Speaker: 

Professor Cristian Popescu

Institution: 

UCSD

Time: 

Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - 3:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 256

We discuss a refinement of the Rubin-Stark Conjecture for abelian L-functions of arbitrary order of vanishing at s=0. This generalizes Gross's v-adic refinement of the abelian, order of vanishing 1, integral Stark Conjecture and predicts a link between special values of derivatives of p-adic and global L-functions. Time permitting, we will also show how our refinement relates to a recent strengthening of Gross's Conjecture due to Tate.