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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