AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:28

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

Saturday April 21, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory with a Geometric Flavor, I
Room 210, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@nevada.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rational curves on K3 surfaces -- A geometrical interpretation.
  Arthur Baragar*, UNLV
  (965-14-182)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Explicit covering techniques for hyperelliptic curves.
  Nils Bruin*, PIMS, SFU, UBC
  (965-11-66)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Geometry of the affine line modulo isogeny.
  Mugurel A Barcau*, University of New Mexico
  (965-11-14)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Apollonian Circle Packings: Number Theory.
  Ron L Graham, Univ. of Calif. at San Diego
  Jeff C Lagarias, At&T Labs
  Colin L Mallows, AT&T Labs
  Allan R Wilks, AT&T Labs
  Catherine H Yan*, Texas A&M Univ and IAS
  (965-11-46)

Saturday April 21, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory with a Geometric Flavor, II
Room 210, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@nevada.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Siegel Differential Modular Forms.
  Mugurel Barcau, University of New Mexico
  Alexandru Buium*, University of New Mexico
  (965-11-13)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Arithmetic on a family of K3 surfaces.
  David K Penniston*, Furman University
  Scott Ahlgren, Colgate University
  Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin
  (965-11-125)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Relationships between conjectures on the structure of pro-$p$ Galois groups unramified outside $p$.
  Romyar T Sharifi*, University of Arizona
  (965-11-65)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Heron triangles with prime power sides.
  Florian Luca*, UNAM
  (965-11-18)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Trees, Hecke Operators, and Quadratic Forms.
  Holly J Rosson*, Trinity University
  (965-11-119)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Theta functions of quadratic forms.
  Olav K Richter*, UC Santa Cruz
  (965-11-136)

Sunday April 22, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory with a Geometric Flavor, III
Room 210, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@nevada.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Badly approximable pairs and Hausdorff dimension.
  Andrew D Pollington*, BYU
  Sanju Velani, QMC, London
  (965-11-218)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Explicit special complex multiplication points in fundamental domains of Shimura curves.
  Montserrat Alsina*, Grad Center (CUNY) - Univ. Pol. Catalunya (Spain)
  Pilar Bayer, Univ. Barcelona (Spain)
  (965-11-71)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Chabauty techniques over number fields.
  Joseph L Wetherell*, UC Berkeley
  (965-11-210)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Elliptic curves over function fields with large Mordell-Weil rank.
  Douglas Ulmer*, University of Arizona
  (965-11-131)

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