October 11-15, 1999
Organizers:
Pierre Debes, Hiroaki Nakamura, Akio Tamagawa
Monday, October 11
9:30-10:30, P. Debes, "Fields of definition and families of covers"
11:00-12:00, F. Pop, "Birational anabelian geometry over algebraically closed base fields"
2:00-3:00, A. Tamagawa, "Fundamental groups and geometry in positive characteristic"
4:10-5:00, MSRI-Evans Monday Lecture (60 Evans Hall UCB campus)
L. Schneps, "Topological Galois Actions"
Tuesday, October 12
9:30-10:30, L. Zapponi, "Flowers, trees and cells"
11:00-12:00, M. Raynaud, "Reduction mod.p of Galois covers of the projective line minus 3 points"
2:00-3:00, I. Efrat, "Reconstruction of fields from absolute Galois groups"
3:30-4:30, M. Saidi, "On the specialization homomorphism of fundamental groups of curves in positive characteristic"
Wednesday, October 13
9:30-10:30, K. Ribet, "Almost rational torsion points on abelian varieties"
11:00-12:00, H. Darmon, "Constructing rational points on elliptic curves: beyond complex multiplication?"
1:30-2:30, E. Kani, "p-adic representations of the K-rational geometric fundamental group of a curve over a number field"
3:20-4:10, UCB Number Theory Seminar -- 332 Evans Hall UCB campus
P.Vojta, "On Hilbert's 10th problem and the 'n squares' problem"
Thursday, October 14
9:30-10:30, R. Hain, "Weighted completion of arithmetic fundamental groups"
11:00-12:00, M. Matsumoto, "Weighted completion of Galois groups and the Deligne-Ihara conjecture"
2:00-3:00, S. Mochizuki, "The Hodge-Arakelov theory of elliptic curves"
3:30-4:30, E. Black, "Generic Galois extensions and related questions"
Friday, October 15
9:30-10:30, E. Bayer, "Galois cohomology of the classical groups"
11:00-12:00, M. Fried, "Sequences of j-line covers and theta-characteristics"
1:50-2:50, H. Nakamura, "Some aspects of Galois-Teichmüller modular groups of small type"
Conference Announcement / Members 1999-2000