AMS Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:35
1989 Summer Meeting
Boulder, CO, August 7-10, 1989
Meeting #850
Associate secretaries: Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu
Kenneth A Ross, MAA ross@math.uoregon.edu
Thursday August 10, 1989
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Thursday August 10, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on History of Orthogonal Polynomials, I
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Thursday August 10, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Mathematical Questions in Computational Geometry, III
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7:00 a.m.
Informal Discussion
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7:00 a.m.
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Thursday August 10, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Free Boundary Problems and Partial Differential Equations, IV
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7:00 a.m.
Existence and geometry of solutions of a free boundary problem for the heat equation.
Andrew Acker, Wichita State University
Kirk Lancaster*, Wichita State University
(850-35-51) -
7:30 a.m.
The onset of instability in the trapped drop problem.
Thomas I. Vogel*, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
(850-49-50) -
8:00 a.m.
Uniqueness of the solution to some free boundary problems for the Laplace equation.
David E. Tepper*, Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York
(850-35-34) -
8:30 a.m.
Regularity theory for grad differential equations.
Ed Stredulinsky*, Lawrence University
Peter Laurence, University Degli Studii, Milano, Italy
(850-35-73)
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7:00 a.m.
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Thursday August 10, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Computational Number Theory and Applications, IV
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7:00 a.m.
Subexponential class number algorithms.
Johannes Buchmann*, Universit\"at des Saarlandes, Federal Republic of Germany
(850-11-78) -
7:30 a.m.
An open architecture number sieve.
H. C. Williams*, University of Manitoba
(850-11-07) -
8:00 a.m.
Program checkers for modular exponentiation.
Kireeti Kompella*, University of Southern California
(850-11-79) -
8:30 a.m.
Practical zero-knowledge proofs: Giving hints and using deficiencies.
Joan Boyar*, University of Chicago
Katalin Friedl, University of Chicago
Carsten Lund, University of Chicago
(850-68-08)
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7:00 a.m.
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Thursday August 10, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
MAA Minicourse #7 (Part B)
HP-28S short course for nearly inexperienced users
Organizers:
Jerold Mathews, Iowa State University -
Thursday August 10, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
MAA Minicourse #9 (Part A)
A seminar on women in mathematics
Organizers:
Miriam P. Cooney, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana -
Thursday August 10, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
AMS Session on Analysis and Probability
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7:00 a.m.
Waiting times for runs of rare events.
Anant Godbole*, Michigan Technological University
(850-60-75) -
7:20 a.m.
Maximum and minimum sets for some geometric mean values.
Richard E. Pfiefer*, San Jose State University
(850-60-24) -
7:40 a.m.
Statistical tests for diagonality of a covariance matrix.
Jack Tomsky*, Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Palo Alto, California
(850-62-01) -
8:00 a.m.
Computation of gradients in Banach spaces.
Ivie Stein, Jr.*, University of Toledo
(850-65-65) -
8:20 a.m.
Factorization without arithmetic.
Robert J. Valenza*, Claremont McKenna College
(850-68-62) -
8:40 a.m.
Supermartingales and superadditive games: An additivization alternative to Gilboa's.
Thomas E. Armstrong*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
(850-99-111)
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7:00 a.m.
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Thursday August 10, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-8:55 a.m.
MAA Panel Discussion
The role of the computer in calculus reform
Moderators:
Eugene A. Herman, Grinnell College
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Robert L. Devaney, Boston University
Kenneth R. Hoffman, Hampshire College
David A. Smith, Duke University and chair of CCIME
Paul Zorn, St. Olaf College -
Thursday August 10, 1989, 7:40 a.m.-8:30 a.m.
MAA Invited Address
The number of solutions of Diophantine equations.
Wolfgang M. Schmidt*, University of Colorado, Boulder -
Thursday August 10, 1989, 9:10 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
AMS-MAA Invited Address
alpha x^2 + hxy + cy^2 = n.
John H. Conway*, Princeton University -
Thursday August 10, 1989, 10:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
MAA Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures, Lecture III
The mathematics of mixing things up: Modern Markov chain theory.
Persi W. Diaconis*, Harvard University -
Thursday August 10, 1989, 12:15 p.m.-1:45 p.m.
AMS Progress in Mathematics Lecture
Mathematical problems of liquid crystals.
Haim Brezis*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick and Universite de Paris VIP, France
(850-58-120)
Liquid crystals.
Haim Brezis*, Rutgers University and Universite de Paris VI, France -
Thursday August 10, 1989, 12:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
MAA Minicourse #8 (Part B)
Applications of the HP-28S for experienced users
Organizers:
Thomas W. Tucker, Colgate University -
Thursday August 10, 1989, 12:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
MAA Minicourse #9 (Part B)
A seminar on women in mathematics
Organizers:
Miriam P. Cooney, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana -
Thursday August 10, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture IV
Geometry, groups, and self-similar tilings.
William P. Thurston*, Princeton University -
Thursday August 10, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
AMS Special Session on History of Orthogonal Polynomials, II
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2:00 p.m.
Orthogonal polynomials and numerical quadrature.
Walter Gautschi*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(850-01-99) -
2:30 p.m.
History of asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials.
Mourad E. H. Ismail*, University of South Florida
(850-01-14) -
3:00 p.m.
Chebyshev's work.
Ranjan Roy*, Beloit College
(850-33-67) -
3:30 p.m.
Classical orthogonal polynomials.
Richard A. Askey*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(850-01-98)
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2:00 p.m.
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Thursday August 10, 1989, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Mathematical Questions in Computational Geometry, IV
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3:00 p.m.
Informal Discussion
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3:00 p.m.
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Thursday August 10, 1989, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Computational Number Theory and Applications, V
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3:00 p.m.
Simplification of nested radicals.
Susan Landau*, Wesleyan University
(850-12-06) -
3:30 p.m.
Deterministic factorization of polynomials over special finite fields.
Eric Bach*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(850-12-70) -
4:00 p.m.
On the deterministic complexity of factoring polynomials over finite fields.
Victor Shoup*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(850-12-55) -
4:30 p.m.
Some alternate strategies for generating irreducible polynomials over finite fields.
Gove Effinger*, Skidmore College
(850-12-05)
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3:00 p.m.
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Thursday August 10, 1989, 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
AMS Session on Analysis, III
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3:00 p.m.
On the dimension of fractal functions defined on subsets of R^n, n > 1.
Peter R. Massopust*, West Georgia College
(850-26-101) -
3:20 p.m.
Best twin-value regions for continued fractions K(a_n/1).
Walter M. Reid*, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
(850-30-104) -
3:40 p.m.
Open-restriction decomposition property.
Ridgley Lange*, Weidman, Michigan
(850-47-106) -
4:00 p.m.
Quasi-compact operators.
Amir Maleki*, University of the Virgin Islands
(850-99-108) -
4:20 p.m.
Sampling expansions in discrete Walsh-Fourier analysis.
Nasser Dastrange*, Buena Vista College
(850-94-100)
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3:00 p.m.