Tuesday (Elliptic Curves): 9:30-10:30 Fisher: Explicit Descent on Elliptic Curves, II 11:15-12:15 O'Neil: Explicit Descent on Elliptic Curves, II 14:30-15:00 O'Neil: Sampling spaces 15:15-16:00 Schaefer: The Cassels-Tate Pairing 16:15-17:15 Watkins: Two and four descents 17:30-18:00 Fisher: Minimization Wed (g>=2): 9:30-10:30 Schaefer: Descent on Hyperelliptic Jacobians and Chabauty's Method 11:15-12:15 Nils Bruin 2-coverings of Hyperelliptic Curves 14:30-15:15 Rotger: Abelian surfaces of GL2-type and points on Shimura curve 15:30-16:15 Skorobogatov: Shimura curves and the Hasse principal 16:15-16:45 Afternoon "Tea" 16:45-17:15 Kamal Khuri-Makdisi: Implementing addition on J(k) 17:30-18:00 Bruin: Small genus 2 curves Thur: Start at 9:45 9:45-10:45 Colliot-Thélène: The Brauer-Manin Obstruction and the Fibration Method 11:15-12:15 Alexei Skorobogatov: Torsors, Descent and the Brauer Group Afternoon: Wittenberg, Logan, Bright, Swinnderon-dyer ---------------------------------------------- Swinnerton-Dyer challenge curve: X^4 + 2*Y^4 = Z^4 + 4*W^4 has huge point on it! (around 1 and 10 million digits)