Québec/Maine Number Theory Conference

Université Laval, Québec City
Claude Levesque, Principal Organizer

Saturday, September 30, 2006

Time	Speaker	Title
8:00-8:45am	Café-beignes/ Coffee and Doughnuts,  Welcome
8:45-8:50	Nadia Ghazzali VP recherche, ULaval	Mots de bienvenue
8:50-9:50	Jean-Pierre Serre College de France	Groupes finis: choix de théorèmes
10:05-10:35pm	Henri Darmon CICMA, McGill U.	Correspondance de Shimura et familles p-adiques de formes modulaires
10:50-11:20	Manfred Kolster McMaster U.	Divisibility of special values of L-functions
11:30-11:50	Francisco Thaine Concordia U.	On the construction of families of units of cyclic fields
12:00-12:30	Eyal Goren CICMA, McGill U.	Ramanujan graphs and arithmetic geometry
12:30-2:00	Lunch
2:15-2:45	Hershey Kisilevsky CICMA, Concordia U.	Rational points on K3 surfaces and central vanishing of certain elliptic L-functions
2:55-3:15	Chris Cummins CICMA, Concordia U.	Towards an atlas of genus 0 and genus 1 congruence subgroups
3:25-3:55	John Labute CICMA, McGill U.	Tame Galois groups
4:05-4:35	Kiran Kedlaya MIT	Mass formulas for local Galois representations
4:45-5:05	Andrew Knightly UMaine	Petersson's trace formula and Hecke eigenvalues of Hilbert modular forms
	Dominic Klyve (grad) Dartmouth C.	Summing prime reciprocals in an arithmetic progression
5:15-5:45	Carl Pomerance Dartmouth C.	Rank statistics for a family of elliptic curves over a function field
7:00--	BANQUET- Tokyo Restaurant

Sunday, October 1, 2006

Time	Speaker	Title
8:00-8:30am	Café-Beignes
8:30-9:00	John McKay CICMA, Concordia U.	The Monster, Moonshine, and related problems
	Andreas Bender KIAS	On the Schinzel hypothesis in the function field case and some applications
9:10-9:30	Chip Snyder University of Maine	On the unit group of some multiquadratic number fields
	Roger Oyono U. Waterloo, Fields Inst.	Computation of non-hyperelliptic modular Jacobians of dimension 3
9:40-10:00	Hugo Chapdelaine (grad) CICMA, McGill U.	Modular symbols and ellptic units
	John Cullinan Bard C.	Divisibility properties of the torsion subgroup of an abelian variety
10:10-10:30	Mairead Greene (grad) UMass	On the index of cyclotomic units
	Paul Pollack (grad) Dartmouth C.	Irreducible compositions of polynomials over finite fields
10:40-11:00	Emmanuel Letellier CICMA, Concordia U.	Structures de Hodge mixtes sur les variétés de caractères via l'analyse harmonique arithmétique
	Erik Tou (grad) Dartmouth C.	Measuring the growth of geodesic lengths associated to selected subgroups of SL(3,R)
11:05-11:25	Andrew Sills Rutgers U.	A partition bijection related to the Rogers-Selberg identities
	Nicolas Theriault Fields Inst.	Factoring polynomials of small degree over fields of characteristic 2
11:30-11:50	David Bradley UMaine	Some series acceleration formulas for values of the Riemann zeta function
	Elliot Benjamin UMaine	On the unit index of the Hilbert 2-class field of real quadratic number fields with 2-class group isomorphic to Z/2Z * Z/2Z
12:00-12:30	Farshid Hajir UMass	Algebraic properties of some hypergeometric polynomials