American Mathematical Society

AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:43

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

Friday June 21, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
AMS Special Session on The Quintic Equation: Algebra and Geometry, I
Room 343, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
Jerry Shurman, Reed College jerry@reed.edu
Scott Crass, California State University, Long Beach scrass@csulb.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Questions related to quintics.
  David S Dummit*, University of Vermont
  (978-12-37)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Generic Polynomials with Few Parameters.
  Joe P Buhler*, Reed College
  (978-11-92)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Folding Viete's Postulates.
  Roger C. Alperin*, San Jose State University
  (978-12-80)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Kiepert Algorithm for Solution of the General Quintic Equation: An Exercise in "Mathematical Archaeology".
  R. Bruce King*, University of Georgia
  (978-12-21)

Saturday June 22, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
AMS Special Session on The Quintic Equation: Algebra and Geometry, II
Room 343, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
Jerry Shurman, Reed College jerry@reed.edu
Scott Crass, California State University, Long Beach scrass@csulb.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Solving the quintic by iteration in three dimensions.
  Scott Crass*, CSU, Long Beach
  (978-37-104)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Klein's Galois Theory of the Icosahedral Group via Elliptic Curves.
  Edray Herber Goins*, Caltech/Harvard
  (978-11-102)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Icosahedral Galois Representations and Modular Forms.
  Mark Dickinson*, University of Michigan
  (978-11-87)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A minimalist approach to the insolvability of the quintic.
  David McKay*, Cal State Long Beach
  (978-12-122)

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