WNTC08 -- Schedule

All talks are in Weber 223.

The schedule above the line is relatively stable; the schedule below the line is still open to suggestion and modification

Tuesday, December 16

Computational number theory (Chair: John Burke)
9:00am Darrin Doud LLL-reduced lattices and a conjecture of Gunnells
9:20 David Terr Classification of shapes of real cubic orders
9:40 Jianqiang Zhao Multi-polylog values at roots of unity
10:00 Ming-Hsuan Kang Zeta functions of complexes
10:20 break
10:40 Stefan Erickson Computational evidence of the Stark conjectures
11:00 Phong Le Newton polygons of L-functions of exponential sums
Elliptic curves and modular forms
11:20 Sunil Chetty On the p-Selmer parity conjecture for elliptic curves
11:40 Paul Jenkins Zeros of weakly holomorphic modular forms
Combinatorial number theory (Chair: Gerry Myerson)
2:00pm Thai Hoang Le Green-Tao theorem in function fields
2:20 Gang Yu A graph labeling and some related problems
2:40 Tom McKenzie Sums of second-order linear recurrences
3:00 Shannon Overbay Purely periodic second-order linear recurrences
3:20 break
Analytic number theory
3:50 Mark Coffey Harmonic series with reciprocal central binomial coefficients
4:10 Dimitris Koukoulopoulos Localized factorizations of integers
4:30 John Brillhart On Euler's factoring problem
5:00 Problem session I

Wednesday, December 17

Analytic number theory (Chair: Bart Goddard)
9:00am Vic Dannon Riemann's zeta function
9:20 Jennifer Paulhus Permutations of even residues modulo p
9:40 David Cardon A criterion for the reality of zeros
10:00 break
Diophantine analysis
10:30 Lenny Fuskahnsky Algebraic points of small height missing a union of varieties
10:50 Michael Knapp Pairs of additive forms of odd degree
11:10 Tsz Ho Chan An almost all result on q1q2 = c mod q
11:30 Patrick Rault On uniform bounds for rational points on rational curves and thin sets (II)

Thursday, December 17

Arithmetic geometry (Chair: Bart Goddard)
9:00am Seyfi Turkelli Counting algebraic numbers over a global field with fixed degree
9:20 Jing Long Hoelscher Extensions over quadratic and cyclotomic fields
9:40 Arsen Elkin On p-torsion of hyperelliptic and superelliptic Jacobians
10:00 Shawn Farnell Artin-Schreier curves
10:20 break
Arithmetic II (Chair: Anne Schwartz)
10:40 Beth Malmskog Some automorphisms of a family of maximal curves
11:00 Rachel Pries Newton polygons of curves
11:20 Jeff Achter Split reductions of simple abelian varieties
11:40 Chris Sinclair Equidistribution of imaginary quadratic algebraic numbers on the unit circle
2:00pm Business meeting
Problem session II