AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, November 8, 2009 00:36:25

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

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

Friday October 30, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, I
Room 120, General Classroom South
Organizers:
Pete L. Clark, University of Georgia pete@math.uga.edu
Dino Lorenzini, University of Georgia
- 2:30 p.m.
  Clifford sequences in the theory of line bundle-valued quadratic forms over arithmetic schemes.
  Asher Auel*, Emory University
  (1053-11-103)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the explicit construction of the maximal almost abelian extension of an imaginary quadratic base field.
  Amanda M Beeson*, Williams College
  (1053-11-302)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Vanishing Cycles and Wild Monodromy.
  Andrew Obus*, Columbia University
  (1053-14-234)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Counting Algebraic Numbers of Fixed Degree and Fixed Height over Global Fields.
  Seyfi Turkelli*, UGA-Athens
  (1053-11-332)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Progress on the arithmetic of rational surfaces.
  Anthony Varilly-Alvarado*, Rice University
  (1053-14-349)

Saturday October 31, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, II
Room 120, General Classroom South
Organizers:
Pete L. Clark, University of Georgia pete@math.uga.edu
Dino Lorenzini, University of Georgia
- 8:00 a.m.
  Modular curves and modular representations of $\mathrm{SL}_2$.
  Bryden R. Cais*, McGill University
  (1053-14-208)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rational torsion in elliptic curves and the cuspidal subgroup.
  Amod Agashe*, Florida State University
  (1053-11-196)
- 9:30 a.m.
  K3 surfaces and Hilbert modular surfaces.
  Abhinav Kumar*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1053-11-204)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A $p$-adic Nevanlinna-Diophantine Correspondence.
  Aaron Levin*, Institute for Advanced Study
  Julie Tzu-Yueh Wang, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica
  Ta Thi Hoai An, Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology
  (1053-11-306)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Bernoulli-Hurwitz numbers, Wieferich primes and Galois representations.
  Álvaro Lozano-Robledo*, University of Connecticut - Storrs
  (1053-11-200)

Saturday October 31, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, III
Room 120, General Classroom South
Organizers:
Pete L. Clark, University of Georgia pete@math.uga.edu
Dino Lorenzini, University of Georgia
- 2:30 p.m.
  Brauer-Manin obstructions on K3 surfaces.
  Patrick K Corn*, Emory University
  (1053-11-310)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Gonality and Hilbert Irreducibility.
  Chris Hall*, University of Wyoming
  (1053-11-111)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the arithmetic of modular curves of $\cal{D}$-elliptic sheaves.
  Mihran Papikian*, Pennsylvania State University
  (1053-11-153)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The period-index problem for genus 1 curves over number fields.
  Shahed Sharif*, Duke University
  (1053-11-267)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Inseparable Local Uniformization.
  Michael Temkin*, IAS
  (1053-14-296)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion.

Sunday November 1, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, IV
Room 120, General Classroom South
Organizers:
Pete L. Clark, University of Georgia pete@math.uga.edu
Dino Lorenzini, University of Georgia
- 8:30 a.m.
  Prime Factors of Dynamical Sequences.
  Xander Faber*, McGill University
  (1053-11-181)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Global Divisbility of Heegner Points and Tamagawa Numbers.
  Dimitar P Jetchev*, New York, NY
  (1053-11-81)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Failure of the Hasse principle for Enriques surfaces.
  Bianca L Viray*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1053-11-245)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Tables of modular elliptic curves over totally real fields.
  John Voight*, University of Vermont
  (1053-11-156)

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