Arizona Winter School 2009: Quadratic Forms

The 2009 Arizona Winter School was held from March 14-18, 2009 at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ.

• Schedule and other important information
• Photos
• Organizers: Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas and David Savitt (main program); Matt Papanikolas, William Stein, Dinesh Thakur (other)
• Wiki: http://swc-wiki.sagemath.org

Courses

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• SHORTTITLE  Manjul Bhargava: The parametrization of rings of small rank

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

• SHORTTITLE  John Conway: The genus of a quadratic form

  • Notes (partial and preliminary)
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    • Lecture 1: video
    • Lecture 2: video
    • Lecture 3: video
    • Lecture 4: video

• SHORTTITLE  Noam Elkies: Theta functions of lattices

  • Draft lecture notes
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  • Video:
    • Lecture 1: video
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    • Lecture 3: video
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• SHORTTITLE  Jonathan Hanke: Quadratic forms and automorphic forms

  • Draft lecture notes
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  • Video:
    • Lecture 1: video
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    • Lecture 3: video
    • Lecture 4: video

• SHORTTITLE  Raman Parimala: Some aspects of the algebraic theory of quadratic forms

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