AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Wednesday, April 13, 2005 08:32:22

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Friday March 18, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on L-Functions, I
Room 400, Academic Complex
Organizers:
Heather Russell, Western Kentucky University Heather.Russell@wku.edu
Nilabh Sanat, Western Kentucky University Nilabh.Sanat@wku.edu
Dominic Lanphier, Western Kentucky University Dominic.Lanphier@wku.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  An introduction to the Artin and strong Artin conjectures.
  Kimball Martin*, Columbia University
  (1004-11-131)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Artin's conjecture and the failure of multiplicity one.
  Mark Dickinson*, University of Pittsburgh
  (1004-11-239)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Level-raising for definite unitary groups.
  Wm. Russell Mann*, Brown University
  (1004-11-266)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Local Asai L-Functions and Applications.
  Anthony C. Kable*, Oklahoma State University
  (1004-22-175)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Distinguished Tame Supercuspidal Representations.
  Jeffrey Hakim*, American University
  (1004-43-145)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Bessel Functions and Functoriality.
  James W Cogdell*, Ohio State University
  (1004-11-124)

Friday March 18, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on L-Functions, II
Room 344, Mass Media and Technology Hall
Organizers:
Heather Russell, Western Kentucky University Heather.Russell@wku.edu
Nilabh Sanat, Western Kentucky University Nilabh.Sanat@wku.edu
Dominic Lanphier, Western Kentucky University Dominic.Lanphier@wku.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Metaplectic forms and multiple Dirichlet series.
  Gautam Chinta*, Lehigh University
  (1004-11-250)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Archimedean Zeta Integrals.
  Paul Garrett*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  (1004-11-231)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Poles of Eisenstein series induced from cuspforms.
  Feryal Alayont*, University of Arizona
  (1004-11-252)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Non-vanishing of central critical values of modular L-functions modulo p.
  Scott Ahlgren, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Matthew Boylan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1004-11-51)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Tate classes and L-functions for a product of Picard modular surfaces.
  Andrew H. Knightly*, University of Maine
  (1004-11-112)

Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on L-Functions, III
Room 344, Mass Media and Technology Hall
Organizers:
Heather Russell, Western Kentucky University Heather.Russell@wku.edu
Nilabh Sanat, Western Kentucky University Nilabh.Sanat@wku.edu
Dominic Lanphier, Western Kentucky University Dominic.Lanphier@wku.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  On the Modularity of Wildly Ramified Galois Representations.
  Edray Herber Goins*, Purdue University
  (1004-11-144)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Anticyclotomic Iwasawa invariants of elliptic curves.
  Robert Pollack, Boston University
  Tom Weston*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (1004-11-138)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The cuspidal structure of certain ternary theta functions.
  Jonathan Hanke*, Duke University
  (1004-11-274)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Zeta functions and theta lifts.
  Ze-Li Dou*, Texas Christian University
  (1004-11-169)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Siegel-Weil formula, L-functions, and arithmeticity of cuspforms on Hermitian orthogonal groups.
  Cetin Urtis*, University of Arizona
  (1004-11-215)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Liftings from $\widetilde{SL_(2)}$ to $Spin(1,4)$.
  Ameya Pitale*, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
  (1004-11-188)

Saturday March 19, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on L-Functions, IV
Room 344, Mass Media and Technology Hall
Organizers:
Heather Russell, Western Kentucky University Heather.Russell@wku.edu
Nilabh Sanat, Western Kentucky University Nilabh.Sanat@wku.edu
Dominic Lanphier, Western Kentucky University Dominic.Lanphier@wku.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Subconvexity for L-functions.
  Akshay Venkatesh*, Clay Mathematics Institute
  (1004-11-122)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Local Newforms for ${\rm GSp}(4)$.
  Brooks Roberts, University of Idaho
  Ralf Schmidt*, University of Oklahoma
  (1004-11-76)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Global newforms for GSp(4).
  Brooks Roberts*, University of Idaho
  Ralf Schmidt, University of Oklahoma
  (1004-11-60)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Evaluations of a Class of Double $L$-values.
  David Terhune*, Pennsylvania State University
  (1004-11-16)
- 5:00 p.m.
  p-divisibility of Bernoulli numbers and diophantine equations.
  Sankar Sitaraman*, Howard University, Washington DC
  (1004-11-79)

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