All lectures will be held in the Business Education Complex, room 1510.

For a list of abstracts see Abstracts.pdf

April 12



8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:15 Opening Remarks
9:15 - 10:15 Jean-Pierre Serre
Modular forms mod 2
10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:30 Henri Darmon
The Birch and Swinnerton Dyer conjecture for ring class characters of real quadratic fields
11:45 - 12:30 Ken Ribet
Eisenstein primes at composite levels
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 Dorian Goldfeld
First moments of Fourier coefficients of GL(n) cusp forms
3:00 - 3:45 Kristin Lauter
On singular moduli for arbitrary discriminants
4:15 - 5:00 Peter Sarnak
Families of L-functions and their symmetry
5:30 - 7:30 Conference Banquet
The Atchafalaya Room (339 LSU Union, Thrid floor)


April 13



9:00 - 9:45 Katrin Bringmann
Negative index Jacobi forms and quantum modular forms
9:55 - 10:40 Benedict Gross
Newforms
10:40 - 11:05 Break
11:05 - 11:50 Ken Ono
A framework of Rogers-Ramanujan identities
After 12:00 Free Afternoon
12:00 Bus to Middendorf's Seafood Restaurant (Optional Group Activity)
After Lunch: Kleibert's Turtle and Alligator Farm Tour


April 14



9:00 - 10:00 John Tate
On Dwork's function C
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:00 Yifan Yang
Special values of hypergeometric functions and periods of CM elliptic curves
11:10 - 11:55 Ching-Li Chai
A scheme-theoretic definition of leaves and Serre-Tate coordinates
12:00 - 12:30 Gabriele Nebe
Hecke operators for lattices and codes
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 Shouwu Zhang
p-adic Waldspurger Formula
2:55 - 3:25 Jen Balakrishnan
p-adic heights and integral points on curves
3:25 - 3:50 Break
3:50 - 4:35 Tong Liu
Noncongruence Modular forms and automorphy of Scholl representations
4:45 - 5:15 Minghsuan Kang
L-functions and Geometic Zeta functions of uniform lattices
7:30-9:30 Wine and Cheese Part at Robert and Susan Perlis' Home
1833 Cloverdale Avenue
Baton Rouge, LA, 70808


April 15



9:00 - 9:45 Ram Murty
Automorphy and the Sato-Tate conjecture
10:00 - 10:30 Chian-Jen Wang
Zeta functions of complexes from Sp(4)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 YoungJu Choie
An explicit bound for the first sign change of the Fourier coefficients
12:00 - 12:30 Robert Osburn
Supercongruences
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 Jeffrey Lagarias
The Lerch Zeta Function and Generalizations
3:00 - 3:45 George Andrews
Congruences for Fishburn Numbers