First Abel Conference: A Mathematical Celebration of John Tate

January 03 - 05, 2011

Content

Overview

Advisory:

The IMA gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the conference from IBM Research and the University of Minnesota.

Poster:

SW1.3-5.11_poster.pdf

Organizers:

Joe Buhler	Center for Communications Research
Geir Ellingsrud	University of Oslo
Benedict Gross	Harvard University
Kenneth Ribet	University of California, Berkeley

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters named John Tate the 2010 recipient of the Abel Prize "for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers."

John Tate has received many awards and honours. As early as 1956, he was awarded the American Mathematical Society’s Cole Prize for outstanding contributions to number theory. In 1995 Tate received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society. Tate was honoured “for his creation of fundamental concepts in algebraic number theory” when he shared the Wolf Prize in Mathematics with Mikio Sato in 2002/2003. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1962 in Stockholm and again in 197 in Nice. John Tate was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1969. He was named a foreign member of the French Académie des sciences in 1992 and an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society in 1999.

Schedule

Monday, January 03, 2011

10:00 am - 11:00 am	Registration and coffee	Keller 3-176
11:00 am - 11:15 am	Welcome to the IMA Fadil Santosa	Keller 3-180
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Points on Shimura varieties mod p Mark Kisin (Harvard University)	Keller 3-180
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Elliptic curves: problems and applications Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth College)	Keller 3-180
3:00 pm - 3:10 pm	Group photo
3:10 pm - 3:40 pm	Coffee break	Keller 3-176
3:40 pm - 4:40 pm	Selmer ranks of elliptic curves in families of quadratic twists Karl Rubin (University of California)	Keller 3-180
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Reception at the Campus Club Bar Lounge

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

8:30 am - 9:00 am	Coffee	Keller 3-176
9:00 am - 10:00 am	An equivariant main conjecture in Iwasawa theory and applications Cristian Popescu (University of California, San Diego)	Keller 3-180
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Coffee break	Keller 3-176
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Permanence following Temkin Michel Raynaud (Université de Paris XI (Paris-Sud))	Keller 3-180
11:30 am - 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	On the geometry of character varieties Fernando Rodriguez Villegas (The University of Texas at Austin)	Keller 3-180
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Coffee break	Keller 3-176
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	The average rank of elliptic curves Manjul Bhargava (Princeton University)	Keller 3-180
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm	Banquet at McNamara Alumni Center, Heritage Gallery

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

8:30 am - 9:00 am	Coffee	Keller 3-176
9:00 am - 10:00 am	P-adic periods and derived de Rham cohomology Alexander Beilinson (University of Chicago)	Keller 3-180
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Coffee break	Keller 3-176
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Random maximal isotropic subspaces and Selmer groups Bjorn Poonen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	Keller 3-180
11:30 am - 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Vector bundles and p-adic Galois representations Jean-Marc Fontaine (Université de Paris XI (Paris-Sud))	Keller 3-180
2:00 pm - 2:05 pm	Closing remarks	Keller 3-180

Participants

Name	Department	Affiliation
Adebisi Agboola	Department of Mathematics	University of California
Douglas Arnold	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Matthew Baker	Department of Mathematics	Georgia Institute of Technology
Hyman Bass	Department of Mathematics	University of Michigan
Alexander Beilinson	Department of Mathematics	University of Chicago
John Bergdall		Brandeis University
Laurent Berger	UMPA	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Vladimir Berkovich	Department of Mathematics	Weizmann Institute of Science
Manjul Bhargava	Department of Mathematics	Princeton University
Alexander Borisov	Department of Mathematics	University of Pittsburgh
Nigel Boston	Department of Mathematics	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Armand Brumer	Department of Mathematics	Fordham University
Joe Buhler	Department of Mathematics	Center for Communications Research
Gregory Call	Department of Mathematics	Amherst College
Byungchul Cha	Department of Mathematics and Computer Science	Muhlenberg College
Jung Cheon		Seoul National University
Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Dustin Clausen	Department of Mathematics	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Geir Ellingsrud	Department of Mathematics	University of Oslo
Carl Erickson	Department of Mathematics	Harvard University
Daniel Flath	Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	Macalester College
Jean-Marc Fontaine	Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay/ Arithmétique et Géométrie Algébrique	Université de Paris XI (Paris-Sud)
Paul Garrett	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Toby Gee	Department of Mathematics	Northwestern University
Edray Goins	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Bobby Grizzard	Department of Mathematics	The University of Texas at Austin
Benedict Gross	Department of Mathematics	Harvard University
Joseph Gunther	Department of Mathematics	The University of Texas at Austin
Ren Guo		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Thomas Hales	Department of Mathematics	University of Pittsburgh
Wei Ho	Department of Mathematics	Columbia University
Luc Illusie	Department of Mathematics	Université de Paris XI (Paris-Sud)
Dihua Jiang	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jennifer Johnson-Leung	Department of Mathematics	University of Idaho
John Jones	School of Mathematics	Arizona State University
Nick Katz	Department of Mathematics	Princeton University
Mark Kisin	Department of Mathematics	Harvard University
Kenneth Kramer	Department of Mathematics	Queens College, CUNY
Lizao Li	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Baiying Liu	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jonathan Lubin	Department of Mathematics	Brown University
Benjamin Lundell	Department of Mathematics	Cornell University
Chris Lyons	Department of Mathematics	University of Michigan
William McCallum	Department of Mathematics	University of Arizona
William Messing	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Ina Mette		American Mathematical Society
Kevin Mugo	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Gregg Musiker	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Switala Nicholas		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Sylvain Nintcheu Fata	Computer Science & Mathematics Division	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Andrew Odlyzko	Digital Technology Center	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Peter Olver	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Carl Pomerance	Department of Mathematics	Dartmouth College
Bjorn Poonen	Department of Mathematics	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cristian Popescu	Department of Mathematics	University of California, San Diego
Wayne Raskind	School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Arizona State University
Michel Raynaud	Laboratoire de Mathématiques d	Université de Paris XI (Paris-Sud)
Kenneth Ribet	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Berkeley
Eric Riedl	Department of Mathematics	Harvard University
David Roberts	Division of Science and Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Fernando Rodriguez Villegas	Department of Mathematics	The University of Texas at Austin
Michael Rosen	Department of Mathematics	Brown University
Jeff Rosoff	Department of Mathematics and Computer Science	Gustavus Adolphus College
Karl Rubin	Department of Mathematics	University of California
David Saltman	Center for Communications Research,	Institute for Defense Analyses
Shankar Sen	Department of Mathematics	Cornell University
Chehrzad Shakiban	Institute of Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Stephen Shatz	Department of Mathematics	University of Pennsylvania
Alice Silverberg	Department of Mathematics	University of California
Ethan Smith	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Michigan Technological University
Steven Sperber	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Harold Stark	Department of Mathematics	University of California, San Diego
William Stein	Department of Mathematics	University of Washington
John Tate	Department of Mathematics	The University of Texas at Austin
Jeremy Teitelbaum	Department of Mathematics	University of Connecticut
Dinesh Thakur	Department of Mathematics	University of Arizona
Jerrold Tunnell	Department of Mathematics	Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey
Douglas Ulmer	School of Mathematics	Georgia Institute of Technology
Jeffrey Vaaler	Department of Mathematics	The University of Texas at Austin
Marie-France Vigneras	Department of Mathematics	Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu
Jose Voloch	Department of Mathematics	The University of Texas at Austin
Jamie Weigandt	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Melanie Wood	Department of Mathematics	Stanford University
Yimu Yin	Department of Mathematics	University of Pittsburgh
Qing Zhang	Department of Mathematics	The Ohio State University
Xudong Zheng	Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	University of Illinois, Chicago