ICERM fall 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.
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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, Joe Silverman.
Announcements
- Notes from Brendan Hassett's talk are now available.
- The 11th floor lecture hall will be unavailable during the morning on Friday, October 16, due to more building maintenance. That day's schedule has been adjusted accordingly.
- Notes from Noam Elkies's talk are now available.
- Volunteers are being sought for the roundtable discussions. For more information, see the schedule and sign up on the sign-up sheet.
- Irene Bouw and Stefan Wewers have provided updated notes for their three-part minicourse on stable reduction.
- David Farmer and Ralf Schmidt have provided their handout for their mini-course What is an L-function? There are also live-TeXed notes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 especially encouraged!
This week's schedule
The week of October 12-16
Unusual for this week: Monday is a Brown holiday (Columbus Day), so no scheduled activities will be held; introductions and announcements will be held Wednesday instead. Also, due to building maintenance, Friday's morning activities have been rescheduled to the afternoon.
| Time | Monday (holiday) | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 9:00 | |||||
| 9:30 | |||||
| 10:00 | work day
(no scheduled activities) |
course on quaternion algebras
(John Voight) |
K3 surfaces (Brendan Hassett, Brown) | ||
| 10:30 | |||||
| 11:00 | introductions, announcements | ||||
| 11:30 | |||||
| 12:00 | lunch, informal discussion,
work on LMFDB (in conference room) |
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| 12:30 | |||||
| 1:00 | course on quaternion algebras
(John Voight) | ||||
| 1:30 | |||||
| 2:00 | problem session
(lab meeting) | ||||
| 2:30 | |||||
| 3:00 | |||||
| 3:30 (coffee/tea) | |||||
| 4:00 | research seminar
Hypergeometric functions over finite fields, II (Ling Long, Louisana State) |
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| 4:30 |
Next week's schedule
The week of October 19-23
We will have the workshop Explicit Methods for Modularity of K3 Surfaces and Other Higher Weight Motives this week.
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 weekly 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.
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.
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 9:00 | |||||
| 9:30 | |||||
| 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 | problem session
(lab meeting) | |||
| 11:30 | |||||
| 12:00 | lunch, informal discussion,
work on LMFDB (in conference room) |
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| 12:30 | |||||
| 1:00 | |||||
| 1:30 | |||||
| 2:00 | minicourses
(various lecturers) |
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| 2:30 | |||||
| 3:00 | Brown algebraic geometry seminar | ||||
| 3:30 (coffee/tea) | |||||
| 4:00 | Brown algebra/NT seminar | research seminar | |||
| 4:30 |
Upcoming activities (tentative)
Material in this section is subject to change until it is incorporated into a week's schedule.
- Additional minicourses: Monday, October 26: Drew Sutherland/Kiran Kedlaya, Sato-Tate groups and distributions; Thursday, October 29: Michael Rubinstein, TBA; Monday, November 2: David Roberts, Hypergeometric motives II. To be scheduled: Henri Cohen, TBA.
- Research seminar: see Alina's web site.
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
- The questions mentioned during the discussion on the first day of the program.
- Irene Bouw has posted updated 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.
- Ralf Schmidt's minicourse on the Paramodular Conjecture for genus 2 curves now has notes compiled by John Voight.
