University of Durham --- Department of Mathematical Sciences

WaNDS Number Theory Meeting

The first Meeting of WaNDS, the Warwick-Nottingham-Durham-Sheffield Number Theory Group, will be held on Friday 14 May 2010 at Durham University.

All talks will take place in CM 101 in the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

The timetable is as follows:

10:30 Coffee Mathematics Department Common Room (Room CM211)

11.30-12.30 Ulf Kuehn (Hamburg)

"Arakelov Theory on Shimura Varieties"

12:30 Lunch

2.15-3.15 Srilakshmi Krishnamoorty (Sheffield)

"Modular degrees of elliptic curves"

3.30-4.30 Matthew Morrow (Nottingham)

"Higher adeles and Grothendiek duality"

Travel: Durham is easy to get to by train. Click here for relevant information. A taxi from Durham station takes about 5 minutes and costs about £6. Walking takes about 20 minutes.

WaNDS Number Theory Meetings are jointly organised by the Universities of Durham, Nottingham, Sheffield and Warwick. Financial support is provided by the London Mathematical Society through a Scheme 3 grant, administered by the University of Sheffiled.

The local organizers are:

J Funke, University of Durham
N Diamantis, University of Nottingham
J Manoharmayum, University of Sheffield