AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

2002 Spring Western Section Meeting
Portland, OR, June 20-22, 2002
Meeting #978

• 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)