Diophantine Equations, Combinatorics, Analysis in Number Theory

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Diophantine Equations, Combinatorics, Analysis in Number Theory

 23 - 27 Jun 2025
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ICMS, Bayes Centre, Edinburgh

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Scientific Organisers:

  • Julia Brandes, University of Gothenburg
  • Sam Chow, University of Warwick
  • Kevin Hughes, Edinburgh Napier University
  • Scott Parsell, West Chester University
  • Damaris Schindler, Goettingen University
  • Craig Spencer, Kansas State University

About:

The past decade has seen tremendous advances in the theory of Diophantine equations, arithmetic combinatorics and harmonic analysis. Moreover, influential perspectives, analogies and novel connections between these fields have developed. All of these advances are recent enough that their full potential has yet to be unleashed. Following an extended period of restricted travel, the time is ripe to unite and to push these boundaries. Our objectives for this conference are:

  • To bring the harmonic analysis, number theory and arithmetic combinatorics communities all together for the first time in a conference;
  • To unify these recent developments across all three areas, and explore their full scope;
  • To discuss recent, highly influential applications and explore new ones;
  • To assist early career researchers by connecting them to each other and to leading figures. As part of this, there is an accompanying two-day workshop for early career researchers to be held at ICMS, 19-20 June 2025. Please see this link for more information:  https://www.icms.org.uk/DiophantineEquationsEmergingResearchers

Another objective is to celebrate Trevor Wooley’s revolutionary contributions across these three areas. Trevor has been an inspirational leader in these fields for decades, and many of us would relish the opportunity to reflect on his ongoing breakthrough work.

Participation:

In-person attendance is by invitation only. Invited participants have been contacted directly by ICMS.

Registration for online attendance via Zoom is now open. Please note that this is a live stream only - talks will not be recorded. 

Mathematika Special Issue:

We are pleased to announce that Mathematika will publish a special issue in honour of Trevor Wooley, edited by Bob Vaughan and Joerg Brüdern. We warmly encourage all participants to consider contributing. Further details will be provided closer to the time of the meeting. Please note that all submissions will be refereed.

Programme:

MONDAY 23 JUNE
09.00-09.45 Registration and refreshments
09.45-10.00 Welcome and housekeeping
10.00-11.00 Jörg Brüdern, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen On the sum of a power and a prime
11.00-11.30 Refreshments
11.30-12.30 Robert Vaughan, Penn State University On the sum of a square and a cube
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Jim Wright, University of Edinburgh The multilinear circle method
15.00-15.30 Refreshments
15.30-16.30 Dominique Maldague, University of Cambridge
16.30-18.00 Welcome reception, hosted at ICMS
TUESDAY 24 JUNE
10.00-11.00 Rainer Dietmann, Royal Holloway, University of London Through the Cubic Looking Glass: Lines and Local Solutions
11.00-11.30 Refreshments
11.30-12.30 Simon Leo Rydin Myerson, Chalmers University of Technology / University of Gothenburg Systems of many forms with differing degrees
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Yu-Ru Liu, University of Waterloo Equidistribution of Polynomial Sequences in Function Fields
15.00-15.30 Refreshments
15.30-16.30 Julia Wolf, University of Cambridge
WEDNESDAY 25 JUNE
10.00-11.00 James Maynard, University of Oxford
11.00-11.30 Refreshments
11.30-12.30 Session TBC
12.30 Lunch and free afternoon
THURSDAY 26 JUNE
10.00-11.00 Sarah Peluse, Stanford University
11.00-11.30 Refreshments
11.30-12.30 Sean Prendiville, Lancaster University
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Tim Browning, IST Austria The characteristic p analogue
15.00-15.30 Refreshments
15.30-16.30 Pankaj Vishe, Durham University Effective equidistribution of unipotent orbits and the circle method
19.00 Workshop dinner, hosted at St Leonard’s Hall 18 Holyrood Park Road, Edinburgh
FRIDAY 27 JUNE
10.00-11.00 Lillian Pierce, Duke University Counting integral points in thin sets
11.00-11.30 Refreshments
11.30-12.30 Thomas Bloom, University of Manchester
12.30 Lunch and end of workshop

Sponsors and Funders:

  • ICMS
  • NSF