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

Associate secretaries:
Joseph A Cima, AMS cima@email.unc.edu
Kenneth A Ross, MAA ross@math.uoregon.edu

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Saturday August 10, 1991

• 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

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