Midwest Number Theory Conference

Midwest Number Theory Conference

October 23-24, 2004

The midwest Number theory conference will be held this year at the University of Chicago.

The first lecture will take place in Ryerson 251. Click here for a map .
Lectures start at noon on Saturday October 23rd and end at 4:30pm on Sunday October 24th.
Make sure to get lunch before the first talk! Lectures go straight through the day until 5:15pm.
There will be a conference dinner held on Saturday October 23rd.
Please register here for the conference. There is some financial support available for housing of graduate students on Saturday night. The deadline to apply for support is October 1st.
Information on accomodations and travel .

Speakers (Complete schedule here)

Tobias Berger (Univ. of Michigan) Michael Larsen (Indiana University)

Brian Conrad (Univ. of Michigan) Ken Ono (Univ. of Wisconsin -- Madison)

Henri Darmon (McGill) Chris Skinner (Univ. of Michigan)

Matthew Emerton (Northwestern) Kannan Soundararajan (Univ. of Michigan)

Carl Friedrich Gauss* (Göttingen University) Hui June Zhu (McMaster)

Ben Howard (Univ. of Chicago)

* indicates not yet confirmed.

Talks (Abstracts here)

Tobias Berger -- An Eisenstein ideal for imaginary quadratic fields
Brian Conrad -- Root numbers and ranks in positive characteristic
Henri Darmon -- Stark-Heegner points: a progress report
Matthew Emerton -- Hecke algebras completed at Eisenstein primes and explicit class field theory
C.F. Gauss -- On quadratic residues
Ben Howard -- Nonvanishing of Heegner cycles for higher weight modular forms
Michael Larsen -- The inverse Galois problem for p-adic groups
Ken Ono -- Hilbert class polynomials and traces of singular moduli
Kannan Soundararajan - Moments and large values of $L$-functions
Chris Skinner -- Main conjectures for modular forms
Hui June Zhu -- On slope filtrations

Conference organizers:

Mark Kisin (Univ. of Chicago)

Jeremy Teitelbaum (Univ. of Illinois -- Chicago)

Robert Pollack (Boston Univ.)

E-mail questions to rpollack@math.bu.edu.

Tobias Berger (Univ. of Michigan)	Michael Larsen (Indiana University)
Brian Conrad (Univ. of Michigan)	Ken Ono (Univ. of Wisconsin -- Madison)
Henri Darmon (McGill)	Chris Skinner (Univ. of Michigan)
Matthew Emerton (Northwestern)	Kannan Soundararajan (Univ. of Michigan)
*Carl Friedrich Gauss (Göttingen University)**	Hui June Zhu (McMaster)
Ben Howard (Univ. of Chicago)