AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:52

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

Sunday November 10, 1991, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applied Probability, III
ROOM 1115, Girvetz Hall
- 7:30 a.m.
  Finite clusters in continuous percolation.
  Kenneth S. Alexander*, University of Southern California
  (870-60-54)
- 8:00 a.m.
  Long-range percolation.
  Mathew D. Penrose*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (870-60-23)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Functional discrete limit theorems for random mappings.
  R. Arratia, University of Southern California
  S. Tavar\'e*, University of Southern California
  (870-60-64)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The inverse problem for phase-type distributions.
  Robert S. Maier*, University of Arizona
  (870-60-72)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Logistic and semi-logistic processes.
  Barry C. Arnold*, University of California, Riverside
  (870-60-80)

Sunday November 10, 1991, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knotting Phenomena in the Natural Sciences, III
ROOM 2115, Girvetz Hall
- 7:30 a.m.
  3-manifolds and 2-complexes: Some recent results.
  Dale Rolfsen*, University of British Columbia
  (870-57-71)
- 8:00 a.m.
  Simple balanced categories and invariants of tangles and 3-manifolds.
  Nicolai Reshetikhin*, University of California, Berkeley
  (870-57-85)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The quantum G_2 link invariant.
  Greg Kuperberg*, University of California, Berkeley
  (870-57-61)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Applications of the spectral parameter tangle of V. Jones.
  J\'ozef H. Przytycki*, University of California, Riverside and Warsaw University, Poland
  (870-57-76)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Alexander invariants.
  Hubert Saleur*, Yale University
  (870-57-86)

Sunday November 10, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Negatively Curved Groups, II
ROOM 1112, Girvetz Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  Counting incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Joel Hass*, University of California, Davis
  (870-57-58)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Local rigidity and Dehn surgery space.
  Steve Kerckhoff*, Stanford University
  (870-53-46)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Weak concentration points for Kleinian groups.
  Darryl McCullough*, University of Oklahoma
  (870-20-26)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Measured laminations for non-negatively curved groups.
  Lee D. Mosher*, Rutgers University, Newark
  Ulrich Oertel, Rutgers University, Newark
  (870-57-93)

Sunday November 10, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Homological Algebra, III
ROOM 1116, Girvetz Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  Noncommutative characteristic polynomials.
  Hyman Bass*, Columbia University
  (870-16-82)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Dixmier's conjecture for the first Weyl algebra.
  C. A. Dean*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  J. W. Kerr, Michigan State University
  (870-16-92)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Induced bimodules, annihilator primes, and `lying over'.
  Edward S. Letzter*, University of Utah
  (870-16-50)

Sunday November 10, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quadratic Forms, III
ROOM 1119, Girvetz Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  Spherical geometry and sphere packings-Kelper's conjecture and beyond.
  Wu-Yi Hsiang*, University of California, Berkeley
  (870-51-81)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Eigenvalues of symmetric integer matrices.
  Dennis R. Estes*, University of Southern California
  (870-11-40)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Weak *-orderings on *-fields.
  K. H. Leung*, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore
  (870-12-01)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Formal groups and Dirichlet L-functions.
  Nancy Childress*, Arizona State University
  Jeff Stopple, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (870-12-41)

Sunday November 10, 1991, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
Invited Address
Invariants and the algebraic theory of quadratic forms.
ROOM 1004, Girvetz Hall
Richard S. Elman*, University of California, Los Angeles
(870-11-30)

Sunday November 10, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Negatively Curved Groups, III
ROOM 1112, Girvetz Hall
- 2:00 p.m.
  Heegaard splittings of compact orientable product manifolds.
  Jennifer Schultens*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (870-57-34)
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Tait flyping conjecture.
  William Menasco, State University of New York, Buffalo
  Morwen Thistlethwaite*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (870-57-59)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Deforming hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Walter D. Neumann, Ohio State University, Columbus
  Alan W. Reid*, University of Aberdeen, Scotland and Ohio State University
  (870-57-51)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Length functions and outer space.
  John Smillie, Cornell University
  Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University
  (870-20-60)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Quasiisometries. and bicombings.
  Hsueh-Ling Huynh, University of California, Berkeley
  Wing Yew Poon*, University of California, Berkeley
  (870-20-17)

Sunday November 10, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Applied Probability, IV
ROOM 1115, Girvetz Hall
- 2:00 p.m.
  Convergence of some partially parallel Gibbs samplers with annealing.
  Roberto H. Schonmann*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (870-60-04)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Stationary Poisson sequences.
  Aaron M. Gross*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  James B. Robertson, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (870-60-24)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some results on Poisson approximation.
  Anant P. Godbole*, Michigan Technological University
  (870-60-79)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Taylor series solution of the M/M/1 queueing system.
  Alan Krinik*, California State Polytechnic University
  (870-60-03)

Sunday November 10, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Special Session on Quadratic Forms, IV
ROOM 1119, Girvetz Hall
- 2:00 p.m.
  Noncommutative prufer rings.
  Patrick J. Morandi*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
  (870-16-39)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Constructions of valued division algebras.
  Al Sethuraman*, California State University, Northridge
  (870-16-33)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Q(i)-division rings and admissibility.
  Steven G. Liedahl*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (870-12-37)

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