Arizona Winter School 2009: Quadratic Forms

• Dates: March 14-18, 2009
• Location: The University of Arizona
• Speakers:
  • Manjul Bhargava (Princeton): The parametrization of rings of small rank
  • John Conway (Princeton): The genus of a quadratic form
  • Noam Elkies (Harvard): Theta functions of lattices
  • Jonathan Hanke (Georgia): Quadratic forms and automorphic forms
  • Raman Parimala (Emory): Some aspects of the algebraic theory of quadratic forms

The most recent Arizona Winter School

AWS 2008, on Special Functions and Transcendence, was held at the University of Arizona from March 15-19, 2008.

• Schedule and other important information
• Speakers
  • Frits Beukers: Arithmetic of values of E- and G-functions, course and project outline, lecture notes (draft)
  • Dale Brownawell and Matt Papanikolas: Independence in positive characteristic, lecture notes and project outline
  • Paula Tretkoff: Transcendence of special values of modular and hypergeometric functions, course outline, lecture notes, project outline
  • Michel Waldschmidt: An introduction to irrationality and transcendence methods, course and project outline, draft lecture notes for lectures 1, 2, 3, 5

The video links below are to Google Video. Higher-quality versions are available for viewing and download here.

• Frits Beukers
  • Lecture 1: part 1, part 2, slides
  • Lecture 2: part 1, part 2, slides
  • Lecture 3: part 1, part 2, slides
  • Lecture 4: part 1, part 2, slides
• Matt Papanikolas
  • Lecture 1: part 1, part 2, slides
  • Lecture 2: part 1, part 2, slides
  • Lecture 3: part 1, part 2, slides
  • Lecture 4: part 1, part 2, slides
• Paula Tretkoff
  • Lecture 1: part 1, part 2
  • Lecture 2: part 1, part 2
  • Lecture 3: part 1, part 2
  • Lecture 4: part 1, part 2
• Michel Waldschmidt
  • Lecture 1: part 1, part 2, slides
  • Lecture 2: part 1, part 2, slides
  • Lecture 3: part 1, part 2, slides
  • Lecture 4: part 1, part 2, slides
  • Lecture 5: part 1, part 2, slides