Variations on Mahler's Measure

Luminy

30 May - 3 June 2005
 

Program


Sunday 29
17h00 - 23h00 Arrival
19h30 Cold meal
 
Monday 30
7h00 - 9h00 Breakfast
9h15 Opening
9h30 - 10h20 D. Boyd : The A-polynomials of symmetric knots
  Coffee break
11h00 - 11h50 S. Williams : Mahler measure and twisted links
12h30 Lunch
 
16h30 - 17h20 A. Champanerkar : On the Mahler measure of Jones polynomials under twisting
  Coffee break
18h00 - 18h50 Y. Nesterenko : On arithmetic properties of theta-constants
19h30 Diner
 
Tuesday 31
7h00 - 9h00 Breakfast
9h30 - 10h20 C. Smyth : The Mahler measure of graphs
  Coffee break
11h00 - 11h50 E. Hironaka : Salem-Boyd sequences and surface homeomorphisms
12h30 Lunch
 
15h30 - 16h20 E. Dobrowolski : Mahler's Measure of Lacunary Polynomials
16h30 - 17h20 M. Mossinghoff : Generalizations of Gonçalves' inequality
  Coffee break
18h00 - 18h50 D. Silver : Lehmer's Question and Surface Dynamics
19h30 Diner
 
Wednesday 1st
7h00 - 9h00 Breakfast
9h30 - 10h20 J. Stienstra : Diffraction Patterns
  Coffee break
11h00 - 11h50 P. Moussa : Integer moment problem, and localization of algebraic integers in Julia Sets
12h30 Lunch
 
Afternoon Free 
 
19h30 Diner
 
Thursday 2
7h00 - 9h00 Breakfast
9h30 - 10h20 F. Rodriguez-Villegas : On the Mahler measure of x_1 + ... + x_N
  Coffee break
11h00 - 11h50 S. Vandervelde : The Mahler Measure of Parametrizable Polynomials
12h30 Lunch
 
15h30 - 16h20 J. Lewis : Variational regulators: motivic normal functions
16h30 - 17h20 M. Lalin : An algebraic integration for Mahler measure
  Coffee break
18h00 - 18h50 M. Kerr : Higher Chow cycles and Mahler measure
19h30 Bouillabaisse
 
Friday 3
7h00 - 9h00 Breakfast
9h30 - 10h20 P. Philippon : Mesure de Mahler et variétés toriques
  Coffee break
11h00 - 11h50 H. Gangl : Producing elements in higher Bloch groups
12h30 Lunch
 
Afternoon Free
   
19h30 Diner
 
Saturday 4
7h00 - 9h00 Breakfast
 
10h00 Departure