Bounded Gaps Between Primes

Courses: There will be four lecture courses.

1. Introduction to prime number theory. ζ- and L-functions, the prime number theorem
(Andrew Granville, Montreal) 

2. The Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem about distribution of primes in progressions. Introduction to sieve theory. (Kannan Soundararajan, Stanford)

3. The methods of Goldston, Pintz and Yıldırım and Maynard-Tao. 
(James Maynard, Montreal/Oxford)

4. Inputs from algebraic geometry. (Emmanuel Kowalski, ETH Zurich)

These lecture courses will be supplemented by tutorial sessions.  There will also be an opportunity for interested participants to present their work in a poster session.

Distinguished guest lecturers: Terence Tao (UCLA) and Yitang Zhang (New Hampshire)

How to apply: Research students, post-docs and those working in industry are invited to apply. Applications should be made using the registration form available here. The application deadline is June 15th 2014 and successful applicants will be contacted within two weeks of the deadline. Information about individual applications will not be available before then.

Conference fees: Early-career researchers from outside Oxford: £250 (includes conference fee, accommodation, meals and conference dinner). PhD students from outside Oxford: £150 (includes conference fee, accommodation, meals and conference dinner). Oxford University participants: £100 (includes conference fee, lunches and conference dinner only). All other participants (e.g. those working in industry) will be charged a registration fee of £250 (includes conference fee, lunches and conference dinner) and have the option of additionally requesting accommodation and evening meals at a further cost of £650. All UK-based participants must pay their own travel costs.  For overseas-based participants, support will be available on application if contribution towards travel costs is required. Fees are not payable until a place on the course is offered but will be due by 1st August 2014.

Clay Research Conference: Participants may also be interested in attending the Clay Research Workshop on Analytic Number Theory, which is taking place the following week.