Some mathematical notes I have written for talks, mini-courses, etc.
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Torsion points on elliptic curves
Hay-on-Wye, August 2022
Notes from a mini-course at the
CMI Graduate Summer School on elliptic curves,
held at Baskerville Hall. The lectures were on the theme of torsion points on elliptic curve, and center around two foundational
results: The theorem of Mazur on torsion of elliptic curves over Q, and the open image theorem of Serre.
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Rigid cocycles and singular moduli for real quadratic fields
Park City Utah, August 2022
Notes from a mini-course at the PCMI 2022 Graduate Summer School,
held in Park City. The theme of the programme was Number Theory Informed by Computation, and these lectures focus on the computation
of rigid cocycles, and how experiments played a role in the development of their theory.
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Topics in Number Theory: p-Adic L-functions
Leiden, Spring 2021
Notes for part of a master level course at the University of Leiden. The aim is to give a friendly introduction to the theory of
p-adic measures and Mellin transforms, and how they are used to define the Kubota-Leopoldt p-adic zeta function. The approach
borrows from the beautiful treatment by Pierre Colmez.
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Some spectral questions over R and Qp
IAS Princeton, Spring 2020
Expanded notes that grew out of an experimental talk in the Séminaire Shimizu. Its aim was to give an introduction
to the subject of p-adic modular forms, and explore experimentally a number of analogies with the spectral theory of
the Laplacian on Maass forms suggested by Frank Calegari.
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Overconvergent modular forms and their explicit arithmetic
Bordeaux, June 2019
Notes from a mini-course at the Iwasawa 2019 summer school. The lectures
were about the basic theory of overconvergent modular forms, and their explicit computation following the algorithm of Lauder.
An expanded version of these notes was later published in the Bulletin of the AMS.
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Rigid meromorphic cocycles
Barcelona, June 2017
A rough set of notes from a series of lectures on joint work with Henri Darmon, given during the summer of 2017 at UPC Barcelona,
as part of a seminar run by Víctor Rotger.