EnCounteRs with Don
An ECR Event
On Wednesday and Thursday 3-4 June 2026, the Arithmetic Study Group in Durham hosted a special event, "EnCounteRs with Don," funded by the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research (HIMR), featuring Don Zagier and several half-hour talks by Early Career Researchers, with a focus on giving them a chance to directly talk to someone who has had a profound influence in the field.
Second Row (L to R): Qizhen Sang, Xintong Wang, Herbert Gangl.
Third Row (L to R): Yan Yau Cheng, Elvira Lupoian, Alireza Shavali, Narges Shavali.
Fourth Row (L to R): Eric Pichon-Pharabod, James Rawson, Edwina Aylward, Jakab Schrettner.
Back Row: Jack Shotton, Dan Evans, Johannes Girsch, Sam Shepherd, Patrick Creagh, Xende Rivero-Bowers.
Programme
Wednesday 3 June
10:00
Don Zagier (Bonn, Trieste)
The poor man`s adele ring
11:00
Coffee break (lounge area)
11:30
Elvira Lupoian (UCL)
Torsion Subgroups of Modular Jacobians
12:15
Alireza Shavali Kohshor (Heidelberg)
Endomorphisms of Modular Abelian Varieties
12:45 - 14:30
Lunch break (Cafeteria)
14:30
James Rawson (Glasgow)
Non-Vanishing of Ceresa Cycles of Modular Curves
15:15
Eric Pichon-Pharabod (Oxford)
Numerical computations of periods
[ Further discussions, coffee/tea (kitchen area/cafeteria) ]
Thursday 4 June
10:00
Edwina Aylward (UCL)
Tamagawa numbers and positive rank of elliptic curves
10:30
Coffee break (lounge area)
11:00
Jakab Schrettner (UCL)
Cluster pictures and constructing models of curves
11:45
Yan Yau Cheng (Edinburgh)
A Trace-Path Integral Formula for Function Fields
12:15 - 14:00
Lunch break (Cafeteria)
14:00
Xintong Wang (Durham)
Almost Alternating Sign Patterns of Andrews’s Functions
14:45
Fabien Clery (Loughborough)
Integrable systems and Picard modular forms.
[ Further discussions, coffee/tea (kitchen area/cafeteria) ]