Workshop Announcement:

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          Noncongruence modular forms and modularity
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                 August 17 to August 21, 2009

  American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center

                     Palo Alto, California

        http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/noncongruence.html


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Description:
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This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will explore the
arithmetic and analytic properties of noncongruence modular forms and
their potential applications. A special focus will be on the connection
between Scholl representations attached to noncongruence cuspforms
and automorphic forms by applying modularity lifting theorems. 

The workshop is organized by
Winnie Li, Tong Liu, Ling Long, and Ravi Ramakrishna.

For more details please see the workshop announcement page:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/noncongruence.html

Space and funding is available for a few more participants.
If you would like to participate, please apply by filling
out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later
than April 1, 2009. Applications are open to all, and
we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities,
junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily
undergraduate institutions to apply.

Before submitting an application, please read the AIM
policies concerning participation and financial support
for participants.

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