AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:41

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

Saturday April 17, 2004, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Surfaces and Elliptic Fibrations, I
Room 201, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University hoyt@rci.rutgers.edu
Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University jhs@math.brown.edu
Charles F. Schwartz, Rider University schwartz@rider.edu
- 8:20 a.m.
  Welcoming Remarks.
- 8:30 a.m.
  Sections of Yoshida Elliptic $K3$ Surfaces.
  William L Hoyt, Rutgers University
  Charles F Schwartz*, Rider University
  (997-14-149)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Exlicit stable models of elliptic surfaces.
  Gabriele La Nave*, Courant Institute
  (997-14-19)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Neron-Severi Group of Certain Algebraic Surfaces.
  Michael I Rosen*, Brown University
  (997-11-273)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Complex multiplication for elliptic curves associated with sections of certain elliptic surfaces.
  William L Hoyt*, Rutgers University
  Charles F Schwartz, Rider University
  (997-14-51)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Common divisors of elliptic divisibility sequences over function fields.
  Joseph H Silverman*, Brown University
  (997-11-18)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Surfaces and Elliptic Fibrations, II
Room 201, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University hoyt@rci.rutgers.edu
Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University jhs@math.brown.edu
Charles F. Schwartz, Rider University schwartz@rider.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  F-theory/Heterotic duality for Lattice Polarized Elliptic K3 Surfaces with Section.
  Charles Doran*, Columbia University
  Adrian Clingher, Stanford University
  (997-14-167)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Mordell-Weil Ranks of Cyclic Covers of Rational Elliptic Surfaces.
  Lisa Fastenberg*, Pace University
  (997-11-188)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Selmer groups of elliptic curves over towers of function fields.
  Jordan S Ellenberg*, Princeton University
  (997-14-70)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Pullbacks and Drinfeld Modular Curves.
  Christopher J Hall*, Princeton University
  (997-11-128)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Integral points on elliptic curves and 3-torsion in class groups.
  Harald Andres Helfgott*, Yale
  (997-11-80)

Sunday April 18, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Surfaces and Elliptic Fibrations, III
Room 201, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University hoyt@rci.rutgers.edu
Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University jhs@math.brown.edu
Charles F. Schwartz, Rider University schwartz@rider.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Algebraic Geometry, Object Recognition, and Computer Vision.
  Peter Stiller*, Institute for Scientific Computation, Texas A&M University
  (997-14-274)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Vector-valued modular forms associated to Jacobi-like forms.
  Min Ho Lee*, University of Northern Iowa
  (997-11-55)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The density of elliptic curves having a global minimal Weierstrass equation.
  E Bekyel*, Sabanci University, Turkey
  (997-11-109)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Twenty-eight bitangents of a plane quartic curve, decomposition of its Jacobian and the theory of Mordell-Weil lattices.
  Masato Kuwata*, Department of Economics, Chuo University
  (997-14-166)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Elliptic Surfaces and Davenport-Stothers Triples.
  Tetsuji Shioda*, Rikkyo University, Tokyo,Japan
  (997-14-73)

Sunday April 18, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Surfaces and Elliptic Fibrations, IV
Room 201, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University hoyt@rci.rutgers.edu
Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University jhs@math.brown.edu
Charles F. Schwartz, Rider University schwartz@rider.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The effect of zeros of elliptic curve L-functions at the central point on nearby zeros.
  Steven J Miller*, The Ohio State University
  Eduardo Duenez, Johns Hopkins University
  Aaron Lint, The Ohio State University
  (997-11-136)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Moments of the rank of elliptic curves.
  Siman Wong*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  (997-11-105)

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