2012 Spring Western Section Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 10, 2012 00:27:19

Associate secretaries:

Saturday March 3, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, I
Room 210, Kuykendall Hall
Organizers:
Xander Faber, University of Hawaii xander@math.hawaii.edu
Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii mmanes@math.hawaii.edu
Gretel Sia, University of Hawaii gsia@math.hawaii.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Heights and post-critically finite rational maps.
  Patrick Ingram*, Colorado State University
  (1078-11-366)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Integral Points and Forward Orbits on $\mathbb{P}^n$.
  Yu Yasufuku*, Nihon University, College of Science and Technology
  (1078-11-273)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quantitative equidistribution in dynamics over general fields.
  Yûsuke Okuyama*, Kyoto Institute of Technology
  (1078-11-233)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Orbit length statistics and the dynamical Mordell-Lang conjecture.
  Par M Kurlberg*, KTH
  Ben Hutz, CUNY
  Thomas Scanlon, UC Berkeley
  Thomas Tucker, Rochester U.
  Dragos Ghioca, UBC
  Robert Benedetto, Amherst College
  (1078-11-246)

Saturday March 3, 2012, 3:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, II
Room 210, Kuykendall Hall
Organizers:
Xander Faber, University of Hawaii xander@math.hawaii.edu
Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii mmanes@math.hawaii.edu
Gretel Sia, University of Hawaii gsia@math.hawaii.edu
- 3:15 p.m.
  Point counts for complete intersections over finite fields.
  Alina Bucur*, UCSD
  (1078-11-143)
- 3:45 p.m.
  General dispersion and condensation in Nottingham.
  Jonathan Lubin*, Brown University
  (1078-14-32)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Random Dieudonne modules and the Cohen-Lenstra conjectures.
  David Michael Zureick-Brown*, Emory University
  Bryden Cais, The University of Arizona
  Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1078-11-42)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Global lifts with local properties.
  Brian Conrad*, Stanford
  (1078-11-239)

Sunday March 4, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, III
Room 210, Kuykendall Hall
Organizers:
Xander Faber, University of Hawaii xander@math.hawaii.edu
Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii mmanes@math.hawaii.edu
Gretel Sia, University of Hawaii gsia@math.hawaii.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  On surjectivity of the Witt vector Frobenius.
  Christopher Davis, University of California, Irvine
  Kiran S. Kedlaya*, MIT / UC San Diego
  (1078-11-37)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Mahler measures of some K3 surfaces.
  Marie-Jose Bertin, Universite PARIS 6
  Amy Feaver, University of Colorado Boulder
  Jenny Fuselier, High Point University
  Matilde Lalin*, University of Montreal
  Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii
  (1078-11-144)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Vector heights.
  Arthur Baragar*, UNLV
  (1078-11-232)
- 9:30 a.m.
  L-packets and abelian varieties.
  Jeffrey D. Achter*, Colorado State University
  Clifton Cunningham, University of Calgary
  (1078-11-288)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Jacobians of Hermitian curves and the supersingular locus.
  Rachel J. Pries*, Colorado State University
  Colin Weir, University of Calgary
  (1078-11-322)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Torsion and Tamagawa numbers.
  Dino Lorenzini*, University of Georgia
  (1078-11-282)

Sunday March 4, 2012, 3:15 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, IV
Room 210, Kuykendall Hall
Organizers:
Xander Faber, University of Hawaii xander@math.hawaii.edu
Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii mmanes@math.hawaii.edu
Gretel Sia, University of Hawaii gsia@math.hawaii.edu
- 3:15 p.m.
  Integral points on elliptic curves and explicit valuations of division polynomials.
  Katherine E Stange*, Stanford University
  (1078-11-364)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Ranks of elliptic curves in families of quadratic twists.
  Zev Klagsbrun, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Barry Mazur, Harvard University
  Karl Rubin*, UC Irvine
  (1078-11-134)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Using elliptic curve with CM by $\sqrt{-7}$ to test primality.
  Alexander Abatzoglou, UCI
  Alice Silverberg*, University of California, Irvine
  Andrew V. Sutherland, MIT
  Angela Wong, UCI
  (1078-11-154)