AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:58

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Saturday April 10, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Problems
Room 216, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@nevada.edu
Michael Bennett, University of Illinois mabennet@math.uiuc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Old and new results on Diophantine equations of the form $aX^4-bY^2= \pm 1$.
  Michael A. Bennett, University of Illinois, Urbana
  Gary Walsh*, University of Ottawa
  (942-11-05)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Some recent results on the modularity of two-dimensional $p$-adic Galois representations.
  Chris Skinner*, IAS
  (942-11-210)
- 10:00 a.m.
  the regularity theorem and conductor-discriminant inequalities.
  Minhyong Kim*, University of Arizona
  (942-11-203)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Arithmetic of Fermat curves .
  Pavlos Tzermias*, University of Arizona
  (942-11-194)

Saturday April 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Problems
Room 216, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@nevada.edu
Michael Bennett, University of Illinois mabennet@math.uiuc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the discriminant of classical polynomials.
  Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas*, University of Texas at Austin
  (942-11-214)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Automorphisms of cubic moduli spaces.
  William M. Goldman*, University of Maryland
  (942-14-129)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Torsion Points on $X_0(N)$.
  Matthew H Baker*, UC Berkeley
  (942-14-34)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Constraints on value sets over finite fields.
  Wayne Aitken*, California State University
  (942-11-225)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Algebraic families of nonzero elements of Shafarevich-Tate groups.
  Jean-Louis Colliot-Th\'el\`ene, Universit\'e de Paris-Sud
  Bjorn Poonen*, University of California at Berkeley
  (942-11-46)

Sunday April 11, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Problems
Room 216, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@nevada.edu
Michael Bennett, University of Illinois mabennet@math.uiuc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Jacobians of Curves of Genus 1.
  William G McCallum*, University of Arizona
  (942-11-201)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A 2-dimensional continued fraction algorithm associated with interval exchanges and a theorem of Lagrange.
  Sebastien Ferenczi, Universite de Tours
  Charles Holton, University of California
  Luca Q Zamboni*, University of North Texas
  (942-11-76)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Geometrically simple reduction types of CM abelian varieties.
  Hui Zhu*, MSRI
  (942-11-217)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Geometric Non-vanishing.
  Douglas Ulmer*, University of Arizona
  (942-11-245)

Sunday April 11, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Problems
Room 216, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@nevada.edu
Michael Bennett, University of Illinois mabennet@math.uiuc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Bounds on exponential sums and applications to cryptography.
  Daniel B. Lieman*, University of Missouri
  (942-11-213)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Arithemetic Analogs of Differential Modular Forms.
  Christine Hurlburt*, University of New Mexico
  (942-14-186)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Plane quartics with Jacobians isomorphic to a hyperelliptic Jacobian.
  Everett W Howe*, Center for Communications Research
  (942-14-155)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A slightly weaker conjecture implies the $abc$ conjecture.
  Paul Vojta*, University of California, Berkeley
  (942-11-230)

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