AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:36

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu

Saturday November 18, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Quadratic Forms and Simple Algebras, I
Room 5117, Mathematical Sciences Building
- 8:00 a.m.
  Rational singularities and the Brauer group.
  Frank Demeyer*, Colorado State University
  Tim Ford, Florida Atlantic University
  Rick Miranda, Colorado State University
  (853-13-12)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the Brauer group of a localization.
  Timothy J. Ford*, Florida Atlantic University
  (853-13-10)

Saturday November 18, 1989, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Quadratic Forms and Simple Algebras, II
Room 5117, Mathematical Sciences Building
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the relative Brauer group of the function field of a plan cubic curve over a number field.
  Darrell Haile*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (853-16-29)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Quadratic forms, biquaternion algebras, and function fields.
  David B. Leep*, University of Kentucky
  (853-12-17)

Saturday November 18, 1989, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Quadratic Forms and Simple Algebras, III
Room 5117, Mathematical Sciences Building
- 3:00 p.m.
  Indecomposible division algebras of prime exponent.
  Bill Jacob*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (853-16-26)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Nilpotence in the Witt ring.
  Jon Arason, University of Iceland, Iceland
  Richard Elman*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (853-11-25)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Serre's problem on lifting A_n- covers to unramified A_n-covers.
  Mike Fried*, University of California, Irvine
  (853-12-02)

Sunday November 19, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Quadratic Forms and Simple Algebras, IV
Room 5117, Mathematical Sciences Building
- 8:00 a.m.
  Brauer Hilbertian fields.
  Burton Fein, Oregon State University
  David Saltman*, University of Texas, Austin
  Murray Schacher, University of California, Los Angeles
  (853-12-09)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Higher level orders and holomorphy rings in skew fields.
  Victoria Powers*, Emory University
  (853-12-49)

Sunday November 19, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Quadratic Forms and Simple Algebras, V
Room 5117, Mathematical Sciences Building
- 2:00 p.m.
  Some recent developments in the theory of function fields of quadratic forms.
  T.-Y. Lam*, University of California, Berkeley
  (853-12-50)
- 3:00 p.m.
  u-invariants in characteristic 2.
  P. Mammone, Universit\'e de Mons, Belgium
  R. Moresi, CERFIM, Switzerland
  J.- P. Tignol, Universit\'e Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  A. R. Wadsworth*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
  (853-12-38)

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