Maine/Québec Number Theory Conference

University of Maine, Orono, 2005
Andrew Knightly, UMaine, Principal Organizer

Saturday, October 1, 2005

Time	Speaker	Title
8:30-8:50am	Refreshments, Neville Hall lobby
8:50-9:00	William Bray, Chair UMaine Math Dept.	Welcoming remarks
9:00-9:50	John Friedlander University of Toronto	Exceptional characters and the distribution of primes
10:00-10:40	Robert Benedetto Amherst College	Toward uniform boundedness for polynomial dynamics
10:50-11:20	Jennifer Beineke Western New England College	Automorphic summation formulae and moments of the Riemann zeta function
11:30-11:50	John Cullinan Colby College	Properties of torsion points on abelian varieties in dimensions 2 and 3
12:00-1:50	Lunch, The Union on campus
2:00-2:30	Sharon Frechette Holy Cross	Special values of Gaussian hypergeometric series
2:40-3:10	Andrew Sills Rutgers University	Rogers-Ramanujan-Slater type identities
3:20-4:10	John Labute McGill University	p-Extensions of Q with restricted tame ramification
4:20-4:50	Michael Bush University of Massachusetts	Mild groups and p-extensions with restricted ramification
5:00-5:30	Cristina Ballantine Holy Cross	GLn(Qp) - From buildings to representations and back
5:40-6:00	Jean-Marie de Koninck Université Laval	Integers representable as a sum of a power of their prime factors
7:00--	BANQUET: New Moon Cafe, Bangor

Sunday, October 2, 2005

Time	Speaker	Title
8:30-8:50am	Refreshments, Neville Hall lobby
9:00-9:20	Andreas Bender Korean Institute for Advanced Study	A potential analogue of Schinzel's hypothesis for polynomials with coefficients
9:30-10:20	Solomon Friedberg Boston College	Multiple Dirichlet series associated to Dynkin diagrams
10:30-10:50	Gary Walsh University of Ottawa	Primitive integer points on congruent number curves
11:00-11:30	Elliot Benjamin Unity College	One-dimensional k-Buchsbaum upper bounds
11:40-12:00	Michael Schein Harvard University	Weights of Galois representations attached to Hilbert modular forms
12:10-12:40	Peter Kleban UMaine Physics	The Farey fraction spin chain

List of Participants

Cristina Ballantine, Holy Cross
Jennifer Beineke, Western New England College
Andreas Bender, Korean Institute for Advanced Study
Rob Benedetto, Amherst College
Elliot Benjamin, Unity College
Henrik Bresinsky, UMaine
Michael Bush, UMass
David Bradley, UMaine
John Cullinan, Colby
Jean-Marie de Koninck, ULaval
Sharon Frechette, Holy Cross
Solomon Friedberg, Boston College
John Friedlander, University of Toronto
Claude Levesque, ULaval
Kiran Kedlaya, MIT
Peter Kleban, UMaine Physics
Andrew Knightly, UMaine
John Labute, McGill University
Jacques Larochelle (grad), ULaval
Patrick Letendre (grad), ULaval
Ali Ozluk, UMaine
Andrew Pollington, BYU
Erik Pronovost (grad), ULaval
Michael Schein (grad), Harvard
Andrew Sills, Rutgers
Chip Snyder, UMaine
Lee Stemkowski (grad), Dartmouth
Liang Xiao (grad), MIT
Gary Walsh, U. Ottawa