Rationale:

This workshop is part of a six month thematic program on Automorphic Forms which is scheduled to take place between January and June 2003 at the Fields Institute.

The goal of the workshop is to discuss recent progress in areas of algebraic geometry, automorphic forms, and representation theory which relate to Shimura varieties.

Some of the topics to be discussed will be:

1) The construction of well-behaved integral models
for Shimura varieties and the fine structure of their reductions,

2) CM cycles, Eisenstein series and Gross-Zagier type formulae,

3) The calculation of the Hasse-Weil zeta function
and relations with the local and global Langlands conjectures,

4) Relations with the Arthur-Selberg trace formula and the fundamental lemma.

Invited Speakers:

*James Arthur, University of Toronto
*Don Blasius, UCLA
*Ching-Li Chai, University of Pennsylvania
*Laurent Fargues, Universite de Paris VII (Jussieu)
*Jens Funke, Fields Institute
Alain Genestier, Universite de Paris-Sud (Orsay)
*Ulrich Goertz, Universitaet Koeln
*Eyal Goren, McGill University
*Haruzo Hida, UCLA
*Tetsushi Ito, Max-Planck Institut (Bonn)
*Gerard Laumon, Universite de Paris-Sud (Orsay)
*Ron Livne, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
*Elena Mantovan, Berkeley
*Sascha Orlik, Universitaet Leipzig
*Michael Rapoport, Universitaet Koeln
*Jeremy Teitelbaum, University of Illinois (Chicago)
*Adrian Vasiu, University of Arizona
*Torsten Wedhorn, Universitaet Koeln
*Uwe Weselmann, Universitaet Heidelberg
*Tonghai Yang, University of Wisconsin
*Chai-Fu Yu, National Tsing-Hua University
*Shou-Wu Zhang, Columbia University

* indicated that the invitation has been accepted

WORKSHOP COORDINATOR
Sonia Houle
The Fields Institute
222 College Street
Toronto, Ontario M5T 3J1 Canada
Tel : 416 348 9710 ext 3016
Fax : 416 348 9714

Registration:
The online pre-registration form has now been removed from this site. To attend the workshop, please complete a walk-in registration form upon your arrival at The Fields Institute

Accommodation:

A block of rooms for participants have been arranged the hotels listed below. Please request the Fields Institute rate when booking . Rooms must be reserved before February 1, 2003 to ensure availability. For additional accommodation resources, please see the Fields Housing page