AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:31

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

Saturday November 10, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups and Covering Spaces in Algebraic Geometry
Room 114, Multipurpose Science and Technology
Organizers:
Michael Fried, University of California Irvine mfried@math.uci.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Identity representations in characteristic Frattini modules and their effect on the inverse Galois problem.
  Michael D Fried*, UC Irvine
  (972-20-98)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Davenport Polynomials over Finite Fields.
  Wayne E Aitken*, California State University, San Marcos
  Linda Holt, California State University, San Marcos
  Mike Fried, University of California Irvine
  (972-11-167)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Exceptional Covers of Curves.
  Robert M Guralnick*, University of Southern California
  (972-12-25)

Saturday November 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Groups and Covering Spaces in Algebraic Geometry
Room 114, Multipurpose Science and Technology
Organizers:
Michael Fried, University of California Irvine mfried@math.uci.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Sufficiency of Projective Polynomials.
  Shreeram S. Abhyankar*, Purdue University
  (972-14-20)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Abhyankar's Local Conjecture on Fundamental Groups.
  Stevenson F Katherine*, Cal. State Northridge
  David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania
  (972-14-102)
- 4:20 p.m.
  break
- 4:40 p.m.
  Rigidity, Reduction and Ramification.
  Irene Bouw, Max Planck Institute
  Rachel Pries*, Columbia University
  (972-14-65)
- 5:20 p.m.
  Orthogonal deformations of Galois representations.
  Ted C Chinburg*, Univ. of Pennsylvania
  Frauke M Bleher, Univ. of Iowa
  (972-14-70)

Sunday November 11, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups and Covering Spaces in Algebraic Geometry
Room 114, Multipurpose Science and Technology
Organizers:
Michael Fried, University of California Irvine mfried@math.uci.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The number of conjugacy classes in the upper triangular group.
  John G Thompson*, University of Florida
  (972-20-161)
- 9:10 a.m.
  Group representations and lattice minima.
  Pham Huu Tiep*, University of Florida
  (972-20-87)
- 9:50 a.m.
  The Hurwitz space of genus 2 covers of an elliptic curve.
  Ernst Kani*, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada
  (972-14-195)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Automorphisms and elliptic subfields of genus 2 fields.
  Tony Shaska*, UC Irvine
  Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida
  (972-14-47)

Sunday November 11, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Groups and Covering Spaces in Algebraic Geometry
Room 114, Multipurpose Science and Technology
Organizers:
Michael Fried, University of California Irvine mfried@math.uci.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Basic algebras for sporadic simple groups in GAP.
  Klaus Lux*, University of Arizona
  T Hoffman, University of Arizona
  (972-20-159)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Maximal automorphism groups of curves of small genus.
  Kay Magaard, Wayne State University
  Sergey Shpectorov*, Bowling Green State University
  Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida
  (972-20-95)
- 4:20 p.m.
  break
- 4:40 p.m.
  Computing braid orbits with GAP.
  Kay Magaard*, Wayne State University
  Sergey Shpectorov, Bowling Green State University
  Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida
  (972-20-97)
- 5:20 p.m.
  Families of covers of the sphere and their images in $M_g$.
  Helmut Voelklein*, University of Florida
  (972-14-46)

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