AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:30

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

Saturday October 13, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Problems, I
Room 202, Thompson Chemistry Lab
Organizers:
Edward B. Burger, Williams College Edward.B.Burger@williams.edu
Jeffrey D. Vaaler, University of Texas at Austin vaaler@fireant.ma.utexas.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  ``The Magic Matrix'', a composition by Daniel Shanks.
  Alfred J (Alf) van der Poorten*, Macquarie University, Sydney
  (971-11-31)
- 9:30 a.m.
  From Additive Number Theory to Rohlin's Lemma.
  Wolfgang M. Schmidt*, University of Colorado
  (971-11-93)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Weyl's inequality.
  Roger C Baker*, BYU
  (971-11-38)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Ternary Diophantine equations via modular forms.
  Michael A Bennett*, U.B.C. / Illinois
  Chris Skinner, U. of Michigan
  (971-11-155)

Saturday October 13, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Problems, II
Room 202, Thompson Chemistry Lab
Organizers:
Edward B. Burger, Williams College Edward.B.Burger@williams.edu
Jeffrey D. Vaaler, University of Texas at Austin vaaler@fireant.ma.utexas.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Vu's thin basis theorem in Waring's problem.
  Trevor D Wooley*, University of Michigan
  (971-11-176)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Ideal Class Pairing and Isogenies of Elliptic Curves.
  Duncan A Buell, University of South Carolina
  Gregory S Call*, Amherst College
  (971-11-122)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dense Egyptian Fractions.
  Greg Martin*, University of British Columbia
  (971-11-17)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Congruences like Ramanujan's for the partition function.
  Scott D Ahlgren*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  (971-11-114)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Numerical calculation of Mahler's measure.
  Fernando Rodriguez Villegas*, University of Texas at Austin
  (971-11-54)

Sunday October 14, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Problems, III
Room 202, Thompson Chemistry Lab
Organizers:
Edward B. Burger, Williams College Edward.B.Burger@williams.edu
Jeffrey D. Vaaler, University of Texas at Austin vaaler@fireant.ma.utexas.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Multivariate Diophantine equations with many solutions.
  Jan-Hendrik Evertse, Universiteit Leiden
  Pieter Moree, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  Cameron L Stewart*, University of Waterloo
  Robert Tijdeman, Universiteit Leiden
  (971-11-62)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Four Faces of Lifting for the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem.
  Joseph H Silverman*, Brown University
  (971-11-16)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Placeholder only; will not appear anywhere unless real title/abstract materializes. Submitted by Salter.
  John Tate*, University of Texas at Austin
  (971-00-213)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Algebraic Independence in Positive Characteristic.
  Greg W Anderson, University of Minnesota
  W. Dale Brownawell*, Penn State
  Matthew A Papanikolas, Brown University
  (971-11-163)

Sunday October 14, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Problems, IV
Room 202, Thompson Chemistry Lab
Organizers:
Edward B. Burger, Williams College Edward.B.Burger@williams.edu
Jeffrey D. Vaaler, University of Texas at Austin vaaler@fireant.ma.utexas.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  View obstruction and lonely runners.
  Thomas W Cusick*, SUNY at Buffalo
  (971-11-53)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Why most Thue inequalities should have few solutions.
  Jeffrey L Thunder*, Northern Illinois University
  (971-11-110)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The linear diophantine problem of Frobenius.
  Matthias Beck*, SUNY Binghamton
  (971-11-24)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A Multi-dimensional Continued Fraction Algorithm: Triangle Sequences.
  Thomas A Garrity*, Williams College
  (971-11-140)

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