Midwest Number Theory Conference
October 23-24, 2004, Chicago.
Schedule:
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Abstracts
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Saturday
12pm -- Brian Conrad --
Root numbers and ranks in positive characteristic
12:45 -- Break
1:00 -- Ben Howard --
Nonvanishing of Heegner cycles for higher weight modular forms
1:45 -- Break
2:15 -- Chris Skinner -- --
Main conjectures for modular forms
3:15 -- Break
3:30 -- Kannan Soundararajan --
Moments and large values of $L$-functions
4:15 -- Break
4:30 -- Michael Larsen --
The inverse Galois problem for p-adic groups
Last talk ends at 5:15pm.
Dinner at 6:30pm.
Sunday
9:15am -- Ken Ono --
Hilbert class polynomials and traces of singular moduli
10:00 -- Break
10:15 -- Henri Darmon --
Stark-Heegner points: a progress report
11:15 -- Break
11:30 -- Hui June Zhu --
On slope filtrations
12:15 -- Lunch
2:00 -- Tobias Berger --
An Eisenstein ideal for imaginary quadratic fields
2:45 -- Break
3:00 -- Matthew Emerton --
Hecke algebras completed at Eisenstein primes and explicit class field theory
(Last talk ends at 3:45pm.)
Conference organizers:
Mark Kisin (Univ. of Chicago)
Jeremy Teitelbaum (Univ. of Illinois -- Chicago)
Robert Pollack (Boston Univ.)