Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:01:40

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Antonio, TX, January 12-15, 2006
Meeting #1014

• Thursday January 12, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mahler Measure and Heights, I
  Organizers:
  Michael J. Mossinghoff, Davidson College mimossinghoff@davidson.edu
  Jeffrey D. Vaaler, University of Texas at Austin
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Global Discrepancy and Small Points on Elliptic Curves.
    Matthew Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Clayton Petsche*, The University of Georgia
    (1014-11-697)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Effective theorems for quadratic spaces over $\overline{\mathbb Q}$.
    Lenny Fukshansky*, Texas A&M University
    (1014-11-480)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Quantitative Measure of Linear Independence for Function Fields.
    W Dale Brownawell*, Penn State, University Park, PA
    Matthew A Papanikolas, Texas A&M, College Station, TX
    (1014-11-1320)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On heights of multiplicatively dependent algebraic numbers.
    Cameron L. Stewart*, University of Waterloo
    (1014-11-1032)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Maximal Height of Divisors of $x^n-1$.
    Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth College
    Nathan C Ryan*, UCLA
    (1014-11-1007)
• Thursday January 12, 2006, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mahler Measure and Heights, II
  Organizers:
  Michael J. Mossinghoff, Davidson College mimossinghoff@davidson.edu
  Jeffrey D. Vaaler, University of Texas at Austin
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Mahler Measure for Polynomials in Noncommuting Variables.
    Douglas Lind*, University of Washington
    (1014-37-638)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Special functions and the range of multiplicative functions on $\Bbb{Z}[x]$.
    Christopher D Sinclair*, Pacific Institute of the Mathematical Sciences, Vancouver
    (1014-11-618)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The Mahler Measure of Polynomials with Odd Coefficients.
    Peter Borwein*, Simon Fraser University
    (1014-11-643)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Mahler's measure and derivatives.
    Igor E Pritsker*, Oklahoma State University
    (1014-11-1019)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Arithmetic Mean and Geometric Mean of Mahler Measure of Unimodular Polynomials.
    Stephen Choi*, Simon Fraser University
    (1014-11-862)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Univogue Beta Expansions of Pisot numbers.
    Kevin G. Hare*, University of Waterloo
    (1014-11-560)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Dilatations of pseudo-Anosov automorphisms.
    Christopher J Leininger*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    (1014-51-611)
• Friday January 13, 2006, 1:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mahler Measure and Heights, III
  Organizers:
  Michael J. Mossinghoff, Davidson College mimossinghoff@davidson.edu
  Jeffrey D. Vaaler, University of Texas at Austin
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Mahler measures of Alexander polynomials of alternating links.
    Daniel S. Silver, University of South Alabama
    Susan G Williams*, University of South Alabama
    (1014-57-1239)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Lehmer's Question and Surface Dynamics.
    Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
    Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
    (1014-57-1235)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Proving relations between m(P) and L'(E,0).
    Fernando Rodriguez Villegas*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1014-11-1415)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Mahler measure of resultants in small dimension.
    Carlos D'Andrea, Departament d'Àlgebra i Geometria
    Matilde N Lalin*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (1014-11-645)