# Number Theory Days 2011

EPFL and ETHZ have the pleasure to announe the next Number Theory Days that will be held in Lausanne, May 6 and 7, 2011.

The Number Theory Days take place every year since 2004, alternatingly in Zurich and Lausanne.

Registration

Attendance to the NTD is free of charge but you have to announce yourself:

Please fill the following  Registration form

Accomodation

We are NOT able to make hotel reservations; however, we have obtained reduced prices with some hotels (the name of the congress should be mentioned when reservation is made- unless otherwise specified, breakfest is included). We strongly suggest to book in advance at NTD hotel reservation

### Organizers

Prof. Philippe Michel @ EPFL : philippe.michel@epfl.ch

Prof. Gisbert Wuestholz @ ETHZ : gisbert.wuestholz@math.ethz.ch

This year, the NTD have also been organized jointly with the help of  Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli in the context of the GANT semester program.

### Speakers

Alexander Gorodnik, Bristol Univ.

Paula Tretkoff, TAMU

Pierre Parent, Univ. Bordeaux

Laurent Fargues, Orsay

Annette Huber-Klawitter, Freiburg

### Location

Room GR A 332 (located on the third floor of the GR building sitting just in front of the Math MA building)

### Number Theory Days 2011 Schedule

FRIDAY MAY 6, ROOM GR A 332

14.15-15.15: Annette Huber-Klawitter, Period numbers and Nori's motives

Abstract: (joint work with Stefan Müller-Stach) Periods are numbers that one gets by integrating a rational differential form over a cycle. They form a very interesting subalgebra of the complex number, including e.g. \pi, \log(2), \zeta(n) for all n\in \Z The period conjecture says that the only relation between these periods are the obvious ones. This is a very strong assertion on transcendence. In the talk I am going to make this statement precise by introducing Kontsevich's algebra of formal periods. Following ideas of Kontsevich and Nori, we then show that the corresponding proalgebraic scheme is a torsor under the motivic Galois group in the sense of Nori.

15.15-15.45: Pause

15.45-16-45: Pierre Parent Rational points on X_0^+ (p^r )

(Joint work with Yu. Bilu and M. Rebolledo). The points of the modular curves X_0^+ (p^r ) over a field K, for {r>1} and p a prime number, parametrize quadratic K-curves f degree $p^r$ or, when ${r=2}$, elliptic curves over $K$ endowed with a mod $p$ Galois structure which is the normalizer of a split Cartan group. The generic non-existence of such objects over number fields is part of an old conjecture of Serre regarding uniform surjectivity of Galois representations associated with elliptic curves. We show how a combination of analytic estimates on modular units, geometro-algebraic techniques about integrality, and isogeny bounds (in the recent version due to  Gaudron and R\'emond) allow to obtain the triviality of {X_0^+ (p^r )({\bf Q} )} for all r>1 and all primes larger than 2.10^{11}. We then prove, with the help of computer calculations, that the same holds true for $p$ in the range {11\leq p\leq 10^{14}}, {p\neq 13}. Together with known results about very small primes, this completely solves our problem over Q... with exactly one exception in level 13.

16.45-17.15: Pause

17.15-18.15: Alexander Gorodnik, Randomness on nilmanifolds and Diophantine analysis

Abstract: We discuss statistic properties of automorphisms of nilmanifolds and shows their iterations generate sequences with good independence properties. It turns out that this question is closely related to the problem of Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. This is a joint work with R. Spatzier.

19.30: Conference Dinner

SATURDAY MAY 7, ROOM GR A 332

9.00-9.30: Coffee

9.30-10.30: Laurent Fargues, Curves and vector bundles in p-adic Hodge theory.

Abstract: Given an algebraically closed complete valued field of characteristic p, we construct a curve over Qp and classify vector bundles on it. To some objects in p-adic Hodge theory we associate Galois equivariant vector bundles on this curve. As a particular case of the classification of vector bundles on this curve we find back the two main theorems of p-adic Hodge theory: weakly admissible is equivalent to admissible and De Rham implies potentially semi-stable. This is joint work with Jean-Marc Fontaine.

10.30-11.00: Pause

11.00-12.00: Paula Tretkoff: Variations of Hodge Structure and the Analytic Subgroup Theorem.

In the 1980's, G. Wuestholz proved a deep and far reaching theorem, known as the "Analytic Subgroup Theorem", which continues to have an extensive impact on transcendental number theory. We recall this theorem, and its consequences for transcendence of special values of modular and hypergeometric functions, in the context of variations of polarized Hodge structures of level 1 (Shimura varieties). These results are related to conjectures of Andre-Oort and Pink. We then describe some hopes for similar results in the context of variations of Hodge structures of higher level.

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