MINI-CONFERENCE ON THE ARITHMETIC OF FUNCTION FIELDS

Brown University -- April 19-21, 1996

 FRIDAY NIGHT

 6:00pm Pizza and beer dinner :: Piano Lounge of the Graduate Center

 8:00pm Kick-off talks :: Barus and Holley 141

Welcome by Michael Rosen

(1) David Goss, The Ohio State University, "How Zeta functions and gamma functions interact"

(2) Dinesh Thakur, University of Arizona, "Zeta functions: Progress and Challenges"

SATURDAY MORNING :: Barus and Holley 141

9:00am Keynote Lecture: Greg Anderson, University of Minnesota, "Special Value Theory of Characteristic-p L-series I"

10:00am Ernst-Ulrich Gekeler, Univeritat des Saarlandes, "On the Drinfeld discriminant function"

11:00am Refreshment break

11:15am Douglas Ulmer, University of Arizona, "Heegner points and L-series over function fields"

12:00pm LUNCH

2:00pm Jiu-Kang Yu, Princeton University, "Four torsion in class groups"

2:30pm Chris Friesen, The Ohio State University, "Randomness of Class Groups"

3:00pm Zesen Chen, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, "Degree of the norm and trace of the Drinfeld modules associated to hyperelliptic curves"

3:30pm David Ose, Bucknell University, "Toward an Explicit Deformation Theory for Function Fields"

4:00pm Refreshment break

4:15pm Linghsueh Shu, University of Vermont, "Special values of Goss' L-functions and Bernoulli ideals"

4:45pm Lin-Sheng Yin, University of Tokyo, "The index of cyclotomic units in characteristic p," (presented by D. Hayes in Dr.Yin's absence)

5:15pm DINNER

SATURDAY NIGHT :: Barus and Holley 141

7:30pm Keqin Feng, University of Science and Technology of China, "Drinfeld-Hayes modules and curves with many points"

8:15pm Chantal David, Concordia University, "Elliptic curves over function fields"

8:45pm Cristian Popescu, The Ohio State University "On a Refined Stark Conjecture and its Consequences"

SUNDAY MORNING :: Barus and Holley 141

 9:00am Keynote Lecture: Greg Anderson, University of Minnesota "Special Value Theory of Characteristic-p L-series, II"

10:00am David Hayes, University of Massachusetts at Amherst "Base change for the Brumer-Stark Conjecture"

11:00am Refreshment Break

 11:15am Jianqiang Zhao, Brown University "Root numbers for L-functions over F(T)"

11:45am Manohar Madan, The Ohio State University "Some New Results on Algebraic Function Fields"

12:30pm LUNCH