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(Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France) Yves Andre PARTICIPANTS Emiliano Ambrosi (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France) Yves Andre (CNRS, Paris, France) Dario Antolini (University of Rome, Italy) Stanislav Atanasov (Columbia University, NY, USA) Gregorio Baldi (University College London, UK) Jennifer Balakrishnan (Boston University, USA) Raphael Beuzart-Plessis (Institut de Mathematiques de Marseille, France) Fabrizio Barroero (Universit degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy) Florian Breuer (University of Newcastle, Australia) Anna Cadoret (Jussieu, Paris) Laura Capuano (University of Oxford, UK) Bumkyu Cho (Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea) Kevin Kwan Chung (Columbia University, NY, USA) Giovanni Coppola (University of Salerno, Italy) Pietro Corvaja (University of Udine, Italy) Henri Darmon (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) Christopher Daw (University of Reading, UK) Alexis (Suki) Dasher (University of Minnesota, USA) Julian Lawrence Demeio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy) Daniel Disegni (Ben Gurion University, Israel) Ick Sun Eum ( Dongguk University, Gyeongju City, South Korea) Rita Eppler-Goss (Ohio, USA) Bernadette Faye (Universite Cheikh Anta Diop De Dakar, Senegal) Ziyang Gao (Princeton University, USA) Michel Giacomini (University College, London, UK) Dorian Goldfeld (Columbia University, NY, USA) Giada Grossi (University College London, UK) Akash Jena (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) Boris Kadets (MIT, Cambridge MA, USA) Sudesh Kaur Khanduja (IISER, Punjab, India) Ilya Khayutin (Princeton University, USA) Seema Kushwaha (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj, India) Shanta Laishram (Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India) Brian Lawrence (University of Chicago, USA) Aaron Levin (Michigan State University, USA) Wen-Wei Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) Yifeng Liu (Yale University, Connecticut, USA) Yongxiao Lin (Ecole´ Polytechnique F´ed´eralede Lausanne, Switzerland) Joshua Males (Mathematical Institute, University of Cologne, Germany) David Masser (University of Basel, Switzerland) Vlad Alexandru Matei (University of California Irvine, USA) Giuseppe Melfi (Institut du Management de l'Information, Neuchatel, Switzerland) 2 Piotr Miska (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland) Simone Munao (Elsevier, Amsterdam, Holland) Ritabrata Munshi (Tata Institute, Mumbai, India) Andrew Odesky (University of Michigan, USA) Ambrus Pal (Imperial College, London, UK) P´eterPal Pach (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Matteo Paganin (Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey) Laura Paladino (University of Pisa, Italy) Federico Pellarin (Universite Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France) M. Pastora Revuelta (Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingeneria de Edificacion, Sevilla, Spain) Maksym Radziwill (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) Larry Rolen (Vanderbilt University, TN, USA) Zev Rosengarten (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) Mohammad Sadek (Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey) Igor Shparlinski (University of New South Wales, Australia) Saurabh Kur Singh (Indian Statistical Institute, India) Christopher Skinner (Princeton University, USA) Lejla Smajlovic (University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo) Harry Smit (Utrecht University, Holland) Alexander Smith (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA) Kannan Soundararajan (Stanford University, USA) Lucien Szpiro (CUNY Graduate Center, NY, USA) Mohammed Taous (Moulay Ismail University, Errachidia, Morocco) Ye Tian (AMSS, Morningside Center of Mathematics, Beijing, China) Jacob Tsimerman (University of Toronto, Canada) Emmanuel Ullmo (IHES, Paris, France) Jeanine Van Order (Universitat Bielefeld, Germany) Carlo Viola (University of Pisa, Italy) Solomon Vishkautsan (Tel-Hai Academic College, Israel) Thomas Wright (Wofford University, SC, USA) Andrei Yafaev (University College, London, UK) Dong Sung Yoon (Pusan National University, South Korea) Umberto Zannier (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy) Robin Zhang (Columbia University, NY, USA) Shou-Wu Zhang (Princeton University, USA) Wei Zhang (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA).
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