AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:58

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

Sunday March 21, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Elementary and Analytic Number Theory, V
Room 245, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Harold G. Diamond, University of Illinois, Urbana diamond@math.uiuc.edu
A. J. Hildebrand, University of Illinois, Urbana hildebr@math.uiuc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Elementary Methods And Effective Results For Twin Primes.
  Kent D. Boklan*, Baltimore, Maryland
  (941-11-356)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Nested Series and Iterated Integrals.
  David M. Bradley*, University of Maine
  (941-11-101)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The partition function modulo N.
  Scott D. Ahlgren*, Penn State University
  (941-11-265)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Gap Unification Theory: Comments on the Treatment of Partitions Via Their Gaps.
  Dennis A. Eichhorn*, University of Illinois
  (941-11-193)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Computing 134 million coefficients of a series.
  Dennis Eichhorn, U. of IL Urbana-Champaign
  William F Galway*, U. of IL Urbana-Champaign
  James A Sellers, Cedarville College
  (941-11-340)
- 11:00 a.m.
  New relations between the rank and the crank of partitions.
  Frank G. Garvan*, University of Florida
  (941-11-283)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Algorithmic Solution of Thue Equations.
  Robert F. Tichy*, Technical University Graz, Department of Mathematics
  (941-11-64)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Smooth Approximations to the Riemann Zeta Function.
  Eugenio P. Balanzario*, Instituto de Matem\'aticas
  (941-11-362)

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)

Sunday March 21, 1999, 8:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Optimization Problems in Geometry, III
Room 447, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Robert Kusner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst kusner@math.umass.edu
John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Urbana jms@math.uiuc.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Optimal Contact Structures.
  Jason H. Cantarella*, University of Pennsylvania
  (941-51-353)
- 10:15 a.m.
  The optimal domains with least-perimeter and given area in surfaces of variable curvature .
  Jianguo Cao*, University of Notre Dame
  (941-53-82)

Sunday March 21, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Galois Representations, V
Room 141, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Nigel Boston, University of Illinois-Urbana boston@math.uiuc.edu
Michael Larsen, University of Missouri larsen@math.missouri.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Finite subgroups of ${\rm GL}_n$ and applications to Galois representations.
  Michael J Larsen, Indiana University
  Richard Pink*, Mannheim University
  (941-11-251)
- 9:45 a.m.
  Galois Representations Ramified only at a Single Small Prime.
  Sharon A Brueggeman*, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (941-11-336)
- 10:15 a.m.
  The unramified Fontaine-Mazur conjecture.
  Nigel Boston*, Univ of Illinois
  (941-11-289)

Sunday March 21, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Topology, IV
Room 145, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Eugene M. Lerman, University of Illinois-Urbana lerman@math.uiuc.edu
Susan Tolman, University of Illinois-Urbana stolman@math.uiuc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  localization for group valued equivariant cohomology .
  Eckhard Meinrenken*, University of Toronto
  (941-53-256)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Singular Lagrangian fibrations, Preliminary report.
  Nai-Chung Conan Leung, University of Minnesota
  Margaret F Symington*, University of Texas at Austin
  (941-57-246)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Moduli spaces of flat connections on Riemann surfaces.
  Lisa C. Jeffrey*, University of Toronto
  (941-58-180)

Sunday March 21, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, V
Room 243, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Douglas B. West, University of Illinois, Urbana west@math.uiuc.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Independent sets and spanning trees with many leaves.
  Jerrold R. Griggs*, University of South Carolina
  (941-05-159)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Two simultaneous coloring problems.
  Yue Y Zhao*, Benedict College
  (941-05-86)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Generalized list coloring of planar and outerplanar graphs.
  Glenn G. Chappell*, Southeast Missouri State University
  (941-05-286)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The sub-chromatic number of a graph.
  Chris M Hartman*, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  (941-05-187)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Collision and Percolation.
  Peter Winkler*, Lucent Technologies
  (941-05-46)

Sunday March 21, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic K-Theory (and the 5th Annual Great Lakes K-Theory Conference), II
Room 347, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Daniel Grayson, University of Illinois-Urbana dan@math.uiuc.edu
Randy McCarthy, University of Illinois-Urbana randy@math.uiuc.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Mixed Tate Motives with Finite Coefficients and the Koszulity Conjecture.
  Leonid Positselski*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (941-19-120)
- 10:45 a.m.
  The Chern character in equivariant K-homology.
  Peter Schneider*, Westf\"alische Wilhelms-Universit\"at M\"unster, and University of Illinois at Chicago
  (941-19-121)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Non-archimedean Arakelov theory.
  Christophe Soul\'e*, CNRS and IHES
  (941-19-119)

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