North of England Algebraic Number Theory Group

Fourteenth meeting, Durham (5/3/2005)

The fourteenth meeting took place on Saturday March 5th in Durham. Here is the programme:

• 10.30-11.00 coffee/tea
• 11.00-11.45 Ramesh Sreekantan (TIFR, Mumbai)

  Drinfeld modular curves and special values of L-functions I

  Abstract: In this talk we will discuss an analog of the Beilinson conjectures for varieties over function fields over a finite field and prove a special case when the variety is a product of Drinfeld modular curves.

• 11.45-12.00 break
• 12.00-12.45 Ramesh Sreekantan (TIFR, Mumbai)

  Drinfeld modular curves and special values of L-functions II

  Abstract: In this talk we will discuss an analog of the Beilinson conjectures for varieties over function fields over a finite field and prove a special case when the variety is a product of Drinfeld modular curves.

• 12.45-14.15 LUNCH
• 14.15-15.15 Victor Abrashkin (Durham)

  Higher dimensional version of the field-of-norms functor

The venues are CM101 (for the lectures) and CM211 (coffee), Maths Department, Durham.

Frazer Jarvis, March 1st, 2005.