Schedule


Saturday, November 3, 2007

9:00 Joe Rabinoff, Stanford University, Biextensions and Duality for Formal Groups

9:30 Li Zhong, University Of Minnesota, On Certain Automorphic Forms Associated to Quadratic Forms

10:00 Kirsten Wickelgren, Stanford University, TBA

10:30 Michael Broshi, University of Chicago, Deformations of Finite Flat Group Schemes with $G$-structure

11:00 Eric Landquist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computing Class Numbers in Cubic Function Fields

11:30 Michael Dewar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Drinfeld Modular Forms

12:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:00 Rafe Jones, University of Wisconsin in Madison, An intro to arithmetic dynamics: uniform boundedness, Mandelbrot sets, and the mysteries of periodic points

3:00-3:30 Coffee break

3:30 Frank Thorne, University of Wisconsin in Madison, Maier Matrices beyond Z

3:30 Ekin Ozman, University of Wisconsin in Madison, Mod-l Galois Representations of Elliptic Curves

4:00 Jonathan Mason, University of Wisconsin in Madison, Congruences Modulo Primes between Eta-quotient Newforms and Derivatives of Eisenstein Series

4:00 Matija Kazalicki, University of Wisconsin in Madison, Zeros of certain Drinfeld modular functions

4:30 Patrick Rault, University of Wisconsin in Madison, On uniform bounds for rational points on rational curves and thin sets

5:00 Peng Zhao, Ohio State University, On the quantum variance of Maass forms

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Note: Daylight saving time ends Sunday at 2:00 a.m. Remember to "fall back"!

9:30 Atul Dixit, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Character analogues of formulas of Ramanujan, Koshliakov and Guinand

10:00 C. Wesley Nevans, University of Missouri in Columbia, Representations of integers as sums of primes from a Beatty sequence

10:30 Dimitrios Koloulopoulos, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Localization of Factorizations

11:00 Craig Spencer, University of Michigan, Diophantine inequalities in function fields

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

12:00 Ben Rosenfield, University of Minnesota, Integral moments of automorphic L-functions

12:30 Rob Rhoades, University of Wisconsin in Madison, Non-vanishing of L-values