AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:42

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Arithmetic of Lattices
Room 319, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
John H. Conway, Princeton University conway@math.princeton.edu
Derek A. Smith, Lafayette College smithder@lafayette.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Some Applications of Lattices to Group Theory, Number Theory, and Logic.
  J H Conway*, Princeton University
  (997-51-264)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Details of the cone of Minkowski-reduced quadratic forms in low numbers of variables.
  Hale F Trotter*, Princeton University
  (997-11-182)
- 3:30 p.m.
  From finite lattices to finite simple groups.
  Christopher S Simons*, Rowan University
  (997-06-65)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Arithmetic properties of lattices in rank 2 Kac-Moody groups over finite fields.
  Lisa Carbone*, Rutgers University
  (997-20-241)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Quaternions, octonions, and now 16-ons and $2^n$-ons -- new kinds of numbers.
  Warren D. Smith*, Stony Brook, NY
  (997-08-233)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Lattices and Quantum Logic.
  S Kochen*, Princeton University
  (997-51-265)

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