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The Fields Institute, University of Toronto

The Canadian Number Theory Association (CNTA) is an informal network of number theorists in Canada, which has organized the biannual CNTA conferences since 1987.

The “Comparative Prime Number Theory” symposium is one of the highlight events organized by the PIMS-funded Collaborative Research Group (CRG) “L-functions in Analytic Number Theory”. It is a one-week event taking place on the UBC campus in Vancouver, B.C., Canada from June 17–21, 2024. Comparative prime number theory certainly includes prime number races, both classical (Chebyshev's bias) and over number fields and function fields. It also broadly includes the distribution of zeros of L-functions associated with these prime counting functions, including topics related to the Linear Independence hypothesis (LI) on the imaginary parts of those zeros, as well as general oscillations of number-theoretic error terms.

Chantal David has made important and original contributions to our understanding of arithmetic, in topics such as elliptic curves, abelian varieties, families of curves over finite fields and zeroes of L-functions. There are many facets to her work, which involves arithmetic statistics, analytic number theory, and random matrix theory. By her roles as a leader and a mentor, Chantal David has been a leading inspiration for progress in analytic number theory in Canada. The aim of this meeting is to focus on current hot topics in analytic number theory, celebrating her contributions to the field, and her importance in our community.