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1999 Spring Southeastern Section Meeting
Gainesville, FL, March 12-13, 1999
Meeting #940

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Special Session on Galois Theory

  • Friday March 12, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Galois Theory, I

    Room 205, W. W. Little Hall
    Organizers:
    J. G. Thompson, University of Florida thompson@math.ufl.edu
    H. Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu

    • 8:30 a.m.
      Higher dimensional algebraic fundamental groups.
      Shreeram S. Abhyankar*, Purdue University
      (940-14-28)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Galois groups of composite q-additive polynomials.
      Ganapathy S. Sundaram*, Bell Labs
      (940-12-343)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Galois Extensions via Drinfeld-module based Iterations.
      Paul A. Loomis*, Purdue University
      (940-12-336)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Linearized polynomials with classical Galois groups.
      Michael E Zieve*, USC
      (940-14-346)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Black box exceptional groups of Lie type .
      William M Kantor, University of Oregon
      Kay Magaard*, Wayne State University
      (940-20-205)
  • Friday March 12, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
    Special Session on Galois Theory, II

    Room 205, W. W. Little Hall
    Organizers:
    J. G. Thompson, University of Florida thompson@math.ufl.edu
    H. Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Arithmetic lifting over large fields.
      David Harbater*, University of Pennsylvania
      (940-14-186)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Ordinariness and Covers.
      Katherine F. Stevenson*, California Institute of Technology
      (940-14-254)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Reduction of covers of curves.
      Irene I Bouw*, University of Pennsylvania
      (940-14-228)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Formal geometry, rigid geometry and regular covers.
      Tamara R. Lefcourt*, University of Texas
      (940-14-81)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Good reduction of wildly ramified covers.
      Claus G Lehr*, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
      (940-14-201)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Patching and Deformation of Wildly Ramified Covers.
      Rachel J. Pries*, University of Pennsylvania
      (940-14-204)
  • Saturday March 13, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Galois Theory, III

    Room 205, W. W. Little Hall
    Organizers:
    J. G. Thompson, University of Florida thompson@math.ufl.edu
    H. Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu

    • 8:30 a.m.
      Linear rigidity and symplectic groups.
      Karl Strambach*, Universitaet Erlangen
      Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida
      (940-20-118)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      A family of curves with many rational points, constructed by rigidity.
      Gerhard Frey, University of Essen
      Ernst Kani, Queens University
      Helmut Voelklein*, University of Florida
      (940-14-250)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Curves with infinite K-rational geometric fundamental group.
      Gerhard Frey, Universitaet Essen
      Ernst Kani*, Queen's University
      Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida
      (940-11-311)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Deformation of covers of the Riemann sphere along highly singular curves.
      Michael Dettweiler*, University of Erlangen
      (940-14-215)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      On rigid tuples in linear groups of odd dimension.
      Stefan Reiter*, Univ. of Heidelberg
      Michael Dettweiler, Univ. of Erlangen
      (940-20-300)
  • Saturday March 13, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Galois Theory, IV

    Room 205, W. W. Little Hall
    Organizers:
    J. G. Thompson, University of Florida thompson@math.ufl.edu
    H. Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu

    • 2:30 p.m.
      A Nilpotent Weil pairing and application of the Nilpotent Tate-Grassmanian to the Inverse Galois Problem.
      Michael David Fried*, UC Irvine
      (940-14-158)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Conjectural Galois Extensions of Q with Galois group SL(3,3).
      Avner D Ash*, Ohio State University
      (940-11-53)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Field of moduli vs field of definition and central extensions as Galois groups.
      Stefan Wewers*, University of Pennsylvania
      (940-11-243)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Realizing the Alternating Groups as Monodromy Groups of Meromorphic Functions on Genus One Riemann Surfaces.
      Mike Fried, University of California at Irvine
      Eric P Klassen*, Florida State University
      Yaacov Kopeliovich, Parametric Technologies
      (940-30-197)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Equations for a Hurwitz space associated with degree 7 elliptic subfields of genus 2 function fields.
      Vishwa Krishnamoorthy*, University of Florida
      Tanush Shaska, University of Florida
      (940-12-287)
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