AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 11, 2008 00:27:40

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday October 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on West End Number Theory, I
Room 1221, Forest Sciences Centre
Organizers:
Nils Bruin, Simon Fraser University nbruin@cecm.sfu.ca
Matilde N. Lalin, University of Alberta mlalin@math.ualberta.ca
Greg Martin, University of British Columbia gerg@math.ubc.ca
- 8:00 a.m.
  Evaluating Igusa Functions.
  Reinier Broker, Microsoft Research
  Kristin E. Lauter*, Microsoft Research
  (1041-11-221)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Split reductions of simple abelian varieties.
  Jeffrey D. Achter*, Colorado State University
  (1041-11-142)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some Improved Algorithms for Performing Arithmetic in Quadratic Fields.
  Hugh C Williams*, University of Calgary
  (1041-11-138)
- 10:30 a.m.
  An Explicit Treatment of Biquadratic Function Fields.
  Qingquan Wu, University of Calgary
  Renate Scheidler*, University of Calgary
  (1041-11-52)

Saturday October 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on West End Number Theory, II
Room 1221, Forest Sciences Centre
Organizers:
Nils Bruin, Simon Fraser University nbruin@cecm.sfu.ca
Matilde N. Lalin, University of Alberta mlalin@math.ualberta.ca
Greg Martin, University of British Columbia gerg@math.ubc.ca
- 3:00 p.m.
  A bound for the least prime ideal in the Chebotarev density problem.
  Habiba Kadiri*, University of Lethbridge
  Nathan Ng, University of Lethbridge
  (1041-11-203)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Non-vanishing of L-functions and an application to Fermat equations.
  Nathan Ng*, University of Lethbridge
  Michael Bennett, University of British Columbia
  Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin
  (1041-11-227)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the Diophantine equation $ax^2+by^3=cz^5$.
  Sander R. Dahmen*, Department of Mathematics, the University of British Columbia / Simon Fraser University
  (1041-11-217)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Vertical Sato-Tate Conjecture.
  Kaneenika Sinha*, PIMS/University of Alberta
  (1041-11-60)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On Permutation Polynomials.
  Amir Akbary*, University of Lethbridge
  (1041-11-168)

Sunday October 5, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on West End Number Theory, III
Room 1221, Forest Sciences Centre
Organizers:
Nils Bruin, Simon Fraser University nbruin@cecm.sfu.ca
Matilde N. Lalin, University of Alberta mlalin@math.ualberta.ca
Greg Martin, University of British Columbia gerg@math.ubc.ca
- 8:00 a.m.
  The $p$-rank and $a$-number of curves in characteristic $p$ with non-trivial automorphism group.
  Rachel Pries*, Colorado State University
  (1041-11-137)
- 9:00 a.m.
  $p$-adic Stark-Heegner point constructions.
  Matthew Greenberg*, University of Calgary
  (1041-11-150)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The fractional Galois ideal and Rubin's integral Stark Conjecture.
  Paul Richard Buckingham*, University of Alberta
  (1041-11-86)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Constructing simultaneous Hecke eigenforms.
  Thomas Shemanske, Dartmouth College
  Stephanie Treneer*, Western Washington University
  Lynne Walling, University of Bristol
  (1041-11-35)

Sunday October 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on West End Number Theory, IV
Room 1221, Forest Sciences Centre
Organizers:
Nils Bruin, Simon Fraser University nbruin@cecm.sfu.ca
Matilde N. Lalin, University of Alberta mlalin@math.ualberta.ca
Greg Martin, University of British Columbia gerg@math.ubc.ca
- 3:00 p.m.
  The ramification of $p$ in a $p$-descent.
  David Grant*, University of Colorado at Boulder
  (1041-11-265)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Restricted Irrationality Measures.
  Mark Bauer*, University of Calgary
  Michael A. Bennett, University of British Columbia
  (1041-11-287)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Arithmetic dynamics.
  Dragos Ghioca*, University of Lethbridge
  (1041-11-144)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org