CNTA XII - June 17-22, 2012

Plenary Speakers	Institution
Manjul Bhargava	Princeton University.
Valentin Blomer	Gottingen University
Chantal David	Concordia University
Andrew Granville	Université de Montréal
Roger Heath-Brown	University of Oxford
Minhyong Kim	University of Oxford/POSTECH
Ram Murty	Queen's University
Bjorn Poonen	MIT
Akshay Venkatesh	Stanford University
Umberto Zannier	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Invited Speakers	Institution
Jeff Achter	Colorado State University
Shabnam Akhtari	CRM, Montréal
Jennifer Balakrishnan	Harvard University
Andrew Booker	University of Bristol
Tim Browning	University of Bristol
Paul Buckingham	University of Alberta
Yann Bugeaud	IUF/Université de Strasbourg
Pete Clark	University of Georgia
Claus Diem	University of Leipzig
Karl Dilcher	Dalhousie University
Brooke Feigon	CUNY
John Friedlander	University of Toronto
Dragos Ghioca	University of British Columbia
Harald Helfgott	CNRS/Ecole Normale Supérieure
Patrick Ingram	Colorado State University
Michael Jacobson	University of Calgary
Dimitris Koukoulopoulos	Montréal University
Manfred Kolster	McMaster University
Alex Kontorovich	Yale University
Matilde Lalin	Université de Montréal
Greg Martin	University of British Columbia
Kumar Murty	University of Toronto
Robert Osburn	University College Dublin
Carl Pomerance	Dartmouth College
Rachel Pries	Colorado State University
Olivier Ramaré	CNRS/Université Lille 1
Damien Roy	University of Ottawa
Michael Rubinstein	University of Waterloo
Wolfgang Schmidt	University of Colorado
Samir Siksek	University of Warwick
Katherine Stange	Stanford University
Cam Stewart	University of Waterloo
Andrew Sutherland	MIT
Hugh Williams	University of Calgary
Trevor Wooley	University of Bristol

SPECIAL SESSION IN NUMBER THEORY AND PHYSICS
Organizer: Charles Doran (University of Alberta)

Invited speakers	Institution
Vincent Bouchard	University of Alberta
Adrian Clingher	University of Missouri
Matt Kerr	Washington University in St. Louis
Jacob Lewis	University of Vienna
Andreas Malmendier	Colby College
Christopher Marks	University of Alberta
Stefan Mendez-Diez	University of Alberta
Hossein Movasati	IMPA
Ursula Whitcher	University of Wisconsin

SCHEDULE:
The conference will start on Sunday afternoon June 17 at 1:50pm at the 1st Choice Centre for the Sport and Wellness at the University of Lethbridge. It will end on Friday June 22 at noon.

REGISTRATION:
To register, you will need to create a PIMS account and then login.
For this, please go to the PIMS CNTA XII website:
http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/120617-cntaxmx (bottom of the page).
Registration fees are detailed in the "Other information" section of the same page.
There are reduced registration fees until May 1st, 2012.
There will be a banquet dinner on Tuesday, June 19. It will be held at the Galt museum which has premium view of the coulee landscape. The main entree is either beef or vegetarian.
If you are planning to attend it, you will need to need to book your ticket and choose your meal option at the same time as you register.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT:
Some financial support is available, especially for students and junior researchers.
To apply, please contact Amir Akbary at amir.akbary(at)uleth(dot)ca with the subject FINANCIAL SUPPORT.
Please attach a CV and (for students) a letter of reference from the supervising faculty.
Deadline passed. However, we are still accepting applications from undergraduate and M.Sc. students.

CONTRIBUTED TALKS:
We encourage participants to give a contributed talk of 15 minutes.
Please use the following link to submit details: Abstracts submission.
All abstracts will be reviewed by the Meeting organizers.
Deadline for submissions is May 1st, 2012.

BANQUET:
Banquet tickets are $25 each for students and $45 each for all others. They can be purchased when registering through the PIMS CNTA XII webpage.
The banquet will be held at the Galt museum on Tuesday June 19, from 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm.
The museum is located downtown, at 502 1st Street South, and has premium view of the coulee landscape.

DESCRIPTION OF CNTA:
The CNTA was founded in 1987 at the International Number Theory conference at Laval University. Approximately every 2 years since then, the universities of one Canadian city organize a week-long celebration of number theory.
The purpose of the CNTA is to enhance and promote learning and research in Number Theory. To advance these goals the CNTA organizes major international conferences, with the aim of exposing students and researchers to the latest developments in number theory world wide. The previous meetings were held in Banff (1988), Vancouver (1989), Kingston (1991), Halifax (1994), Ottawa (1996), Winnipeg (1999), Montréal (2002), Toronto (2004), Vancouver (2006), Waterloo (2008), and Wolfville (2010).
These have been high quality conferences which have had wide participation of the international number theory community. It is now one of the largest international meetings in the field, along with the European Journéees Arithmétiques.
Please see the CNTA site, which tracks much of the history of CNTA, including links to past CNTA Meetings and Conference Proceedings.

Organizers:
from University of Lethbridge: Amir Akbary, Habiba Kadiri, Nathan Ng, Soroosh Yazdani.
from other institutions: Michael Bennett (UBC), Nils Bruin (SFU), Matthew Greenberg (Calgary), Renate Scheidler (Calgary), Vinayak Vatsal (UBC).

Contact: cnta2012 (at) cs (dot) uleth (dot) ca

PIMS CNTA XII webpage

(updated 06/12/2012)