AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 28, 2007 00:31:19

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

Saturday April 21, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory in the Southwest, I
Room 310, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Dinesh S. Thakur, University of Arizona thakur@math.arizona.edu
Douglas L. Ulmer, University of Arizona ulmer@math.arizona.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Modular forms mod p and relations among Heegner points.
  Alexandru Buium*, University of New Mexico
  Bjorn Poonen, University of California, Berkeley
  (1027-11-24)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Centralizers in Langlands dual groups over formal Taylor series.
  D. Arinkin*, California Institute of Technology
  (1027-11-232)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Integral monodromy of curves with given $p$-rank.
  Rachel J. Pries*, Colorado State University
  Jeff Achter, Colorado State University
  (1027-11-143)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Properties of Certain Weakly Holomorphic Modular Forms.
  W. Duke, UCLA
  P. Jenkins*, UCLA
  (1027-11-189)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Congruences among automorphic forms on U(2,2) and the Bloch-Kato conjecture.
  Krzysztof Klosin*, University of Utah
  (1027-11-96)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Subvarieties of Drinfeld Jacobians and congruences.
  Mihran Papikian*, Stanford University
  (1027-11-160)

Saturday April 21, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory in the Southwest, II
Room 310, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Dinesh S. Thakur, University of Arizona thakur@math.arizona.edu
Douglas L. Ulmer, University of Arizona ulmer@math.arizona.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the Diophantine equation $y^2=x^6+k$.
  Andrew Bremner*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University
  Nikos Tzanakis, Department of Mathematics, University of Iraklion, Crete.
  (1027-11-100)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Rational points on symmetric varieties.
  Alexander Gorodnik*, CalTech
  Hee Oh, Brown University
  (1027-11-90)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Epsilon factors for unitary groups.
  Eric Wambach*, California Institute of Technology
  (1027-11-200)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Number Fields Unramified Away From 2.
  John W Jones*, Arizona State University
  (1027-11-84)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Exceptional covers of surfaces.
  Jeffrey D. Achter*, Colorado State University
  (1027-14-144)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A generalization of Jacobi's Derivative Formula to higher derivatives and characteristics.
  David R Grant*, University of Colorado at Boulder
  (1027-11-133)

Sunday April 22, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory in the Southwest, III
Room 310, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Dinesh S. Thakur, University of Arizona thakur@math.arizona.edu
Douglas L. Ulmer, University of Arizona ulmer@math.arizona.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Totally Degenerate Reduction and the Conjectures of Hodge and Tate.
  Wayne M. Raskind*, University of Southern California
  (1027-11-141)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Orbits of rational points on certain $K3$ surfaces and the ample cone.
  Arthur Baragar*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
  (1027-11-80)
- 9:00 a.m.
  K-theory of log-schemes.
  Wieslawa Niziol*, University of Utah
  (1027-11-237)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Descent on the Congruent Number Elliptic Curves.
  Nick Rogers*, University of Arizona
  (1027-11-222)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Lifting Puzzles for Siegel Modular Forms.
  Cris Poor, Fordham University
  Nathan C. Ryan*, UCLA
  David S. Yuen, Lake Forest College
  (1027-11-86)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Periods of Drinfeld modules and difference Galois groups.
  Chieh-Yu Chang, National Tsing-Hua University
  Matthew Papanikolas*, Texas A&M University
  (1027-11-155)

Sunday April 22, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory in the Southwest, IV
Room 310, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Dinesh S. Thakur, University of Arizona thakur@math.arizona.edu
Douglas L. Ulmer, University of Arizona ulmer@math.arizona.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On special values of $p$-adic L-functions.
  Adebisi Agboola*, UC Santa Barbara
  (1027-11-166)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Ranks of abelian varieties over function fields.
  Lisa Berger*, University of Arizona
  (1027-11-193)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Irreducible polynomials over number fields.
  S Jasbir Chahal*, Brigham Young University
  (1027-11-119)
- 4:30 p.m.
  ABC implies the Radicalized Vojta Height Inequality for curves.
  Machiel van Frankenhuijsen*, Utah Valley State
  (1027-11-76)

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