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:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday October 11, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Galois Theory, I
Room 212, University Center
Organizers:
Kevin R. Coombes, University of Maryland, College Park krc@math.umd.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Groups of genus zero
  Daniel E. Frohardt, Wayne State University
  Kay Magaard*, Wayne State University
  (915-20-339)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Exceptional polynomials over finite fields
  Peter M\"uller*, Univ. of Florida
  Robert M. Guralnick, University of Southern California
  (915-12-135)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Finitely generated Galois groups of $p$-henselian fields
  Ido Efrat*,
  (915-12-60)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Scalar extensions of solvable crossed products.
  Steven Liedahl*,
  (915-12-27)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Realizability Problem about Partitions
  A'ron Bereczky*,
  (915-20-259)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Exceptionality and the Schur question for rational functions
  Robert M. Guralnick*, University of Southern California
  Peter M\"uller, University of Florida
  Jan Saxl, Cambridge University
  (915-12-161)

Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Galois Theory, II
Room 212, University Center
Organizers:
Kevin R. Coombes, University of Maryland, College Park krc@math.umd.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Arithmetic lifting of Galois extensions
  Elena V. Black*, University of Pennsylvania
  (915-14-239)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Mock covers and Galois theory over complete domains
  Tamara R. Lefcourt*, University of Texas at Austin
  (915-14-278)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Formal patching and group theory applied to fundamentalgroups.
  Katherine F. Stevenson*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (915-12-333)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The action of the absolute Galois group on the fundamental group of algebraic varieties
  Yasutaka Ihara*, Kyota University, Japan
  (915-14-347)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Lifting of Galois coverings of curves.
  Marco Andrea Garuti*, Universiteit Utrecht, Vakgroep Wiskunde, Utrecht (NL)
  (915-12-346)

Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Galois Theory, III
Room 212, University Center
Organizers:
Kevin R. Coombes, University of Maryland, College Park krc@math.umd.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Local Fundamental Groups of Algebraic Varieties
  Shreeram S. Abhyankar*, Purdue University
  (915-14-26)
- 8:30 a.m.
  More Classical Groups as Galois Groups
  Paul A. Loomis*, Purdue University
  (915-12-216)
- 9:00 a.m.
  $GL(d)$ coverings of the projective line in characteristic $p$.
  Ganapathy S. Sundaram*, Purdue University
  (915-12-242)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Frattini Embedding Problems
  Bernd Heinrich Matzat*, Univ. Heidelberg
  (915-12-230)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Explicit regular realization of transitive groups of low degree
  Gunter Martin Malle*, Universit\"at Heidelberg
  (915-12-234)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Isometries of Quadratic Forms Characterize All $DC$-Extensions
  John R. Swallow*, Davidson College
  (915-12-105)

Saturday October 12, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Galois Theory, IV
Room 212, University Center
Organizers:
Kevin R. Coombes, University of Maryland, College Park krc@math.umd.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Generalizing Conway-Parker for effective construction of Braid Orbits
  Michael D. Fried*, UC,Irvine
  (915-20-335)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Fields of definition of covers over the $p$-adics
  Pierre D\`ebes*, Universit\'e Lille 1
  (915-12-253)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Representability of Hurwitz functors over $\Bbb{Z}$
  Stefan Wewers*, Institut for Experimental Mathematics, Ellernstr. 29, 45326 Essen, Germany
  (915-14-191)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Coverings of the complement of a plane curve and connections with Hurwitz spaces
  Michael Dettweiler*, Universit\"at Erlangen
  (915-20-142)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Interpolation of galois branched covers
  Kevin R. Coombes*, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland at College Park
  (915-14-296)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Subvarieties of Hurwitz spaces
  Helmut Voelklein*, University of Florida
  (915-12-96)

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