When & Where
First Seminar
The first of a series of four seminars will be held at Royal Holloway University of London on December 16th, starting at 10.45 am. All lectures will be taking place in Bourne Lecture Theatre 1 (Bourne Building). You can find the campus plan here https://intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/aboutus/documents/pdf/locationmap/campusplan.pdf
Date
16/12/2019
Time
10:45 am
Programme
Timetable
10.45-11.00 Coffee & welcome;
11.00-11.50 David Masser (Basel):
Siegel's Lemma is usually sharp
12.00-13.30 Lunch break;
13.30-14.20 Rainer Dietmann (Royal Holloway): Enumerative Galois theory for cubics and quartics
14.20-14.45 Coffee break;
14.45-15.35 Rachel Newton (Reading):
Number fields with prescribed norms
15.45-16.35 Adelina Manzateanu (Leiden):
Counting points on Hilbert schemes over function fields
18.00 Dinner at Villa Rosa (Egham).
Preliminary list of
participants
Lambert A'Campo;
Félicien Comtat;
Jonathan Chapman;
Joshua Coyston;
Tim Davis;
Chris Daw;
Rainer Dietmann;
Natalie Evans;
Reynold Fregoli;
Titus Hilberdink;
Steve Lester;
Adelina Manzateanu;
David Masser;
Gary McConnell;
James McKee;
Rachel Newton;
Martin Orr;
Yiannis Petridis;
Abhishek Saha;
Thomas Webster;
Martin Widmer;
Han Wu.
Organisers & Sponsors
ERLASS organisers
Steve Lester (Queen Mary);
Rachel Newton (Reading);
Yiannis Petridis (UCL);
Martin Widmer (Royal Holloway);
Local organisers
Reynold Fregoli (reynoldfregoli@gmail.com);
Martin Widmer (Martin.Widmer@rhul.ac.uk);
Sponsors
The ERLASS is funded by an LMS scheme-3 grant (31902).
Upcoming Seminars
University of Reading*
UCL, London*
Queen Mary, London*
* Dates to be decided
Sign up for the first seminar
Crèche facilities
Should you need day care for your children, please send an email to the organisers as early as possible (write to reynoldfregoli@gmail.com). Please note that the LMS has a Caring Supplementary Grant scheme to help participants of meetings to cover their caring costs. For more information see www.lms.ac.uk/grants/caring-supplementary-grants.
How to get here
Directions:
The fastest way to get to Royal Holloway campus from London is to take the train to Egham from Waterloo station. The university is a 20 minute walk from the station. Please be aware that there is ongoing South Western Railways industrial action from December 2nd (for more information check https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/234877.aspx).
Alternatively, it is possible to take the Piccadilly line to Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 and then the bus no. 8 to Royal Holloway campus stop.