AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:43
2002 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
Boston, MA, October 5-6, 2002
Meeting #979
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, I
Room 230, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Matthew A. Papanikolas, Brown University map@math.brown.edu
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst siman@math.umass.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Speculations on the ranks of elliptic curves.
Douglas Ulmer*, University of Arizona
(979-11-49) -
8:30 a.m.
An extension of the Fontaine-Mazur Conjecture.
Farshid Hajir*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(979-11-63) -
9:00 a.m.
The arithmetic of m-regular partition functions.
David K Penniston*, Furman University
(979-11-229) -
9:30 a.m.
Greenberg's conjecture: a non-abelian example.
William G. McCallum*, University of Arizona
Romyar T. Sharifi, Harvard University
(979-11-201) -
10:00 a.m.
Weierstrass points on $X_0(p)$ and supersingular $j$-invariants.
Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois
(979-11-91) -
10:30 a.m.
Picard modular varieties in positive characteristic.
Jeffrey D Achter*, Columbia University
(979-14-205)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, II
Room 230, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Matthew A. Papanikolas, Brown University map@math.brown.edu
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst siman@math.umass.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Surfaces in $P^3$ over finite fields.
J. Felipe Voloch*, Dept. Math., Univ. Texas
(979-11-26) -
3:00 p.m.
An elementary proof that abc implies Faltings' Theorem.
Thomas J Tucker*, CUNY Graduate Center
Andrew Granville, University of Montreal
(979-11-199) -
3:30 p.m.
Multizeta values for function fields.
Dinesh S. Thakur*, University of Arizona, Tucson
(979-11-99) -
4:00 p.m.
Modular Form Congruences and Selmer Groups.
William J McGraw*, University of Wisconsin
Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin
(979-11-37) -
4:30 p.m.
Counting Fontaine-Mazur-like function fields.
Joshua Brandon Holden*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Jeffrey D. Achter, Columbia University
(979-11-127) -
5:00 p.m.
Class Groups of Global Function Fields.
Allison M. Pacelli*, Brown University
(979-11-146)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, III
Room 230, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Matthew A. Papanikolas, Brown University map@math.brown.edu
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst siman@math.umass.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Discussion. -
8:30 a.m.
Recent progress on families of twisted $L$-functions.
Solomon Friedberg*, Boston College
(979-11-45) -
9:00 a.m.
Nonholomorphic cocyclic Eisenstein series.
Gautam Chinta*, Brown University
Cormac O'Sullivan, CUNY
(979-11-126) -
9:30 a.m.
Can a Drinfeld module be modular?
David M Goss*, Ohio State University
(979-11-40) -
10:00 a.m.
Newton polygons of wildly ramified curves.
Rachel J. Pries*, Columbia University
(979-11-129) -
10:30 a.m.
Algebraic independence of the divided derivatives of the Carlitz modules.
W. Dale Brownawell*, Penn State
Alfred J. van der Poorten, Macquarie University
(979-11-170)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, IV
Room 230, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Matthew A. Papanikolas, Brown University map@math.brown.edu
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst siman@math.umass.edu
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2:00 p.m.
p-adic rigidity of arithmetic cohomology.
Avner Ash*, Boston College
(979-11-10) -
2:30 p.m.
Cusp singularities and special values of $L$-functions.
Paul E. Gunnells*, UMass Amherst
Jacob Sturm, Rutgers University, Newark
Robert Sczech, Rutgers University, Newark
(979-11-148) -
3:00 p.m.
1-Motives and Iwasawa Theory.
Cristian D. Popescu*, Johns Hopkins University
(979-11-163) -
3:30 p.m.
Adequate equivalence relations and cycles on abelian varieties.
Reza Akhtar*, Miami University
(979-14-179) -
4:00 p.m.
Optimal curves and their $j-$invariants.
Mihran Papikian*, University of Michigan
(979-11-98)
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2:00 p.m.