SECANTS
South of England Computational and Algorithmic Number Theory Seminars

The college is on the A30, about a mile southwest of Egham and the M25. The nearest railway station is Egham (on the Waterloo-Reading line). It is about a 30min walk up the hill from the station. Or catch buses #43, 41, 441, 500 from Egham to Royal Holloway. For further details see the RHBNC web pages.

The lectures will be held in the McCrea building, room 336, with coffee/tea in room 237.

• 11.00-11.30 Arrival and Coffee
• 11.30-12.30 Bryan Birch (Oxford) Problems of computational number theory
  
• 12.45-13.45 Lunch
• 14.00-15.00 Kevin Buzzard (Imperial) Slopes of overconvergent 2-adic modular forms
  
• 15.30-16.30 James McKee(Royal Holloway) Salem numbers of large negative trace
  

Note also the One day meeting on Cryptographic Number Theory to be held at Royal Holloway the previous day (Friday 4 April 2003), with talks by Frey, Gaudry, Nguyen, Shparlinski. Further details