The Sixth Pacific North West Number Theory Conference
(PNWNT 2002)
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
http://wayback.cecm.sfu.ca/MRG/NTG/PNWNT.html

Second Announcement (26/3/2002)
The sixth annual PACIFIC NORTH WEST NUMBER THEORY MEETING (PNWNT 2002) will take place in Vancouver at the PIMS facility(East Academic Annex 1100) at Simon Fraser University on April 20-21.
It will start at lunch time on Saturday the 20th and end mid afternoon on Sunday the 21st.
Sponsored by CECM, NTF and PIMS

All welcome - No Registration - Free Lunch

Speakers include:

Kristin Lauter: Microsoft "Curves over Finite Fields and Applications to Cryptography"
Greg Martin: University of British Columbia "Inequities in the Shanks-Rnyi Prime Number Race"
Carl Pomerance: Lucent Technologies Bell Labs "Mersenne numbers"
Mark Sheingorn "Geometric Resonances in the Hall Ray of the Discrete Portion of the Markoff Spectrum"
Fernando Rodriguez Villegas : University of Texas at Austin "Periods, L-functions and hyperbolic manifolds"
Hugh Williams: University of Calgary "Computing Certain Invariants in Real Quadratic Number Fields"

The meeting is sponsored by CECM (the Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics at Simon Fraser University), the Number Theory Foundation and by PIMS (The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences). As a result there is NO registration fee. BUT we still want to know who will come. Please email (choi@cecm.sfu.ca) us if you will attend this conference.

We are particularly keen to encourage graduate students to participate and there will be some funds to help defray graduate student costs. Contact (choi@cecm.sfu.ca).

Participants should make their own hotel reservations. The following is the list of the recommended hotels near SFU:

Executive Inn (Lougheed mall) $79/night (plus tax), 405 North Road, Coquitlam, BC (Tel: 604-936-9399) (* Be sure to mention either confirmation #9484 or "Pacific North West Number Theory Conference" to receive this rates.*)
Bestwestern Coquitlam Inn $89/night (plus tax), 319 North Road, Coquitlam, BC (Tel: 604-931-9011) (* just mention "attending a conference at SFU" to get this rate *)

Conference schedule:

Saturday, April 20 2002, PIMS at SFU (East Academic Annex 1100)

12:30-2:00 Lunch (lunch will be provided at the East Academic Annex)
2:00-3:00 Kristin Lauter : Microsoft "Curves over Finite Fields and Applications to Cryptography"
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:15 Hugh Williams: University of Calgary "Computing Certain Invariants in Real Quadratic Number Fields"
4:15-4:30 Break
4:30-5:30 Carl Pomerance: "Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Mersenne numbers"
5:30- Dinner (self hosting dinner)

Sunday, April 21 2002, PIMS at SFU (East Academic Annex 1100)

10:30-11:00 Mark Sheingorn "Geometric Resonances in the Hall Ray of the Discrete Portion of the Markoff Spectrum"
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 Greg Martin: University of British Columbia "Inequities in the Shanks-Renyi Prime Number Race"
12:15-1:30 Lunch (lunch will be provided at the East Academic Annex)
1:30-2:30 Fernando Rodriguez Villegas : University of Texas at Austin "Periods, L-functions and hyperbolic manifolds"
2:30 End

Browse the page http://wayback.cecm.sfu.ca/MRG/NTG/PNWNT.html for more conference information about travel, accommodations, location and contact.

The organizing committee:

Peter Borwein (pborwein@cecm.sfu.ca)

Imin Chen (ichen@math.sfu.ca)

Steven Choi (choi@cecm.sfu.ca)