AMS Meeting Full Program

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Orono Mathfest
ORONO, ME, August 8-10, 1991
Meeting #867

Sunday August 4, 1991

Monday August 5, 1991

Tuesday August 6, 1991

• Tuesday August 6, 1991, 1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  AMS Short Course
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The unreasonable effectiveness of number theory in physics, communication, and music.
    Manfred R. Schroeder*, University of G\"ottingen, Germany
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Number theory and statistical mechanics.
    George E. Andrews*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  • 4:00 p.m.
    General Discussion

Wednesday August 7, 1991

• Wednesday August 7, 1991, 7:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Board of Governors
• Wednesday August 7, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  AMS Short Course
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Number theory and dynamical systems.
    Jeffrey C. Lagarias*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
  • 9:45 a.m.
    The mathematics of random number generators.
    George Marsaglia*, Florida State University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Cyclotomy and cyclic codes.
    Vera S. Pless*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Number theory in computer graphics.
    M. Douglas McIlroy*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
  • 4:00 p.m.
    General Discussion
• Wednesday August 7, 1991, 1:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  AMS Council
• Wednesday August 7, 1991, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Section Officers

Thursday August 8, 1991

• Thursday August 8, 1991, 7:30 a.m.-8:20 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  On the maximum principle.
  Louis Nirenberg*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 8:35 a.m.-9:25 a.m.
  MAA Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures: Lecture I
  The sensual (quadratic) form. Can you see the values of 3x^2 +6xy -5y^2?
  John Horton Conway*, Princeton University
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 9:40 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
  AMS Progress in Mathematics Lecture
  Algorithms in algebraic number theory.
  H. W. Lenstra, Jr.*, University of California, Berkeley
  (867-11-100)
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 11:25 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Business Meeting
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
  National Science Foundation Informal Discussion Group
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
  MAA-Mu Alpha Theta Lecture
  Calculus in an age of technology.
  Paul A. Foerster*, Alamos Heights High School, San Antonio, Texas
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Commutative Noetherian Rings with Applications in Algebraic Geometry, I
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Tangent modules of symmetric algebras.
    Aron Simis, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
    Bernd Ulrich, Michigan State University
    Wolmer V. Vasconcelos*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (867-13-22)
  • 1:10 p.m.
    The ideal theory of graphs.
    Aron Simis, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
    Wolmer V. Vasconcelos, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    Rafael H. Villarreal*, Institute Politecnico National, Mexico
    (867-13-26)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Grade four almost complete intersections and linkage.
    Susan M. Palmer*, Southwest Missouri State University
    (867-13-31)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    On quasihomogeneity of isolated singularities.
    Alex Martsinkovsky*, Northeastern University
    (867-13-24)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Regular differential forms and relative duality.
    Reinhold H\"ubl*, University of Regensburg, Germany
    (867-14-40)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    On the descent of the approximation property.
    Dana Weston*, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (867-13-49)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Weak d-sequences generate ideals of quadratic type.
    K. N. Raghavan*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    (867-13-97)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Betti numbers of modules of finite length.
    Matthew Miller*, University of South Carolina, Columbia
    (867-13-56)
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Continuum Theory and Dynamical Systems, I
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Full attracting sets of annulus maps which are inverse limits of circles.
    Sarah Holte*, University of Missouri, Rolla
    (867-58-73)
  • 1:10 p.m.
    On certain inverse limits as non-hyperbolic attractors.
    Witold Szczechla*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    (867-58-161)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Inverse limits on [0,1] with logistic bonding maps.
    Marcy Barge, Montana State University
    W. T. Ingram*, University of Missouri, Rolla
    (867-54-87)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Prime and dynamics associated with the Henon map.
    Marcy Barge*, Montana State University
    (867-58-91)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Dimension, differentiability and dynamics-a survey of recent results.
    Jenny Harrison*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
    (867-58-188)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Distortion in Denjoy dynamics on the 2-torus.
    Alec Norton*, University of Texas, Austin
    (867-58-78)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Denjoy diffeomorphisms of the torus.
    Vladimir N. Akis*, California State University, Los Angeles
    (867-57-108)
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, I
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Cyclotomic polynomials with large coefficients.
    Helmut Maier*, University of Georgia
    (867-11-129)
  • 1:10 p.m.
    Mean-value theorem for character sums.
    John Friedlander*, University of Toronto
    (867-11-88)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Approximations to fractional powers of zeta (s) by Dirichlet polynomials.
    Brian Conrey*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
    (867-11-186)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    An exponential sum over primes.
    Daniel A. Goldston*, San Jose State University
    (867-11-171)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    On the sum cap sigma_0 < gamma < than or equal to T vert bar zeta prime (p) vert bar^-2.
    Steven M. Gonek*, University of Rochester
    (867-11-162)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Non-vanishing theorems for L-functions.
    V. Kumar Murty*, University of Toronto
    (867-11-187)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Lower and upper bounds for the number of representations of an integer as a sum of 5, 6, 7, or 8 squares.
    Paul T. Bateman*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (867-11-154)
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Inequalities for Polytopes, I
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Aesthetics and geometric inequalities.
    Daniel Pedoe*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (867-51-144)
  • 1:10 p.m.
    A new look at some old inequalities.
    Roland H. Eddy*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    (867-51-53)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Generalizations of Ptolemy's inequality.
    Murray S. Klamkin*, University of Alberta
    (867-52-69)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    Betweeness relations among centers and lines in the plane of a triangle.
    Clark Kimberling*, University of Evansville
    (867-51-43)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Inequalities of a triangle involving products of angles.
    Peter Yff*, Ball State University
    (867-51-145)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Some inequalities for inradii associated with a simplex.
    Stanley Rabinowitz*, MathPro Press , Westford, Massachusetts
    (867-51-176)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    A trigono-geometric relationship.
    Leon Bankoff*, Los Angeles, California
    (867-51-175)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Variational Methods, Differential Analysis and Symmetry, I
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Kostant's convexity theorem in infinite dimension.
    Chuu-Lian Terng*, Northeastern University
    (867-53-77)
  • 1:10 p.m.
    A new Cayley-Hamilton theorem.
    Robert S. Williams*, University of Texas, Austin
    Matthew Stafford, University of Texas, Austin
    Steve Kennedy, University of Delaware
    (867-58-149)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Regularizing the second fundamental form for Yang-Mills orbits.
    Yohiaki Maeda, Keio University, Japan
    Philippe Tondeur, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Steven Rosenberg*, Boston University
    (867-58-54)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    An example of the Poisson action of a Lie group.
    Karen Uhlenbeck*, University of Texas, Austin
    (867-53-151)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Quantum symmetry, knot invariants, and topology.
    Louis Crane*, Yale University
    (867-55-132)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Singularities of solution to some variational problems.
    Libin Mou*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (867-49-137)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    On the positive solutions of semilinear equations cap delta u + lambda u - hu^p = 0 on the compact manifolds.
    Tiancheng Ouyang*, University of Toledo
    (867-35-61)
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Function Algebras and Function Spaces, I
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Sequences in the maximal ideal space of H^infinity.
    Sheldon Axler*, Michigan State University
    Pamela Gorkin, Bucknell University
    (867-30-42)
  • 1:10 p.m.
    Bourgain algebras on the unit disk.
    Joseph A. Cima*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Karel Stroethoff, University of Montana
    Keith Yale, University of Montana
    (867-30-04)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Polynomial extreme points of the unit ball of H^infinity(B).
    John McDonald*, Arizona State University
    (867-46-41)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    Multiplicative structure of de Branges spaces.
    Benjamin A. Lotto*, University of California, Berkeley
    Donald Sarason, University of California, Berkeley
    (867-30-21)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Mobius-invariant subspaces of the Bloch space and their relation to BMOA.
    Pratibha Ghatage*, Cleveland State University
    Dechao Zheng, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    (867-30-156)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Closed ideals of weak Bezout type in H^infinity.
    Raymond Mortini*, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
    (867-30-120)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Bourgain algebras of the disk, polydisk and ball algebras.
    Keiji Izuchi*, Kanagawa University, Japan
    (867-46-59)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Compact weighted composition operators on the L^p-spaces.
    Hiroyuki Takagi*, Waseda University, Japan
    (867-46-62)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Isometries of abstract Bloch spaces.
    Krzysztof Jarosz*, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
    (867-46-164)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Functions that operate on a Banach function algebra.
    Osamu Hatori*, Tokyo Medical College, Japan
    (867-46-83)
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS General Session, I
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Decision problems in linear algebra and in language theory.
    Melven Krom*, University of California, Davis
    Myren Krom, California State University, Sacramento
    (867-03-85)
  • 12:55 p.m.
    Binary matroids with every circuit basis fundamental.
    Lawrence Wargo*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    (867-05-140)
  • 1:10 p.m.
    The number of D-classes in the semigroup of binary relations on 5 elements.
    George Markowsky*, University of Maine, Orono
    (867-08-19)
  • 1:25 p.m.
    Integral bases for quartic number fields that have a quadratic subfield.
    James G. Huard*, Carleton University
    Blair K. Spearman, Carleton University and Okanagan College
    Kenneth S. Williams, Carleton University
    (867-11-153)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Variations of the L^3 base reduction algorithm in two dimensions yield continued fractions!
    Alice A. Deanin*, Villanova University
    (867-11-45)
  • 1:55 p.m.
    A Fibonacci congruence.
    Donald F. Bailey*, Trinity University
    (867-11-75)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    On Galois embedding problem for p-extensions in characteristic p.
    T. Kambayashi*, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
    (867-12-105)
  • 2:25 p.m.
    Product schemes with group action and secant sheaves on quotients.
    Mark Huibregtse*, Skidmore College
    (867-14-179)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Quadratic forms and Ternery algebras.
    Xiaorong Shen*, Iowa State College, Ames
    (867-15-134)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    Chain addition cycles.
    Jody Lockhart, United States Naval Academy
    William Wardlaw*, United States Naval Academy
    (867-15-139)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    The divisor and summatory functions of integer matrices.
    Gautami Bhowmik*, Jesus & Mary College, India
    (867-15-190)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Certain cotriples on Cat.
    Paul G. Glenn*, Catholic University of America
    (867-18-131)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    A generalization of Hamiltonian groups.
    Joseph Buckley*, Western Michigan University
    John C. Lennox, University of Wales, United Kingdom
    James Wiegold, University of Wales, United Kingdom
    (867-20-133)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    The endocenter and representation theory.
    Jon Phillips*, Iowa State College, Ames
    (867-20-172)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Verma bases for irreducible A_n modules and for their kernels.
    A. J. Coleman, Queen's University
    R. W. Deckhart*, Kansas State University
    (867-22-158)
  • 4:25 p.m.
    Convergence without epsilons.
    Darwin E. Peek*, Trinity University
    (867-26-117)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Characteristic functions of certain Carleman classes.
    Jamil A. Siddiqi*, Universit\'e Laval
    (867-26-191)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    H^p-classes on spaces of negative curvature.
    Adam Koranyi*, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
    (867-31-110)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Postulational formulation of the Maxwell equations.
    Arjan Sobhraj Mirchandaney, Defiance College
    Domina Eberle Spencer*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    Shama Y. Uma, Bridgewater State College
    Philip J. Mann, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    (867-31-167)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Different and trace.
    Joseph Lewittes*, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
    (867-12-14)
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  MAA Session on Using Student Projects in the First Two Years of the Curriculum, I
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Introduction
  • 12:45 p.m.
    Using student projects in an elementary math modeling course (graphs and networks) for liberal arts students.
    Helen Christensen*, Loyola College in Maryland
  • 1:05 p.m.
    Strip patterns: A project in ethnomathematics.
    Marcia Ascher*, Ithaca College
  • 1:25 p.m.
    Using student reading projects in linear algebra.
    Christine R. Leverenz*, Georgetown College
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra projects at the University of Arizona.
    David O. Lomen*, University of Arizona
    David Lovelock, University of Arizona
  • 2:05 p.m.
    A projects-based calculus. I.
    Eric E. Robinson*, Ithaca College
  • 2:25 p.m.
    Student research projects in calculus: A department-wide program.
    David J. Pengelley*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Break
  • 2:50 p.m.
    Conjecture and experimentation in a calculus laboratory.
    Lawrence C. Moore, Duke University
    David A. Smith*, Duke University
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Using student projects in calculus.
    Mic Jackson*, Earlham College
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Student projects: An historical perspective to calculus.
    Ronald N. Bell*, Midland Valley High School, Langley, South Carolina
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Who are these mathematicians?
    Kay Gura*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
  • 4:10 p.m.
    The chromatic triangles project.
    Dorothy Buerk*, Ithaca College
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Art research project for a geometry course.
    Catherine A. Gorini*, Maharishi International University
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  PME Contributed Paper Session
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  PME Contributed Paper Session
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  PME Contributed Paper Session
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:45 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #1: Part A
  Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set
  Organizers:
  Robert L. Devaney, Boston University
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:45 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #2: Part A
  Integrating calculus and physics for freshmen
  Organizers:
  Joan R. Hundhausen, Colorado School of Mines
  F. Richard Yeatts, Colorado School of Mines
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 12:45 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #3: Part A
  Making mathematics more concrete
  Organizers:
  Agnes Azzolino, Mathematical Concepts
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  AMS Committee on Science Policy Panel Discussion
  Report of the Strategic Planning Task Force: Its potential for the coming decade
  Moderators:
  Hugo Rossi, University of Utah
  Speakers:
  Richard Askey, Univ of Wisconsin
  Lenore Blum, International Comp Sci Inst
  Michael C. Reed, Duke Univ
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  AWM-MAA Panel Discussion
  Careers that count: Opportunities in the mathematical sciences
  Moderators:
  Jenny Baglivo, Boston College
  Speakers:
  Allyn Jackson, AMS
  Sharon Chapman, Amherst Jr High School
  Ruth Gonzalez, Exxon
  Jacquie Callahan, JPL
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #4: Part A
  Teaching mathematical modeling
  Organizers:
  Frank Giordano, U.S. Military Academy
  Maurice Weir, Naval Postgraduate School
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #5: Part A
  Conceptualizing, organizing, and seeking funding for teacher education projects
  Organizers:
  Joan Ferrini-Mundy, University of New Hampshire
  Carole Lacampagne, National Science Foundation
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #6: Part A
  Symmetry analysis of repeated patterns
  Organizers:
  Donald Crowe, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #7: Part A
  Great theorems from mathematical analysis: 1689-1881
  Organizers:
  William Dunham, Hanover College
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  AWM Membership Meeting
• Thursday August 8, 1991, 3:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  MAA Committee on Computers in Mathematics Education & CUPM Subcommittee on Symbolic Computer Systems Panel Discussion
  Uses of computers in NSF calculus projects
  Panelists:
  Dennis M. Schneider, Knox College
  Joan R. Hundhausen, Colorado School of Mines
  William H. Barker, Bowdoin College
  David O. Lomen, University of Arizona
  Organizers:
  Phoebe Judson, Trinity University

Friday August 9, 1991

• Friday August 9, 1991, 7:30 a.m.-8:20 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  Mathematics under hardship conditions in the Third World.
  Neal I. Koblitz*, University of Washington
• Friday August 9, 1991, 8:35 a.m.-9:25 a.m.
  MAA Earle Raymond Hedrick Lecture: Lecture II
  The sensual (quadratic) form. Can you hear the shape of a lattice?
  John Horton Conway*, Princeton University
• Friday August 9, 1991, 9:40 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
• Friday August 9, 1991, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  PME Council
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Problems in Number Theory, I
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    Some number-theoretic divisibility problems.
    R. L. Graham*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
    (867-11-67)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Estimates of the least prime factor of a binomial coefficient.
    Carole B. Lacampagne*, National Science Foundation and Northern Illinois University
    (867-11-192)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Reverse digit constructions of perfect, magic and doubly magic cubes.
    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
    Paul Smith, United States Military Academy
    (867-11-01)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A note on the sequence {F_5n/ (5F_n)}.
    Marco Bucci, Fondazione Ugo Bordani, Italy
    Adina Di Porto, Fondazione Ugo Bordani, Italy
    Piero Filipponi*, Fondazione Ugo Bordani, Italy
    (867-11-08)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A classification scheme for Stolarsky interpersions.
    Clark Kimberling*, University of Evansville
    (867-11-44)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stirling relationships.
    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
    (867-11-10)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On p-class groups of cyclic extensions of prime degree p of number fields.
    Frank Gerth, III*, University of Texas, Austin
    (867-11-06)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some stray footnotes in the spirit of recreational mathematics.
    Herta T. Freitag*, Roanoke, Virginia
    (867-11-70)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Algorithmic manipulation of Fibonacci identities.
    Stanley Rabinowitz*, MathPro Press, Westford, Massachusetts
    (867-11-178)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Various Diophantine equations in various stages of solution.
    Richard K. Guy*, University of Calgary
    (867-11-17)
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Commutative Noetherian Rings with Applications in Algebraic Geometry, II
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    Old and new results on Buchsbaum rings.
    Wolfgang Vogel*, Martin-Luther-Univesity, Germany
    (867-13-07)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Quotients of toric varieties.
    M. M. Kapranov, Cornell University
    B. Sturmfels*, Cornell University
    A. V. Zelevinsky, Cornell University
    (867-14-16)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Projective lines over one-dimensional semilocal domains.
    William Heinzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    David Lantz, Colgate University
    Sylvia Wiegand*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (867-13-55)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Remarks on hyperplane sections of a Veronese variety.
    Wei-Eihn Kuan*, Michigan State University
    (867-13-30)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Local geometry of smooth curves on singular surfaces.
    David B. Jaffe*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (867-14-18)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Purity, flatness, and filtered rings.
    Joseph P. Brennan*, North Dakota State University
    (867-13-182)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Subalgebras of polynomial rings.
    Sarah Glaz*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    (867-13-39)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Results about homogeneous coordinate rings of rational surfaces in projective space.
    A. V. Geramita, Queen's University
    A. Gimigliano, University of Genova, Italy
    B. Harbourne*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (867-14-52)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Equational constraints and module-finite extension of domains.
    Ian M. Aberbach*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    (867-13-48)
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Continuum Theory and Dynamical Systems, II
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    Pleating coordinates for the Riley slice of Schottky space.
    Linda Keen*, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
    Caroline Series, Warwick University, England
    (867-30-79)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Indecomposable continua and Julia sets.
    James T. Rogers, Jr.*, Tulane University
    (867-58-122)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Topology and the complex exponential.
    Robert L. Devaney*, Boston University
    (867-30-180)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Pseudocircles in dynamical systems.
    Judy Kennedy*, University of Delaware
    James A. Yorke, University of Maryland, College Park
    (867-54-86)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Minimal sets of dynamical systems.
    Krystyna Kuperberg*, Auburn University
    (867-58-121)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Dynamics of annulus homeomorphisms.
    Philip Boyland*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    (867-58-159)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Accessible rotation number of attractors in crisis.
    Kathleen T. Alligood*, George Mason University
    (867-58-160)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Rotation numbers on cofrontiers.
    Mark Turpin*, Boston University
    (867-58-106)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Denjoy meets rotation on an indecomposable cofrontier.
    John C. Mayer*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
    Lex G. Oversteegen, University of Alabama, Birmingham
    (867-54-81)
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Inequalities for Polytopes, II
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    Extremal polyhedra inscribed in spheres.
    Kenneth B. Stolarsky*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (867-52-66)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Existent and non-existent spherical simplexes.
    Boris V. Dekster*, Mount Allison University
    (867-51-35)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Cross-sectional inequalities for cubes.
    Eric L. Grinberg*, Temple University
    (867-51-177)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Geometric inequalities and random products.
    John M. Dye, California State University, Northridge
    Simeon Reich*, University of Southern California
    (867-52-65)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Polar duals of rotors.
    Mostafa Ghandehari*, Naval Postgraduate School
    (867-52-25)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Function Algebras and Function Spaces, II
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    A characterisation of pick bodies in C^n.
    Brian Cole, Brown University
    Keith Lewis, Brown University
    John Wermer*, Brown University
    (867-46-12)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Maximum modulus algebras with analytic varieties.
    Donna Kumagai*, Pennsylvania State University, Reading
    Zbigniew Slodkowski, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (867-46-89)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Using infinitely many complex variables to attack a problem in one complex variable.
    Alexander J. Izzo*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (867-46-94)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Some remarks on uniform approximation.
    P. M. Gauthier*, University of Montreal
    (867-32-152)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Approximation on a disk.
    Peter J. De Paepe*, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    (867-32-50)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Algebras of cap gamma-analytic functions in the big-plane.
    Toma Tonev*, University of Toledo
    (867-46-119)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Cauchy transforms of measures and weighted shift operators on the disc algebra.
    R. A. Hibschweiler*, University of New Hampshire
    E. A. Nordgren, University of New Hampshire
    (867-30-60)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Properties diametrically opposite to those which characterize C(X).
    Chris White*, Castleton State College
    (867-46-130)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The cyclic behavior of translation operators on Hilbert spaces of entire functions.
    Kit C. Chan, Michigan State University
    Joel H. Shapiro*, Michigan State University
    (867-47-82)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Banach algebras, decomposable multipliers, and applications to harmonic analysis.
    Michael M. Neumann*, Mississippi State University
    (867-47-90)
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #4: Part B
  Teaching mathematical modeling
  Organizers:
  Frank Giordano, U.S. Military Academy
  Maurice Weir, Naval Postgraduate School
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #8: Part A
  Knot theory for undergraduates
  Organizers:
  Stefanos Gialamas, Columbia College
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #9: Part A
  Unifying themes for discrete mathematics
  Organizers:
  Ralph Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  AMS General Session, II
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    Classical formulations of the Maxwell equations.
    Arjan S. Mirchandaney, Defiance College
    Domina E. Spencer, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    Shama Y. Uma*, Bridgewater State College
    Philip J. Mann, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    (867-31-168)
  • 12:15 p.m.
    Gaussian formulations of the Maxwell equations.
    Arjan S. Mirchandaney, Defiance College
    Domina E. Spencer, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    Shama Y. Uma, Bridgewater State College
    Philip J. Mann*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    (867-31-169)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    A vector method of solving potential equations with Neumann boundary conditions.
    Gerard Coutu*, Hartford Graduate Center
    Domina Eberle Spencer, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    Wallace W. Bowley, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    (867-31-170)
  • 12:45 p.m.
    The limits for Jacobi function of the second kind.
    Mihr J. Shah*, Kent State University
    (867-33-33)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Dirichlet averages and B-splines.
    B. C. Carlson*, Iowa State University
    (867-33-103)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Behavior of the integral curves of differential systems near a singular point.
    Zhivko S. Athanassov*, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
    (867-34-112)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Weighted composition operators, semigroups, linear skew-product flows,spectral theory and the multiplicative ergodic theorem.
    Yuri D. Latushkin*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
    (867-34-174)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    The perturbed Toda lattice.
    Russell L. Herman*, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
    (867-35-147)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Complex sequences whose "moments" all vanish.
    W. M. Priestley*, University of the South
    (867-40-138)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Smooth interpolating curves and surfaces generated by iterated function systems.
    Peter R. Massopust*, Vanderbilt University
    (867-41-28)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Amenable left Banach L^1(G)-modules and subspaces of L^infinity(G).
    A. G. Myasnikov*, Moscow Civil Engineering Insitute, USSR
    (867-43-02)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Theorems on Stieltjes type integral transforms and their applications.
    Osman Yurekli*, Ithaca College
    (867-44-141)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Some multi-dimensional Laplace transforms involving radical form.
    M. Vinayagamoorthy*, Arkansas College
    (867-44-116)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The analytic Poincare inequality and trace class operators.
    Valentin Andreev*, Lamar University
    (867-46-183)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Trylonizations revisited.
    Rodney T. Hood*, Franklin College
    (867-51-189)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the estimate of the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a compact Riemannian manifold.
    Dong Pyo Chi*, Seoul National University, Korea
    (867-53-05)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    A note on w cap delta spaces.
    G. R. Hiremath*, Talladega College
    (867-54-51)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Whitney duality theorems for simplicial manifolds.
    Ockle E. Johnson*, Saint Olaf College
    (867-57-155)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    The stabilization of a linearized self-excited wave equation by an energy absorbing boundary.
    G. R. Sarhangi*, Wichita State University
    Mahmond M. Najafi, Wichita State University
    H. K. Wang, Wichita State University
    (867-93-195)
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Relating Mathematics to the Real World: Applications of Mathematics for Classroom Use
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    Applications of algebra to environomental issues.
    Christopher Schaufele*, Kennesaw State College
    Nancy Zumoff, Kennesaw State College
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Life in the fast lane, a problem from the Indy 500.
    John H. Rickert*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Lifetime of geothermal injection wells.
    John Beebee*, University of Alaska, Anchorage
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Iceberg drift prediction model.
    Ted Lindstrom, United States Coast Guard Academy
    Ernest Manfred*, United States Coast Guard Academy
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Indepth applications for a differential equations course.
    Leslie Hogben*, Iowa State College, Ames
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A differential-difference equation modeling human circulatory systems.
    Herbert R. Bailey*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Relating mathematics to the real world: Applications of mathematics for classroom use.
    Robert D. Larsson*, Schenectady, New York
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Summary and General Discussion
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-1:40 p.m.
  MAA Session on Using Student Projects in the First Two Years of the Curriculum, II
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    Introduction
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Student projects in an algebraic and discrete structures course.
    William A. Marion*, Valparaiso University
  • 12:25 p.m.
    Community college calculus collaborative computer projects.
    Lawrence Sher*, Manhattan Community College
  • 12:45 p.m.
    Computer projects in calculus and differential equations.
    William W. Farr*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Paul W. Davis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • 1:05 p.m.
    A projects-based calculus. II.
    John C. Maceli*, Ithaca College
  • 1:25 p.m.
    Using student projects in the first two years of the curriculum.
    Shrinivas S. Dalal*, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  MAA Undergraduate Student Paper Session, I
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    Residual lifetimes in large random parallel systems.
    Kiran L. Shrestha*, Gustavus Adolphus College
  • 12:20 p.m.
    Relations between YAG Ramsey numbers and the classical Ramsey numbers.
    Michael A. Falcone*, Wesleyan University
  • 12:40 p.m.
    Dihedral rewritability.
    Cheryl Grood*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Tests for randomness in spatial distributions: A new statistical method for testing small samples.
    Steven Kushner*, George Washington High School and Hahnemann University
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Power in the British Parliament: Will reform be more "Democratic"?
    Robin Taylor*, Drake Univesity
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Fibonacci sequences modulo m.
    Marion Shirley*, Kansas Wesleyan University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Application of differential equations to naval aircraft launching.
    Jeremy Wayne Chapman*, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Increased fuel efficiency in automobiles.
    Steven Richard Lehr*, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Monopoly variations and Markov chains.
    Laurence Murphy*, Wittenberg University
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  PME Contributed Paper Session
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  PME Contributed Paper Session
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  PME Contributed Paper Session
  

  • 12:00 p.m.
    
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
  National Science Foundation Informal Discussion Group
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
  MAA CUPM Subcommittee on the Undergraduate Major Panel Discussion
  The major in the mathematical sciences--Looking forward
  Speakers:
  Richard Alo,
  Jerry L. Bona,
  Organizers:
  Bettye Anne Case,
  Speakers:
  J. Kevin Colligan,
  William A. Marion,
  Samuel M. Rankin, III,
  Alan C. Tucker,
• Friday August 9, 1991, 12:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Variational Methods, Differential Analysis and Symmetry, II
  

  • 12:30 p.m.
    Some examples of non-minimal solutions of the Higgs equations.
    L. M. Sibner*, Polytechnic University of New York
    Janet C. Talvacchia, Swarthmore College
    (867-53-142)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    A non-standard elliptic theory: Boundary value problems for connections.
    Antonella Marini*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    (867-35-157)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    An equivariant Morse theory for Yang-Mills.
    Thomas H. Parker*, Michigan State University
    (867-53-107)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Constructing approximate monopoles on certain 3-manifolds.
    L. M. Sibner, Polytechnic University of New York
    R. J. Sibner*, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
    (867-53-143)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the essential spectrum of a class of Laplaceans.
    Robert Lockhart*, United States Naval Academy
    (867-58-98)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Singularities and the conformal Scalar curvature equation.
    Robert C. McOwen*, Northeastern University
    (867-35-136)
• Friday August 9, 1991, 1:45 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  MAA Science Policy Committee & AMS Committee on Science Policy Panel Discussion
  Report on MS 2000
  Presenters:
  Lida Barrett,
  Speakers:
  William E. Kirwan,
  Ivar Stakgold,
  Organizers:
  John A. Thorpe,
• Friday August 9, 1991, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #1: Part B
  Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set
  Organizers:
  Robert L. Devaney, Boston University
• Friday August 9, 1991, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #2: Part B
  Integrating calculus and physics for freshmen
  Organizers:
  Joan R. Hundhausen, Colorado School of Mines
  F. Richard Yeatts, Colorado School of Mines
• Friday August 9, 1991, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #3: Part B
  Making mathematics more concrete
  Organizers:
  Agnes Azzolino, Mathematical Concepts
• Friday August 9, 1991, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA SUMMA Workshop
  Intervention Programs
  Organizers:
  William A. Hawkins, Director of SUMMA
  Speakers:
  Bonnie Berken, St. Norberts College
  Paul J. Sally, Jr., University of Chicago
• Friday August 9, 1991, 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  MAA Session
  1991 Mathematical Contest in Modeling
  Organizers:
  B. A. Fusaro, Salisbury State University
• Friday August 9, 1991, 3:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Committee on Assessment Panel Discussion
  Mathematics assessment: A national perspective
• Friday August 9, 1991, 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  CBMS Session
  1990 CBMS Survey of Undergraduate Programs in the Mathematical Science and Computer Science
  Organizers:
  Don Rung, Pennsylvania State University
• Friday August 9, 1991, 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  MAA Committee on the Participation of Women Presentation
  Changing the Climate\endash Repeat of 1990 skits
• Friday August 9, 1991, 6:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
  Joint Policy Board for Mathematics and Office of Governmental and Public Affairs Forum
  The academic employment situation for mathematicians
  Speakers:
  Don McClure, Borwn University
• Friday August 9, 1991, 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
  PME J. Sutherland Frame Lecture
  Some mathematics of baseball.
  Henry O. Pollak*, Bell Communications Research and Teacher's College, Columbia University

• Saturday August 10, 1991, 7:30 a.m.-8:20 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  Laplacians of graphs and hypergraphs.
  Fan R. K. Chung*, Bell Communications Research, Morristown, New Jersey
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 8:35 a.m.-9:25 a.m.
  MAA Earle Raymond Hedrick Lecture: Lecture III
  The sensual (quadratic) form. Can you speak its soul?
  John Horton Conway*, Princeton University
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 9:40 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
  AMS Progress in Mathematics Lecture
  The theory and applications of harmonic mappings between Riemannian manifolds.
  Richard M. Schoen*, Stanford University
  (867-35-101)
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 11:25 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Business Meeting
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
  National Science Foundation Informal Discussion Group
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Problems in Number Theory, II
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Some determinant identities.
    George E. Andrews*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    William H. Burge, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
    (867-11-58)
  • 1:10 p.m.
    Fermat's last theorem in reverse.
    Murray S. Klamkin*, University of Alberta
    John R. McGregor, University of Alberta
    (867-11-68)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    A road from Pythagoras to Pell, via continued fractions.
    A. G. Schaake, Waikato Polytechnic, New Zealand
    J. C. Turner*, University of Waikato, New Zealand
    (867-11-135)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    Arrowhead curves in a tree of Pythagorean triples.
    A. G. Shannon*, University of Technology, Australia
    A. F. Horadam, University of New England, Australia
    (867-11-37)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Good Pixel permutations for expensive computer graphics.
    Peter G. Anderson*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (867-11-63)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Triangular numbers and primes.
    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
    (867-11-46)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Some properties of numbers revealed on a cylindrical point-lattice.
    Irving Adler*, North Bennington, Vermont
    (867-11-09)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Necessary and sufficient conditions for simple A-bases.
    Calvin Long*, Washington State University
    Carl Swenson, Seattle University
    (867-11-11)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Generalized multinacci numbers combined with generalized Pascal triangles.
    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
    (867-11-13)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Divisiblility of terms in Lucas sequences by their subscripts.
    Lawrence Somer*, Catholic University of America
    (867-11-47)
  • 5:40 p.m.
    Unexpected applications of number theory.
    Stefan A. Burr*, City College, City University of New York
    (867-11-193)
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Commutative Noetherian Rings with Applications in Algebraic Geometry, III
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Cohen-Macaulay properties of local homomorphisms.
    Luchezar L. Avramov*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    Hans-Bjorn Foxby, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    (867-13-20)
  • 1:10 p.m.
    On symbolic algebras of monomial primes.
    Hema Srinivasan*, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (867-13-124)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Depth properties of graded rings associated to an ideal.
    Sam Huckaba, Florida State University
    Thomas Marley*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (867-13-38)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    Rees algebras of ideals having small analytic deviation.
    Sam Huckaba*, Florida State University
    Craig Huneke, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    (867-13-27)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    One dimensional local rings of maximal and almost maximal length.
    William C. Brown*, Michigan State University
    J\"urgen Herzog, Universit\"at Gesamthochschule Essen, Germany
    (867-13-15)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Betti numbers of modules of finite length.
    Hara Charalambous*, State University of New York, Albany
    (867-13-181)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Fundamental groups of surface singularities.
    Steven Dale Cutkosky*, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (867-13-123)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    The Hilbert-Loewy function, and deformations of a local algebra.
    A. Iarrobino*, Northeastern University
    (867-13-84)
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Continuum Theory and Dynamical Systems, III
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Linear patterns of periodic points on dendrites.
    Stewart Baldwin*, Auburn University, Auburn
    (867-58-165)
  • 1:10 p.m.
    A tree-like continuum admitting fixed point free maps with arbitarily small trajectories.
    Piotr Minc*, Auburn University, Auburn
    (867-54-146)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Convex metrics for separable metric spaces.
    J. Nikiel, University of Saskatchewan
    H. M. Tuncali, University of Saskatchewan
    E. D. Tymchatyn*, University of Saskatchewan
    (867-54-95)
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, II
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Some asymptotic expansions of Ramanujan.
    Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Ronald J. Evans, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    (867-11-150)
  • 1:10 p.m.
    Calculation of a sieve auxiliary function.
    Harold G. Diamond*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    H. Halberstam, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    H.-E. Richert, University of Ulm, Germany
    (867-11-126)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Primitive points on elliptic curves. II.
    Ram Murty*, McGill University
    (867-11-127)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    Limiting distributions of additive functions.
    Adolf J. Hildebrand*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (867-11-128)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Iterations of multiplicative functions.
    Don Redmond*, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
    (867-11-185)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    On the frequencies of large values of divisor functions.
    Karl K. Norton*, Bangor, Maine
    (867-11-99)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    The number of relatively prime solutions to a Diophantine approximation of Hurwitz numbers.
    John Sadowsky*, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel
    (867-11-29)
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Variational Methods, Differential Analysis and Symmetry, III
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Nonsingular group actions.
    Arthur G. Wasserman*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (867-57-64)
  • 1:10 p.m.
    Geometric and differential properties of subanalytic sets.
    Edward Bierstone, University of Toronto
    Pierre Milman*, University of Toronto
    (867-32-36)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Spacelike isoparametric submanifolds of Lorentzian spaces.
    Bing Le Wu*, Brandeis University
    (867-53-57)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    Lipschitz equisingularity, subanalytic case.
    Adam Parusi\'nski*, University of Georgia
    (867-32-173)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Polar actions on compact Lie groups.
    Gudlaugur Thorbergsson*, University of Notre Dame
    (867-53-125)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Connections on split trivial bundles over homogeneous spaces, and locally symmetric spaces.
    Lance D. Drager*, Texas Tech University
    Robert L. Foote, Wabash College
    (867-53-93)
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Function Algebras and Function Spaces, III
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    An open mapping theorem on homogeneous spaces.
    Shozo Koshi*, Hokkaido University, Japan
    (867-46-74)
  • 1:10 p.m.
    A new function space on Lorentzian 3-manifolds.
    Phillip E. Parker*, Wichita State University
    (867-33-109)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    The heat equation and Berezin-Toeplitz estimates.
    L. A. Coburn*, State University of New York, College at Buffalo
    (867-46-23)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    Part metric and conformal mapping.
    H. S. Bear*, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
    (867-30-76)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Bergman type spaces on hyperbolic spaces.
    John E. Gilbert*, University of Texas, Austin
    Ray A. Kunze, University of Georgia
    Christopher Meaney, Macquarie University, Australia
    (867-42-96)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Moebius invariant function spaces on the open unit ball in C^n.
    K. T. Hahn, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    E. H. Youssfi*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    (867-32-118)
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  AMS General Session, III
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Monopoly variations and Markov chains.
    Laurence Murphy*, Wittenberg University
    (867-60-148)
  • 12:55 p.m.
    Recurrence relations for moments of order statistics in the presence of an outlier.
    Kandasamy Selvavel*, Claflin College
    (867-62-34)
  • 1:10 p.m.
    Comparison of simultaneity tests for combined experiments.
    Jack Tomsky*, Lockheed Missiles & Space Company
    (867-62-03)
  • 1:25 p.m.
    A new method for derivation of continuous Runge-Kutta formulas.
    Leroy Derr, University of New Orleans
    Curtis Outlaw, University of New Orleans
    Diran Sarafyan*, University of New Orleans
    (867-65-114)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Threshold-range scaling for two-dimensional cyclic cellular automata.
    Robert Fisch*, Colby College
    (867-68-71)
  • 1:55 p.m.
    A wave method for analyzing the spectrum of a vibrating thin plate.
    Goong Chen, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
    Matthew P. Coleman*, Fairfield University
    Jianxin Zhou, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
    (867-73-163)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    On a pulsatile flow of a two-phase viscous fluid in a tube of elliptic cross-section.
    Lokenath Debnath*, University of Central Florida
    (867-76-32)
  • 2:25 p.m.
    Interaction of laser light and amorphous and/or polycrystalline barium titanate films.
    Terry Logan*, University of Akron
    (867-78-166)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Models of premeal and postmeal heart rate power spectra in young normals.
    Jerry Collins*, Vanderbilt University
    Tushar Desai, Vanderbilt University
    Italo Biaggioni, Vanderbilt University
    Richard Shiavi, Vanderbilt University
    Virginia Haile, Vanderbilt University
    David Robertson, Vanderbilt University
    (867-92-92)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    A system approach to representing the sum of two nth powers as an nth power.
    C. Mus\`es*, Mathematics & Morphology Research Centre, Canada
    (867-93-72)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    The bump in the carpet, Fermat's last theorem, and Kasner's kindergarten.
    Herbert E. Salzer*, Brooklyn, New York
    (867-98-104)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Graphing calculators and workshops in large calculus classes.
    Al Shenk*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    (867-98-113)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Nonstandard solutions to standard problems.
    Joe Thrash*, University of Southern Mississippi
    (867-98-115)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    Series for Euler's constant and Log n.
    Jonathan D. Sondow*, Yeshiva University
    (867-11-194)
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Computer Software for Classroom Use, I
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Introduction "On Lecture Hardware and Software at the University of Maine"
  • 1:05 p.m.
    A computer on every desk: The impact on mathematics students, faculty, and curriculum.
    Stan Seltzer, Ithaca College
    Constance Elson*, Ithaca College
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Computer software for classroom use.
    Leslie Hogben*, Iowa State College, Ames
  • 1:55 p.m.
    Ralph, a simulated computer.
    Charles A. Green*, Blackburn College
  • 2:20 p.m.
    GASP: Graphical aids for stochastic processes.
    Robert Fisch*, Colby College
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Break
  • 2:55 p.m.
    Fourier analysis software (FAS).
    James S. Walker*, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire and Washington University
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Using LINDO in an undergraduate optimization course.
    Elaine Hubbard*, Kennesaw State College
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Illustrating cubic splines and Lagrange interpolating polynomials.
    Shepley L. Ross, II*, Bates College
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Using MATLAB in a first course in linear algebra.
    George Mackiw*, Loyola College in Maryland
  • 4:35 p.m.
    Using MATLAB to compute the Jordan form of a matrix.
    Richard Barshinger*, Pennsylvania State University, Worthington Scranton
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-1:55 p.m.
  MAA Undergraduate Student Paper Session, II on Algebraic Graph Theory (NSF Undergraduate Research Program-REU)
  

  • 12:40 p.m.
    Topics in algebraic graph theory. I.
    Joshua Brandon*, Harvard University
  • 12:55 p.m.
    Topics in algebraic graphy theory. II.
    Lana Holmes*, Hanover College
  • 1:10 p.m.
    Topics in algebraic graph theory. III.
    Alan Jaffray*, Sonoma State University
  • 1:25 p.m.
    Topics in algebraic graph theory. IV.
    Ian Robertson*, Oberlin College
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Topics in algebraic graph theory. V.
    Marc Douglass Wallace*, Washington University
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Quantitative Literacy Informal Discussion
  Quantitative Literacy
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:40 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
  MAA Student Workshop
  Using the DERIVE computer algebra system to generate conjectures
  Organizers:
  Marvin L. Brubaker, Messiah College
  Carl L. Leinbach, Gettysburg College
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:45 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #4: Part C
  Teaching mathematical modeling
  Organizers:
  Frank Giordano, U.S. Military Academy
  Maurice Weir, Naval Postgraduate School
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:45 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #5: Part B
  Conceptualizing, organizing, and seeking funding for teacher education projects
  Organizers:
  Joan Ferrini-Mundy, University of New Hampshire
  Carole Lacampagne, National Science Foundation
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:45 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #6: Part B
  Symmetry analysis of repeated patterns
  Organizers:
  Donald Crowe, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 12:45 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #7: Part B
  Great theorems from mathematical analysis: 1689-1881
  Organizers:
  William Dunham, Hanover College
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 1:05 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Computer Software for Classroom Use, II
  

  • 1:05 p.m.
    Software use at Centre College. I.
    Bill Johnston*, Centre College
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Software at Centre College. II.
    John Wilson*, Centre College
  • 1:55 p.m.
    MPP, graphical software for calculus.
    Howard Lewis Penn*, United States Naval Academy
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Computer plotting for mathematics insight.
    Mark Bridger*, Northeastern University
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Break
  • 2:55 p.m.
    Understanding surfaces through animation.
    Maurino P. Bautista*, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • 3:20 p.m.
    GyroGraphics^tm in the calculus classroom.
    Jerry Johnson*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Using DERIVE in mathematics courses for liberal arts students.
    Kay Gura*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
  • 4:10 p.m.
    First year experiences using symbolic software in calculus.
    Lisa Townsley Kulich*, Illinois Benedictine College
    Barbara Victor, Illinois Benedictine College
  • 4:35 p.m.
    Using DERIVE to simplify an integral of Lubin.
    Dave Trautman*, The Citadel
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  MAA Undergraduate Student Paper Session, III on Cooperative Game Theory (NSF Undergraduate Research Program-REU)
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Topics in cooperative game theory. I.
    Thomas Ventrudo*, Loyola College of Maryland
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Topics in cooperative game theory. II.
    Stephanie Merki*, Eastern Nazarene College
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Topics in cooperative game theory. III.
    Owen Patashnick*, Brandeis University
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Topics in cooperative game theory. IV.
    Brett Allan Saraniti*, Harvey Mudd College
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Topics in cooperative game theory. V.
    Jodi P. Wallman*, Bryn Mawr College
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Topics in cooperative game theory. VI.
    Daniel S. Arthur*, Miami University, Ohio
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #8: Part B
  Knot theory for undergraduates
  Organizers:
  Stefanos Gialamas, Columbia College
• Saturday August 10, 1991, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #9: Part B
  Unifying themes for discrete mathematics
  Organizers:
  Ralph Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Sunday August 11, 1991