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22nd Annual Workshop on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics

Texas A&M University
Department of Mathematics
March 8-11, 2008

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Over the last 21 years, the Annual Workshop on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics has remained a small and friendly conference. Those attending range from students to new PhD's to well established researchers. For young researchers, the conference has provided support and encouragement; for accomplished researchers, it has provided the opportunity to mentor as well as a forum for exchanging ideas. The workshop has become internationally recognized for both its high-quality research talks and its supportive atmosphere for junior researchers. Participants present cutting-edge research in all areas related to automorphic forms. These include Maass wave forms, elliptic curves, Siegel and Jacobi modular forms, special values of L-functions, random matrices, quadratic forms, applications of modular forms, and many other topics. In addition to research talks, last year's workshop featured a panel discussion on the topic of going from a research rut to results to publication, and another one on attracting and graduating successful students. Based on the success of these sessions, we plan to have panel discussion sessions this year as well. Our topics will be (1) How to start and maintain mathematical collaboration, and (2) Where is research on automorphic forms heading?

GENERAL INFORMATION

Update Thanks to generous support from Texas A&M, the registration fee is waived. Each participant is strongly encouraged to give a talk (typically, 20, 40 or 60 minutes in length---mostly your choice).

WHAT YOU SHOULD DO NOW

If you think you will be attending this workshop, you should contact the organizer to inform them that you expect to attend Ahmad El-Guindy (elguindy@math.tamu.edu). Please include the following information: We'll try to accommodate your request for the length of the talk as much as we can.

Mug Art

Courtsey of Fredrik Stromberg


This year's picture is one of the many beautiful ones of Fredrik Stromberg . (Many thanks for Matt Young for finding it). It is a contour map of a Maass wave form for Gamma_0(5), with eigenvalue R=300.0007695146068727 (i.e. the real eigenvalue is lambda=90000.711709356276). This particular function is a Maass form for Gamma_0(5) with trivial character and it is even with respect to reflection in the imaginary axis and odd with respect to the involution z->-1/5z. The first few Fourier coefficients (in the expansion at infinity) are: C(0)=0.00000000000000, C(1)=1.00000000000000, C(2)=1.45617566739473, C(3)=-0.52835253001888, C(4)=1.12044757431683, C(5)=0.44721359549939, C(6)=-0.76937409801547, C(7)=0.49099371623612, C(8)=0.17539282692211, C(9)=-0.72084360403153, C(10)=0.65122155589340

Conference Schedule

Participants

  • Mahesh Agrawal (McMaster University, "p-adic L-functions for GSp(4)x GL(2)")

  • Kathrin Bringmann (University of Minnesota, Title TBA)

  • Suzanne Caulk (Regis University)

  • Chieh-Yu Chang (National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taiwan)

  • Dohoon Choi (Korea Aerospace University )

  • Ryan Daileda (Trinity University, San Antonio)

  • Mike Daniel (Drexel University)

  • Eduardo Duenez (UT-San Antonio, "Low critical zeros of modular (and automorphic) L-functions")

  • Ahmad El-Guindy (Texas A&M University, "Rankin-Cohen Brackets for Classical and Drinfeld Modular Forms")

  • Jenny Fuselier (United States Military Academy, "Traces of Hecke operators in level 1 and hypergeometric functions over F_p")

  • Daniel Garbin (CUNY Graduate Center, "Spectral convergence of elliptically degenerating Riemann surfaces")

  • Kimberly Hopkins (UT-Austin, "Higher weight Heegner points" )

  • Tomoyoshi Ibukiyama (Osaka University, "Dimensions of Siegel modular forms of small weight")

  • Paul Jenkins (UCLA, "Integral traces of singular values of Maass forms")

  • Nathan Jones (University of Montreal, "A refined version of the Lang-Trotter conjecture")

  • Matija Kazalicki (UW-Madison, title TBA)

  • Lloyd Kilford (University of Bristol, "Approximating the action of the U_p operator on overconvergent modular forms")

  • Andrew Knightly (University of Maine, "Averages of modular L-values via trace formula")

  • Xian-Jin Li (Brigham Young University, "A transformation of Hankel type on the field of $p$-adic numbers")

  • Wenzhi Luo (Ohio State University)

  • Brad Lutes (Texas A&M University)

  • Ken McMurdy (Ramapo College, "Explicit verification of a theorem of Shimura")

  • Tomonori Moriyama (Osaka University, "Rankin-Selberg convolutions for $GSp(2)\times GL(2)$ : archimedean theory and applications")

  • Keith Ouellete (UCLA, "On the Fourier inversion formula for reductive groups")

  • Matt Papanikolas (Texas A&M University)

  • Cris Poor (Fordham University, "Paramodular Cusp Forms and Abelian Surfaces", with Dave Yeun)

  • Wissam Raji, (Temple University, "Eichler Cohomology of Generalized Modular Forms")

  • Rob Rhodes (UW-Madison, "Differential Operators, Weak Maass Forms, and Rationality")

  • Olav Richter (University of North Texas, "Congruences of Jacobi forms")

  • Nathan Ryan (Bucknell University, "Experiments with Genus 2 Siegel Modular Forms")

  • Frank Thorne (UW-Madison, "Prime bubbles in imaginary quadratic fields")

  • Margaret Upton (Texas A&M University)

  • Valentina Vega (Texas A&M University)

  • David Yuen (Lake Forest College, "Paramodular Cusp Forms and Abelian Surfaces", with Cris Poor)

  • Matt Young (Texas A&M University, "Mean values with cubic characters" )

    Conference Organizer

    Conference Funding

    We have funds for travel expenses. Priority will go to graduate students, recent Ph.D.'s, and those without other sources of support. Please let us know if you will need funding.

    Accommodations

    You need to make your own reservations. However, we've contacted a couple of hotels and got some special rates from them
  • Super 8 Motel 979-846-8800 (Special group rate of $54 +tax for a single (bed) room and $60 for a double room. Mention the math conference in March))
  • Vineyard Court (Special A&M Math department rate of $79) 888.846.2678
    • Both Hotels are on the edge of campus; about 1-2 miles from the Math Department (The super 8 is closer).

    Travel Information

    For driving directions to Texas A&M University, consult the directions on the Department of Mathematics webpage.

    There are two primary options for parking:

  • The College Station city garage is located at 309 College Main Street; it costs $2/day and is approximately a 5 block walk to Blocker.
  • The Northside Parking garage on the Texas A&M campus is located across the street from Blocker but is $10/day.

    • There is an airport in College Station (CLL) served by American and Continental. Other nearby airports (in the Texas metric) are in Houston (Bush IAH, 90 minutes; Hobby HOU; 100 minutes) and Austin (Austin AUS, 120 minutes). Travel times are approximate by car. There is also a shuttle from Houston-Bush airport to College Station on GroundShuttle.com.

    Last modified: Mar 28, 2008