AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 3, 2009 00:21:11

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

Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS steve.weintraub@lehigh.edu

Saturday April 25, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, I
Room 154, Higgins Laboratories
Organizers:
John T. Cullinan, Bard College cullinan@bard.edu
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- 9:00 a.m.
  Linear independence of zeta zeros in function fields.
  Byungchul Cha*, Muhlenberg College
  (1050-11-07)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Benford's Law, Values of L-Functions and the 3x+1 Problem.
  Steven J Miller*, Williams College
  (1050-11-32)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Average values of L-functions via relative trace formula.
  Andrew Knightly*, University of Maine
  Charles Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  (1050-11-121)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Averages of $L$-functions over Quadratic Function Fields.
  Russell Prime*, University of Connecticut
  (1050-11-144)

Saturday April 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, II
Room 154, Higgins Laboratories
Organizers:
John T. Cullinan, Bard College cullinan@bard.edu
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- 3:00 p.m.
  Weyl Group Multiple Dirichlet Series and GT-Patterns: Part I.
  Jennifer Beineke*, Western New England College
  Ben Brubaker, MIT
  Sharon Frechette, College of the Holy Cross
  (1050-11-163)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series, and GT patterns: Part II.
  Jennifer Beineke, Western New England College
  Ben Brubaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Sharon Frechette*, College of the Holy Cross
  (1050-11-150)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Blaschke Product Mappings: Visualization and Automorphic Properties.
  Cristina Ballantine*, College of the Holy Cross
  Dorin Ghisa, York University
  (1050-30-126)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Computations with Overconvergent Modular Symbols.
  David Pollack*, Wesleyan University
  Robert Pollack, Boston University
  (1050-11-141)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Bernoulli-Hurwitz numbers, Wieferich primes and Galois representations.
  Álvaro Lozano-Robledo*, University of Connecticut - Storrs
  (1050-11-85)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Galois invariance of local root numbers.
  David E. Rohrlich*, Boston University
  (1050-11-35)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, III
Room 154, Higgins Laboratories
Organizers:
John T. Cullinan, Bard College cullinan@bard.edu
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- 8:30 a.m.
  Simultaneous diagonal equations of odd degrees.
  Michael P. Knapp*, Loyola College
  (1050-11-29)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Codes over $\mathbb{F}_{p^2}$ and $\mathbb{F}_p \times \mathbb{F}_p$, lattices, and theta functions.
  Caleb McKinley Shor*, Western New England College
  (1050-11-143)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Prime Divisors in Arithmetic Dynamics.
  Rafe Jones*, College of the Holy Cross
  (1050-11-129)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Specializations of finitely ramified towers of self-maps of the projective line.
  Farshid Hajir*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  John Cullinan, Bard College
  (1050-11-140)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Variants of a problem of Erdos and Romanov.
  Florian Luca*, UNAM
  (1050-11-34)

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