# Special Session on Numbers, Functions, Transcendence, and Geometry

to be held Saturday, September 9, 2017 and Sunday, September 10, 2017 at the University of North Texas, as part of the Fall 2017 Central Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society.

## Organizers

William Cherry, University of North Texas, wcherry@unt.edu
Mirela Çiperiani, UT Austin, mirela at math dot utexas dot edu
Matt Papanikolas, Texas A&M, map@math.tamu.edu
Min Ru, University of Houston, minru@math.uh.edu

## Online Registration

Save time Saturday morning by registering online, through September 5.

## Program

Saturday Morning, September 9, 2017 (Chair: Matt)

 Time Speaker Title (click on the title to see an abstract) 8:30 - 8:50 Arunabha Biswas A short story about higher Mahler measure 9:00 - 9:20 Dermot McCarthy Sequences, Modular Forms and Cellular Integrals 9:30 - 9:50 Riad Masri The distribution of G-Weyl CM fields and the Colmez conjecture 10:00 - 10:20 Neranga Fernando Reversed Dickson polynomials of the (k+1)-th kind over finite fields, II 10:30 - 10:50 Lenny Fukshansky Solving systems of quadratic equations over $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$

Saturday Afternoon, September 9, 2017 (Chair: Min)

 Time Speaker Title (click on the title to see an abstract) 2:30 - 2:50 Paul Vojta Birational Nevanlinna constants and work of Autissier 3:00 - 3:20 Aaron Levin Greatest common divisors and Diophantine approximation 3:30 - 3:50 David McKinnon Integral points and higher codimension 4:00 - 4:20 David Freeman Generalized Palindromic Continued Fractions 4:30 - 4:50 Gordon Heier Reduction of manifolds with semi-negative holomorphic sectional curvature

Sunday Morning, September 10, 2017 (Chair: Mirela)

 Time Speaker Title (click on the title to see an abstract) 8:00 - 8:20 Ricardo Conceicao Solutions of the Hurwitz equation over polynomial rings 8:30 - 8:50 Anastassia Etropolski Torsion on elliptic curves over cubic number fields 9:00 - 9:20 Padmavathi Srinivasan Conductors and minimal discriminants of hyperelliptic curves 9:30 - 9:50 Anthony Várilly-Alvarado Vojta's conjecture and uniform boundedness of full-level structures on abelian varieties over number fields 10:00 - 10:20 Douglas Ulmer Algebraic approaches to the Brauer-Siegel ratio for abelian varieties over function fields 10:30 - 10:50 Jennifer Berg Brauer Manin obstruction to integral points on affine Châtelet surfaces 11:00 - 11:20 Corey Stone Higher Fitting Ideals of Iwasawa Modules

Note: This session has no talks scheduled for Sunday afternoon.

## Dinner

On Saturday, September 9, there will be a dinner for the session participants at 8:30 after the Saturday evening reception. The dinner will be at Barley & Board. Please RSVP to William Cherry by Thursday, August 31 if you would like participate in the dinner.

## Parking

 In theory, permit parking on the UNT campus is enforced 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Do NOT park in residence hall parking lots; parking is strictly enforced in those lots. I also advise against parking in hourly lots, unless you pay the required fee; some of these lots have "smart meters" that allow you to pay via a smartphone app. There is also a paid garage next to the classroom building where the meeting will take place. There is free street parking not too far from campus if you are willing to look and walk a little. Note that street parking on campus itself is also by permit only. You can also click here to purchase and print out a temporary parking permit that will allow you to park in a campus surface lot (or appropriate on-campus street parking spots). Although permit parking in faculty/staff lots with signs like those to the left is theoretically enforced on the weekend, the probability of getting a citation on the weekend might be low (but I am not sure). Do not risk parking on campus without a permit before 5 on Friday; you will likely get a ticket and may be towed. If you do get a ticket, visitors to campus who have not received other UNT parking citations in the past year can often get the fine waived; see the bottom of page 28 here.

## Sunday Afternoon Airport Shuttle

UNT is providing a complimentary shuttle to the airport on Sunday afternoon, but you have to sign up for it in advance. Click here to make a bus reservation.