SCHOLAR - a Scientific Celebration Highlighting Open Lines of Arithmetic Research in honour of Professor M. Ram Murty's mathematical legacy on his 60th birthday

October 15-17, 2013

Program
 

Tuesday, October 15, 2013
08:30 - 09:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:50
Henri Darmon
(McGill University)
From $p$-adic to Artin representations: a tale in three vignettes
Abstract
09:50 - 10:20
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:20 - 11:10
John Friedlander
(University of Toronto)
The spin of prime ideals
Abstract
11:10 - 12:00
Dinakar Ramakrishnan
(California Institute of Technology)
Non-vanishing of L-functions, and the finiteness of rational points on certain Picard modular surfaces
Abstract
12:00 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:20
Ernst Kani
(Queen's University)
Tensor products of Galois representations
Abstract
15:20 - 16:10
Natarajan Saradha
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Arithmetic nature of some infinite series and integrals
Abstract
16:10 - 16:40
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:40 - 17:30
Dinesh S. Thakur
(University of Rochester)
Higher congruences, derivatives, Bernoulli numbers and Euler constant
Abstract

 

Wednesday, October 16, 2013
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:50
Dorian Goldfeld
(Columbia University)
A converse theorem for double Dirichlet series
Abstract
09:50 - 10:20
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:20 - 11:10
Henryk Iwaniec
(Rutgers University)
Long mollifiers
11:10 - 12:00
Carl Pomerance
(Dartmouth College)
Square values of Euler's function
Abstract
12:00 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room(s) : 1360

14:30 - 15:20
Yitang Zhang
(The University of New Hampshire)
A new method applying to small gaps between primes
Abstract

15:20 - 15:50
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

15:50 - 16:40
Joseph H. Silverman
(Brown University)
Canonical heights for nef divisors on abelian varieties and an application to the arithmetic degree conjecture
Abstract
16:40 - 17:30
V. Kumar Murty
(University of Toronto)
Euler-Kronecker constants and Kummer's conjecture
Abstract

17:30
Reception & Banquet
Room(s) 6245

 

Thursday, October 17, 2013
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:50
Cameron L. Stewart
(University of Waterloo)
On a question of Wintner
Abstract
09:50 - 10:20
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:20 - 11:10
Yiannis Petridis
(University College London)
On the hyperbolic lattice point problem
Abstract
11:10 - 12:00
Michael I. Rosen
(Brown University )
Polynomials mod $p$ and the theory of Galois sets
Abstract
12:00 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:20
Wen-Ching Winnie Li
(The Pennsylvania State University)
Open problems on the arithmetic of noncongruence modular forms
Abstract
15:20 - 16:10
Étienne Fouvry
(Université de Paris-Sud)
Gaussian distribution and Fourier coefficients of cusp forms in arithmetic progressions
Abstract
16:10
Coffee
Room(s) 6245

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