In this fifth installment of Alberta Number Theory Days, number theorists from Alberta's major universities will gather for a weekend of talks. A description of the goals for the workshop is available on the BIRS workshop page.
| Saturday | ||
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Welcoming remarks | |
| 9:10 | Chuck Doran | Hypergeometric Equations from Geometry |
| 10:10 | Richard Guy | Some Unsolved Problems |
| 10:35 | Coffee | |
| 11:00 | Colin Weir | The a-numbers of Suzuki curves |
| 11:30 | Soroosh Yazdani | Level lowering, Mordell-Weil sieve, and local Szpiro conjecture |
| 12:20 | Lunch | |
| 14:10 | Noam Elkies | How many elliptic curves can have the same prime conductor? |
| 15:00 | Coffee | |
| 15:30 | Adam Felix | Various generalizations of Artin's conjecture for primitive roots |
| 16:30 | Michael Jacobson | Relation Generation in Quadratic Number and Function Fields |
| Sunday | ||
| 9:00 | Clifton Cunningham | L-packets and abelian varieties |
| 9:50 | Coffee | |
| 10:20 | David Roe | Geometrizing Characters of Tori |
| 11:20 | Amir Akbary | Limiting Distributions of the Error Terms |
Abstracts may be found here.
A list of participants may be found here.
Reimbursement for travel will be available. Please carpool and keep receipts!
Participants will be housed in Corbett Hall: check-in is Friday at 4pm and check-out is Sunday at noon. Note that family accomodations are unavailable for weekend workshops.
Meals will be provided in the Banff Centre Vistas Dining Room. Breakfast is 7:00 - 9:30 a.m., lunch is from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. and dinner 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. The conference will cover the cost of breakfast and lunch.