General Information

• Title: “Topics in the Arithmetic of Function Fields”
• Dates: March 11-15, 2000
• Location: The University of Arizona
• Organizers: Dinesh Thakur, Douglas Ulmer, and Felipe Voloch
• The conference poster (156KB)
• William Stein's T-shirt design: PDF.

Speakers and Courses

(The links below lead to the corresponding sections of the notes page.)

• Greg Anderson: “Introduction to fermionic Fock space for number theorists”
• Nicholas Katz: “Four lectures on Weil II”
• Kristin Lauter, René Schoof, and Michael Zieve: “The number of points on a curve over a finite field”
• Peter Sarnak: “Zeta functions and symmetry” (One lecture)
• Douglas Ulmer: “Elliptic curves over function fields and a Gross-Zagier theorem”

Professional Development Component

• The focus of the professional development component was on the job market, both inside and outside academia. Jeffrey Lagarias of AT&T Research spoke on Mathematics in Industry, and there was a panel discussion on the experiences of some mathematicians in non-academic jobs. The panelists were Jeffrey Lagarias (AT&T Research), Kristin Lauter (Microsoft), Charles Toll (NSA), and Michael Zieve (IDA).