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| Saturday, April 26 |
| Arrival day. No talks scheduled. |
| After settling in to your room in Corbett Hall ,
meet other participants in the lounge.
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| Dinner will be served from 5:30-7:30 pm in the
Main Dining Room of Donald Cameron Hall |
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| All talks will be held in Max Bell Room 159 |
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| Sunday, April 27 |
| Morning Session (Chair, D. Boyd) |
| 9:30-- 9:55 | David Boyd, The many aspects of
Mahler's measure |
| 10:00--10:25 | Peter Borwein, The Mahler measure of polynomials with
odd coefficients |
| 10:30--10:55 | Coffee break , BIRS Lounge,
2nd floor, Room 5210 |
| 11:00--11:25 | Christopher Sinclair, The distribution of Mahler's measures
of reciprocal polynomials |
| 11:30--11:55 | Matt Baker, Heights in Abelian Extensions |
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| Lunch Break |
| Afternoon Session (Chair, D. Lind) |
| 2:00-- 2:25 | Klaus Schmidt, Dynamical systems and commutative algebra
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| 2:30-- 2:55 | Thomas Ward, Mahler measure and entropy |
| 3:00-- 3:25 | Manfred Einsiedler, Isomorphism rigidity, a "Krull dimension
two" case |
| 3:30-- 3:55 | Coffee break |
| 4:00-- 4:25 | Jorge Pineiro, Mahler measure for dynamical systems on
PL1 |
| 4:30-- 4:55 | Doug Lind, Mahler variations |
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| Monday, April 28 |
| Morning Session (Chair, F. Rodriguez Villegas) |
| 9:30-- 9:55 | Amnon Besser, Variation of complex and p-adic regulators
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| 10:00--10:25 | James Lewis, An explicit formula for the Beilinson
regulator for higher Chow groups |
| 10:30--10:55 | Coffee break |
| 11:00--11:25 | Walter Neumann, The Extended Bloch group and the
Chern-Simons invariant |
| 11:30--11:55 | Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, A new proof that
.1666666666666.... = 1/6 |
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| Lunch Break |
| Afternoon Session (Chair, D. Silver) |
| 2:00-- 2:25 | David Boyd, Mahler's measure and A-polynomials |
| 2:30-- 2:55 | Adam Sikora, A-polynomials and the colored Jones
polynomial of a knot |
| 3:00-- 3:25 | Coffee break |
| 3:30-- 3:55 | Susan Williams, Knots, Homology and Mahler measure
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| 4:00-- 4:25 | Daniel Silver, Twisted Links and Lehmer's Question
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| Tuesday, April 29 |
| Morning Session (Chair, C. Smyth) |
| 9:00-- 9:25 | Sam Vandervelde, Computing Mahler measure with a cyclic
quadrilateral |
| 9:30-- 9:55 | Marie-Jose Bertin, Mahler's measures of some K3
hypersurfaces |
| 10:00--10:25 | Ruth Kellerhals, Polylogarithms, hyperbolic volume and
Mahler measure |
| 10:30--10:55 | Coffee break |
| 11:00--11:25 | Matilde Lalín, Examples of Mahler measures as multiple
polylogarithms |
| 11:30--11:55 | Chris Smyth, Explicit formulas for the Mahler measures of a
family of n-variable polynomials |
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| 12:00--12:10 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, P. Borwein) |
| 9:30-- 9:55 | Michael Mossinghoff, Polynomials with restricted
coefficients and prescribed factors of small Mahler measure |
| 10:00--10:25 | Eknath Ghate,
The arithmetic and geometry of Salem numbers |
| 10:30--10:55 | Coffee break |
| 11:00--11:25 | Graham Everest, Arithmetic in Bilinear Recurrence
Sequences |
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| Lunch Break |
| Afternoon Session (Chair, F. Rodriguez Villegas) |
| 2:00-- 2:25 | Vincent Maillot, Mahler measure in Arakelov Geometry |
| 2:30-- 2:55 | Jeff Vaaler, Mahler's measure and the ABC Inequality |
| 3:00-- 4:00 | Refreshments |
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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 |
| 7:00-9:00am |
Breakfast (Continental) | 2nd Floor Lounge, Corbett Hall |
| 11:30am-1:30pm | Lunch (Buffet) |
Main Dining Room, Donald Cameron Hall |
| 5:30-7:30pm | 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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