Atkin
Memorial Lecture and Workshop
The Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves and Special Values of L-Functions
University of Illinois at Chicago
May 2rd through May 4th , 2014
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),William Stein (2012), and Akshay Venkatesh (2013). This year Shou-Wu
Zhang of Princeton University will give the Atkin
Lecture on Friday May 2nd2014 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 the arithmetic of elliptic curves and
special value results for L-functions.
Please scroll down down for important details
regarding funding.
Confirmed Speakers
Kestutis Cesnavicius (MIT)
David
Hansen (Jussieu)
Robert
Harron (University of Wisconsin)
Andrei
Jorza (Notre Dame)
Kazuya
Kato (University of Chicago)
Yifeng
Liu (MIT)
Christopher
Skinner (Princeton)
Ander
Steele (Calgary)
Wei
Zhang (Columbia)
Shou-Wu
Zhang (Princeton)
Funding
Funding is
still available!
This workshop is generously funded by the National Science Foundation. As soon as you see this announcement, if you are interested in attending 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 2
|
3 PM |
Showu Zhang |
Atkin Memorial Lecture: The congruent
number problem and L functions |
|
4:15 PM |
Reception |
SEO 300 |
|
6:30 PM |
Dinner |
Henri Gillet's
60th Birthday. If interested in attending please send an email to
the organizers. |
Saturday,
May 3 (SEO 636)
|
9 AM |
Rob Harron |
L-invariants of
symmetric powers of modular forms |
|
10:15 AM |
Andrei Jorza |
Automorphic cycles and p-adic
L-functions on families of Hilbert modular forms |
|
11:30 AM |
Kazuya Kato |
Degeneration of regulators
and height pairings |
|
2:30 PM |
Shouwu Zhang |
A p-adic Waldspurger formula |
|
3:30 PM |
Coffee Break |
SEO 300 |
|
4:00 PM |
Wei Zhang |
Selmer groups and the divisibility of
Heegner points |
Sunday,
May 4 (SEO 636)
|
9 AM |
Chris Skinner |
Anticyclotomic main conjectures and ellitptic
curves of rank at most one |
|
10:15 AM |
David Hansen |
Modular elliptic curves and p-adic L-functions |
|
11:30 AM |
Kestutis Cesnavicius |
Selmer groups as
flat cohomology groups |
|
2:30 PM |
Yifeng Liu |
The universal torus period and p-adic Waldspurger formula |
|
3:30 PM |
Coffee Break |
SEO 300 |
|
4:00 PM |
Ander Steel |
The p-adic L-function of critical slope Eisenstein series |
Organizers:
Ramin Takloo-Bighash and Shou-Wu Zhang
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