Timetable

Monday 9th July
9:00 – 9:30 Registration in the School of Mathematics
9:30 – 10:30 Harald Helfgott p3+2 is square-free infinitely often
11:00 – 12:00 Per Salberger Heath-Brown's determinant method and volumes of divisors
13:30 – 14:30 Trevor Wooley The circle method and Diophantine equations in function fields
15:00 – 16:00 Alexei Skorobogatov Equations of universal torsors over smooth del Pezzo surfaces
16:30 – 18:00 Contributed talks: see below.
Tuesday 10th July
9:30 – 10:30 Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer The effect of twisting on the 2-Selmer group
11:00 – 12:00 Jörg Brüdern Sums of cubes
13:30 – 14:30 Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène Representation of integral quadratic forms by integral quadratic forms
15:00 – 16:00 Christopher Hooley Polynomials that are sums of two kth powers
16:30 – 17:30 Contributed talks: see below.
Wednesday 11th July
9:30 – 10:30 Roger Heath-Brown Zeros of p-adic forms
11:00 – 12:00 Yuri Tschinkel Arithmetic of surfaces
13:30 – 14:30 Emmanuel Peyre Rational points on Iskovskikh surfaces: geometric aspects
15:00 – 16:00 Régis de la Bretèche Rational points on Iskovskikh surfaces: analytic number theory
18:30 for 19:30 Conference dinner at Goldney Orangery
Thursday 12th July
9:30 – 10:30 Ulrich Derenthal Universal torsors of del Pezzo surfaces and Manin's conjecture
11:00 – 12:00 Bjorn Poonen The Brauer–Manin obstruction for subvarieties of Abelian varieties over function fields
13:30 – 14:30 Rainer Dietmann Systems of cubic forms

Contributed talks by postdoctoral researchers

Monday

  • 16:30 – 17:00 R. Munshi, “Density of rational points on Châtelet surfaces”
  • 17:00 – 17:30 N. Jones, “The square-free sieve and elliptic curve constants”
  • 17:30 – 18:00 G. Marasingha, “Representation of almost primes by side lengths of Pythagorean triples”

Tuesday

  • 16:30 – 17:00 R. van Luijk, “Cubic points on cubic curves and the Brauer–Manin obstruction on K3 surfaces”
  • 17:00 – 17:30 L. Zhao, “On primes in quadratic progressions”

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