AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Interconnections Among Diophantine Geometry, Algebraic Geometry, and Value Distribution Theory, I
Room 5.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
William Cherry, University of North Texas wcherry@unt.edu
Min Ru, University of Houston minru@math.uh.edu
Felipe Voloch, University of Texas, Austin voloch@fireant.ma.utexas.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Big Picard and trichotomy.
  Alexandru Buium*, University of New Mexico
  (948-32-19)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Contribution of the Infinite Valuations to the Radical.
  Machiel van Frankenhuysen*, University of California, Riverside
  (948-11-96)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Transcendental B\"ezout Estimates.
  Bao Qin Li*, Florida International University
  (948-32-242)
- 11:00 a.m.
  A geometric version of the ``lemma on the logarithmic derivative''.
  Paul Vojta*, University of California, Berkeley
  (948-32-222)

Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Interconnections Among Diophantine Geometry, Algebraic Geometry, and Value Distribution Theory, II
Room 5.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
William Cherry, University of North Texas wcherry@unt.edu
Min Ru, University of Houston minru@math.uh.edu
Felipe Voloch, University of Texas, Austin voloch@fireant.ma.utexas.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A sharp form of the Nevanlinna's error term.
  Yuefei Wang*, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, PRC
  (948-30-66)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On Cartan's Conjecture and the moving target problem.
  Pit-Mann Wong*, University of Notre Dame
  (948-32-290)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Radon transform and holomorphic curves in Abelian varieties.
  Ryoichi Kobayashi*, Nagoya University
  (948-32-132)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Break.
- 5:00 p.m.
  p-coverings and geometric height inequalities.
  Minhyong Kim*, university of arizona
  (948-11-225)
- 5:30 p.m.
  "The truncated second main theorem over higher dimensional function fields of arbitrary characteristic".
  Julie Tzu-Yueh Wang*, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan & Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame
  (948-11-101)

Sunday October 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m.-1:20 p.m.
Special Session on Interconnections Among Diophantine Geometry, Algebraic Geometry, and Value Distribution Theory, III
Room 5.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
William Cherry, University of North Texas wcherry@unt.edu
Min Ru, University of Houston minru@math.uh.edu
Felipe Voloch, University of Texas, Austin voloch@fireant.ma.utexas.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Simultaneous approximation in positive characteristic.
  Wolfgang M Schmidt*, University of Colorado at Boulder
  (948-11-174)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Stability of base loci of linear series.
  Michael Nakamaye*, University of New Mexico
  (948-14-173)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On Lang's Geometric Conjecture for Surfaces of General Type.
  Cong X Kang*, American University
  (948-14-87)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Rational curves on holomorphic symplectic manifolds, with applications to rational points and rationality problems.
  Brendan E Hassett*, University of Chicago
  Yuri Tschinkel, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (948-14-209)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Break.
- 12:30 p.m.
  A uniform bound for the number of solutions to some Thue equations.
  Thomas J Tucker*, University of Georgia
  (948-11-212)
- 1:00 p.m.
  Quadratic points on some Fermat curves.
  Pavlos Tzermias*, University of Arizona
  (948-11-227)

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