Location and Schedule

All activities will be held in the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (1933 West Mall V6T 1Z2).

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All talks will take place in WMAX 110, which is located on the first floor of the PIMS building, right next to the registration/refreshment area.

Thursday, April 26th

8:30 - 9:00 Registration
Morning Session:
9:00 - 9:40 Lior Silberman "A uniform spectral gap for congruence covers of a hyperbolic manifold"
9:50 - 10:10 Sheng-Chi Liu "On the average value of the divisor function"
10:10 - 10:25 Coffee Break
10:25 - 10:50 Kate Thompson "Geometry of numbers and universal quaternary quadratic forms"
11:00 - 11:30 Christopher Marks "The bounded denominator conjecture for vector-valued modular forms"
11:40 - 12:00 Kimball Martin "Periods and functorial transfer"
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session:
2:00 - 2:35 Jonathan Hanke "Using mass formulas to enumerate definite quadratic forms of bounded class number"
2:45 - 3:15 Cormac O'Sullivan "Taylor coefficients of modular forms"
3:15 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 3:55 Abhishek Banerjee "Lifting of Hecke operators on line bundles over modular curves"

Friday, April 27th

8:30 - 9:00 Coffee
Morning Session:
9:00 - 9:20 Ben Linowitz "A newform theory for Hilbert Eisenstein series"
9:30 - 9:50 Nils Skoruppa "Universal Jacobi forms"
10:00 - 10:20 Abhishek Saha "Holomorphic QUE for arbitrary levels"
10:30 - 10:50 Paul Jenkins "Zeros of weakly holomorphic modular forms of level 2"
11:05 - 11:25 Fredrik Strömberg "The $L$-functions and modular forms database"
11:35 - 11:55 Dermot McCarthy "Hypergeometric functions over finite fields and Siegel modular forms"
12:05 - 12:25 Karen Taylor "Selberg trace formula"

Saturday, April 28th

8:30 - 9:00 Coffee
Morning Session:
9:00 - 9:40 Winfried Kohnen "A characterization of Siegel cusp forms of degree two by the growth of their Fourier coefficients"
9:50 - 10:10 Dania Zantout "Towards mixed Saito-Kurokawa lifts"
10:10 - 10:25 Coffee Break
10:25 - 10:50 Takeshi Ogasawara "Eta-quotients and class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields"
11:00 - 11:30 Matt Papanikolas "Explicit formulas for Drinfeld elliptic functions and supersingular j-invariants"
11:40 - 12:00 Shuichi Hayashida "Numerical examples of Euler factors of Siegel modular forms of half-integral weight of degree three"
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session:
2:00- 2:30 Stephan Ehlen "CM values of Borcherds products and weight one harmonic weak Maass forms"
2:40 - 3:05 Brundaban Sahu "Congruences of Apéry-like number via modular forms"
3:05 - 3:20 Coffee Break
3:20 - 3:40 Tomoyoshi Ibukiyama "Exact critical values of a symmetric fourth $L$-function and Zagier's conjecture"
4:00 - 5:00 Panel Cristina Ballantine, Kimball Martin, Stephanie Treneer, Thomas R. Shemanske

Sunday, April 29th

9:00 - 9:30 Coffee
Morning Session:
9:30 - 9:50 Hiroki Aoki "On index-level change of Jacobi forms"
10:00 - 10:20 Karl Mahlburg "Automorphic forms and sequence asymptotics"
10:30 - 10:50 Dominic Lanphier "Arithmeticity of Rankin-Selberg kernels"
11:05 - 11:25 Hatice Boylan "Linear characters of Hilbert modular groups"
11:35 - 11:55 Cris Poor "The Paramodular Conjecture"