Workshop on Computer Methods for L-functions and Automorphic Forms

March 22-26, 2010

Program

 

Monday, March 22, 2010

09:30 - 10:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
John Voight
(University of Vermont)
Computer methods for Hilbert Modular Forms
11:00 - 12:00
Nathan C. Ryan
(Bucknell University)
Computer methods for Siegel Modular Forms
12:00 - 13:00
Workshop Project Organization Session

13:00 - 15:00
Lunch break

15:00 - 16:00
Coffee, tea, cookies
Room 6245

Session - Chaire André-Aisenstadt Chair 2010
Meeting room : 1360

16:00 - 17:00
Akshay Venkatesh
(Stanford University)
Playing with numbers: some glimpses of experimental number theory
Abstract

17:00
Reception
Room 6245

 

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Michael Rubinstein
(University of Waterloo)
Analytic computations with L-funtions
11:00 - 12:00
William Stein
(University of Washington)
Computer methods for Classical Modular Forms

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 15:00
Optional highly technical talk - TBA
15:00 - 16:00
Coffee, tea, cookies
Room 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Akshay Venkatesh
(Stanford University)
Torsion modular forms
Abstract
17:00
Status reports

 

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
David Farmer
(American Institute of Mathematics)
Maass forms for higher rank groups
11:00 - 12:00
Mark Watkins
(University of Sydney)
Hecke L-functions of grossencharacters on ideals

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 15:00
Optional highly technical talk - TBA
15:00 - 16:00
Coffee, tea, cookies
Room 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Optional highly technical talk - TBA

17:00
Status reports

 

Thursday, March 25, 2010

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
William B. Hart
(University of Warwick)
Massive computations with the FFT
11:00 - 12:00
Amod Agashe
(Florida State University)
Computing congruences between spaces of cuspforms

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 15:00
Optional highly technical talk - TBA
15:00 - 16:00
Coffee, tea, cookies
Room 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Akshay Venkatesh
(Stanford University)
Statistics of Galois groups
Abstract

17:00
Status reports

 

Friday, March 26, 2010

09:30 - 10:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 11:00
Salman Baig
(University of Washington)
Computer methods for elliptic curve over function fields
11:00 - 12:00
Ghaith Hiary
(University of Waterloo)
Computing methods for zeta algorithm and algorithm for character sums

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:00 - 15:00
Optional highly technical talk - TBA
15:00 - 16:00
Coffee, tea, cookies
Room 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Optional highly technical talk - TBA

17:00
Final status reports