The 2011 Maine/Quebec Number Theory Conference

2011年缅因州/魁北克省数论会议将于10月1日和2日在奥罗诺的缅因州大学举行。这个会议每年举行一次，偶数年在魁北克的L大学拉瓦尔举行，奇数年在缅因州大学举行。通过为来自新英格兰、魁北克和其他地方的数学家提供一个论坛来介绍和讨论他们的研究，这次会议促进了加拿大和美国数学家之间的互动和合作。今年会议的专题是算术和p-进动力学。这是数论中一个相对较新的研究方向，它将经典动力系统理论的思想带到了数域和局部域上的代数变量的设置上。这一领域的几位建筑师将就这一主题的广泛主题、最新结果和未来发展的可能性进行演讲。还将邀请演讲者讨论数论的其他重要领域，总共有25-30名演讲者。这次会议的规模很小(约有60人参加)，这为研究生和年轻数学家提供了一个与顶尖研究人员互动的好机会。

The 2011 Maine/Quebec Number Theory Conference will take place on October 1 & 2 at the University of Maine in Orono. This conference is held annually, at l'Universite Laval in Quebec in even years and at the University of Maine in odd years. By providing a forum for number theorists from New England, Quebec, and beyond to present and discuss their research, the conference promotes interaction and collaboration between Canadian and American number theorists.This year the featured topic at the conference is Arithmetic and p-adic Dynamics. This is a relatively new line of research in number theory that brings ideas from the classical theory of dynamical systems to the setting of algebraic varieties over number fields and local fields. Several of the architects of this field will lecture on the broad themes of the subject, the latest results, and possibilities for future development. There will also be invited speakers addressing other important areas of number theory, with 25-30 speakers in all. The small scale of the meeting (with around 60 attendees) makes this a good opportunity for graduate students and young mathematicians to interact with leading researchers.