Workshop on Curves and Computation
24-29 March 1996
Programme
All lectures will be held in Lecture Theatre B, James Clerk
Maxwell Building, King's Buildings
Sunday 24 March
- 1800--2100: Arrival and Registration, Pollock Halls
- 1930--2100: Welcoming buffet, Pollock Halls
Monday 25 March
- 0900--0930: Registration
- 0930--0945: Welcome by Angus Macintyre (ICMS)
- 0945--1045: J.-F. Mestre (Paris) Curves with many points
- 1045--1115: Coffee
- 1115--1215: H. Stichtenoth (Essen) Algebraic function fields
over finite fields with many rational places
- 1230--1400: Lunch
- 1430--1530: J. Top (Groningen) Computations on three-dimensional
Galois representations
- 1530--1600: Tea
- 1600--1645: J.F. McKee (Cambridge) Subtleties in the
distribution of the number of points on elliptic curves over a finite
prime field
Tuesday 26 March
- 0930--1030: R. Schoof (Rome) An elliptic analogue of a problem of
Erdos
- 1030--1100: Coffee
- 1100--1200: N. Elkies (Harvard) Beyond Goppa codes
- 1230--1400: Lunch
- 1415--1500: S. Fermigier (Paris) Construction of high-rank
elliptic curves with non-trivial 2-torsion
- 1500--1530: R.G.E. Pinch (Cambridge) Attacking elliptic curve
cryptosystems
- 1530--1600: Tea
- 1600--1645: F. Morain (Paris) Algorithms for computing
isogenies between elliptic curves
- Evening: Conference Dinner: 19.30, Queen's Hall, Clerk Street.
Wednesday 27 March
- 0915--1015: J.H. Silverman (Brown) Some height related
algorithms on elliptic curves
- 1015--1045: Coffee
- 1045--1145: F. Beukers (Utrecht) Computation of coverings of
the line
- 1200--1245: D. Goldfeld (Columbia) Special values of
derivatives of L-series associated to elliptic curves
- 1300--1400: Lunch
- Afternoon: Informal System Session
Thursday 28 March
- 0930--1030: E.F. Schaefer (Santa Clara) Descent on a Jacobian
using functions on a curve
- 1030--1100: Coffee
- 1100--1200: A. Bremner (Arizona) Arithmetic of curves with
split Jacobian
- 1200--1230: J. Hirschfeld (Sussex) Finite geometry and algebraic curves
- 1230--1400: Lunch
- 1400--1500: A.Brumer (Fordham) Curves of genus 2 with prime
conductor
- 1500--1530: Tea
- 1530--1615: F. Leprevost (Paris) On some rational torsion
groups of Jacobians of decomposable curves of genus 2
- [1630: Langlands (In Lecture Theatre A)]
Arithmetic vs. Automorphic L-functions
Friday 29 March
- 0930--1030: H.P.F. Swinnerton-Dyer (Cambridge) A new
formulation of the Birch/Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
- 1030--1100: Coffee
- 1100--1200: H. Darmon (MSRI and McGill) Gross-Zagier formulae
for Tate curves
- 1230--1400: Lunch
- 1415--1445: B.M.M. De Weger (Rotterdam) Determining the integral and
S-integral points on elliptic curves
- 1445--1530: H.G. Zimmer (Saarbruecken) Estimating the 2-class
number of cubic number fields by the 2-Selmer group of
an associated elliptic curve
- 1530--1600: Tea
- 1600: Close
- [1630: Langlands (In Lecture Theatre A)]
Arithmetic vs. Automorphic L-functions
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