Due to the late arrival of so many participants, the
morning and afternoon sessions were cancelled. Those who had
arrived spent a sunny day exploring Banff!
Evening Session (Chair, D. Rolfsen) |
19:30--20:00 | Peter Borwein, The Mahler measure of polynomials with
odd coefficients |
20:00--20:15 | Coffee break , BIRS Lounge,
2nd floor, Room 5210 |
20:15--20:45 | Thomas Ward, Mahler measure and entropy |
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Monday, April 28 |
Morning Session (Chair, F. Rodriguez Villegas) |
09:30--10:00 | Christopher Sinclair, The distribution of Mahler's measures
of reciprocal polynomials |
10:15--10:45 | Matt Baker, Heights in Abelian Extensions |
10:45--11:15 | Coffee break |
11:15--11:45 | Jorge Pineiro, Mahler measure for dynamical systems on
PL1 |
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Lunch Break |
Afternoon Session (Chair, F. Rodriguez Villegas) |
14:00--14:30 | Amnon Besser, Variation of complex and p-adic regulators
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14:45--15:15 | Jeff Lagarias, de Branges spaces, entire functions and zeros |
15:15--15:45 | Coffee break |
15:45--16:15 | James Lewis, An explicit formula for the Beilinson
regulator for higher Chow groups |
16:30--17:00 | Sam Vandervelde, Computing Mahler measure with a cyclic
quadrilateral |
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Dinner Break |
Evening Session (Chair, P. Borwein) |
19:30--20:15 | David Boyd, Mahler's measure and A-polynomials |
20:30--21:00 | Jeff Vaaler, Mahler's measure and the ABC Inequality |
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Tuesday, April 29 |
Morning Session (Chair, D. Boyd) |
09:00--09:30 | Walter Neumann, The Extended Bloch group and the
Chern-Simons invariant |
09:40--10:15 | Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, A new proof that
.1666666666666.... = 1/6 |
10:15--10:30 | Coffee break |
10:30--11:00 | Adam Sikora, A-polynomials and the colored Jones
polynomial of a knot |
11:10--11:40 | Susan Williams, Knots, Homology and Mahler measure
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11:50--12:20 | Daniel Silver, Twisted Links and Lehmer's Question
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12:20--12:30   Group Photo on the front steps of Corbett
Hall |
Free Afternoon for excursions and/or discussions |
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Wednesday, April 30 |
Morning Session (Chair, D. Lind) |
09:00--09:30 | Marie-Jose Bertin, Mahler's measures of some K3
hypersurfaces |
09:40--10:10 | Ruth Kellerhals, Polylogarithms, hyperbolic volume and
Mahler measure |
10:10--10:30 | Coffee break |
10:30--11:00 | Matilde Lalín, Examples of Mahler measures as multiple
polylogarithms |
11:10--11:40 | Chris Smyth, Explicit formulas for the Mahler measures of a
family of n-variable polynomials |
11:50--12:20 | Vincent Maillot, Mahler measure in Arakelov Geometry |
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Lunch Break |
Afternoon Session (Chair, F. Rodriguez Villegas) |
14:00- 14:30 | Michael Mossinghoff, Polynomials with restricted
coefficients and prescribed factors of small Mahler measure |
14:40-15:10 | Eknath Ghate,
The arithmetic and geometry of Salem numbers |
15:10-15:50 | Coffee break |
15:50-16:20 | Graham Everest, Arithmetic in Bilinear Recurrence
Sequences |
16:20--17:00 | Doug Lind, Mahler variations |
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Thursday, May 1 |
No formal activities scheduled |
Departure day: Bon Voyage! |
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Meals:   All meals are provided by BIRS from dinner on April 26
until lunch on May 1 |
07:00-09:00 |
Breakfast (Continental) | 2nd Floor Lounge, Corbett Hall |
11:30-13:30 | Lunch (Buffet) |
Main Dining Room, Donald Cameron Hall |
17:30-19:30 | Dinner (Buffet) |
Main Dining Room, Donald Cameron Hall |
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Coffee Breaks | 2nd floor lounge, Corbett Hall |
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Map:   Corbett Hall, Max Bell and Donald Cameron Hall are
within close proximity of one another, at the lower left hand corner
of the
map of Banff Centre
(for a printable pdf version, click
here )
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