Mini Workshop:

Drinfeld Modules, t-Motives and Rigid Geometry

Organizers: Gunther Cornelissen, Francis Gardeyn, Marius van der Put, Jaap Top, Jan Van Geel

May 6, 7 and 8,  2002, Ghent University

A small workshop on Drinfeld modules, t-motives and rigid geometry will take place at Ghent University from May 6 till May 8, 2002. There will be lectures reporting on recent research work, with special attention to the research of PH-D students and post-docs. There will also be time for informal talks and discussions.

Preliminary list of participants (not definite yet):
Gunther Cornelissen (Utrecht), Gebhard Boeckle (Zürich), Robert Carls, Francis Gardeyn(Gent-Zürich),  Max Gebhardt (Saarbrücken),
Urs Hartl (Zürich), Gert-Jan van der Heiden (Groningen), Alice Keller  (Saarbrücken),  Thomas Lehmkuhl (Münster), Lenny Taelman (Gent-Groningen),
Matthias Traulsen (Zürich), Richard Pink (Zürich), Marius van der Put (Groningen), Jaap Top (Groningen),  Jan Van Geel (Gent),
Harm Voskuil (Amsterdam), Jasper Scholten (Leuven), Cindy De Volder (Gent).

Preliminary Program:

Monday May 6th
11:00 - 12:00
Thomas Lehmkuhl (Münster)
Moduli Spaces of Drinfeld Modules
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
Francis Gardeyn (ETH Zürich/Gent)
The t-Motive of a Drinfeld module
15:00 - 15:45
Gebhard Böckle (ETH Zürich)
An Eichler-Shimura isomorphism for Drinfeld Modular Forms I
15:45 -16:15
Coffee
16:15 - 17:15
Lenny Taelman (Groningen/Gent)
 Deforming Drinfeld Modules and Level Structures

Tuesday May 7th
09:30 - 10:30
Urs Hartl (ETH Zürich)
Families of Uniformizable t-Motives
10:30 - 11:30
Coffee
11:30 - 12:15
Gebhard Böckle (ETH Zürich)
 An Eichler-Shimura isomorphism for Drinfeld Modular Forms II
12:15 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 - 15:30
Max Gebhardt (Saarbrücken)
Algorithms concerning Galois Representations on the Torsion of Rank-2-Drinfeld Modules
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 17:00
Gert-Jan van der Heiden (Groningen)
 Weil Pairing for Drinfeld Modules

Wednesday May 8th
9:30 - 10:15
Francis Gardeyn (ETH Zürich/Gent)
 Uniformization of t-Motives
10:15 - 10:45
Coffee
10:45 - 11:45
 Harm Voskuil (Amsterdam)
 Mumford Curves and Coverings of the Projective Line
 

The number of participants will be limited but everyone interested in the meeting should contact:
Jan Van Geel, Ghent University, Department of Pure Mathematics and Computer Algebra, Galglaan 2, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
Fax: +32 9 264 49 93, email: jvg@cage.rug.ac.be