AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:36

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

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)