Conference on Diophantine Approximation
in celebration of Wolfgang Schmidt's 70th birthday
October 5 - 10, 2003

SUPPORTED BY
THE AUSTRIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY,
THE ERWIN SCHRöDINGER INSTITUTE,
THE FWF RESEARCH PROGRAMME ON NUMBER-THEORETIC ALGORITHMS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS,
AND THE AUSTRIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND CULTURE

 
Scientific Programme

Monday, 6.10.2003
 
10.00 - 10.50 David Masser Counting points of bounded height
11.15 - 11.40 Dale Brownawell Sharp Liouville-Lojasiewicz inequality
11.50 - 12.15 Tanguy Rivoal Basic hypergeometric series and arithmetic consequences

15.00 - 15.50 Jeff Thunder Wolfgang Schmidt's influence on the study of Thue equations, Thue inequalities, and generalizations
16.05 - 16.30 Clemens Fuchs Some applications of the Subspace Theorem
16.45 - 17.10 Viktor Losert Two equations for linear recurrence
17.25 - 17.50 Preda Mihailescu On Catalan's conjecture
18.05 - 18.30 Yuri Bilu Divisibility of class numbers

 

Tuesday, 7.10.2003
 

10.00 - 10.50 Damien Roy Diophantine approximation in bounded degree
11.15 - 11.40 Michel Waldschmidt Dependence of logarithms on commutative algebraic groups
11.50 - 12.15 Yann Bugeaud On Mahler's and Koksma's classifications of numbers

15.00 - 15.50 Jan-Hendrik Evertse On the number of equivalence classes of binary forms of given degree and discriminant
16.05 - 16.30 Kalman Györy Index form equations and their applications
16.45 - 17.10 Robert Tijdeman Lattices and discrete uniform distribution
17.25 - 17.50 Vasili Bernik Works of Wolfgang Schmidt on Diophantine Approximation, new results and problems
18.05 - 18.30 Walter Philipp Metric theorems for pseudo-random measures

 

Wednesday, 8.10.2003
 

10.00 - 10.50 Francesco Amoroso Lower bounds for the heights on a power of the multiplicative group
11.10 - 12.00 Patrice Philippon Normalized height of monomial varieties
12.10 - 12.35 Serguei Stepanov Orbit sums on vector modular invariants
12.45 - 13.10 Alain Lasjaunias Continued Fractions for a class of algebraic power series over a finite field

 

Thursday, 9.10.2003
 

10.00 - 10.50 Umberto Zannier Some diophantine equations in several variables
11.15 - 11.40 Pietro Corvaja Diophantine equations with linear recurrences
11.50 - 12.15 Gael Rémond Intersection of subvarieties and subgroups on abelian varieties

15.00 - 15.50 Joseph Beck Wolfgang Schmidt and combinatorics
16.05 - 16.30 Maxim Skriganov Harmonic analysis on totally disconnected groups and irregularities of point distributions
16.45 - 17.10 William Chen Orthogonality in the classical discrepancy problem
17.25 - 17.50 Johannes Schoissengeier The distribution (mod 1) of the multiples of an irrational number
18.05 - 18.30 Christoph Baxa Calculation of improper integrals using (na)-sequences

 

Friday, 10.10.2003
 

10.00 - 10.25 Hans Hejtmanek Diophantos, Arithmetica
10.40 - 11.05 Scott Ahlgren Arithmetic of sigular moduli and class equations
11.20 - 11.45 Fritz Schweiger Diophantine properties of multi-dimensional continued fractions
12.00 - 12.25 Roger Baker Diophantine inequalities

16.00 - 16.50 Hans Peter Schlickewei The mathematical work of Wolfgang Schmidt
17.20 - 17.50 Edmund Hlawka Persönliche Worte über Wolfgang Schmidt
17:50 - 18.00 Robert Tichy Closing words

19.15 - * HEURIGER TBA

EXCEPT FOR FRIDAY AFTERNOON ALL LECTURES WILL BE HELD IN THE ESI LECTURE ROOM.
 
ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON THE LECTURES WILL BE HELD IN LECTURE ROOM 1 (GROSSER HÖRSAAL )
OF THE MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE, STRUDLHOFGASSE 4, 1090 VIENNA.