Québec/Maine Number Theory Conference

Université Laval, Québec City, 2004
Claude Levesque, ULaval, Principal Organizer

Saturday, October 2, 2004

Time	Speaker	Title
8:00-8:32am	Café-beignes/ Coffee and Doughnuts,  Welcome
8:40-9:30	Barry Mazur Harvard	Organizing the arithmetic of elliptic curves
9:40-10:20	Andrew Granville U Montreal and CICMA	Les valeurs distinctes d'une forme binaire quadratique
10:30-10:45pm	Chip Snyder University of Maine	On the distribution of the irreducibles in a number field
10:55-11:10	Payman Kassaei CICMA	On classicality of overconvergent modular forms
11:20-11:55	Hershey Kisilevsky Concordia U. and CICMA	Vanishing of twisted elliptic L-functions
11:55-1:45	Lunch/Swimming
2:00-2:40	Henri Darmon McGill and CICMA	Les points de Stark-Heegner: progres et problemes
2:50-3:10	Henrik Bresinsky University of Maine	Two algorithms to determine the monomials in a polynomial ideal
3:50-4:40	Adrian Iovita Concordia U. and CICMA	On the exceptional zero conjecture of Mazur-Tate-Teitelbaum
4:50-5:20	Ram Murty Queen's U. and CICMA	Honda and Nagao conjectures
5:30-6:10	Barry Cipra Northfield, MN	What's happening in the mathematical sciences -- A sneak peek at Vol. 6
7:30--	BANQUET

Sunday, October 3, 2004

Time	Speaker	Title
8:00-8:30am	Café-Beignes
8:30-9:00	Carl Pomerance Dartmouth	Periods for pseudorandom number generators
9:10-9:25	Andrew Knightly University of Maine	On Galois representations attached to modular forms on a unitary group
9:35-9:50	Ali Ozluk University of Maine	One-level density hypothesis and quadratic L-functions
10:00-10:15	Elliot Benjamin Unity College	On the length of the 2-class field tower of some imaginary biquadratic number fields with 2-class group isomorphic to (2,2)
10:25-10:40	David Bradley University of Maine	On $q$ analogs of multiple zeta values and other multiple harmonic series
10:50-11:05	Ryan Daileda Dartmouth	Algebraic number fields with very large class numbers
11:15-11:45	Abraham Broer U. de Montreal	The different in invariant theory
11:55-1:15	LUNCH
1:30-2:10	Ernst Kani Queen's U.	Mazur's question and modular diagonal quotient surfaces
2:20-2:35	Chris Cumins Concordia U. and CICMA	Computing congruence subgroups
2:50-3:05	Harald Helfgott CICMA	On the number of elliptic curves of a given conductor
3:10-3:25	Ye Tian CICMA	Twisted Fermat curves over totally real fields
3:30-3:45	Yoshitaka Hachimori CICMA	On non-pseudonullity of Iwasawa modules in noncommutative Iwasawa theory
3:50-4:10	Guillaume Rocotta CICMA	On zeros of L-functions of quadratic fields