SECANTS
South of England Computational and Algorithmic Number Theory Seminars

11.00-12.00 P. Voutier "Complete solutions of families of Thue equations using the hypergeometric method" In this talk, I discuss application of the hypergeometric method to the complete solution of Thue equations and inequalities.

13.30-14.00 C. Castano-Bernard "Computations on ramified Heegner points" I will be concerned with the fixed points of $w\sb N$ on $X\sb 0(N)$, $N$ prime, and some properties of their sum on the 1-dimensional factors of $J\sb 0(N)$.

14.00-15.00 C. Smyth "The integer transfinite diameter of intervals"

15.15-16.15 J. McKee "Interpolating the quadratic sieve" A`new' factoring method which is quite practical for smallish numbers, and shares with SQUFOF the feature that most of the computations involve numbers with about half the bits of the number to be factored.