University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC, Canada

June 17–21, 2024

Registration for this symposium is open until May 1. (Registration for online participation will remain open through June 7.) Note that we have already allocated our budget and cannot offer financial support or help with housing. If you have already registered, there is no need to register again.

Symposium description

The “Comparative Prime Number Theory” symposium is a one-week event taking place on the main UBC campus in Vancouver, B.C., Canada from June 17–21, 2024.

Comparative prime number theory certainly includes prime number races, both classical races (Chebyshev's bias) and races associated with elliptic curves, number fields, and function fields. It also broadly includes the distribution of zeros of L-functions associated with these prime counting functions, including topics related to the Linear Independence hypothesis (LI) on the imaginary parts of those zeros, as well as general oscillations of number-theoretic error terms.

This symposium brings together established and early-career researchers with expertise and interest in comparative prime number theory to discuss various aspects of the current research. The purpose of this event is to highlight the recent advances in this area and initiate discussions and collaborations among researchers. We aim to provide a collaborative and supportive research environment for young researchers and an opportunity for established researchers to give mentorship and exchange ideas.

This symposium is the last major event of the PIMS Collaborative Research Group “L-functions in Analytic Number Theory”. The plenary speakers will be:

• Alexandre Bailleul (Université Paris–Saclay)

• Lucile Devin (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale)

• Daniel Fiorilli (Université Paris–Saclay)

• Florent Jouve (Université de Bordeaux)

• Youness Lamzouri (Université de Lorraine)

• Wanlin Li (Washington University in St. Louis)

Land acknowledgment

The Point Grey campus of the University of British Columbia is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. These words have been carefully chosen: “traditional” recognizes lands traditionally used and/or occupied by the Musqueam people or other First Nations in other parts of the country, “ancestral” recognizes land that is handed down from generation to generation, and “unceded” refers to land that was not turned over to the Crown (Canadian or provincial government) by a treaty or other agreement.

As visitors to these lands for this symposium, we value the collaboration between UBC and the Musqueam people, and we are grateful to learn on Musqueam land. We too support the rights of Indigenous peoples, and we encourage all participants to read and reflect upon the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action we are called to take to support and respect Musqueam culture and wellbeing. We also encourage online participants to learn about the Indigenous peoples whose lands they are on.

Organizers

Contact email: Greg Martin <gerg@math.ubc.ca>

Additional scientific committee members

Sponsors