Arizona Winter School 1998
General Information

General Information

• Title: “Workshop on Diophantine Geometry Related to the ABC Conjecture”
• Dates: March 14-18, 1998
• Location: The University of Arizona
• Organizers: Alexandru Buium, Minhyong Kim, Bill McCallum, and Felipe Voloch

Speakers and Courses

• Alexandru Buium: “Differential algebras and diophantine geometry”
• Henri Darmon: “Frey’s method and hyperelliptic curves with real multiplication”
• David Masser: “ABC - diophantine approximation aspects”
• Barry Mazur: “Visible elements in the Shafarevich-Tate group”
• Lucien Szpiro: “Some cases of the discriminant conjecture”
• Paul Vojta: “A more general ABC conjecture”
• Felipe Voloch: “The Brill-Segre formula and the ABC conjecture”

Professional Development Component

• The focus of the professional development component was on teaching. Cathy Kessel spoke on “Removing the discontinuity between high-school and college” and led a workshop on “Tools to teach intuition”. There was also a panel discussion on lower division courses.