Diophantine Problems and Discrete Geometry

AMS Special Session at the Spring Western Section Meeting in Claremont

May 3-4, 2008

Program

Saturday, May 3, 2008
8:30 Mel Nathanson (Lehman College & CUNY Graduate Center) Linear forms of finite sets of integers and lattice points
9:00 Achill Schuermann (University of Magdeburg) Polyhedral reduction domains from perfect forms
9:30 Michael Filaseta (University of South Carolina) A Diophantine problem arising from a study in Galois groups
10:00 Angel Kumchev (Towson University) Exceptional sets for sums of primes and squares of primes
10:30 Greg Martin (University of British Columbia) The limiting curve of Jarnik's polygons
3:00 Jeff Vaaler (University of Texas) A Banach space determined by the Weil height
3:30 Edward Burger (Williams College) Asymptotic results involving Ostrowski's decomposition of natural numbers
4:00 Mike Mossinghoff (Davidson College) Convex polygons with fixed diameter and maximal perimeter
4:30 Stephen Choi (Simon Fraser University) An extension to the Brun-Titchmarsh theorem
5:00 Chris Sinclair (University of Colorado) Repulsion of imaginary quadratic numbers of low height
5:30 Chris Smyth (University of Edinburgh) Lehmer's problem for integer symmetric matrices
7:30 Party at Lenny's house Pictures
Sunday, May 4, 2008
8:00 Sinnou David (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie) Heights for subvarieties of abelian varieties
8:30 Arthur Baragar (University of Nevada Las Vegas) Orbits of points on K3 surfaces
9:00 Jamie Pommersheim (Reed College) Sums over polytopes
9:30 Han Duong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Minimal volume k-point lattice d-simplices
10:00 Al Sethuraman (California State University Northridge) Lattices in division algebras and wireless communication
10:30 Pavel Guerzhoy (University of Hawaii) Congruences for some theta series coefficients

Organizers

Matthias Beck (San Francisco State University)
Lenny Fukshansky (Claremont McKenna College)

General Information

... about the AMS meeting should appear over time at the conference website.

Local information

The meeting is held at Claremont McKenna College (CMC math department), which is a member of the Claremont Colleges. Here are links to area maps and guides with useful information (including campus maps of CMC and other Claremont Colleges). A local organizer and contact person is Lenny Fukshansky.

Travel information

The nearest airport to Claremont is Ontario, California (airport code ONT). It is only a 10-15 minute drive to the campus; moreover, AMS is reserving blocks of rooms in a few hotels near this airport. The closest major international airport is Los Angeles (LAX), which is about a 50 minute drive from Claremont. Other airports in the greater Los Angeles area are Long Beach (LGB) and Burbank (BUR). Regardless of which airport you are flying into, it may be a good idea to rent a car for the weekend, since all of the available hotels are not within a walking distance to campus.

Accommodations

The AMS is reserving blocks of rooms for this meeting at the following hotels:

Doubletree Hotel Claremont
555 West Foothill Blvd
Claremont, CA, 91711
Phone: 1-909-626-2411
Fax: 1-909-624-0756

Doubletree Hotel Ontario Airport
222 North Vineyard Ave
Ontario, CA 91764-4431
Phone: 1-909-937-0900
Fax: 1-909-937-1999

Best Western Ontario Airport
209 N Vineyard Avenue
Ontario, CA 91764-4427
Phone: 1-909-937-6800
Fax: 1-909-937-6815

And also possibly at:

Ontario Airport Marriott
2200 E Holt Boulevard
Ontario, CA 91761
Phone: 1-909-975-5000
Fax: 1-909-975-5050
Toll-free: 1-800-284-8811

All three of these are near Ontario Airport. It appears that most hotels closer to campus may all be booked during the time of the meeting--this happens to be the Claremont Colleges Alumni Weekend. People wishing to explore other hotel options can search on google for "hotels 91711" (the zip code of Claremont).

Other local information

Parking

Parking is available on and around CMC campus, and is free on the weekend. Moreover, parking lots right behind Bauer South and Bauer North (buildings 34 and 35 on the CMC campus map) should be reserved for the AMS meeting participants for the weekend.