Swinnerton-Dyer Memorial

Created: 2021-05-19 12:11
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Description: Workshop
17th May 2021 to 20th May 2021
Organisers:
Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène
Miles Reid
Workshop theme:
We are organising a three day meeting in honour of Professor Sir Peter-Swinnerton-Dyer who died in December 2018 at the age of 91.
Swinnerton-Dyer was one of the most influential number theorists of his generation worldwide. He is probably best known for the famous conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer (one of the Millenium Clay Maths Problems), which relates the arithmetic of elliptic curves to the value of its Hasse-Weil L-function. This conjecture gave rise to a huge field of research relating special values of L-functions to arithmetic data. Swinnerton-Dyer was also one of founding figures in the arithmetic of surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, such as local-to-global principles for rational points over number fields. He obtained fundamental results for conic bundles and cubic surfaces, and started the research of rational points on surfaces fibred into elliptic curves using completely new methods.

The meeting aims to celebrate the tremendous and wide-reaching contributions to mathematics of the late Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer. In the early years of the Newton Institute, Swinnerton-Dyer served as honorary executive director under Michael Atiyah.

The workshop is part of the London-Paris Number Theory Seminar series and is supported by the London Mathematical Society.

Speakers
Bryan Birch
Martin Bright
Tim Browning
John Coates
Henri Darmon
Lillian Matthiesen
Barry Mazur
Emmanuel Peyre
Alexei Skorobogatov
Rodolfo Venerucci
Claire Voisin
Olivier Wittenberg
Sarah Zerbes
Please find the timetable for the event here: Timetable
 

Media items

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Distribution of Rational Points

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Peyre, E
Tuesday 18th May 2021 - 15:15 to 16:15

Collection: Swinnerton-Dyer Memorial

Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Created: Thu 20 May 2021


Euler Systems and the Birch—Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture

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Zerbes, S
Monday 17th May 2021 - 16:30 to 17:30

Collection: Swinnerton-Dyer Memorial

Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Created: Wed 19 May 2021


Modular Symbols, P-adic L-Functions, and Rigid Meromorphic Cocycles

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Darmon, H
Monday 17th May 2021 - 15:15 to 16:15

Collection: Swinnerton-Dyer Memorial

Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Created: Wed 19 May 2021


On the Coniveau of Rationally Connected 3-folds

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Voisin, C
Tuesday 18th May 2021 - 14:00 to 15:00

Collection: Swinnerton-Dyer Memorial

Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Created: Thu 20 May 2021


Paucity, primes and Campana Points

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Browning, T
Tuesday 18th May 2021 - 16:30 to 17:30

Collection: Swinnerton-Dyer Memorial

Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Created: Thu 20 May 2021