Workshop and Advanced Course on

Drinfeld Modules and L-functions

An activity of an i-MATH Intensive Research Programme


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Notes to the Advanced Course: For a more through discussion of these issues, we refer the reader to http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3463  NEW!
 
List of participants with lodging arranged through the CRM
 
Programme NEW!
 
List of participants
 

Poster
 
Dates:   April 12 to 16, 2010
 
Place:   Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain          
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Goals

The main focuses of the workshops are Iwasawa theory and Characteristic p L-functions. Both topics have seen important advances in recent years, and of course they are strictly linked and help to the understanding of each other: thus the two workshops should be regarded as part 1 and part 2 of an activity having essentially one single scope.

The second workshop centers around L-functions and zeta values, with emphasis on the recent developments in the characteristic p theory. Among the relevant themes, we mention, somewhat disorderly, the many progresses in transcendence theory, t-motives, characteristic p gamma and multizeta functions, Drinfeld modular forms, Carlitz-Bernoulli numbers and their extensions, meromorphic continuation of Goss's L-functions and the problem of the functional equation, cohomological theories in function ¯eld arithmetic, crystals and Hodge-Pink structures.

Scientific Committee

Advanced Course's List of Speakers

 

Goss, David Ohio State University at Columbus

 

Workshop's List of Speakers

 

Böckle, Gebhard Universität Duisburg-Essen
Chang, Chieh-Yu National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS)
Papanikolas, Matthew Texas A&M University
Papikian, Mihran The Pennsylvania State University
Pellarin, Federico Université Jean Monnet
Taelman, Lenny Universiteit Leiden
Thakur, Dinesh S. University of Arizona

Registration

Registration fee: 150 €

Registration includes: attendance to the lectures, documentation package, copy of the course notes (in case of advanced courses), social dinner, cultural activity, and coffee breaks

Registration to this Workshop and the Workshop on Iwasawa: 200 €

There is the possibility to register at a reduced price to two related activities that have been scheduled to take place one after the other, this one and the Workshop on Iwasawa Theory over Function Fields of Characteristic p>0. Participants may apply for registration grant for both activities through the Registration to both activities (below). 

Deadline for grant applications:   February 14, 2010

Deadline for registration and payment:   March 10, 2010

For registration and payment fill out the documents above and follow the instructions there


Available Grants

CRM Grant

LODGING GRANTS NEW!

There are some lodging grants available. If you wish to apply for it please send an email to Ms. Nuria Hernandez (nhernandez@crm.cat)

 

Young researchers may apply for a grant and take advantge of a reduced registration fee.
Awards are determined based on academic criteria and/or country of residence (giving special attention to advanced researchers from less favored countries).
The available grant is:

Reduced registration fee: 90€

You will be informed as soon as possible whether support is available.

Deadline for grant applications:   February 05, 2010
 

NSF Grant*

A limited amount of funding is available from the US National Science Foundation to support participation by junior, US-based researchers, in the scientific events organized during the Research program on Arithmetic Geometry, from February 22 to April 16, 2010, as the one announced in this page. If eligible and interested please follow the link.

*Eligible applicants should abstain from applying to CRM grant above.

Call for Contributed Talks

Besides the invited talks, contributed talks from the participants are encouraged.

If you intend to participate and present a talk, please send us a title and abstract (a PDF and word file of one or two pages) through nthe following email address: wkdrinfeld@crm.cat

Deadline to submit an abstract: March 10th, 2010.

Please make sure that the submitted abstract contains the names and affiliations of all the authors.
The scientific committee will carry out a selection process among the contributed talks to check their suitability to the Workshop themes and to distribute the available time slots.

Accommodation

Participants are encouraged to book their lodging as soon as possible.

For further information please contact the Administration