Montreal Solar Eclipse
Number Theory Days

McGill University, Montreal
April 8-9, 2024









About this event:

The inaugural Solar Eclipse Number Theory Days aims to foster a tradition of number theory gatherings during total solar eclipses in Montreal.




Speakers:

Pierre Colmez (Paris)
Fred Diamond (Kings College)
Michael Groechenig (Toronto)
Kiran Kedlaya (UCSD)
Jackie Lang (Temple)




Scientific Program


Monday, April 8.

1:00-2:00 PM, in Burnside Hall 920
Fred Diamond
Geometric Serre weights for Hilbert modular forms: cycles, rings and umbrae

2:14:28. Beginning of the solar eclipse.
The astronomers are organising a eclipse viewing party on the McGill campus.
More about it here.
4:26:50. End of solar eclipse.


4:30-5:30 PM, in Burnside Hall 1205
Jackie Lang
Counting mod l congruences in level p^2 when l divides (p+1)




Tuesday, April 9.

9:00-10:00 AM, in Burnside Hall 920
Kiran Kedlaya
Hypergeometric L-functions and how to compute them

10:30-11:30 AM, in Burnside Hall 920
Michael Groechenig
Non-archimedean integrals and plethystic logarithms

12:00-2:30. Lunch Break.

2:30-3:30 PM, in Otto Maass 10
Pierre Colmez
On the factorization of the system of Beilinson-Kato




Organizers:
Henri Darmon (McGill University)
Eyal Goren (McGill University)