AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:12

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

Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, I
Room 2172, Medical Sciences Building
Organizers:
John Friedlander, University of Toronto frdlndr@math.toronto.edu
Steve Gonek, University of Rochester gonek@math.rochester.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Zeta functions of an infinite family of $K3$ surfaces.
  Scott D Ahlgren*, Colgate University
  Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin
  David Penniston, Furman University
  (957-11-220)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Extensions of the Chowla-Selberg formula.
  Kenneth S Williams*, Carleton University
  (957-11-150)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Class Numbers of Binary Cubic Forms.
  Michael A Bennett*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Trevor D Wooley, University of Michigan
  (957-11-127)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Monochromatic Unit Fractions.
  Ernest S Croot*, The University of Georgia
  (957-11-170)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Subconvexity bounds for Artin L-functions.
  William Duke, Rutgers University
  John B Friedlander, University of Toronto
  Henryk Iwaniec*, Rutgers University
  (957-11-145)

Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, II
Room 2172, Medical Sciences Building
Organizers:
John Friedlander, University of Toronto frdlndr@math.toronto.edu
Steve Gonek, University of Rochester gonek@math.rochester.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Computing Maass forms.
  David W Farmer*, Bucknell University
  Stefan Johansson, IAS
  (957-11-203)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Systems of Additive Forms over $p$-Adic Fields.
  Michael P Knapp*, University of Rochester
  (957-11-211)
- 4:00 p.m.
  An Asymptotic Estimate Related to Selberg's Sieve II.
  Dan A. Goldston, San Jose State University
  Sidney W. Graham*, Central Michigan University
  (957-11-230)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A special type of Diophantine equation and its application.
  Gang Yu*, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
  (957-11-303)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Simple arithmetic methods which give good (and effective) elementary prime number estimates simultaneous with equivalents to the P.N.T.
  Edward A Bertram*, Mathematics Dept.,University of Hawaii at Manoa,Honolulu,Hawaii
  (957-11-178)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, III
Room 2172, Medical Sciences Building
Organizers:
John Friedlander, University of Toronto frdlndr@math.toronto.edu
Steve Gonek, University of Rochester gonek@math.rochester.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Properties of certain character analogues of the Dedekind sum.
  Jeffrey L Meyer*, Syracuse University
  (957-11-116)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the second moment of symetric square $L$ functions.
  Philippe G. Michel*, IUF and Univ. Montpellier II
  (957-11-166)
- 9:30 a.m.
  q-series identities and certain L-functions.
  Ken Ono*, University of Wisconsin
  (957-11-41)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dedekind cotangent sums.
  Matthias Beck*, SUNY Binghamton
  (957-11-07)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Slimmer exceptional sets in Waring's problem.
  Trevor D Wooley*, University of Michigan
  (957-11-162)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Zeta Spirals.
  Steve M. Gonek, University of Rochester
  Hugh L. Montgomery*, University of Michigan
  (957-11-248)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, IV
Room 2172, Medical Sciences Building
Organizers:
John Friedlander, University of Toronto frdlndr@math.toronto.edu
Steve Gonek, University of Rochester gonek@math.rochester.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  On a variant of quantum ergodicity.
  Wenzhi Luo*, The Ohio State University
  (957-11-154)
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the mean lattice point discrepancy of a convex disc.
  Werner Georg Nowak*, Universit\"at f\"ur Bodenkultur, Vienna
  (957-11-114)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the greatest prime factor of shifted products.
  Cameron L Stewart*, University of Waterloo
  (957-11-233)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Biases in the Shanks-R{\'e}nyi Prime Number Race.
  Andrey Feuerverger, University of Toronto
  Greg Martin*, University of Toronto
  (957-11-163)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Z[$\sqrt{14}$] is Euclidean.
  Malcolm Harper, McGill University
  Ram Murty*, Queen's University
  (957-11-155)

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