AMS Meeting Full Program

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:43

Joint Summer Meeting
Columbus, OH, August 8-11, 1990
Meeting #859

Sunday August 5, 1990

Monday August 6, 1990

• Monday August 6, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  AMS Short Course: Part 1
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    What is a game?
    Richard K. Guy*, University of Calgary
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Numbers and games.
    John H. Conway*, Princeton University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Impartial games.
    Richard K. Guy*, University of Calgary
  • 2:45 p.m.
    More ways of combining games.
    John H. Conway*, Princeton University

Tuesday August 7, 1990

• Tuesday August 7, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Board of Governors
• Tuesday August 7, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  AMS Short Course: Part 2
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Introductory overview of mathematical Go endgames.
    Elwyn R. Berlekamp*, University of California, Berkeley
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Games and codes.
    Vera S. Pless*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Complexity of games.
    Aviezri S. Fraenkel*, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • 2:45 p.m.
    ..., Welter's Game, Sylver Coinage, Dots-and-Boxes,...
    Richard J. Nowakowski*, Dalhousie University
• Tuesday August 7, 1990, 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  AMS Council
• Tuesday August 7, 1990, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Section Officers
• Tuesday August 7, 1990, 7:15 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
  Joint Policy Board for Mathematics: National Meetings of Department Heads
  Curriculum reform--How does a department chair cause it to happen?
  Panelists:
  Thomas W. Tucker, Colgate University
  William H. Jaco, Executive Director of the AMS
  Michael C. Reed, Duke University

Wednesday August 8, 1990

• Wednesday August 8, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m.
  Opening Ceremonies
• Wednesday August 8, 1990, 8:55 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  The seventy-fifth anniversary celebration.
  G. Baley Price*, University of Kansas
• Wednesday August 8, 1990, 9:55 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  Plaque Ceremony
• Wednesday August 8, 1990, 10:10 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Was Newton's calculus just a deadend? Maclaurin and the Scottish connection.
  Judith V. Grabiner*, Pitzer College, Scotland
• Wednesday August 8, 1990, 12:30 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Mathematics and computation: Proliferation and fragmentation.
  Wade Ellis, Jr.*, West Valley College
• Wednesday August 8, 1990, 1:10 p.m.-1:40 p.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Has progress in mathematics slowed down?
  Paul R. Halmos*, Santa Clara University
• Wednesday August 8, 1990, 1:50 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  The contribution of mathematics to education.
  Peter J. Hilton*, State University of New York, Binghamton
• Wednesday August 8, 1990, 2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  The last 75 years: Giants of applied mathematics.
  Cathleen S. Morawetz*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
• Wednesday August 8, 1990, 3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Mathematical Circus

Thursday August 9, 1990

• Thursday August 9, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-7:30 a.m.
  MAA Special Presentation
  

  • 
    Theorems in bronze and stone.
    Helaman Ferguson*, Supercomputing Research Center, Bowie, Maryland
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Combinatorics, I
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    Voltage-current duality.
    Dan Archdeacon*, University of Vermont
    (859-05-129)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    Bounds on the distance-d domination number.
    Joan P. Hutchinson*, Macalester College
    (859-05-109)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Subgraphs with crossing number 2.
    Dan McQuillan, Carleton University
    R. B. Richter*, Carleton University
    (859-05-161)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Graphs containing crossing number 2 graphs.
    Richard Vitray*, Appalachian State University
    (859-05-168)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ideal secret sharing schemes and matroids.
    Ernest F. Brickell*, Sandia National Laboratories
    Daniel M. Davenport, Sandia National Laboratories
    (859-05-99)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Howell designs with sub-designs.
    J. H. Dinitz*, University of Vermont
    E. R. Lamken, Institute for Defense Analyses
    (859-05-149)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mappings of sets of pairwise orthogonal orthomorphisms.
    Robert Roth*, Emory University
    (859-05-82)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Singularity probabilities for random {+ minus}-matrices.
    Jeff Kahn*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    J\'anos Koml\'os, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    Endre Szemer\'edi, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (859-05-84)
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, I
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    Valuations and convergence of formal functions.
    Mark Spivakovsky*, Harvard University
    (859-13-67)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    Weak CMC subsets and orderings of fields.
    Marie A. Vitulli*, University of Oregon
    (859-13-108)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Jet bundles and curves in Grassmannians.
    David Perkinson*, Reed College
    (859-14-120)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Automorphisms of cuspidal K3-like surfaces in low characteristics.
    Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (859-14-77)
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #1: Part A
  Using metacognitive strategies to improve instruction
  Organizers:
  Genevieve Knight, Coppin State College
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #2: Part A
  Planning, funding, and administering teacher enhancement projects
  Organizers:
  T. Christine Stevens, St. Louis University
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Symbolic Computer Systems Poster Session
  What students learn in the symbolic computing environment
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 7:05 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Session on The Interface Between Mathematics and Operations Research, Part A
  

  • 7:05 a.m.
    Operations research in the shipping industry.
    Ken Bloom*, Stolt-Nielsen Inc., Greenwich, Connecticut
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Operations research at the United States Coast Guard Academy.
    Ted Lindstrom*, United States Coast Guard Academy
    Ernest J. Manfred, United States Coast Guard Academy
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Optimization: The world as a system of equations.
    Patrick T. Harker*, University of Pennsylvania
  • 9:05 a.m.
    An improved counterexample to the rudimentary primal algorithm.
    Robert Haas*, Case Western Reserve University
    Harvey M. Salkin, Case Western Reserve University
    Kamlesh Mathur, Case Western Reserve University
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Waiting in line: The mathematics of queuing.
    Karen J. Schroeder*, Bentley College
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Modeling and analysis of telecommunications systems.
    Shlomo Halfin*, Bell Communications Research Inc., Morristown, New Jersey
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Dynamics of Biological Systems, I
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    The transition from bursting to continuous spiking in a model for excitable membranes.
    David Terman*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (859-92-85)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    An ``averaged'' model for parabolic bursting oscillations.
    John Rinzel*, National Institute of Health
    Humberto Carrillo-Calvet, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    Steven M. Baer, Arizona State University
    (859-92-56)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A geometric description of echo.
    G. Bard Ermentrout*, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
    John Rinzel, National Institute of Health
    (859-92-92)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Travelling wave solutions for a bistable evolutionary ecology model.
    Roger Lui*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (859-35-71)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Existence of travelling wave solutions for reaction diffusion systems.
    Konstantin M. Mischaikow*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (859-35-144)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The existence of infinitely many traveling front and back waves in the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations.
    Bo Deng*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (859-35-105)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 7:50 a.m.-8:40 a.m.
  MAA-AAAS Invited Address
  Lost and found mathematics.
  Richard A. Askey*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 7:50 a.m.-8:40 a.m.
  MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Quantitative Literacy Requirements Panel Discussion
  Quantitative literacy
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Ring Theory, I
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The k-product of slender modules.
    John Dauns*, Tulane University
    Laszlo Fuchs, Tulane University
    (859-16-57)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Finitely generated non-cosmall modules.
    Stanley S. Page*, University of British Columbia
    (859-16-72)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Intermission
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Permutation identity rings.
    Gary F. Birkenmeier*, University of Southwestern Louisiana
    Henry Heatherly, University of Southwestern Louisiana
    (859-16-26)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Distributive modules which are cyclic.
    Vahap Erdogdu*, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
    (859-13-08)
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Group Theory, I
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Isomorphy problem of integral group rings.
    Hans J. Zassenhaus*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (859-20-45)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A conjecture on character degrees.
    Michael J. J. Barry*, Allegheny College
    (859-20-22)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    k-characters and the group determinant.
    Kenneth W. Johnson*, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz and Iowa State University
    (859-20-13)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Infinite Frobenius groups.
    Michael J. Collins*, Mathematical Institute, England
    (859-20-36)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Powers of varieties and faithful representations of groups.
    Samuel M. Vovsi*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (859-20-17)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The integral group ring problem.
    Leonard L. Scott, Jr.*, University of Virginia
    (859-20-37)
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
  MAA Student Chapter Panel Discussion
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
  AWM Panel Discussion
  Enrichment programs in urban public schools
  Panelists:
  Harvey Keynes, Talented Youth Mathematics Project
  Jacquelin Rivers, The Algebra Project
  Paul J. Sally, Jr., Young Scholars Program
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 8:55 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  Algebra as a means of understanding mathematics.
  Saunders Mac Lane*, University of Chicago
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 9:00 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
  AWM Membership Meeting \& Prize Session
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 9:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #3: Part A
  A seminar on women in mathematics
  Organizers:
  Miriam P. Cooney, St. Mary's College
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 9:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #4: Part A
  A calculus laboratory using Mathematica
  Organizers:
  Michael Barry, Allegheny College
  Benjamin Haytock, Allegheny College
  Richard McDermot, Allegheny College
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 9:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #5: Part A
  Using history in teaching calculus
  Organizers:
  V. Frederick Rickey, United States Military Academy
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA-NCTM Invited Address
  Mathematics education-yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
  John A. Dossey*, Illinois State University
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  National Science Foundation
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
  MAA Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures: Lecture I
  Spirals from Theodorus of Cyrene to meta-chaos. Spirals old and new.
  Philip J. Davis*, Brown University
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  MAA-PME Invited Address
  Problems for all seasons.
  Ivan Niven*, University of Oregon
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #1: Part B
  Using metacognitive strategies to improve instruction
  Organizers:
  Genevieve Knight, Coppin State College
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #2: Part B
  Planning, funding, and administering teacher enhancement projects
  Organizers:
  T. Christine Stevens, St. Louis University
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  MAA Session on Toward Equity and Excellence: Efforts to Increase the Number of Minorities and Women in the Profession
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    MathConn 89 and MathConn 90: Two successful mathematics awareness days for seventh and eighth grade girls and their teachers.
    Regina Baron Brunner*, Cedar Crest College, Pennsylvania
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Encouraging women and older students in mathematics: A math anxiety reduction program.
    Antonella Cupillari*, Pennsylvania State University, Erie-Behrend College
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Multi-cultural factors in mathematics education.
    Barbara S. Rice*, Alabama A & M University
  • 3:00 p.m.
    NCI summer enrichment program.
    Gloria F. Gilmer*, Math-Tech Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The efforts of a few can help the many.
    Sherrie J. Nicol*, University of Wisconsin, Platteville
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A family of equity programs.
    Claudia L. Pinter-Lucke*, California Polytechnic State University
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  MAA Session on The Interface Between Mathematics and Operations Research, Part B
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Modeling performance in emergency vehicle systems: A link between mathematics and operations research.
    Jeff Goldberg*, University of Arizona
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Using synergism to generate new classroom applications of mathematics.
    Miguel Paredes*, University of Texas-Pan American
  • 3:05 p.m.
    What mathematics teaches the simulationist, and vice versa.
    Diane Driscoll Schwartz*, Ithaca College
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Four counterexamples to heuristic algorithms for the traveling salesman problem.
    Robert Haas, Case Western Reserve University
    Harvey M. Salkin*, Case Western Reserve University
    Kamlesh Mathur, Case Western Reserve University
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Movie: Operations research + you = an exciting career.
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Symbolic Computer Systems Panel Discussion
  The pedagogical impact of computer algebra systems on college mathematics curricula
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  PME Contributed Paper Session
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 2:35 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  AMS Progress in Mathematics Lecture
  Viscosity solutions of partial differential equations.
  Michael G. Crandall*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (859-35-169)
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 3:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  MAA Special Lecture
  

  • 
    The art of mental calculation.
    Arthur T. Benjamin*, Harvey Mudd College
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 3:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Symbolic Computer Systems Special Presentation
  Symbolic computing in undergraduate mathematics: Symbols, pictures, numbers, and insights
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 3:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #3: Part B
  A seminar on women in mathematics
  Organizers:
  Miriam P. Cooney, Saint Mary's College
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 3:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #4: Part B
  A calculus laboratory using Mathematica
  Organizers:
  Michael Barry, Allegheny College
  Benjamin Haytock, Allegheny College
  Richard McDermot, Allegheny College
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 3:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #5: Part B
  Using history in teaching calculus
  Organizers:
  V. Frederick Rickey, United States Military Academy
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
  AMS-MAA-MSEB Evening of Dialogue
  Mathematics education
• Thursday August 9, 1990, 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
  PME J. Sutherland Frame Lecture
  Combinatorics and computers: Coping with finiteness.
  Ronald L. Graham*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey

• Friday August 10, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Combinatorial Games
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    Dots and boxes.
    R. J. Nowakowski*, Dalhousie University
    (859-05-136)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    On the cookie game.
    James Propp, George Washington University
    Daniel Ullman*, George Washington University
    (859-05-137)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Nimdi games.
    U. Blass, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
    A. S. Fraenkel*, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
    M. Lorberbom, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
    (859-05-73)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Invading corridors of territory in Go.
    Elwyn Berlekamp, University of California, Berkeley
    David Wolfe*, University of California, Berkeley
    (859-90-145)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Classical partisan theory extended to loopy games.
    Elwyn Berlekamp*, University of California, Berkeley
    (859-05-138)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mathematical Kayles.
    William L. Sibert, Stanford, Connecticut
    John H. Conway*, Princeton University
    (859-90-122)
• Friday August 10, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Group Theory, II
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    Strongly p-embedded subgroups of finite simple groups.
    Daniel Gorenstein*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    Richard Lyons, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    Ronald Solomon, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (859-20-39)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    The maximal subgroups of the Chevalley groups of type F_4(F),char(F)#2.3.
    Kay Magaard*, California Institute of Technology
    (859-20-16)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the influence of maximal subgroups on the structure of a finite group: Some new results.
    Prabir Bhattacharya*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    N. P. Mukherjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
    (859-20-18)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Schur index of projective characters of symmetric and alternating groups.
    Alexandre Turull*, University of Miami
    (859-20-15)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The representation theory of fully group-graded algebras.
    Paul Boisen*, University of Chicago
    (859-20-69)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On a combinatorial problem associated with the odd order theorem.
    George Glauberman*, University of Chicago
    Simon P. Norton, University of Cambridge, England
    (859-20-33)
• Friday August 10, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:10 a.m.
  AMS Session on Graph Theory and Combinatorics
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    The multi-intersection number of a graph.
    Frank Harary*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
    (859-05-59)
  • 7:15 a.m.
    A problem of degrees in graphs.
    Lisa Hansen, Western Michigan University
    Michelle Schultz*, Western Michigan University
    (859-05-133)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    Subgraph distance in graphs.
    Gary Chartrand*, Western Michigan University
    Garry Johns, Saginaw Valley State University
    Karen S. Novotny, Grand Valley State University
    Ortrud R. Oellermann, University of Natal, Republic of South Africa
    (859-05-131)
  • 7:45 a.m.
    Clique representations of chordal-like graphs.
    Charles Carraher*, Wright State University
    Terry McKee, Wright State University
    (859-05-75)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Planarity of n-subgraph distance graphs.
    Gary Chartrand, Western Michigan University
    H\'ector Hevia, Western Michigan University
    Elzbieta B. Jarrett*, Western Michigan University
    Donald W. Vanderjagt, Grand Valley State University
    (859-05-132)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    A different algorithm for the detection of 3-manifolds.
    John Emert*, Ball State University
    Lawrence Husch, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (859-05-125)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Routings for involutions of a hypercube.
    Alan P. Sprague*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
    Hisao Tamaki, Ibaraki University, Japan
    (859-05-97)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Smallest tournaments with given abelian automorphism group.
    William C. Arlinghaus*, Lawrence Technical University
    (859-05-117)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A combinatorial approach to temporal reasoning.
    Alexander Belfer, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
    Martin Charles Golumbic*, IBM Israel Scientific Center, Israel
    (859-05-34)
• Friday August 10, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m.
  MAA Session
  Modeling
  Organizers:
  Ben A. Fusaro, Salisbury State University
• Friday August 10, 1990, 7:20 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
  AMS Session on Geometry, Topology and Infinite Combinatorics
  

  • 7:20 a.m.
    The p-torsion of the Farrell-Tate cohomology of the mapping class group cap gamma_(p-1)/2.
    Yining Xia*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (859-55-158)
  • 7:35 a.m.
    Minimal surfaces satisfying the spherical Ricci condition.
    Gene Douglas Johnson*, Franklin & Marshall College
    (859-53-155)
  • 7:50 a.m.
    On a conjecture of Nitsche.
    Gregory D. Crow*, John Carroll University
    (859-53-52)
  • 8:05 a.m.
    Consequences of the lattice pentagon property.
    Stanley Rabinowitz*, Westford, Massachusetts
    (859-52-142)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Euclidean hypersurfaces with reflection properties.
    Daniel Drucker*, Wayne State University
    (859-53-106)
  • 8:35 a.m.
    Lattice realcompactifications.
    James Camacho, Jr.*, Jersey City State College
    (859-28-143)
  • 8:50 a.m.
    A note on minimal cover refinable spaces.
    Gangadhar Hiremath*, Talladega College
    (859-54-95)
  • 9:05 a.m.
    Connectedness of self-similar sets.
    Gary Lewellen*, Appalachian State Univesity
    (859-54-51)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Non-homeomorphic disjoint spaces whose union is omega*.
    W. W. Comfort*, Wesleyan University
    Akio Kato, National Defense Academy, Japan
    (859-54-111)
  • 9:35 a.m.
    Measurable cardinals and category bases.
    Andrzej Szymanski*, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
    (859-04-49)
• Friday August 10, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Dynamics of Biological Systems, II
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Resonance and phase-locking in excitable systems.
    Hans G. Othmer*, University of Utah
    (859-92-153)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computer simulations of excitation in an anatomically based model of the ventricular conduction system.
    Andrew E. Pollard*, Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Insitute, University of Utah
    (859-92-86)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A dynamical systems analysis of a population genetics model of learning.
    Steven R. Dunbar*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (859-92-123)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Applications of the stability index.
    Robert Gardner*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (859-35-68)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Travelling waves in fast/slow systems.
    Christopher Jones*, University of Maryland, College Park
    Nancy Kopell, Boston University
    (859-34-128)
• Friday August 10, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #6: Part A
  Writing to learn mathematics
  Organizers:
  Agnes Azzolino, Middlesex County College
• Friday August 10, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #7: Part A
  Exploring mathematics with the NeXT computer
  Organizers:
  Charles G. Fleming, Eastern Illinois University
  Judy D. Halchin, Eastern Illinois University
• Friday August 10, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #8: Part A
  A mathematician's introduction to the HP-48SX scientific expandable calculator for first-time users
  Organizers:
  Don LaTorre, Clemson University
  John Kenelly, Clemson University
• Friday August 10, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #9: Part A
  Starting, funding and sustaining mathematics laboratories
  Organizers:
  James E. White, Kenyon College
• Friday August 10, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Liberal Arts Mathematics Courses, Part A
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Using elementary modeling with graphs and networks as the basis of a liberal arts mathematics course.
    Helen Christensen*, Loyola College, Maryland
  • 7:45 a.m.
    A course in graph modeling for liberal arts students.
    Anne E. Brown*, Saint Mary's College, Indiana
  • 8:00 a.m.
    A course in the theory of voting.
    Roger B. Nelsen*, Lewis & Clark College
  • 8:15 a.m.
    An accessible combinatorics module for liberal arts students.
    Emelie Kenney*, Siena College, New York
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Customized student papers in liberal arts mathematics.
    Robert Bumcrot*, Hofstra University
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Probability and calculus in a liberal arts mathematics course.
    Kay Gura*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
    Giovanni Viglino, Ramapo College of New Jersey
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Using cooperative learning with oral protocols in mathematics for liberal arts students.
    G. Joseph Wimbish*, Huntingdon College and University of Alabama
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Optimization without calculus.
    James W. Petticrew*, University of Texas-Pan American
  • 9:30 a.m.
    How mathematics grows.
    Jerry D. Taylor*, Campbell University
  • 9:45 a.m.
    A tour in knot theory.
    Stefanos Gialamas*, Columbia College, Chicago
• Friday August 10, 1990, 7:50 a.m.-8:40 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  The role of microlocal analysis in PDE.
  Michael E. Taylor*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  (859-35-100)
• Friday August 10, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  MAA Committee on the Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics Panel Discussion
  Research in learning undergraduate mathematics
  Moderators:
  Lida K. Barrett, Mississippi State University
  s:
  Joan Ferrini-Mundy, University of New Hampshire and Program Director at NSF
  James J. Kaput, Southeastern Massachusetts University
• Friday August 10, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  MAA Committee on Computers in Mathematics Education Panel Discussion
  Visualization project
  Moderators:
  Walter Zimmermann, University of the Pacific
  s:
  Herman E. Gollwitzer, Drexel University
  Valerie A. miller, Georgia State University
• Friday August 10, 1990, 8:15 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  PME Contributed Paper Session
  

  • 8:15 a.m.
    
• Friday August 10, 1990, 8:55 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Statistical mechanics of Coulomb systems.
  Joseph G. Conlon*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (859-82-101)
• Friday August 10, 1990, 10:05 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  AMS Business Meeting
• Friday August 10, 1990, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  National Science Foundation
• Friday August 10, 1990, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
  PME Council
• Friday August 10, 1990, 12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
  MAA Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures: Lecture II
  Spirals from Theodorus of Cyrene to meta-chaos. Lessons from Euler.
  Philip J. Davis*, Brown University
• Friday August 10, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  MAA-CMS Invited Address
  Prime number records.
  Paulo Ribenboim*, Queen's University
• Friday August 10, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Combinatorics, II
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Graphs, games and structure theorems.
    Neil Robertson, Ohio State University, Columbus
    P. D. Seymour, Bellcore, Morristown, New Jersey
    Robin Thomas*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (859-05-165)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Supeulerian and collapsible graphs.
    Paul A. Catlin*, Wayne State University
    (859-05-151)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A characterization in Z^n of unit-distance graphs in R^n.
    Kiran B. Chilakamarri*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (859-05-146)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Loop transversals to linear codes.
    Jonathan D. H. Smith*, Iowa State University
    (859-05-23)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Large sets of disjoint t-designs.
    Yeow Meng Chee, University of Waterloo
    Charles J. Colbourn, University of Waterloo
    Steven C. Furino, University of Waterloo
    Donald L. Kreher*, University of Wyoming
    (859-05-80)
• Friday August 10, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, II
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Canonical resolution of hypersurface singularities of characteristic p.
    T. T. Moh*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    (859-13-141)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Whose theorem is this?
    Bruce Reznick*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (859-14-98)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Topology of Milnor fibers of minimally elliptic singularities.
    Lee J. McEwan*, Ohio State University, Mansfield
    (859-14-130)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Semple's bundles of higher-order data.
    Susan Jane Colley, Oberlin College
    Gary Kennedy*, Oberlin College
    (859-14-102)
• Friday August 10, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Ring Theory, II
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Primitive ideals in enveloping algebras of classical simple Lie superalgebras.
    Ian M. Musson*, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    (859-16-58)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The algebraic structure of linearly recursive sequences under Hadamard product.
    Richard G. Larson, University of Illinois, Chicago
    Earl J. Taft*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (859-16-05)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Classical localization in a Morita context.
    Philippe Loustaunau, George Mason University
    Jay Shapiro*, George Mason University
    (859-16-61)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Value groups and distributivity.
    Hans H. Brungs*, University of Alberta
    Joachim Gr\"ater, Technische Universit\"at, Germany
    (859-16-63)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Idempotents in matrix rings.
    Christopher Barnett, Imperial College of Science & Technology, England
    Victor Camillo*, University of Iowa
    (859-16-28)
• Friday August 10, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #6: Part B
  Writing to learn mathematics
  Organizers:
  Agnes Azzolino, Middlesex County College
• Friday August 10, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #7: Part B
  Exploring mathematics with the NeXT computer
  Organizers:
  Charles G. Fleming, Eastern Illinois University
  Judy D. Halchin, Eastern Illinois University
• Friday August 10, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #9: Part B
  Starting, funding and sustaining mathematics laboratories
  Organizers:
  James E. White, Kenyon College
• Friday August 10, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
  AMS Session on Group Theory
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    On automatic groups.
    Kazem Mahdavi*, State University of New York, College at Potsdam
    (859-20-42)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    On the integral cohomology of split metacyclic groups.
    Dean Larson*, Gonzaga University
    (859-20-127)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Finite groups having chain difference one.
    Ben Brewster, State University of New York, Binghamton
    Michael B. Ward*, Bucknell University
    Irene Zimmermann, Freiburg, Germany
    (859-20-74)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Metabelian groups with all cyclic subgroups subnormal of bounded defect.
    David J. Garrison*, IBM Corporation, Owego, New York
    (859-20-66)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Thin bases for finite groups.
    Xing-De Jia*, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
    (859-20-88)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Some characters of twisted wreath products.
    George F. Yeh*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    (859-20-103)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On exponential groups.
    Patrick B. Chen*, John Carroll University
    Ta-Sun Wu, Case Western Reserve University
    (859-22-152)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    A special class of finite p-groups.
    Matthew P. Fisher*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    (859-20-166)
• Friday August 10, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
  MAA Session on Liberal Arts Mathematics Courses, Part B
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Mathematical tools for critical thinking: A liberal arts mathematics course.
    Curtis McKnight*, University of Oklahoma
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Mathematics and the modern world: Core curriculum mathematics at a large public university.
    Richard Mercer*, Wright State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Developing students' mathematical power in liberal arts mathematics courses.
    Roger H. Marty*, Cleveland State University
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Mathematics for sensible living: Making connections with the adult world.
    Constance M. Elson*, Ithaca College
  • 2:30 p.m.
    "What is mathematics?" Is this the question for liberal arts students?
    Bruce Williamson*, University of Wisconsin, River Falls
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Reading and writing in a mathematical ideas course.
    Richard Alan Gillman*, Valparaiso University
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Can students in core requirement courses do mathematics on a creative level?
    Rhonda L. Hatcher*, Saint Olaf College
  • 3:15 p.m.
    A survey approach to liberal arts mathematics.
    Dan Kalman*, Rancho Palos Verdes, California
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Symmetry: Unifying abstraction, intuition and applications in a liberal arts mathematics course.
    Thomas Q. Sibley*, Saint John's University, Minnesota
• Friday August 10, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  PME Contributed Paper Session
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    
• Friday August 10, 1990, 2:35 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
  MAA-SIAM Invited Address
  Interior point methods for linear programming: An overview.
  Richard A. Tapia*, Rice University
• Friday August 10, 1990, 2:50 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  MAA Open Discussion on Consultants
  Organizers:
  Alan C. Tucker, SUNY at Stony Brook
  John W. Kenelly, Clemson University
  Richard Millman, Wright State University
• Friday August 10, 1990, 4:05 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Business Meeting
• Friday August 10, 1990, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
  AMS Committee on Science Policy Panel Discussion
  Responsibilities of mathematicians in the implementation of the DAVID II Report

Saturday August 11, 1990

• Saturday August 11, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Combinatorics, III
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    Delsarte's inequalities and t-designs.
    Richard M. Wilson*, California Institute of Technology
    (859-05-154)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    Association schemes on triples and a ternary algebra.
    Dale M. Mesner, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    Prabir Bhattacharya*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (859-05-19)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Cycle ideals and tactical partitions of distance-regular graphs.
    Aaron D. Meyerowitz*, Florida Atlantic University
    (859-05-119)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A large set of designs on vector spaces.
    D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri, Ohio State University, Columbus
    Erin J. Schram*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (859-05-79)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Structure theory of planar graphs embedded on nonplanar surfaces.
    Bojan Mohar, University of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
    Neil Robertson*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    Richard Vitray, Appalachian State University
    (859-05-147)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Leafless trees in countable graphs.
    Bogdan Oporowski*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    (859-05-162)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Incidence matrices in geometric lattices.
    Joseph P. S. Kung*, University of North Texas
    (859-05-35)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Strong Tutte functions of matroids and graphs.
    Thomas Zaslavsky*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    (859-05-29)
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Ring Theory, III
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    The enumeration of finite chain rings.
    Yousif Al-Khamees*, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
    (859-16-96)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    Injectivity, P-injectivity and V-rings.
    Roger Yue Chi Ming*, University of Paris VII, France
    (859-16-60)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    CS-modules with chain conditions.
    V. Camillo, University of Iowa
    M. F. Yousif*, Ohio State University, Lima
    (859-16-110)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Orders in blocked triangular matrix rings.
    Ming-Sun Li, Oberlin College
    Julius Zelmanowitz*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (859-16-104)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Nonsingular retractable modules and their endomorphism rings.
    Soumaya Khuri*, East Carolina University
    (859-16-27)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the weak-injectivity of rings.
    Abdullah Al-Huzali, Ohio University, Athens
    S. K. Jain, Ohio University, Athens
    S. R. Lopez-Permouth*, Ohio University, Athens
    (859-16-87)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Class decomposition of modules.
    Saad Mohamed*, Kuwait University, Kuwait
    (859-16-44)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Modules with chain conditions on superfluous submodules.
    Ibrahim Al-Khazzi, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    Patrick F. Smith*, University of Glasgow, Scotland
    (859-16-64)
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Group Theory, III
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    A numerical approach to rewriteability in finite groups.
    Judy L. Leavitt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Gary J. Sherman*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    Mark E. Walker, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (859-20-83)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    A special class of finite p-groups.
    Wolfgang P. Kappe*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    (859-20-32)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Property nu in groups.
    James C. Beidleman*, University of Kentucky
    (859-20-10)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Intersections of subgroup functors.
    Ben Brewster*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    (859-20-24)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On exact power margin groups.
    Luise-Charlotte Kappe*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    (859-20-31)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Levi-properties generated by varieties.
    Robert Fitzgerald Morse*, IBM Corporation, Owega,New York
    (859-20-38)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-normal projectivities of metacyclic p-groups.
    Charles Holmes*, Miami University
    (859-20-41)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the structure of dual-standard subgroups.
    Stewart Stonehewer, Warwick University, England
    Giovanni Zacher*, Universit\'a di Padova, Italy
    (859-20-40)
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #10: Part A
  CAS laboratory projects for calculus
  Organizers:
  Carl Leinbach, Gettysburg College
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #6: Part C
  Writing to learn mathematics
  Organizers:
  Agnes Azzolino, Middlesex County College
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-10:10 a.m.
  AMS Session on Algebraic Number Theory and Multiplicative Structures
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    A note on fundamental properties of recurring series.
    Joseph Arkin, United States Military Academy
    David C. Arney, United States Military Academy
    Frank R. Giordano, United States Military Academy
    Rickey A. Kolb*, United States Military Academy
    (859-11-54)
  • 7:15 a.m.
    Explicit construction of certain metacyclic extensions.
    Stanley Gurak*, University of San Diego
    (859-11-113)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    Small two variable exponential diophantine equations.
    Robert Styer*, Villanova University
    (859-11-163)
  • 7:45 a.m.
    Narcissistic loops.
    John F. Lamb, Jr.*, East Texas State University
    (859-11-04)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Divisor functions and subgroups of dihedral groups.
    David W. Jensen*, United States Air Force Academy
    Michael K. Keane, United States Air Force Academy
    (859-11-06)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    The original manuscript of the generalized Fibonacci numbers combined with the generalized Pascal triangle.
    Joseph Arkin*, United States Military Academy
    David C. Arney, United States Military Academy
    Frank R. Giordano, United States Military Academy
    (859-11-47)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Supercube II.
    Joseph Arkin, United States Military Academy
    David C. Arney*, United States Military Academy
    Frank R. Giordano, United States Military Academy
    (859-11-48)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    The structure of stochastic complements in irreducible stochastic matrices.
    Peter M. Gibson*, University of Alabama, Huntsville
    (859-15-62)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The eigenvalue problem without determinants.
    William A. McWorter, Ohio State University, Columbus
    Leroy F. Meyers*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (859-15-118)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    The isometries of certain finite dimensional normed spaces.
    Rohan Hemasinha*, University of West Florida
    James R. Weaver, University of West Florida
    (859-15-90)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Universal localization of wide tilde A_12, twisted pencils of matrices, and indecomposable modules.
    Mike May, S. J.*, Cambridge, Massachusetts
    (859-16-121)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Centroids and root systems.
    Duncan J. Melville*, Yale University
    (859-17-124)
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Liberal Arts Mathematics Courses, Part C
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    A health sciences core curriculum sequence in mathematics.
    Henry C. Foehl*, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, Pennsylvania
  • 7:45 a.m.
    Mathematics for honors students in liberal arts and business.
    Satish C. Bhatnager*, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    Leonard Zane, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Creating new avenues for liberal arts students.
    Dave Wells*, Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington Campus
    Lynn Schmitt, Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington Campus
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Other people's math: What every student should know.
    Lucy L. Deephouse*, Trinity College, Connecticut
    Timothy V. Craine, Trinity College, Connecticut
  • 8:30 a.m.
    An attempt to teach mathematics.
    Kathleen A. Taylor*, Duquesne University
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Math and math anxious.
    Margaret Herzog*, Pacific Lutheran University
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Contemporary mathematics and its utilitarian value.
    Ronald J. Czochor*, Glassboro State College, New Jersey
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Who are the liberal arts students and what math is "practical" for them?
    Carole A. Bauer*, Triton College, Illinois
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Who is our customer and what does she need to know?
    JoAnne S. Growney*, Bloomsburg University
  • 9:45 a.m.
    What does all this have to do with mathematics?
    Barry Brunson*, Western Kentucky University
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 7:50 a.m.-8:40 a.m.
  MAA-ACM Invited Address
  On the computational complexity of doing mathematics.
  Juris Hartmanis*, Cornell University
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, III
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mordell-Weil groups of extremal K3 surfaces.
    Rick Miranda*, Colorado State University
    (859-14-126)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Determinantal transversality criteria.
    Robert Speiser*, Brigham Young University
    (859-14-55)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rationally triangulable automorphisms.
    James K. Deveney, Virginia Commonwealth University
    David R. Finston*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (859-13-30)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Gauss map of a generic genus 4 theta divisor.
    Robert Varley*, University of Georgia
    Malcolm Adams, University of Georgia
    Clint McCrory, University of Georgia
    Theodore Shifrin, University of Georgia
    (859-14-139)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Minimal models of elliptic threefolds.
    Antonella Grassi*, Duke University
    (859-14-94)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Infinitesimal propagation of line bundles among curves on algebraic varieties.
    Yun-Gang Ye*, Duke University
    (859-14-164)
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Calculus Reform and the First Two Years Panel Discussion
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 8:55 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
  MAA-NAM Invited Address
  Intriguing problems about zeros in complex analysis.
  Carl Lindell Prather*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 9:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #11: Part A
  Producing mathematics courseware with Mathematica: Calculus and Mathematica
  Organizers:
  Don Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana
  Horacio Porta, University of Illinois, Urbana
  Jerry Uhl, University of Illinois, Urbana
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 9:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #12
  Exploring statistics and discrete mathematics topics using inexpensive graphing calculators
  Organizers:
  Franklin Demana, Ohio State University
  Bert K. Waits, Ohio State University
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 9:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #13: Part A
  Spreadsheet based mathematical topics for nonmathematics majors
  Organizers:
  V. S. Ramamurti, University of North Florida
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  MAA Session on MAA-PME Contributed Paper Session
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  MAA-PME Undergraduate Student Paper Session
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Science Policy Committee Panel Discussion
  State mathematics coalitions
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA-AWM Invited Address
  The uses of set theory.
  Judith Roitman*, University of Kansas
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  National Science Foundation
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 12:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Combinatorics, IV
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    Large sets of disjoint combinatorial structures.
    Luc Teirlinck*, Auburn University, Auburn
    (859-05-81)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Invariant linear forms and regularity in codes and designs.
    A. R. Calderbank*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
    (859-05-70)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Designs from maximal arcs and difference sets.
    J. F. Dillon*, National Security Agency
    (859-05-150)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The subconstituent algebra of a graph of thin type.
    Paul Terwilliger*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (859-05-107)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On the diameter of Cayley graphs of permutation groups.
    Laszlo Babai, University of Chicago
    Akos Seress*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (859-05-148)
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 12:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Ring Theory, IV
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    The structure of Johns rings.
    Carl Faith*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    Pere Menal, University Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
    (859-16-65)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    On right perfect localizations.
    Seog-Hoon Rim, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    Mark L. Teply*, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    Blas Torrecillas, University of Granada, Spain
    (859-16-12)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Minimal cogenerators need not be unique.
    Barbara L. Osofsky*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (859-16-50)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Uniform modules over serial rings.
    Bruno J. Mueller*, McMaster University
    Surjeet Singh, Kuwait University, Kuwait
    (859-16-78)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The second layer condition, links and localization in serial rings with Krull dimension.
    Mary H. Wright*, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
    (859-16-25)
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #10: Part B
  CAS laboratory projects for calculus
  Organizers:
  Carl Leinbach, Gettysburg College
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #8: Part B
  A mathematician's introduction to the HP-48SX scientific expandable calculator for first-time users
  Organizers:
  John Kenelly, Clemson University
  Don LaTorre, Clemson University
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 12:00 p.m.-2:10 p.m.
  AMS Session on Function Spaces
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    The geometry of harmonic mappings.
    Abdallah Lyzzaik*, Kuwait University, Kuwait
    (859-30-02)
  • 12:15 p.m.
    Linear functionals on some weighted Bergman spaces.
    Maher M. H. Marzuq*, Kuwait University, Kuwait
    (859-30-03)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Homogeneous polynomials on L_p-spaces.
    K. Sundaresan*, Cleveland State University
    (859-42-21)
  • 12:45 p.m.
    Approximation by partial sums of Fourier series.
    Syed M. Mazhar*, Ohio State University, Columbus and Kuwait University, Kuwait
    (859-42-93)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Multi-tuple Shilov boundaries for function spaces.
    Toma Tonev*, University of Toledo and Institute of Mathematics, Bulgaria
    (859-46-157)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Range inclusion and factorization of operators on classical Banach spaces.
    Alfred D. Andrew, Georgia Institute of Technology
    W. M. Patterson*, Spelman College
    (859-47-115)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Maxwell's principle for Lagrangian saddle functions.
    Gregory B. Passty*, Southwest Texas State University
    (859-47-114)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Diagonal operators in ideals.
    Michael Hoffman*, California State University, Los Angeles
    (859-47-159)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Relations with composition products of set-valued mappings.
    Frank U. Williamson*, Vitry, France
    (859-49-20)
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 12:00 p.m.-1:40 p.m.
  AMS Session on Numerical Methods and Mathematical Modelling
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    Random processes of the form x_n+1 =a_nx_n+b_n(mod p).
    Martin Hildebrand*, Harvard University
    (859-60-89)
  • 12:15 p.m.
    More about two-parameter SOR method.
    Saadat Moussavi*, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
    (859-65-134)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Low velocity expressions for the force between moving charges.
    Domina Eberle Spencer*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    Shama Y. Uma, Bridgewater State College
    (859-78-112)
  • 12:45 p.m.
    A two-layer compressible/incompressible mathematical model of ice deformation.
    William A. Jones, Jr.*, Byrd Polar Research Center and Ohio State University, Columbus
    (859-86-135)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    An investigation into the mathematics behind allometry.
    Sue Ann Gaster*, College of Saint Mary
    (859-92-156)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Geographic location theory: Selected topics.
    Sandra L. Arlinghaus*, Institute of Mathematical Geography
    (859-51-116)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Introductory linear algebra and computers.
    Firooz Khosraviyani*, University of Texas at Permian Basin
    (859-15-140)
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 12:00 p.m.-2:10 p.m.
  AMS Session on Differential and Integral Equations
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    A note on the gap between the first two eigenvalues of one dimensional Schrodinger operator with symmetric potential.
    Shoshana Abramovich*, Connecticut College
    (859-34-14)
  • 12:15 p.m.
    Quasilinear Jacobi differential equations.
    Victor L. Shapiro*, University of California, Riverside
    (859-34-53)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Nonlinear matrix differential equations.
    John Jones, Jr.*, Air Force Institute of Technology
    (859-34-91)
  • 12:45 p.m.
    A remark on the periodic solutions of autonomous second order differential equations.
    Pablo M. Salzberg*, University of Puerto Rico
    B. Mehri, University of Puerto Rico
    (859-34-160)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Local existence and uniqueness of solutions of degenerate parabolic equations.
    Jeffrey R. Anderson*, Ball State University
    (859-35-11)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Lax pairs, recursion operators and perturbations of integrable evolution equations.
    Russell L. Herman*, Saint Lawrence University
    (859-35-01)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Existence and uniqueness of bounded solutions of pertubed integral equations.
    M. N. Islam*, University of Dayton
    (859-45-43)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Characterization of the Meijer transform.
    Elias Y. Deeba*, University of Houston, Downtown
    E. L. Koh, University of Regina
    (859-44-76)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Generalized Hilbert's 16th problem.
    Ping-Xing Sheng*, State University of New York, Buffalo and University of California, Los Angeles
    (859-34-09)
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
  MAA Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures: Lecture III
  Spirals from Theodorus of Cyrene to meta-chaos. Theodorus goes wild.
  Philip J. Davis*, Brown University
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  MAA-AMATYC Invited Address
  Crisis in mathematics education: Perspective from the two-year college.
  Karl J. Smith*, Santa Rosa Junior College
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #11: Part B
  Producing mathematics courseware with Mathematica: Calculus and Mathematica
  Organizers:
  Don Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana
  Horacio Porta, University of Illinois, Urbana
  Jerry Uhl, University of Illinois, Urbana
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #13: Part B
  Spreadsheet based mathematical topics for nonmathematics majors
  Organizers:
  V. S. Ramamurti, University of North Florida
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 2:35 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  AMS Progress in Mathematics Lecture
  cap lambda-trees and their applications.
  John W. Morgan*, Columbia University
  (859-20-167)
• Saturday August 11, 1990, 2:35 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
  MAA Committee on the Participation of Women Special Lecture
  History of women in the MAA

Sunday August 12, 1990