26th Automorphic Forms Workshop
- Start Date: 04/26/2012
- End Date: 04/29/2012
University of British Columbia
During the last few years, the workshop has facilitated discussions on a variety of topics of interest to college and university faculty. Topics in the past have included connections between automorphic forms and other areas or mathematics, how to find the right job, encouraging and retaining under-represented groups in number theory, grant writing, how to choose the right journal, and balancing a career with a personal life.
Based on the success of previous sessions, we plan to hold discussions again this year.
Over the last 25 years, the Annual Workshop on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics has remained a small and friendly conference. Those attending range from students to new PhD's to established researchers. For young researchers, the conference has provided support and encouragement. For accomplished researchers, it has provided the opportunity to mentor as well as a forum for exchanging ideas.
The workshop has become internationally recognized for both its high-quality research talks and its supportive atmosphere for junior researchers. Participants present cutting-edge research in all areas related to automorphic forms. These include Maass wave forms, elliptic curves, Siegel and Jacobi modular forms, special values of L-functions, random matrices, quadratic forms, applications of modular forms, and many other topics.
In addition to research talks, the workshop has, in the past years, featured panel discussion sessions on the topics of grant writing, mentoring and research partnerships, REUs and outreach, and opportunities for international collaborations. Based on the success of these sessions, we plan to have similar panel sessions this year as well.
THURSDAY, APRIL 26
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
Morning Session:
9:00 - 9:40 Don Blasius TBA
9:50- 10:10 Mark Sebestyen "Vector-valued modular forms for some interesting congruence subgroup representations"
10:10 - 10:25 Coffee Break
10:25 - 10:50 Kate Thompson "Geometry of numbers and universal quaternary quadratic forms"
11:00 - 11:30 Christopher Marks TBA
11:40 - 12:00 Jitendra Bajpai "Vector-valued modular forms and triangle groups"
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session:
2:00 - 2:35 Jonathan Hanke TBA
2:45 - 3:15 Cormac O'Sullivan "Taylor coefficients of modular forms"
3:15 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 3:55 Abhishek Banerjee "Lifting of Hecke operators on line bundles over modular curves"
4:05 - 4:25 Sheng-chi Liu TBA
4:35 - 5:30 Panel
FRIDAY, APRIL 27
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee
Morning Session:
9:00 - 9:20 Ben Linowitz TBA
9:30 - 9:50 Jeremy Rouse TBA
10:00 - 10:20 Nils Skoruppa "Explicit formulas for modular forms"
10:30 - 10:50 TBA TBA
11:05 - 11:25 Paul Jenkins TBA
11:35 - 11:55 Frederick Stromberg TBA
12:10 - 12:30 Dermot McCarthy TBA
12:40 - 1:00 Kimball Martin "Periods and functional transfer"
Free Afternoon
SATURDAY, APRIL 28
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee
Morning Session:
9:00 - 9:40 Winfried Kohnen "A characterization of Siegel cusp forms of degree two by the growth of their Fourier coefficients"
9:50 - 10:10 Dania Zantout TBA
10:10 - 10:25 Coffee Break
10:25 - 10:50 Takeshi Ogasawara "Eta-quotients and class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields"
11:00 - 11:30 Matt Papanikolas TBA
11:40 - 12:00 Shuichi Hayashida "Numerical examples of Euler factors of Siegel modular forms of half-integral weight of degree three"
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session:
2:00 - 2:35 J. Sengupta "Nonvanishing of Siegel-Poincare series"
2:45 - 3:15 Stephan Ehlen "CM values of Borcherds products and weight one harmonic weak Maass forms"
3:15 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 3:55 Brundaban Sahu "Congruences of Apry-like number via modular forms"
4:05 - 4:25 Tomoyoshi Ibukiyama TBA
4:35 - 5:30 Panel
SUNDAY, APRIL 29
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee
Morning Session:
9:00 - 9:20 Karen Taylor TBA
9:30 - 9:50 Hiroki Aoki "on index-level change of Jacobi forms"
10:00 - 10:20 Karl Mahlburg TBA
10:30 - 10:50 Dominic Lanphier "Arithmeticity of Rankin-Selberg kernels"
11:05 - 11:25 Stephanie Treneer TBA
11:35 - 11:55 Holly Swisher "An extension of a proff of the Ramanujan congruences"
12:10 - 12:30 Hatice Boylan TBA
12:40 - 1:00 Cris Poor TBA
Location:
UBC Campus, at PIMS, room WMAX 110
Acomodations:
To be announced.
Resources:
PIMS Vistor's Guide has lots of information to help you whether you are coming from close by or far away.
Registration:
There will be a $40 registration fee to assist with operating costs. Registration coming soon.
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Further information to be announced, please check back for updates. Other informatioin can also be found on the conference website at: http://automorphicformsworkshop.org/panels.html.
