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, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory
Room III, Moore Hall
Organizers:
Michael I. Rosen, Brown University mrosen@math.brown.edu
Siman Wong, Brown University siman@math.brown.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Galois pro-p groups unramified at p; explicit computations.
  Nigel Boston*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (947-11-71)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Universal deformation rings and cyclic blocks.
  Ted C Chinburg*, Univ. of Pennyslvania
  Frauke M Bleher, Southern Illinois University
  (947-11-61)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The number of rational points on genus 3 curves over finite fields.
  Kristin E Lauter*, Microsoft Research
  (947-11-95)
- 10:00 a.m.
  How to align Brumer-Stark elements into a Hecke character (preliminary report).
  David R Hayes*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  (947-11-85)
- 10:30 a.m.
  p-adic Gamma functions and pro-p Groups.
  Keith Conrad*, Ohio State University
  (947-11-125)

Saturday October 2, 1999, 2:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory
Room III, Moore Hall
Organizers:
Michael I. Rosen, Brown University mrosen@math.brown.edu
Siman Wong, Brown University siman@math.brown.edu
- 2:40 p.m.
  Are maximal Stirling numbers unique?
  E. R. Canfield, University of Georgia
  Carl Pomerance*, Bell Labs
  (947-11-29)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Sums of values of a rational function.
  Bjorn Poonen*, University of California, Berkeley
  (947-11-44)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Diophantine approximation exponents in finite characteristic.
  Dinesh S Thakur*, University of Arizona
  (947-11-66)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Rank of $E(K)$ for cyclic cubic extensions.
  Hershy H Kisilevsky*, Concordia University
  Masato Kuwata, University of Caen
  Jack Fearnley, Concordia University
  (947-11-80)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Uniform Bounds for Integral Points on Elliptic Curves.
  Lisa A Fastenberg*, Yeshiva University
  (947-11-73)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Geometry of Fermat adeles.
  Alexandru Buium*, University of New Mexico
  (947-11-17)
- 5:40 p.m.
  Gamma Values and Linear Independence in Characteristic $p$.
  Dale Brownawell, The Pennsylvania State University
  Matthew A Papanikolas*, The Pennsylvania State University
  (947-11-72)

Sunday October 3, 1999, 2:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory
Room III, Moore Hall
Organizers:
Michael I. Rosen, Brown University mrosen@math.brown.edu
Siman Wong, Brown University siman@math.brown.edu
- 2:40 p.m.
  Tamely Ramified Towers and Discriminant Bounds for Number Fields.
  Farshid Hajir*, UCLA & Cal State Univ. San Marcos
  Christian Maire, Universite de Bordeaux 1
  (947-11-70)
- 3:10 p.m.
  p-adic Distributions and p-adic Representation Theory.
  Jeremy Teitelbaum*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (947-11-67)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Toric Varieties and Modular Forms.
  Lev A Borisov, Columbia University
  Paul E Gunnells*, Columbia University
  (947-11-131)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Counting elliptic curves.
  Jeffrey D. Achter*, UMass Amherst
  Clifton Cunningham, UMass Amherst
  (947-11-82)
- 4:40 p.m.
  On Greenberg's Conjecture.
  David C Marshall*, University of Arizona
  William G McCallum, University of Arizona
  (947-11-164)

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