AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:32

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

Saturday May 3, 2003, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Arithmetic over Finite Fields, I
Room 409, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Bjorn Poonen, University of California Berkeley poonen@math.berkeley.edu
Joe P. Buhler, Reed College jpb@reed.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  On Effective Hilbert Irreducibility Theorems.
  Shuhong Gao*, Clemson University
  (987-11-67)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Counting symmetric, diagonalizable matricies of small size over finite fields.
  Christopher L Phan*, Lewis & Clark College
  Harvey J Schmidt, Lewis & Clark College
  (987-15-21)

Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Arithmetic over Finite Fields, II
Room 409, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Bjorn Poonen, University of California Berkeley poonen@math.berkeley.edu
Joe P. Buhler, Reed College jpb@reed.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Tate duality and the discrete logarithm problem.
  Ming-Deh Huang*, University of Southern California
  (987-11-72)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On some subgroups of the multiplicative group of finite rings.
  J Felipe Voloch*, University of Texas at Austin
  (987-11-27)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Sharper ABC-based bounds for congruent polynomials.
  Daniel J. Bernstein*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (987-12-33)

Sunday May 4, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Arithmetic over Finite Fields, III
Room 409, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Bjorn Poonen, University of California Berkeley poonen@math.berkeley.edu
Joe P. Buhler, Reed College jpb@reed.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Prime values of polynomials.
  B. Conrad, Univ. of Michigan
  K. Conrad*, UC San Diego
  R. Gross, Boston College
  (987-11-26)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Unramified covers of affine spaces.
  Kiran S. Kedlaya*, University of California, Berkeley
  (987-14-29)

Sunday May 4, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Arithmetic over Finite Fields, IV
Room 409, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Bjorn Poonen, University of California Berkeley poonen@math.berkeley.edu
Joe P. Buhler, Reed College jpb@reed.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A heuristic explanation of the distribution of Frobenius eigenvalues for principally-polarized abelian varieties.
  Everett W Howe*, Center for Communications Research, La Jolla
  (987-11-58)
- 4:00 p.m.
  L functions of exponential sums over affinoids.
  Hui June Zhu*, McMaster University
  (987-14-60)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Zeta function of Algebraic r-cycles: Conjectures and Results.
  C. Douglas Haessig*, UC Irvine
  (987-11-101)

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