Workshop: Regulators, Mahler measures, and special values of L-functions

February 16-20, 2015

Program

 

Monday, February 16, 2015

09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:30 - 10:30
Wadim Zudilin
(University of Newcastle)
Mahler measures of hyperelliptic families
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Detchat Samart
(Université de Montréal)
The elliptic trilogarithm and Mahler measures of K3 surfaces
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Marie José Bertin
(UPMC)
Mahler measure of some multivariate polynomials: old and new
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:30
José Ignacio Burgos Gil
(UAM)
Arithmetic intersection and Mahler measures
Abstract

 

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:30 - 10:30
Samit Dasgupta
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
A new approach to Gross’s factorization theorem
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Jonathan W. Sands
(University of Vermont)
L-functions for quadratic characters and annihilation of motivic cohomology groups
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Vincent Maillot
(Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu)
Constructing elements in algebraic K1 using spectral analysis (with D. Roessler)
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:30
Francesco Lemma
(Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot)
Higher regulators of Siegel threefolds and special values of the degree four L-function of GSp(4)
Abstract

16:30
Wine-and-cheese reception
Room(s) 6245

 

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:30 - 10:30
Rob de Jeu
(VU University Amsterdam)
On $K_2$ of curves
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
James D. Lewis
(University of Alberta)
The regulator map from Bloch’s simplicial higher Chow groups to Deligne cohomology
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
François Brunault
(École normale supérieure de Lyon)
Beilinson’s conjecture for Rankin-Selberg products of modular forms
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:30
Masha Vlasenko
(University College Dublin)
Explicit p-adic unit-root formulas for hypersurfaces
Abstract

 

Thursday, February 19, 2015

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:30 - 10:30
Javier Fresán
(ETH)
Periods of CM motives, gamma values and a reciprocity law
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Chul-hee Lee
(The University of Queensland)
On dilogarithm identities from conformal field theory
Abstract
12:00 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30
Herbert Gangl
(Durham University)
Zagier's polylogarithm conjecture revisited
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245

Session - Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec
Meeting room(s) : 6254

16:00 - 17:00
Francis Brown
(CNRS, IHES)
Irrationality proofs, moduli spaces and dinner parties
Abstract

 

Friday, February 20, 2015

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:30 - 10:30
Cristian Popescu
(University of California, San Diego)
Equivariant L-values, Hecke characters and the K-theory of number fields
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Gerard Freixas i Montplet
(Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu)
On a differential Weil reciprocity
Abstract