Zeta functions can be attached to several mathematical objects like fields, groups, algebras, functions, and dynamical systems. Typically zeta functions encode relevant arithmetic, algebraic, geometric or topological information about the original object.

The second workshop was held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, from May 3th to May 7th, 2010.

The proceedings of the conference were published by the American Mathematical society.

The first workshop was held in Segovia, Spain, from June 25th to June 29th, 2007. Both workshops had about 25 plenary talks and more than 45 participants, from Europe, Japan, Latin America and U.S.A.

The conference will be hosted by The Center for Research in Mathematics A.C., CIMAT. This is one of the National Council of Science and Technology’s (CONACYT) Public Research Centers. It was founded in the city of Guanajuato in 1980 with the aim of fostering research, study, development and dissemination of mathematics and its applications in various areas of scientific and technological development.

The conference will focus on current advances and perspectives related to the following topics:

1. Arithmetic and geometric aspects of p-adic, topological and motivic zeta functions.
2. Motivic integration and its interaction with geometry, model theory, analysis and physics
3. Height zeta functions
4. Poincaré series of valuations
5. Zeta functions of groups, rings and representations

Antonio Campillo
Departamento de Álgebra y Geometría y Topología
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain

Marcus du Sautoy
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford,U.K.

François Loeser
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut Mathématique de Jussieu, Paris, France

Ignacio Luengo
Departamento de Álgebra, Facultad de Matemáticas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Yuri Tschinkel
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, U.S.A.

Alberto Verjovsky
Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

Antonio Campillo (Spain), Alejandro Melle Hernández (Spain), Wim Veys (Belgium), Wilson A. Zúñiga-Galindo (México).

Pedro Luis del Angel (CIMAT), Manuel González Villa (CIMAT), Xavier Gómez-Mont (CIMAT), Wilson A. Zúñiga-Galindo (CINVESTAV).

W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo
The Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
wazuniga@math.cinvestav.edu.mx