AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, April 17, 2006 00:33:27

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday April 8, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, I
Room 214, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Scott T. Parsell, Butler University sparsell@butler.edu
Jonathan P. Sorenson, Butler University sorenson@butler.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Exceptional sets in short intervals.
  A V Kumchev*, Towson University
  (1016-11-268)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Systems of many diagonal forms of different degrees over $p$-adic fields.
  Michael P. Knapp*, Loyola College
  (1016-11-317)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the Diophantine equation $x! + 1 = y^2$.
  Alain Togbe*, Purdue University North Central
  (1016-11-202)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Uniform Distributions on the Natural Numbers.
  Oliver Schirokauer*, Department of Mathematics, Oberlin College
  Joseph B. Kadane, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  (1016-60-226)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Congruences for $r_s(n)$ modulo $2s$.
  Samuel S Wagstaff*, Purdue University Computer Science and CERIAS
  (1016-11-10)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Some Remarks Concerning NUCOMP.
  Reginald E Sawilla, University of Calgary
  Hugh C Williams*, University of Calgary
  (1016-11-250)

Saturday April 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, II
Room 214, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Scott T. Parsell, Butler University sparsell@butler.edu
Jonathan P. Sorenson, Butler University sorenson@butler.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Numerical Results on Class Groups of Imaginary Quadratic Fields.
  S. Ramachandran*, University of Calgary
  M. J. Jacobson, University of Calgary
  H. C. Williams, University of Calgary
  (1016-11-115)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Improved Point Multiplication on Koblitz Curves Using Double-base Expansions.
  Andy Chan, University of Calgary
  Vassil Dimitrov, University of Calgary
  Laurent Imbert, Universit� Montpellier II
  Michael Jacobson*, University of Calgary
  (1016-11-137)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Real Hyperelliptic Curves, Part I: Theory and Algorithms.
  Michael J Jacobson, University of Calgary
  Renate Scheidler*, Centre for Information Security and Cryptography, University of Calgary
  Andreas Stein, University of Wyoming
  (1016-11-252)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Real Hyperelliptic Curves Part II: Algorithms and Application to Cryptography.
  Andreas Stein*, University of Wyoming
  Michael John Jacobson, University of Calgary
  Renate Scheidler, University of Calgary
  (1016-11-150)

Sunday April 9, 2006, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, III
Room 214, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Scott T. Parsell, Butler University sparsell@butler.edu
Jonathan P. Sorenson, Butler University sorenson@butler.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Congruences for modular forms of weights 2 and 4.
  Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois
  (1016-11-300)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Central critical values of modular $L$-functions modulo $\ell$.
  Scott Ahlgren, University of Illinois
  Matthew Boylan*, University of South Carolina
  (1016-11-282)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Freeman Dyson's "Challenge for the Future": The mock theta functions.
  Kathrin Bringmann*, university of Wisconsin
  (1016-11-286)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Small Rational Points on Elliptic Curves Over Number Fields.
  Clayton Petsche*, University of Georgia
  (1016-11-121)

Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, III
Room 214, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
Scott T. Parsell, Butler University sparsell@butler.edu
Jonathan P. Sorenson, Butler University sorenson@butler.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Computing Prime Harmonic Sums.
  Eric Bach*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Jonathan Sorenson, Butler University
  (1016-11-306)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Differential addition chains.
  Daniel J. Bernstein*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1016-11-253)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Distribution of Some Sequences of Points on Elliptic Curves.
  Tanja Lange*, Technical University of Denmark
  Igor E. Shparlinski, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia
  (1016-11-279)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Mapping the Discrete Logarithm.
  Daniel R Cloutier*, Cincinnati, OH, USA
  Joshua R Holden, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  (1016-11-263)

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