Function Fields and L-functions A conference in honor of David Hayes November 15 -- 17, 2002 University of Massachusetts, Amherst

After 35 years of distinguished service at UMass Amherst, David Hayes will retire at the end of June 2002. In honor of David's many contributions to Mathematics, the Five College Number Theory Seminar will hold a meeting on November 15 (Friday) -- November 17 (Sunday). There is no registration fee for this conference. The schedule of the talks are as follow:

 Date Speaker Title Nov 15  4pm Benedict Gross (Harvard University) David Hayes's work on Drinfeld modules and Stark's conjecture Nov 16  9am Dinesh Thakur (Univ of Arizona) Special values of Zeta and Gamma functions Nov 16  10:30am Bruno Angles (Université de Caen) Bernoulli type numbers and ideal class groups of Cyclotomic Function Fields Nov 16  1pm Greg Anderson (Univ of Minnesota) Kronecker-Weber plus epsilon Nov 16  2:15pm Marc Reversat (Université Paul Sabatier at Toulouse) From positive characteristic to zero characteristic, towards a geometric correspondence for $\sigma$-difference equations Nov 16  3:45pm Cristian Popescu (Johns Hopkins) On the conjectures of Brumer-Stark and Gross Nov 17  9am Ernst-Ulrich Gekeler (Universität des Saarlandes) Frobenius distributions of elliptic curves over finite prime fields Nov 17  10:30am Harold Stark (UCSD) p-adic Dirichlet series over quadratic fields

The meeting will begin on Friday afternoon and end early afternoon on Sunday. There will be a banquet on Saturday evening. All talks will take place in Room 1634, Lederle Graduate Research Tower. Department of Mathematics & Statistics, UMass Amherst.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the UMass Campus Center Hotel. A single room is $70 per night plus tax; a double room is$80 per night plus tax. Please call 413-549-6000 or email Tina at cgray@mail.aux.umass.edu and mention