Workshop Announcement:

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   The uniform boundedness conjecture in arithmetic dynamics
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                January 14 to January 18, 2008

  American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center

                     Palo Alto, California

        http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/arithdynamics.html


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Description:
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This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to
arithmetic properties of preperiodic points for morphisms on
projective space.  The hope is to create new approaches to the
study of arithmetic properties of periodic and preperiodic points
for (quadratic) polynomials, for one-dimensional rational maps,
and for projective morphisms of higher dimension.  A specific goal
of the workshop is to develop tools and a strategy for proving the
first (highly) nontrivial case of the uniform boundedness
conjecture in dynamics, namely for quadratic polynomials in one
variable over Q. 

The workshop is organized by
Matthew Baker, Robert Benedetto, Liang-Chung Hsia, and Joseph H. Silverman.

For more details please see the workshop announcement page:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/arithdynamics.html

Space and funding is available for a few more participants.
If you would like to participate, please apply by filling
out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later
than September 1, 2007. Applications are open to all, and
we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities,
junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily
undergraduate institutions to apply.

Before submitting an application, please read the ARCC
policies concerning participation and financial support
for participants.

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AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC):
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