... General Information . ... The French-Russian Poncelet Laboratory organizes a conference on "Global fields", October 25-28, 2011, to take place at the Independent University of Moscow. ... It involves many research areas such as analytic number theory, algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry or algebraic geometry, and it has got many applications to very concrete problems, for example to problems coming from information theory (coding theory and cryptography). ... Poncelet Laboratory home page ....