HIGHER DEGREE FORMS CONFERENCE

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Location. All talks are in Little Hall Room 339,
which also known as the Atrium.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

9:30am - 10:30am
Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University
A Survey of Forms Associated to Prehomogeneous Vector Spaces
Part I. Algebraic correspondences

10:30am - 11:00am
BREAK

11:00am - 12:00pm
Gordan Savin, University of Utah
Integral structure of some internal modules

12:00pm - 2:00pm
LUNCH

2:00pm - 2:30pm
Jaka Cimpric, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Higher product levels of skew fields

2:45pm - 3:15pm
Jonathan Hanke, University of Georgia
Class numbers and Mass formulas for quadratic forms

3:30pm - 4:00pm
Igor Klep, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Central simple algebras with involution and positive polynomials

4:30pm
VISIT TO PAINES PRAIRIE TO SEE ALLIGATORS
(depending on the weather otherwise will be postponed to 4:30pm Friday)

Friday, May 22, 2009

9:30am - 10:30am
Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University
A Survey of Forms Associated to Prehomogeneous Vector Spaces
Part II. Applications to density and counting theorems

10:30am - 11:00am
BREAK

11:00am - 12:00pm
Benedict Gross, Harvard University
Restriction of representations of classical groups

12:00pm - 2:00pm
LUNCH

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Wei Ho, Princeton University
Orbit parametrizations of curves

3:15pm - 4:15pm
Detlev Hoffmann, University of Nottingham
Differential forms and bilinear forms under field extensions

6:30pm
CONFERENCE DINNER
at Leonardo's 706 Italian Restaurant
(six blocks east of the Holiday Inn on University Ave)

Saturday, May 23, 2009

9:30am - 10:30am
Melanie Matchett Wood, Princeton University
Rings and ideals associated to binary forms

10:30am - 11:00am
BREAK

11:00am - 12:00pm
Bruce Reznick, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Recent results in 19th century algebra

12:00pm - 2:00pm
LUNCH

2:00pm - 2:30pm
Michael Volpato, University of California, San Diego
Hecke actions on Fourier coefficients of modular forms

2:45pm - 3:15pm
Takashi Taniguchi, Kobe University, Japan
Relations among Dirichlet series whose coefficients are class numbers of binary cubic forms

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Last update made Mon May 18 10:05:18 EDT 2009.

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