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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
Friday August 13, 1993
Saturday August 14, 1993
Sunday August 15, 1993
Monday August 16, 1993
Tuesday August 17, 1993
Wednesday August 18, 1993
Thursday August 19, 1993

Friday August 13, 1993
2:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. CMS Executive Board Meeting
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Saturday August 14, 1993
8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. MAA Board of Governors
1:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. AMS Council
2:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. CMS Board of Directors
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Sunday August 15, 1993
9:15 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Welcome Address
9:35 a.m.-10:25 a.m. MAA Invited Address
Jonathan M. Borwein
Means, iterations, and experimentally induced identities.
10:55 a.m.-11:45 a.m. AMS-CMS Invited Address
Jill C. Pipher
Harmonic analysis techniques for higher order elliptic operators.
1:15 p.m.-2:05 p.m. MAA Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures: Lecture I
Sir Michael Atiyah
Recent developments in geometry and physics.
2:20 p.m.-3:50 p.m. MAA Teaching Award Presentations
2:30 p.m.-4:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Problems in Number Theory in Memory of E.G. Straus, I
2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Discrete Geometry and Convexity, I
2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. AMS Special Session on Symplectic Geometry, I
2:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m. AMS Special Session on Exponential Families in Mathematical Statistics, I
2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Control Theory, I
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#1: Part A
The Fibonacci and Catalan numbers
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#2: Part A
Teaching applied mathematics via Maple
2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. AMS Session on Graph Theory and Combinatorics
2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. AMS Session on Algebra
2:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. MAA Session on Mathematics and Industry Interface, I
4:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m. Blumenthal Award and Address
4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. SUMMA Workshop
Intervention projects for minority precollege students
4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. MAA Section Officers
4:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#3: Part A
Environmental modeling via the qualitative, visual, and computational
4:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#4: Part A
Implementing the Harvard calculus curriculum
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Monday August 16, 1993
8:30 a.m.-9:20 a.m. AMS-CMS-MAA-NAM Invited Address
Adermi O. Kuku
Mathematical research and education in Africa -- problems and prospects.
9:50 a.m.-10:50 a.m. Colloquium Lectures: Lecture I
Sergiu Klainerman
On the regularity properties of gauge theories in Minkowski space-time.
11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS-CMS Invited Address
Curt McMullen
Frontiers in complex dynamics.
12:15 p.m.-12:45 p.m. AMS Business Meeting
1:25 p.m.-2:15 p.m. MAA Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures: Lecture II
Sir Michael Atiyah
Recent developments in geometry and physics: 3-dimensions.
2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m. MAA Invited Address
2:30 p.m.-4:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Problems in Number Theory in Memory of E.G. Straus, II
2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Discrete Geometry and Convexity, II
2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. AMS Special Session on Symplectic Geometry, II
2:30 p.m.-4:35 p.m. AMS Special Session on Exponential Families in Mathematical Statistics, II
2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Control Theory, II
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#1: Part B
The Fibonacci and Catalan numbers
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#2: Part B
Teaching applied mathematics via Maple
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
2:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m. AMS Session on Mathematical Physics
2:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. MAA Session on History of Mathematics, I
2:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m. MAA Session on Mathematics and Industry Interface, II
2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. MAA Session on Research in Undergraduate Teaching, I
3:35 p.m.-4:45 p.m. AWM and CMS Committee on Women in Mathematics Panel Discussion
Affirmative action
4:50 p.m.-5:20 p.m. AWM Prize Session and Membership Meeting
5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. CMS General Meeting
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Tuesday August 17, 1993
8:30 a.m.-9:20 a.m. MAA Invited Address
9:50 a.m.-10:50 a.m. Colloquium Lectures: Lecture II
Sergiu Klainerman
On the regularity properties of gauge theories in Minkowski space-time.
11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS-CMS Invited Address
H. Blaine Lawson
Algebraic cycles and topology.
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. PME Council
1:25 p.m.-2:15 p.m. MAA Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures: Lecture III
Sir Michael Atiyah
Recent developments in geometry and physics: 4-dimensions.
2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m. MAA-Mu Alpha Theta Lecture
Richard Rhoad
High school mathematics.
2:30 p.m.-4:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Problems in Number Theory in Memory of E.G. Straus, III
2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Discrete Geometry and Convexity, III
2:30 p.m.-6:10 p.m. AMS Special Session on Exponential Families in Mathematical Statistics, III
2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m. AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Control Theory, III
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#3: Part B
Environmental modeling via the qualitative, visual, and computational
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#4: Part B
Implementing the Harvard calculus curriculum
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#5: Part B
Teaching finite mathematics to a large class of arts and education students
2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. AMS Session on General Topology
2:30 p.m.-5:35 p.m. AMS Session on Global Analysis and Manifolds
2:30 p.m.-5:05 p.m. MAA Session on History of Mathematics, II
2:30 p.m.-4:25 p.m. MAA Session on Less Is More, I
2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. MAA Session on Research in Undergraduate Teaching, II
3:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. MAA Student Papers
3:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. PME Contributed Paper Session
3:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. PME Contributed Paper Session
3:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. PME Contributed Paper Session
3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. CMS and MAA Committee on the Participation of Women Panel Discussion
How to help your majors get into graduate school
7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. CMS Jeffery-Williams Lecture
James G. Arthur
Trace formulas and automorphic representations.
8:45 p.m.-10:45 p.m. MAA Committee on the Participation of Women Special Presentation
1993 Micro-inequities skits
8:45 p.m.-9:45 p.m. MAA Film Presentation
Regular-faced Polyhedra: an Introduction
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Wednesday August 18, 1993
8:30 a.m.-9:20 a.m. MAA Invited Address
Gilles Brassard
Quantum cryptography. (And other quantum magic).
9:50 a.m.-10:50 a.m. Colloquium Lectures: Lecture III
Sergiu Klainerman
On the regularity properties of gauge theories in Minkowski space-time.
11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS-CMS Invited Address
Robert E. Gompf
Cutting and pasting with symplectic manifolds.
12:15 p.m.-12:45 p.m. MAA Business Meeting
1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. AMS Progress in Mathematics Lecture
Armand Borel
Values of indefinite quadratic forms at integral points and flows on spaces of lattices.
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#6: Part A
Combinatorial design theory
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#7: Part A
Lagrange multipliers
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#8: Part A
Earth algebra: College algebra with applications to environmental issues
2:10 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Invited Address
Richard K. Guy
The unity of combinatorics.
2:10 p.m.-5:00 p.m. AMS Special Session on Topological Methods in Group Theory, I
2:10 p.m.-6:00 p.m. AMS Special Session on Random Knotting and Linking, I
2:10 p.m.-4:45 p.m. MAA Session on History of Mathematics, III
2:10 p.m.-4:55 p.m. MAA Session on Interacting With Elementary School Kids, I
2:10 p.m.-4:25 p.m. MAA Session on Less Is More, II
2:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m. MAA Open Meeting
Quantitative Literacy Open Meeting
2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, I
2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. AMS Session on Numerical Analysis and Probability
2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m. AMS Session on Systems Theory and Applications
3:15 p.m.-6:00 p.m. MAA Student Paper Session
3:15 p.m.-5:45 p.m. CMS-MAA Panel Discussion
What is an interactive text? Four examples
3:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. MAA Student Papers
3:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. PME Contributed Paper Session
3:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. PME Contributed Paper Session
4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#11: Part A
Learning abstract algebra by programming in ISETL
4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#9: Part A
Round-robin tournaments: An introduction
8:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. PME J. Sutherland Frame Lecture
George E. Andrews
Ramanujan for students.
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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
8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m. AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, II
8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m. AMS Special Session on Topological Methods in Group Theory, II
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#6: Part B
Combinatorial design theory
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#7: Part B
Lagrange multipliers
8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Session on Partial Differential Equations
8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Session on Analysis
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. AMS Session on Number Theory, I
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. MAA Student Workshop
Using Maple to do mathematics
9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. CMS-MAA Panel Discussion
Models for cooperative learning for undergraduate mathematics classes
9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. MAA Special Discussion
Retired mathematicians
10:55 a.m.-11:45 a.m. AMS-CMS Invited Address
Louis Nirenberg
Remarks on variational methods.
1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m. AMS Progress in Mathematics Lecture
Avner Friedman
Mathematical problems arising in industry. Part I
Part II
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#8: Part B
Earth algebra: College algebra with applications to environmental issues
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#9: Part B
Round-robin tournaments: An introduction
2:10 p.m.-5:00 p.m. AMS Special Session on Topological Methods in Group Theory, III
2:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m. AMS Special Session on Symplectic Geometry, III
2:10 p.m.-6:00 p.m. AMS Special Session on Random Knotting and Linking, II
2:10 p.m.-5:00 p.m. AMS Session on Harmonic Analysis and Operator Theory
2:10 p.m.-5:20 p.m. AMS Session on Number Theory, II
2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, III
4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#11C: Part C
Learning abstract algebra by programming in ISETL
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