AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program

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1989 Fall Far West Sectional Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, November 18-19, 1989
Meeting #853

Associate secretaries:
Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu

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Saturday November 18, 1989

• Saturday November 18, 1989, 7:00 a.m.-7:30 a.m.
  MAA Business Meeting
  Room 3400, Boelter Hall
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 7:30 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology, I
  Room 5128, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Two-torsion and homotopy-associative H-spaces.
    James P. Lin, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    Frank Williams*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
    (853-55-13)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Generalized Whitehead spaces with few cells.
    Norio Iwase, Okayama University, Japan
    Mamoru Mimura*, Okayama University, Japan
    (853-55-23)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Loop spaces with the same n-type for all n.
    C. A. McGibbon*, Wayne State University
    Jesper M\o ller, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    (853-55-08)
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m.
  MAA Workshop
  Calculus and the computer
  Room 4000, Mathematical Sciences Building
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-8:55 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorial Group Theory, I
  Room 5118, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Subgroups of proper free factors of free groups.
    John R. Stallings*, University of California, Berkeley
    (853-20-30)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Automatic structure and graphs of groups.
    M. Shapiro*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley and Ohio State University, Columbus
    (853-20-15)
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quadratic Forms and Simple Algebras, I
  Room 5117, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Rational singularities and the Brauer group.
    Frank Demeyer*, Colorado State University
    Tim Ford, Florida Atlantic University
    Rick Miranda, Colorado State University
    (853-13-12)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the Brauer group of a localization.
    Timothy J. Ford*, Florida Atlantic University
    (853-13-10)
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, I
  Room 5137, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Representation theoretic rigidity in PSL(2,R)
    Christopher Bishop*, University of California, Los Angeles
    Tim Steger, University of Chicago
    (853-22-47)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Extension theorem for VMO.
    Peter Holden*, Florida International University
    (853-42-16)
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Automatic and hyperbolic groups.
  Room 4000, Mathematical Sciences Building
  S. M. Gersten*, University of Utah
  (853-20-28)
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Interacting particle systems: Equilibria and rates of convergence.
  Room 3400, Boelter Hall
  Thomas M. Liggett*, University of California, Los Angeles
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 10:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorial Group Theory, II
  Room 5118, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Computation in virtually free groups.
    Robert H. Gilman*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (853-20-14)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Constructing negatively curved groups.
    Mark Feighn*, Rutgers University, Newark
    Mladen Bestvina, University of California, Los Angeles
    (853-57-33)
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology, II
  Room 5128, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    A generalization of the torus theorem.
    Michael Slack*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    (853-55-06)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rational homotopy theory: The general nilpotent case.
    James E. Searl*, New York Institute of Technology
    (853-55-04)
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quadratic Forms and Simple Algebras, II
  Room 5117, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the relative Brauer group of the function field of a plan cubic curve over a number field.
    Darrell Haile*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (853-16-29)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Quadratic forms, biquaternion algebras, and function fields.
    David B. Leep*, University of Kentucky
    (853-12-17)
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, II
  Room 5137, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Multipliers of some Hilbert spaces of holomorphic functions.
    Benjamin A. Lotto, Michigan State University
    Donald Sarason*, University of California, Berkeley
    (853-30-36)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Regularity properties of commutators and layer potentials associated to the heat equation.
    John L. Lewis, University of Kentucky
    Margaret A. M. Murray*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    (853-42-03)
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Changing demographics and the future of our profession.
  Room, Student Union
  Uri Treisman*, University of California, Berkeley
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 12:15 p.m.-1:55 p.m.
  AMS Session on Algebra
  Room 5138, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 12:15 p.m.
    Combinatorial interpretations of the q-analogues of L_2n+1.
    A. K. Agarwal*, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto Campus
    (853-11-53)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    The heredity measure of an algebra.
    Vlastimil H. Dlab*, Carleton University
    (853-16-07)
  • 12:50 p.m.
    Decompositions of modules over Hensel rings.
    Michael F. Siddoway*, Colorado College
    (853-16-18)
  • 1:10 p.m.
    Neat algebras.
    I. Agoston*, Carleton University
    V. Dlab, Carleton University
    T. Wakamatsu, Jobu University, Japan
    (853-16-32)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Finitistic dimensions of Noetherian rings.
    Ellen Kirkman*, Wake Forest University
    James Kuzmanovich, Wake Forest University
    Lance Small, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    (853-16-40)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Ends and cohomology of amalgamated products and HNN-extensions.
    Michael L. Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
    Steven Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
    (853-20-21)
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 12:30 p.m.-1:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology, III
  Room 5128, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 12:30 p.m.
    Homology operations and invariant theory.
    H. E. A. Campbell, Queen's University
    John McCleary*, Vassar College
    (853-55-48)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    On the homotopy commutativity of the three connective cover of S^3.
    James P. Lin*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    Frank Williams, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
    (853-55-22)
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 12:30 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  MAA Session
  Equity issues and minority access to mathematics
  Room 3400, Boelter Hall
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Recent work in potential theory.
  Room 4000, Mathematical Sciences Building
  Thomas H. Wolff*, California Institute of Technology
  (853-42-35)
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  The topology of some spaces of functions.
  Room 3400, Boelter Hall
  Gunnar Erik Carlsson*, Princeton University and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorial Group Theory, III
  Room 5118, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Limits of free G-actions on R-trees and reducible automorphisms.
    M. M. Cohen*, Cornell University
    M. Lustig, Ruhr Universit\"at, Federal Republic of Germany
    (853-20-37)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Commuting elements in free actions on R-trees.
    Frank Rimlinger*, Columbia University
    (853-20-11)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Number of equivalence classes of vertices on R-trees.
    Renfang Jiang*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
    (853-20-52)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Semistability of finitely presented groups.
    Ross Geoghegan*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    (853-20-31)
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quadratic Forms and Simple Algebras, III
  Room 5117, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Indecomposible division algebras of prime exponent.
    Bill Jacob*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (853-16-26)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Nilpotence in the Witt ring.
    Jon Arason, University of Iceland, Iceland
    Richard Elman*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (853-11-25)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Serre's problem on lifting A_n- covers to unramified A_n-covers.
    Mike Fried*, University of California, Irvine
    (853-12-02)
• Saturday November 18, 1989, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, III
  Room 5137, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Estimates for the kernel and continuity properties of pseudo-differential operators.
    Josefina Alvarez*, Florida Atlantic University
    J. Hounie, Universidade Federal, Brazil
    (853-35-41)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Hessian determinants of harmonic functions.
    Stewart Gleason*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    (853-31-34)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cauchy integrals on terrible curves.
    J. Michael Wilson*, University of Vermont
    (853-47-54)

Sunday November 19, 1989

• Sunday November 19, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-8:55 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorial Group Theory, IV
  Room 5118, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    lambda_1, diameter, and injectivity radius of manifolds and of graphs.
    Robert Brooks*, University of Southern California
    (853-58-05)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Non-positive curvature in piecewise Euclidean complexes.
    Martin R. Bridson*, Cornell University
    (853-20-51)
• Sunday November 19, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quadratic Forms and Simple Algebras, IV
  Room 5117, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Brauer Hilbertian fields.
    Burton Fein, Oregon State University
    David Saltman*, University of Texas, Austin
    Murray Schacher, University of California, Los Angeles
    (853-12-09)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Higher level orders and holomorphy rings in skew fields.
    Victoria Powers*, Emory University
    (853-12-49)
• Sunday November 19, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
  AMS Session on I
  Room 5138, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Boundary localization of the normal family of holomorphic mappings.
    E. B. Lin*, University of Toledo
    (853-32-55)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    On orthogonality of Legendre's polynomials via its generating function.
    Sadanand Verma*, University of Nevada
    (853-33-56)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Success runs in Markov chains.
    Anant P. Godbole*, Michigan Technological University
    (853-60-19)
• Sunday November 19, 1989, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Galois groups and rational division algebras.
  Room 4000, Mathematical Sciences Building
  Burton I. Fein*, Oregon State University
  (853-12-20)
• Sunday November 19, 1989, 10:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorial Group Theory, V
  Room 5118, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Combings of groups.
    Juan M. Alonso*, Cornell University
    (853-20-44)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The domino problem, hyperbolic geometry and the logic of Fuchsian groups.
    Paul E. Schupp*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (853-30-42)
• Sunday November 19, 1989, 10:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  AMS Session on II
  Room 5138, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    A local direct theorem for a Bernstein-type approximation process.
    Yegnaseshan Sitaraman*, Kentucky Wesleyan College
    (853-41-39)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Heron's problem in the Minkowski plane.
    Mostafa Ghandehari*, Naval Postgraduate School
    (853-52-01)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Transforms of support functions.
    Mostafa Ghandehari, Naval Postgraduate School
    Christopher P. Sagovac*, Naval Postgraduate School
    (853-52-46)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Global convolution operations in binary algebras.
    C. R. Giardina*, City College, City University of New York
    (853-93-45)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    On the equivalence of laws in trigonometry.
    Tony S. Verma*, Clark High School and University of Nevada
    Tonia S. Verma, Clark High School and University of Nevada
    (853-98-57)
• Sunday November 19, 1989, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Nilpotent orbits and the Weyl group.
  Room 4000, Mathematical Sciences Building
  Nicolas Spaltenstein*, University of Oregon
  (853-22-58)
• Sunday November 19, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorial Group Theory, VI
  Room 5118, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Negatively curved groups.
    Daryl Cooper*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (853-20-24)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homology of certain Artin groups.
    Kay Tatsuoka*, Rutgers University, Newark
    (853-57-43)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Algebraic analysis of groups F-type.
    Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University
    Gerhard Rosenberger, Universit\"at Dortmund, Federal Republic of Germany
    (853-20-27)
• Sunday November 19, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quadratic Forms and Simple Algebras, V
  Room 5117, Mathematical Sciences Building
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Some recent developments in the theory of function fields of quadratic forms.
    T.-Y. Lam*, University of California, Berkeley
    (853-12-50)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    u-invariants in characteristic 2.
    P. Mammone, Universit\'e de Mons, Belgium
    R. Moresi, CERFIM, Switzerland
    J.- P. Tignol, Universit\'e Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
    A. R. Wadsworth*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    (853-12-38)

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