AMS Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:05
International Joint Mathematics Meeting
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada, August 15-19, 1993
Meeting #883
Associate secretaries: Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu
Kenneth A Ross, MAA ross@math.uoregon.edu
Monday August 16, 1993
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Monday August 16, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
AMS-CMS-MAA-NAM Invited Address
Mathematical research and education in Africa -- problems and prospects.
Adermi O. Kuku*, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
(883-00-510) -
Monday August 16, 1993, 9:50 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Colloquium Lectures: Lecture I
On the regularity properties of gauge theories in Minkowski space-time.
Sergiu Klainerman*, Princeton University
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Monday August 16, 1993, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
AMS-CMS Invited Address
Frontiers in complex dynamics.
Curt McMullen*, Princeton University
(883-00-502) -
Monday August 16, 1993, 12:15 p.m.-12:45 p.m.
AMS Business Meeting -
Monday August 16, 1993, 1:25 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
MAA Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures: Lecture II
Recent developments in geometry and physics: 3-dimensions.
Sir Michael Atiyah*, Trinity College, United Kingdom -
Monday August 16, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
MAA Invited Address -
Monday August 16, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Problems in Number Theory in Memory of E.G. Straus, II
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2:30 p.m.
Two problems in memory of E. G. Straus.
Paul Erd\H os*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
(883-11-174) -
2:55 p.m.
Utterly integer valued entire functions. II.
Daihachiro Sato*, University of Regina
(883-11-184) -
3:20 p.m.
The first column of a Stolarsky interspersion.
Clark Kimberling*, University of Evansville
(883-11-285) -
3:45 p.m.
Researches on recursive series.
Joseph Arkin*, United States Military Academy
David C. Arney, United States Military Academy
(883-11-284) -
4:10 p.m.
Some general problems on the number of parts in partitions.
Bruce Richmond*, University of Waterloo
(883-11-217) -
4:35 p.m.
Problems of Ernst Straus.
Richard K. Guy*, University of Calgary
(883-11-173)
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2:30 p.m.
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Monday August 16, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Discrete Geometry and Convexity, II
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2:30 p.m.
Projection functions on higher ranking Grassmannians.
Paul Goodey*, University of Oklahoma
Rolf Schneider, Ludwigs-Universitat, Germany
Wolfgang Weil, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany
(883-52-227) -
3:00 p.m.
Convexity on affine Grassmann manifolds.
Jacob E. Goodman*, City College, City University of New York
Richard Pollack, New York University-Courant Institute
(883-52-246) -
3:30 p.m.
On the complexity of computing mixed volumes.
Martin Dyer, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Peter Gritzmann*, University of Trier, Germany
Alexander Hufnagel, University of Trier, Germany
(883-52-298) -
4:00 p.m.
Nonconvex polyhedra.
Branko Grunbaum*, University of Washington
(883-52-248) -
4:30 p.m.
Blichfeldt's density bound revisited.
G\'abor Fejes T\'oth, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg*, Auburn University, Auburn
(883-52-206)
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2:30 p.m.
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Monday August 16, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Symplectic Geometry, II
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2:30 p.m.
A few remarks on Poisson cohomology.
Viktor L. Ginzburg*, Stanford University
(883-53-263) -
3:30 p.m.
Equivariant Mp^c prequantization.
Paul Robinson*, University of Florida
(883-58-68) -
4:15 p.m.
Singular reduction for nonzero values of momentum.
Judith M. Arms*, University of Washington
(883-58-169) -
4:40 p.m.
Hopf algebra cocycles and Poisson structures on Lie groups.
Jiang-Hua Lu*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(883-58-323)
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2:30 p.m.
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Monday August 16, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Exponential Families in Mathematical Statistics, II
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2:30 p.m.
Exponential families and Orlicz spaces.
Sandy Zabell*, Northwestern University
(883-62-302) -
3:05 p.m.
Curved exponential models and inference.
O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen*, Aarhus University, Denmark
(883-62-241) -
3:40 p.m.
Cramer-Rao type lower bound for estimators with values in a manifold.
Harrie Hendriks*, Catholic University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
(883-62-33) -
4:15 p.m.
Some properties of the Wishart distribution on symmetric cones.
Helene Massam*, York University
Erhard Neher, University of Ottawa
(883-62-228)
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2:30 p.m.
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Monday August 16, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Control Theory, II
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2:30 p.m.
Kronecker indicies are diffeomorphism invariants.
Robert B. Gardner*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(883-49-40) -
3:00 p.m.
Linear-quadratic control problem revisited.
Tomasz R. Bielecki*, University of Illinois, Chicago
(883-93-41) -
3:30 p.m.
A Hartman-Grobman theorem for abstract equations.
Peter W. Bates*, Brigham Young University
Kening Lu, Brigham Young University
(883-34-71) -
4:00 p.m.
Explicit construction of finite dimensional nonlinear filters with state space dimension 2.
Stephen S.-T. Yau, University of Illinois, Chicago
Wen Lin Chiou*, Fu Jen University, Republic of China
(883-17-159) -
4:30 p.m.
Feedback stabilizability of nonlinear systems in dimension three or higher.
William M. Boothby*, Washington University
Riccardo Marino, University of Rome II, Italy
(883-93-182)
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2:30 p.m.
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Monday August 16, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
MAA Minicourse \#1: Part B
The Fibonacci and Catalan numbers
Ralph P. Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology -
Monday August 16, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
MAA Minicourse \#2: Part B
Teaching applied mathematics via Maple
Robert J. Lopez, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology -
Monday August 16, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
MAA Minicourse \#5: Part A
Teaching finite mathematics to a large class of arts and education students
J. Chris Fisher, University of Regina -
Monday August 16, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
AMS Session on Mathematical Physics
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2:30 p.m.
Unsteady flow of a viscous, incompressible fluid past an impulsively started flat plate.
Alka Chandna*, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Newfoundland
S. C. R. Dennis, University of Western Ontario
(883-76-289) -
2:45 p.m.
A numerical solution to the inverse heat conduction problem in an annulus.
Shishen Xie*, University of Houston-Downtown
(883-80-300) -
3:05 p.m.
On formal integrals of motion in a Hamiltonian system.
Mark Solomonovich*, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Yair Zarmi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
(883-70-195) -
3:20 p.m.
The Rattleback: A rolling rigid body which spins in one direction only.
Joost Hermans*, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
(883-70-26) -
3:35 p.m.
The abstract Lorentz group and the automorphism group of the unit ball in a complex inner product space.
Abraham A. Ungar*, North Dakota State University
(883-83-07) -
3:50 p.m.
Old and new results in Yang-Mills theory.
Jedrzej Sniatycki*, University of Calgary
(883-81-46) -
4:10 p.m.
Topological censorship.
John L. Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Kristin Schleich*, University of British Columbia
Donald M. Witt, University of British Columbia
(883-83-166) -
4:25 p.m.
The use of conformal mapping in constructing a model of the solar magnetic field.
J. R. Hundhausen*, Colorado School of Mines
B. C. Low, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
(883-85-252) -
4:40 p.m.
Towards a unified field theory.
Mohamed W. I. Sesay*, University of the District of Columbia
(883-58-65) -
5:00 p.m.
On the force between rotating co-axial black holes.
Gilbert Weinstein*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
(883-83-50)
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2:30 p.m.
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Monday August 16, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
MAA Session on History of Mathematics, I
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2:30 p.m.
Sophie Germain's contribution to Fermat's last theorem: Some unanswered questions.
Reinhard Laubenbacher*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
David J. Pengelley, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
(883-00-409) -
2:55 p.m.
The remarkable tenacity of random triangles.
Richard E. Pfiefer*, San Jose State University
(883-00-412) -
3:20 p.m.
A chronology of the duplicatrix.
Daniel E. Otero*, Xavier University
(883-00-411) -
3:40 p.m.
Break -
4:00 p.m.
The role of the history of mathematics in the undergraduate curriculum.
Herbert E. Kasube*, Bradley University
(883-00-407) -
4:25 p.m.
Using history to spark interest in mathematics for liberal arts students.
Kay Gura*, Ramapo College, New Jersey
(883-00-403)
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2:30 p.m.
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Monday August 16, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
MAA Session on Mathematics and Industry Interface, II
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2:30 p.m.
The CAMCOS program at San Jose State.
Roger C. Alperin*, San Jose State University
(883-00-432) -
3:00 p.m.
Is "commercial mathematics" mathematics?
Jim Ramaley*, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, New York
(883-00-438) -
3:50 p.m.
Exploratory research program in applied mathematics at EPRI.
Martin Wildberger*, Electric Power Research Institue, Palo Alto, California
(883-00-439) -
4:20 p.m.
Using software as a link to government.
Linda R. Petzold*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
(883-00-437) -
4:50 p.m.
Interdisciplinary programs.
Brian Alspach*, Simon Fraser University,
(883-00-433)
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2:30 p.m.
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Monday August 16, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
MAA Session on Research in Undergraduate Teaching, I
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2:30 p.m.
Calculus students' informal understanding of rate of change.
Dave Lidstone*, Langara College, British Columbia
(883-00-448) -
2:50 p.m.
Students' conceptions of the derivative across multiple representations.
Daniel Scher*, Cornell University
(883-00-450) -
3:10 p.m.
A formal approach to guided discovery.
Russell J. Hendel*, Morris College, South Carolina
(883-00-445) -
3:30 p.m.
Effectiveness of weekly groups on learning math.
Christina Vertullo*, Marist College, Straatsburg, New York
(883-00-452) -
3:50 p.m.
Constraining conceptions of function and their consequences in abstract algebra.
James Kaput*, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
(883-00-446) -
4:15 p.m.
Some results of an approach to helping students understand quotients.
Ed Dubinsky*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(883-00-443) -
4:40 p.m.
Students' conceptions and misconceptions of group isomorphism.
Uri Leron*, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Orit Hazzan, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Rina Zazkis, Simon Fraser University
(883-00-447)
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2:30 p.m.
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Monday August 16, 1993, 3:35 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
AWM and CMS Committee on Women in Mathematics Panel Discussion
Affirmative action -
Monday August 16, 1993, 4:50 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
AWM Prize Session and Membership Meeting -
Monday August 16, 1993, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
CMS General Meeting