Monday: Morning--Conference Commencement,
Afternoon--Diophantine Geometry
10AM-10:30: Introduction to how the project will join group theory,
arithmetic and moduli spaces; structure of conference surveys.
10:35-11:25: Pierre Debes, pdebes02-26-06surv.pdf, A Brief introduction
to modular towers
11:25-1:00: Break for assuring rooms are in order and Lunch
1:00-2:00: Hidekazu Furusho, hfurusho02-09-06abst.html, Motivic
Iterated Integrals in Generic Positions
2:05-3:05: Mihan Papikian, papikian02-17-06abst.html, The number of
rational points on Drinfeld modular varieties over finite fields
3:05-3:35: Coffee break
3:35-4:35: Stefan Wewers, swewers02-13-06abst.pdf, Siegel's theorem and the Chabauty-Kim method
4:40-5:25: Aji Dhillon, adhillon03-09-06abst.pdf, A Motivic Chebotarev Density Theorem
6:00: Dinner
Tuesday:
Morning--Abelian Varieties,
Afternoon--Related moduli spaces
9:00-9:50: Ken Ribet, kribet03-14-06.pdf, An introduction to Serre's work on Galois groups attached to division points on elliptic curves over number fields
9:55-10:55: Yuri Zarhin, yzarhin02-23-06abst.pdf, Families of
Superelliptic Jacobians and Isogeny Classes
10:55-11:10: Morning Coffee
11:10-12:10: A Brumer, abrumer03-06-06abst.pdf, l-Division Fields and
the Conductor of Semistable Abelian Varieties
12:10-1:10: Lunch
1:10-2:10: Alina Cojocaru, acojocaru03-15-06abst.html, Effective versions of Serre's theorem for elliptic curves
2:15-3:15: Anna Cadoret, acadoret02-27-06surv.pdf, Hurwitz spaces and
modular towers
3:15-3:45: Coffee break
3:45-4:45: Adrian Vasiu, avasiu02-27-06abst.html, N´eron models,
purity, and Shimura varieties
6:00: Dinner
Wednesday: Start of Group theory connection to
moduli spaces
9:00-10:00: Darren Semmen, dsemmen03-08-06abst.html, Obstruction in modular towers
10:05-10:55: Mike Fried, mfried03-04-06surv.html, A meaning for the
phrase "Profinite Arithmetic Geometry"
10:55-11:10: Morning Coffee
11:10-12:00: Anna Cadoret, acadoret02-27-06abst.pdf, Modular Towers and
Torsion on Abelian Varieties
12:00-7:00: Lunch and Excursion, more details later 03/14/06
7:00: Dinner
Thursday: Morning-Modular Towers and the
Inverse Galois Problem, Afternoon-Cohomological algebra
9:00-10:00: Pierre Debes, pdebes02-26-06abst.pdf, l-adic points on
Hurwitz towers
10:05-11:05: Michel Emsalem, memsalem03-06-06abst.pdf, Towers of
Harbater-Mumford Components
11:05-11:20: Morning Coffee
11:20-12:05: Kimura, kkimura02-28-06abst.pdf, Towers of Coarse Moduli
Spaces
12:05-1:05: Lunch
1:05-2:05: Thomas Weigel, tweigel01-25-06abst.pdf, Generalized Fuchsian
Groups and the p-Reduction Theory of Elements of Hurwitz Spaces
2:10-3:10: Ido Efrat, iefrat02-25-06abst.html, Detection of valuations
using generalized K-theory
3:10-3:40: Coffee Break
3:40-4:25: Andy Schultz, aschultz03-01-06abst.pdf, Galois Module
Structure of Galois Cohomology
4:30-5:15: Grace Lyo, glyo03-03-06abst.pdf, Stability Conjectures in
K-Theory and Modules over Semisimple Skew Group Rings
6:00: Dinner
Friday: Some Program Goals
9:00-10:00: Ken Ribet, kribet03-14-06.pdf,
Mod p Galois representations attached to modular forms
10:05-11:05: Michael Fried, mfried01-22-06abst.html, Three modular
curve-like properties of Modular Towers (MTs)
11:05-11:20: Morning Coffee
11:20-12:05: Reza Akbarpur, rakbarpur03-30-06abst.pdf, PAC
Fields,
Hilbertian Fields and Fried-Völklein Conjecture
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:05-2:05: Fedor Bogomolov, fbogomolov02-27-06abst.html, Stable
cohomology of groups and algebraic varieties
2:10-3:05: Jared Weinstein, jweinstein03-09-06abst.pdf, Galois Representations with Prescribed Ramification
3:30-4:30: Trip to Hampton Inn
6:00: Conference buffet at Mike Fried's House in Billings