AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Saturday October 21, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Genus Curves and Applications, I
Room 523, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Kristin Lauter, Microsoft klauter@microsoft.com
Harold Stark, University of California San Diego stark@euclid.ucsd.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Curves of genus two with maps of every degree to a fixed elliptic curve.
  Everett W Howe*, Center for Communications Research, La Jolla
  (958-14-196)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Applications of low genus curves to the theory of error-correcting codes.
  Judy L Walker*, University of Nebraska
  (958-11-266)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Rational cuboid problem.
  Noriko Yui*, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Canada K7L 3N6
  (958-11-231)

Saturday October 21, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Low Genus Curves and Applications, II
Room 523, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Kristin Lauter, Microsoft klauter@microsoft.com
Harold Stark, University of California San Diego stark@euclid.ucsd.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Empirical evidence for the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjectures for modular Jacobians of genus 2 curves.
  E. V Flynn, University of Liverpool
  Franck Lepr\'{e}vost, Universit\'{e} Grenoble
  Edward F Schaefer*, Santa Clara University
  William A Stein, Harvard University
  Michael Stoll, Mathematisches Institut der Heinrich-Heine-Universit\"{a}t, D\"{u}sseldorf
  Joseph L Wetherell, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
  (958-11-156)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Addition in the Jacobian of a Smooth Plane Quartic Curve.
  Matt J Klassen*, DigiPen Institute of Technology (Redmond, WA)
  (958-14-268)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Break
- 4:40 p.m.
  The Arithmetic of Certain Cubic Function Fields.
  Mark L Bauer*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Andreas Stein, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (958-11-261)
- 5:20 p.m.
  NUCOMP in Quadratic Congruence Function Fields.
  Michael J Jacobson*, University of Manitoba
  (958-11-243)

Sunday October 22, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Genus Curves and Applications, III
Room 523, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Kristin Lauter, Microsoft klauter@microsoft.com
Harold Stark, University of California San Diego stark@euclid.ucsd.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Explicit Bounds and Heuristics on Class Numbers in Hyperelliptic Function Fields.
  Andreas Stein*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Edlyn Teske, University of Waterloo
  (958-11-284)
- 9:40 a.m.
  The parallelized Pollard kangaroo method in real quadratic function fields.
  Edlyn E Teske*, University of Waterloo
  Andreas Stein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain
  (958-11-178)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Scheidler,TBA

Sunday October 22, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Low Genus Curves and Applications, IV
Room 523, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Kristin Lauter, Microsoft klauter@microsoft.com
Harold Stark, University of California San Diego stark@euclid.ucsd.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Probability that the Jacobian of a Hyperelliptic Curve Has Prime Order.
  Douglas A Kuhlman*, Motorola Labs
  (958-11-265)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Construction of hyperelliptic curves using complex multiplication.
  Annegret Weng*, Institute of Experimental Mathematics, Essen
  (958-11-218)
- 4:20 p.m.
  Counting Points on CM Elliptic Curves.
  Wendy L Miller*, San Diego, CA
  (958-11-274)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Computing torsion points on curves.
  Bjorn Poonen*, U.C. Berkeley
  (958-11-207)

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