Integrating Research and Illustration in Number Theory
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lundi 23 mars 2026 (09:00)
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vendredi 27 mars 2026 (18:00)
lundi 23 mars 2026
09:30
Welcome Coffee
Welcome Coffee
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Lobby
10:00
TBA
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Andrew Sutherland
(
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
)
TBA
Andrew Sutherland
(
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
)
10:00 - 10:25
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
10:30
TBA
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Arnaud Chéritat
(
CNRS/Institut de Mathéamtiques de Toulouse
)
TBA
Arnaud Chéritat
(
CNRS/Institut de Mathéamtiques de Toulouse
)
10:30 - 10:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
11:00
Coffee & Treats
Coffee & Treats
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Lobby
11:30
What Color Should This Pixel Be?
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Roice Nelson
What Color Should This Pixel Be?
Roice Nelson
11:30 - 11:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
Often mathematical illustration boils down to drawing digital images, which itself is ultimately setting colors of individual pixels. I'm going to share escapades in the context of this reductionistic perspective. We'll discuss how the particular color choice for a pixel can have big effects, how much image sizes limit us, and weirder questions like choosing pixel shapes. Technology really wants pixels to be Gaussian integers!
12:00
TBA
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Iván Rasskin
(
Aix-Marseille Université
)
TBA
Iván Rasskin
(
Aix-Marseille Université
)
12:00 - 12:25
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
14:30
Organization of Afternoon Activities
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
15:00
Afternoon Activities
15:00 - 15:45
15:45
Coffee & Treats
Coffee & Treats
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Lobby
16:15
Afternoon Activities
16:15 - 17:15
mardi 24 mars 2026
09:30
TBA
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Cruz Godar
(
Yale University
)
TBA
Cruz Godar
(
Yale University
)
09:30 - 09:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
10:00
TBA
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Stephen Trettel
(
University of San Francisco
)
TBA
Stephen Trettel
(
University of San Francisco
)
10:00 - 10:25
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
10:30
TBA
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Jonathan Love
(
Leiden University
)
TBA
Jonathan Love
(
Leiden University
)
10:30 - 10:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
11:00
Coffee & Treats
Coffee & Treats
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Lobby
11:30
Rational points on the sphere
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Claire Burrin
Rational points on the sphere
Claire Burrin
11:30 - 11:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
I will discuss some recent work on the distribution of rational points on the unit sphere and related conjectures.
12:00
Lightning Talks
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
14:30
TBA
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Daniel Martin
(
Clemson University
)
TBA
Daniel Martin
(
Clemson University
)
14:30 - 14:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
15:00
Afternoon Activities
15:00 - 15:45
15:45
Coffee & Treats
Coffee & Treats
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Lobby
16:15
Afternoon Activities
16:15 - 17:15
mercredi 25 mars 2026
09:30
Dots and Laurent Series
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Jayadev Athreya
(
University of Washington
)
Dots and Laurent Series
Jayadev Athreya
(
University of Washington
)
09:30 - 09:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
We'll describe some ongoing discussions and visuals around a beautiful example of Francois Ledrappier, known as the 3-dots example. We'll explain the connection between this example and Laurent series over finite fields, which we learned from Doug Lind, and explain some ongoing work on understanding periodic objects with Aaron Abrams, Edmund Harriss, and Glen Whitney.
10:00
TBA
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Edmund Harriss
TBA
Edmund Harriss
10:00 - 10:25
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
10:30
A dichotomy in the tail behaviour of quadratic Weyl sums
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Francesco Cellarosi
(
Queen's University
)
Francesco Cellarosi
(
Queen's University
)
A dichotomy in the tail behaviour of quadratic Weyl sums
Francesco Cellarosi
(
Queen's University
)
Francesco Cellarosi
(
Queen's University
)
10:30 - 10:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
Jointly with Tariq Osman, we completed the classification of the tail behaviour of the limiting distributions of all quadratic Weyl sums of the form 1/\sqrt{N} \sum_{n=1}^N e( ((1/2)n^2+\beta n)x+\alpha n). When \alpha and \beta are both rational, while trying to understand the contribution of certain orbits to the heavy tails, we discovered that some pairs actually lead to a compactly supported limiting distribution. I will especially emphasise the role of mathematical illustration in our understanding of the geometry of the relevant orbits, as well the importance of numerical simulations to validate our results and prompt new questions.
11:00
Coffee & Treats
Coffee & Treats
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Lobby
11:30
A Few Attempts at Visualizing Shimura Varieties
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Sean Gonzales
(
UC Berkeley
)
A Few Attempts at Visualizing Shimura Varieties
Sean Gonzales
(
UC Berkeley
)
11:30 - 11:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
Shimura varieties are notoriously complex objects; the very definition of a Shimura variety is typically avoided in a research presentation, lest the entire talk is eaten up by the details. In this talk, I will share some of my attempts at visualizing Shimura varieties, ranging from the modular curve to higher dimensional Shimura varieties in characteristic p. Prior exposure to Shimura varieties is not required.
12:00
Exhibition
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Lobby
jeudi 26 mars 2026
09:30
TBA
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PIERRE ARNOUX
(
Université d'Aix-Marseille
)
TBA
PIERRE ARNOUX
(
Université d'Aix-Marseille
)
09:30 - 09:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
10:00
TBA
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Robert Corless
(
Western University
)
TBA
Robert Corless
(
Western University
)
10:00 - 10:25
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
10:30
TBA
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Sébastien Labbé
TBA
Sébastien Labbé
10:30 - 10:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
11:00
Coffee & Treats
Coffee & Treats
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Lobby
11:30
Classifying integer hypertilings
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Ian Short
(
The Open University
)
Classifying integer hypertilings
Ian Short
(
The Open University
)
11:30 - 11:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
In 2018 Demonet et al observed that there is essentially only one three-dimensional positive integer tiling with the property that each cross-section is an SL2-tiling (in which all squares have determinant 1). Inspired by Bhargava’s work on binary quadratic forms, we describe a model for the more general class of three-dimensional integer tilings, which we call hypertilings, with the property that each cross-section is a two-dimensional integer tiling (in which all squares have the same determinant). This model comprises a Bhargava cube and a triple of paths in the weighted Farey graph. The hypertiling entries are encoded geometrically by lambda lengths between horocycles or arithmetically by data from the weighted Farey graph. This is joint work with Oleg Karpenkov, Matty van Son, and Andrei Zabolotskii.
12:00
Lightning Talks
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
14:30
TBA
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Sally Koutsoliotas
(
Bucknell University
)
TBA
Sally Koutsoliotas
(
Bucknell University
)
14:30 - 14:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
15:00
Afternoon Activities
15:00 - 15:45
15:45
Coffee & Treats
Coffee & Treats
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Lobby
16:15
Afternoon Activities
16:15 - 17:15
vendredi 27 mars 2026
09:30
TBA
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Claire Frechette
TBA
Claire Frechette
09:30 - 09:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
10:00
TBA
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Bernat Espigule
(
Universitat de Girona
)
TBA
Bernat Espigule
(
Universitat de Girona
)
10:00 - 10:25
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
10:30
Unintentional illustration
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Anna Felikson
(
Durham University
)
Unintentional illustration
Anna Felikson
(
Durham University
)
10:30 - 10:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
I will report on two stories when illustration happened without my conscious participation. The first story is elementary and concerns tilings on the plane. The second one is about friezes on surfaces (a generalization of Conway-Coxeter's frieze patterns) and hyperbolic geometry. This second story is based on the joined work with Pavel Tumarkin (see arXiv:2410.13511).
11:00
Coffee & Treats
Coffee & Treats
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Lobby
11:30
TBA
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Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins
(
St. Lawrence University
)
TBA
Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins
(
St. Lawrence University
)
11:30 - 11:55
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite
12:00
Lightning Talks
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Amphithéâtre Hermite