions of 2-Selmer Ranks for Elliptic Curves, Part II
January 17 MATH 731		Edray Goins Purdue University	Distributions of 2-Selmer Ranks for Elliptic Curves, Part I

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Spring 2007

Talks were held on Thursdays in MATH 731 from 3:30 PM - 4:20 PM, following a break after the Automorphic Forms Seminar.

May 3		Brad Lucier Purdue University	Recently (re)discovered algorithms for large integer arithmetic
March 29		Florian Luca Instituto de Matemáticas, Unidad Morelia	Fibonacci Numbers with the Lehmer Property
March 28 MATH 817		Andreas Stein University of Wyoming	Zeta Function Approximation in Function Fields
March 22		Lloyd Kilford Merton College, Oxford	A Jacquet-Langlands Correspondence in Weight 1
February 8		Louis de Branges Purdue University	Theta Functions of Modular Forms

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Fall 2006

Talks were held on Thursdays in MATH 731 from 3:30 PM - 4:20 PM, following a break after the Automorphic Forms Seminar.

December 14 REC 113		Mahdi Asgari Oklahoma State University	On Generic Representations of p-adic GSp(4)
November 30		David Whitehouse Institute for Advanced Study	On the Weighted Fundamental Lemma for Twisted Endoscopy of GL(n)<
November 16		Jennifer Johnson-Leung Brandeis University	The Equivariant Main Conjecture of Iwasawa theory for Imaginary Quadratic Fields
November 8 BRNG 2280		Michael Larsen Indiana University	Functoriality and the Inverse Galois Problem

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Spring 2006

Most talks were held on Wednesdays in BRNG B255 from 4:30 PM - 5:20 PM, immediately following the Working Algebraic Geometry Seminar.

April 12		Alain Togbe Purdue University - North Central	On the Solutions of a Family of Quartic Thue Equations
April 5		Anthanasios Pheidas Purdue University - West Lafayette	A Survey on Hilbert's Tenth Problem
March 22 BRNG 1238		James Cogdell Ohio State University	Sums of Three Squares