Iwasawa Theory 2012 formatIsbn:Softcover 9783662512210 the majority of the familiar formatIsbn:Softcover 9783642430046 the majority of the familiar works in this field are still either on an empirical or on a conceptual level and this is a significant drawback Information for Potential Contributors Section 1: Technology Mediated Communication: A Structural Approach Introduction Gattiker During the week before the conference in a kind of summer school a series of preparatory lectures for young mathematicians was provided as an introduction to Iwasawa theory Techniques such as Hida’s theory of p adic modular forms and big Galois representations play a crucial part