Atkin
Memorial Lecture and Workshop
Cohen-Lenstra Heuristics
University of Illinois at Chicago
May 3rd through May 5th , 2013
A.O.L (Oliver) Atkin,
a noted mathematician of international fame and professor emeritus at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, died on December 23, 2008 at the age of 83.
He made lasting contributions to the theory of numbers: the theory of modular
forms (Atkin-Lehner operators, congruences,
modular forms for non-congruences groups), theory of
partitions, and cryptography (Schoof-Elkies-Atkin
Algorithm), among others. He was also a pioneer of the use of computers in
mathematics. He was born in England and worked at Bletchley Park in World War
II. He completed his doctorate at Cambridge in 1952 under John Littlewood. He joined the faculty at the University of
Illinois at Chicago in 1972. Atkin remained
mathematically active until his death.
The annual Atkin Memorial Lecture is aimed at
remembering Oliver Atkin's lasting contributions to
mathematics and the University of Illinois. The previous speakers are Ken Ono
(2009), Steve Kudla (2010), Winnie Li (2011), and
William Stein (2012). This year Akshay Venkatesh of Stanford will give the Atkin
Lecture on Friday May 3rd 2013 at 3 PM. The lecture will be followed
by a two day workshop with the same title as the lecture. The theme of the
workshop is Cohen-Lenstra heuristics.
We have some funding available for participants; scroll down for important
details.
Confirmed Speakers
Thomas
Church (Stanford)
Jordan
Ellenberg (University of Wisconsin)
Wei Ho
(Columbia)
Nathan
Kaplan (Harvard)
Andy
Putman (Rice)
Arul
Shankar (IAS)
Frank
Thorne (South Carolina)
Jacob Tsimerman (Harvard)
Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford)
Craig Westerland (Melbourne)
Melanie
Matchett Wood (University of Wisconsin)
Funding
This workshop is funded by the National Science Foundation and UIC. As soon as you see this announcement, if you think you might want to attend the workshop, please send an email to rtakloo "at" math.uic.edu. Please state in your email if you will need funding, and whether you are a student. Students should ask their advisor to send a short letter of support to the above email address. Please indicate in your email how much your plane/train/bus tickets will cost. Women, underrepresented minorities, and young mathematicians are strongly encouraged to apply.
Schedule
Friday,
May 3
|
1:30
PM |
Andy
Putman |
Stability
in the homology of congruence subgroups (SEO 636) |
|
3:00
PM |
Akshay Venkatesh |
Atkin Memorial Lecture:
Cohen—Lenstra Heuristics (Lecture
Center F4) |
|
4:15
PM |
Wine
and Cheese Reception |
SEO
300 |
|
7:00
PM |
Dinner |
If you
plan to attend dinner, please write to rtakloo at
math.uic.edu |
Saturday,
May 4 (SEO 636)
|
9 AM |
Craig
Westerland |
Homology
of Hurwitz spaces and the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics |
|
10:15
AM |
Jordan
Ellenberg |
Arithmetic
statistics, monodromy, and connected components |
|
11:30
AM |
Wei
Ho |
Analogues
of Cohen-Lenstra for elliptic curves |
|
2:30
PM |
Akshay Venkatesh |
Bhargava's heuristics for large degree |
|
3:30
PM |
Coffee
Break |
SEO
300 |
|
4:00
PM |
Frank
Thorne |
Explicit
Dirichlet Series for Fields With Given Resolvent |
Saturday,
May 5 (SEO 636)
|
9 AM |
Melanie
Matchett Wood |
Abelian and non-abelian
Cohen-Lenstra moments |
|
10:15
AM |
Thomas
Church |
Combinatorial
stability and representation stability |
|
11:30
AM |
Arul
Shankar |
The
secondary term in counting cubic fields |
|
2:30
PM |
Jacob
Tsimerman |
The
secondary term in counting quartic fields |
|
3:30
PM |
Coffee
Break |
SEO
300 |
|
4:00
PM |
Nathan
Kaplan |
TBA |
Organizers:
Ramin Takloo-Bighash and Akshay Venkatesh
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