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CMI/MSRI Workshop: Modular Forms and Arithmetic
Jun 28, 2008 to Jul 2, 2008

Organizer(s)

Frank Calegari, Samit Dasgupta, David Ellwood, Bjorn Poonen, and Richard Taylor
To apply for funding, you must register by Fri, May 09 2008.
This conference, jointly funded by MSRI and the Clay Mathematics Institute, will bring together researchers on many aspects of the arithmetic applications of modular (and automorphic) forms. This is currently a very broad and very active subject. Our intention is to encourage interaction between those working in different sub-disciplines. To this end it is hoped to limit lectures to 4 hours a day, allowing plenty of time for informal interactions. On Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 7pm there will be a dinner to honor Ken Ribet on his 60th birthday.

Speaker List:
Matthew Baker
Joel Bellaiche
Kevin Buzzard
Frank Calegari
Robert Coleman
Samit Dasgupta
Matthew Emerton
Johan de Jong
Benedict Gross
David Helm
Nicholas Katz
Mark Kisin
Elena Mantovan
Barry Mazur
Loic Merel
Bjorn Poonen
William Stein
Marie-France Vigneras
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Talk Titles and Abstracts PDF 73KB Tex 12KB

Schedule: http://math.berkeley.edu/~poonen/schedule.html
Saturday and Sunday talks will be held on the UC Berkeley campus, in 105 North Gate Hall (http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/AB45.html). Beginning Monday, June 30, talks will be held in the Simons Auditorium at MSRI's Chern Hall (directions: http://www.msri.org/about/directions/index_html).

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This workshop is partially supported by the Clay Mathematics Institute and the Number Theory Foundation.


If you would like to participate in our Tuesday dinner, complete the registration form here by Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 5pm: Dinner Registration Form PDF 48KB



A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter code MATH (this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room types available. The following Group Code should be entered in the "Comment" field when booking through our Website. Group Code = CGMS68. The cut-off date for reservations is June 06, 2008

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Please mention the workshop name and reference the following code when making reservations via phone, fax or e-mail: DE0000. The cut-off date for reservations is June 2, 2008.





Please note there will be no contributed talks for this workshop. Please ignore the section to present a talk while registering.

Funding

To apply for funding, you must register by Fri, May 09 2008. Click to Register
Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Funding awards are made typically 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available.
Schedule
Saturday, June 28, 2008
9:10AM - 10:10AM Barry Mazur Construction of abelian extensions following Ken Ribet [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:30AM Kevin Buzzard Ken Ribet and Fermat's Last Theorem [Video available]
2:00PM - 3:00PM Nicholas Katz Lang-Trotter revisited, and lower bounds for Frobenius traces [Video available]
4:00PM - 5:00PM Mark Kisin Shimura varieties mod p [Video available]
Sunday, June 29, 2008
9:00AM - 10:00AM Marie-France Vigneras A functor from smooth OL-torsion representations to ( φ, Γ )-modules [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:30AM David Helm On l-adic families of admissible representations of GL2(Qp) [Video available]
2:00PM - 3:00PM William Stein Kolyvagin's Approach to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture [Video available]
4:00PM - 5:00PM Benedict Gross Ramification theory and finite subgroups of Lie groups [Video available]
Monday, June 30, 2008
9:00AM - 10:00AM Matthew Emerton Level Lowering of p-adic Modular Forms [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:30AM Bjorn Poonen Cohomological Obstructions to Rational Points. [Video available]
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
9:00AM - 10:00AM Frank Calegari Towards a Torsion Jacquet_Langlands Correspondence for GL(2) [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:30AM Samit Dasgupta Ribet's Converse to Herbrand and the Weak Gross-Stark Conjecture. [Video available]
2:00PM - 3:00PM Joel Bellaiche Non Trival Extensions of p-adic Galois Representations that are Trival at p. [Video available]
4:00PM - 5:00PM Loic Merel Modular Symbols for Global Fields [Video available]
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
9:00AM - 10:00AM Robert Coleman Wide Open Spaces [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:30AM Elena Mantovan Integral Models for Toroidal Compactications of Shimura Varieties. [Video available]
2:00PM - 3:00PM Matthew Baker Torsion Points on Abelian Varieties [Video available]


Questions about this workshop should be sent either by email to
or by regular mail to:
CMI/MSRI Workshop: Modular Forms and Arithmetic
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
17 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA
94720-5070.
USA

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