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Number fields and function fields: coalescences, contrasts and emerging applications

29 - 30 May 2014 09:00 - 17:00

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Jon Keating FRS, Professor Zeev Rudnick and Professor Trevor Wooley FRS

Event details

Connections between problems in number fields and in function fields are of central importance in Number Theory. The past decade has seen fundamental new developments emerge in this direction, attracting some of the leading mathematicians. Our goal is to explore the interplay between these ideas, and their implications for other areas of mathematical science, including mathematical physics and computational complexity.

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Biographies of the organisers and speakers will be made available shortly, as well as the two-day programme. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the event.

Attending this event

This is a residential conference, which allows for increased discussion and networking.  It is free to attend, however participants need to cover their accommodation and catering costs if required.

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Organisers

  • Professor Jon Keating FRS, University of Bristol, UK

    Jon Keating is based at the University of Bristol. He gained his first degree from Oxford University and his PhD from the University of Bristol, under the supervision of Professor Sir Michael Berry FRS. His research is centred in the areas of quantum chaos, random matrix theory and number theory. He has held a BRIMS Research Fellowship, funded by Hewlett-Packard, and an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship.

  • Zeev Rudnick, Tel Aviv University, Israel

    Zeev Rudnick has been professor of Mathematics at Tel Aviv University since 1995, specializing in Number Theory and Quantum Chaos.

    Prior to his appointment at Tel Aviv he was an Assistant Professor at Princeton and in Stanford.

  • Professor Trevor Wooley FRS, University of Bristol, UK

    Trevor D.Wooley gained his PhD from Imperial College in 1990, He was faculty member of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1991 - 2007 (serving as Chair 2002-2005), and has been based at the University of Bristol from 2007 - present. His research is centred on the Hardy-Littlewood (circle) method, a method based on the use of Fourier series that delivers asymptotic formulae for counting functions associated with arithmetic problems. In the 21st Century, this method has become immersed in a turbulent mix of ideas on the interface of Diophantine equations and inequalities, arithmetic geometry, harmonic analysis and ergodic theory, and arithmetic combinatorics. Wooley has been awarded the Salem Prize (1998), Frohlich Prize (2012), elected FRS (2007) and FAMS (2012). He was a 45-minute speaker at ICM in Beijing (2002) and Seoul (2014).