AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:44

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

Saturday October 12, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, I
Room B113, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin-Madison ono@math.wisc.edu
Tonghai Yang, University of Wisconsin-Madison thyang@math.wisc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Jung-Hirzebruch resolution for arithmetic surfaces.
  Brian Conrad*, University of Michigan
  (980-14-64)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Kummer theory of abelian varieties and reductions of Mordell-Weil groups.
  Tom Weston*, University of California, Berkeley
  (980-11-58)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Euler systems of CM cycles.
  Ye Tian*, Columbia University
  (980-11-191)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Modularity of Galois representations.
  Chandrashekhar B Khare*, University of Utah
  (980-11-46)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Limits of crystalline modular eigenforms.
  Frank D Calegari*, Harvard
  (980-11-124)

Saturday October 12, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, II
Room B113, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin-Madison ono@math.wisc.edu
Tonghai Yang, University of Wisconsin-Madison thyang@math.wisc.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Supercongruences Between Truncated $_2F_1$ Hypergeometric Functions and Their Gaussian Analogs.
  Eric T Mortenson*, University of Wisconsin Madison
  (980-11-130)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Modular forms for noncongruence subgroups.
  Wen-Ching Winnie Li*, Penn State University
  Ling Long, Institute for Advanced Study
  Zifong Yang, Penn State University
  (980-11-219)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Exceptional congruences for the coefficients of certain eta-product newforms.
  Matthew Boylan*, University of Illinois
  (980-11-249)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 4:00 p.m.
  Extensions of elliptic curves and congruences between modular forms.
  Matthew Papanikolas*, Brown University
  Niranjan Ramachandran, University of Maryland
  (980-11-117)
- 4:30 p.m.
  1-Motives and Iwasawa Theory.
  Cristian D. Popescu*, Johns Hopkins University
  (980-11-128)

Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, III
Room B113, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin-Madison ono@math.wisc.edu
Tonghai Yang, University of Wisconsin-Madison thyang@math.wisc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Vanishing of $L$-functions and ranks of Selmer groups.
  Chris Skinner*, University of Michigan
  (980-11-317)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Cubic structures and lattices of cusp forms.
  Ted Chinburg, University of Pennsylvania
  Georgios Pappas*, Michigan State University
  Martin Taylor, UMIST
  (980-11-237)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Central Values for Twisted $L$-Functions.
  Hui Xue*, Dept. of Math, Columbia University
  (980-11-123)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On certain unitary group Shimura varieties.
  Elena Mantovan*, Miller Institute, UC Berkeley
  (980-11-145)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Rational points on Drinfeld modular curves.
  Imin Chen*, Simon Fraser University
  (980-11-238)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Arithmetic of anticyclotomic $L$-functions and theta functions.
  Tobias Finis*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (980-11-303)

Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room B113, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin-Madison ono@math.wisc.edu
Tonghai Yang, University of Wisconsin-Madison thyang@math.wisc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 3:30 p.m.
  Modular Form Congruences and Selmer Groups.
  William J McGraw*, University of Wisconsin
  Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin
  (980-11-47)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Explicit Structures of Siegel Modular Forms and Differential Operators.
  Tomoyoshi Ibukiyama*, Osaka University
  (980-11-135)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Optimal elliptic curves and their $j-$invariants.
  Mihran Papikian*, University of Michigan
  (980-11-250)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion

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