AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

2003 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Baton Rouge, LA, March 14-16, 2003
Meeting #984

• 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)