Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Release of Pari 2.9 after two years of development. This stable releases includes three brand new modules ($L$-functions, Associative and Central Simple Algebras, and Modular Symbols), a major overhaul of the Elliptic Curves and Number Fields modules.

Iuliana Ciocanea-Teodorescu has defended her PhD thesis on Algorithms for finite rings in June 2016 http://www.theses.fr/2016BORD0121.

Pinar Kiliçer has defended her PhD thesis on The class number one problem for genus-2 curves in July 2016 [11].