AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, May 6, 2006 00:24:07

2006 Spring Western Section Meeting
San Francisco, CA, April 29-30, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1018

• Saturday April 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Arithmetic Geometry, I
  Room 104, Business
  Organizers:
  Kenneth A. Ribet, University of California Berkeley ribet@math.berkeley.edu
  Kristin Estrella Lauter, Microsoft Corporation klauter@microsoft.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Yet more nontrivial elements in Shafarevich-Tate groups of Fermat curves.
    Ben Levitt, University of Arizona
    William McCallum*, University of Arizona
    (1018-11-239)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Vanishing of Some Cohomology Groups and Bounds for Shafarevich-Tate Groups of Elliptic Curves.
    Byungchul Cha*, Hendrix College
    (1018-11-187)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Shintani zeta-functions and Gross-Stark units for totally real fields.
    Samit Dasgupta*, Harvard University
    (1018-11-49)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Heegner Points on $X_0(p^n)$.
    Ken McMurdy*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (1018-11-264)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Number Theoretic Aspects of Space-Time Codes.
    David R Grant*, University of Colorado at Boulder and MSRI
    Mahesh K Varanasi, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1018-94-208)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    SAGE -- Software for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation.
    William Arthur Stein*, University of Washington
    (1018-11-77)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Arithmetic Geometry, II
  Room 104, Business
  Organizers:
  Kenneth A. Ribet, University of California Berkeley ribet@math.berkeley.edu
  Kristin Estrella Lauter, Microsoft Corporation klauter@microsoft.com
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A basic intersection problem on Hilbert modular surface.
    Tonghai Yang*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    (1018-11-87)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Examples of automorphic forms on the unitary group in three variables.
    Lassina Dembele*, Dept of Mathematics and Statisitics, University of Calgary
    (1018-11-173)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rational torsion of elliptic curves and the cuspidal subgroup.
    Amod Agashe*, Florida State University
    (1018-11-98)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Hilbert modular forms, intersection homology and base change.
    Jayce R Getz*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    Mark Goresky, Institute for Advanced Study
    (1018-11-38)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Traces of singular moduli on Hilbert modular surfaces.
    Ken Ono*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    Kathrin Bringmann, University of Wisconsin
    Jeremy Rouse, University of Wisconsin
    (1018-11-53)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Arithmetic Geometry, III
  Room 104, Business
  Organizers:
  Kenneth A. Ribet, University of California Berkeley ribet@math.berkeley.edu
  Kristin Estrella Lauter, Microsoft Corporation klauter@microsoft.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computing zeta functions of surfaces using $p$-adic cohomology.
    Kiran S. Kedlaya*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Timothy G. Abbott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    David Roe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1018-11-74)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Divisibility of function field class numbers.
    Jeffrey D Achter*, Colorado State University
    (1018-11-247)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Frobenius fields for Drinfeld modules of rank 2.
    Alina Cojucaru*, Princeton University
    (1018-11-270)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some applications of the graph of supersingular elliptic curves.
    Denis Charles*, Microsoft Research
    Eyal Goren, McGill University
    Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research
    (1018-11-189)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Jacobians in isogeny classes of supersingular surfaces over finite fields.
    Everett W Howe*, Center for Communications Research, La Jolla
    Enric Nart, Universitat Aut\`onoma de Barcelona
    Christophe Ritzenthaler, Institut de Math\'ematiques de Luminy
    (1018-11-132)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Constructing elliptic curves in almost polynomial time.
    Peter Stevenhagen*, UC San Diego/Universiteit Leiden
    Reinier Br\"oker, Universiteit Leiden
    (1018-14-176)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Arithmetic Geometry, IV
  Room 104, Business
  Organizers:
  Kenneth A. Ribet, University of California Berkeley ribet@math.berkeley.edu
  Kristin Estrella Lauter, Microsoft Corporation klauter@microsoft.com
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The p-torsion of curves in characteristic p.
    Rachel Pries*, Colorado State University
    (1018-11-146)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Local Galois theory in dimension two.
    Katherine F. Stevenson*, California State University, Northridge
    David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania
    (1018-14-55)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Solvability of small curves of genus 2.
    Nils Bruin*, Simon Fraser University
    Michael Stoll, International University Bremen
    (1018-11-120)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Gonality of modular curves in characteristic p.
    Bjorn Poonen*, University of California at Berkeley
    (1018-14-165)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Reflection principles and l-parts of class groups.
    Jordan S Ellenberg*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Akshay Venkatesh, New York University
    (1018-11-71)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Modular curves and semistable abelian varieties over~$\bf Q$.
    Rene Schoof*, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" / MSRI
    (1018-11-125)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Discussion