Workshop: Rational Points - Theory & Experiment

May 25 to 29, 2010

(Attention: This is one day later than originally announced because of unforseeable technical difficulties connected to the fact that Monday, 24th May is a public holiday.)

The workshop will cover a wide spectrum of problems in arithmetic algebraic geometry and number theory that are related to rational points on curves and higher-dimensional algebraic varieties. Here, the most important questions are concerned with the

• existence,
• finiteness,
• distribution of rational points,
• effectivity of the methods involved.

The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on the theoretical and experimental aspects of these questions, using methods such as

• diophantine geometry,
• analytic number theory,
• L-series,
• p-adic analysis and geometry,
• large-scale computer algebra experiments.

The workshop is organized by Prof. Ulrich Derenthal (Universität Freiburg) and Prof. Gisbert Wüstholz (ETH Zürich), in collaboration with the FIM.

See the official website for further information.