AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:27

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday March 16, 2001, 10:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, I
Room 151, Gambrell Hall
Organizers:
Michael A. Filaseta, University of South Carolina, Columbia filaseta@math.sc.edu
Ognian Trifonov, University of South Carolina, Columbia trifonov@math.sc.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Turan's method and ridge approximation of harmonic functions.
  Konstantin I Oskolkov*, University of South Carolina
  (963-41-207)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A New Irreducibility Test for Lacunary 0,1-Polynomials.
  Douglas B Meade*, University of South Carolina
  (963-11-124)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Further Results on Generalizations of Irreducibility Theorems of I. Schur.
  Martha A Allen*, University of South Carolina
  (963-11-185)

Friday March 16, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, II
Room 151, Gambrell Hall
Organizers:
Michael A. Filaseta, University of South Carolina, Columbia filaseta@math.sc.edu
Ognian Trifonov, University of South Carolina, Columbia trifonov@math.sc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Factorization of polynomials with small Euclidean norm.
  Robert F Murphy*, University of South Carolina
  (963-11-221)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On union-closed families.
  Theresa P Vaughan*, UNC-Greensboro
  (963-05-73)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Non-uniformities in Chebyshev's Bias.
  Richard H Hudson*, University of South Carolina
  (963-11-125)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Distribution of prime ideals of quadratic fields and prime values of binary quadratic forms.
  Glyn Harman, University of London
  Angel V Kumchev*, University of South Carolina
  Philip Lewis, University of Wales
  (963-11-223)
- 4:30 p.m.
  New bounds for the Riemann zeta function and applications.
  Kevin Ford*, University of South Carolina
  (963-11-74)

Saturday March 17, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, III
Room 151, Gambrell Hall
Organizers:
Michael A. Filaseta, University of South Carolina, Columbia filaseta@math.sc.edu
Ognian Trifonov, University of South Carolina, Columbia trifonov@math.sc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Exponents of Class Groups of Real Quadratic Fields.
  Gang Yu*, University of Michigan
  (963-11-190)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Heights of Algebraic Numbers over Finite Groups in PGL(2, \mathbb{Q}).
  Gregory P Dresden*, Washington & Lee University
  (963-11-220)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Decomposition of polytopes and polynomials.
  Shuhong Gao*, Clemson University
  (963-11-214)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Average Frobenius distributions for elliptic curves with prescribed torsion subgroups.
  Kevin L James*, Clemson University
  (963-11-208)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On a character sum problem of H. Cohn.
  Par M Kurlberg*, University of Georgia
  (963-11-90)

Saturday March 17, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, IV
Room 151, Gambrell Hall
Organizers:
Michael A. Filaseta, University of South Carolina, Columbia filaseta@math.sc.edu
Ognian Trifonov, University of South Carolina, Columbia trifonov@math.sc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The hypergeometric method and the generalized Ramanujan-Nagell equation.
  Mark Bauer, University of Illinois
  Michael A Bennett*, University of Illinois
  (963-11-183)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Arithmetic of Partitions into Distinct Parts.
  Jeremy Lovejoy*, University of Wisconsin
  Scott Ahlgren, Colgate University
  (963-11-169)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The $p^i$-regular partition function modulo $p^j$.
  David K Penniston*, Furman University
  (963-11-177)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A q-series identity and the arithmetic of Hurwitz zeta functions.
  Gwynneth GH Coogan*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (963-11-215)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A Distribution Problem for Powerfree Values of Irreducible Polynomials.
  Brian D Beasley*, Presbyterian College
  Michael Filaseta, University of South Carolina
  (963-11-103)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The Irreducibility of a Certain Class of Laguerre Polynomials.
  Richard L Williams, Jr.*, Columbia, SC
  Michael A Filaseta, University of South Carolina
  (963-11-236)

Sunday March 18, 2001, 9:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, V
Room 151, Gambrell Hall
Organizers:
Michael A. Filaseta, University of South Carolina, Columbia filaseta@math.sc.edu
Ognian Trifonov, University of South Carolina, Columbia trifonov@math.sc.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Prime values of polynomials and small class numbers.
  Andrew Granville*, U of Georgia
  Richard A Mollin, U of Calgary
  (963-11-135)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Computations on Catalan's Conjecture.
  Jon Grantham*, IDA/CCS
  Ferrell Wheeler, IDA/CCS
  (963-11-43)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Hall's Ray and the Markoff Spectrum.
  Stephen J Astels*, University of Georgia
  (963-11-171)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Congruences for Degenerate Number Sequences.
  Paul T Young*, University of Charleston
  (963-11-115)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Explicit Estimate on the Riemann zeta function.
  Yuanyou F Cheng*, UNC at Chapel Hill
  Sidney W Graham, Central Michigan University
  (963-11-22)

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