AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:40

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

Friday September 26, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, I
Room B-4275, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University and CICMA darmon@math.mcGill.ca
Chantal David, Concordia University and CICMA chantal@abacus.concordia.ca
Adrian Iovita, McGill University and CICMA iovita@math.bu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On semi-reduced quadratic forms
  Claude Levesque*, Universit\'e Laval
  Eug\`ene Dubois, Universit\'e de Caen
  (924-11-21)
- 9:35 a.m.
  Frobenius distributions and Galois representations
  V. Kumar Murty*,
  (924-11-303)
- 10:10 a.m.
  On certain integral points of a modular curve of level 5 (Preliminary report)
  Imin Chen*, UC Berkeley
  (924-11-42)
- 10:45 a.m.
  One-motives associated with varieties and a conjecture of Deligne
  Niranjan Ramachandran*,
  (924-14-63)
- 11:20 a.m.
  Some remarks on a Euclidean ring containing ${\Bbb Z}[\sqrt{14}]$
  David A Cardon*, Queen's University
  (924-11-62)

Friday September 26, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, II
Room 142, S Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University and CICMA darmon@math.mcGill.ca
Chantal David, Concordia University and CICMA chantal@abacus.concordia.ca
Adrian Iovita, McGill University and CICMA iovita@math.bu.edu
- 1:55 p.m.
  On the curves associated to certain rings of automorphic forms
  Kamal Khuri-Makdisi*, Harvard University
  (924-11-265)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 3:05 p.m.
  Galois Theory for Selmer Groups of Abelian Varieties
  Ralph Greenberg*, University of Washington
  (924-11-99)
- 3:40 p.m.
  False division towers of elliptic curves.
  David E. Rohrlich*,
  (924-11-52)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Positive Rational Points on Selmer Curves and Continued Fractions
  Lin Tan*, West Chester University
  (924-11-58)
- 4:50 p.m.
  Elliptic curves and class number divisibility
  Siman Wong*, Brown University
  (924-11-256)

Saturday September 27, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, III
Room 325, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University and CICMA darmon@math.mcGill.ca
Chantal David, Concordia University and CICMA chantal@abacus.concordia.ca
Adrian Iovita, McGill University and CICMA iovita@math.bu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Adding new pages to the genus-three bestiary
  Everett W. Howe*, Center for Communications Research, La Jolla
  (924-14-108)
- 9:35 a.m.
  Moduli spaces of abelian varieties in positive characteristic
  Jeffrey D Achter*, University of Pennsylvania
  (924-14-24)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Central critical values of modular $L$-functions
  Ken Ono*, Penn State University
  (924-11-53)

Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, IV
Room 325, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University and CICMA darmon@math.mcGill.ca
Chantal David, Concordia University and CICMA chantal@abacus.concordia.ca
Adrian Iovita, McGill University and CICMA iovita@math.bu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Uniformity of rational and integral points - recent progress
  Dan Abramovich*, AMS
  (924-11-40)
- 3:05 p.m.
  Uniform bounds for stably integral points on elliptic curves
  Patricia L Pacelli*,
  (924-11-248)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Recent results in Galois module theory
  Adebisi Agboola*,
  (924-11-90)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Height zeta functions
  Yuri Tschinkel*, U.I.C.
  (924-11-75)
- 4:50 p.m.
  Modular forms and potentially semistable Galois representations
  Fred Diamond*, Rutgers University
  (924-11-267)

Sunday September 28, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, V
Room 325, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University and CICMA darmon@math.mcGill.ca
Chantal David, Concordia University and CICMA chantal@abacus.concordia.ca
Adrian Iovita, McGill University and CICMA iovita@math.bu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the analytic rank of $J_0(q)$
  Emmanuel G. Kowalski*, Rutgers University
  Philippe Michel, Universite de Paris Sud
  (924-11-44)
- 9:35 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:10 a.m.
  Twists of Modular Forms and Elliptic Curves.
  Kevin James*, Pennsylvania State University
  (924-11-43)

Sunday September 28, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, VI
Room 325, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University and CICMA darmon@math.mcGill.ca
Chantal David, Concordia University and CICMA chantal@abacus.concordia.ca
Adrian Iovita, McGill University and CICMA iovita@math.bu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 3:05 p.m.
  Curves of small genus. Preliminary report.
  Armand Brumer*, Fordham University
  (924-14-284)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Base change for the conjecture of Brumer-Stark
  David R Hayes*, UMASS Amherst
  (924-11-85)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Supersingular primes of elliptic curves and Drinfeld modules
  Bjorn Poonen*, University of California at Berkeley
  (924-11-238)
- 4:50 p.m.
  Geometric proofs of classical reciprocity laws
  David Grant*, University of Colorado at Boulder
  (924-11-74)

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