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 Automorphisms of Curves, I
Room 413, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Aaron D. Wootton, University of Portland wootton@up.edu
Anthony Weaver, Bronx Community College anthonyweaver@mac.com
S. Allen Broughton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology allen.broughton@rose-hulman.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Complete bipartite maps, factorisations of groups, and generalised Fermat curves.
  Gareth A. Jones*, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  (1027-20-187)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Double coverings of hyperelliptic real algebraic curves.
  Emilio Bujalance, Dep. Matematicas Fundamentales, UNED, Spain
  Francisco Javier Cirre*, Dep. Matematicas Fundamentales, UNED, Spain
  Jose Manuel Gamboa, Dep. Algebra, Facultad de Matematicas, UCM, Madrid, Spain
  (1027-30-162)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Generalized Fermat curves.
  Gabino Gonzalez-Diez*, Universidad Aut\'onoma de Madrid. Spain.
  Ruben Hidalgo, UTFSM, Valpara\'iso, Chile.
  Maximiliano Leyton, UTFSM, Valpara\'iso, Chile
  (1027-30-113)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Full Automorphism Group of a Cyclic $p$-gonal Surface.
  Aaron Wootton*, University of Portland
  (1027-20-79)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Canonical Forms for Conjugacy Classes of Prime Order Symplectic Matrices in $\mathbf{Sp(2g,{\mathbb{Z}})}$.
  Jane Gilman*, Rutgers-Newark
  (1027-20-40)

Saturday April 21, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Automorphisms of Curves, II
Room 413, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Aaron D. Wootton, University of Portland wootton@up.edu
Anthony Weaver, Bronx Community College anthonyweaver@mac.com
S. Allen Broughton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology allen.broughton@rose-hulman.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Classifying Pairs of Fuchsian Groups of Finite Type.
  S. Allen Broughton*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  (1027-14-104)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Triangle Fuchsian groups and surfaces with many automorphisms.
  Ernesto Girondo*, Departamento de Matematicas. Instituto de Matematicas y Fisica Fundamental-IMAFF. CSIC. Madrid (Spain)
  (1027-30-125)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Vanishings of Theta on the Jacobian of Bring's Curve (Numerical Results).
  James S Wolper*, Idaho State University
  (1027-14-228)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Invariant Spin Structures on Riemann Surfaces.
  Denis K. Sjerve*, University of British Columbia
  Sadok Kallel, Universite de Lille I
  (1027-14-74)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On endomorphism algebras of hyperelliptic jacobians.
  Arsen Elkin*, Colorado State University
  Yuri Zarhin, Pennsylvania State University
  (1027-14-158)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The relationship between p-ranks and automorphism groups.
  Darren B Glass*, Gettysburg College
  (1027-14-78)

Sunday April 22, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Automorphisms of Curves, III
Room 413, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Aaron D. Wootton, University of Portland wootton@up.edu
Anthony Weaver, Bronx Community College anthonyweaver@mac.com
S. Allen Broughton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology allen.broughton@rose-hulman.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Combinatorial group-theoretic methods in the study of automorphisms of maps and surfaces.
  Marston D E Conder*, University of Auckland
  (1027-20-206)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Gap-filling for the Symmetric Genus of a Group.
  Thomas W. Tucker*, Colgate University, Hamilton NY USA
  Marston Conder, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
  (1027-20-226)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Strong Symmetric Genus and Generalized Symmetric Groups of Type $G(n,3)$.
  Michael A Jackson*, King College
  (1027-20-101)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The symmetric crosscap number of the groups $C_{m}\times D_{n}$.
  Jose Javier Etayo*, Dept. de Algebra, Universidad Complutense
  Ernesto Martinez, Dept. Matematicas Fundamentales, UNED
  (1027-20-98)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The largest non-genus of ${\Bbb Z}_{pq}$ and the Frobenius problem.
  Cormac O'Sullivan, Bronx Community College, City University of New York
  Anthony Weaver*, Bronx Community College, City University of New York
  (1027-11-38)

Sunday April 22, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Automorphisms of Curves, IV
Room 413, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Aaron D. Wootton, University of Portland wootton@up.edu
Anthony Weaver, Bronx Community College anthonyweaver@mac.com
S. Allen Broughton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology allen.broughton@rose-hulman.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Finite earthquakes and the associahedron.
  Frederick P. Gardiner*, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Brooklyn, New York
  Jun Hu, Brooklyn College, CUNY, NY
  (1027-30-27)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Some metric properties of the Teichm\"uller space of a Riemann surface rel a closed subset.
  Sudeb Mitra*, Queens College of the City University of New York
  (1027-32-168)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion

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