History of Stellenbosch Number Theory Conferences
The Number Theory conference series at Stellenbosch University began in 1997 as part of a Volkswagen
Foundation German-South African Partnership Project on "Arithmetic Geometry and Data Security".
The series has included workshops, student seminars, and international conferences held both in Stellenbosch and Essen (Germany).
Conference Timeline
1997 December 1-6
First Volkswagen Foundation Meeting: "On Algebraic Curves and their Automorphism Groups"
Location: University of Stellenbosch
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Speakers included:
- Henning Stichtenoth
- Gerhard Frey
- Roland Fray
- Brink van der Merwe
- Barry Green
- Rafiq Omar
- Kenneth Hughes
- Arnold Keet
- Paul Cherenack
- Paul van Wamelen
1998 June 3-7
Workshop on Function Fields of one Variable over Finite Fields, Drinfeld Modules and Coding Theory
Location: Institute of Experimental Mathematics, University of Essen
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Speakers included:
- Rafiq Omar (University of Western Cape)
- Florian Breuer (University Stellenbosch)
- Brink van der Merwe (University Stellenbosch)
- Arnold Keet (University of South Africa)
- Barry Green (University Stellenbosch)
- Hans-Georg Rück (IEM, University Essen)
- Henning Stichtenoth (University Essen)
- Ilia Aleshnikov (University Essen)
- Emir Nurbegovic (University Essen)
- Annika Bruns (IEM, University Essen)
- Matthias Traulsen (IEM, University Essen)
1998 December 7-11
Number Theory Meeting
Location: University of Stellenbosch
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Speakers included:
- Peter Roquette (Heidelberg)
- Florian Pop (Bonn)
- Arnold Knopfmacher (WITS)
- Marcel Wild (US)
- Brink van der Merwe (US)
- Kenneth Hughes (UCT)
- Stan Gurak (Boston)
- Helmut Prodinger (WITS)
- Rafiq Omar (UWC)
1999 April 6-9
Volkswagen Foundation Student Workshop on Arithmetic Geometry and Data Security
Location: University of Stellenbosch
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Speakers included:
- Hans-Georg Rück
- Matthias Traulsen
- Rafiq Omar
- Sheldon Joyner
- Gerhard Frey
- Jan van Vuuren
- Barry Green
- Arnold Keet
- Brink van der Merwe
Organizers:
- G. Frey
- B. Green
- R. Omar
- H.-G. Rück
- B. van der Merwe
1999 December 13-17
Workshop "Arithmetical Geometry"
Location: Institut für Experimentelle Mathematik, Essen
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Speakers included:
- Rafiq Omar (Cape Town)
- Arnold Keet (Pretoria)
- Brink van der Merwe (Stellenbosch)
- Ilia Aleshnikov (Essen)
- Sergei Vostokov (St. Petersburg)
- Gregor Kemper (Heidelberg)
- Seldon Joyner (Stellenbosch)
- Barry Green (Stellenbosch)
- Michel Matignon (Bordeaux)
- Yannick Henrio (Bordeaux)
- Michael Müller (Essen)
- Florian Breuer (Paris)
- Moshe Jarden (Tel Aviv)
- Werner Lütkebohmert (Ulm)
2000 September 11-12
Number Theory Meeting
Location: University of Stellenbosch
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Speakers included:
- Arnold Keet (UNISA)
- Moshe Jarden (Tel Aviv)
- Florian Breuer (Paris)
- Barry Green (Stellenbosch)
- Kenneth Hughes (Cape Town)
- Robert Schumann (Stellenbosch)
2001 January 29-31
Workshop on the Arithmetic of Curves (Deformation Theory and Counting Points on Curves)
Location: University of Stellenbosch
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Speakers included:
- T. Sekiguchi
- R. Omar
- M. Knebusch
- P. Cherenack
- N. Suwa
- A. Keet
- D. Balduzzi
- B. Green
- M. Wild
2001 April 9-12
Volkswagen Foundation Workshop on Arithmetic Geometry and Data Security (Counting Points on Curves)
Location: University of Stellenbosch
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Speakers included:
- Hans-Georg Rück
- Florian Breuer
- Arnold Keet
- Markus Wessler
- Gerhard Frey
- Barry Green
2003 January 22-24
Workshop on the Arithmetic of Curves and Applications
Location: University of Stellenbosch
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Speakers included:
- F. Breuer
- K. Hughes
- L. Wessels
- T. Sekiguchi
- K. Tsuchiya
- A. Keet
- E. Lötter
- G. Boxall
- J.P. Harper
- C. Maxson
2005 February 1-4
Workshop on Arithmetic Geometry, Related Areas and Applications
Location: University of Stellenbosch
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- Ilhem Benzaoui (Stellenbosch)
- Florian Breuer (Stellenbosch)
- Louis Brewis (Stellenbosch)
- Sinnou David (Paris)
- Gerhard Frey (Essen)
- Ernst Gekeler (Saarbrucken)
- Martine Girard (Sydney)
- Barry Green (Stellenbosch)
- Yuki Haraguchi (Tokyo)
- Marc Hindry (Paris)
- Kenneth Hughes (Cape Town)
- Paul Joubert (Stellenbosch)
- Arnold Keet (Stellenbosch)
- David Kohel (Sydney)
- Marelize Kriel (Stellenbosch)
- Boris Kunyavski (Tel Aviv)
- Archie Karumbidze (Stellenbosch)
- Ernest Lötter (Stellenbosch)
- Yasuhiro Niitsuma (Tokyo)
- Rafi Omar (Western Cape)
- Amilcar Pacheco (Rio de Janeiro)
- Helmut Prodinger (Stellenbosch)
- Georg Rück (Kassel)
- Tsutomu Sekiguchi (Tokyo)
- Noriyuki Suwa (Tokyo)
- Christine Swart (Cape Town)
- Brink van der Merwe (Stellenbosch)
- Koos van Zyl (Pretoria)
- Lesley Wessels (Stellenbosch)
2005 June 15
Number Theory Day
Location: University of Stellenbosch
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Speakers included:
- S. Joyner (On Abhyankar's conjecture)
- I. Benzaoui (On the LLL algorithm)
- H. Prodinger (Number theoretic problems)
Organizers:
- Florian Breuer
- Barry Green
2005 November 7-9
November Workshop in Honour of Barry Green's 50th Birthday
Location: University of Stellenbosch
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Speakers included:
- Helmut Prodinger (US)
- David Gay (UCT)
- Florian Breuer (US)
- Dirk Laurie (US)
- Arnold Knopfmacher (Wits)
- Stefan Wehmeier (Paderborn)
- Carl Maxson (Texas A&M)
- Leon van Wyk (US)
- Hans-Georg Rück (Kassel)
- Kenneth Hughes (UCT)
- Arnold Keet (US)
- Christine Swart (UCT)
2007 January 29 - February 2
Conference on Arithmetic Geometry and Applications
Location: University of Stellenbosch
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Speakers included:
- Bas Edixhoven
- Gerhard Frey
- Andrei Yafaev
- Shinji Miura
- Michel Matignon
- Marco Garuti
- Jean Gillibert
- Moshe Jarden
- Yoshinori Hamahata
- Jasbir Chahal
- Hans-Georg Rück
- Fumiyuki Momose
- Sebastian Petersen
- Victor Abrashkin
- Koichiro Akiyama
- Elad Paran
- Werner Lütkebohmert
- Ernest Lötter
2009 April 6-9
Conference on Arithmetic Geometry and Applications
Location: University of Stellenbosch
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Speakers included:
- Marc Hindry
- Amilcar Pacheco
- Sinnou David
- Hans-Georg Rück
- Ernst-Ulrich Gekeler
- Werner Bley
- Ian Kiming
- Werner Lütkebohmert
- Archie Karumbidza
- Barry Green
- Florian Breuer
- Nicolas Ratazzi
- Arnold Keet
- Johannes Jungnickl
2011 January 24-28
Conference on Arithmetic Geometry
Location: Stellenbosch University
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Speakers included:
- Jing Yu
- Lenny Taelman
- Hans-Georg Rück
- Patrik Hubschmid
- Mihran Papikian
- Werner Lütkebohmert
- Ambrus Pal
- Yuji Tsuno
- Marco Garuti
- Yuri Bilu
- Alex Bamunoba
- Sinnou David
- Gareth Boxall
- Dirk Basson
- Ken Hughes
2013 January 28-31
Conference on Arithmetic Geometry
Location: Stellenbosch University
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Speakers included:
- Richard Pink
- Ambrus Pal
- Yohei Toda
- Gareth Boxall
- Lenny Taelman
- Hans-Georg Rück
- Ralf Butenuth
- Aleks Petrov
- Yuri Bilu
- Doug Ulmer
- Sinnou David
- Nicolas Ratazzi
- Fabien Pazuki
- Patrick Rabarison
- Alex Bamunoba
2017 January 16-20
AIMS-Stellenbosch Number Theory Conference
Location: Stellenbosch University
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Speakers included:
- Federico Pellarin
- Richard Pink
- Augustine Munagi
- Moshe Jarden
- Ahmad El-Guindy
- Mihran Papikian
- Patrick Rabarison
- Luca Demangos
- Sophie Marques
- Fabien Pazuki
- Aharon Razon
- Kenneth Hughes
- Gabino González Díez
- Marc Hindry
- Douglas Ulmer
- Jasbir Chahal
- Ambrus Pal
- Sinnou David
- Keisuke Arai
2019 January 14-18
AIMS-Stellenbosch Number Theory Conference
Location: Stellenbosch University
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Speakers included:
- René Schoof
- Richard Griffon
- Tuan Ngo Dac
- Cécile Armana
- Alex Bamunoba
- Bruce Bartlett
- Emmanuel Peyre
- Ambrus Pàl
- Augustine Munagi
- Patrick Rabarison
- Florian Luca
- Peter Stevenhagen
- Daniel Fiorilli
- Sophie Marques
- Gareth Boxall
- Harry Schmidt
- Marion le Gonidec
- Liam Baker
2025 January 20-24
Conference on Arithmetic Geometry
Location: Stellenbosch University
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Speakers included:
- Tim Browning (IST Austria)
- Laszlo Szalay (University of Sopron)
- Attila Berczes (University of Debreceni)
- István Pink (University of Debreceni)
- Matteo Verzobio (IST Austria)
- Bruno R. Chiarellotto (University of Padova)
- Lajos Hajdu (University of Debreceni)
- Daniella Moore (Stellenbosch University)
- Taboka Prince Chalebgwa (University of Pretoria)
- Liam Baker (Stellenbosch University)
- Federico Bambozzi (Universita degli Studi di Padova)
- Kevin Destagnol (Paris-Saclay University)
- Florian Breuer (University of Newcastle)
- Richard Griffon (Universite Clermont Auvergne)
- Simon Kristensen (Aarhus University)
- Augustine Munagi (University of Witwatersrand)
- Alexis Lucas (Universite de Caen Normandie)
- Henry Thackeray (University of Pretoria)
- Darlison Nyirenda (University of Witwatersrand)
Organizers:
- Dirk Basson (Stellenbosch University)
- Naina Ralaivaosaona (Stellenbosch University)
- Sophie Marques (Stellenbosch University)
- Florian Luca (Stellenbosch University)
- Fabien Pazuki (University of Copenhagen)
The series began as part of a Volkswagen Foundation Partnership Project between the University of Essen and the University of Stellenbosch. Following the project's end in 2001, the Stellenbosch group continued to organize regular workshops as part of their research activities.