Participant Testimonials
The workshop was unique in a sense that the people working on Iwasawa thery aspects of p-adic L-functions and the people working on the analytic aspects of the special values of automorphic L-functions got together. The former must have benefitted by learning the recent advances in the filed of the latter and the latter must have benefitted from knowing what kind of results are needed for the advancement of theory of the former. It might take a few to several years to witness the actual published papers resulted from this workshop. But I am sure that the workshop was very inspiring and stimulating to the people on the both sides. I hope that a workshop of this kind would be held once in every few years or so.
Mathematics, Osaka City University
Oaxaca was a wonderful experience, mathematically and culturally!
Oaxaca was a wonderful experience, mathematically and culturally!
I really enjoyed the workshop, from which I gained a lot of new knowledge on a field (p-adic L-functions) that is close to my research area yet I am not very familiar with. Among many workshops I have been to, this is one of the most well-organized. I would like to give special thanks to the organizers for their careful design of the lectures at the workshop, from examples to more advanced topics and to technical cores. In addition, I enjoyed the discussion with experts in this area. This was a great opportunity for me to hear up-close the experts talking about their comments on their research and the key points and difficulties in their work.
Mathematics, University of Connecticut
I was in the automorphic side and many introductory talks and the two series lectures helped me a lot to have better understanding on p-adic L-functions. On the other hand, the geometric talks in Thursday afternoon sounded rather fascinating. l got to know the hot topics in this area. It impacted my current research on cyclotomic p-adic triple product L-functions. I discussed mutual interest especially with my collaborator Ming-Lun Hsieh. This may lead us to a new results or projects. All the speakers have high standards and the place is wonderful. I was a new face and got to know many mathematicians in this area
