AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:52

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

Saturday November 9, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quadratic Forms, I
ROOM 1119, Girvetz Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  Distribution of genera of integral quadratic forms among rational classes.
  Andrew G. Earnest*, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
  (870-11-42)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Recent results and problems in quadratic forms.
  Shmuel Friedland*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (870-11-44)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Positive definite Z-lattices defined by finite groups.
  Alexander J. Hahn*, University of Notre Dame
  (870-11-38)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Some problems in integral quadratic forms.
  J. S. Hsia*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (870-11-10)

Saturday November 9, 1991, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Quadratic Forms, II
ROOM 1119, Girvetz Hall
- 2:15 p.m.
  On primitive spinor exceptional representations by ternary quadratic forms.
  David C. Hung*, State University of New York, Binghamton
  (870-11-43)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Representations by indefinite unimodular lattices.
  Donald G. James*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  (870-11-05)
- 3:15 p.m.
  A structure theorem for a pair of quadratic forms.
  Youyu Shao*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (870-11-35)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Minimal norm Jordan splitting in dyadic local fields.
  Fei Xu*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (870-11-11)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Integral quadratic forms and Enriques surfaces.
  V. V. Nikulin*, Steklov Mathematical Institute, USSR and University of Notre Dame
  (870-11-62)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Some arithmetic relations on the representation numbers of quadratic forms.
  Lynne H. Walling*, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (870-11-22)

Sunday November 10, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quadratic Forms, III
ROOM 1119, Girvetz Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  Spherical geometry and sphere packings-Kelper's conjecture and beyond.
  Wu-Yi Hsiang*, University of California, Berkeley
  (870-51-81)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Eigenvalues of symmetric integer matrices.
  Dennis R. Estes*, University of Southern California
  (870-11-40)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Weak *-orderings on *-fields.
  K. H. Leung*, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore
  (870-12-01)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Formal groups and Dirichlet L-functions.
  Nancy Childress*, Arizona State University
  Jeff Stopple, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (870-12-41)

Sunday November 10, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Special Session on Quadratic Forms, IV
ROOM 1119, Girvetz Hall
- 2:00 p.m.
  Noncommutative prufer rings.
  Patrick J. Morandi*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
  (870-16-39)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Constructions of valued division algebras.
  Al Sethuraman*, California State University, Northridge
  (870-16-33)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Q(i)-division rings and admissibility.
  Steven G. Liedahl*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (870-12-37)

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