AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:51

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Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Friday October 25, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Lorentz Transformations and Spacetime Geometry, I
Family Life Center, Room 320, Memorial Union
- 8:00 a.m.
  Discrete spacetime and discrete Lorentz subgroup.
  A. Das*, Simon Fraser University
  (869-83-179)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A temporal approach to special relativity.
  Robert W. Brehme*, Wake Forest University
  (869-83-13)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The abstract Lorentz group.
  Abraham Ungar*, North Dakota State University
  (869-83-20)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Equivalence and Cartan forms.
  Peter J. Olver*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  (869-49-21)

Friday October 25, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Lorentz Transformations and Spacetime Geometry, II
Family Life Center, Room 320, Memorial Union
- 2:00 p.m.
  Informal Discussion
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Lorentz group in the context of deformation theory.
  Klaus Volpert*, Villanova University
  (869-17-116)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Higher casual structures.
  Geoffrey Martin*, University of Toledo
  (869-53-133)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Spacetime geometry of imagery and visualization for rapidly-moving objects.
  Harry Gelman*, GTE Government Systems Corporation, Masschusetts
  (869-83-52)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Lines in spacetime.
  Jost Hinrich Eschenburg, University of Augsburg, Germany
  Gregory J. Galloway*, University of Miami
  (869-83-101)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The structure of static-complete spacetimes.
  Steven G. Harris*, Saint Louis University
  (869-83-50)

Saturday October 26, 1991, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Lorentz Transformations and Spacetime Geometry, III
Family Life Center, Room 320, Memorial Union
- 7:00 a.m.
  Relativity on a 3-manifold and generalized Lorentz matrices.
  D. K. Sen*, University of Toronto
  (869-83-26)
- 7:30 a.m.
  Poisson structures on SL(n,c).
  Richard Beals, Yale University
  D. H. Sattinger*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  (869-22-59)
- 8:00 a.m.
  Reflections on Lorentz's transformations of 1892.
  Frank R. Tangherlini*, College of the Holy Cross
  (869-83-14)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Galilei covariant electromagnetic theory, non-relativity of velocity, and the relativistic paradoxes.
  Horst E. Wilhelm*, University of Utah
  (869-78-154)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A new approach to the Compton effect.
  Dan Wilkins*, University of Nebraska, Omaha
  (869-83-99)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The particle-wave dualism in quantum field theories as reflected in the dualism of the Galilei-and Lorentz group.
  F. Winterberg*, University of Nevada System, Reno, Nevada
  (869-83-27)

Saturday October 26, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Special Session on Lorentz Transformations and Spacetime Geometry, IV
Family Life Center, Room 320, Memorial Union
- 2:00 p.m.
  Informal Discussion
- 2:30 p.m.
  Left-invariant Lorentzian metrics on 3-dimensional lie groups
  Phillip E. Parker*, Wichita State University
  (869-53-81)

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