The John Coates London-Paris Number Theory Seminar meets twice per year, once in London (spring) and once in Paris (fall).

Paris organisers: Pierre Charollois, Giada Grossi, Marc Hindry, Matthew Morrow.

London organisers: George Boxer, Vladimir Dokchitser, Luis García, Steve Lester, Beth Romano.

The topic of this session is "Special functions, transcendence and periods". The speakers are Christopher Daw (Reading), Lucia di Vizio (Versailles), Peter Jossen (King's), Martin Orr (Manchester), Tanguy Rivoal (Grenoble), David Urbanik (IHES). The abstracts can be found here and the schedule is below:

Monday 4th November (Jussieu, room 104, towers 15-25):

14:00 Peter Jossen, Periods, G-functions and E-functions

15:00 Coffee (salle de convivialité, room 417, towers 15-16)

15:30 Martin Orr, Effective height bounds for very unlikely intersections in abelian varieties

16:45 Chris Daw, Large Galois orbits under multiplicative degeneration

Tuesday 5th November (Jussieu, room 305, towers 14-24):

9:30 Coffee (salle de convivialité, room 417, towers 15-16)

10:00 Lucia Di Vizio, Combinatorics and functional equations

11:15 Tanguy Rivoal, Diophantine approximations to values of E-functions

14:00 Coffee (salle de convivialité, room 417, towers 15-16)

14:30 David Urbanik, Geometric Realizations of G-functions and Applications

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