Title: Drinfeld modular forms and Hecke characters

Abstract: In a similar way as in the case of elliptic modular forms, one can attach strictly compatible systems (SCS) of Galois representations to Drinfeld modular forms. Unlike in the classical situations, these are abelian. Goss had asked whether they would arise from Hecke characters. Adapting to the function field setting a correspondence of Khare between SCS of mod p Galois representations and Hecke characters, this can indeed be shown to be the case. If time permits, I shall also give some examples and discuss some open questions regarding these Hecke characters.