Centre de recherches mathematiques

Université de Montreal

Atelier sur la théorie spectrale
et formes automorphes
3-8 mai 2004

Workshop on spectral theory
and automorphic forms

May 3-8, 2004

PROGRAMME - PROGRAM


MONDAY, MAY 3
13:30 - 14:00
Registration (Room 5345)
14:00 - 14:15
Opening remarks
14:15 - 15:00
Ram Murty (Queen's University)
"Spectra of Graphs and Sieve Methods in Combinatorics"
15:15 - 16:00
Stephen D. Miller (Rutgers University)
"Regularity of Automorphic Distributions"
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break (Room 6245)
16:30 - 17:15
Alina Carmen Cojocaru (Princeton University)
"Orders of reductions of an elliptic curve modulo p"
17:30 - 18:15
Gergely Harcos (University of Texas at Austin)
"The subconvexity problem for Rankin-Selberg
L-functions and equidistribution of Heegner points"
TUESDAY, MAY 4
09:00 - 09:45
Jens Marklof (University of Bristol)
"Weyl's law and quantum ergodicity for maps"
09:45 - 10:15
Coffee Break (Room 6245)
10:15 - 11:00
Chris Judge (Indiana University)
"The spectral analysis of discrete subgroups via
geometric limits"
11:15 - 12:30
Dennis Hejhal (University of Uppsala)
Fredrik Stromberg (University of Uppsala)
"Some Computational Aspects of Maass Waveforms"
14:00 - 14:45
Emmanuel Kowalski (Universite Bordeaux I)
"Gaps in coefficients of automorphic forms or
L-functions and some applications"
15:00 - 15:45
Morten Skarsholm Risager (University of Aarhus)
"Distributions of modular symbols"
15:45 - 16:00
Coffee Break (Room 6245)
16:00 - 17:00
2003-2004 Andre-Aisenstadt Chair
Peter Sarnak (Princeton Univ. & New York Univ.)
"The spectrum of the modular surface"
17:00
Reception
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5
09:00 - 09:45
Dorian Goldfeld (Columbia University)
"A simple proof of multiplicity one for GL(3, R)"
09:45 - 10:15
Coffee Break (Room 6245)
10:15 - 11:00
Werner Mueller (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn)
"Weak Weyl's Law for congruence subgroups"
11:15 - 12:00
Lizhen Ji (University of Michigan)
"Large scale geometry of arithmetic groups and the
integral Novikov conjectures"
14:00 - 14:45
Zeev Rudnick (Tel-Aviv University)
"Quantum maps versus Maass forms"
15:00 - 16:00
2003-2004 Andre-Aisenstadt Chair
Peter Sarnak (Princeton Univ. & New York Univ.)
"Classical versus quantum fluctuations on the modular
surface"
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break (Room 6245)
16:30 - 17:15
Andrei Reznikov (Bar-Ilan University)
"Estimates of restrictions of Maass forms"
THURSDAY, MAY 6
09:00 - 09:45
Akshay Venkatesh (MIT)
"Existence of cusp forms"
09:45 - 10:15
Coffee Break (Room 6245)
10:15 - 11:00
Richard Sharp (University of Manchester)
"Pair correlations of closed geodesics"
11:15 - 12:30
Dennis Hejhal (Uppsala University)
"Gaussians, Zeros, and Linear Combinations of Euler
Products"
14:00 - 14:45
Peter Perry (University of Kentucky)
"The Inverse Resonance Problem for Riemann Surfaces of Infinite Area"
15:00 - 16:00
2003-2004 Andre-Aisenstadt Chair
Peter Sarnak (Princeton Univ. & New York Univ.)
"Extrema of Epstein's zeta function"
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break (Room 6245)
16:30 - 17:15
Andrew Booker (Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay)
"Numerical computations with the trace formula and the
Selberg eigenvalue conjecture"
FRIDAY, MAY 7
09:00 - 09:45
Alex Gamburd (Stanford University)
"Pseudomoments of L-functions and pseudomagic squares"
09:45 - 10:15
Coffee Break (Room 6245)
10:15 - 11:00
Lior Silberman (Princeton University)
"On Quantum Unique Ergodicity for Locally Symmetric
Spaces"
11:15 - 12:00
Gautam Chinta (Brown University)
"Metaplectic Eisenstein series and multiple Dirichlet series"
14:00 - 14:45
Kannan Soundararajan (University of Michigan)
"Real zeros of L-functions"
15:00 - 15:45
Steven J. Miller (Ohio State University)
"Random Matrix Theory models for excess rank at the
central point (and applications to elliptic curves)"
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee Break (Room 6245)
16:15 - 17:00
Harald Helfgott (Yale University)
"On the behavior of root numbers in families of
elliptic curves"
SATURDAY, MAY 8
09:00 - 09:45
Eduardo Duenez (Johns Hopkins University)
"Two Examples of Symmetry-Flipping in Families of
L-functions"
10:00 - 10:45
Cormac O'Sullivan (City University of New York)
"Second-order automorphic forms and spectral theory"
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee Break (Room 6245)
11:15 - 12:00
Guillaume Ricotta (Montpellier)
"Real zeros of Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions in the
level aspect
"
12:15 - 13:00
Habiba Kadiri (Universite de Montreal)
"Zero-free region for Riemann zeta function and Dirichlet L-functions"