AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 10, 2007 00:26:22

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

Saturday March 3, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Representation Theory and Galois Cohomology in Number Theory, I
Room 2130, Chambers Building
Organizers:
J\'an Min\'{a}\v{c}, University of Western Ontario minac@uwo.ca
John R. Swallow, Davidson College joswallow@davidson.edu
Chairs:
Parimala Raman, Emory University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Maximal Frattini quotients of $p$-Poincar\'e Mapping class groups.
  Michael D. Fried*, UC Irvine, MSU-Billings
  (1024-20-78)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Tame pro-$p$-groups.
  John Labute*, McGill University
  (1024-06-109)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Demushkin Galois groups and primary elements.
  Ido Efrat*, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
  (1024-12-12)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Galois Module Structure of Galois Cohomology and Applications.
  Nicole Lemire*, University of Western Ontario
  Jan Minac, University of Western Ontario
  John Swallow, Davidson College
  (1024-12-232)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Etale Cohomology as Galois Modules.
  Andrew C Schultz*, Stanford University
  (1024-14-147)

Saturday March 3, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Representation Theory and Galois Cohomology in Number Theory, II
Room 2130, Chambers Building
Organizers:
J\'an Min\'{a}\v{c}, University of Western Ontario minac@uwo.ca
John R. Swallow, Davidson College joswallow@davidson.edu
Chairs:
David Leep, University of Kentucky
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the p-adic birational section Conjecture.
  Florian Pop*, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
  (1024-11-261)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Zero cycles of degree one versus rational points.
  Parimala Raman*, Emory University
  (1024-11-265)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Division algebras and regular local rings.
  David J Saltman*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1024-16-143)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Relative Brauer groups of genus $1$ curves.
  Mirela Ciperiani, Columbia University
  Daniel Krashen*, Yale University
  (1024-12-243)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Brauer index reduction via stable twisted sheaves.
  Daniel Krashen, Yale University
  Max Lieblich*, Princeton University
  (1024-14-222)

Sunday March 4, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Representation Theory and Galois Cohomology in Number Theory, III
Room 2130, Chambers Building
Organizers:
J\'an Min\'{a}\v{c}, University of Western Ontario minac@uwo.ca
John R. Swallow, Davidson College joswallow@davidson.edu
Chairs:
Michael D. Fried, University of California Irvine
- 8:30 a.m.
  Gluing representations via idempotent modules and constructing endotrivial modules.
  Paul Balmer, ETH, Zuerich
  David Benson, University of Aberdeen
  Jon F Carlson*, University of Georgia
  (1024-20-112)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Modules of Constant Jordan type.
  Jon Carlson, University of Georgia
  Eric Friedlander, Northwestern University
  Julia Pevtsova*, University of Washington
  (1024-20-195)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Stable cohomology in commutative algebra.
  Luchezar L. Avramov*, University of Nebraska
  (1024-18-205)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Tate cohomology often fails to detect $``$null-homotopy$"$.
  David J Benson, University of Aberdeen
  Sunil K Chebolu*, University of Western Ontario
  J Daniel Christensen, University of Western Ontario
  J\'{a}n Min\'{a}\v{c}, UNiversity of Western Ontario
  (1024-17-90)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Systems of Quadratic Forms defined over $p$-adic Fields.
  David B. Leep*, University of Kentucky
  (1024-11-200)

Sunday March 4, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Representation Theory and Galois Cohomology in Number Theory, IV
Room 2130, Chambers Building
Organizers:
J\'an Min\'{a}\v{c}, University of Western Ontario minac@uwo.ca
John R. Swallow, Davidson College joswallow@davidson.edu
Chairs:
Florian Pop, University of Pennsylvania
- 3:00 p.m.
  Push-Forward Maps in Theories of Cohomology with Support.
  Mona Mocanasu*, Northwestern University
  (1024-14-268)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Random pro-p groups and random Galois groups.
  Nigel Boston*, Universities of South Carolina and Wisconsin
  (1024-11-152)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the construction of families of cyclic polynomials whose roots are algebraic units.
  F Thaine*, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
  (1024-11-32)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Quaternion groups as Galois groups.
  Arne Ledet*, Texas Tech University
  (1024-12-183)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The motive of the stack of bundles.
  Kai Behrend, University of British Columbia
  Ajneet Dhillon*, University of Western Ontario
  (1024-11-60)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org