Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Wednesday, January 16, 2008 00:26:56

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
James J Tattersall, MAA tat@providence.edu

Monday January 7, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Modular Forms and Modularity, I
Organizers:
Ling Long, Iowa State University linglong@iastate.edu
Wen-Ching Winnie Li, Pennsylvania State University
Tong Liu, University of Pennsylvania
- 8:00 a.m.
  Modularity of certain K3-fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds.
  Noriko Yui*, Queen's University
  (1035-14-572)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Zeta-functions and L-series of certain Calabi-Yau threefolds.
  Yasuhiro Goto*, Hokkaido Univ. of Education
  (1035-11-995)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Cuspidal divisor class groups of the modular curves $X_1(N)$.
  Yifan Yang*, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
  (1035-11-529)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Heights of higher weight Heegner cycles.
  Hui Xue*, Clemson University
  (1035-11-882)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dyson's challenge for the future: The mock theta functions.
  Ken Ono*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  (1035-11-515)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Odd coefficients of weakly holomorphic modular forms.
  Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois
  Matthew Boylan, University of South Carolin
  (1035-11-1682)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Half-integral weight Maass form correspondences and vector valued forms.
  Amanda Folsom*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (1035-11-1275)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Traces of singular values of Maass forms.
  William Duke, UCLA
  Paul Jenkins*, UCLA
  (1035-11-1286)

Monday January 7, 2008, 1:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Modular Forms and Modularity, II
Organizers:
Ling Long, Iowa State University linglong@iastate.edu
Wen-Ching Winnie Li, Pennsylvania State University
Tong Liu, University of Pennsylvania
- 1:00 p.m.
  Iwasawa theory, Hida families, and vanishing of $L$-functions.
  Trevor S Arnold*, University of Washington
  (1035-11-662)
- 1:30 p.m.
  Congruences among automorphic forms on unitary groups and the Bloch-Kato conjecture.
  Krzysztof Klosin*, University of Utah
  (1035-11-313)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Congruences between modular forms and ranks of new parts of completed Hecke rings.
  Ravi Ramakrishna*, Cornell University
  (1035-11-878)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Hodge, Newton, and tame inertia polygons.
  Xavier Caruso, Univ. de Rennes 1
  David Savitt*, Univ. of Arizona
  (1035-11-906)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On lattices in semi-stable representations.
  Tong Liu*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1035-11-506)

Tuesday January 8, 2008, 7:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Modular Forms and Modularity, III
Organizers:
Ling Long, Iowa State University linglong@iastate.edu
Wen-Ching Winnie Li, Pennsylvania State University
Tong Liu, University of Pennsylvania
- 7:30 a.m.
  On modular forms for some noncongruence subgroups.
  Chris A. Kurth, Iowa State University
  Ling Long*, Iowa State University
  (1035-11-978)
- 8:00 a.m.
  L-functions and $l$-adic representations for noncongruence subgroups.
  Jerome William Hoffman*, Louisiana State University
  Helena Verrill, Louisiana State University
  (1035-11-791)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Farey Symbols and Finite Index Subgroups of $PSL_2(Z)$.
  Chris Kurth*, Iowa State University
  (1035-11-1604)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Computing with Modular Forms Using SAGE.
  William A Stein*, University of Washington
  (1035-11-382)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The module of vector-valued modular forms on $SL(2, Z)$.
  Geoff Mason*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (1035-11-124)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Local Langlands Correspondence for GSp(4).
  Wee Teck Gan*, University of California, San Diego
  (1035-11-239)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Actions of finite groups on modular forms and coherent sheaves.
  Ted C Chinburg*, University of Pennsylvania
  Amy Ksir, United States Naval Academy
  (1035-14-89)