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July 6-9, 2011
Conference on Transcendence and L-functions
Fields Institute
to be held at the Fields Institute, Toronto (map)
Organizers: M. Ram Murty (Queen’s)
and V. Kumar Murty (Toronto)
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Overview
Special values of L-functions and their transcendental nature is
an area of current interest in number theory. Often, these values
can be decomposed into an algebraic part and a transcendental part,
with the former being related to the size of some "natural
group" and the latter being a "period" in the widest
sense of the term. In the past, most of the focus has been on the
algebraic part of the special values. This conference will focus
on the transcendental part.
There are many conjectures (some arising from K-theory) as to what
these transcendental values should be, especially in the context
of Dedekind zeta functions. For example, there is the conjecture
of Zagier, the conjectures of Chowla and Milnor on the linear independence
of special values of Hurwitz zeta functions, and the celebrated
conjectures of Stark on special values of Artin L-series at s=1.
This mini-conference will bring several experts and junior researchers
together so that these topics can be exposed and explored in an
informal setting.
Invited Speakers
R. Balasubramanian (IMSc)
Sanoli Gun (IMSc)
Manfred Kolster (McMaster)
V. Kumar Murty (Toronto)
M. Ram Murty (Queen’s)
A. Raghuram (Oklahoma)
Purusottam Rath (CMI)
Damien Roy (Ottawa)
Chris Smyth (Edinburgh)
Cameron Stewart (Waterloo)
Chester Weatherby (Delaware)
Michel Waldschmidt (Paris VI)
Schedule:
Final List of Participants:
| Full Name |
University Name |
| Balasubramanian, Ramachandran |
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| Burko, Robert |
University of Toronto |
| Cho, Jaehyun |
University of Toronto |
| Chow, Aaron |
University of Toronto |
| Chun, Tony |
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| Coons, Michael J. |
University of Waterloo |
| Eskandari, Payman |
University of Toronto |
| Felix, Adam |
Queen's University |
| Friedlander, John |
University of Toronto |
| George, William |
University of Toronto |
| Gun, Sanoli |
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| Kolster, Manfred |
McMaster University |
| Laptyeva, Nataliya |
University of Toronto |
| Lee, Jungyun |
KIAS |
| Lim, Meng Fai |
University of Toronto |
| Milcak, Juraj |
University of Toronto |
| Mourtada, Mariam |
University of Toronto |
| Murty, Ram |
Queen's University |
| Murty, Vijaya Kumar |
University of Toronto |
| Nguyen, Ngoc Ai Van |
University of Ottawa |
| Pasten, Hector |
Queen's University |
| Pazuki, Fabien |
University Bordeaux 1 |
| Raghuram, Anantharam |
Oklahoma State University |
| Rath, Purusottam |
Chennai Mathematical Institute |
| Roy, Damien |
University of Ottawa |
| Seaton, Joshua |
University of Toronto |
| Smyth, Chris |
University of Edinburgh |
| Stewart, Cameron |
University of Waterloo |
| Waldschmidt, Michel |
Université Paris VI |
| Weatherby, Chester |
University of Delaware |
| Xiao, Stanley |
University of Waterloo |
| Xu, Bin |
University of Toronto |
| Zaytseva, Anastasia |
Queen's University |
| Zhu, Yongchang |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
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