Slopes of overconvergent Hilbert modular forms

We give an explicit description of the matrix associated to the U_p operator acting on spaces of overconvergent Hilbert modular forms over totally real fields. Using this, we compute slopes for weights in the center and near the boundary of weight space for certain real quadratic fields. Near the boundary of weight space we see that the slopes do not appear to be given by finite unions of arithmetic progressions but instead can be produced by a simple recipe from which we make a conjecture on the structure of slopes. We also prove a lower bound on the Newton polygon of the U_p.