AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 11, 2009 00:27:58

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

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday April 4, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Brauer Groups, Quadratic Forms, Algebraic Groups, and Lie Algebras, I
Room 325, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Eric S. Brussel, Emory University
Skip Garibaldi, Emory University skip@mathcs.emory.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Ramification in Bad characteristics.
  David J Saltman*, Center for Communications Research Princeton
  (1048-12-176)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Patching subfields of division algebras.
  David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania
  Julia Hartmann, Aachen University
  Daniel Krashen*, University of Georgia
  (1048-16-337)
- 9:00 a.m.
  $\operatorname{Spin}_7$ as a differential Galois group.
  Arne Ledet*, Texas Tech University
  (1048-12-62)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Indecomposable division algebras in the Brauer group of $\mathbb{Q}_p(t)$.
  Kelly McKinnie*, Rice University/University of Montana
  Eric Brussel, Emory University
  Eduardo Tengan, ICMC/Universidade de São Paulo
  (1048-16-286)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Lattice invariants over cyclic groups and Noether settings.
  Esther Beneish*, Central Michigan University
  (1048-20-339)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Essential dimension and abelian varieties.
  Patrick Gerald Brosnan*, University of British Columbia
  (1048-14-217)

Saturday April 4, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Brauer Groups, Quadratic Forms, Algebraic Groups, and Lie Algebras, II
Room 325, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Eric S. Brussel, Emory University
Skip Garibaldi, Emory University skip@mathcs.emory.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Algebraic group actions on noncommutative spectra.
  Martin Lorenz*, Temple University
  (1048-16-52)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Freudenthal Triple Systems by Root System Methods.
  Fred W. Helenius*, Emory University
  (1048-17-327)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A New Approach to Killing Forms.
  Audrey Malagon*, Emory University
  (1048-17-322)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Mad subalgebras and finite-dimensional Lie subalgebras of an enveloping algebra.
  Xin Tang*, Fayetteville State University
  (1048-17-47)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Rational nilpotent orbits for a reductive group over a local field.
  George J McNinch*, Tufts University
  (1048-20-193)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Vanishing ranges for the cohomology of finite groups of Lie type.
  Christopher P Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout
  Daniel K Nakano, University of Georgia
  Cornelius Pillen*, University of South Alabama
  (1048-20-128)

Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Brauer Groups, Quadratic Forms, Algebraic Groups, and Lie Algebras, III
Room 325, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Eric S. Brussel, Emory University
Skip Garibaldi, Emory University skip@mathcs.emory.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The $u$-invariant of a function field over $Q_p$.
  David B. Leep*, University of Kentucky
  (1048-11-249)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Field Invariants under Real and Nonreal Extensions.
  Claus Schubert*, SUNY Cortland
  (1048-11-80)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On graded polynomial identities of matrices.
  Michael Natapov*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  Darrell Haile, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (1048-16-244)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the Okubo product and a theorem of Rost.
  Darrell E. Haile*, Indiana University
  Jean-Pierre Tignol, Universite catholique de Louvain
  (1048-16-178)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Essential dimension of Jordan algebras.
  Mark L MacDonald*, University of British Columbia
  (1048-17-121)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Quadrics over the field with one element.
  Max-Albert Knus, ETH Zurich
  Jean-Pierre Tignol*, Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve
  (1048-11-223)

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