Arizona Winter School 2008: Special Functions and Transcendence

AWS 2008, on Special Functions and Transcendence, was held at the University of Arizona from March 15-19, 2008.

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Courses

• SHORTTITLE  Frits Beukers: Arithmetic of values of E- and G-functions

  • Course and project outline
  • Lecture notes (draft)
  • Video:
    • Lecture 1: video, slides
    • Lecture 2: video, slides
    • Lecture 3: video, slides
    • Lecture 4: video, slides

• SHORTTITLE  Dale Brownawell and Matt Papanikolas: Independence in positive characteristic

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  • Video:
    • Lecture 1: video, slides
    • Lecture 2: video, slides
    • Lecture 3: video, slides
    • Lecture 4: video, slides

• SHORTTITLE  Paula Tretkoff: Transcendence of special values of modular and hypergeometric functions

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  • Video:
    • Lecture 1: video
    • Lecture 2: video
    • Lecture 3: video
    • Lecture 4: video

• SHORTTITLE  Michel Waldschmidt: An introduction to irrationality and transcendence methods

  • Course and project outline
  • Draft lecture notes for lectures 1, 2, 3, 5
  • Video:
    • Lecture 1: video, slides
    • Lecture 2: video, slides
    • Lecture 3: video, slides
    • Lecture 4: video, slides
    • Lecture 5: video, slides