AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 29, 2006 00:28:48

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

Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry and Modular Forms, I
Room 102, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Paul E. Gunnells, University of Massachusetts, Amherst gunnells@math.umass.edu
Farshid Hajir, University of Massachusetts, Amherst hajir@math.umass.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Congruences of modular forms and vertex algebras.
  Antun Milas*, University at Albany (SUNY)
  (1017-11-108)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Independence of Heeger Points.
  Joseph H Silverman*, Brown University
  Michael Rosen, Brown University
  (1017-11-23)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Divisibility properties of the torsion subgroup of two-dimensional abelian varieties.
  J Cullinan*, Colby College
  (1017-11-154)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Trivial bounds and elliptic curves of maximal rank.
  Alvaro Lozano-Robledo*, Cornell University
  (1017-11-91)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Ranks of elliptic curves over towers of Kummer extensions.
  Henri Darmon*, McGill University
  (1017-11-30)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry and Modular Forms, II
Room 102, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Paul E. Gunnells, University of Massachusetts, Amherst gunnells@math.umass.edu
Farshid Hajir, University of Massachusetts, Amherst hajir@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Shintani zeta-functions and Gross-Stark units for totally real fields.
  Samit Dasgupta*, Harvard University
  (1017-11-132)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Weil group of a two-dimensional local field.
  Karen Acquista*, Boston University
  (1017-11-73)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dedekind sums for higher-order Eisenstein series.
  Jay Jorgenson*, CCNY and Graduate Center
  Cormac O' Sullivan, Bronx Community College
  (1017-11-75)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On zeros of Eisenstein series for genus zero Fuchsian groups.
  Heekyoung Hahn*, University of Rochester
  (1017-11-125)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A relative trace formula and period integrals.
  Kimball Martin*, Columbia University
  (1017-11-168)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Maximal unramified $3$-extensions and $SL_2({\mathbb{Z}}_3)$.
  Michael R. Bush*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Laurent Bartholdi, L'Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne
  (1017-11-111)

Sunday April 23, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry and Modular Forms, III
Room 102, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Paul E. Gunnells, University of Massachusetts, Amherst gunnells@math.umass.edu
Farshid Hajir, University of Massachusetts, Amherst hajir@math.umass.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Localization of p-adic regulators.
  Tom Weston*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (1017-11-46)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Computations with overconvergent $GL_3$ modular symbols.
  Robert Pollack*, Boston University
  (1017-11-115)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Slope filtrations for relative Frobenius.
  Kiran S. Kedlaya*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1017-11-100)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On a theorem of G. Stevens.
  Matthew Greenberg*, McGill University
  (1017-11-204)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Sheaves of Analytic Families of Overconvergent $p$-adic Modular Forms.
  Glenn Stevens*, Boston University
  Adrian Iovita, Concordia University
  (1017-11-10)

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