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SCHEDULEAll the plenary talks will be held in the Earth
Sciences auditorium (room 1050) - enter off 5 Bancroft.
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| Sunday, June 20, 2004 | ||
| 8:00 - 8:50 | Registration (with Coffee and Refreshments) | |
| 8:50 - 9:00 | Welcome and opening remarks | |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Plenary lecture - ES1050 Wolfgang Schmidt (Colorado) Diophantine approximation by algebraic hypersurfaces |
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| 9:50 - 10:20 | Coffee Break | |
| Special session lectures (concurrent) | Diophantine Analysis Session
- top Chair: Cam Stewart |
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Arithmetic Geometry Session - bottom |
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| 10:20 - 10:45 | Gael Remond (Grenoble) - ES1050 Beyond rational points |
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| Jordan Ellenberg (Princeton) -
KP108 Counting number fields of bounded discriminant |
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| 10:50 - 11:05 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:05 - 11:30 | Jeff Thunder (Northern Illinois)
- ES1050 Siegel's Lemma and Hermite's Constant for Function Fields |
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| David Savitt (McGill) - KP108 A conjecture of Conrad, Diamond, and Taylor |
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| 11:35 - 11:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:50 - 12:15 | Gary Walsh (Ottawa) - ES1050 Diophantine applications of Bennett's abc theorem |
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| Imin Chen (SFU) - KP108 Diophantine equations associated to modular curves of small level |
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| 12:20 - 2:00 | Break for lunch | |
| 2:00 - 2:45 | Plenary lecture - ES1050 Henryk Iwaniec (Rutgers) Asymptotic Large Sieve |
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| 2:50 - 3:05 | Break | |
| 3:05 - 3:30 | Jan-Hendrik Evertse (Universiteit Leiden) -
ES1050 Linear equations with unknowns from a multiplicative group of finite rank whose solutions lie in a few subspaces |
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| TBA | ||
| 3:35 - 4:05 | Afternoon Tea Break | |
| 4:05 - 6:00 |
Contributed talks (click link for schedule) |
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| 6:15 - 8:00 | Reception at The Fields Institute | |
| Monday, June 21, 2004 | ||
| 8:15 - 9:00 | Coffee and Refreshments | |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Plenary lecture - ES1050 D.R. Heath-Brown (Oxford) Counting Rational Points on Algebraic Varieties |
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| 9:50 - 10:20 | Coffee Break | |
| Special session lectures (concurrent) | Arithmetic Geometry Session - top Chair: Ravi Ramakrishna |
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Analytic Number Theory Session - bottom |
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| 10:20 - 10:45 | Armand Brumer (Fordham) - KP108 Semistable abelian varieties of prime power conductor |
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| Hugh Montgomery (Michigan) - BA1160 A multiplicative miscellany |
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| 10:50 - 11:05 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:05 - 11:30 | Tom Weston (Amherst College) -
KP108 Selmer groups of Galois deformations |
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| K. Soundararajan (Michigan) - BA1160 Extreme values of L-functions at the central point |
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| 11:35 - 11:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:50 - 12:15 | Laurent Berger (Harvard) - KP108 On the reduction modulo p of crystalline representations |
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| Ram Murty (Queen's) - BA1160 Sieve Methods in Combinatorics |
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| 12:20 - 2:00 | Break for lunch | |
| 2:00 - 2:45 | Plenary lecture - ES1050 Hans-Peter Schlickewei (Marburg) Applications of the Subspace Theorem |
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| 2:50 - 3:05 | Break | |
| 3:05 - 3:30 | Kiran Kedlaya (MIT) - KP108 Solving p-adic differential equations on two-dimensional bases |
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| Dan Goldston (San Jose State) - ES1050 Small Gaps Between Primes |
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| 3:35 - 4:05 | Afternoon Tea Break | |
| 4:05 - 6:00 |
Contributed talks (click link for schedule) |
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| Tuesday, June 22, 2004 | ||
| 8:15 - 9:00 | Coffee and Refreshments | |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Plenary lecture - ES1050 Yuri V. Nesterenko (Moscow) Theta-functions and transcendence |
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| 9:50 - 10:20 | Coffee Break | |
| Special session lectures (concurrent) | Algebraic Number Theory Session -top Chair: Al Weiss |
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Diophantine Analysis Session -bottom |
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| 10:20 - 10:45 | Cornelius Greither (Munich) - KP108 A conjecture concerning minus parts in the spirit of Gross |
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| Damien Roy (Ottawa) - ES1050 On a class of numbers |
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| 10:50 - 11:05 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:05 - 11:30 | Jonathan Sands (Vermont) - KP108 Popescu's Conjecture and Multi-Quadratic Extensions of Number Fields |
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| Kalman Gyory (Debrecen) - ES1050 Polynomials and binary forms with given discriminant |
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| 11:35 - 11:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:50 - 12:15 | Jurgen Ritter (Augsburg) - KP108 Toward equivariant Iwasawa theory |
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| Yann Bugeaud (Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg)
- ES1050 Fibonacci powers are 1, 8, and 144, only |
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| 12:20 - 2:00 | Break for lunch | |
| 2:00 - 2:45 | Plenary lecture - ES1050 René Schoof (Rome) Abelian varieties over Q with good reduction outside 11 and and semistable reduction at 11. |
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| 2:50 - 3:05 | Break | |
| 3:05 - 3:30 | George Pappas (Michigan State)
- KP108 The Steinitz class of weight 2 cusp forms |
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| Umberto Zannier (Udine) - ES1050 On the continued fractions for the powers of a given number |
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| 3:35 - 4:05 | Afternoon Tea Break | |
| 4:05 - 6:00 |
Contributed talks (click link for schedule) |
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| 6:15 - 7:15 | Public Lecture - to be held at Adel Sedra Auditorium,
Bahen Centre for Information Technology (map)
BA1160 Hendrik Lenstra (Leiden) Escher and the Droste Effect |
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| Wednesday, June 23, 2004 | ||
| 8:15 - 9:00 | Coffee and Refreshments | |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Plenary lecture - ES1050 Matthias Flach(Caltech) A geometric example of non-abelian Iwasawa theory |
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| 9:50 - 10:20 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:20 - 11:05 |
Plenary Lecture - ES1050 Vinayak Vatsal (UBC) Mazur's conjecture over totally real fields |
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| 11:10 - 11:25 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:25 - 11:30 | Paulo Ribenboim (Queen's) - ES1050 Ribenboim Prize Introduction |
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| 11:30 - 12:20 | Ribenboim Prize Lecture - ES1050 Mike Bennett (UBC) Diophantine equations after Wiles |
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| 12:20 | Lunch, free afternoon | |
| Thursday, June 24, 2004 | ||
| 8:15 - 9:00 | Coffee and Refreshments | |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Plenary lecture - ES1050 Ralph Greenberg (Washington) p-Adic Artin L-functions |
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| 9:50 - 10:20 | Coffee Break | |
| Special session lectures (concurrent) | Analytic Number Theory Session - top Chair: John Friedlander |
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Computational Number Theory Session - bottom |
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| 10:20 - 10:45 | Kevin Ford (UIUC) - WI1016 The distribution of integers with a divisor in a given interval |
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| Daniel Bernstein (UIC) - KP108 Doubly focused enumeration in two dimensions |
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| 10:50 - 11:05 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:05 - 11:30 | Trevor Wooley (Michigan) - WI1016 TBA |
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| Andrew Bremner (Arizona State)
- KP108 On squares in Lucas sequences |
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| 11:35 - 11:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:50 - 12:15 | Greg Martin (UBC) - WI1016 Inequities in the Shanks-Renyi Prime Number Race |
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| Nils Bruin (SFU) - KP108 Bounding Mordell-Weil ranks using Visualisation |
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| 12:20 - 2:00 | Break for lunch | |
| 2:00 - 2:45 | Plenary lecture - ES1050 Enrico Bombieri (IAS) Zeros of Epstein zeta functions off the critical line. A survey. |
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| 2:50 - 3:05 | Break | |
| 3:05 - 3:30 | Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth) - ES1050 Error estimates for the Davenport-Heilbronn theorems |
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| David Boyd (UBC) - KP108 Computing A-polynomials using Puiseux expansions |
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| 3:35 - 3:55 | Afternoon Tea Break | |
| 3:55 - 5:00 | Contributed talks (click link for schedule) | |
| 5:10 - 5:55 |
Plenary Lecture - ES1050 |
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| 6:15 - 7:30 | Reception at the Fields Institute | |
| Friday, June 25, 2004 | ||
| 8:15 - 9:00 | Coffee and Refreshments | |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Plenary lecture - ES1050 Andrew Granville (Montreal) Large character sums: How big and where? |
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| 9:50 - 10:20 | Coffee Break | |
| Special session lectures (concurrent) | Algebraic Number Theory Session -
top Chair: Al Weiss |
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Computational Number Theory Session - bottom |
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| 10:20 - 10:45 | B. Conrad (Michigan)
- ES1050 Root numbers and ranks over global function fields |
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| Karl Dilcher (Dalhousie)
- KP108 Parametric solutions of the Diophantine equation $x^3 + D*y^3 = 1$ |
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| 10:50 - 11:05 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:05 - 11:30 | Hershy Kisilevsky (Concordia) -
ES1050 Dirichlet Twists of Elliptic L-Functions |
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| Bjorn Poonen (Berkeley) - KP108 x^2 + y^3 = z^7 |
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| 11:35 - 11:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:50 - 12:15 | C. Popescu (UCSD)
- ES1050 1-Motives, Tate Sequences and L-functions |
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| Renate Scheidler (Calgary)
- KP108 Construction of Hyperelliptic Function Fields of High Three Rank |
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| 12:20 - 2:00 | Break for lunch | |
| 2:00 - 2:45 | Plenary lecture - ES1050 Hendrik Lenstra (Leiden) New algorithms for finite fields |
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| 2:50 - 3:05 | Break | |
| 3:05 - 3:30 | Kumar Murty (Toronto) - ES1050 Bounded generation of SL(n) |
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| Edlyn Teske (Waterloo) - KP108 Point counting on Picard curves in large characteristic |
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| 3:35 - 4:05 | Afternoon Tea Break | |