AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 11, 2006 00:30:38

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

Friday November 3, 2006, 2:45 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Analytic Number Theory and Modular Forms, I
Room 501, Science and Engineering Building
Organizers:
Matthew Boylan, University of South Carolina boylan@math.sc.edu
Gang Yu, University of South Carolina
- 2:45 p.m.
  The modular degree, congruence number, and multiplicity one.
  Amod S Agashe*, Florida State University
  (1022-11-71)
- 3:15 p.m.
  On Elkies modularity conjecture.
  Hiren Maharaj*, Clemson University
  (1022-11-130)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Del Pezzo surfaces and the Brauer-Manin obstruction.
  Patrick K Corn*, University of Georgia
  (1022-11-107)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Some recent averaging results related to the Lang-Trotter conjecture.
  Kevin L James*, Clemson University
  (1022-11-118)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Quadratic twists of elliptic curves with small 2-Selmer rank.
  Sungkon Chang*, Armstrong Atlantic State University
  (1022-11-67)
- 5:15 p.m.
  Algebraic hypergeometric transformations of modular origin.
  Robert S. Maier*, University of Arizona
  (1022-11-11)

Saturday November 4, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Analytic Number Theory and Modular Forms, II
Room 501, Science and Engineering Building
Organizers:
Matthew Boylan, University of South Carolina boylan@math.sc.edu
Gang Yu, University of South Carolina
- 8:00 a.m.
  The coefficients of vector-valued Maass-Poincar\'e series.
  Sharon Anne Garthwaite*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  (1022-11-66)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Zeros of Weakly Holomorphic Modular Forms.
  W. Duke, UCLA
  P. Jenkins*, UCLA
  (1022-11-119)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Broken 1-Diamond Parition.
  Eric T. Mortenson*, Penn State University
  (1022-11-105)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Irreducibility of Hecke Polynomials.
  Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois
  (1022-11-152)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Divisibility of $p$-regular partition functions.
  David K Penniston*, Furman University
  (1022-11-110)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The distribution of powers of the partition function modulo $\ell^j$.
  Timothy P Kilbourn*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (1022-11-51)

Saturday November 4, 2006, 1:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Analytic Number Theory and Modular Forms, III
Room 501, Science and Engineering Building
Organizers:
Matthew Boylan, University of South Carolina boylan@math.sc.edu
Gang Yu, University of South Carolina
- 1:30 p.m.
  Recent work on quadratic forms.
  Jonathan Hanke*, Duke University
  (1022-11-143)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Central Values of Certain L-Series.
  Hui Xue*, Clemson University
  (1022-11-81)
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the special values of certain $L$-functions associated to modular forms.
  A Raghuram*, Oklahoma State University.
  (1022-22-23)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Atkin-Serre Conjecture.
  Jeremy A Rouse*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1022-11-52)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Bounded gaps between products of primes with applications to elliptic curves and modular $L$-functions.
  Frank Thorne*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1022-11-69)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Chebyshev's Bias in Function Fields.
  Byungchul Cha*, Hendrix College
  (1022-11-27)

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