AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:31

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 5, 1996, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Surfaces,I
Room 306, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick hoyt@lagrange.rutgers.edu
Charles Freund Schwartz, Rider University schwartz@enigma.rider.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Classification of sections of certain elliptic surfaces
  Charles F. Schwartz*, Rider University
  (914-14-182)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Twisted Legendre equations with Mordell--Weil rank $\leq 3$.
  William L. Hoyt*, Rutgers University
  Charles F. Schwartz, Rider University
  (914-14-162)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Comparing Canonical Heights and Weil Heights on Elliptic Surfaces
  Gregory S. Call*, Amherst College
  (914-11-295)

Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Surfaces, II
Room 306, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick hoyt@lagrange.rutgers.edu
Charles Freund Schwartz, Rider University schwartz@enigma.rider.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Divisibility of the Specialization Map for Twists of Abelian Varieties
  Joseph H Silverman*, Brown University
  (914-11-122)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Mordell-Weil Groups in Procyclic Extensions
  Lisa A Fastenberg*, Yale University
  (914-11-111)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Elliptic $K3$ surfaces with high Mordell-Weil rank.
  Masato Kuwata*, Universit\'e de Caen
  (914-11-289)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Cohomology Ring of the Fermat Quartic Surface
  Marvin Tretkoff*, Stevens Institute
  (914-14-247)

Sunday October 6, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Surfaces, III
Room 306, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick hoyt@lagrange.rutgers.edu
Charles Freund Schwartz, Rider University schwartz@enigma.rider.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Torsion Sections of Elliptic Surfaces
  Peter F. Stiller*, Texas A&M University
  (914-14-281)
- 9:30 a.m.
  (Title to be announced)
  Paul R. Hewitt*, University of Toledo
  (914-14-350)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Indivisible Points on Families of Elliptic Curves
  Rajiv Gupta*, University of British Columbia
  Keith Ramsay, Boston College
  (914-11-347)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Moduli of Abelian Varieties, Preliminary Report
  Ching-Li Chai*, Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
  (914-14-173)

Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Surfaces, IV
Room 306, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick hoyt@lagrange.rutgers.edu
Charles Freund Schwartz, Rider University schwartz@enigma.rider.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Mixed cusp forms and parabolic cohomology
  Min Ho Lee*, University of Northern Iowa
  (914-11-37)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Arithmetic of mirror images of certain K3 surfaces
  Noriko Yui*, Department of Mathematics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
  (914-14-114)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The L-series of a certain pencil of elliptic surfaces
  Helena A. Verrill*, (same as address)
  (914-14-327)

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