AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:29

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

Friday March 14, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Induced Representations: Connections to Graphs, Number Theory, Geometry, I
Room 215, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
J. William Hoffman, Louisiana State University hoffman@math.lsu.edu
Robert V. Perlis, Louisiana State University perlis@math.lsu.edu
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University stoltz@math.lsu.edu
- 2:15 p.m.
  Ihara's Zeta Function: An Encounter Between Number Theory and Graph Theory.
  Audrey A. Terras*, U.C.S.D.
  (984-11-74)
- 3:15 p.m.
  A Brief Survey of Zeta Functions in Knot Theory.
  Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
  (984-57-170)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Bartholdi zeta functions of graph coverings.
  Hirobumi Mizuno, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Meisei University, Japan
  Iwao Sato*, Oyama National College of Technology, Japan
  (984-11-226)

Saturday March 15, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Induced Representations: Connections to Graphs, Number Theory, Geometry, II
Room 215, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
J. William Hoffman, Louisiana State University hoffman@math.lsu.edu
Robert V. Perlis, Louisiana State University perlis@math.lsu.edu
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University stoltz@math.lsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Constructing Gassmann triples.
  Patricia Beaulieu*, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
  (984-20-239)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Beaulieu's construction over a field of arbitrary characteristic.
  Benjamin Thomas Webster*, University of California, Berkeley
  (984-20-259)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Siegel Poles of Covering Graph Zeta Functions.
  Harold M. Stark*, U.C.S.D.
  (984-11-73)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Zeta functions and Isospectrality of Regular Graphs.
  Robert Perlis*, Louisiana State University
  Aubi Mellein, Cal State San Marcos
  (984-53-236)

Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Induced Representations: Connections to Graphs, Number Theory, Geometry, III
Room 215, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
J. William Hoffman, Louisiana State University hoffman@math.lsu.edu
Robert V. Perlis, Louisiana State University perlis@math.lsu.edu
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University stoltz@math.lsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Cohomological Mackey functors and applications.
  Robert Boltje*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (984-18-150)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Geometric zeta functions for p-adic groups.
  Anton H Deitmar*, University of EXETER
  (984-11-55)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On Ramanujan hypergraphs.
  Wen-Ching Winnie Li*, Pennsylvania State University
  (984-22-149)

Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Special Session on Induced Representations: Connections to Graphs, Number Theory, Geometry, IV
Room 215, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
J. William Hoffman, Louisiana State University hoffman@math.lsu.edu
Robert V. Perlis, Louisiana State University perlis@math.lsu.edu
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University stoltz@math.lsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Mackey functors and Sunada's theorem.
  Benjamin Thomas Webster*, University of California, Berkeley
  (984-53-28)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Zeta functions of infinite graphs.
  Bryan F Clair*, Saint Louis University
  (984-11-164)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On arithmetically equivalent fields with distinct $p$-class numbers.
  Bart de Smit*, Universiteit Leiden
  (984-11-247)

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