DIAMANT Symposium Fall 2017
On
30 November and 1 December 2017 the DIAMANT Symposium will be held at
Hotel Van der Valk, Breukelen.
The symposium will feature a special afternoon (on Friday afternoon) "Diophantine problems and the Hardy-Littlewood method" organised by Damaris Schindler (UU) and Efthymios Sofos (UL). Invited speakers: Timothy Browning (U Bristol), Roger Heath-Brown (Oxford) and Pankaj Vishe (U Durham).
Other invited speakers include Alexander May (U Bochum), Britta Peis (U Aachen) and Wadim Zudilin (RU Nijmegen).
How to contribute a talk
PhD students and postdocs are warmly welcomed to submit a contributed talk (25-30 mins.) to the symposium. In the registration form (see below) there is an option to submit title and abstract. Alternatively, after registration, a title+abstract can be sent to Robin de Jong at a later date.
Programme
A growing list with abstracts can be found
here. The programme starts Thursday at 11:00 AM and can be found
here.
Conference fee + accommodation
There is full DIAMANT support for DIAMANT members. DIAMANT members are full and associate professors listed
here, as well as their research group members.
Registration
The registration form can be found
here.
Mathematics cluster DIAMANT
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