AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 31, 2009 01:40:04

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

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

Saturday October 24, 2009, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Function Fields and their Applications, I
Room 110, Thomas Building
Organizers:
Mihran Papikian, Pennsylvania State University papikian@math.psu.edu
Kirsten Eisentrager, Pennsylvania State University
- 8:20 a.m.
  Special values of Goss $L$-functions for Dirichlet characters.
  Matthew Papanikolas*, Texas A&M University
  (1052-11-259)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Failure of the Hasse principle for Enriques surfaces.
  Bianca L. Viray*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1052-11-327)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Gonality and Hilbert Irreducibility.
  Chris Hall*, University of Wyoming
  (1052-11-165)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Diophantine Undecidability of Holomorphy Rings of Function Fields of Characteristic 0.
  Laurent Moret-Bailly, Université de Rennes 1
  Alexandra Shlapentokh*, East Carolina University
  (1052-11-163)

Saturday October 24, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Special Session on Function Fields and their Applications, II
Room 110, Thomas Building
Organizers:
Mihran Papikian, Pennsylvania State University papikian@math.psu.edu
Kirsten Eisentrager, Pennsylvania State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the arithmetic of modular curves of $\cal{D}$-elliptic sheaves.
  Mihran Papikian*, Pennsylvania State University
  (1052-11-326)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Twists of elliptic curves with a large set of integral points over function fields.
  Ricardo P. Conceicao*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1052-11-17)
- 4:20 p.m.
  Riemann-Roch spaces of the norm-trace function field.
  Gretchen L. Matthews, Clemson University
  Justin D. Peachey*, Clemson University
  (1052-14-116)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Recent results on the distribution of irreducible polynomials over finite fields.
  Paul Pollack*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/Institute for Advanced Study
  (1052-11-143)
- 5:40 p.m.
  Explicit Construction of Integral Bases of Radical Function Fields.
  Qingquan Wu*, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Calgary
  (1052-11-157)

Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Function Fields and their Applications, III
Room 110, Thomas Building
Organizers:
Mihran Papikian, Pennsylvania State University papikian@math.psu.edu
Kirsten Eisentrager, Pennsylvania State University
- 8:20 a.m.
  Hilbert's Tenth Problem for function fields over algebraically closed fields.
  Kirsten Eisentraeger*, The Pennsylvania State University
  (1052-11-309)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Zeta Functions of Complexes.
  Ming-hsuan Kang*, Pennsylvania State University, Math Department
  (1052-20-49)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Elliptic curves of high rank and explicit points over function fields.
  Douglas Ulmer*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1052-11-224)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Reductions of elliptic curves of global function fields.
  Alina Carmen Cojocaru*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Arpad Toth, Eotos Lorand University, Budapest
  (1052-11-315)

Sunday October 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
Special Session on Function Fields and their Applications, IV
Room 110, Thomas Building
Organizers:
Mihran Papikian, Pennsylvania State University papikian@math.psu.edu
Kirsten Eisentrager, Pennsylvania State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Additive combinatorics in function fields.
  Craig Valere Spencer*, Kansas State University
  (1052-11-144)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Surfaces dominated by products of curves and ranks of abelian varieties.
  Lisa Berger*, Stony Brook University, Mathematics Department
  (1052-11-302)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org