AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:34

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

Friday October 24, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Group Actions on Curves, I
Room 307, Hanes Hall
Organizers:
Kay Magaard, Wayne State University and University of Florida kaym@math.wayne.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Antecedent Schur multipliers and Frattini extensions of alternating Groups.
  Michael D Fried*, UC Irvine and MSU Billings
  (991-11-36)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On Schur extensions for Modular Towers.
  Darren Semmen*, Yorba Linda, CA
  (991-20-262)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The eighth moment and Larsen's conjecture.
  Robert M. Guralnick, University of Southern California
  Pham Huu Tiep*, University of Florida
  (991-20-133)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Computation of Group Actions.
  Alexander J Hulpke*, Colorado State University
  (991-20-27)

Friday October 24, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Group Actions on Curves, II
Room 307, Hanes Hall
Organizers:
Kay Magaard, Wayne State University and University of Florida kaym@math.wayne.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Automorphism groups of modular curves in positive characteristic.
  Robert M Guralnick*, University of Southern California
  (991-14-32)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Coverings of degree 5 from a genus 2 curve to an elliptic curve.
  T Shaska*, University of Idaho
  (991-14-21)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Full Automorphism Group of a Fermat Curve.
  Aaron D Wootton*, University of Arizona
  (991-20-228)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Automorphisms and moduli of generalized hyperelliptic surfaces.
  Anthony Weaver*, BCC of the City University of New York
  (991-14-122)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Riemann surfaces that possess $8(g+3)$ automorphisms.
  Peter Turbek*, Purdue University Calumet
  Emilio Bujalance, Universidad UNED
  Francisco Javier Cirre, Universidad Uned
  (991-20-258)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Number of Genus 2 Covers of an Elliptic Curve.
  Ernst Kani*, Queen's University
  (991-14-302)

Saturday October 25, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Group Actions on Curves, III
Room 307, Hanes Hall
Organizers:
Kay Magaard, Wayne State University and University of Florida kaym@math.wayne.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The Great Theorems of Cameron and Kantor.
  Shreeram S Abhyankar*, Purdue University
  (991-20-74)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A catalog of the loci of curves of low genus.
  Kay Magaard, Wayne State University
  Sergey Shpectorov*, Bowling Green State University
  Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida
  (991-20-303)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Computing braid group actions.
  Juergen Klueners*, University Kassel
  (991-20-223)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Symmetric and alternating groups as monodromy groups.
  Robert Guralnick, University of Southern California
  John Shareshian*, Washington University
  (991-20-186)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Bounding the degree of an exceptional monodromy group of low genus.
  Daniel E. Frohardt*, Wayne State University
  (991-20-230)

Saturday October 25, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Group Actions on Curves, IV
Room 307, Hanes Hall
Organizers:
Kay Magaard, Wayne State University and University of Florida kaym@math.wayne.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Lifting group actions on curves in mixed characteristic.
  Ted C Chinburg, University of Pennsylvania
  Robert M Guralnick, University of Southern California
  David Harbater*, University of Pennsylvania
  (991-14-224)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Arithmetic of isolated covers of the affine line.
  Rachel J Pries*, Colorado State University
  (991-11-160)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Special loci in moduli of curves with marked points.
  Cui Yin*, Lycoming College
  (991-14-305)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Rational functions with large images over finite fields.
  John J Flynn*, Haverford College
  (991-12-300)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Hyperelliptic curves with $a$-number at least two.
  Darren B Glass*, Columbia University
  Rachel Pries, Colorado State University
  (991-11-24)

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