2001 Seaway Number Theory Conference

The 2001 Seaway Number Theory Conference will be held in room 4351 of the Herzberg Laboratories, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on Friday May 25 and Saturday May 26, 2001. This event is sponsored by the Centre for Research in Algebra and Number Theory.

In keeping with the informal nature of previous Seaway Number Theory Conferences, we will draw up the program of speakers on the morning of Friday May 25 at about 9:30 am, and we will start the first talk at 10:00 am. We expect to finish about noon on Saturday May 26. Please mark these dates in your calendar, and plan to come to the conference to give a talk on some of your work in number theory. Even if you do not wish to give a talk, please plan to come to meet your colleagues in number theory and to hear their talks.

Information regarding the tentative list of speakers and titles of talks, schedule of talks, accommodation, parking and the names of those planning to attend are available below, and will be updated regularly.

It would be very helpful if you would let the organizer know as soon as possible if you plan to attend and the title of your talk if you wish to speak. Please be so kind as to forward this webpage link to any colleagues and students who might be interested. Thank you and hope to see you at the conference.

Kenneth S. Williams
e-mail: williams@math.carleton.ca
613-520-2600 ext 2157 (office)
613-520-3536 (fax)
room 4270 Herzberg Laboratories

• Saban Alaca (Carleton University)
• Srinath Baba (Queen's University)
• Kalyan Chakraborty (Queen's University): TBA (15 minutes).
• Alina C. Cojocaru (Queen's University): ``Elliptic curves modulo p'' (30 minutes).
• J. Leslie Davison (Laurentian University): ``Some new results on continued fractions with bounded partial quotients'' (30 minutes).
• John Friedlander (University of Toronto)
• Harald A. Helfgott (Princeton University): ``The average of \mu on integers represented by a polynomial of degree greater than two and its relation to the average root number of a family of elliptic curves'' (60 minutes).
• Shun-ichi Katayama (Tokushima University/Laval University): ``Zeta functions of finite groups and arithmetically equivalent fields'' (15 minutes).
• Franck Lalande (Carleton University): ``Linear relation of weight 3 between roots of polynomials'' (40 minutes).
• Claude Levesque (Laval University): ``On the unit group and the class number of certain composita of two real quadratic fields'' (10 minutes).
• Jeffrey L. Meyer (Syracuse University)
• M. I. Mostafa (October 6 University, Giza, Egypt): ``New identities to well-known sequences'' (15 minutes).
• Kumar Murty (University of Toronto)
• Habib Muzaffar (Carleton University)
• Clifford Queen (Lehigh University): ``Arithmetic on groups of positive rationals'' (50 minutes).
• Damien Roy (University of Ottawa)
• Filip Saidak (Queen's University): ``On non-abelian generalizations of the Erdos-Kac theorem, and a conjecture of Erdos and Pomerance'' (40 minutes).
• Abdellah Sebbar (University of Ottawa)
• Kotyada Srinivas (Queen's University): ``On the distict zeros of functions in the Selberg class'' (15 minutes).
• Drew Vandeth (University of Ottawa)
• Gary Walsh (University of Ottawa)
• Kenneth S. Williams (Carleton University, Organizer): ``The number of genera representing a given positive integer'' (10 minutes).

Other participants:

• Boris Dekster (Mount Allison University)
• Larry Ericksen (Millville, New Jersey)
• James G. Huard (Canisius College)
• Daniel Panario (Carleton University)
• Ravi Ramakrishna (Cornell University)

Program

Friday May 25, 2001

Saturday May 26, 2001

Accommodation

• Residence: for a room in residence on campus see
  http://www.carleton.ca/housing/tourandconf/individualbookings.htm
• Bed and Breakfast:
  • By-the-Way, 310 First Avenue, Ottawa, K1S 2G8,
    Fax/Tel: (613) 232-6840.
  • By-the-Pond, 18 Wilton Crescent, Ottawa, K1S 2T5,
    Tel: (613) 236-5693; Fax: (613) 236-9302.
• Hotel: for hotel accomomodations see http://www.ottawa.com and go to accommodations.

Parking

If you are planning to park your car on Carleton's campus on Friday May 25, please e-mail the organizer for a parking permit well in advance of the conference. You should park in one of the ``pay and display'' parking lots (lots P2 and P6) with your permit displayed. Otherwise, you will have to pay. A map of the campus can be found at http://www.carleton.ca/cu/campus/. Parking is free on Saturday May 26.

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