Southern California Number Theory Day

Saturday, October 19, 2024 at UC Irvine


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Schedule:

  9:30-10:00     Refreshments
10:00-11:00   Micah Milinovich (University of Mississippi),  Fourier optimization, prime gaps, and the least quadratic non-residue
11:00-11:15 
    break
11:15-12:15 
Katherine Stange (University of Colorado),  The local-global conjecture for Apollonian circle packings is false
12:15-12:25
    break
12:25-1:10
Lightning Talks: Meghan Lee (Wake Forest), Chris Xu (UCSD), Tingyu Tao (UCI), Mulun Yin (UCSB)
1:10-2:50 
    lunch break
2:50-3:55 
Ziyang Gao (UCLA),  Generic positivity of the Beilinson-Bloch height of Gross-Schoen and Ceresa cycles
3:55-4:15
    break
4:15-5:15 
Alexandre de Faveri (Stanford),  Non-vanishing for cubic Hecke L-functions
6:00 
   Dinner at Eureka! Irvine.
 
Registration: There is no registration fee for the conference, but to help our planning please register.

Location: Natural Sciences II, room 1201 (building 402, located at F5 on this map).

Travel support: Some travel funding is available for participants, with preference given to graduate students and postdocs, especially those giving lightning talks. We also encourage applications from members of under-represented groups. If you would like to apply for funding, please contact Nathan Kaplan with an itemized estimate of expenses, preferably by October 11th. Please include your name, affiliation, and advisor's name (if applicable). We strongly encourage carpooling.

Dinner: There will be a conference dinner at Eureka! Irvine following the last talk.  It is about 16 minutes walking from the location of the talks.


Directions:

By car

From the north: Take I-405 to 73 south, and exit at Bison (there is no toll, despite the confusing signs).
From the south: Take I-5 to 73 north, and exit 73 at Bison (this part of 73 is a toll road).

Take Bison east into campus.

The closest lot to the lectures is 12A. You can buy a permit from the dispenser at the entrance to lot 12A ($18/day or $4/hour). Alternatively, you can buy a permit for $13/day or $2/hour and park in an unmarked stall in the Anteater Parking Structure, which is APS in E7 on the map.

Annual and quarterly permits from other UC schools are honored at UCI in any space not marked "Enforced 24 hours".

By air

Orange County airport (SNA) is approximately 5 miles from campus.




Questions? e-mail Nathan Kaplan

Organizing committee: Alexandra Florea and Nathan Kaplan

This conference is supported by NSF grant DMS-2009790.