Maine/Québec Number Theory Conference
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University of Maine, Orono, 2003 Chip Snyder, UMaine, Principal Organizer |
Schedule: Saturday, October 4, 2003
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9:30-9:50am | REFRESHMENTS | |
| 9:50-10 | Welcome | |
| 10-10:50 | Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth College |
Recent Developments in Primality Testing |
| 11-11:50 | Farshid Hajir U.Mass-Amherst |
Fundamental Groups of Number Fields: A Survey |
| 12-12:20pm | Claude Levesque University of Laval |
Some Fundamental Systems of Units |
| 12:30-1:30 | LUNCH | |
| 1:40-2:30 | Curt Meyer University of Cologne |
On Kronecker's Limit Formula for Real Quadratic Number Fields |
| 2:40-3:30 | Roger Wiegand University of Nebraska |
Representation Theory of Orders: Direct Sum Cancellation |
| 3:30-3:50 | BREAK | |
| 3:50-4:40 | Jonathan Sands University of Vermont |
Popescu's Conjecture & Multiquadratic Extensions of Number Fields |
| 4:50-5:20 | Stephen Zemyan Penn State, Mont Alto |
On the Zeros of the Nth Partial Sums of the Exponential Series |
| 5:30-6:10 | Helen Grundman Bryn Mawr College |
Computing the Arithmetic Genus of Hilbert Modular Varieties |
| 7:30-- | BANQUET | |
Schedule: Sunday, October 5
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9-9:20am | REFRESHMENTS | |
| 9:20-9:40 | Jean-Marie deKonnick University of Laval |
The Index of Composition of an Integer |
| 9:50-10:40 | Andrew Pollington Brigham Young University |
On the Lower Bound for the One Norm of the Discrepancy Function |
| 10:50-11:25 | David Bradley University of Maine |
Eigenspaces of the Differential Operator $f_sD(f_{s-1}D(...f_1)...)$ |
| 11:35-11:55 | Elliot Benjamin Unity College |
On Imaginary Quadratic Fields with C_{k,2} of Type (4,4) |
| 12:05-12:20 | Rebecca Rozario University of Maine |
On the Distribution of the Irreducibles in a Number Field |