Power series expansions of modular forms

Seminar: 
Number Theory
Event time: 
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 12:30pm to Monday, April 28, 2014 - 8:00pm
Location: 
LOM 205
Speaker: 
John Voight
Speaker affiliation: 
Dartmouth
Event description: 

We exhibit a method to numerically compute power series expansions of modular forms on a cocompact Fuchsian group, using the explicit computation a fundamental domain and linear algebra. As applications, we compute Shimura curve parametrizations of elliptic curves over a totally real field, including the image of CM points, and equations for Shimura curves.