From savitt at math.arizona.edu Wed Dec 17 02:04:40 2008 From: savitt at math.arizona.edu (David Savitt) Date: Wed Dec 17 01:59:48 2008 Subject: [SWC-news] AWS 2009: Quadratic forms Message-ID: The 2009 Arizona Winter School will be on Quadratic Forms and will take place March 14-18, 2009 at the University of Arizona in Tucson. The lecturers and their topics are * Manjul Bhargava: The parametrization of rings of small rank * John Conway: The genus of a quadratic form * Noam Elkies: Theta functions of lattices * Jonathan Hanke: Quadratic forms and automorphic forms * Raman Parimala: Some aspects of the algebraic theory of quadratic forms Applications for students seeking funding and for students who would like to work in a small group project with one of the lecturers are due by January 9, 2009. For further details, see the workshop website at http://swc.math.arizona.edu/ The funding application (for students) and registration form (for non-students) are now available on the website. Regards, David Savitt