2129
Explicit Methods in Number Theory (hybrid meeting)
Workshop
2129Period
18 Jul - 24 Jul 2021Abstract
The series of Oberwolfach meetings on `Explicit
methods in number theory' brings together people attacking key problems in
number theory via techniques involving concrete or computable descriptions.
Here, number theory is interpreted broadly, including algebraic and analytic
number theory, Galois theory and inverse Galois problems, arithmetic of curves
and higher-dimensional varieties, zeta and $L$-functions and their special
values, modular forms and functions.
The 2021 meeting featured a seven-lecture minicourse on the distribution of
class groups and Selmer groups. The other talks covered a broad range of topics
in number theory ranging, for instance, from deterministic integer factorisation
to the inverse Galois problem, rational points, and integrality of instanton
numbers.