Galois Theory and Explicit Methods
Midterm Meeting

Bordeaux, France - October 2008, monday 13th - friday 17th

SCHEDULE


  • A lunch buffet is offered to the participants on monday and on thursday.
  • The conference dinner takes place on wednesday evening, starting from 7.30 pm, at Castelterrefort (A13 on the campus map).
  • On thursday afternoon, a tour to Saint Émilion is organised, including the visit of a Château Clos la Madeleine and wine tasting.
  • Tuesday afternoon and wednesday morning are devoted to the "Midterm Review Meeting" with two Commission representatives from Brussels: Sylvie Bescos, Project Officer and Jean-Paul Brasselet, Project Technical Assistant.

Monday

9h-10h Coffee and Wellcoming
10h-10h15 Bart de Smit Opening of the Workshop
10h15-11h15 Jean-Marc Couveignes Kummer theory, algebraic groups and fast arithmetic of finite fields (Abstract), lecture I
11h15-12h Elad Paran Galois theory over complete local domains (Abstract)
14h-15h Jean-Marc Couveignes Kummer theory, algebraic groups and fast arithmetic of finite fields (Abstract), lecture II
15h-15h45 Jan Tuitman A generalised sparse effective nullstellensatz
15h45-16h15 Coffee break
16h15-17h Mirjam Jöllenbeck Generalized braid groups, mapping class groups and Galois action (Abstract)

Tuesday

9h-10h Jean-Marc Couveignes Kummer theory, algebraic groups and fast arithmetic of finite fields (Abstract), lecture III
10h-10h30 Coffee break
10h30-11h30 William Stein Doing Number Theory with Sage, lecture I: Elliptic Curves
11h30-12h15 Anna Morra Counting cubic extensions with given quadratic resolvent (Abstract)

Wednesday

14h-15h Till Tantau Visualizing Ideas and Concepts Using TikZ
Lecture I: An Overview of TikZ: A Language for Creating Graphics the TeX Way, slides of lecture I, all documents including source code.
15h15-16h Till Tantau Visualizing Ideas and Concepts Using TikZ
Lecture II: Creating a Graphic from Scratch, a Case Study, slides of lecture II , all documents including source code.
16h-16h30 Coffee break
16h30-17h15 Till Tantau Visualizing Ideas and Concepts Using TikZ
Lecture III: Bring Your Own Visualization Problem, latex and pdf of the case study, all documents including source code.

Thursday

9h-10h William Stein Doing Number Theory with Sage, lecture II: Number Fields
10h-10h30 Coffee break
10h30-11h15 Leila Schneps Multiple zeta values, Galois theory and effective methods (Abstract)
11h15-12h Bertrand Meyer Minimal heights on the flag variety and designs (Abstract)

Friday

9h-10h William Stein Doing Number Theory with Sage, lecture III: Modular Forms
10h-10h30 Coffee break
10h30-11h15 Jordi Guárdia Higher Newton polygons in the computation of discriminants and prime ideal decomposition in number fields (Abstract)
11h15-12h Santiago Molina Cerednik-Drinfeld's models of Shimura curves and reduction of CM-points (Abstract)
14h-15h Pierre Parent Serre's uniformity in the split Cartan case (Abstract, a more detailled pdf abstract))
15h-15h45 Bart de Smit Standard models of finite fields
15h45-16h15 Coffee break

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