Millennial Conference on Number Theory

Conference statistics

The conference featured 157 talks, of which 19 were one-hour plenary talks, 73 half-hour invited talks given in 4 parallel sessions, and 65 contributed talks given in 5 parallel sessions. In addition to these scientific talks, the conference included three 40 minute talks of historical and reminiscing flavor, and several after dinner speeches honoring Professor Emeritus Paul Bateman on his 80th birthday.

Conference Proceedings

General guidelines: All speakers are invited to submit a paper for these proceedings. Papers should normally be based on (or at least closely connected with) the talk given at the conference. In addition to original research papers, we welcome well-written survey papers. Because of restrictions on the size of the volumes, shorter papers are preferred, and we may not be able to consider excessively long papers. (Plenary speakers do not fall under this restriction.)

Refereeing: Research papers will be refereed using the standards of journals such as the Journal of Number Theory, Acta Arithmetica, the Journal de Theorie des Nombres de Bordeaux, and The Ramanujan Journal. We will make every effort to ensure timely refereeing, and we thank in advance the referees (many of whom will be selected from among the conference participants) for their work.

Technical preparation of papers: If possible, papers should be prepared in LaTeX, with a font size of 10 points, and textheight and textwidth set to 42pc and 27pc, respectively. To achieve these dimensions, proceed as follows:

• For papers in LaTeX: use 10 point font size, and specify the following settings in the preamble (before \begin{document}):

  \textheight42pc
  \textwidth27pc
  

• For papers in AmSTeX/amsppt, use 10 point font size (default), and specify the following at the beginning of the paper, but after \documentstyle{amsppt}.

  \pageheight{42pc}
  \pagewidth{27pc}
  

• For papers in Plain TeX: use 10 point font size (default) and specify the following at the beginning of the manuscript:

  \vsize42pc
  \hsize27pc
  

Acknowledgements

• The Number Theory Foundation
• The National Science Foundation
• The National Security Agency
• The University of Illinois
• The Institute for Mathematics and Applications

The conference would not have been possible without the help provided by our own graduate students and by mathematics staff members. We are especially grateful to Betsy Gillies, conference coordinator of the mathematics department, who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure that the conference would run smoothly.