Intercity number theory seminar 1996-1997

Benne de Weger - ABC and large Tate-Shafarevich groups
Jan-Hendrik Evertse - On the number of solutions of Thue-Mahler equations

Wieb Bosma - Computational aspects of character relations
Bart de Smit - Applications of character relations to class groups and Jacobians

Peter Hendriks - Shidlovskii irreducibility
Sabine Hoeppner - Hypergeometrische Differentialgleichungen
Marius van der Put - q-difference number theory

Peter Stevenhagen - Prime densities for linear recurrences
Pieter Moree (MPI Bonn) - On Artin's conjecture on primitive roots

Rob Tijdeman - Transcendence results for modular functions
Frits Beukers - Mahler measures and the Beilinson conjectures

Frans Oort - Group schemes of rank p, and applications to elliptic curves
Gerard van der Geer - Group schemes of type (p,...,p)

Jaap Top - Elliptic curves with high rank
Hendrik Lenstra (UC Berkeley) - Galois descent

Marije Elkenbracht-Huizing - Factoring by the Number Field Sieve
Herman te Riele - Computations related to Goldbach's conjecture
Wieb Bosma - On the sum-of-divisors function

Wim Oudshoorn - Classifying coverings of the projective line
Jasper Scholten - Pencils of cubic curves

Jaap Top - Abelian extensions of function fields
Marius van der Put - Drinfeld's analog of modular curves
E. U. Gekeler - Drinfeld's Shimura-Taniyama-Weil and elliptic curves over function fields

Juergen Sander - On the factorization of products of consecutive integers
Jan Brinkhuis - Extremal problems, shadow prices and symplectic geometry

Roel Stroeker - Elliptic Diophantine Equations and Elliptic Logarithms, special cases
Machiel van Frankenhuysen - Fractal Strings and the Riemann Zeta-Function

Mascha Honsbeek - Simplifying radical expressions
Frans Keune - Tame kernels and ideal class groups

Peter Montgomery - Preparing for the 3rd Edition of the Cunningham Tables
Stefania Cavallar - Not norm-Euclidean cubic number fields Euclidean with respect to a weighted norm
Jerzy Urbanowicz - Short character sums and related problems

M. Bennett - On the representation of integers by binary additive forms
Nils Bruin - Solving Fermatish equations
Herman te Riele - Monte Carlo methods and low discrepancy sequences applied to problems in mathematical finance

You can sign up for the dinner following this final seminar of the year by sending e-mail to tijdeman@wi.leidenuniv.nl or by calling 071-5277138.