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1989 AMS Northeast Sectional Meeting
Worcester, MA, April 15-16, 1989
Meeting #848

Associate secretaries:
W Wistar Comfort, AMS wcomfort@wesleyan.edu

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Saturday April 15, 1989

• Saturday April 15, 1989, 7:55 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Session on Graphs, Trees and Groups
  Room 19, Haberlin Hall
  

  • 7:55 a.m.
    On the structure of the strong orientations of a graph.
    John Donald, San Diego State University
    John Elwin*, San Diego State University
    (848-05-31)
  • 8:10 a.m.
    Construction of self-dual graphs.
    Peter R. Christopher*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (848-05-73)
  • 8:25 a.m.
    Three and four-dimensional Catalan numbers.
    Stephen Snover*, University of Hartford
    Stephanie Troyer, University of Hartford
    (848-05-95)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    m-Dimensional Catalan numbers.
    Stephen Snover, University of Hartford
    Stephanie Troyer*, University of Hartford
    (848-05-94)
  • 8:55 a.m.
    Rigidity trees.
    Brigitte Servatius*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (848-05-46)
  • 9:10 a.m.
    Completely normal lattices.
    Constantine Tsinakis*, Vanderbilt University
    (848-06-75)
  • 9:25 a.m.
    The Tits conjecture and the five-string braid group.
    Carl Droms*, James Madison University
    Jacques Lewin, Syracuse University
    Hermann Servatius, College of the Holy Cross
    (848-20-32)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Surface subgroups of infinite Coxeter groups.
    Carl Droms, James Madison University
    Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Hermann Servatius*, College of the Holy Cross
    (848-20-52)
• Saturday April 15, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Infinite-dimensional Symmetries in Mathematics and Physics, I
  Room 236, Haberlin Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Multiplicities in the discrete series of the Virasoro algebra.
    Alvany Rocha*, Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York
    (848-17-63)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The KP deformations of vector bundles over an elliptic curve.
    Emma Previato*, Boston University
    George Wilson, Imperial College, London
    (848-14-38)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A correspondence between an infinite Grassmannian and arbitrary vector bundles on algebraic curves.
    Motohico Mulase*, Temple University and Institute for Advanced Study
    (848-58-10)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Catastrophes, conformal theories and Calabi-Yau manifolds.
    Cumrun Vafa*, Harvard University
    (848-81-84)
• Saturday April 15, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory and Differential Geometry, I
  Room 328, Swords Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Constructing the Floer cycles.
    Cliff Taubes*, Harvard University
    (848-53-67)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Vortices on K\"ahler manifolds.
    Steven Bradlow*, Stanford University
    (848-53-17)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Instantons and the geometry of the nilpotent variety.
    Peter Kronheimer*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (848-53-20)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Converging Ricci flow for metrics with indefinite curvature in arbitrary dimensions.
    James Isenberg*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, and University of Oregon
    (848-53-15)
• Saturday April 15, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on L-functions and Arithmetic, I
  Room 414, Haberlin Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A formal Mellin transformation in the arithmetic of function fields.
    David Goss*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    (848-14-23)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Representations of the Weil group.
    George Zettler*, Columbia University
    Don M. Blasius, University of California, Los Angeles
    (848-11-96)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Arithmetic ampleness.
    Christophe Soul\'e*, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Harvard University
    (848-11-65)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modular caps, totally real fields, and periods of Eisenstein series on $GL(n)$.
    Glenn Stevens*, Boston University
    (848-11-66)
• Saturday April 15, 1989, 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras, Galois Theory and Representations, I
  Room 238, Haberlin Hall
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Noncommutative toroidal orbifolds.
    Ola Bratteli, University of Trondheim, Norway
    George A. Elliott*, University of Toronto
    David E. Evans, University College of Swansea, Wales
    Akitaka Kishimoto, T\^ohoku University, Japan
    (848-46-49)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Representations of projections.
    Man-Duen Choi*, University of Toronto
    (848-47-50)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Symmetries of the CAR algebra.
    Bruce Blackadar*, University of Nevada, Reno
    (848-46-87)
• Saturday April 15, 1989, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knot Theory and Algebraic Geometry in the Large, I
  Room 359, Swords Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The equisymmetric stratification of the moduli space.
    S. Allen Broughton*, Cleveland State University
    (848-14-54)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Homology of Abelian covers.
    A. Libgober*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (848-99-98)
• Saturday April 15, 1989, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Invited Address
• Saturday April 15, 1989, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The Yang-Mills moduli space.
  Room 103, Haberlin Hall
  Thomas H. Parker*, Michigan State University
  (848-53-91)
• Saturday April 15, 1989, 1:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Infinite-dimensional Symmetries in Mathematics and Physics, II
  Room 236, Haberlin Hall
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    Representation theory and the Schubert calculus.
    Dale H. Peterson*, University of British Columbia
    (848-22-88)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Vertex operators and integral bases of affine Lie algebras.
    Shari Prevost*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (848-17-62)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Constructions of vertex operator superalgebras and para-algebras.
    Alex J. Feingold*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    John F. X. Ries, State University of New York, Binghamton
    Igor B. Frenkel, Yale University
    (848-17-39)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Level two standard representations of affine special linear Lie algebras.
    Kailash C. Misra*, North Carolina State University
    (848-17-82)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Vertex operator relations for affine Lie algebras.
    Stefano Capparelli*, Yale University
    (848-17-57)
• Saturday April 15, 1989, 1:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory and Differential Geometry, II
  Room 328, Swords Hall
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    On the existence of hyperbolic monopoles.
    L. M. Sibner*, Polytechnic Institute of New York
    R. J. Sibner, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
    Karen Uhlenbeck, University of Texas, Austin
    (848-53-79)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    The geometry of magnetic monopoles.
    Peter J. Braam*, University of Utah and Merton College, England
    (848-53-22)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Torsion constraints in supergeometry.
    John Lott*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (848-53-19)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Classifying connections by holonomy.
    R. J. Sibner*, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
    L. M. Sibner, Polytechnic Institute of New York
    (848-53-80)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Fixed points of finite group actions on $3$-manifolds.
    Nicholas Buchdahl*, Tulane University
    Slawomir Kwasik, Tulane University
    Reinhard Schultz, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    (848-53-21)
• Saturday April 15, 1989, 1:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  Special Session on L-functions and Arithmetic, II
  Room 414, Haberlin Hall
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    L-functions of universal elliptic curves over Igusa curves.
    Douglas L. Ulmer*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (848-11-24)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Trilinear forms and local $\epsilon$-factors for $GL_2$.
    Dipendra Prasad*, Harvard University
    (848-11-42)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Averages of L-functions and their derivatives.
    V. Kumar Murty*, University of Toronto
    Ram Murty, McGill University
    (848-11-72)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The formal group of the Jacobian of an algebraic curve.
    Margaret N. Freije*, College of the Holy Cross
    (848-11-70)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Modular quaternionic L-value congruences.
    Ted Chinburg*, Columbia University
    (848-11-08)
• Saturday April 15, 1989, 1:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Knot Theory and Algebraic Geometry in the Large, II
  Room 359, Swords Hall
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    Higher codimensional algebraic knots.
    Alan H. Durfee*, Mount Holyoke College
    (848-57-26)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Complex algebraic plane curves via their links at infinity.
    Walter D. Neumann*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (848-57-34)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    A congruence between link polynomials.
    Lee Rudolph*, Clark University
    (848-57-30)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The fundamental group of the complement of an algebraic curve.
    Stepan Yu Orevkov*, Moscow, USSR
    (848-14-51)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday April 15, 1989, 1:45 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  Session on Geometry, Topology and Applied Mathematics
  Room 19, Haberlin Hall
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    A note on $\scr k$-uniform rotundity.
    Srinivasa Swaminathan*, Dalhousie University
    (848-46-43)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Interior hull inequalities for lattice polygons.
    Stanley Rabinowitz*, Westford, Massachusetts
    (848-52-74)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Invariant affine connections on symmetric spaces.
    H. Turner Laquer*, Case Western Reserve University
    (848-53-53)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Complete stable minimal surfaces in $R^3$.
    Marty Ross*, Stanford University
    (848-53-09)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Comparison of the handle and tunnel numbers of classical knots.
    John Erbland*, University of Hartford
    (848-57-45)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The interbubble medium: Inflationary IBM.
    Stephen L. Weinberg*, Berkeley Academy of Artscience, Berkeley, California
    (848-85-06)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The force field holor.
    Shama Y. Uma, Bridgewater State College
    Domina Eberle Spencer*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    (848-78-13)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Electromagnetic field holors.
    Shama Y. Uma*, Bridgewater State College
    Domina Eberle Spencer, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    (848-78-12)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    A theory of duality in mathematical programming.
    Andrzej Wieczorek*, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
    (848-90-07)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Computing characteristic classes of continuous lattice gauge fields.
    A. V. Phillips, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    David A. Stone*, City College, City University of New York
    (848-81-44)
• Saturday April 15, 1989, 2:15 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras, Galois Theory and Representations, II
  Room 238, Haberlin Hall
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Continuous semigroups of $^*$-endomorphisms of $B(H)$.
    Robert Powers*, University of Pennsylvania
    (848-46-28)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    The $C^*$-algebras generated by pairs of semigroups of isometries satisfying certain commutation relations.
    Geoffrey Price*, United States Naval Academy
    (848-46-81)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Index theory for pairs of factors of infinite index.
    Richard Herman*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    Adrian Ocneanu, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    (848-46-85)
• Saturday April 15, 1989, 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
  Council
  Sturbridge A & B, Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge

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