Midwest Conference on Automorphic Forms, Representation Theory, and Number Theory

A 2009-2010 IMA Participating Institutions Conference, this conference is supported in part by the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA) through its Participating Institute (PI) Program. PI members may use IMA/PI funds to support travel of their personnel to this conference.

List of Speakers: Eliot Brenner (University of Minnesota)
Solomon Friedberg (Boston College)
Tim Gillespie (The University of Iowa)
David Goldberg (Purdue University)
Joseph Hundley (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
Jianya Liu (Shandong University and Institute for Advanced Study)
Xiumin Ren (Shandong University)
Freydoon Shahidi (Purdue University)
Lei Zhang (University of Minnesota)
Organizers: Dihua Jiang (University of Minnesota)
Muthu Krishnamurthy (The University of Iowa)
Yangbo Ye yey@math.uiowa.edu (The University of Iowa and Shandong University)

Academic Program
Saturday, October 24 (All talks are in 218 MacLean Hall)

8:30-9:00am, coffee and snacks, H.T. Muhly Lounge, 3 MacLean Hall

Chair of the morning session: Yangbo Ye
9:00-10:00am, Joseph Hundley: Title: Some recent progress in the Rankin-Selberg method
Abstract
10:15-10:45am, Lei Zhang: Title: Gelfand pairs (Sp(4n,F),Sp(2n,E))
Abstract
11:00-12:00am, David Goldberg: Title: Reducibility and the local Langlands conjecture for classical groups
Abstract
12:00-2:00pm, Lunch
1:00-2:00pm, coffee and snacks, H.T. Muhly Lounge, 3 MacLean Hall

Chair of the afternoon session: Phil Kutzko
2:00-3:00pm, Xiumin Ren: Title: Exponential sums concerning primes and application
Abstract
3:15-4:15pm, Freydoon Shahidi: Title: Generic cusp forms of reductive groups are tempered
Abstract
4:30-5:30pm, Eliot Brenner: Title: Analytic Properties of Residual Eisenstein Series
Abstract
6:30-9:00pm, conference dinner at Iowa Memorial Union, South Room

Sunday, October 25 (All talks are in 218 MacLean Hall)

8:30-9:00am, coffee and snacks, H.T. Muhly Lounge, 3 MacLean Hall

Chair of the morning session: Muthu Krishnamurthy
9:00-10:00am, Solomon Friedberg: Title: Metaplectic Eisenstein Series, Twisted Euler Products, and Crystal Graphs
Abstract
10:15-10:45am, Tim Gillespie: Title: Solvable Base Change and Rankin-Selberg Convolutions
Abstract
11:00-12:00am, Jianya Liu: Title: Finding primes on orbits
Abstract

Registration If you are planning to attend this Conference, please email the organizers. There is no registration fee.

Travel To attend the conference, please plan on arriving on Friday, October 23. Participants may drive to Iowa City, or fly to Cedar Rapids (Airport Code: CID) and take an airport shuttle to Iowa City.

Lodging A block of rooms have been reserved for the conference at Iowa House Hotel. Lodging for invited speakers will be booked and paid by the conference. Other participants may book their rooms at Iowa House Hotel by calling 319 335-3513 and mentioning "Math Conference". There are other hotels and motels in Iowa City and Coralville at $30-50 or more a night, e.g. Super 8 Iowa City/Coralville, Coralville Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, Sheraton Iowa City Hotel.