Millennial Conference on Number Theory

Latest news

• 5/6/2000: Latest counts: The number of registered participants is now 280, and we expect that number to reach 300 by the time of the conference. A (near) real-time tally is given in the List of registered participants. The number of talks stands at 161.

• 4/17/2000: Conference Newsletter: The first issue of a conference newsletter has been sent by email to all registered participants. These newsletters are intended to provide updates on the status of the conference, give additional information as it becomes available, and to serve as reminders of upcoming deadlines. The newsletter is also available online at the above link.

• 3/20/2000: Last chance to submit an abstract: If you have requested a contributed talk before the March 15 deadline, but have not yet submitted an abstract, please do so today. Also, please register for the conference and send in the registration fee, if you have not done so. Since our schedule is quite full, new requests for contributed talks will only be considered in exceptional cases.

• Goals: The "Millennial Conference on Number Theory" is an international conference held at the conclusion of the Special Year in Number Theory 1999/2000 at the University of Illinois. The conference aims to bring together researchers in all areas of number theory to present recent developments in number theory, review the accomplishments of number theory in the past decades, and chart directions for research in number theory in the new millennium. The conference will also mark the eightieth birthday of Paul Bateman, a long time faculty member of the mathematics department at the University of Illinois, and head of the department for fifteen years, who has built the number theory program at this department into one of the largest and most highly regarded in the world.
• Dates and location: The conference will be held on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Lectures will begin at 9 am on Sunday, May 21, 2000, and end at approximately 6 pm on Friday, May 26, 2000. Participants would normally arrive on Saturday, May 20, and depart the following Saturday. Some participants may want to stay longer in order to attend one of the two short satellite conferences that will be held immediately before and after the Millennial Conference (see below)
• Plenary Talks: One hour plenary talks will be given by G. Andrews, J. Bourgain, K. Ford, R. Graham, A. Granville, D.R. Heath-Brown, C. Hooley, W.-C. Li, K. Murty, M. Nathanson, K. Ono, C. Pomerance, B. Poonen, W. Schmidt, C. Skinner, K. Soundararajan, R. Tijdeman, R.C. Vaughan, and H. Williams. Several of the plenary talks will be in the form of broadly accessible survey lectures. Except for Bourgain's talk which is scheduled for Tuesday evening, all plenary talks will be given in the mornings.
• Invited half-hour talks: About 80 number theorists have been invited to give 30 minute talks. These talks will take place in the afternoons in three or four parallel sessions.
• Contributed Talks: We can accommodate a limited number of contributed talks of 15 minutes length. To request a slot for a contributed talk, please submit an abstract following the procedures below.

• Reception: On the evening prior to the conference (Saturday, May 20), a reception for conference participants will be given. There is no cost for this reception.
• Reminiscences and historical talks: On the evening of Sunday, May 21, three talks of historical nature will be given, including:
  • Robert Rankin, "G.H. Hardy, as I knew him" (The talk will be delivered by Bruce Berndt.)
  • Paul Bateman, "Reminiscences on mathematics and mathematicians"
  • Marvin Knopp, "Paul Bateman and the Art of the Ph.D. Dissertation"
• Artistic program: On Monday evening, a theatrical and musical program is scheduled.
• Excursion and indoor climbing: The afternoon of Wednesday, May 24, will be free of lectures. Participants have the option to take part in an excursion to Allerton Park, a nearby scenic park which is owned by the University of Illinois. The excursion is free to all conference participants. Alternatively, conference participants can hone their rock climbing skills at a local climbing gym which has been reserved for Wednesday afternoon for exclusive use by the conference; instruction by a local expert will be provided. The gym charges a nominal fee for equipment rental.
• Banquet: A banquet is scheduled for the evening of Thursday, May 25. The banquet will be served buffet-style and will include a choice of several entrees, including a vegetarian entree. The cost of the banquet is $20 per person. Banquet tickets must be reserved and paid for in advance; to reserve a banquet ticket, please indicate the number of tickets desired on the conference registration form (see below).
  The banquet will be followed by several short talks honoring Paul Bateman and given by former students, colleagues, and friends of Paul. The confirmed speakers are Harold Diamond, Marvin Knopp, Ron Miech, and Herb Wilf.
• Party: A party is planned for the evening of Friday, May 26, the final day of the conference.

• Workshop on problems at the interface of probability and number theory, May 19 - 20, 2000: This workshop aims to bring together researchers from the probability and number theory communities who are interested in problems that lie at the interface of these two areas. The themes of the workshop include probabilistic number theory; uniform distribution and discrepancy; probabilistic methods in additive number theory; probability theory on algebraic and combinatorial structures; and probabilistic models in number theory. The workshop is organized by A.J. Hildebrand and W. Philipp.
• Workshop on problems in transcendence theory, May 27 - 28, 2000. More details about this workshop will be announced later. For more information contact the organizer, Michael Bennett, mabennet@math.uiuc.edu.

All speakers will be invited to submit a paper, based on their talk at the conference, for the conference proceedings. The papers will be refereed using standards comparable to those of the Journal of Number Theory or Acta Arithmetica. The deadline for submission is September 30, 2000. Procedures for submitting a paper for the conference proceedings have not yet been finalized and will be announced later; please do not submit papers until such an announcement has been made.

In addition to this traditional style conference proceedings, A K Peters will publish an inexpensive paperback volume containing a selection of invited survey papers by plenary speakers.

Registration

• Online registration: To register online (the preferred method), click on the above link (https://math.uiuc.edu/nt2000/millennial/registrationform.html) to access the online registration form. After filling out and submitting this form, you will receive an automated confirmation of your registration.
• Registration by email: To register by email, use the alternate registration form (https://math.uiuc.edu/nt2000/millennial/registrationform.txt), save that form as a text file (using the "Save" feature of your browser), and send the completed form to the conference email address, millennial@math.uiuc.edu
• Registration by mail: To register by mail, print the alternate registration form (https://math.uiuc.edu/nt2000/millennial/registrationform.txt) and mail the completed copy to the conference address given at the bottom of this page.

Deadlines: Participants are encouraged to submit their registration by by March 15, 2000. The registration fee will increase by 50% after that date, We cannot accept requests for contributed talks received after March 15.

Registration fee: The registration fee is $100 if received by March 15, 2000, and $150 after that date. Students pay a reduced fee of $50 (through March 15, 2000) and $75 (after March 15, 2000). The registration fee includes all conference materials, the reception on Saturday evening, coffee and tea breaks, and the proceedings of the conference, to be published in two volumes totaling about 1000 pages. The fee does not include the conference banquet, which has to be purchased separately at a cost of $20 per person.

Payment: Payment of the registration fee and any banquet tickets must be in the form of a check or money order in US dollars, payable to the University of Illinois, mailed to the address below (Millennial Conference, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Illinois, 1409 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA). In order to avoid the higher fee, please make sure that the check is received by March 15. We will send you an acknowledgement upon receipt of the payment. We regret that we cannot accept payment by credit card or by cash.

Cancellations: A full refund of the registration fee and the fee for banquet tickets will be given if the cancellation is received by March 15; after that date, no refund will be given. If you have made reservations for hotel or dormitory room accommodations (see below), you should cancel those reservations by contacting the hotel or the University housing service directly. If you do not cancel your housing reservation, you may be charged for all or part of the lodging costs.

Submission of Abstracts

• Online submission We will use the Atlas Mathematical Conference Abstract Service, hosted by York University in Canada (http://at.yorku.ca/amca/), for the electronic publication of conference abstracts. To submit an abstract, simply click on the above link. This will connect you to a fill-out web form. Fill in your name, address, and the title and abstract of your talk, and click on the submit button. You will have the opportunity to view your abstract and make changes if necessary. Please keep your abstract short (2 - 4 sentences) and avoid complicated TeX constructs, as these may not convert well into html format. Also do not include TeX formatting commands (e.g., \hsize) or LaTeX preambles. (Simple embedded TeX commands cause no problems.) The organizers reserve the right to edit abstracts that are submitted in an unsuitable format or are overlong.
• Submission by email or mail: If you are unable to submit your abstract via the online form, you can send your abstract by email to millennial@math.uiuc.edu, or send a paper copy of your abstract to the address below. Please include your full name, institution, email address, and the title of the paper.

Acceptance of abstracts: Abstracts that are submitted for a 15 minute contributed talk will be reviewed by the Organizing Committee. You will be notified within a few days of submission whether your talk has been accepted for the conference.

Publication of abstracts: Abstracts are electronically published by the Atlas Mathematical Conference Abstract Service (http//at.yorku.ca/amca/). Click here to view, print, or download abstracts that have been submitted and accepted for the conference. In addition to this electronic publication, a printed brochure containing all conference abstracts will be provided to participants at the beginning of the conference.

Deadlines: The deadline for submission of all abstracts is March 15, 2000. Requests for contributed talks received after that date cannot be considered. Please note that all speakers are expected to register for the conference by filling out the registration form and submitting the registration fee by March 15. We may cancel talks and withdraw abstracts by speakers who have not submitted their registration by that date.

Financial Support

We have received funding to support advanced graduate students, postdocs, recent PhD's, and women and minorities, at institutions in the United States. We hope to be able to provide sufficient support to cover local expenses, and possibly part of the travel costs, for qualified individuals in these groups. Since most of the funding is provided by U.S. government organizations, the support is mainly targeted towards U.S. residents; funding for participants coming from abroad is very limited and is only available in exceptional cases. Those seeking support should first exhaust other sources of funding, such as individual research grants, support through an advisor's grant (for graduate students), or support from the home institution. If you fall into one of the above groups and would like to apply for financial support, please send email to millennial@math.uiuc.edu, with a brief description of your status, background, and research interests. Graduate students should ask their advisor to send a letter of recommendation. Applications should indicate how much support (if any) is available from other sources. The deadline for submitting applications for support is March 15, 2000.

Travel

Accommodations

• Hotel accommodation: We have reserved a block of rooms at the Quality Hotel - University Center, 302 E. John St., Champaign. This hotel, located a few blocks from the University campus, is a 20 story high rise building with large and comfortable rooms, many of which offer a great view of the University campus and the cities of Champaign-Urbana. The hotel was formerly known as the University Inn, but is now part of the Quality Inn hotel chain. The rates for conference participants are $50 per night for a single room and $62 per night for a double room, plus 11% tax. Reservations should be made directly with the hotel, by calling the hotel at 800-322-8282 (from the U.S., except Illinois), 800-252-1368 (from Illinois), or 217-384-2100. From outside the U.S., you should use the last number. You can also fax your request to the hotel; the hotel's fax number is 217-384-2298. When making the reservation, please identify yourself as a participant of the Number Theory Conference in order to obtain the special conference rate. The deadline for reservations is April 20, 2000; after that date, the rooms will be released and may no longer be available.
• Dormitory accommodation: We have also reserved rooms at the Busey-Evans Halls, 1111-1115 W. Nevada, Urbana, two connected buildings on the University campus, which are used as student dormitories during the semester and as housing for conference guests during semester breaks. These residence halls are among the nicest on the UIUC campus and are fully airconditioned. Conference guests have a choice of single rooms at $32.44 per night and double rooms at $21.09 per night and per person; these rates include tax. The rooms will have sheets, blankets, pillows, and towels, and there will be daily exchange of towel and washcloth. Bathroom facilities are single sex and centrally located on each floor. Each room has free local phone service, guests may use a calling card to outgoing toll calls and can receive calls directly to their room phone. To make reservations, call the Housing - Conference Services at 217-333-1766, or use the online reservation form at http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/conference/millennial.html. The deadline for making reservations is April 18, 2000.

Conference Poster

Additional Information

Organizers: The Organizing Committee for the Conference consists of B.C. Berndt, N. Boston, H. Diamond, A.J. Hildebrand, from the University of Illinois Mathematics Department, and W. Philipp of the Statistics Department of the University of Illinois.

More information: If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us, using the address below. Updates to this information will be posted on this web page (https://math.uiuc.edu/nt2000/millennial) as it becomes available.

Conference web page: https://math.uiuc.edu/nt2000/millennial.

Mailing address:

Millennial Conference
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois
1409 West Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
USA

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