SMS/NATO Advanced Summer Institute

[Diane Belanger]

SMS 2005-NATO Advanced Summer Institute: Equidistribution in Number Theory

July 11-22 2005

SPEAKERS
Yuri BILU (Bordeaux I)
William DUKE (UCLA)
John FRIEDLANDER (Toronto)
Andrew GRANVILLE (Montréal)
Roger HEATH-BROWN (Oxford)
Elon LINDENSTRAUSS (NYU)
Jens MARKLOF (Bristol)
Zeev RUDNICK (Tel Aviv)
Wolfgang SCHMIDT (Colorado at Boulder and Vienna
K. SOUNDARARAJAN (Michigan)
Yuri TSCHINKEL (Göttingen)
Emmanuel ULLMO (Paris-Sud 11)
Akshay VENKATESH (MIT)


PROGRAM FEATURES


Uniform Distribution and beyond:  Applications to Cryptographic protocols,
distribution of integers, level statistics.


Integer and rational points on varieties: Geometry of numbers, the circle
method, homogeneous varieties via spectral theory and ergodic theory.


The Andre-Oort conjectures: Equidistribution of CM-points and Hecke
points, points of small height.


Quantum ergodicity: Quantum maps and modular surfaces.


This summer school is primarily targeted at senior grad students, postdocs
and junior faculty.


For full consideration, requests for participation or financial assistance
must be received before February 28, 2005. Information :
http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/sms/index.html; belanger at dms.umontreal.ca
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