Program

The confirmed speakers are:

Friday
Talks at MSRI

9:00Welcome
9:15-10:00PilaConcordant sequences
Coffee Break
10:35-11:20SteinPossibilities for Shafarevich-Tate
groups of abelian varieties
11:30-12:15Zhup-adic variation of L-functions
Lunch
2:00-2:45BorgerNon-linear bialgebras: A structural approach to the Witt vectors
Tea
4:00-4:45de SmitEscher, the Droste effect,
and elliptic curves
5:00-6:30Reception


Saturday
Talks in 306 Soda Hall on the Berkeley campus

9:30-10:15OortAbelian varieties over finite fields
Coffee Break
11:00-11:45BhargavaRings of small rank
Lunch
2:00-2:45EdixhovenSpecial n-tuples of elliptic curves
2:55-3:40RibetSubgroups of GL(2) over ramified rings
Coffee Break
4:15-5:00HillionWondrous art: Some Greek
mathematical poetry
6:30Banquet


Sunday
Talks in 306 Soda Hall on the Berkeley campus

9:30-10:15BernsteinA new proof that 83 is prime
Coffee Break
11:00-11:45PomeranceThe fundamental problem
of arithmetic
Lunch
1:30-2:15CohenThree surveys related to
Hendrik Lenstra
2:25-3:10ZieveAutomorphism groups of curves
Coffee Break
Farewell