AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday March 12, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Galois Theory, I
Room 205, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
J. G. Thompson, University of Florida thompson@math.ufl.edu
H. Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Higher dimensional algebraic fundamental groups.
  Shreeram S. Abhyankar*, Purdue University
  (940-14-28)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Galois groups of composite q-additive polynomials.
  Ganapathy S. Sundaram*, Bell Labs
  (940-12-343)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Galois Extensions via Drinfeld-module based Iterations.
  Paul A. Loomis*, Purdue University
  (940-12-336)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Linearized polynomials with classical Galois groups.
  Michael E Zieve*, USC
  (940-14-346)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Black box exceptional groups of Lie type .
  William M Kantor, University of Oregon
  Kay Magaard*, Wayne State University
  (940-20-205)

Friday March 12, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Galois Theory, II
Room 205, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
J. G. Thompson, University of Florida thompson@math.ufl.edu
H. Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Arithmetic lifting over large fields.
  David Harbater*, University of Pennsylvania
  (940-14-186)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Ordinariness and Covers.
  Katherine F. Stevenson*, California Institute of Technology
  (940-14-254)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Reduction of covers of curves.
  Irene I Bouw*, University of Pennsylvania
  (940-14-228)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Formal geometry, rigid geometry and regular covers.
  Tamara R. Lefcourt*, University of Texas
  (940-14-81)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Good reduction of wildly ramified covers.
  Claus G Lehr*, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
  (940-14-201)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Patching and Deformation of Wildly Ramified Covers.
  Rachel J. Pries*, University of Pennsylvania
  (940-14-204)

Saturday March 13, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Galois Theory, III
Room 205, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
J. G. Thompson, University of Florida thompson@math.ufl.edu
H. Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Linear rigidity and symplectic groups.
  Karl Strambach*, Universitaet Erlangen
  Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida
  (940-20-118)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A family of curves with many rational points, constructed by rigidity.
  Gerhard Frey, University of Essen
  Ernst Kani, Queens University
  Helmut Voelklein*, University of Florida
  (940-14-250)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Curves with infinite K-rational geometric fundamental group.
  Gerhard Frey, Universitaet Essen
  Ernst Kani*, Queen's University
  Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida
  (940-11-311)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Deformation of covers of the Riemann sphere along highly singular curves.
  Michael Dettweiler*, University of Erlangen
  (940-14-215)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On rigid tuples in linear groups of odd dimension.
  Stefan Reiter*, Univ. of Heidelberg
  Michael Dettweiler, Univ. of Erlangen
  (940-20-300)

Saturday March 13, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Galois Theory, IV
Room 205, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
J. G. Thompson, University of Florida thompson@math.ufl.edu
H. Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A Nilpotent Weil pairing and application of the Nilpotent Tate-Grassmanian to the Inverse Galois Problem.
  Michael David Fried*, UC Irvine
  (940-14-158)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Conjectural Galois Extensions of Q with Galois group SL(3,3).
  Avner D Ash*, Ohio State University
  (940-11-53)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Field of moduli vs field of definition and central extensions as Galois groups.
  Stefan Wewers*, University of Pennsylvania
  (940-11-243)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Realizing the Alternating Groups as Monodromy Groups of Meromorphic Functions on Genus One Riemann Surfaces.
  Mike Fried, University of California at Irvine
  Eric P Klassen*, Florida State University
  Yaacov Kopeliovich, Parametric Technologies
  (940-30-197)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Equations for a Hurwitz space associated with degree 7 elliptic subfields of genus 2 function fields.
  Vishwa Krishnamoorthy*, University of Florida
  Tanush Shaska, University of Florida
  (940-12-287)

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