AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 18, 2008 00:36:13

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday October 11, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, I
Room 405, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Wai Kiu Chan, Wesleyan University wkchan@wesleyan.edu
David Pollack, Wesleyan University dpollack@wesleyan.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Certain Eisenstein series on loop groups.
  Seok-Jin Kang, Seoul National University
  Kyu-Hwan Lee*, University of Connecticut
  Euiyong Park, Seoul National University
  (1042-11-189)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Weyl Group Multiple Dirichlet Series for Type C: Part I.
  Jennifer Beineke*, Western New England College
  Ben Brubaker, MIT
  Sharon Frechette, College of the Holy Cross
  (1042-11-206)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series for Type C: Part II.
  Jennifer Beineke, Western New England College
  Ben Brubaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Sharon Frechette*, College of the Holy Cross
  (1042-11-203)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Class Number Indivisibility in Function Fields.
  Allison M. Pacelli*, Williams College
  Michael Rosen, Brown University
  (1042-11-155)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Class number indivisibility for function fields.
  Siman Wong*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (1042-11-119)

Saturday October 11, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, II
Room 405, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Wai Kiu Chan, Wesleyan University wkchan@wesleyan.edu
David Pollack, Wesleyan University dpollack@wesleyan.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Equations for p-adic families of arithmetic cohomology.
  Avner Ash*, Boston College
  (1042-11-13)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Steinberg Symbols and Eisenstein Cohomology.
  Glenn Stevens*, Boston University
  (1042-11-209)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Liftings of Representations of Finite Groups with Applications to p-adic Base Change.
  Joshua M. Lansky*, American University
  Jeffrey D. Adler, American University
  (1042-22-196)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Mazur-Tate elements of non-ordinary modular forms I.
  Matthew Emerton, Northwestern University
  Robert Pollack, Boston University
  Tom Weston*, University of Massachusetts
  (1042-11-64)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Mazur-Tate elements of non-ordinary modular forms II.
  Robert Pollack*, Boston University
  (1042-11-65)

Sunday October 12, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, III
Room 405, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Wai Kiu Chan, Wesleyan University wkchan@wesleyan.edu
David Pollack, Wesleyan University dpollack@wesleyan.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Representations of positive ternary quadratic forms.
  Byeong-Kweon Oh*, Department of Applied Mathematics, Sejong University
  (1042-11-42)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Siegel's lemma outside of a union of varieties.
  Lenny Fukshansky*, Claremont McKenna College
  (1042-11-109)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Multiplicative Properties and Parametrization of Integral Binary Quadratic Forms.
  Andrew G. Earnest*, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
  Robert W. Fitzgerald, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
  (1042-11-72)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Lattices, sphere packings and energy minimization.
  Abhinav Kumar*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research New England
  (1042-11-198)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Intersections of polynomial orbits, and a dynamical Mordell--Lang conjecture.
  Dragos Ghioca, University of Lethbridge
  Thomas J. Tucker, University of Rochester
  Michael E. Zieve*, Rutgers University
  (1042-11-118)

Sunday October 12, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, IV
Room 405, Exley Science Center
Organizers:
Wai Kiu Chan, Wesleyan University wkchan@wesleyan.edu
David Pollack, Wesleyan University dpollack@wesleyan.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Finite conductor models for zeros near the central point of elliptic curve L-functions.
  Steven J Miller*, Williams College
  (1042-11-43)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Bounds for the torsion of elliptic curves over extensions with bounded ramification.
  Alvaro Lozano-Robledo, Cornell University
  Benjamin E. Lundell*, Cornell University
  (1042-11-15)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Ranks of abelian varieties over infinite extensions of the rationals.
  Alvaro Lozano-Robledo*, University of Connecticut - Storrs
  (1042-11-14)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Finiteness results on abelian varieties with constrained torsion.
  Christopher Rasmussen*, Wesleyan University
  Akio Tamagawa, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences
  (1042-11-124)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org