AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:01

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

Saturday October 2, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Dynamics
Room 109, Albertus Magnus Hall
Organizers:
Jonathan Lubin, Brown University lubinj@math.brown.edu
Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University jhs@abel.math.brown.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rapidity of approach to the identity of the $p$-power iterates of an automorphism of a field $k[[t]]$ of characteristic $p$.
  Jonathan Lubin*, Brown University
  (947-11-23)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Fatou components in non-archimedean dynamics.
  Robert L Benedetto*, University of Rochester
  (947-37-51)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Local and Global Polynomial Dynamics.
  Susan Goldstine*, McMaster University
  (947-11-68)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On Preperiodic Points of Morphisms over Number Fields and Function Fields.
  Gregory S Call*, Amherst College
  (947-11-69)

Saturday October 2, 1999, 2:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Dynamics
Room 109, Albertus Magnus Hall
Organizers:
Jonathan Lubin, Brown University lubinj@math.brown.edu
Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University jhs@abel.math.brown.edu
- 2:40 p.m.
  Round-off errors and $p$-adic numbers.
  Franco Vivaldi*, Queen Mary and Wesfield College, University of London
  Diana Bosio, Queen Mary and Wesfield College, University of London
  (947-37-50)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 3:40 p.m.
  Some Open Problems in the Algebraic Theory of Dynamical Systems.
  Patrick Morton*, Wellesley College
  (947-12-57)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Fractals in Number Theory.
  Arthur Baragar*, UNLV
  (947-06-74)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Polynomial Chains and Stable Power Series.
  Karl F Zimmermann*, Union College
  (947-12-59)

Sunday October 3, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Dynamics
Room 109, Albertus Magnus Hall
Organizers:
Jonathan Lubin, Brown University lubinj@math.brown.edu
Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University jhs@abel.math.brown.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Lap Counting Function and Zeta Function of the Tent Map.
  Leopold Flatto, Bell Laboratories
  Jeffrey C Lagarias*, AT&T Labs
  (947-58-55)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Torsion of abelian varieties and the Morton-Silverman conjecture.
  Bjorn Poonen*, University of California, Berkeley
  (947-11-43)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dynamical Systems and Elliptic Curves.
  Graham R Everest*, University of East Anglia
  (947-11-21)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Bound for Torsion Points on Everywhere Good Reduction Elliptic Curves.
  Joseph H. Silverman*, Brown University
  Marc Hindry, Universit\'e Denis Diderot Paris 7
  (947-11-28)

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