AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:41

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday March 8, 2002, 2:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, I
Room 105, Instructional Center
Organizers:
David Penniston, Furman University david.penniston@furman.edu
- 2:10 p.m.
  q,t Analogues of Catalan Numbers and Parking Functions.
  Jim Haglund*, Univ. of Pennsylvania
  (975-11-220)
- 2:40 p.m.
  Arithmetic of Borcherds Exponents.
  Ken Ono*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  (975-11-175)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Canonical heights over abelian extensions.
  Matthew H Baker*, Harvard University
  (975-11-258)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Cauchy-Mirimanoff polynomials.
  Pavlos Tzermias*, University of Tennessee
  (975-11-407)
- 4:10 p.m.
  The summatory function of the Mobius function.
  N. C. Ng*, Institute for Advanced Study/University of Georgia
  (975-11-316)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Mordell-Weil ranks of twists of pairs of elliptic curves.
  Gwynneth G Coogan*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Jorge Jimenez-Urroz, Universidad Autonoma De Madrid % Author's phone number. Maximum length is 25 characters.
  (975-11-229)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Exceptional congruences for the coefficients of eta-product newforms.
  Matthew G. Boylan*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  (975-11-327)

Saturday March 9, 2002, 10:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, II
Room 105, Instructional Center
Organizers:
David Penniston, Furman University david.penniston@furman.edu
- 10:15 a.m.
  On the factorization of $n(n+1)$.
  Michael Bennett, University of British Columbia and University of Illinois
  Michael Filaseta*, University of South Carolina
  Ognian Trifonov, University of South Carolina
  (975-11-322)
- 10:45 a.m.
  Nonvanishing of Fourier Coefficients of Modular Forms.
  Emre Alkan*, University of Wisconsin
  (975-11-374)
- 11:15 a.m.
  Anatomy of an integer.
  Andrew J Granville*, University of Georgia
  (975-11-372)
- 11:45 a.m.
  On the largest prime factor of consecutive integers.
  Antal Balog*, A. Renyi Mathematical Institute, Budapest
  (975-11-76)

Saturday March 9, 2002, 3:05 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, III
Room 105, Instructional Center
Organizers:
David Penniston, Furman University david.penniston@furman.edu
- 3:05 p.m.
  Weierstrass points on modular curves and supersingular j-invariants.
  Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  (975-11-182)
- 3:35 p.m.
  Exceptional covers and bijections of rational points.
  Thomas J Tucker*, University of Georgia
  (975-11-150)
- 4:05 p.m.
  The Lang-Trotter conjecture on average.
  Kevin L James*, Clemson University
  (975-11-367)
- 4:35 p.m.
  Finding elements of prescribed order in Shafarevich-Tate groups.
  Steve Donnelly*, Universiy of Georgia
  (975-11-380)
- 5:05 p.m.
  The Rationality of Vector Valued Modular Forms and Implications for a Theorem of Borcherds of Gross-Kohnen-Zagier Type.
  William J McGraw*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (975-11-357)
- 5:35 p.m.
  Discussion

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