9:00-9:30: Refreshments |
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Mike Bennett: | IAS and Urbana |
9:30-10:00: Rational approximation to algebraic numbers of small height |
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Joe Buhler: | Reed College |
10:30-11:30:Computing Power Residue Symbols |
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11:30-1:30: Lunch |
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Rajiv Gupta: | University of British Columbia |
1:30-2:00: Class Groups of Quadratic Function Fields |
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Chris Skinner: | IAS |
2:15-2:45: Galois representations and modular forms |
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2:45-3:30: Refreshments |
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Fernando Rodriguez Villegas: | University of Texas |
3:30-4:30: Boyd's tempered families |
The meeting is sponsored by PIms (The Pacific Institute of
the Mathematical Sciences), by Simon Fraser University and by
CECM (the Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics).
As a result there is NO registration fee.
The meeting will take place in room 1700 at Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings Street) which is the
downtown campus of Simon Fraser. There will be self-hosted
dinners at local restaurants on both Friday and Saturday evenings.
We are particularly keen
to encourage graduate students to participate.
Participants who arrive in time for dinner on Friday should come to the Harbour Centre campus (floor plan, directions and downtown map, and parking map)
of Simon Fraser (515 West Hastings Street) between 5:00 and 6:30 on Friday where informal
arrangements for dinner will be made. Otherwise participants should come for the talks on
Saturday morning.
On Saturday May 2, there will be a self-hosting dinner at Cafe Presto Panini, 859 Hornby Street, Vancouver, 684-4445. (Menu)
To register on-line, simply fill out the following form and click the
Register button to submit your request.
Accommodation: Please make your own accommodation arrangements and
preferably soon as the hotels do fill up. The
cheapest convenient option is the new downtown youth hostel at $19-23.
The Sylvia Hotel is reasonably priced (from $65) and very pleasant but is a couple
of miles from the conference. The Waterfront Centre Hotel is very nice
and convenient but rooms are close to $200. The Tourism BC phone
number for hotel bookings is 1-800-663-6000. They can book virtually
any hotel for you. Additional tourism
information is available from Tourism BC. More
information is available below.
Registration
The Organizing Committee:
Sponsored by
Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences |
Simon Fraser University |
Centre for Experimental & Constructive Mathematics |