AMS :: Central Fall Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, September 27, 2014 00:26:40

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Saturday September 20, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, I
Room 230, Hibbard Hall
Organizers:
Colleen Duffy, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Rafe Jones, Carleton College rfjones@carleton.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  An Introduction to Galois Representations.
  Nigel Boston*, University of Wisconsin- Madison
  (1102-11-178)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Decomposing Jacobian varieties.
  Jennifer Paulhus*, Grinnell College
  (1102-11-134)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Local heuristics and exact formulas for elliptic curves over finite fields.
  Jeff Achter*, Colorado State University
  Julia Gordon, University of British Columbia
  (1102-11-201)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Galois uniformity in quadratic dynamics over k(t).
  Wade Hindes*, Brown University
  (1102-11-116)

Saturday September 20, 2014, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, II
Room 230, Hibbard Hall
Organizers:
Colleen Duffy, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Rafe Jones, Carleton College rfjones@carleton.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$ and $2$-adic images of Galois.
  Jeremy Rouse*, Wake Forest University
  David Zureick-Brown, Emory University
  (1102-11-124)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Alternate Discriminants and Mass Formulas for Number Fields.
  Silas Johnson*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1102-11-161)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Zeros of partial sums of the Dedekind zeta function of a Galois extension.
  Arindam Roy*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1102-11-151)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Zeros of Zeta Functions and Eigenvalues of Pseudo-Laplacians.
  Amy T DeCelles*, University of St. Thomas
  (1102-11-164)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Self-adjoint operators on spaces of automorphic forms.
  Paul Garrett*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  (1102-11-106)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Automorphic forms and statistical mechanics.
  Ben Brubaker*, University of Minnesota
  (1102-11-225)

Sunday September 21, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, III
Room 230, Hibbard Hall
Organizers:
Colleen Duffy, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Rafe Jones, Carleton College rfjones@carleton.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Weak harmonic Maass forms of weight $5/2$.
  Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois
  Nickolas Andersen, University of Illinois
  (1102-11-179)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Singular invariants, mock modular forms of weight $5/2$, and partitions.
  Nickolas Andersen*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1102-11-182)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Geometric statistics of Ford circles.
  J. Athreya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  S. Chaubey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Amita Malik*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  A. Zaharescu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1102-11-265)
- 10:00 a.m.
  From a Langlands Duality to a Duality of Quantum Field Theories.
  Martin T Luu*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1102-11-180)