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1992 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Bethlehem, PA, April 11-12, 1992
Meeting #874

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

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Saturday April 11, 1992

• Saturday April 11, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, I
  Room 343, Seeley G. Mudd Building
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Modules over E_infinity ring spectra.
    Anthony D. Elmendorf*, Purdue University, Calumet Campus
    (874-55-34)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bialgebra deformation theory and rational H-spaces.
    Ronald N. Umble*, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
    (874-53-107)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Phantom phenomena and maps obeying certain rational conditions.
    C. A. McGibbon, Wayne State University
    Joseph Roitberg*, Hunter College, City University of New York
    (874-55-39)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Zabrodsky's work on maps between classifying spaces.
    John Harper*, University of Rochester
    (874-55-114)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Homotopy nilpotent compact Lie groups have no torsion in homology.
    Vidhyanath Rao*, Ohio State University, Newark
    (874-55-128)
• Saturday April 11, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Finite Geometry, I
  Auditorium II, Neville Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On designs and formally self-dual codes.
    George Kennedy, University of Illinois, Chicago
    Vera Pless*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (874-05-26)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Divisible lexicographic codes.
    Harold N. Ward*, University of Virginia
    (874-94-22)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generalzied Reed-Muller codes and finite geometries.
    K. J. Rose*, Lehigh University
    (874-05-24)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The full automorphism groups of the generalized Reed-Muller codes.
    P. Charpin*, INRIA, France
    (874-05-12)
• Saturday April 11, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Sequence Spaces, I
  Room 303, Christmas-Saucon Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Informal Discussion
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Unconditional bases in l_p when 0
    N. J. Kalton*, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (874-46-51)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generalized sectional convergence and barrelledness.
    William H. Ruckle*, Clemson University
    (874-46-88)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Statistical limit points.
    John Fridy*, Kent State University
    (874-40-35)
• Saturday April 11, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, I
  Room 353, Seeley G. Mudd Building
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    An interpretation of Kronecker indicies as diffeomorphism invariants of an exterior differential system.
    Robert B. Gardner*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Fields Institute for Mathematical Research, Canada
    (874-53-99)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Surfaces minimizing area plus length of singular curves.
    Frank Morgan*, Williams College
    (874-53-78)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Area-minimizing surfaces with large singular sets.
    Gary R. Lawlor*, Brigham Young University
    (874-49-127)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Inextendible conformal realizations of Lorentz surfaces in Minkowski 3-space.
    Tilla Weinstein*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (874-53-79)
• Saturday April 11, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory, I
  Auditorium III, Neville Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Remote filters in ccc Boolean algebras.
    Alan Dow*, York University
    (874-03-86)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Informal Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Delta^1_n sets of reals: Measure and category.
    Joan Bagaria*, University of California, Berkeley
    W. Hugh Woodin, University of California, Berkeley
    (874-03-103)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Liftings for Lebesgue measure.
    Maxim R. Burke*, University of Prince Edward Island
    (874-04-10)
• Saturday April 11, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Processes, I
  Room 201, Christmas-Saucon Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some examples of mixing random fields.
    Richard C. Bradley*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (874-60-83)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Probabilistic analysis of exceptional points for critical Weiererstrass nondifferentiable functions.
    Loren D. Pitt*, University of Virginia
    J. M. Anderson, University College London, England
    (874-60-21)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Applications of stochastic planar matching.
    Peter W. Shor*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
    (874-60-02)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A general form of Gambler's ruin.
    Terry R. McConnell*, Syracuse University
    Philip S. Griffin, Syracuse University
    (874-60-63)
• Saturday April 11, 1992, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Characteristic Classes, Algebraic K-Theory, and Field Theory, I
  Room 302, Christmas-Saucon Hall
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stiefel-Whitney classes, singularities of projections and Whitney duality.
    Ockle E. Johnson*, Saint Olaf College
    (874-57-33)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The rationality of geometric signatures of open 4-manifolds.
    Xiaochun Rong*, Columbia University
    (874-53-48)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    K theory for p-adic groups.
    Paul F. Baum*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    (874-22-53)
• Saturday April 11, 1992, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on New Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds, I
  Room 253, Seeley G. Mudd Building
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Real representations of knot groups and Hecke algebras.
    D. D. Long*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    A. W. Reid, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
    (874-57-37)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Temperley-Lieb algebra and the Turaev-Viro invariant.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (874-57-109)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants and the semiclassical approximation.
    Lisa Claire Jeffrey*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (874-57-49)
• Saturday April 11, 1992, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Nilpotence and periodicity in homotopy theory.
  Auditorium I, Neville Hall
  Douglas C. Ravenel*, University of Rochester
  (874-55-113)
• Saturday April 11, 1992, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  On some functions with weird differentiability properties.
  Auditorium I, Neville Hall
  Ingrid Daubechies*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
  (874-46-40)
• Saturday April 11, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Finite Geometry, II
  Auditorium II, Neville Hall
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Counting subregular spreads.
    Robert A. Liebler*, Colorado State University
    (874-51-45)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On the full collineation group of the Figueroa planes.
    Lynn Margaret Batten*, University of Manitoba
    (874-05-55)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Computational techniques for projective planes.
    R. Mathon*, University of Toronto
    (874-20-44)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Semifield planes that admit p-primitive collineations.
    M. Cordero-Vourtsanis*, Texas Tech University
    (874-51-118)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Singer groups, an approach from a group of multipliers of even order.
    Chat Y. Ho*, University of Florida
    (874-51-42)
• Saturday April 11, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Sequence Spaces, II
  Room 303, Christmas-Saucon Hall
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Gap Tauberian theorems.
    J. Connor*, Ohio University, Athens
    (874-46-126)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Integrability and L^1-convergence of trigonometric series II.
    Martin Buntinas*, Loyola University of Chicago
    N. Tanovi\'c-Miller, University of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
    (874-40-122)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Sequence spaces and the classical inequalities.
    Grahame Bennett*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (874-46-129)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    lambda-convergence.
    W. Beekmann, Fern University, Germany
    S-C. Chang*, Brock University
    (874-40-71)
• Saturday April 11, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Characteristic Classes, Algebraic K-Theory, and Field Theory, II
  Room 302, Christmas-Saucon Hall
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Semi-infinite de Rham cohomology.
    Alexander A. Voronov*, Princeton University
    (874-58-74)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
  • 3:45 p.m.
    The Chern-Simons character of a lattice guage field.
    Anthony V. Phillips, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    David A. Stone*, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
    (874-53-110)
• Saturday April 11, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, II
  Room 343, Seeley G. Mudd Building
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Nilpotence in the Steenrod algebra.
    Kenneth G. Monks*, University of Scranton
    (874-55-06)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Primitive elements in Brown-Peterson cohomology.
    David C. Johnson, University of Kentucky
    John M. Boardman*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
    W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
    (874-55-80)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    The Brown-Peterson homology and nilpotence of the infinite special orthogonal group.
    Dung-yung Yan*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
    (874-55-116)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    v_1 Periodic homotopy theory.
    Martin Bendersky*, Hunter College, City University of New York
    (874-55-29)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    v_2-periodic telescopes and localizations.
    Mark Mahowald, Northwestern University
    Doug Ravenel, University of Rochester
    Paul Shick*, John Carroll University
    (874-55-81)
• Saturday April 11, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, II
  Room 353, Seeley G. Mudd Building
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Connections with prescribed curvature-C^infinity results.
    Dennis DeTurck*, University of Pennsylvania
    Nets Katz, University of Pennsylvania
    (874-49-18)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Chern classes of Schubert varieties in Grassmannians.
    Joseph H.G Fu*, University of Georgia
    (874-53-84)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Minimizing the squared-mean-curvature integral with the surface evolver.
    Rob Kusner*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (874-49-30)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Convergence of the Allen-Cahn equation to Brakke's motion by mean curvature.
    Tom Ilmanen*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (874-35-111)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Boundary value problem on surfaces of constant Gauss curvature.
    Bo Guan*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Joel Spruch, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (874-58-97)
• Saturday April 11, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
  Special Session on New Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds, II
  Room 253, Seeley G. Mudd Building
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Quantum group constructions at the classical level.
    Alan Weinstein, University of California, Berkeley
    Ping Xu*, University of Pennsylvania
    (874-58-68)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Quantum representations of modular groups via ideal triangulations.
    Nikolai