Breadcrumb

Conference in honour of Bryan Birch's 75th birthday

15 September 2006 to
16 September 2006

Contact Person: Rebecca Ireland

Organisers: Nelson Stephens

Description
A celebratory workshop organised by the Heilbronn Institute and the University of Bristol

Main Speakers

  • Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer (Cambridge): Counting points on cubic surfaces
  • Don Zagier (Bonn): Mock modular forms
  • Tony Scholl (Cambridge): Higher fields of norms
  • Gerhard Frey (Essen): Curves of genus 2 with elliptic differentials and associated Hurwitz spaces
  • John Cremona (Nottingham): The elliptic curve database
  • Manjul Bhargava (Princeton): The enumeration of forms and fields
  • Kevin Buzzard (Imperial): Introduction to the p-adic Langlands programme