AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 22, 2008 00:20:42

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

Saturday March 15, 2008, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on L-Functions and Automorphic Forms, I
Room 206, Silver Center
Organizers:
Alina Bucur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Akshay Venkatesh, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Stephen D. Miller, Rutgers University
Steven J. Miller, Brown University sjmiller@math.brown.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Chebyshev's bias in function fields.
  Byungchul Cha*, Muhlenberg College
  (1036-11-07)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Combinatorics and representation theory of p-adic groups.
  Cristina M Ballantine*, College of the Holy Cross
  (1036-11-102)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Hecke Operators and Buildings.
  A Setyadi*, College of Mount Saint Vincent
  (1036-11-60)

Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on L-Functions and Automorphic Forms, II
Room 206, Silver Center
Organizers:
Alina Bucur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Akshay Venkatesh, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Stephen D. Miller, Rutgers University
Steven J. Miller, Brown University sjmiller@math.brown.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Atkin-Serre type conjectures for automorphic representations on $GL(2)$.
  Jeremy A Rouse*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (1036-11-12)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Arithmetic functions attached to real quadratic fields and central values of L-functions.
  Alexandru Popa*, University of Pennsylvania, Mathematics Dept.
  (1036-11-172)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Quadratic function fields with large class rank.
  Siman Wong*, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Massachusetts. Amherst, MA
  (1036-11-84)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Moments of automorphic L-functions.
  Adrian Diaconu*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  (1036-11-191)

Sunday March 16, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on L-Functions and Automorphic Forms, III
Room 206, Silver Center
Organizers:
Alina Bucur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Akshay Venkatesh, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Stephen D. Miller, Rutgers University
Steven J. Miller, Brown University sjmiller@math.brown.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Oppenheim Summation and the Atkinson-Jutila Formula for the Square of the Riemann Zeta Function.
  Jennifer Beineke*, Western New England College
  Daniel Bump, Stanford University
  (1036-11-138)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Applications of Invariant Distributions.
  Stephen D Miller*, Rutgers University
  (1036-11-129)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series and Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns.
  Ben Brubaker, Department of Mathematics, M.I.T.
  Daniel Bump, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
  Solomon Friedberg*, Department of Mathematics, Boston College
  (1036-11-66)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Lefschetz numbers of automorphism on the cuspidal cohomology.
  Birgit Speh*, Cornell University
  (1036-22-155)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Calculating Maass forms and L-functions for GL(3).
  David W Farmer*, American Institute of Mathematics
  (1036-11-108)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Subconvexity bounds of $L$-functions.
  Xiaoqing Li*, SUNY-Buffalo
  (1036-11-197)

Sunday March 16, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on L-Functions and Automorphic Forms, IV
Room 206, Silver Center
Organizers:
Alina Bucur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Akshay Venkatesh, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Stephen D. Miller, Rutgers University
Steven J. Miller, Brown University sjmiller@math.brown.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  An update on non-vanishing results for twists of automorphic L-series.
  Jeff Hoffstein*, Brown University
  (1036-11-98)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Partition statistics and quasiweak Maass forms.
  Kathrin Bringmann, University of Minnesota
  Frank Garvan, University of Florida
  Karl Mahlburg*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1036-11-196)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Recent trends and advances in sieve methods.
  Henryk Iwaniec*, Rutgers University
  (1036-11-147)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A Symplectic Test of the L-Functions Ratios Conjecture.
  Steven J Miller*, Brown University
  (1036-11-49)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Orbital Counting for Infinite Co-Volume Fuchsian Groups and Affine Linear Sieves.
  Alex V Kontorovich*, Brown University
  (1036-11-51)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Algebraic Number Fields, Primes, and Photonic Devices.
  P. Robert Kotiuga*, ECE Dept. Boston University
  (1036-11-126)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org