Sage Days 21: Function Fields

Organizers: William Stein, Chris Hall, Craig Citro, Salman Baig

Location: The Shuey House, Seattle, WA

Dates: May 24 - 28, 2010 (check in on May 23rd after 4:00pm, check out on May 29th by 10:30am)

Tentative Participants

• Salman Baig (Washington)
• Jen Balakrishnan (MIT)
• Rob Beezer (Univ of Puget Sound)
• Gebhard Boeckle (Universitat Duisburg-Essen)
• Tom Boothby (Washington)
• Robert Bradshaw (Washington)
• M. L. Brown (Institut Fourier)
• Ralf Butenuth (Universitat Duisburg-Essen)
• Craig Citro (Washington)
• Brian Conrey (AIM)
• Alyson Deines (Washington)
• Chris Hall (Wyoming)
• Florian Hess (Technische Universitat Berlin)
• Jacob Lewis (Washington)
• Robert Miller (Washington)
• Steven J Miller (Williams)
• Thomas Occhipinti (Arizona)
• Dan Shumow (Washington)
• William Stein (Washington)
• Doug Ulmer (Georgia Tech)
• Felipe Voloch (Texas)
• Wenhan Wang (Washington)
• Soroosh Yazdani (Mc-Master)

Tentative Project List

• Elliptic curves over function fields and their L-functions
• Drinfeld modular forms
• The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture over function fields
• "Cremona's Tables" for function fields
• Computing Mordell-Weil groups
• Statistics over function fields

Tentative Talks

• TBD

Housing

A handful of visitors will be staying at the Shuey House, while the remaining visitors have rooms on hold for them at Hotel Deca. The tentative housing arrangement is as follows:

The Shuey House

• Second floor (layout)

  • Master suite bedroom: C. Hall and S. Miller
  • Bedroom 2: J. Balakrishnan
  • Bedroom 3: G. Boeckle
  • Bedroom 4: F. Hess

• Third Floor (layout)

  • Bedroom 1: S. Yazdani, R. Butenuth
  • Bedroom 2: T. Occhipinti, H. Brown

Hotel Deca

• B. Conrey
• D. Ulmer
• F. Voloch

Map

Here's a Google map with the major locations marked.