INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ON VALUATION THEORY

The conference was sponsored by:
The Fields Institute (Toronto)
Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (Montreal)
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (Vancouver)
The President of the University of Saskatchewan
The Vice President (Research) of the University of Saskatchewan
The Dean of the College of Arts and Science
The public talk given by Paulo Ribenboim and his visit were supported by a special lectureship from the Visiting Lecturers' Fund of the University of Saskatchewan.
For further information of sponsors and supporters, see Thanks.

• Tutorials: Monday, July 26 and Tuesday, July 27, 1999
  
• Conference: Wednesday, July 28 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
  
• Special Session in honour of Paulo Ribenboim: Saturday, July 31, 1999
  
• Workshop: Thursday, August 5 to Wednesday, August 11, 1999
  

The conference covered recent developments in valuation theory and its applications:

• algebraic geometry (especially local uniformization)
• real algebraic geometry (and quadratic forms)
• Galois theory
• rigid analysis, curves over valuation rings
• model theory of valued fields (especially in positive characteristic)
• o-minimal expansions of the reals (and Hardy fields)
• ultrametric spaces and spherically complete fields
• p-adic numbers
• non-commutative valuation theory.

The main topics of the Workshop were:

• Local uniformization and resolution of singularities
• o-minimal expansions of the reals and Hardy fields
• discussion of other recent developments and open problems connected with the scientific program of the conference.

Our Scientific Committee consisted of:
Hans Brungs (University of Alberta), Barry Green (University of Stellenbosch), Werner Luetkebohmert (Universitaet Ulm), Alexander Prestel (Universitaet Konstanz), Sibylla Priess-Crampe (Universitaet Muenchen), Mark Spivakovsky (University of Toronto) and Bernard Teissier (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris),

and our Organizing Committee of:
Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann, Salma Kuhlmann, Murray Marshall (University of Saskatchewan), Deirdre Haskell (College of the Holy Cross) and Hans Schoutens (Wesleyan University).

ABSTRACTS and CONFERENCE MATERIALS

All submitted abstracts are available on-line at: Abstracts.
Some talks and slides of the conference, as well as papers related to talks, are available on-line at: Conference Materials.

PROCEEDINGS

Our Conference Proceedings "Valuation Theory and its Applications" will appear in the Fields Institute Communications Series published by the American Mathematical Society. All papers for these Proceedings will be refereed. We accept papers in English and French language. The original deadline for submission of papers has been extended by three months. The new deadline is

To submit a paper, send it to the Valuation Theory Home Page (see How to send files to the Valuation Theory Home Page) and send an email indicating that the submission is for the Conference Proceedings.

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Last update: November 20, 2004