ICERM fall 2015

Revision as of 20:11, 24 September 2015

This wiki contains information related to the ICERM fall 2015 special semester Computational Aspects of the Langlands Program, including the latest announcements and schedule updates.

Key contacts

• ICERM issues (their web site, building, computer facilities): Jeff Hoffstein.
• Research seminar: Alina Bucur.
• Minicourses: John Jones, Kiran Kedlaya, Holly Swisher.
• Workshops: their respective organizers.
• This wiki: any program organizer (Bucur, Conrey, Farmer, Jones, Kedlaya, Rubinstein, Swisher, Voight).
• LMFDB mailing list and development: David Farmer.
• Problem session: John Cremona.
• Brown seminars: Dan Abramovich.

Announcements

• The wiki now supports file uploads, which will be used to attach slides, lecture notes, and the like. As usual, to get material onto the wiki, contact any program organizer.

• For a quick orientation to the town of Providence, see this short short local guide.

• Irene Bouw has posted notes for her mini-course on stable reduction.
• David Roberts has posted notes for (the first lecture in) his mini-course on hypergeometric motives.
• For questions or comments regarding ICERM facilities, including ICERM's web site (rather than this wiki), please see or email Jeff Hoffstein. This is likely to lead to a faster response than contacting a program organizer.
• The 10th floor classroom is available as a collaborative space. The ICERM conference room is available as a quiet working space, especially for graduate students. To book one of these rooms for an activity, see Danielle Izzi at the front desk.
• ICERM has posted a list of visitors with arrival and departure dates.
• The questions mentioned during the discussion on the first day of the program.

• Jeff Hoffstein will be teaching a graduate course this semester that may be of interest to some junior participants. See past announcements for the description.
• There will be an AGNES (Algebraic Geometry Northeastern Series) conference October 2-4, immediately after the first thematic workshop; this includes a public lecture Friday evening by Jordan Ellenberg. Those wishing to attend are asked to register here as soon as possible.
• ICERM is soliciting proposals for their new Collaborate@ICERM program, in which groups of 3-6 gather for focused research. Applications from collaborations originating from semester programs are specially encouraged!

This week schedule

Unless otherwise specified, activities will take place in the 11th floor lecture room.

How to read this table: each row represents a 30-minute time block starting at the specified time. For instance, the research seminar starts at 4pm on Thursday. Unusual this week: the Monday minicourse meets 1-2:30; the problem session meets 10-11:30.

The week of September 21-25

Next week schedule

We are holding a conference the week of Sept 28-Oct 2: Modular Forms and Curves of Low Genus: Computational Aspects. In addition, the AGNES conference will take place Oct 2-4.

Weekly schedule template

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). For seminars at Brown, see below for directions.

The following activities are for graduate students/postdocs only, and so will not be listed in the weely schedule: peer-to-peer seminar; professional development roundtables; Jeff Hoffstein's graduate course.

Each week's schedule will be finalized and transmitted to ICERM the previous Thursday evening. If you make any changes after that time, please also notify Jeff Hoffstein so that ICERM can copy the changes over.

Upcoming activities (tentative)

Material in this section is subject to change until it is incorporated into a week's schedule.

• Sep 14, Sep 21, Oct 5 (all Mondays): Irene Bouw and Stefan Wewers, Stable reduction and computation of bad reduction Euler factors. Note: the meeting on Sep 21 will be 1-2:30 rather than 2-3:30.
• Additional minicourses: Noam Elkies, What is a K3 surface? (More TBA.)
• Research seminar: Sep 17: David Harvey, Sep 24: Joe Silverman
• Oct 12: Brown University holiday, plans uncertain.

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: Public lecture by Jordan Ellenberg, Brown
• October 2-4: AGNES conference, Brown
• October 6: Boston College-MIT number theory seminar, Boston College
• October 24: Minisymposium, ICERM
• 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)

Getting to Brown

The Brown math department is located in Kassar House, at the corner of Thayer St. and George St. Options for getting there:

• Walk up the steep hill on Hopkins St., which becomes George. Allow 15 minutes.
• Take the bus from the stop at Waterman and North Main towards campus, get off at the first stop (tunnel and Thayer) and turn right (towards the tall tower that is the Science Library) on Thayer. The math department is 1.5 blocks that way. The bus is free with your Brown ID card and $2 otherwise.
• Brown runs a shuttle that stops across the street from ICERM and then goes to campus. You need to show a Brown ID to board. See schedule/tracker.

Note that AGNES takes place in a different but nearby building (Macmillan Hall).

Notes and slides

• Irene Bouw has posted notes for her mini-course on stable reduction.
• David Roberts has provided slides 1 for his mini-course Hypergeometric Motives I.
• David Farmer and Ralf Schmdit have provided their handout for their mini-course What is an L-function? There are also live-TeXed notes.

Past announcements

• Irene Bouw has posted notes for her mini-course on stable reduction.
• David Roberts has posted notes for (the first lecture in) his mini-course on hypergeometric motives.

Past weekly schedules

LMFDB

• LMFDB Work

• LMFDB Press Release