Conference in Honour of Bryan Birch’s 75th Birthday
26 Feb 2016, by Events in15 – 16 September 2006
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