Atelier sur les fonctions L et sujets connexes
13-17 février 2006

Workshop on L-Functions and Related Themes
February 13-17, 2006

Centre de recherches mathématiques
Université de Montréal
Pavillon André-Aisenstadt
Salle / Room 6214

PROGRAMME

Lundi 13 février / Monday, February 13

09:00 - 09:20

Inscription / Registration (Salle/Room 5345)
Café / Coffee (Salle / Room 6245)

09:20 - 09:30

Mots de bienvenue / Welcoming Address

09:30 - 10:30

Kumar Murty
"Families of L-functions" I
10:30 - 11:00

Pause-café / Coffee break (Salle / Room 6245)

11:00 - 12:00

Henryk Iwaniec
"The least prime in an arithmetic progression"

Lunch

14:30 - 15:30

Emmanuel Kowalski
"The rank of elliptic curves over function fields over
finite fields"
15:30 - 16:00

Pause-café / Coffee break (Salle / Room 6245)

16:00 - 17:00

K. Soundararajan (André-Aisenstadt lecture)
"What are L-functions and what are they good for?"
17:00
Cocktail / Reception (Salle / Room 6245)

Mardi 14 février / Tuesday, February 14

09:00

Café / Coffee (Salle / Room 6245)

09:30 - 10:30

Kumar Murty
"Families of L-functions" II

10:30 - 11:00

Pause-café / Coffee break (Salle / Room 6245)

11:00 - 12:00

Guillaume Ricotta
"On cubic twists of elliptic curves"

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Philippe Michel
"Periods, equidistribution, subconvexity and non-
vanishing of L-functions" I

15:00 - 15:30

Pause-café / Coffee break (Salle / Room 6245)

15:30 - 16:30

Dorian Goldfeld
"Automorphic forms and L-functions for the group GL(n,R)"

16:30 - 17:00

Pause-café / Coffee break (Salle / Room 6245)

17:00 - 18:00

Mike Rubinstein
"Density of zeroes of L-functions, a survey"

Mercredi 15 février / Wednesday, February 15

09:00

Pause-café / Coffee break (Salle / Room 6245)

09:30 - 10:30

Kumar Murty
"Families of L-functions" III

10:30 - 11:00

Pause / Coffee (Salle / Room 6245)

11:00 - 12:00

K. Soundararajan
"The mollifier method and non-vanishing results for L-
functions"
Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Philippe Michel
"Periods, equidistribution, subconvexity and non-
vanishing of L-functions" II

15:00 - 15:30

Pause-café / Coffee break (Salle / Room 6245)

15:30 - 16:30

Yiannis Petridis
"Distribution of prime geodesics on H/Γ and analogues for free groups"

16:30 - 17:00

Pause-café / Coffee break (Salle / Room 6245)

17:00 - 18:00

Djordje Milicevic
"Large values of automorphic forms"

Jeudi 16 février / Thursday, February 16

09:00
Café / Coffee (Salle / Room 6245)

09:30 - 10:30

Valentin Blomer
"Bounds for automorphic L-functions" I

10:30 - 11:00

Pause-café / Coffee break (Salle / Room 6245)

11:00 - 12:00

Gergely Harcos
"Bounds for automorphic L-functions" II

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Philippe Michel
"Periods, equidistribution, subconvexity and non-
vanishing of L-functions" III

15:00 - 15:30

Pause-café / Coffee break (Salle / Room 6245)

15:30 - 16:30

Mark Watkins
"Counting elliptic curves ordered by discriminant, with rank 2"

16:30 - 17:00

Stephane Louboutin
"Simple proofs of the Siegel-Tatuzawa and Brauer-Siegel theorems"

19:00

BANQUET
Restaurant Chez Queux
158 St-Paul Street, Old Montreal

Vendredi 17 décembre / Friday, February 17

09:00

Café / Coffee (Salle / Room 6245)

09:30 - 10:30

Yu-Ru Liu
"Waring problem in function fields

10:30 - 11:00

Pause-café / Coffee break (Salle / Room 6245)

11:00 - 12:00

K. Soundararajan
"The distribution of values of L-functions"

14:00 - 15:00

Nina Snaith
"The ratios conjecture and correlations of the Riemann zeros"

15:00 - 15:30

Pause-café / Coffee break (Salle / Room 6245)

15:30 - 16:30

Brian Conrey
"Zeta prime: moments, zeros, and conjectures"

16:30 - 17:00

Andrew Granville
"If people can face another talk!"