Robert F. Coleman 1954-2014

Robert F. Coleman, a highly original mathematician who has had a profound influence on modern number theory and arithmetic geometry, passed away on March 24, 2014. We give an overview of his life and career, including some of his major contributions to mathematics and his role as an activist and spokesperson for people with disabilities.Comment: 14 pages. v2: Some minor typos correcte

Modular Forms

The theory of Modular Forms has been central in mathematics with a rich history and connections to many other areas of mathematics. The workshop explored recent developments and future directions with a particular focus on connections to the theory of periods

Algebraic theta functions and p-adic interpolation of Eisenstein-Kronecker numbers

We study the properties of Eisenstein-Kronecker numbers, which are related to special values of Hecke $L$-function of imaginary quadratic fields. We prove that the generating function of these numbers is a reduced (normalized or canonical in some literature) theta function associated to the Poincare bundle of an elliptic curve. We introduce general methods to study the algebraic and $p$-adic properties of reduced theta functions for CM abelian varieties. As a corollary, when the prime $p$ is ordinary, we give a new construction of the two-variable $p$-adic measure interpolating special values of Hecke $L$-functions of imaginary quadratic fields, originally constructed by Manin-Vishik and Katz. Our method via theta functions also gives insight for the case when $p$ is supersingular. The method of this paper will be used in subsequent papers to study the precise $p$-divisibility of critical values of Hecke $L$-functions associated to Hecke characters of quadratic imaginary fields for supersingular $p$, as well as explicit calculation in two-variables of the $p$-adic elliptic polylogarithm for CM elliptic curves.Comment: 55 pages, 2 figures. Minor misprints and errors were correcte