AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:50

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

Saturday October 24, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Arithmetic Geometry, I
Room 358, Willard Building
Organizers:
Kevin L. James, The Pennsylvania State University klj@math.psu.edu
Wen-Ching Winnie Li, The Pennsylvania State University wli@math.psu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Unipotent groups and curves of genus two.
  David K Penniston*, Pennsylvania State University
  (937-11-68)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Hilbert-Siegel moduli spaces in positive characteristic.
  Jeffrey D Achter*, UMass Amherst
  (937-14-79)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Newton Polygons as Lattic Points.
  Ching-Li Chai*, Univ. of Pennsylvania
  (937-14-48)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Hecke's convergence factor and modular forms of weight zero.
  Marvin I Knopp*, Temple University
  (937-11-66)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Lattice Points in Ellipses and Dirichlet Series.
  W. Duke*, Rutgers University
  (937-11-93)

Saturday October 24, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Arithmetic Geometry, II
Room 358, Willard Building
Organizers:
Kevin L. James, The Pennsylvania State University klj@math.psu.edu
Wen-Ching Winnie Li, The Pennsylvania State University wli@math.psu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  On a Positivity Property of the Riemann Xi Function.
  Jeffrey C Lagarias*, A T & T Labs
  (937-11-104)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Universal Deformation Rings and Embedding Problems.
  Ted C Chinburg*, Univ. of Pennsylvania
  Frauke M Bleher, Univ. of Pennsylvania
  (937-11-26)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Galois representations with non-surjective traces.
  Chantal David*, Concordia University
  Hershy Kisilevsky, Concordia University
  Francesco Pappalardi, University of Roma III
  (937-11-54)
- 4:00 p.m.
  $p$-adic properties of Artin representations.
  Vinayak Vatsal*, University of Toronto
  (937-11-74)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A $q$-analogue of Mahler Expansions.
  Keith Conrad*, Ohio State Univeristy
  (937-11-58)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Exponential sums and cryptography.
  Daniel B Lieman*, University of Missouri
  (937-11-88)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Bound for incomplete hyper-Kloosterman sum.
  Wenzhi Luo*, Princeton University
  (937-11-30)

Sunday October 25, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Arithmetic Geometry, III
Room 358, Willard Building
Organizers:
Kevin L. James, The Pennsylvania State University klj@math.psu.edu
Wen-Ching Winnie Li, The Pennsylvania State University wli@math.psu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Tame construction of supercuspidal representations.
  Jiu-Kang Yu*, Princeton Univ
  (937-22-105)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rankin-Selberg Integrals in Two Complex Variables.
  Daniel Bump, Stanford University
  Solomon Friedberg*, Boston College
  David Ginzburg, Tel-Aviv University
  (937-11-21)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Holomorphic Kernel of the Rankin-Selberg Convolution.
  Dorian Goldfeld*, Columbia University
  (937-11-75)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Arithmeticity of Fuchsian groups of the first kind.
  Dihua Jiang*, University of Minnesota
  Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Yale University
  (937-11-108)

Sunday October 25, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Arithmetic Geometry, IV
Room 358, Willard Building
Organizers:
Kevin L. James, The Pennsylvania State University klj@math.psu.edu
Wen-Ching Winnie Li, The Pennsylvania State University wli@math.psu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Central derivative of Hecke L-series .
  Tonghai Yang*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (937-11-37)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On Dirichlet series whose coefficients are class numbers of binary quadratic forms.
  Boris A Datskovsky*, Temple University
  (937-11-36)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Tate's Conjecture for Elliptic Surfaces - Some Examples.
  Michael I. Rosen*, Brown University
  (937-11-55)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Canonical heights on elliptic curves in characteristic $p$.
  Matthew A Papanikolas*, Pennsylvania State University
  (937-11-61)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Convolution structures and arithmetic cohomology.
  Alexander A. Borisov*, Penn State University
  (937-11-33)

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