Wednesday, September 16, 2015. Mathematics Colloquium. Padmavathi Srinivasan, MIT Mathematics PhD Candidate. “Conductors and minimal discriminants of hyperelliptic curves” 3:30 – 4:20 pm, Neville Hall Room 100. Snacks at 3:15pm. Abstract: Conductors and minimal discriminants are two measures of degeneracy of the singular fiber in a family of hyperelliptic curves. In the case of