Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:54:14

Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, January 5-8, 2007 (Friday - Monday)
Meeting #1023

• Sunday January 7, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Arithmetic of Function Fields, I
  Organizers:
  Allison M. Pacelli, Williams College apacelli@williams.edu
  Michael J. Rosen, Brown University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Heegner points and the rank of elliptic curves over large extensions of global fields.
    Bo-Hae Im*, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
    Florian Breuer, University of Stellenbosch
    (1023-11-1030)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Ranks of abelian varieties in towers of function fields.
    Douglas Ulmer*, University of Arizona
    (1023-11-1368)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Families of Twists and Inverse Galois.
    Chris Hall*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1023-11-600)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Euler systems in algebraic function fields over a finite field.
    David R. Hayes*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    (1023-12-719)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Galois groups of difference equations and algebraic relations among periods of Drinfeld modules.
    Chieh-Yu Chang, National Tsing-Hua University
    Matthew Papanikolas*, Texas A&M University
    (1023-11-1542)
• Sunday January 7, 2007, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Arithmetic of Function Fields, II
  Organizers:
  Allison M. Pacelli, Williams College apacelli@williams.edu
  Michael J. Rosen, Brown University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Isogenous elliptic factors in the Jacobians of curves.
    Jennifer Paulhus*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1023-11-1216)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Special values of equivariant p-adic and global L-functions.
    Cristian D. Popescu*, University of California at San Diego
    (1023-11-1065)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Hecke Operators and $L$-series in Characteristic $p$.
    David M Goss*, Ohio State University
    (1023-11-451)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Simultaneous Prime Values of Polynomials in Positive Characteristic.
    Paul Pollack*, Dartmouth College
    (1023-11-1359)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Variations of the Sato-Tate Conjecture.
    Ram Murty*, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
    (1023-11-794)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Biquadratic Function Fields.
    Qingquan Wu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Renate Scheidler*, University of Calgary
    (1023-11-1160)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Approximatiing Euler Products and Computing the Class Number of an Algebraic Function Field.
    Andreas Stein*, University of Wyoming
    (1023-11-1039)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Galois Theory for the line over finite fields.
    Jing Long Hoelscher*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1023-14-893)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Euclidean Algorithm and Applications to Hyperbolic Geometry.
    Kathleen Petersen*, Queen's University
    (1023-11-1584)