On Wednesday, 4/30/25, Dr. Timothy Spellman will be here at UConn for our seminar series from UConn Health. His talk will be titled, "The role of corticothalamic feedback in cognitive flexibility."

Emir Eray Karabiyik (Cornell University) will speak aboutA Classification of Low Genus Modular CurvesAbstract: Let \(G\) be an open subgroup of \(\operatorname{GL}_2(\widehat{\mathbb{Z}})\). There is a modular curve \(X_G\) which loosely parametrizes elliptic curves whose image of the Galois representation lies in \(G\). In this talk, we give a classification of modular curves of low genus; this is achieved by studying twists of modular curves. We also describe an algorithm for computing all families of modular curves of a fixed genus and for computing explicit models for them.

ITINERARY/ACTIVITIES: - Painting - Make your own tasbih (Prayer-beads) - Air-dry clay / pottery - Essential oil perfume workshop - Trivia! - Lip gloss workshop - Halal manicure station

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