SCHEDULE All the plenary talks will be held in the Earth Sciences auditorium (room 1050) - enter off 5 Bancroft. (Map) Registration and the main information booth will be located in the foyer of the Earth Sciences auditorium. Rooms for Special Session talks are indicated. Directions to the different venues are available here. Click date below to obtain daily schedule Sunday, June 20 Monday, June 21 Tuesday, June 22 Wednesday, June 23 Thursday, June 24 Friday, June 25
*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
9:50 - 10:20	Coffee Break
Special session lectures (concurrent)		Diophantine Analysis Session - top Chair: Cam Stewart
		Arithmetic Geometry Session - bottom Chair: Ravi Ramakrishna
10:20 - 10:45	Gael Remond (Grenoble) - ES1050 Beyond rational points
	Jordan Ellenberg (Princeton) - KP108 Counting number fields of bounded discriminant
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
	David Savitt (McGill) - KP108 A conjecture of Conrad, Diamond, and Taylor
11:35 - 11:50	Coffee Break
11:50 - 12:15	Gary Walsh (Ottawa) - ES1050 Diophantine applications of Bennett's abc theorem
	Imin Chen (SFU) - KP108 Diophantine equations associated to modular curves of small level
12:20 - 2:00	Break for lunch
2:00 - 2:45	Plenary lecture - ES1050 Henryk Iwaniec (Rutgers) Asymptotic Large Sieve
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
	TBA
3:35 - 4:05	Afternoon Tea Break
4:05 - 6:00	Contributed talks (click link for schedule)
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
9:50 - 10:20	Coffee Break
Special session lectures (concurrent)		Arithmetic Geometry Session - top Chair: Ravi Ramakrishna
		Analytic Number Theory Session - bottom Chair: John Friedlander
10:20 - 10:45	Armand Brumer (Fordham) - KP108 Semistable abelian varieties of prime power conductor
	Hugh Montgomery (Michigan) - BA1160 A multiplicative miscellany
10:50 - 11:05	Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:30	Tom Weston (Amherst College) - KP108 Selmer groups of Galois deformations
	K. Soundararajan (Michigan) - BA1160 Extreme values of L-functions at the central point
11:35 - 11:50	Coffee Break
11:50 - 12:15	Laurent Berger (Harvard) - KP108 On the reduction modulo p of crystalline representations
	Ram Murty (Queen's) - BA1160 Sieve Methods in Combinatorics
12:20 - 2:00	Break for lunch
2:00 - 2:45	Plenary lecture - ES1050 Hans-Peter Schlickewei (Marburg) Applications of the Subspace Theorem
2:50 - 3:05	Break
3:05 - 3:30	Kiran Kedlaya (MIT) - KP108 Solving p-adic differential equations on two-dimensional bases
	Dan Goldston (San Jose State) - ES1050 Small Gaps Between Primes
3:35 - 4:05	Afternoon Tea Break
4:05 - 6:00	Contributed talks (click link for schedule)
*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
9:50 - 10:20	Coffee Break
Special session lectures (concurrent)		Algebraic Number Theory Session -top Chair: Al Weiss
		Diophantine Analysis Session -bottom Chair: Cam Stewart
10:20 - 10:45	Cornelius Greither (Munich) - KP108 A conjecture concerning minus parts in the spirit of Gross
	Damien Roy (Ottawa) - ES1050 On a class of numbers
10:50 - 11:05	Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:30	Jonathan Sands (Vermont) - KP108 Popescu's Conjecture and Multi-Quadratic Extensions of Number Fields
	Kalman Gyory (Debrecen) - ES1050 Polynomials and binary forms with given discriminant
11:35 - 11:50	Coffee Break
11:50 - 12:15	Jurgen Ritter (Augsburg) - KP108 Toward equivariant Iwasawa theory
	Yann Bugeaud (Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg) - ES1050 Fibonacci powers are 1, 8, and 144, only
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.
2:50 - 3:05	Break
3:05 - 3:30	George Pappas (Michigan State) - KP108 The Steinitz class of weight 2 cusp forms
	Umberto Zannier (Udine) - ES1050 On the continued fractions for the powers of a given number
3:35 - 4:05	Afternoon Tea Break
4:05 - 6:00	Contributed talks (click link for schedule)
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
*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
9:50 - 10:20	Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:05	Plenary Lecture - ES1050 Vinayak Vatsal (UBC) Mazur's conjecture over totally real fields
11:10 - 11:25	Coffee Break
11:25 - 11:30	Paulo Ribenboim (Queen's) - ES1050 Ribenboim Prize Introduction
11:30 - 12:20	Ribenboim Prize Lecture - ES1050 Mike Bennett (UBC) Diophantine equations after Wiles
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
9:50 - 10:20	Coffee Break
Special session lectures (concurrent)		Analytic Number Theory Session - top Chair: John Friedlander
		Computational Number Theory Session - bottom Chair: Hugh Williams
10:20 - 10:45	Kevin Ford (UIUC) - WI1016 The distribution of integers with a divisor in a given interval
	Daniel Bernstein (UIC) - KP108 Doubly focused enumeration in two dimensions
10:50 - 11:05	Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:30	Trevor Wooley (Michigan) - WI1016 TBA
	Andrew Bremner (Arizona State) - KP108 On squares in Lucas sequences
11:35 - 11:50	Coffee Break
11:50 - 12:15	Greg Martin (UBC) - WI1016 Inequities in the Shanks-Renyi Prime Number Race
	Nils Bruin (SFU) - KP108 Bounding Mordell-Weil ranks using Visualisation
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.
2:50 - 3:05	Break
3:05 - 3:30	Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth) - ES1050 Error estimates for the Davenport-Heilbronn theorems
	David Boyd (UBC) - KP108 Computing A-polynomials using Puiseux expansions
3:35 - 3:55	Afternoon Tea Break
3:55 - 5:00	Contributed talks (click link for schedule)
5:10 - 5:55	Plenary Lecture - ES1050 Ben Green (PIMS, UBC) Arithmetic progressions of primes
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?
9:50 - 10:20	Coffee Break
Special session lectures (concurrent)		Algebraic Number Theory Session - top Chair: Al Weiss
		Computational Number Theory Session - bottom Chair: Hugh Williams
10:20 - 10:45	B. Conrad (Michigan) - ES1050 Root numbers and ranks over global function fields
	Karl Dilcher (Dalhousie) - KP108 Parametric solutions of the Diophantine equation $x^3 + Dy^3 = 1$*
10:50 - 11:05	Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:30	Hershy Kisilevsky (Concordia) - ES1050 Dirichlet Twists of Elliptic L-Functions
	Bjorn Poonen (Berkeley) - KP108 x^2 + y^3 = z^7
11:35 - 11:50	Coffee Break
11:50 - 12:15	C. Popescu (UCSD) - ES1050 1-Motives, Tate Sequences and L-functions
	Renate Scheidler (Calgary) - KP108 Construction of Hyperelliptic Function Fields of High Three Rank
12:20 - 2:00	Break for lunch
2:00 - 2:45	Plenary lecture - ES1050 Hendrik Lenstra (Leiden) New algorithms for finite fields
2:50 - 3:05	Break
3:05 - 3:30	Kumar Murty (Toronto) - ES1050 Bounded generation of SL(n)
	Edlyn Teske (Waterloo) - KP108 Point counting on Picard curves in large characteristic
3:35 - 4:05	Afternoon Tea Break

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Canadian Number Theory Association VIII Meeting June 20-25, 2004, Toronto to be held at the University of Toronto

SCHEDULE

Click date below to obtain daily schedule Sunday, June 20 Monday, June 21 Tuesday, June 22 Wednesday, June 23 Thursday, June 24 Friday, June 25

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

to be held at the University of Toronto

Click date below to obtain daily schedule
Sunday, June 20
Monday, June 21
Tuesday, June 22
Wednesday, June 23
Thursday, June 24
Friday, June 25