SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

The Brownawell Conference In celebration of the 60th birthday of W.Dale Brownawell June 17-19, 2004 to be held at the University of Waterloo Conference organizer: Cameron Stewart (Waterloo) Supported by: The Fields Institute Pennsylvania State University University of Waterloo

Plenary speakers:
F.Beukers (Utrecht) D.Masser (Basel)	M.Papanikolas (Texas A&M), R.Tubbs (Colorado)
Invited speakers:
G.Anderson (Minnesota) G.Andrews (Penn.State) D.Boyd (U.B.C.) P.Bundschuh (Cologne) N.Hirata-Kohno (Nihon) W.W.Li (Penn.State) P.Philippon (Paris) A.van der Poorten (Macquarie)	S. Schanuel (S.U.N.Y.,Buffalo) J. Silverman (Brown), T. N. Shorey (Tata Institute) R.Tijdeman (Leiden) J. Vaaler (Texas) P.Vojta (Berkeley) K.Yu (Hong Kong U.S.T.) Y.Zarhin (Penn.State).

Schedule - All talks held in MC5158 on the 5th floor of the Mathematics and Computer Building of the University of Waterloo.

Thursday,June 17 --Speaker Abstracts
8:00 am	Registration on site
9:00-10 a.m.	R. Tubbs An illustrated history of \alpha\beta
10:00-10:30 a.m.	coffee
10:30-11 a.m.	S. Schanuel Objective algebraic number theory
11:00-11:30 a.m.	G.Andrews Engel Expansions and the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities
11:30-12 a.m.	D.Boyd The A-polynomials of Turk's Head Knots and other highly symmetric knots
Lunch
2-2:30	J. Silverman Real and p-adic Properties of Elliptic Divisibility Sequences and Elliptic Division Polynomials
2:30-3	coffee
3-3:30	K. Yu P-adic logarithmic forms
3:30-4	N. Hirata-Kohno Linear forms in p-adic elliptic logarithms and some related results
4-4:30	R.Tijdeman Irrationality of infinite sums of rational numbers
4:30-6:30	reception
Friday, June 18 --Speaker Abstracts
9:00-10:00 a.m.	F. Beukers Exploring E-functions
10:00-10:30 a.m.	coffee
10:30-11:00 a.m.	T.N. Shorey Diophantine equations involving arithmetic progressions
11:00-11:30 a.m.	Y. Zarhin Endomorphism algebras of superelliptic jacobians
11:30-12:00	J. Vaaler Mahler Measure and the ABC Inequality
Lunch
2:00-3:00 p.m.	M. Papanikolas Transcendence in positive characteristic
3:00-3:30 p.m.	coffee
3:30-4:00 p.m.	P. Bundschuh Algebraic independence over Qp
4:00-4:30 p.m.	G. Anderson An adelic version of Stirling's formula and a related conjecture
Conference Banquet University Club of the University of Waterloo on Friday, June 18 at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 19 -- Speaker Abstracts
9:00-10:00 a.m.	D. Masser On functions and polynomials: an arithmetician's miscellany
10:00-10:30 a.m.	coffee
10:30-11:00 a.m.	P. Vojta Arithmetic jet bundles
11:00-11:30 a.m.	W.Li Modular Forms for Noncongruence Subgroups
11:30-12:00 .	P. Philippon Approximation properties in the functional case
12:00-12:30 p.m.	A.van der Poorten Elliptic sequences and continued fractions

Associated Conference in Toronto
Canadian Number Theory Association VIII Meeting
June 20-25, 2004, Toronto

Travel Information

The University of Waterloo is located in the twin cities of Kitchener-Waterloo in southwestern Ontario, approximately 100km/60miles from Pearson International Airport in Toronto, or three hours east of Windsor-Detroit. Regional map, Map of Kitchener-Waterloo (information on how to reach).

Ground transportation from Pearson International Airport to Kitchener-Waterloo can be pre-arranged with Airways Transit. Reservations may be made through their website at http://www.airwaystransit.com, by telephone at (519) 886-2121, or by fax at (519) 886-2141. Airways Transits accepts cash (preferably Canadian funds, although US funds will also be accepted), MasterCard, Visa and American Express.

Housing and Hotels

Blocks of rooms for the conference have been booked at three Waterloo hotels for the evenings of June 17-19, 2004. All meeting participants should make their own hotel reservations, - participants should quote the Brownawell Conference when booking

Waterloo Inn & Conference Centre - cut-off date is May 5, 2004 475 King Street North Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2Z5 519-884-0220 - phone 519-884-0321 - fax Rate: 118.00/night plus taxes

Comfort Inn - cut-off date is May 16, 2004 190 Weber Street North Waterloo, Ontario N2J 3H4 519-747-9400 - phone 519-747-2134 - fax Rate: 76.00/night plus taxes

Ron Eydt Village Conference Centre University of Waterloo Box 16610 Waterloo, Ontario N2J 4C1 519-884-5400 - phone 519-746-7599 - fax Rate: 46.20/night for a single plus taxes 31.90/night/person for a double plus taxes

For further questions please contact :Conference Coordinator, programs(PUT_AT_SIGN_HERE)fields.utoronto.ca ">programs(PUT_AT_SIGN_HERE)fields.utoronto.ca

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