ELAZ2026 (MONDAY 16th- SATURDAY 21st February 2026, Strobl am Wolfgangsee)

Conference on elementary and analytic number theory
Organizers: Christian Elsholtz (Chair), Christoph Aistleitner, Christopher Frei, and Robert Tichy.

INFO FOR PARTICIPANTS.

PARTICIPANTS/SCHEDULE/ABSTRACTS

please rename the questionnaire to your surname.txt, fill it out and send it to C Elsholtz

INVITED TALKS

We will have invited talks by
  • Sandro Bettin (Genua)
  • Valentin Blomer (Bonn)
  • Thomas Bloom (Manchester)
  • Jörg Brüdern (Göttingen)
  • Cécile Dartyge, (Nancy)
  • Rainer Dietmann (RHUL, London)
  • Lilian Matthiesen (Göttingen)
  • Rachel Newton (King's College London)
  • Peter Pal Pach (Budapest)
  • Florian Richter (Lausanne)
  • Jan-Christoph Schlage-Puchta (Rostock)
  • Julia Stadlmann (UIUC Urbana-Champaign)
  • Joni Teräväinen (Cambridge)

    VENUE

    The conference takes place in Strobl am Wolfgangsee, at the Bundesinstitut für Erwachsenenbildung (bifeb), bifeb Info about the house (pdf booklet) (The webpage is in German, under "Tagungsort" there are sub menues e.g. about food and travel.)

    TIME

    Note that the conference takes place from Monday-Saturday, with arrival on Monday. Think of it as a time shift of one day. (We know that this is a bit unusual for maths conferences but it cannot be changed!) On Monday 16.2.: arrival at lunch time or afternoon would be best. You can start with lunch, or arrive later, according to your travel. Some light programme will start on Monday late afternoon, 16.15ish. On Saturday morning there will also be some programme. Departure by Saturday lunch time (you can have lunch!)

    Arrival/Travel

    On the travel website links to the Austrian railway (ÖBB or OEBB),
  • OEBB
  • and Salzburg traffic company: Salzburg-Verkehr adjust date and route. Regionalbus 150/150X: Salzburg - Koppl - Hof - Fuschl - St.Gilgen - Strobl - Bad Ischl. (Thera are also a few more buses 546 from Bad Ischl.) (If you find a random time table on the internet check it is valid in February 2026).
    E.g. if you type in "Salzburg" (or "Muenchen Flughafen" etc.) and "Strobl" and adjust the date it does what you think it should do. From the bus-station (Busbahnhof) Strobl it is some 15 minute walk, (1.1km): walk. On Mondays and Fridays a shuttle bus can be requested between 8.00 and 15.30 (phone the bifeb reception +43 6137 6621 0).

    Programme on arrival day

    As some of us have a long journey (e.g. train+bus from Bonn to Strobl is about 9 hours, or more...) we will start with a very soft progromme in the late afternoon, probably coffe from 15.30-ish 3 short talks of participants (with a short journey) around 16.15-ish. It is possible that you arrive at lunch time, please mention on your room booking if you like lunch or dinner on arrival day.

    MEALS

    The bifeb has a breakfast buffet. For lunch and dinner one can sign up. We were informed one can do this in Strobl. Their choice includes (at least) a meat and a vegetarian option.

    TRAVEL

    Here is some info, mainly taken from: bifeb's travel page and a scalable map
    by car:
  • Austrian motorway A1 (exit Regau, Thalgau or Mondsee)
  • then via Wolfgangsee- regional road (B 158) - exit Strobl Ost
  • then about 1 km in direction of St. Wolfgang (L 116),
  • then turn left direction to Bürglstein, after 650m you have reached bifeb. There is sufficient and free parking, and connection for electro cars.
  • closest airports: Salzburg (55 km), Linz (120 km), München/Munich (190 km), Wien/Vienna (305 km)


  • From the Train stations Salzburg (45km) and Bad Ischl (12km) there are buses to Strobl. Here is a time table (mainly buses, Salzburg-Strobl) (this need to be updated) For train connections see
    Austrian railway company
    For bus connections see: Postbus
    From the Austrian railway link you can for example search from "München Flughafen terminal" to "Strobl Busbahnhof".

    Taxi phone number given on bifeb webpage.

    CONTRIBUTED TALKS

    Apart from the invited talks we will have two other formats of contributions.
  • contributed talks of 20 minutes
  • mini talks of 5 minutes and the (additional) possibility to present a poster at a poster session.
    The reason why we have these mini talks is that we expect there could be more people interested to contribute a talk (also for funding reasons) than we would have time slots. In Austria and France we recently had good experience with the format of mini talk+poster session.

    BLACKBOARDS

    As the bifeb is not a maths institute, blackboards may be smaller than at your University. But in the past it has worked out. Presentation by data projector is of course possible. TO BE UPDATED There are (small) moveable boards and flip charts, but probably these are good for ad hoc comments rather than the talk itself. For the poster session there are suitably walls.

    COSTS

    (invited speakers please ignore!)
    the prices given to us by bifeb are
    Single room: about 72 Euro (per night)
    Double room: about 57 Euro (per person and night)
    (This includes breakfast, there is about 3 Euros/night local tax). Room, with breakfast and additional lunch and dinner prices are about 96 Euro (single), 83 Euro (double, per person). The prices above are an extrapolation of the current 2025 prices, with some inflation for 2026.

    CONFERENCE FEE


    The conference is supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. There might be a charge of about 80-120 euros.

    THE SURROUNDING

    Strobl am Wolfgangsee lies in a touristic area, this link contains some photos. Wednesday or Thursday afternoon will be free (tbc).