American Mathematical Society

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, March 30, 2014 00:22:10

Associate secretaries:

Brian D. Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

Saturday March 22, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Galois Cohomology and the Brauer Group, I
Room G004, Ayres Hall
Organizers:
Ben Antieau, University of Washington
Daniel Krashen, University of Georgia dkrashen@math.uga.edu
Suresh Venapally, Emory University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Maximal subfields and division algebras.
  David J. Saltman*, Institute for Defense Analyses, Center for Communications Research
  (1097-16-524)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Solving embedding problems from a module-theoretic perspective.
  Sunil Chebolu, Illinois State University
  Jan Minac, Western University
  Andrew Schultz*, Wellesley College
  (1097-12-444)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The $u$-invariant of a rational function field over a field having cohomological dimension $1$.
  David B. Leep*, University of Kentucky
  (1097-11-346)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Hasse principle for hermitian forms.
  Zhengyao Wu*, Emory University
  (1097-11-25)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Variations on a theme of Harbater-Hartmann-Krashen.
  R. Parimala*, Emory University
  (1097-16-523)

Saturday March 22, 2014, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Galois Cohomology and the Brauer Group, II
Room G004, Ayres Hall
Organizers:
Ben Antieau, University of Washington
Daniel Krashen, University of Georgia dkrashen@math.uga.edu
Suresh Venapally, Emory University
- 2:30 p.m.
  A class of rational surfaces with a non-rational singularity explicitly given by a single equation.
  Drake M Harmon*, Florida Atlantic University
  (1097-14-495)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Curves and Brauer classes on K3 surfaces associated with cubic fourfolds.
  Asher Auel*, Yale University
  (1097-14-466)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Lattices associated to the Brauer group of a K3-surface.
  Kelly McKinnie*, University of Montana
  (1097-16-487)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Arithmetic of del Pezzo surfaces of degree 4 and vertical Brauer groups.
  Anthony Várilly-Alvarado*, Rice University
  Bianca Viray, Brown University
  (1097-14-511)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Moduli of Vector Bundles on Genus 1 Curves.
  Matthew Ward*, University of Washington
  (1097-11-109)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Essential Dimension of Coherent Sheaves.
  I Biswas, TIFR
  A Dhillon*, Western University
  N Hoffmann, Mary Immaculate College
  (1097-14-146)

Sunday March 23, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Galois Cohomology and the Brauer Group, III
Room G004, Ayres Hall
Organizers:
Ben Antieau, University of Washington
Daniel Krashen, University of Georgia dkrashen@math.uga.edu
Suresh Venapally, Emory University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Forms of toric varieties.
  Alexander Rhys Duncan*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (1097-14-203)
- 9:00 a.m.
  More examples of non-rational adjoint groups.
  Nivedita Bhaskhar*, Emory University
  (1097-11-99)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Invariants of degree 3 and torsion in the Chow group of a versal flag.
  Kirill Zainoulline*, University of Ottawa
  Alexander Merkurjev, UCLA
  Alexander Neshitov, Steklov Mathematical Institute/ University of Ottawa
  (1097-14-108)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Triality and the gamma-filtration.
  Caroline Junkins*, University of Ottawa
  (1097-14-447)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Arithmetics of semisimple groups over function fields.
  Qile Chen, Columbia University
  Yi Zhu*, University of Utah
  (1097-14-311)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Periods of generic torsors of groups of multiplicative type.
  Wanshun Wong*, University of Ottawa
  (1097-20-288)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Classifying Forms of Simple Groups via Their Invariants.
  Hernando Bermudez, Emory University
  Anthony Ruozzi*, Emory University
  (1097-12-391)