AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

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1989 AMS Central Section Meeting
Muncie, IN, October 27-28, 1989
Meeting #852

Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

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Saturday October 28, 1989

• Saturday October 28, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Extremally Disconnected Spaces and their Applications, II
  Room 219A, Pittenger Student Center
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    Maximal subgroups of beta N can be small.
    Neil Hindman*, Howard University
    (852-22-16)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    A characterisation of Beta N.
    M. Rajagopalan*, Tennessee State University
    (852-54-10)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    New techniques for constructing non-normal subspaces.
    Andrzej Szyma\'nski*, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
    (852-54-141)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hyperstonean methods in vector-valued function spaces.
    Peter Greim*, The Citadel
    (852-54-155)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Stonian transform of a vector-valued function.
    Robert F. Wheeler*, Northern Illinois University
    (852-46-09)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Triangular Operator Algebras, III
  Forum, Pittenger Student Center
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    Classification of triangular AF algebras.
    Stephen C. Power*, University of Lancaster, England
    (852-47-11)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    Triangular AF algebras and nest subalgebras of UHF algebras.
    Justin Peters*, Iowa State College, Ames
    (852-46-156)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Triangular AF algebras and nest subalgebras of UHF algebras.
    Bruce Wagner*, Iowa State University
    (852-46-100)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Compactness and complete distributivity for commutative subspace lattices.
    Kenneth R. Davidson, University of Waterloo
    David R. Pitts*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln and University of California, Los Angeles
    (852-06-08)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the closure of triangular algebras.
    John Lindsay Orr*, University of Lancaster, England
    (852-47-24)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Statistics and Probability, III
  Room 303, Pittenger Student Center
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    The Galton-Watson predator-prey process.
    John Coffey*, Purdue University, Calumet Campus
    (852-60-02)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    Diagnostics for R-estimates of regression coefficients.
    Joseph W. McKean*, Western Michigan University
    (852-62-91)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Some limit theorems for perturbed empirical distribution functions evaluated at a random point.
    Madan Puri*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (852-62-95)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Path properties of infinite series of independent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes.
    Mikl\'os Cs\"org\"o*, Carleton University
    (852-60-89)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A characterization of spherically symmetric distributions.
    Mir M. Ali*, University of Western Ontario
    (852-60-77)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Function Spaces and Topology, III
  Room 306, Pittenger Student Center
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    Invariance of continuity.
    Prem Sharma*, Butler University
    (852-54-33)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    Proximal graph topologies.
    S. A. Naimpally*, Kuwait University, Kuwait
    G. Di Maio, University of Naples, Italy
    (852-54-17)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    On topoplogical classification of funtion spaces C_p(X) of low Borel complexity.
    T. Dobrowolski, University of Warsaw, Poland
    W. Marciszewski*, University of Kansas and University of Warsaw, Poland
    J. Mogilski, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa and University of Warsaw, Poland
    (852-54-36)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Informal Discussion
  • 9:00 a.m.
    k-to 1 mappings.
    Jo Heath*, Auburn University, Auburn
    (852-54-140)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Differential Equations, III
  Room 308 A \& B, Pittenger Student Center
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    Existence of positive solutions for elliptic systems, degenerate and nondegenerate ecological models.
    Anthony W. Leung*, University of Cincinnati
    Guangwei Fan, University of Cincinnati
    (852-35-72)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    An algorithm for globally analytic triangularization of a matrix function.
    Harry Gingold, West Virginia University
    Po-Fang Hsieh*, Western Michigan University
    (852-15-18)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Some characteristic equations arising in epidemic models.
    Fred Brauer*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (852-92-28)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A remark on the Gevrey property of formal solutions.
    Yasutaka Sibuya*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (852-34-60)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fuchsian quasi-differential equations.
    Lawrence Markus*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (852-34-112)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 101, Burkhardt Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Monodromy of Kloosterman F-crystals, II.
    Richard Crew*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (852-14-145)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Effective bounds for order of p-adic growth of solutions at a regular singularity.
    G. Christol, University of Paris 6, France
    B. Dwork*, Princeton University
    (852-34-105)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Newton polygon and P-adic analytic variation of L-functions over finite fields.
    Daqing Wan*, University of Washington
    (852-11-21)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra in Geometry and Arithmetic, III
  Pine Shelf Room, Pittenger Student Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The level of division algebra over local and global fields.
    David B. Leep*, University of Kentucky
    Jean-Pierre Tignol, University Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
    Nicole Vast, University Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
    (852-11-41)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Wild representation type and failure of direct-sum cancellation.
    R. M. Guralnick, University of Southern California
    L. S. Levy*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    R. B. Warfield, Jr., University of Washington
    (852-13-144)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An approximation theorem for noncommutative valuation rings.
    Patrick J. Morandi*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (852-16-48)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
  AMS Session on Algebra and Geometry
  Room 311, Pittenger Student Center
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Orderings and nonring CMC subsets of a ring.
    Kenneth G. Valente*, Colgate University
    Marie A. Vitulli, University of Oregon
    (852-13-87)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Embedding analytic manifolds in uniform algebra spectrum.
    Toma V. Tonev*, University of Toledo
    (852-32-15)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geometry of the dual ball of the spin factor.
    Yaakov Friedman, Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel
    Bernard Russo*, University of California, Irvine
    (852-46-106)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Distinguishing certain Brieskorn manifolds.
    John W. Emert*, Ball State University
    (852-57-120)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-8:05 a.m.
  MAA Session on Welcome
  Room 301, Pittenger Student Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 8:05 a.m.-8:25 a.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Does Rudolf Steiner have the answer?
  Room 301, Pittenger Student Center
  Gloria Olive*, University of Otago, New Zealand and Anderson University
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 8:25 a.m.-9:15 a.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Gaussian binomnial coefficients.
  Room 301, Pittenger Student Center
  Gerald L. Alexanderson*, Santa Clara University
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Imbedding pseudoconvex domains into a ball.
  Ballroom, Pittenger Student Center
  Laszlo Lempert*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
  (852-32-06)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 9:45 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  REU students get results in group theory---say CAYEY essential.
  Room 301, Pittenger Student Center
  Gary J. Sherman*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  Writing mathematics.
  Room 301, Pittenger Student Center
  Sheldon Axler*, Michigan State University
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 12:40 p.m.-1:25 p.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Topology and the robot arm.
  Room 301, Pittenger Student Center
  Daniel H. Gottlieb*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 12:45 p.m.-1:45 p.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Stability and chaos in almost periodic systems.
  Ballroom, Pittenger Student Center
  Kenneth R. Meyer*, University of Cincinnati
  (852-58-35)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 1:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Teaching calculus and differential equations with the computer algebra system MAPLE.
  Room 301, Pittenger Student Center
  Robert J. Lopez*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry, IV
  Room 101, Burkhardt Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On topoplogy of quasi-ordinary singularities.
    Kyungho Oh*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    (852-14-27)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The nonring CMC subsets of a commutative ring.
    Kenneth G. Valente, Colgate University
    Marie A. Vitulli*, University of Oregon
    (852-13-23)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Waring's problem in matrix rings over fields.
    Daniel E. Otero*, Xavier University
    (852-15-147)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Complex Analysis, III
  Room 305, Pittenger Student Center
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Polynomially convex hulls over the circle.
    Zbigniew Slodkowski*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (852-32-137)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Convexity properties of coverings of smooth projective varieties.
    Terrence J. Napier*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (852-32-110)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Extremally Disconnected Spaces and their Applications, III
  Room 219A, Pittenger Student Center
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Ultrapowers of Banach spaces C (X).
    K. Sundaresan*, Cleveland State University
    (852-54-07)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Bases for a class of spaces containing basically disconnected spaces and spaces of minimal prime ideals: the locally compact case.
    Melvin Henriksen*, Harvey Mudd College
    (852-54-148)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the projective cover of S_omega-II.
    Ananda V. Gubbi*, Southwest Missouri State University
    (852-54-01)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra in Geometry and Arithmetic, IV
  Pine Shelf Room, Pittenger Student Center
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Actions of Lie algebras and Hopf algebras on associative rings.
    Jeffrey Bergen*, DePaul University
    (852-16-103)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Commutativity and primitivity in the enveloping algebra of the Virasoro algebra. I.
    Carolyn A. Dean*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (852-16-126)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Commutativity and primitivity in the enveloping algebra of the Virasoro algebra. II.
    Jeanne Wald Kerr*, Michigan State University
    (852-16-125)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tensor algebra of a relatively free group.
    Leonid Krop*, DePaul University
    (852-16-67)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Triangular Operator Algebras, IV
  Forum, Pittenger Student Center
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On non-self adjoint operator algebras.
    Edward G. Effros, University of California, Los Angeles
    Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (852-46-39)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Nest algebras and the Dunford-Pettis property.
    Timothy G. Feeman*, Villanova University
    (852-47-139)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Nests of subspaces in Banach space.
    Alvaro Arias*, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
    Jeff Farmer, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
    (852-46-152)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A new duality for spaces of operators.
    David P. Blecher*, University of Houston-University Park
    (852-47-63)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On reflexive operator algebras.
    Elias Katsoulis*, University of Athens, Greece
    (852-47-138)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Extensions of isometric isomorphisms.
    Richard Mercer*, Wright State University
    (852-47-30)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The tensor product problem for reflexive algebras.
    Jon Kraus*, State University of New York, College at Buffalo
    (852-47-56)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Statistics and Probability, IV
  Room 303, Pittenger Student Center
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Multivariate model building with partial, additive and interaction splines.
    Grace Wahba*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (852-62-84)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the asymptotic optimality of certain empirical Bayes simultaneous testing procedures.
    Shanti S. Gupta*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    Tachen Liang, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    (852-62-51)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A limit theorem for moment sequences.
    Fu-Chuen Chang, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    J. H. B. Kemperman, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    W. J. Studden*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    (852-60-38)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Three useful expressions for expectations involving a Wishart matrix and its inverse.
    George P. H. Styan*, McGill University
    (852-62-93)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Inference regarding the dispersion matrix under the Hierarchical multivariate model, and related distribution theory.
    J. N. Srivastava*, Colorado State University
    (852-62-158)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Asymptotical estimation of variance.
    Andrew L. Rukhin*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    (852-62-46)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A weak convergence result useful in autoregression.
    Hira L. Koul*, Michigan State University
    (852-62-94)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Function Spaces and Topology, IV
  Room 306, Pittenger Student Center
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Generalized semicontinuous functions.
    John S. Kulesza*, George Mason University
    (852-54-43)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Function space topologies for Darboux and related functions.
    Kenneth R. Kellum*, San Jose State University
    (852-54-98)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Toward a function space topology for variational calculus in Sobolev and related function spaces.
    M. Zuhair Nashed*, University of Delaware
    (852-49-99)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A note on umbral spaces.
    Terence E. Wilson*, Mississippi State University
    (852-54-157)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Differential Equations, IV
  Room 308 A \& B, Pittenger Student Center
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Estimates of oscillations for the prescribed mean curvature equation.
    F. V. Atkinson*, University of Toronto
    (852-34-114)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Lyapunov functions for quadratically truncated plane autonomous systems.
    W. S. Loud*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (852-34-29)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Asymptotics beyond all orders in an eigenvalue problem.
    Alastair D. Wood*, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland
    (852-34-130)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On large time behaviour of linear degenerate hyperbolic systems.
    Harry Gingold*, West Virginia University
    Victor Trutzer, University of Lowell
    (852-35-113)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Contour integral solutions of certain systems of hypergeometric partial differential equations and their applications.
    H. M. Srivastava*, University of Victoria
    (852-34-129)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The existence of optimal controls for infinite horizon hereditary Lagrange problems with state and control dependent discount factors.
    Dean A. Carlson*, University of Toledo
    (852-49-47)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of the solutions of a certain nth order ordinary homogeneous differential equation in the vicinity of an irregular singular point.
    T. K. Puttaswamy*, Ball State University
    (852-34-61)
• Saturday October 28, 1989, 2:05 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
  MAA Business Meeting
  Room 301, Pittenger Student Center

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