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
Thursday August 19, 1993
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Thursday August 19, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
MAA Minicourse \#11: Part B
Learning abstract algebra by programming in ISETL
Ed Dubinsky, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Uri Leron, Technion-ITT, Israel
Rina Zazkis, Simon Fraser University -
Thursday August 19, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, II
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8:30 a.m.
Least area tori, 3-manifolds of nonnegative scalar curvature and the topology of black holes.
Mingliang Cai, University of Miami
Gregory J. Galloway*, University of Miami
(883-53-207) -
9:00 a.m.
The internal geometry of black holes.
W. Israel*, University of Alberta
(883-83-67) -
9:30 a.m.
Stability of geodesic incompleteness.
John K. Beem*, University of Missouri, Columbia
(883-53-49) -
10:00 a.m.
Einstein-Yang-Mills equations with symmetries.
H. P. Kunzle*, University of Alberta
(883-83-151)
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8:30 a.m.
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Thursday August 19, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Topological Methods in Group Theory, II
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8:30 a.m.
Sets of matrices which generate free products.
Roger Alperin*, San Jose State University
(883-20-261) -
9:00 a.m.
Compactifying certain covers of 3-manifolds.
Michael L. Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
(883-20-220) -
9:30 a.m.
Scaffoldings.
Steven H. Weintraub*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
(883-20-44) -
10:00 a.m.
Topology and geometry of arrangement of complex lines in C.
Stephen S.-T. Yau*, University of Illinois, Chicago
(883-14-28)
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8:30 a.m.
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Thursday August 19, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
MAA Minicourse \#6: Part B
Combinatorial design theory
Eric Mendelsohn, University of Toronto -
Thursday August 19, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
MAA Minicourse \#7: Part B
Lagrange multipliers
Edward J. Barbeau, Jr., University College, Toronto -
Thursday August 19, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
AMS Session on Partial Differential Equations
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8:30 a.m.
The profile near blowup time for solution of the heat equation with a nonlinear boundary condition.
Hong-Ming Yin*, University of Notre Dame
(883-35-14) -
8:50 a.m.
The nonhomogeneous minimal surface equation involving a measure.
William K. Ziemer*, California State University, Long Beach
(883-35-13) -
9:10 a.m.
A selfadjoint ``simultaneous crossing the axis''.
Kurt Kreith*, University of California, Davis
(883-35-178) -
9:30 a.m.
Rearrangements in steady multiple vortex flows.
Alan R. Elcrat, Wichita State University
Kenneth G. Miller*, Wichita State University
(883-35-286) -
9:50 a.m.
Gevrey smoothing properties of the solution operator for Schr\"odinger's equation in weighted Sobolev spaces.
Stephen W. Taylor*, Montana State University
(883-35-288) -
10:10 a.m.
Two dimensional heat equation involving multi-dimensional Laplace transforms and Green's function.
R. S. Dahiya*, Iowa State University
Frank Odoom, Iowa State University
(883-44-233) -
10:30 a.m.
Uniqueness in the Cauchy problems for higher order elliptic differential operator.
Wensheng Wang*, California Institute of Technology
(883-42-160)
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8:30 a.m.
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Thursday August 19, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
AMS Session on Analysis
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8:30 a.m.
Baire one functions and perfect sets.
Russell A. Gordon*, Whitman College
(883-26-36) -
8:50 a.m.
Another functional equation derived from the mean mean value theorem.
Donald F. Bailey*, Trinity University
(883-26-58) -
9:10 a.m.
Superadditive functions on rectangles.
Arlo W. Schurle*, University of Guam, Guam
(883-26-310) -
9:30 a.m.
Generalized conditional expectation.
William E. Hornor*, University of Southern Mississippi
(883-28-232) -
9:45 a.m.
On the solution of the functional equation f(x+y)+g(xy)=h(x)+k(y).
E. L. Koh, University of Regina
G. Ren*, University of Regina
(883-39-190) -
10:00 a.m.
Some asymptotic formulae for q-series.
Richard J. McIntosh*, University of Regina
(883-33-161) -
10:15 a.m.
Representation and series expansions for meromorphic functions.
D. S. Tselnik*, Fargo, North Dakota
(883-30-197) -
10:30 a.m.
Integral operators preserving meromorphic starlike functions.
Hassoon Al-Amiri*, Bowling Green State University
Petru T. Mocanu, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
(883-30-274)
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8:30 a.m.
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Thursday August 19, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
AMS Session on Number Theory, I
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8:30 a.m.
On a conjecture of H. Zassenhaus for primes generating primitive roots.
Francesco Pappalardi*, McGill University
(883-11-37) -
8:50 a.m.
A proposed application of supersingular elliptic curves.
S. Hahn*, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea
(883-11-20) -
9:10 a.m.
Counting points on hyperelliptic curves over finite fields.
P. B. Van Wamelen*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
(883-11-154) -
9:30 a.m.
Generalizations of the Markoff equation.
Arthur Baragar*, University of Texas, Austin
(883-11-172) -
9:50 a.m.
The conductor of an abelian variety.
Armand Brumer, Fordham University
Kenneth Kramer*, Queen's University
(883-11-192) -
10:10 a.m.
New examples of Stark's conjectures.
Brett A. Tangedal*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
(883-11-153) -
10:20 a.m.
Class number and computer: A note on S. Chowla's conjecture.
Guangheng Ji, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Hongwen Lu*, University of Science and Technology of China and Purdue University, West Lafayette
(883-11-06)
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8:30 a.m.
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Thursday August 19, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
MAA Student Workshop
Using Maple to do mathematics -
Thursday August 19, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
CMS-MAA Panel Discussion
Models for cooperative learning for undergraduate mathematics classes
G. Joseph Wimbish, Purdue University, North Central
Keith E. Schwingdorf, Purdue University, North Central -
Thursday August 19, 1993, 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
MAA Special Discussion
Retired mathematicians -
Thursday August 19, 1993, 10:55 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
AMS-CMS Invited Address
Remarks on variational methods.
Louis Nirenberg*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
(883-00-503) -
Thursday August 19, 1993, 1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
AMS Progress in Mathematics Lecture
Mathematical problems arising in industry. Part I
Avner Friedman*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
(883-00-512)
Part II -
Thursday August 19, 1993, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
MAA Minicourse \#8: Part B
Earth algebra: College algebra with applications to environmental issues
Christopher Schaufele, Kennesaw State College, Marietta, Georgia
Nancy E. Zumoff, Kennesaw State College, Marietta, Georgia -
Thursday August 19, 1993, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
MAA Minicourse \#9: Part B
Round-robin tournaments: An introduction
John W. Moon, University of Alberta -
Thursday August 19, 1993, 2:10 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Topological Methods in Group Theory, III
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2:10 p.m.
Discussion -
2:40 p.m.
On the Yagita invariant of mapping class groups.
H. Glover*, Ohio State University, Columbus
G. Mislin, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland and Ohio State University, Columbus
Y. Xia, Northern Illinois University
(883-55-294) -
3:10 p.m.
4-manifold invariants of groups.
D. Kotschick*, University of Basel, Switzerland
(883-57-55) -
3:40 p.m.
Homotopy decomposition of the classifying space of virtually torsion-free groups and applications.
Chun-Nip Lee*, Northwestern University
(883-55-16) -
4:10 p.m.
Spines of n-dimensional manifolds.
Dale Rolfsen*, University of British Columbia,
(883-57-267) -
4:40 p.m.
Discussion
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2:10 p.m.
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Thursday August 19, 1993, 2:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Symplectic Geometry, III
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2:10 p.m.
On the Witten invariant of mapping cylinders.
Jorgen Ellegaard Andersen*, University of California, Berkeley
(883-53-301) -
3:00 p.m.
Contact geometry and complex surfaces.
Hansj\"org Geiges*, Stanford University
Jes\'us Gonzalo, University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
(883-53-188) -
3:30 p.m.
Lie bialgebroids and Poisson groupoids.
Kirill Mackenzie, University of Sheffield, England
Ping Xu*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
(883-58-59) -
4:20 p.m.
Symplectic sphere packing constructions.
Lisa Traynor*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
(883-53-54) -
4:50 p.m.
Maselov index of holomorphic discs with Lagrangian boundary conditions on Kahler manifolds.
Yong-Geun Oh*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(883-53-43)
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2:10 p.m.
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Thursday August 19, 1993, 2:10 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Random Knotting and Linking, II
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2:10 p.m.
Polygonal knots.
Richard Randell*, University of Iowa
(883-57-279) -
2:40 p.m.
The functoriality of finite-order invariants of knotted graphs.
Ted Stanford*, Columbia University
(883-57-211) -
3:10 p.m.
Twist sequences and the Vassiliev subspace.
Rolland Trapp*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(883-57-239) -
3:40 p.m.
A statistical study of random knotting using the Vassiliev invariants.
Tetsuo Deguchi*, University of Tokyo, Japan
Kyoichi Tsurusaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
(883-82-218) -
4:10 p.m.
Vassiliev invariants and RNA folding.
Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois, Chicago
(883-57-215) -
4:40 p.m.
How tangles in knot diagrams can talk to each other.
Dale Rolfsen*, University of British Columbia
(883-57-292) -
5:10 p.m.
Energy functions for polygonal knots.
Jonathan Simon*, University of Iowa
(883-57-280) -
5:40 p.m.
Random knots and energy.
Gregory Buck*, Saint Anselm's College
(883-57-291)
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2:10 p.m.
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Thursday August 19, 1993, 2:10 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AMS Session on Harmonic Analysis and Operator Theory
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2:10 p.m.
Characterization of spherical transform of functions and Schwartz multipliers on the Heisenberg group.
Tefera Worku*, State University of New York, Albany
(883-43-17) -
2:30 p.m.
Metric projection onto a lattice in L_1.
Salem Sahab*, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Robert Huotari, Idaho State University
(883-41-02) -
2:50 p.m.
Deconvolution.
Stephen D. Casey*, American University
(883-42-226) -
3:10 p.m.
A kernel theorem on the space [H_mu x A;B].
E. L. Koh, University of Regina
C. K. Li*, University of Regina
(883-46-162) -
3:30 p.m.
Abel-ergodic properties of pseudo-resolvents and applications to semigroups.
Shengwang Wang, Nanjing University, People's Republic of China
Ivan Erdelyi*, Temple University Japan, Tokyo, Japan
(883-47-12) -
3:50 p.m.
Operators on spaces of analytic functions.
Karim Seddighi*, Shiraz University, Iran
(883-47-11) -
4:10 p.m.
An intrinsic characterization for zero diagonal operators.
Peng Fan*, Texas Christian University
C.-K. Fong, Carleton University
(883-47-165) -
4:30 p.m.
An upper bound for the shear dispersion co-efficient.
Sunday Chikwendu*, State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh
(883-49-296) -
4:30 p.m.
Generalizations of Dyson's rank and non-Rogers-Ramanujan partitions.
Frank Garvan*, University of Florida
(883-11-311)
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2:10 p.m.
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Thursday August 19, 1993, 2:10 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
AMS Session on Number Theory, II
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2:10 p.m.
Class number parity.
Stella Roberson Ashford*, Southern University
(883-11-277) -
2:30 p.m.
Combinatorial inequalities concerning the range of polynomials over Z n.
Bill Ralph*, Brock University,
(883-11-290) -
2:50 p.m.
Lucas sequences and Diophantine equations.
Zhaiyu Mo*, University of Calgary
(883-11-225) -
3:10 p.m.
Algorithmic derivation of Stender units.
Malvina Baica*, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
(883-12-29) -
3:30 p.m.
3-core solutions of the equation #x+2.#y=n.
Zoltan Reti*, University of Florida
(883-11-308) -
3:50 p.m.
Generating solutions for k_1x2 above 1 + k_2x 2 above 2 + ... + K_n x 2 above n + y 2 = z 2.
Pasquale J. Arpaia*, Saint John Fisher College
(883-11-194) -
4:10 p.m.
Patterns in prime and composite powers-phase I.
Nivia Colon Diaz*, C/25,HH 17, Urb Cana, Bayamon, Puerto Rico
(883-11-250) -
4:30 p.m.
Two remarkable doubly exponential series transformations of Ramanujan.
Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
James Lee Hafner, IBM, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California
(883-11-262) -
4:50 p.m.
Continued fractions, Chebychev polynomials, and chaos.
Bill Derrick, University of Montana
Jack Eidswick*, University of Montana
(883-11-265) -
5:10 p.m.
Number field sieve with two quadratic polynomials.
Peter L. Montgomery*, Oregon State University
(883-11-319)
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2:10 p.m.
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Thursday August 19, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, III
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2:30 p.m.
The method of timelike 2-surfaces.
Steven G. Harris*, Saint Louis University
(883-53-150) -
3:00 p.m.
Isotropic singularities and the Weyl curvature hypothesis.
Susan M. Scott*, Australian National University, Australia
(883-83-295) -
3:30 p.m.
Spacetime geometry of cr-structures.
K. L. Duggal*, University of Windsor
Aurel Bejancu, Polytechnic Institute of Iasi, Romania
(883-53-235) -
4:00 p.m.
The Einstein constraint equations on manifolds admitting a U(1) action.
James Isenberg*, University of Oregon
Vincent Moncrief, Yale University
(883-83-270) -
4:30 p.m.
Ricci curvature inheriting symmetry of semi-Riemannian spaces.
Ramesh Sharma*, University of New Haven
Krishan L. Duggal, University of Windsor
(883-53-236) -
5:00 p.m.
Numerical simulations of unpolarized Gowdy spacetimes.
David Garfinkle*, Oakland University
(883-83-191) -
5:30 p.m.
On completeness of orbits of killing vector fields.
Piotr T. Chru\'sciel*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(883-53-57)
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2:30 p.m.
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Thursday August 19, 1993, 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
MAA Minicourse \#11C: Part C
Learning abstract algebra by programming in ISETL
Ed Dubinsky, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Uri Leron, Technion-ITT, Israel
Rina Zazkis, Simon Fraser University