Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 23, 2010 00:39:21

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Francisco, CA, January 13-16, 2010 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1056

• Wednesday January 13, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Arithmetic and Nonarchimedean Dynamics, I
  Room 2012, 2nd Floor, Moscone
  Organizers:
  Joseph Silverman, Brown University jhs@math.brown.edu
  Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii
  Raphael Jones, College of the Holy Cross
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discriminants and Galois groups for iterated rational functions.
    Rafe Jones*, College of the Holy Cross
    Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii-Manoa
    (1056-11-1117)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The dynamical Manin-Mumford problem.
    Thomas J Tucker*, University of Rochester
    Dragos Ghioca, University of Lethbridge
    Shouwu Zhang, Columbia University
    (1056-11-563)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The dynamical Manin-Mumford problem.
    Dragos Ghioca*, University of Lethbridge
    (1056-11-292)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Towards Dynamical Uniform Boundedness for Rational Functions.
    Robert L. Benedetto*, Amherst College
    (1056-11-658)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Preperiodic points: from algebraic to complex.
    Laura DeMarco*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Matt Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1056-37-1206)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Critical Points of Non-Archimedean Dynamical Systems on the Projective Line.
    Xander Faber*, McGill University
    (1056-11-664)
• Wednesday January 13, 2010, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Arithmetic and Nonarchimedean Dynamics, II
  Room 2012, 2nd Floor, Moscone
  Organizers:
  Joseph Silverman, Brown University jhs@math.brown.edu
  Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii
  Raphael Jones, College of the Holy Cross
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Multipliers of periodic cycles for cubic polynomials.
    Patrick Ingram*, University of Waterloo
    (1056-37-669)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Local and global canonical height functions for affine space regular automorphisms.
    Shu Kawaguchi*, Osaka University
    (1056-11-973)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Rationality of the Space of Morphisms on $\mathbb{P}^{1}$.
    Alon Levy*, Columbia University
    (1056-37-565)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Torsion points of higher order in the Nottingham group.
    Jonathan Lubin*, Brown University
    (1056-11-361)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    A Dynamical Pairing Between Two Rational Maps.
    Clayton Petsche*, Hunter College
    Lucien Szpiro, CUNY Graduate Center
    Thomas J. Tucker, University of Rochester
    (1056-11-555)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A Local-Global Criterion for Dynamics on $\mathbb{P}^1$.
    Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University
    J. Felipe Voloch*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1056-11-154)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    On dynamical zeta functions for polynomial maps over $p$-adic fields.
    Liang-Chung Hsia*, National Central University, Taiwan
    (1056-11-568)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    On the Number of Rational Pre-Images Under Quadratic Dynamical Systems.
    Benjamin Hutz*, Amherst College
    (1056-11-575)
• Friday January 15, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Arithmetic and Nonarchimedean Dynamics, III
  Room 2012, 2nd Floor, Moscone
  Organizers:
  Joseph Silverman, Brown University jhs@math.brown.edu
  Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii
  Raphael Jones, College of the Holy Cross
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Dynamics of f(x) = x+1/x via Elliptic Curves.
    Jang-Woo Park*, Clemson University
    Shuhong Gao, Clemson University
    (1056-11-1794)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some fractals associated to $K3$ surfaces.
    Arthur Baragar*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    (1056-11-1751)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dynamical Mordell-Lang results via Euclidean uniformizations.
    Thomas Scanlon*, University of Californa, Berkeley
    (1056-12-841)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Galois theory of quadratic rational functions with a non-trivial automorphism.
    Michelle Manes*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Rafe Jones, College of the Holy Cross
    (1056-11-831)