Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:38

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego, CA, January 6-9, 2002
Meeting #973

• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebras, Forms, and Algebraic Groups, I
  Organizers:
  R. Skip Garibaldi, University of California Los Angeles skip@math.ucla.edu
  David J. Saltman, University of Texas at Austin saltman@math.utexas.edu
  Adrian R. Wadsworth, University of California San Diego arwadsworth@ucsd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The trace form of a central simple algebra of degree four.
    Jean-Pierre E Tignol*, Universit\'e catholique de Louvain
    (973-16-962)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Decomposition of Involutions on Inertially Split Division Algebras.
    Patrick J Morandi*, New Mexico State University
    B. A Sethuraman, California State University Northridge
    (973-16-967)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Octonion Algebras Obtained from Associative Algebras with Involution.
    Michel L Racine*, University of Ottawa
    Holger P Petersson, FernUniversitaet Hagen
    (973-17-1064)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Effecive Diagonaliztion Property for *-Fields.
    Douglas W Larmour*, New College of Florida
    (973-16-812)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Trace forms of Galois field extensions in the presence of roots of unity.
    Zinovy Reichstein*, University of British Columbia
    (973-12-764)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the structure of the universal algebra for algebras that become hyperbolic over a given extention.
    Su-chi Wen*, Indiana University
    (973-16-219)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Structure in the Witt ring of a field and powers of the fundamental ideal.
    Richard S Elman*, UCLA
    (973-12-911)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebras, Forms, and Algebraic Groups, II
  Organizers:
  R. Skip Garibaldi, University of California Los Angeles skip@math.ucla.edu
  David J. Saltman, University of Texas at Austin saltman@math.utexas.edu
  Adrian R. Wadsworth, University of California San Diego arwadsworth@ucsd.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Special Forms of Two Symbols are Division Algebras.
    Bill Jacob*, UCSB
    Roberto Aravire, Universidad Arturo Prat
    (973-16-1067)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Weakly Azumaya Algebras and Frobenius Algebras.
    Darrell E Haile*, Indiana University
    (973-16-1066)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Birational Isomorphisms Between Severi-Brauer Varieties.
    Daniel R Krashen*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (973-16-1053)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stable rationality of the center of the generic division ring.
    Esther Beneish*, Northwestern University and Eastern Washington University
    (973-20-1085)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    $p$-algebras of exponent $p$.
    Uzi Vishne*, Yale University
    (973-16-1427)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Division Algebras with $\operatorname{PSL}(2,q)$-Galois Maximal Subfield.
    Elizabeth S Allman*, University of Southern Maine
    Murray M Schacher, UCLA
    (973-12-52)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Alternate forms and the Brauer group of a field containing the roots of unity.
    Eric S Brussel*, Emory University
    (973-16-1188)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebras, Forms, and Algebraic Groups, III
  Organizers:
  R. Skip Garibaldi, University of California Los Angeles skip@math.ucla.edu
  David J. Saltman, University of Texas at Austin saltman@math.utexas.edu
  Adrian R. Wadsworth, University of California San Diego arwadsworth@ucsd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Invariants of algebraic groups.
    Alexander S Merkurjev*, UCLA
    (973-14-1231)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generic Picard-Vessiot extensions for connected linear algebraic groups.
    Lourdes Juan*, Texas Tech University
    (973-13-156)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Generic forms for reductive Lie algebras and fineness of the moduli space of principle $G$-bundles on a smooth projective curve.
    William J Haboush*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    (973-14-1216)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Admissible Nilpotent orbits of simple real exceptional Lie Groups.
    Alfred G No\"el*, The University of Massachusetts, Boston
    (973-22-18)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Skew-hermitian forms over quaternions and algebraic groups of outer type $D_4$.
    Max A Knus*, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
    (973-16-1317)