AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 11, 2008 00:21:07

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

Saturday May 3, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Problems and Discrete Geometry, I
Room RN 15 (Lower Level), Roberts Hall North
Organizers:
Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University beck@math.sfsu.edu
Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna College lenny@cmc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Linear forms of finite sets of integers and lattice points.
  Melvyn B. Nathanson*, CUNY ( Lehman College and the Graduate Center)
  (1039-11-108)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Polyhedral reduction domains from perfect forms.
  Achill Schuermann*, University of Magdeburg
  (1039-11-67)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Diophantine problem arising from a study in Galois groups.
  M Filaseta*, University of South Carolina
  S Laishram, University of Waterloo
  N Saradha, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
  (1039-11-101)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Exceptional sets for sums of primes and squares of primes.
  Angel V Kumchev*, Towson University, MD
  Jianya Liu, Shandong University, China
  (1039-11-56)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The limiting curve of Jarn\'\i k's polygons.
  Greg Martin*, University of British Columbia
  (1039-11-07)

Saturday May 3, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Problems and Discrete Geometry, II
Room RN 15 (Lower Level), Roberts Hall North
Organizers:
Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University beck@math.sfsu.edu
Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna College lenny@cmc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Banach space determined by the Weil height.
  Daniel Allcock, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  Jeffrey D. Vaaler*, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  (1039-11-46)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Asymptotic results involving Ostrowski's decomposition of natural numbers.
  Edward B. Burger*, Williams College
  (1039-11-95)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Convex polygons with fixed diameter and maximal perimeter.
  Michael J. Mossinghoff*, Davidson College
  (1039-52-117)
- 4:30 p.m.
  An extension to the Brun-Titchmarsh theorem.
  Stephen Choi*, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
  Kai Man Tsang, The University of Hong Kong
  Tsz Ho Chan, University of Memphis
  (1039-11-41)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Repulsion of imaginary quadratic numbers of low height.
  Christopher D Sinclair*, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (1039-11-60)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Lehmer's problem for integer symmetric matrices.
  Chris J Smyth*, University of Edinburgh, UK
  James F McKee, Royal Holloway, University of London
  (1039-12-17)

Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Problems and Discrete Geometry, III
Room RN 15 (Lower Level), Roberts Hall North
Organizers:
Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University beck@math.sfsu.edu
Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna College lenny@cmc.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Heights for subvarieties of abelian varieties.
  Sinnou David*, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
  (1039-11-180)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Orbits of points on $K3$ surfaces.
  Arthur Baragar*, UNLV
  (1039-11-157)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Sums over polytopes.
  James E Pommersheim*, Reed College
  (1039-52-139)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Minimal Volume $k$-Point Lattice $d$-Simplices.
  Han M Duong*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1039-52-59)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Lattices in Division Algebras and Wireless Communication.
  B. A. Sethuraman*, California State University Northridge
  (1039-16-54)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Congruences for some theta series coefficients.
  Pavel Guerzhoy*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  (1039-11-124)

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