TAMAGAWA NUMBERS AND SPECIAL VALUES OF L-FUNCTIONS
Conference, May 20-31 2002, Institut Galilee, Univ. Paris 13
The aim of the conference is to explain the formulation of the
Tamagawa number conjecture by Bloch and Kato, and the proof of
this conjecture for Dirichlet motives. The background
necessary for the formulation of the conjecture is explained by the
main speakers.
There will also be talks by the participants (model: Arbeitsgemeinschaft
Oberwolfach -- thus, the subjects of these talks have been fixed in
advance; see the program). These talks will provide certain details of
the general theory entering the proof for Dirichlet motives.
Preferably, the speakers will not be experts in the field.
Graduate students and post-docs are particularly encouraged to participate,
and to apply for one of the talks.
Note that there is a conference home page:
http://zeus.math.univ-paris13.fr/~tamagawa/
where more information of technical nature (concerning accommodation
in particular) can be found as well.