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, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Number Theory, Diophantine Equations and Related Topics, I
Room 305, Kuykendall Hall
Organizers:
Claude Levesque, Université de Laval, Quebec, Canada Claude.Levesque@mat.ulaval.ca
- 8:00 a.m.
  Some number theory associated to modular forms on SL(2).
  Vinayak Vatsal*, University of British Columbia
  (1078-11-14)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Binary theta series and modular forms of weight one with complex multiplication.
  Ernst Kani*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  (1078-11-262)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Exceptional units and cyclic resultants.
  Cameron L Stewart*, University of Waterloo
  (1078-11-226)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Annihilators of the class group of an imaginary compositum of quadratic number fields.
  Radan Kučera*, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  (1078-11-224)
- 10:00 a.m.
  L-functions at the origin and annihilation of S-class groups in multiquadratic extensions.
  Jonathan W Sands*, University of Vermont
  (1078-11-114)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Brauer-Kuroda relations for motivic cohomology groups.
  Manfred Kolster*, McMaster University
  (1078-11-373)

Saturday March 3, 2012, 3:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Number Theory, Diophantine Equations and Related Topics, II
Room 305, Kuykendall Hall
Organizers:
Claude Levesque, Université de Laval, Quebec, Canada Claude.Levesque@mat.ulaval.ca
- 3:15 p.m.
  Chebotarev sets.
  Hershy Kisilevsky*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Concordia University
  Michael O Rubinstein, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
  (1078-11-209)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Families of Thue--Mahler equations with only trivial solutions.
  Michel Waldschmidt*, University P. and M. Curie (Paris 6)
  (1078-11-147)
- 4:15 p.m.
  The range of Carmichael's function.
  Carl Pomerance*, Dartmouth College
  (1078-11-160)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Noether's problem for groups of order $p^5$.
  Ming-chang Kang*, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  (1078-11-17)
- 5:15 p.m.
  Explicit ramification bounds for division fields of Drinfeld modules.
  Imin Chen*, Simon Fraser University
  Yoonjin Lee, Ewha Womans University
  (1078-11-292)
- 5:45 p.m.
  "Toy Galois groups and their invariants".
  Jan Minac*, The University of Western Ontario
  Sunil K. Chebolu, Illinois State University
  Ido Efrat, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
  (1078-12-151)

Sunday March 4, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Number Theory, Diophantine Equations and Related Topics, III
Room 305, Kuykendall Hall
Organizers:
Claude Levesque, Université de Laval, Quebec, Canada Claude.Levesque@mat.ulaval.ca
- 8:00 a.m.
  A geometric variant of Titchmarsh divisor problem.
  Amir Akbary*, University of Lethbridge
  (1078-11-266)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On inverse Galois problem with certain prime conditions.
  Toru Komatsu*, Tokyo University of Science
  (1078-11-269)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Average values of twisted L-functions.
  Andrew Knightly*, University of Maine
  John Jackson, University of Maine
  (1078-11-230)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Congruences of Markoff numbers via Farey parametrization.
  Masanobu Kaneko*, Faculty of Mathematics, Kyushu University
  (1078-11-124)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Common terms in Lucas sequences of distinct type.
  Gary Walsh*, Ottawa, Ontario
  Alain Togbe, Purdue University
  (1078-11-181)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The spin of prime ideals.
  John Friedlander*, University of Toronto
  (1078-11-149)

Sunday March 4, 2012, 3:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Number Theory, Diophantine Equations and Related Topics, IV
Room 305, Kuykendall Hall
Organizers:
Claude Levesque, Université de Laval, Quebec, Canada Claude.Levesque@mat.ulaval.ca
- 3:15 p.m.
  The twists of Hessian elliptic curves over splitting fields of cubic polynomials and the related elliptic 3-folds.
  Katsuya Miyake*, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  (1078-11-135)
- 3:45 p.m.
  On a conjecture of Terai.
  Florian Luca*, UNAM
  (1078-11-18)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Elliptic curves with a fixed number of points over finite fields and the Cohen-Lenstra Heuristics.
  Chantal David*, Concordia University
  (1078-11-270)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Computing Stark units $p$-adically via a formula of Gross.
  Brett A. Tangedal*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  (1078-11-378)
- 5:15 p.m.
  On finite simple groups of square order.
  Shin-ichi Katayama*, Tokushima University/Department of Mathematics
  (1078-11-172)
- 5:45 p.m.
  Diophantine equations with products of consecutive values of a quadratic polynomial.
  Shichun Yang, ABa Teacher's College
  Bo He, ABa Teacher's College
  Alain Togbe*, Purdue University North Central
  (1078-11-211)