SATURDAY, February 28

Southern California Number Theory Day,9:30 am - 5:30 pm, 151 Sloan Building, Caltech.

Invited Speakers: Christopher Skinner (Princeton University), David Helm (University of Texas), Ben Howard (Boston College), Philippe Michel (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne).

Location: All talks will be held in the Sloan Building (Department of Math) room 151 on the Caltech campus. Click on campus map to locate Sloan building (we are building number 37).

Schedule:

9:30 - 10:00 - Refreshments

10:00 - 11:00 - Christopher Skinner (Princeton University),
"Families of automorphic forms and applications"

11:00 - 11:30 - Break

11:30 - 12:30 - David Helm (University of Texas),
"On l-adic families of admissible representatons of GL_2(Q_p)"

12:30 - 2:30 - Lunch Break

2:30 - 3:30 - Ben Howard (Boston College),
"Intersection theory on Shimura surfaces"

3:30 - 4:00 - Break

4:00 - 5:00 - Philippe Michel (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne),
"The subconvexity problem for GL_2"

5:30 - Dinner (Location TBA)

For more information and to register for conference, please visit conference web site at http://math.caltech.edu/events/SCNTD09.html