Applications of Arithmetic Degeneration of Moduli

Place: UC Irvine
Date: May 7-10, 2003
Place: UCI campus, Multipurpose Science and Technology Building Back of campus along Peltason in the Physical Sciences complex. Room 254
Program

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Yves Andre (Yves.Andre@ens.fr)
Tempered fundamental groups and applications I,II

Zdzislaw Wojtkowiak (wojtkow@math.unice.fr)
Galois actions on torsors of paths

Yuri Tschinkel (ytschink@math.princeton.edu)
Torsors over cubics and their degenerations

Toru Komatsu (trkomatu@comp.metro-u.ac.jp)
Dessin d'enfants and polynomials producing specified extensions

Michael Fried (mfried@math.uci.edu)
Applying to j-line covers What Gauss told Riemann about Abel's Theorem

Coffee and Cookie Break

Hiroaki Nakamura (h-naka@math.okayama-u.ac.jp)
Anabelian geometry of families of elliptic curves, Eisenstein series

Goro Kato (gkato@calpoly.edu)
Temporal Topos for Sub-Planck Scale Objects as Direct Limits

Yves Andre (Yves.Andre@ens.fr)
A survey of the Andre-Oort conjecture I,II

Fedor Bogomolov (bogomolo@CIMS.nyu.edu)
Minimal and maximal classes of curves over the algebraic closure of Q

Ken Ribet (ribet@math.berkeley.edu)
Cusp embeddings of modular curves in their jacobians

Session chairman: L.Katzarkov

Hidekazu Furusho (furusho@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
p-adic multiple zeta values and their various properties

Ralph Kaufmann (ralphk@mpim-bonn.mpg.de)
Degenerations and moduli of pointed admissible G covers

Friday evening: Dinner at the Clay Oven: Subsidized by the conference 7:00-9:00

Michael Fried (mfried@math.uci.edu)
Sequences of j-line covers and interpretations of a cusp pairing

Armand Brumer (brumer@fordham.edu)
Existence and non-existence of abelian varieties of prime conductor

Darren Semmen (semmen@math.ufl.edu)
Schur multipliers of Frattini modules and application to cusp widths

Greg Pearlstein (gpearlstein@math.uci.edu)
Heights and SL2 orbits

Kate Stevenson (kfs@vision.caltech.edu)
Constructing specific wildly ramified covers over finite fields 4:10-5:00

Saturday evening: BBQ for the participants of the conference: 5:30-7:00

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