AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session
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2011 Spring Western Section Meeting
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
April 30 - May 1, 2011 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1071
Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics
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Saturday April 30, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics, I
Room C116, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@unlv.nevada.edu
Patrick Ingram, University of Waterloo pingram@math.uwaterloo.ca
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9:00 a.m.
Berkovich dynamics of certain quadratic rational maps.
Xander Faber, University of Georgia
Michelle Manes*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
(1071-11-183) -
9:30 a.m.
Resultant and Conductor of Geometrically Semi-stable Self Maps of the Projective Line Over a Number Field or Function Field.
Lucien Szpiro, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Michael Tepper, Penn State Abington
Phillip O Williams*, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
(1071-37-151) -
10:00 a.m.
On the prime divisors in zero orbits of polynomials.
Jason Bell, Simon Fraser University
Kevin Doerksen*, Simon Fraser University
(1071-11-164) -
10:30 a.m.
Post-critically finite polynomials.
Patrick Ingram*, University of Waterloo
(1071-11-261)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics, II
Room C116, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@unlv.nevada.edu
Patrick Ingram, University of Waterloo pingram@math.uwaterloo.ca
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3:00 p.m.
Morphisms of projective space with automorphisms.
Benjamin Hutz*, CUNY Graduate Center
(1071-37-195) -
3:30 p.m.
Bounding Preperiodic Points for Some Twisted Families of Rational Maps.
Bianca A. Thompson*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
(1071-11-239) -
4:00 p.m.
Zhang's Conjecture for upper-triangular polynomial dynamical systems on $\mathbb{A}^n$.
Alice Medvedev*, University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Scanlon, University of California, Berkeley
(1071-11-283) -
4:30 p.m.
The Backward Orbits Conjecture.
Vijay Sookdeo*, The Catholic University of America
(1071-11-182) -
5:00 p.m.
Reducible arboreal Galois representations.
Rafe Jones*, College of the Holy Cross
(1071-11-253)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics, III
Room C116, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@unlv.nevada.edu
Patrick Ingram, University of Waterloo pingram@math.uwaterloo.ca
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8:30 a.m.
A lattice point problem on hyperboloids of one sheet.
Arthur Baragar*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
(1071-11-181) -
9:00 a.m.
Canonical Height Zero over Function Fields.
Anupam Bhatnagar*, Lehman College, City University of New York
(1071-14-175) -
9:30 a.m.
Dynamical Units.
Katherine E Stange*, Stanford University
Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii
(1071-11-270) -
10:00 a.m.
The Proportion of Periodic Points in $\mathbb{F}_p$.
Kalyani K. Madhu*, University of Rochester
(1071-11-77) -
10:30 a.m.
The Post-Critically Finite Locus for Cubic Polynomials.
Joseph H Silverman*, Mathematics Department / Brown University
(1071-37-31)
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8:30 a.m.
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