ICERM fall 2015
This wiki contains information related to the ICERM fall 2015 special semester Computational Aspects of the Langlands Program, including announcements from the organizers, participants and the most up-to-date schedule for non-workshop weeks. For workshop weeks, please consult ICERM's official web pages: Sep 28-Oct 3, Oct 19-23, Nov 9-13.
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Announcements
- Welcome to ICERM! If you want to beat the crowds on Wednesday, you can check in Tuesday (Sep 8) anytime between 9 AM and 5 PM.
- There will be an AGNES (Algebraic Geometry Northeastern Series) conference October 2-4, immediately after the first thematic workshop. Those wishing to attend are asked to register here by September 8.
Participants
- The list of long term participants with the projected dates for their visits is now available as pdf.
First week schedule
How to read this table: each row represents a 30-minute time block starting at the specified time, except for rows labeled in red which denote 15-minute blocks. For example, check-in starts Wednesday at 9:00 and ends Wednesday at 1:30; the welcome session starts Wednesday at 1:45 and ends Wednesday at 2:00.
| Time | Sep 9 (Wed) | Sep 10 (Thu) | Sep 11 (Fri) |
| 9:00 | check-in | ||
| 9:30 | Overview of the Langlands program (Kiran S. Kedlaya) | Computational problems: the interesting vs the possible (Andrew Sutherland) | |
| 10:00-10:15 | |||
| 10:15-10:30 | Introduction to the LMFDB (David Farmer) | ||
| 10:30 | |||
| 11:00-11:15 | Introduction to computing complete number theoretic data: number fields (John Jones) | ||
| 11:15-11:30 | |||
| 11:30 | grad/postdoc talks | ||
| 12:00 | |||
| 12:30 | |||
| 1:00 | |||
| 1:30-1:45 | |||
| 1:45-2:00 | Welcome (ICERM director, Jill Pipher) | ||
| 2:00 | Discussion: semester topics and goals (moderated by Alina Bucur) | Introduction to automorphic forms (Ralf Schmidt) | grad/postdoc talks |
| 2:30 | |||
| 3:00 | grad/postdoc talks | ||
| 3:30 (coffee/tea) | |||
| 4:00 | Discussion: set schedule for the semester (all of us) | What are motives? (David Roberts) | L-functions: the glue that holds the world together (Brian Conrey) |
| 4:30 | Organizational meeting for seminars and minicourses | ||
| 5:00 | |||
| 5:30 | welcome reception | ||
| 6:00 | |||
| 6:30 |
Weekly schedule (tentative)
Effective Sep 14-Dec 4, excluding workshop weeks (Sep 28-Oct 3, Oct 19-23, Nov 9-13) and holidays (Oct 12??, Nov 26-27). This schedule will be finalized during the first week, whose schedule is different (see separate section). For seminars at Brown, allow 15 minutes to walk (uphill).
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 10:00 | course on quaternion algebras
(John Voight) |
work day
(no scheduled activities) |
course on quaternion algebras
(John Voight) |
minicourses
(various lecturers) |
course on quaternion algebras
(John Voight) |
| 10:30 | |||||
| 11:00 | introductions, announcements | ||||
| 11:30 | |||||
| 12:00 | lunch, informal discussion,
work on LMFDB |
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| 12:30 | |||||
| 1:00 | |||||
| 1:30 | |||||
| 2:00 | minicourses
(various lecturers) |
problem session | |||
| 2:30 | |||||
| 3:00 | Brown algebraic geometry seminar | ||||
| 3:30 (coffee/tea) | |||||
| 4:00 | Brown algebra/NT seminar | member seminar | |||
| 4:30 |
Minicourses
- Sep 14, Sep 21, Oct 5 (all Mondays): Irene Bouw and Stefan Wewers, Stable reduction and computation of bad reduction Euler factors.
- More minicourses TBA.
Other local events of possible interest
- Weekly: Jeff Hoffstein is teaching a graduate course at Brown on L-functions Tu/Th 2:30-3:50. It is based on these notes.
- September 8-12: BU-Keio University Workshop, Boston University
- September 15: Boston College-MIT number theory seminar, MIT
- October 2-4: AGNES conference, Brown
- October 6: Boston College-MIT number theory seminar, Boston College
- November 3: Boston College-MIT number theory seminar, MIT
- November 20-21: CDM (Current Development in Mathematics) conference, Harvard
- Weekly seminars: Boston University algebra (Mon 4:15-5:15), Harvard/MIT algebraic geometry (Tue 3-4), MIT number theory (Tue 4:30-5:30), Harvard number theory (Wed 3-4)
