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Schedule - All talks held
in MC5158 on the 5th floor of the Mathematics and Computer Building
of the University of Waterloo.
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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. |
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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 |
Associated Conference in Toronto
Canadian Number Theory Association VIII Meeting
June 20-25, 2004, Toronto
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.
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 |
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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 |
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