AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:12

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Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Friday March 25, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Global Fields, I
Room 244, Waters
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Mordell-Weil theorem for Drinfeld modules.
  Bjorn Poonen*, University of California, Berkeley
  (891-11-38)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A regulator for an Euler product associated to a rank one elliptic A-module.
  Greg W. Anderson*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  (891-11-93)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Divisors of solitons and algebraic Hecke characters.
  S. K. Sinha*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  (891-35-14)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Arithmetic of higher-dimensional function fields: The Goss zeta function.
  Mikhail M. Kapranov*, Northwestern University
  (891-11-33)

Friday March 25, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Global Fields, II
Room 244, Waters
- 3:00 p.m.
  Order of vanishing of the characteristic p zeta functions.
  Dinesh S. Thakur*, University of Arizona
  (891-11-148)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On Drinfeld modules of Carlitz type.
  Ji-Nong Co*, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  (891-11-76)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Average Lang-Trotter conjecture for Drinfeld modules.
  Chantal David*, Concordia University
  (891-11-61)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Average values of L-series in cyclic extensions of F(T).
  Michael Rosen*, Brown University
  (891-11-177)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A relative class number formula for global function fields.
  Linghsueh Shu*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (891-11-150)

Saturday March 26, 1994, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Global Fields, III
Room 244, Waters
- 8:30 a.m.
  Diophantine approximation on Abelian varieties in characteristic p.
  Jos\'e Felipe Voloch*, University of Texas at Austin
  (891-11-17)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On a generalization of quasi-algebraic closure.
  Steven Sperber*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  (891-11-198)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Algebraic independence and t-modules.
  Robert Tubbs*, University of Colorado
  (891-11-223)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A function field analogue of Serre's conjecture.
  Nigel Boston, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  David T. Ose*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (891-11-128)
- 10:30 a.m.
  phi-modules for function fields.
  Yuichiro Taguchi*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (891-11-62)

Saturday March 26, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Global Fields, IV
Room 244, Waters
- 3:00 p.m.
  Modular parameterizations of elliptic curves over F_q(T).
  Ernst-Ulrich Gekeler*, University of Saarlandes, Germany
  (891-11-37)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Computing elliptic curves over function fields using modular symbols.
  Douglas E. Burke*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (891-11-91)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion

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