Second Annual Upstate Number Theory Conference
Schedule of Events
April 28-29, 2012
Saturday, April 28
Invited Talks in Lander Auditorium 140 Hutchison
8:45-9:15 Registration and
Coffee
9:15-10:05 D. Wan: L-functions of p-adic characters
10:05-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:20 M. Wood: The probability that a curve over a finite field is smooth.
11:30-12:20 P. Vojta: Understanding Dyson's lemma for products of arbitrary curves
12:20-2:30 Lunch
2:30-3:20 R. Rumely: The Fekete-Szego theorem with local rationality conditions
3:20-4:00 Coffee
4:00-6:00 Talks in Hylan 102, 201, and 202.
Talks in Hylan 102.
4:00-4:20 M. Mazur: Representations of analytic functions as infinite products and some arithmetic applications
4:25-4:45 S. Gonek: Zeros of partial sums of the Riemann zeta-function
4:50-5:10 J. Dodge: Refined conjectures on special values of $L$-functions
Talks in Hylan 201.
4:00-4:20 P. Le: On the state of Wan's Conjecture
4:25-4:45 D. Haessig: Unit roots everywhere! (aka. Variation of the unit root along a family of unit root $L$-functions
4:50-5:10 A. Haensch: The representation problem for inhomogeneous quadratic polynomials
5:15-5:35 D. Vaintrob: Mazur’s isogeny theorem and generalizations
Talks in Hylan 202.
4:00-4:20 P. Fili: Numbers of small height in extensions with splitting conditions
4:25-4:45 J. Dreibelbis: The dynamical Mordell-Lang conjecture for linear maps
4:50-5:10 A. Towsley: A Hasse principle for periodic points
5:15-5:35 H. Gao: Galois lattices and strongly divisible lattices
6:00--8:30 Banquet at Staybridge Suites (Directions)
Sunday, April 29
Invited Talks in Goergen 101
9:30-10:20 L. Xiao: Global triangulation over eigenvarieties
10:20-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:50 J. Pottharst: Applications of triangulation of the eigencurve
12:00-12:50 A. Levin: Linear forms in logarithms and integral points on varieties