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1990 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
University Park, PA, April 7-8, 1990
Meeting #857

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

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Saturday April 7, 1990

• Saturday April 7, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Classical and Quantum Groups, I
  Room 501, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Sequences of divided powers in coalgebras and Hopf algebras.
    Earl J. Taft*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (857-16-13)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quantum GL(n) and q-Schur algebras.
    Richard Dipper*, University of Oklahoma
    (857-20-07)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Integral and modular representations of q-Schur algebras.
    Jie Du, University of Virginia
    Leonard Scott*, University of Virginia
    (857-20-65)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Symbols and modular forms.
    Alvany Rocha*, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
    Carlos J. Moreno, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
    (857-17-53)
• Saturday April 7, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Topology, I
  Room 507, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Chern character for proper cap gamma-manifolds.
    Hitoshi Moriyoshi*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    (857-55-55)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Noncompact hyperbolic 3-orbifolds of small volume.
    Colin Adams*, Williams College
    (857-57-30)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geometry of the space of knots.
    Jean-Luc Brylinski*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    (857-57-17)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Adams operations in Hochschild and cyclic homology and applications to the topology of free loop spaces.
    Dan Burghelea*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    Z. Fiedorowicz, Ohio State University, Columbus
    W. Gajda, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (857-55-71)
• Saturday April 7, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress on Einstein Manifolds and Related Topics, I
  Room 506, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Compactness for families of constant mean curvature surfaces.
    Rob Kusner*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (857-53-16)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Which 2-tensors can be Ricci tensors? (The rotationally symmetric case)
    Jianguo Cao*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (857-53-45)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A construction of scalar-flat Kahler surfaces.
    Claude LeBrun*, Institute for Advanced Study and State University of New York, Stony Brook
    (857-53-47)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The characterized standard sphere by the spectrum.
    Xingwang Xu*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    Paul C. Yang, University of Southern California
    (857-58-46)
• Saturday April 7, 1990, 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, I
  Room 502, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    An extension of simple-homotopy theory.
    Steven C. Ferry*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    (857-55-44)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Local properties of decomposition spaces.
    Steve Armentrout*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    (857-57-14)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The relationship between the boundedly controlled K_1 and Whitehead groups.
    Douglas R. Anderson*, Syracuse University
    (857-57-19)
• Saturday April 7, 1990, 8:35 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
  Session on Convergence Problems and Differential Equations
  Room 508, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 8:35 a.m.
    Means and Taylor polynomials.
    Alan Horwitz*, Pennsylvania State University, Media
    (857-26-67)
  • 8:50 a.m.
    Comparison theorems for the v-zeroes of Legendre functions P^m_v(z_0) when -1< z_0 <1.
    Frank E. Baginski*, George Washington University
    (857-33-33)
  • 9:05 a.m.
    Sequences of quotients and homogeneous functions.
    Alejandro Necochea*, University of Texas, Pan American
    Larry F. Bennett, South Dakota State University
    (857-40-61)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    A three point connection problem for a certain third order differential equation.
    T. K. Puttaswamy*, Ball State University
    (857-34-70)
  • 9:35 a.m.
    Reflection and jump boundaries associated with the process of capital accumulation.
    Guillermo Leon G\'omez Martinez*, University of Erlangen-N\"urnberg, Federal Republic of Germany
    (857-90-01)
• Saturday April 7, 1990, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Rigidity for non-positively curved manifolds.
  Room 104, Keller Conference Center
  Lowell Edwin Jones*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  (857-18-39)
• Saturday April 7, 1990, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Einstein metrics on algebraic manifolds.
  Room 104, Keller Conference Center
  Gang Tian*, Princeton University
  (857-53-31)
• Saturday April 7, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Classical and Quantum Groups, II
  Room 501, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    Irreducible representations of quantum groups at roots of 1.
    V. G. Kac*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (857-17-25)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Twisted vertex representations of quantum affine algebras.
    Naihuan Jing*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (857-17-32)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Tangent bundles of reductive groups.
    Ivan Mirkovic*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (857-22-43)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Cyclic homology of quantum groups.
    Boris Tsygan*, Harvard University
    Ping Feng, Harvard University
    (857-17-69)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Hidden quantum group symmetries and integrable perturbations of conformal field theories.
    Nikolai Reshetikhin*, Harvard University
    (857-17-68)
• Saturday April 7, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Topology, II
  Room 507, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    K theory for bisimplicial algebras.
    Paul Baum*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    Crichton Ogle, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    (857-55-58)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    A pair theorem for group cohomology.
    Paul Baum, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    Crichton Ogle*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    (857-55-59)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Cohomology of finite simple groups.
    Alejandro Adem*, Institute for Advanced Study
    John Maginnis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    R. J. Milgram, Stanford University
    (857-55-08)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Rational functions and configuration spaces.
    Ralph L. Cohen, Stanford University
    Don H. Shimamoto*, Swarthmore College
    (857-55-50)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Some features of the mod 2 cohomology ring of B spin(n) revealed by computer computations.
    Jay A. Wood*, Bowdoin College and Lehigh University
    (857-55-37)
• Saturday April 7, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, II
  Room 502, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    Controlled topology and algebra over non-locally compact spaces.
    Christopher W. Stark*, University of Maryland, College Park and University of Florida
    (857-57-34)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Continuous cohomology and real homotopy type II.
    Edgar H. Brown, Brandeis University
    Robert H. Szczarba*, Yale University
    (857-55-42)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Finitely generated module structures on the Nil-K-theory of group rings.
    Frank Connolly*, University of Notre Dame
    Mario Da Silva, University of Notre Dame
    (857-57-63)
• Saturday April 7, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress on Einstein Manifolds and Related Topics, II
  Room 506, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    An inequality between energy and intersection.
    C. Croke*, University of Pennsylvania
    A. Fathi, University of Florida
    (857-53-35)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    The Ricci flow on compact 2-orbifolds with curvature negative somewhere.
    B. Chow*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    N. F. Wu, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    (857-58-40)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Isotopy irreducible Riemannian manifolds.
    Wolfgang Ziller*, University of Pennsylvania
    M. Wang, McMaster University
    (857-53-49)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Kahler-Einstein metrics of positive scalar curvature: Global algebro-geometric criteria for existence.
    Alan M. Nadel*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (857-53-24)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Applications of Einstein metrics to moduli of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
    Andrey N. Todorov*, Max-Planck Institute f\"ur Mathematics, Bulgaria
    (857-53-48)
• Saturday April 7, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
  Session on Algebra, Geometry, and Homotopy
  Room 508, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    On characterizations of quasi-cyclic submodules.
    Johnny A. Johnson, University of Houston, University Park
    Monty B. Taylor*, University of Texas, Pan American
    (857-13-62)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Paths of unimodular vectors.
    Edward K. Hinson*, University of New Hampshire
    (857-13-09)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Coproduct decompositions of finitely generated subsemigroups of free semigroups.
    Tom Head*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    (857-20-15)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Convexity preserving summability matrices.
    C. R. Selvaraj*, Pennsylvania State University, Sharon
    (857-40-22)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Subvarieties of Severi varieties.
    Robert Treger*, Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County Campus
    (857-14-23)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Basic dual homotopy invariants of Riemannian foliations.
    Peter Y. Pang*, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore
    (857-57-05)

Sunday April 8, 1990

• Sunday April 8, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Classical and Quantum Groups, III
  Room 501, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Compactifications of symmetric spaces and buildings associated to classical groups.
    Paul Gerardin*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    (857-22-41)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Quantam deformation of Flaj manifolds.
    Jacob Towber*, DePaul University
    (857-22-56)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Sklyanin algebras.
    S. Paul Smith*, University of Washington
    J. T. Stafford, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (857-16-06)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Deformation methods in quantum groups.
    Murray Gerstenhaber*, University of Pennsylvania
    Anthony Giaquinto, University of Pennsylvania
    (857-16-60)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Finite dimensional algebras and quantum groups.
    Brian Parshall*, University of Virginia
    (857-20-64)
• Sunday April 8, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Topology, III
  Room 507, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Spin^c cobordism determines complex K-theory.
    Michael J. Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Mark Hovey*, University of New Haven
    (857-55-18)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Splitting off H-spaces and Conner-Raymond splitting theorem.
    Giora Dula*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    Daniel Gottlieb, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    (857-55-57)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Periodic families and connective cobordism via the classical Adams spectral sequence.
    Mark Mahowald, Northwestern University
    Paul Shick*, John Carroll University
    (857-55-51)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Covering spaces as geometric models of cohomology operations.
    Terrence P. Bisson*, Canisius College
    Andr\'e Joyal, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec, Montr\'eal
    (857-55-29)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    h_O-torsion in the cohomology of subalgebras of the Steenrod algebra.
    Kenneth Monks*, Wilkes College
    (857-55-27)
• Sunday April 8, 1990, 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, III
  Room 502, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Closed incompressible surfaces of arbitrarily high genus in the complements of certain star knots.
    Richard F. Gustafson*, State University of New York, College at Oneonta
    (857-57-21)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Branched covers of nonpositively curved manifolds.
    Michael Davis*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    Ruth Charney, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (857-57-10)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A differential geometric characterization of symmetric spaces of higher rank.
    Patrick Eberlein*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Jens Heber, Universit\"at of Augsburg, Federal Republic of Germany
    (857-53-20)
• Sunday April 8, 1990, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Invited Address
  On collisionless plasmas and the Vlasov-Maxwell equations.
  Room 104, Keller Conference Center
  Robert T. Glassey*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (857-35-03)
• Sunday April 8, 1990, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Geometry and topology of manifolds curved from below.
  Room 104, Keller Conference Center
  Karsten Grove*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (857-53-38)
• Sunday April 8, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Classical and Quantum Groups, IV
  Room 501, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    Decompositions of some S_n-modules arising in the free Lie algebra.
    Sheila Sundaram*, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec, Montr\'eal
    (857-22-36)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    A Bernstein-Beilinson theorem for U_q(sl(2)).
    T. J. Hodges*, University of Cincinnati
    (857-16-02)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Schubert calculus for generalized cohomology.
    Paul Bressler, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    Sam Evens*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (857-57-52)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Good bases for G-modules.
    Olivier Mathieu*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (857-22-72)
• Sunday April 8, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Topology, IV
  Room 507, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    On the self-homotopy equivalences of an infinite cell complex.
    Joseph Roitberg*, Hunter College, City University of New York
    (857-55-28)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Rational homotopy types with cohomology of stunted complex projective space.
    Gregory M. Lupton, Dartmouth College
    Ronald N. Umble*, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
    (857-55-26)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    2-Primary, v_1-periodic homotopy of SU(n).
    Martin Bendersky*, Hunter College, City University of New York
    (857-55-12)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On splittings of the tangent bundles of 4-manifolds.
    Duane Randall*, Loyola University
    (857-55-11)
• Sunday April 8, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, IV
  Room 502, Keller Conference Center
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    Group actions and cohomology of discrete groups.
    Alejandro Adem*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (857-57-04)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Examples of lack of rigidity in crystallographic groups.
    Frank Connolly, University of Notre Dame
    Tadeusz Ko\'zniewski*, University of Notre Dame
    (857-57-66)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Topological realization of the Dennis trace.
    Ross Geoghegan*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    (857-57-54)

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