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2002 Fall Western Section Meeting
Salt Lake City, UT, October 26-27, 2002
Meeting #981

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Special Session on Analytic Number Theory

  • Saturday October 26, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, I
    Room 219, Leroy Cowles Building
    Organizers:
    Roger Baker, Brigham Young University baker@math.byu.edu
    Xian-Jin Li, Brigham Young University xianjin@math.byu.edu
    Andrew D. Pollington, Brigham Young University andy@math.byu.edu

    • 8:00 a.m.
      Estimates for the number of algebraic numbers of fixed degree and bounded height.
      Jeffrey D. Vaaler*, University of Texas at Austin
      (981-11-29)
    • 8:30 a.m.
      Evidence for a Spectral Interpretation of the Zeros of $L$-functions from One-Parameter Families of Elliptic Curves.
      Steven J Miller*, Princeton University
      (981-11-23)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      The pair correlation function of $n^2 \alpha$ modulo one and an equidistribution problem in hyperbolic geometry.
      Andreas Strombergsson*, Princeton University
      (981-11-89)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      The Integer Chebyshev Problem.
      Peter B Borwein*, Mathematics Department, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
      (981-11-31)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Counting automorphic forms associated to Galois representations.
      Akshay Venkatesh*, MIT
      (981-11-70)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      On Ternary Quadratic Forms.
      W Duke*, UCLA
      (981-11-35)

  • Saturday October 26, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, II
    Room 219, Leroy Cowles Building
    Organizers:
    Roger Baker, Brigham Young University baker@math.byu.edu
    Xian-Jin Li, Brigham Young University xianjin@math.byu.edu
    Andrew D. Pollington, Brigham Young University andy@math.byu.edu

    • 3:00 p.m.
      Elements of class groups of imaginary quadratic fields and Shafarevich-Tate groups of elliptic curves.
      Antal Balog, Math. Institute of Hungarian Acad. Sci.
      Ken Ono*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
      (981-11-25)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Weierstrass points on modular curves.
      Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
      (981-11-49)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      A generalization of Vinogradov's mean value theorem.
      Scott T Parsell*, Penn State University
      (981-11-97)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Second order modular forms and GL(2) converse theorems.
      David W Farmer*, American Institute of Mathematics
      (981-11-51)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Nearly multiplicative powers of $\eta$.
      Adrian D Stanger*, Brigham Young University
      (981-11-38)
    • 5:30 p.m.
      The frequency of vanishings of quadratic twists of modular form L-functions.
      Michael Rubinstein*, American Institute of Mathematics
      Brian Conrey, American Institute of Mathematics
      Jonathan Keating, University of Bristol
      Nina Snaith, University of Bristol
      (981-11-54)
    • 6:00 p.m.
      Correlations of Short Divisor Sums and Small Gaps Between Primes.
      Daniel A Goldston*, San Jose State University
      (981-11-84)
    • 6:30 p.m.
      Siegel Modular Forms, Theta Series, and Hecke Operators.
      Lynne Walling*, University of Colorado
      (981-11-110)

  • Sunday October 27, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, III
    Room 219, Leroy Cowles Building
    Organizers:
    Roger Baker, Brigham Young University baker@math.byu.edu
    Xian-Jin Li, Brigham Young University xianjin@math.byu.edu
    Andrew D. Pollington, Brigham Young University andy@math.byu.edu

    • 8:00 a.m.
      Some doubly exponential sums over primes.
      John B Friedlander*, University of Toronto
      (981-11-102)
    • 8:30 a.m.
      Gaps in the Fourier expansions of modular forms.
      Emre Alkan*, University of Wisconsin
      (981-11-43)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Primes and powers of a fixed integer.
      Peter D.T.A. Elliott*, University of Colorado at Boulder
      (981-11-24)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      On polynomials with coefficients +1 or -1.
      Kwok-kwong Stephen Choi*, Simon Fraser University
      (981-11-39)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Automorphic Boundary Distributions, Voronoi Summation, and L-functions on GL(n).
      Stephen David Miller*, Rutgers University
      Wilfried Schmid, Harvard University
      (981-11-13)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Complex arithmetic dimensions of fractal strings and membranes.
      Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California,Riverside
      (981-11-22)

  • Sunday October 27, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
    Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, IV
    Room 219, Leroy Cowles Building
    Organizers:
    Roger Baker, Brigham Young University baker@math.byu.edu
    Xian-Jin Li, Brigham Young University xianjin@math.byu.edu
    Andrew D. Pollington, Brigham Young University andy@math.byu.edu

    • 3:00 p.m.
      Asymptotic Large Sieve.
      J. Brian Conrey*, American Institute of Mathematics
      Henryk Iwaniec, Rutgers University
      (981-11-74)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Poincare Series and Kloosterman Sums.
      Wladimir de Azevedo Pribitkin*, Haverford College
      (981-11-27)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Galois representations and arithmetic cohohomology.
      Darrin M Doud*, Brigham Young University
      (981-11-90)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Exponential sums over primes and the Waring-Goldbach problem.
      Angel V. Kumchev*, University of Toronto
      (981-11-14)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Exponential Sums With Real Zeros and Fourier Transforms With Real Zeros.
      David A Cardon*, Brigham Young University
      (981-42-55)
    • 5:30 p.m.
      Integers with dense divisors.
      Andreas Weingartner*, Southern Utah University
      (981-11-45)
    • 6:00 p.m.
      On the Weighted Hilbert Inequality.
      Xian-Jin Li*, Brigham Young University
      (981-11-61)
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