AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

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

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

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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