UC San Diego

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NUMBER THEORY DAY

U.C. SAN DIEGO, May 23, 2015


Organizers: Joe Buhler, Benedict Gross, Cristian Popescu, Ken Ribet and Karl Rubin, with financial support from the NSF and UCSD.

Invited Speakers: Bjorn Poonen (MIT), Peter Scholze (Bonn U.), Zhiwei Yun (Stanford U), Wei Zhang (Columbia U.).

Location: All talks will be held in ROBINSON AUDITORIUM (RA), on the UCSD campus. Click on UCSD campus map and enter "Robinson Auditorium" in the search menu.

Schedule:
9:30 - 10:00 Breakfast in RA.
10:00 - 11:00 Peter Scholze
p-adic Hodge theory
11:30 - 12:30 Zhiwei Yun
Taylor expansions of L-functions over a function field, part I.
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch
2:30 - 3:30 Wei Zhang
Taylor expansions of L-functions over a function field, part II
4:00 - 5:00
Bjorn Poonen
Heuristics for boundedness of ranks of elliptic curves


6:00 - Dinner to celebrate John Tate's 90th birthday

Parking on the UCSD Campus is free on weekends. You may park in any of the parking lots next to the lecture hall. The Pangea and Hopkins  parking structures are very close to the conference hall. For a campus map, please click on UCSD campus map. Please do not park in the "reserved" or "A parking only" spaces.

Registration: There is no registration fee. However, if you are interested in participating, please fill in the blank fields below and click on the "Submit Registration Information" button below in order to register for the conference. This will help the organizers make proper catering arrangements and dinner reservations.

The conference dinner will be held at Seasons 52 La Jolla starting at 6:00 pm. The cost is $40.00 per person for faculty and spouses and $30.00 per person for graduate students.

Videos of the conference talks.

Part I
Part II
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