AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Special Session on Computational Arithmetic Geometry

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

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