AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:57

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

Friday March 19, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Equations, Inequalities and Related Arithmetic Problems, I
Room 143, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Michael Bennett, University of Illinois, Urbana mabennett@math.uiuc.edu
Trevor Wooley, University of Michigan wooley@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Mahler's measure and the volume of hyperbolic manifolds .
  David W. Boyd*, U. British Columbia
  (941-11-34)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the integer Chebyshev constant and the asymptotic structure of the integer Chebyshev polynomials.
  Igor E Pritsker*, Case Western Reserve University
  (941-11-190)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Diophantine approximation in the vector space ${\Bbb Q} + \alpha{\Bbb Q}$.
  Edward B Burger*, Williams College & University of Colorado at Boulder
  (941-11-225)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Estimates for the Number of Polynomials with Bounded Degree and Bounded Mahler Measure.
  Shey-Jey Chern, University of Texas at Austin
  Jeffrey D Vaaler*, University of Texas at Austin
  (941-11-181)

Friday March 19, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Equations, Inequalities and Related Arithmetic Problems, II
Room 143, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Michael Bennett, University of Illinois, Urbana mabennett@math.uiuc.edu
Trevor Wooley, University of Michigan wooley@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Some Powerful Determinants.
  Alfred J van der Poorten*, Centre for Number Theory Research, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  (941-11-203)
- 3:00 p.m.
  New Transcendence Results for Function Fields.
  W. Dale Brownawell*, Penn State
  Laurent Denis, University of Lille, France
  (941-11-312)
- 3:30 p.m.
  $S$-unit equations in function fields via the $ABC$-theorem.
  Julia Mueller*, Fordham University
  (941-11-280)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Criteria of algebraic independence and approximation by hypersurfaces.
  Damien Roy*, University of Ottawa
  Michel Laurent, Institut de Math\'ematiques de Luminy, CNRS
  (941-11-155)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Norm Form Inequalities in Three Variables.
  Jeffrey L Thunder*, Northern Illinois University Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
  (941-11-260)

Saturday March 20, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Equations, Inequalities and Related Arithmetic Problems, III
Room 143, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Michael Bennett, University of Illinois, Urbana mabennett@math.uiuc.edu
Trevor Wooley, University of Michigan wooley@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Systems of Quadratic Forms defined over the $p$-adic Numbers.
  David B Leep*, University of Kentucky
  (941-11-284)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Artin's Conjecture for Forms of Degree 7 and 11.
  Michael P Knapp*, University of Michigan
  (941-11-39)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rational Lines on Hypersurfaces.
  Scott T. Parsell*, University of Michigan
  (941-11-40)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Values of Positive Definite Quadratic Forms.
  D. Eric Freeman*, University of Michigan
  (941-11-23)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Recursion, Cubic Irrationals and Pell-type Equations.
  Karl Dilcher*, Dalhousie University
  (941-11-197)

Saturday March 20, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Equations, Inequalities and Related Arithmetic Problems, IV
Room 143, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Michael Bennett, University of Illinois, Urbana mabennett@math.uiuc.edu
Trevor Wooley, University of Michigan wooley@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Integer Apollonian Circle Packings.
  Jeffrey C Lagarias*, A T & T Labs
  (941-11-297)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Higher-order Carmichael numbers.
  Everett W. Howe*, Center for Communications Research, La Jolla
  (941-11-192)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A Diophantine problem arising in the use of Galois Descent .
  Kristin E. Lauter*, University of Michigan
  (941-11-201)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Exponential sums with applications to codes over rings.
  Judy L Walker*, University of Nebraska
  (941-11-227)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Schmidt's matrix normality conjecture.
  Gavin Brown, Sydney University
  William Moran, Flinders University
  Andrew D Pollington*, BYU
  (941-11-288)

Sunday March 21, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Equations, Inequalities and Related Arithmetic Problems, V
Room 143, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Michael Bennett, University of Illinois, Urbana mabennett@math.uiuc.edu
Trevor Wooley, University of Michigan wooley@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the central derivative of certain Hecke L-series.
  Tonghai Yang*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (941-11-361)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Siegel modular forms, Hecke operators and theta series.
  Lynne H Walling*, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (941-11-186)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cantor sets and numbers with small partial quotients.
  Stephen J. Astels*, University of Waterloo
  (941-11-274)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Equivariant compactifications of vector groups and heights.
  Yuri Tschinkel*, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
  (941-11-154)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Brauer-Manin Obstruction for Curves.
  Victor Scharaschkin*, University of Michigan
  (941-11-38)

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