# 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

 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

 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

 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 after the Saturday evening reception. More details coming in August.

## Parking

Parking in many UNT surface lots that require permits during weekdays do not require permits during the weekend. Read signs carefully before parking, but despite what is written on the AMS website, you should not need to resort to parking in one of the paid garages in order to park on campus on Saturday or Sunday. Do stay away from residence hall parking lots where permit parking tends to be enforced 24 hours per day seven days per week. Faculty, staff, and commuter lots tend to only require permits Mondays through Fridays, but rules vary somewhat from lot to lot. If you do not mind paying for parking, the paid garage adjacent to the Business Leadership Building is probably the closest parking to the talks. You can read more about parking on the UNT campus at transportation.unt.edu/parking, although the information posted there is not actually all that helpful.