NSF/CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences -- Modular Elliptic Curves -- August 8-12, 2001

一个关于模椭圆曲线的NSF-CBMS区域会议将于2001年8月8-12日在中佛罗里达大学数学系召开。麦吉尔大学的Henri Darmon教授将担任会议的首席讲师。组委会将由来自国内和国际不同大学数学系的数学家组成。会议努力的一般领域是非常热门的话题，并且在过去十年中研究活动呈爆炸性增长。尽管在过去的十年里这些活动非常活跃，但仍然有许多未解决的问题和突出的问题，其中许多是21世纪最大的数学挑战之一。Darmon是一位出色的讲师，也是该领域的主要贡献者，他对这一主题的看法非常广泛。他目前正在领导一个研究项目，发展Bertolini和Darmon最近的工作，将复乘法理论推广到实数二次域上的模椭圆曲线。他的讲座将有助于调查和统一该领域的主要发展，评估该领域的成就和未来的研究方向。因此，dammon教授是领导这一领域专家聚会的不二人选。

An NSF-CBMS Regional Conference on Modular Elliptic Curves is to be held at the Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, August 8-12, 2001. Professor Henri Darmon, McGill University, will serve as the Principal Lecturer of the conference. The organizing committee will consist of mathematicians selected from the Departments of Mathematics in different universities at national and international levels. The general area of the conference's endeavor is of great topical interest and has seen an explosive expansion of research activity in the last ten years. Despite this intense activity over the past decade, there are still numerous unsolved problems and outstanding issues, many of which are among the greatest mathematical challenges of the 21st Century. Darmon, who is a consummate lecturer and a major contributor to the area, has a very broad view of the subject matter. He is currently leading a research program to develop the recent body of work of Bertolini and Darmon on the generalization of the theory of complex multiplication to modular elliptic curves over real quadratic fields. His lectures would serve to survey and unify major developments in the field, assessing both achievements and future directions of research in the field. Consequently, Professor Darmon is an obvious choice to lead a gathering of experts in this area.