AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 21, 2007 00:32:16

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 14, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, I
Room 330, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
Florian Luca, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico fluca@matmor.unam.mx
Allison M. Pacelli, Williams College allison.pacelli@williams.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Integer points on families of elliptic curves.
  Gary Walsh*, University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  (1026-11-32)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the rank of elliptic curves.
  Siman Wong*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (1026-11-188)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rank statistics for a family of elliptic curves over a function field.
  Carl Pomerance*, Dartmouth College
  Igor E. Shparlinski, Department of Computing, Macquarie University
  (1026-11-72)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Distribution of Modular Inverses and Multiples of Small Integers and the Sato--Tate Conjecture on Average.
  Igor E. Shparlinski*, Macquarie University
  (1026-11-47)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Counting Balanced Polynomials over Finite Fields.
  Thomas W. Cusick, SUNY Buffalo
  Yuan Li, Alcorn State University
  Pante Stanica*, Naval Postgraduate School
  (1026-12-43)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Splitting Fields for Characteristic Polynomials of Matrices with Entries in a Finite Field.
  Eric Schmutz*, Drexel University
  (1026-11-13)

Saturday April 14, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, II
Room 330, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
Florian Luca, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico fluca@matmor.unam.mx
Allison M. Pacelli, Williams College allison.pacelli@williams.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Another $n$-point $abc$ Conjecture.
  Robert L Benedetto*, Amherst College
  (1026-11-95)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Generalized Artin's conjecture over function fields.
  Ebru Bekyel*, University of Washington
  (1026-11-224)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Prime Values of Polynomials in Positive Characteristic.
  Paul Pollack*, Dartmouth College
  (1026-11-213)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Ideal Class Groups and Rational Torsion in Jacobians of Curves.
  Aaron Levin*, Brown University
  (1026-11-80)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Bounding the $3$-part of class numbers of quadratic fields via the square sieve.
  Lillian B. Pierce*, Princeton University
  (1026-11-106)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Generalized-Euler-Constant Function $\gamma(z)$ and a Generalization of Somos's Quadratic Recurrence Constant.
  Jonathan Sondow*, New York, NY
  Petros Hadjicostas, Texas Tech University
  (1026-11-08)

Sunday April 15, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, III
Room 330, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
Florian Luca, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico fluca@matmor.unam.mx
Allison M. Pacelli, Williams College allison.pacelli@williams.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Rational Periodic Points for Rational Maps with Automorphims.
  Michelle Manes*, Brown University
  (1026-11-184)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Arithmetic Dynamics on Projective Varieties: Reduction of Periodic Points.
  Benjamin Hutz*, Brown University
  (1026-11-160)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the period of the linear congruential and power generators.
  Par Kurlberg*, KTH
  Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth College
  (1026-11-191)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Prime divisors of binomial coefficients and the like.
  Michael Bennett, University of British Columbia
  Michael Filaseta*, University of South Carolina
  Ognian Trifonov, University of South Carolina
  (1026-11-183)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Algebraic Properties of Certain Jacobi Polynomials.
  John Cullinan*, Bard College
  (1026-11-136)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Cyclotomic Polynomials of Order Three and Maximal Height of Divisors of $x^n-1$.
  Nathan Kaplan*, Princeton University
  (1026-11-146)

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