AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:45
1990 Fall Central Section Meeting
Denton, TX, November 2-3, 1990
Meeting #861
Associate secretaries: Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu
Saturday November 3, 1990
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Inequalities and Convex Bodies, III
Room 412, University Union Building
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7:00 a.m.
Null foliations and gravitational plane wave metrics.
P. Ehrlich*, University of Florida
G. Emch, University of Florida
(861-53-02) -
7:30 a.m.
Deforming curves on convex surfaces to simple closed geodesics.
Michael E. Gage*, University of Rochester
(861-53-111) -
8:00 a.m.
Geometry and uncertainty.
Francis J. Narcowich*, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
(861-51-24) -
8:30 a.m.
Applications of geometric methods to elliptic and parabolic problems.
Andrejs E. Treibergs*, University of Utah
(861-53-27) -
9:00 a.m.
Inequalities and random convex bodies.
Richard A. Vitale*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
(861-52-21) -
9:30 a.m.
Evolution problem for plastic anti-planar shear.
Xiaodong Zhou*, Rice University
(861-49-28)
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7:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Texas Topology and Geometry, III
Room 410, University Union Building
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7:00 a.m.
Some quasilinear systems with a lack of ellipticity.
S. Walter Wei*, University of Oklahoma
(861-58-179) -
7:30 a.m.
Determinants on CR manifolds.
Terry Lohrenz*, Wiess School of Natural Sciences, Rice University
(861-58-196) -
8:00 a.m.
The orthogonal spectrum of a hyperbolic manifold.
Ara Basmajian*, University of Oklahoma
(861-53-177) -
8:30 a.m.
Examples of symplectic structures on fiber bundles.
Brian Kasper*, University of Texas, Austin
(861-53-96) -
9:00 a.m.
The gradient flow for the Yang-Mills functional in two and three dimensions.
Johan R\aa de*, University of Texas, Austin
(861-35-207) -
9:30 a.m.
Bifurcation analysis of the Eckhaus instability.
Laurette S. Tuckerman*, University of Texas, Austin
(861-76-180)
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7:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, III
Room 411, University Union Building
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7:00 a.m.
Links with trivial Alexander-Gassner matrices.
Tim D. Cochran*, Rice University
(861-57-59) -
7:30 a.m.
Torsion and the Casson-Gordon invariant.
Patrick M. Gilmer*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Charles Livingston, Indiana University, Bloomington
(861-57-60) -
8:00 a.m.
Homotopically ribbon concordance of fibered knots.
Katura Miyazaki*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
(861-57-66) -
8:30 a.m.
Branched coverings of 3-manifolds and patterned surfaces.
John Hempel*, Rice University
(861-57-69) -
9:00 a.m.
Contractible open manifolds which are not covering spaces.
David G. Wright*, Brigham Young University
(861-57-71) -
9:30 a.m.
Examples of eventually end-irreducible 3-manifolds of nonfinite genus at infinity.
Bobby Neal Winters*, Pittsburg State University
(861-57-11)
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7:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Representation Theory of Lie Groups, III
Gold Eagle Suite A, University Union Building
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7:00 a.m.
A comparison theorem for n-homology.
Henryk Hecht*, University of Utah
Joseph Taylor, University of Utah
(861-22-129) -
7:30 a.m.
Characteristic cycles of holomorphic discrete series.
Jen-Tseh Chang*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
(861-22-52) -
8:00 a.m.
Local representations, analytic continuation, and integrability of Lie algebras of operators.
Humberto E. Prado*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
(861-22-122) -
8:30 a.m.
Primary summand functions on 3-dimensional, compact solvmanifolds.
Carolyn B. Pfeffer*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(861-22-123) -
9:00 a.m.
An explicit plancherel formula for exponential solvable Lie groups.
Bradley N. Currey*, Saint Louis University
(861-22-55) -
9:30 a.m.
Global regularity on 3-dimensional solvmanifolds.
Jacek M. Cygan*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Leonard F. Richardson, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
(861-22-08)
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7:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Equations, III
Silver Eagle Suite C, University Union Building
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7:00 a.m.
Existence theorems for second-order boundary value problems.
Hans G. Kaper*, Argonne National Laboratory
Mariette Knapp, Argonne National Laboratory
Man Kam Kwong, Argonne National Laboratory
(861-34-206) -
7:30 a.m.
Degenerate parabolic systems for a medium with micro-structure.
R. E. Showalter*, University of Texas, Austin
N. J. Walkington, Carnegie Mellon University
(861-35-32) -
8:00 a.m.
Strain softening in viscoelasticity of the rate type.
Athanassios E. Tzavaras*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(861-35-119) -
8:30 a.m.
Bifurcation phenomena in a singular DAE detonation problem.
W. Zhang, Southern Methodist University
I. Gladwell*, Southern Methodist University
(861-34-47) -
9:00 a.m.
Reaction-diffusion systems from climate modeling.
Georg Hetzer*, Auburn University, Auburn
(861-35-50) -
9:30 a.m.
Asymptotic solutions of Lotka-Volterra competition equations.
Shair Ahmad*, University of Texas, San Antonio
(861-34-45)
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7:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 418, University Union Building
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7:00 a.m.
On desingularized Horrocks-Mumford quintics.
Ciprian Borcea*, Institute for Advanced Study
(861-14-120) -
7:30 a.m.
Period relations for twisted Legendre equations.
W. L. Hoyt*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(861-14-154) -
8:00 a.m.
Field of definition of the group of sections of elliptic surfaces.
Masato Kuwata*, University of British Columbia,
(861-11-198) -
8:30 a.m.
The singularities of the parameter surface of a minimal elliptic threefolds.
Antonella Grassi*, Tufts University
(861-14-197) -
9:00 a.m.
On a conjecture of Tyurin.
Yun-Gang Ye*, Duke University
(861-14-212) -
9:30 a.m.
Adjunction for vector bundles.
Qi Zhang*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
(861-14-183)
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7:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Groups, II
Room 417, University Union Building
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7:30 a.m.
Cohomology of the symplectic group SP_4(Z).
Alan B. Brownstein*, Rutgers University, Newark
(861-11-43) -
8:00 a.m.
The "coadjoint" representation of PSp_4(2).
Ronnie Lee, Yale University
Steven H. Weintraub*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
(861-20-07) -
8:30 a.m.
A central series of Torelli groups and its relation to invariants of 3-manifolds.
Ronnie Lee*, Yale University
(861-55-218) -
9:00 a.m.
Commensurability of isospectral arithmetic hyperbolic 2 and 3 manifolds.
Alan W. Reid*, Ohio State University, Columbus and University of Aberdeen, Scotland
(861-11-116) -
9:30 a.m.
Short geodesics in arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Alan W. Reid, Ohio State University, Columbus and University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Walter D. Neumann*, Ohio State University, Columbus
(861-57-42)
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7:30 a.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Banach Spaces-Functional Analysis, III
Gold Eagle Suite B, University Union Building
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7:30 a.m.
A problem on spreading models.
E. Odell*, University of Texas, Austin
(861-46-90) -
8:00 a.m.
A new approximation scheme for monotone operators on Banach spaces.
Simon Fitzpatrick, University of Auckland, New Zealand
R. R. Phelps*, University of Washington
(861-46-78) -
8:30 a.m.
The Auerbach volume-ratio for finite-dimensional Banach spaces.
Haskell Rosenthal*, University of Texas, Austin
(861-46-82) -
9:00 a.m.
On unconditionally converging and weakly precompact operators.
Elias Saab*, University of Missouri, Columbia
Paulette Saab, University of Missouri, Columbia
(861-46-87) -
9:30 a.m.
On integral and strictly integral operators.
Paulette Saab*, University of Missouri, Columbia
(861-46-86)
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7:30 a.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
Gold Eagle Suite C, University Union Building
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7:30 a.m.
On polynomial extensions of atomic domains.
Moshe Roitman*, University of Haifa, Israel and University of North Carolina, Charlotte
(861-13-220) -
8:00 a.m.
Infinite integral extensions and Cohen-Macaulay algebras.
Melvin Hochster, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Craig Huneke*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(861-13-187) -
8:30 a.m.
Powers of ideals having small analytic deviation.
Sam Huckaba*, Florida State University
Craig Huneke, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(861-13-208) -
9:00 a.m.
Uniform annihilation of local cohomology and of Koszul homology.
K. N. Raghavan*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(861-13-186) -
9:30 a.m.
Tight closure, joint reductions, and the Briancon-Skoda theorem.
Irena Swanson*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(861-13-194)
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7:30 a.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Several Complex Variables, II
Room 413, University Union Building
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7:30 a.m.
Local analyticity for box_b and the barred partial-Neumann-problem for some weakly pseudo-convex domains.
David S. Tartakoff*, University of Illinois, Chicago
(861-32-145) -
8:00 a.m.
Estimates for the Bergman metric.
Jeffery McNeal*, Princeton University
(861-32-167) -
8:30 a.m.
L^2-solvability and boundary regularity of the barred partial_b-problem on some pseudoconvex CR-manifolds with boundary.
Ricardo L. Diaz*, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
(861-32-173) -
9:00 a.m.
The Cauchy-Riemann equations in convex domains.
John C. Polking*, Rice University
(861-32-203) -
9:30 a.m.
Sobolev estimates for the complex Green operator on a class of weakly pseudoconvex boundaries.
Harold P. Boas*, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
Emil J. Straube, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
(861-32-133)
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7:30 a.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on The Probability Theory of Patterns and Runs, III
Room 415, University Union Building
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8:00 a.m.
Distribution of balls into urns, where a specific number of urns contains a prescribed number of balls.
S. G. Papastavridis*, University of Patras, Greece
(861-60-102) -
8:30 a.m.
On reliabilities of certain large linearly connected engineering systems.
James C. Fu*, University of Manitoba
(861-60-100) -
9:00 a.m.
Consecutive k-out-of-n systems and some generalizations.
William S. Griffith*, University of Kentucky
(861-60-109) -
9:30 a.m.
Patterns and runs in probability theory.
Anant P. Godbole*, Michigan Technological University
(861-60-106)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
Session on Geometry
Ponder Room, University Union Building
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8:00 a.m.
A new stability problem of ULAM.
John M. Rassias*, American College of Greece
(861-47-126) -
8:20 a.m.
Non-lattice packings and coverings with congruent copies of certain convex bodies.
Andr\'as Bezdek, Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary
G\'abor Fejes T\'oth, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Cornell University
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg*, Auburn University, Auburn
(861-52-113) -
8:40 a.m.
Saturated packings and reduced coverings.
G\'abor Fejes T\'oth*, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Cornell University
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University, Auburn
(861-52-112) -
9:00 a.m.
Flat radon transforms.
Eric L. Grinberg*, Temple University, Philadelphia
(861-53-110) -
9:20 a.m.
A combinatorial unknot detector.
Randall H. Weiss*, Blackburn College
(861-55-216)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Galois representations attached to GL(n,Z)
Lyceum Room, University Union Building
Avner D. Ash*, Ohio State University, Columbus
(861-11-33) -
Saturday November 3, 1990, 12:30 p.m.-1:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Combinatorics of intersecting surfaces in 3-manifolds.
Lyceum Room, University Union Building
John E. Luecke*, University of Texas, Austin
(861-99-221) -
Saturday November 3, 1990, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Groups, III
Room 417, University Union Building
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2:00 p.m.
Informal Discussion -
2:30 p.m.
Examples of discrete subgroups of SU(2,1).
William M. Goldman*, University of Maryland, College Park
(861-57-41) -
3:00 p.m.
Compactifications of quotient spaces of GL(n,R).
Douglas Grenier*, Johns Hopkins University
(861-22-40) -
3:30 p.m.
Finite upper half planes.
Audrey Terras*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
(861-11-85)
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2:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Banach Spaces-Functional Analysis, IV
Gold Eagle Suite B, University Union Building
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2:00 p.m.
Compacta in Banach spaces.
J. H. M. Whitfield*, Lakehead University
(861-46-79) -
2:30 p.m.
Pettis integrable functions as a.e. weak sequential limits of simple functions.
Gunnar Stefansson*, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
(861-46-75) -
3:00 p.m.
Spectral theory in Banach algebras related by a continuous homomorphism.
Timothy W. Randolph*, University of Missouri, Rolla
(861-47-76) -
3:30 p.m.
Isometric involutions on group algebras.
Paul Patterson*, Saint Louis University
(861-46-73) -
4:00 p.m.
Equicontinuous and relatively weakly compact subsets of the space of Bochner integrable functions L_1(mu,X).
Mark Gruenwald*, University of Evansville
Georg Schl\"uchtermann, Math. Institut der Universit\"at M\"unchen, Germany
(861-46-72)
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2:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Inequalities and Convex Bodies, IV
Room 412, University Union Building
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2:00 p.m.
Harmonic maps with nontrivial higher dimensional singularities.
G. Liao*, University of Texas, Arlington
N. Smale, University of Utah
(861-58-10) -
2:30 p.m.
Instability of an equilibrium in a potential field.
Steven D. Taliaferro*, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
(861-70-17) -
3:00 p.m.
Stability and bifurcation of constant mean curvature surfaces in a wedge.
Thomas I. Vogel*, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
(861-53-19) -
3:30 p.m.
Differential and integral inequalities.
S. Walter Wei*, University of Oklahoma
(861-53-18) -
4:00 p.m.
A note on the stability theorem of J. L. Barbosa and M. Do Carmo for closed surfaces of constant mean curvature.
Henry C. Wente*, University of Toledo
(861-53-20) -
4:30 p.m.
Estimate on the singular set of heat-flow problem for harmonic maps.
Xiaoxi Cheng*, Rice University
(861-58-29)
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2:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, IV
Gold Eagle Suite C, University Union Building
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2:00 p.m.
Power-generated valuations.
K. Alan Loper*, Lawrence University
(861-13-209) -
2:30 p.m.
Hilbert functions and local cohomology.
Thomas Marley*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
(861-13-172) -
3:00 p.m.
One-dimensional local rings of finite Cohen-Macaulay type.
Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
(861-13-188) -
3:30 p.m.
Indecomposable modules over one-dimensional local rings.
Roger Wiegand, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Sylvia Wiegand*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
(861-13-189) -
4:00 p.m.
Weakly Krull domains and the t-class groups.
D. D. Anderson, University of Iowa
E. G. Houston, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
M. Zafrullah*, Winthrop College
(861-13-210)
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2:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Texas Topology and Geometry, IV
Room 410, University Union Building
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2:00 p.m.
The Denjoy problem in two dimensions.
Alec Norton*, University of Texas, Austin
(861-58-31) -
2:30 p.m.
Topological properties of some attractors for cylinder maps.
R. Daniel Mauldin*, University of North Texas
(861-54-98) -
3:00 p.m.
Lattice invariants for sofic shifts.
Susan G. Williams*, University of South Alabama
(861-54-144) -
3:30 p.m.
The p-Yang-Mills equations.
Thomas Otway*, University of Texas, Austin
Karen Uhlenbeck, University of Texas, Austin
(861-35-97) -
4:00 p.m.
Growth rates and knots.
Daniel S. Silver*, University of South Alabama
(861-57-143) -
4:30 p.m.
The observation of saddle periodic orbits in physical systems.
Daniel P. Lathrop*, University of Texas, Austin
(861-70-148)
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2:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, IV
Room 411, University Union Building
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2:00 p.m.
Progress on the homotopy implies isotopy conjecture of laminated 3-manifolds.
Will Kazez*, University of Georgia
Dave Gabai, California Institute of Technology
(861-57-200) -
2:30 p.m.
Knots yielding lens spaces.
John Berge*, University of Texas, Austin
(861-57-199) -
3:00 p.m.
Dehn surgery and spherical space forms.
Steven A. Bleiler*, Portland State University
Craig Hodgson, Columbia University
(861-57-62) -
3:30 p.m.
The calculus of curves immersed in surfaces.
J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
(861-57-201) -
4:00 p.m.
The Reidemeister and Markov theorems in 3-manifolds.
Paul Sundheim*, University of Texas, Austin
(861-57-61) -
4:30 p.m.
The cohopficity problem for 3-manifold groups.
F. Gonz\'alez-Acu\~na, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Wilbur Whitten*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
(861-57-65)
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2:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Representation Theory of Lie Groups, IV
Gold Eagle Suite A, University Union Building
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2:00 p.m.
Invariant forms for subs and quotients of principal series.
Ray A. Kunze*, University of Georgia
(861-22-158) -
2:30 p.m.
Explicit realizations of unitarizable exceptional representations of real rank one semi-simple Lie groups.
John E. Gilbert*, University of Texas, Austin
Christopher Meaney, Australian National University, Australia
(861-22-136) -
3:00 p.m.
Szego mappings into representations in cohomology.
Leticia Barchini*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
A. W. Knapp, State University of New York, Stony Brook
(861-22-161) -
3:30 p.m.
K-bi-finite and Z(g)-finite functions.
Jing-Song Huang*, University of Utah
(861-22-54) -
4:00 p.m.
Completely prime primitive ideals and quantization.
William McGovern*, University of Washington
(861-17-121) -
4:30 p.m.
Vogan's problem #3 and Enright-Shelton theory.
Brian D. Boe*, University of Georgia
David H. Collingwood, University of Washington
(861-22-132) -
5:00 p.m.
Informal Discussion
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2:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Equations, IV
Silver Eagle Suite C, University Union Building
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2:00 p.m.
Flow in fractured porous media.
Jim Douglas, Jr.*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(861-76-51) -
2:30 p.m.
An efficient Runge-Kutta (4,5) pair.
P. Bogacki, Old Dominion University
L. F. Shampine*, Southern Methodist University
(861-34-44) -
3:00 p.m.
Continuity of sets of optimal estimators for an output least squares estimation problem.
Luther White*, University of Oklahoma
(861-35-168) -
3:30 p.m.
Geometric algorithms for developable surfaces.
G. J. Fix*, University of Texas, Arlington
(861-53-175) -
4:00 p.m.
Stefan problem with convection.
John R. Cannon*, Lamar University
(861-35-48) -
4:30 p.m.
Vector valued test functions and elliptic systems.
Ruediger Landes*, University of Oklahoma
(861-35-131) -
5:00 p.m.
Study of a class of singular boundary value problems arising in heat transfer.
R. Kannan*, University of Texas, Arlington
(861-34-217)
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2:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 418, University Union Building
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2:00 p.m.
Spaces of rational functions on curves over finite fields.
Stephen A. DiPippo*, Brigham Young University
(861-14-174) -
2:30 p.m.
Embeddings of rational surfaces as Cohen-Macaulay varieties.
A. V. Geramita, Queen's University
A. Gimigliano, Universit\'a di Genova, Italy
B. Harbourne*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
(861-14-159) -
3:00 p.m.
The arithmetic of the Jacobian of a Fermat curve.
William G. McCallum*, University of Arizona
(861-14-171) -
3:30 p.m.
Elliptic surfaces.
Peter F. Stiller*, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
(861-14-195) -
4:00 p.m.
Informal Discussion
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2:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 3, 1990, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Several Complex Variables, III
Room 413, University Union Building
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2:00 p.m.
Zeroes of the Szego kernel function.
Steve Bell*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(861-32-37) -
2:30 p.m.
Characterizations of the unit ball and circular domains in C^n.
So-Chin Chen*, State University of New York, Albany
(861-32-35) -
3:00 p.m.
Proper holomorphic mappings between domains in different dimensions.
Stephen A. Chiappari*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(861-32-09) -
3:30 p.m.
Fatou-Bieberbach domains.
John Erik Fornaess*, Princeton University
(861-32-146) -
4:00 p.m.
Complex structures on the tangent bundle of a Riemann manifold.
L\'aszl\'o Lempert*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
R\'obert Sz\"oke, University of Notre Dame
(861-32-36)
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2:00 p.m.