Conference on Modular Forms and Related Topics

in Honor of Marvin Knopp's 73rd Birthday

(Photo by Jeff Mozzochi)

January 9 & 10, 2006

Temple University Center City, Room 222

1515 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102

Schedule of Events

Monday, January 9
Time	Speaker	Institution	Title (with link to all abstract)
8:50- 9:00	Opening Remarks by Bruce Berndt
9:00 – 9:40	Bruce Berndt	U. of Illinois U-C	The Five Strangest, Most Fascinating, Most Interesting Results From Ramanujan's Lost Notebook (In the Speaker's Most Humble Opinion) (Abstract)
9:45- 10:25	Leon Ehrenpreis	Temple U.	What did Marvin teach me about automorphic functions? (Abstract)
10:30 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45- 11:25	Henryk Iwaniec	Rutgers U.	Extra Large Sieve for Hecke Eigenvalues (Abstract)
11:30- 12: 00	David James	U. of M.- Dearborn	Composition Operators and Automorphic Functions (Abstract)
12:00 - 2:00	Lunch Break
2:00 – 2:40	Geoffrey Mason	U. C. Santa Cruz	2-dimensional Vector-valued Modular Forms (Abstract)
2:45 – 3:25	Winfried Kohnen	U. of Heidelberg	Sign Changes of Fourier Coefficients and Eigenvalues of Cusp Forms (Abstract)
3:30 – 4:00	Coffee Break
4:00 – 4: 40	Solomon Friedberg	Boston College	Multiple Dirichlet Series and Gauss Sums (Abstract)
4:45 – 5:15	Wladimir Pribitkin	College of Staten Island, CUNY	Five "Easy" Pieces Dedicated to My Teacher and Friend Marvin Knopp (Abstract)

Tuesday, January 10
9:00 – 9:40	Dorian Goldfeld	Columbia U.	The Gelbart-Jacquet Lift (Abstract)
9:45 - 10:25	Tom Schimdt	Oregon State U	Low Height Geodesics on a Low-Index Cover of the Modular Surface (Abstract)
10:30 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:25	Ram Murty	Queen's U.	The Lang-Trotter Conjecture (Abstract)
11:30 - 12:00	Abdul Hassen	Rowan U	Hypergeometric Zeta Functions (Abstract)
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:00	Helen Grundman	Bryn Mawr U	Arithmetic Genus and Rationality of Hilbert Modular Varieties (Abstract)
2:05 - 2:35	Sinai Robins	Temple U.	Integer Linear Programming Via Analytic Number Theoretic Functions Called Differentiable Dedekind Sums (Abstract)
2:40 - 3:00	Coffee Break
3:00 - 3:40	Nikolaos Diamantis	U. of Nottingham	Eichler Cohomology and Second-Order Modular Forms (Abstract)
3:45 - 4:15	YoungJu Choie	Pohang Inst. of Tech.	Derivative of Modular Forms of Negative Weight (Abstract)
4:20 – 5:00	George Andrews	Penn State U	A Fine Dream (Abstract)
5:05	Closing Remarks by Marvin Knopp

Participants: This list contains names of participants of the conference.

Organizers: Sinai Robins (srobins@temple.edu ), Wladimir Pribitkin (w_pribitkin@msn.com), Heath S. Ann (AHeath@Immaculata.edu), Hassen, Abdulkadir(Hassen@rowan.edu), YoungJu Choie (yjc@postech.ac.kr ), Paul Pasles (paul.pasles@villanova.edu), or Omar Hijab (hijab@temple.edu)