Number Theory Session
Organizer: R. Murty (Queen's), e-mail: murty@mast.QueensU.CA
Saturday, December 7
10:10-10:40am: Henri Darmon (McGill)
10:45-11:15am: Kumar Murty (Toronto)
11:15-11:45am: Damien Roy (Ottawa), "Algebraic approximation and algebraic independence" Abstract: dvi, postscript
2:40-3:10pm: John Friedlander (Toronto), "Prime values of a thin polynomial sequence". Abstract: dvi, postscript
3:15-3:45pm: Alberto Perelli (Genoa), "The exceptional set of primes in short intervals". Abstract: dvi, postscript
3:45-4:15pm: David Dummit (Vermont), "Computations related to Rubin's version of Stark's Conjecture". Abstract: dvi, postscript
4:15-4:45pm: Chris Cummins (Concordia), "Modular equations and the genus zero property of moonshine functions".
4:45-5:15pm: Jan Minac (Western), "Galois 2-extensions". Abstract: dvi, postscript
Sunday, December 8
9:00-10:00am: Plenary speaker: Dinakar Ramakrishnan (Caltech), "Determination of modular forms and motives by twists of critical L-values". Abstract: dvi, postscript
10:10-10:40am: Chantal David (Concordia), "Average Frobenius Distributions of Elliptic Curves". Abstract: dvi, postscript
10:45-11:15am: Cam Stewart (Waterloo), "Towards the abc conjecture". Abstract: dvi, postscript
11:15-11:45am: Ernst Kani (Queen's), "A Problem of Mazur".
2:40-3:10pm: H. Kisilevsky (Concordia)
3:15-3:45pm: Georg W. Nowak (Vienna), "Fractional part sums and lattice points". Abstract: dvi, postscript