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.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Abelian Varieties, I
Room 203, Thompson Physics Lab
Organizers:
Alexander Polishchuk, Boston University apolish@bu.edu
Emma Previato, Boston University ep@bu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Mordell-Weil ranks of quadratic twists of pairs of elliptic curves.
  Gwynneth G Coogan*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Jorge Jimenez-Urroz, Universidad Autonoma De Madrid % Author's phone number. Maximum length is 25 characters.
  (971-11-197)
- 9:30 a.m.
  integral motives and special values of zeta functions.
  Niranjan Ramachandran*, University of Maryland
  (971-14-32)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Geometry of Hilbert modular varieties over ramified primes.
  Eyal Z Goren*, McGill University
  Fabrizio Andreatta, University of Padova
  (971-14-119)

Saturday October 13, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Abelian Varieties, II
Room 203, Thompson Physics Lab
Organizers:
Alexander Polishchuk, Boston University apolish@bu.edu
Emma Previato, Boston University ep@bu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Clifford algebra of a binary form.
  Rajesh S. Kulkarni*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (971-14-147)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Hodge structures on abelian varieties.
  Salman Abdulali*, East Carolina University
  (971-14-141)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Hyperelliptic jacobians and $\ell$-adic representations.
  Yuri G Zarhin*, Penn State University
  (971-14-90)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Intersections of certain modular threefolds.
  William L. Hoyt*, Rutgers University
  Charles F. Schwartz, Rider University
  (971-14-25)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On Sections of Yoshida Elliptic Surfaces and Negative Vectors.
  William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University
  Charles F. Schwartz*, Rider University
  (971-14-28)

Sunday October 14, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Abelian Varieties, III
Room 203, Thompson Physics Lab
Organizers:
Alexander Polishchuk, Boston University apolish@bu.edu
Emma Previato, Boston University ep@bu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Rank Two Vector Bundles on Singular Curves.
  Daniele Arcara*, U. Georgia, Athens
  (971-14-196)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Locus of indeterminacy of the Prym map.
  Vitaly N Vologodsky*, University of Georgia
  (971-14-181)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the geometry of certain rank 2 sheaves on Prym theta divisors.
  Roy C Smith, University of Georgia
  Robert Varley*, University of Georgia
  (971-14-189)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On multiplicities of points on Prym theta divisors.
  Roy C Smith*, University of Georgia
  Robert Varley, University of Georgia
  (971-14-186)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Seshadri Constants of Abelian Varieties.
  Olivier V Debarre*, Universite de Strasbourg, France
  (971-14-30)

Sunday October 14, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Abelian Varieties, IV
Room 203, Thompson Physics Lab
Organizers:
Alexander Polishchuk, Boston University apolish@bu.edu
Emma Previato, Boston University ep@bu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Monodromy groups and abelian varieties.
  Jeffrey D Achter*, Columbia University
  (971-14-12)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Discussion on open questions on Abelian Varieties.
- 3:30 p.m.
  Vanishing thetanulls for some dihedral coverings of Riemann surfaces.
  Robert D. M. Accola*, Brown University
  (971-14-166)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Differential and Algebraic Equations for Theta Functions and Constants.
  Samuel Grushevsky*, Harvard University
  (971-14-204)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A new proof of the non-rationality of cubic threefolds.
  Tawanda Gwena*, University of Georgia
  (971-14-202)

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