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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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Sunday April 12, 1992

• Sunday April 12, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Finite Geometry, III
  Auditorium II, Neville Hall
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some characterizations of quasi-symmetric designs with a spread.
    Mohan S. Shrikhande*, Central Michigan University
    S. S. Sane, University of Bombay, India
    (874-05-66)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Locally classical generalized quadrangles.
    D. Ghinelli*, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
    (874-51-57)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Unitals in symmetric designs.
    Tran Van Trung*, University of Essen, Germany
    R. Mathon, University of Toronto
    (874-05-67)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nets and their codes.
    Steven T. Dougherty*, Lehigh University
    (874-05-23)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A design and a code invariant under the simple group Co3.
    Willem H. Haemers, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
    Christopher Parker, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Vera Pless, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Vladimir D. Tonchev*, Michigan Technological University
    (874-05-25)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, III
  Room 343, Seeley G. Mudd Building
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Approximations to iterated loop spaces.
    Jeffrey L. Caruso*, Carlisle, Massachusetts
    (874-55-98)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The fibre of the interated Freudenthal suspension.
    Shiu-chun Wong*, University of Toronto, Canada
    (874-55-115)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Level N elliptic cohomology.
    Mark Hovey*, Yale University
    J. Barr Von Oehsen, William Paterson College
    (874-55-82)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Brown-Gliter spectra and cobordism with singularities.
    Boris I. Botvinnik*, York University
    (874-55-117)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the dual spectrum of the classifying space of a torus.
    Chun-Nip Lee*, Northwestern University
    (874-55-05)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, III
  Room 353, Seeley G. Mudd Building
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Non-minimal critical points of the Higgs functional with arbitrary coupling constant.
    L. M. Sibner*, Polytechnic Institute of New York
    Janet Talvacchia, Swarthmore College
    (874-35-08)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Causal boundary of a product spacetime.
    Steven G. Harris*, Saint Louis University
    (874-53-135)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Gap theorems for indefinite manifolds.
    Lars Andersson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
    Ralph Howard*, University of South Carolina, Columbia
    (874-83-139)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the regularity of spherically symmetric wave maps.
    Demetrios Christodoulou, New York University-Courant Institute
    A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (874-58-105)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    3-dimensional contact manifolds with the characteristic vector field section sign as an eigenvector of the Lapacian operator.
    Haiwen Chen*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    (874-53-75)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on New Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds, III
  Room 253, Seeley G. Mudd Building
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Another way to calculate the Conway polynomial.
    Fred Hickling*, Santa Clara University
    (874-57-62)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Different 3-manifolds with the same invariants of Witten and Reshetikhin-Turaev.
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
    (874-57-101)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Normal surface equations for branched covers.
    John Hempel*, Rice University
    (874-57-131)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Torsion in skein modules of links in 3-manifolds.
    J\'ozef H. Przytycki*, University of California, Riverside
    (874-57-123)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Torsion class and universal constraint of Donaldson invariants for odd manifolds.
    Selman Akbulut*, Michigan State University
    Tom Mrowka, California Institute of Technology
    Yongbin Ruan, Michigan State University
    (874-57-132)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory, III
  Auditorium III, Neville Hall
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Infinitary hydra.
    Dan Velleman*, Amherst College
    (874-03-56)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Informal Discussion
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Semimorasses and nonreflection at singular cardinals.
    Piotr Koszmider*, University of Toronto
    (874-03-15)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Partition ordinals: The big picture.
    Jean A. Larson*, University of Florida
    (874-04-58)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Informal Discussion
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Processes, III
  Room 201, Christmas-Saucon Hall
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Rice formula: The expected number of low and high level crossings for stationary stable processes.
    Robert J. Adler, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
    Gennady Samorodnitsky*, Cornell University
    (874-60-19)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some nonlinear operators on two distribution functions.
    R. M. Dudley*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (874-60-94)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Densities with Gaussian tails.
    A. A. Balkema, University of Amsterdam, Holland
    Claudia Kl\"uppelberg, Eidgen Technological Hochschule, Germany
    Sidney Resnick*, Cornell University
    (874-60-20)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Geography of level sets of the Brownian sheet.
    Robert C. Dalang*, Tufts University
    John B. Walsh, University of British Columbia
    (874-60-09)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Generalized stable moving averages.
    Jan Rosinski*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (874-60-38)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Sequence Spaces, III
  Room 303, Christmas-Saucon Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Weak sequential completeness of alpha-duals.
    Christopher E. Stuart*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
    (874-40-31)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The weak gliding humps property.
    Johann Boos*, Fern University, Germany
    Dan Fleming, Saint Lawrence University
    (874-46-11)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Commutants for some classes of Hausdorff matrices.
    B. E. Rhoades*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (874-40-77)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A basis for c_o which fails the Wilansky property.
    A. K. Snyder*, Lehigh University
    (874-46-90)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 9:10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Session on Applied and Applicable Mathematics
  Room 203, Christmas-Saucon Hall
  

  • 9:10 a.m.
    Nearly optimal strategies for singularly perturbed wide-band driven delay systems.
    K. M. Ramachandran*, University of South Florida
    (874-60-03)
  • 9:25 a.m.
    On the growth of the Galton-Watson predator-prey process.
    John Coffey*, Purdue University, Calumet Campus
    (874-60-01)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Formules for the value of asian options.
    Miguel A. Ari\~no*, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
    (874-90-50)
  • 9:55 a.m.
    Stochastic modeling of seismic records based on their nonstationary feature.
    G. R. Dargahi-Noubary*, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
    (874-62-108)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    A note on the Kirby-Melvin and Reshetikhin-Turaev formulations of the Witten invariant.
    Francis D. Lonergan*, Webster, Massachusetts
    (874-55-70)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    A relation between the Casson invariant and the Jones polynomial.
    David Mullins*, University of South Florida, New College
    (874-57-61)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Geometric aspects of Backlund transformations and Weingarten submanifolds.
    Steven G. Buyske*, Lafayette College
    (874-58-64)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Characteristic Classes, Algebraic K-Theory, and Field Theory, III
  Room 302, Christmas-Saucon Hall
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Geometric quantization and K-theory.
    Peter Woit*, Columbia University
    (874-81-92)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Informal Discussion
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Topological physics and geometric topology.
    Louis Crane*, Yale University
    (874-55-47)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Spectral flow, small eigenvalues and symplectic geometry applied to 3-manifolds.
  Auditorium I, Neville Hall
  Edward Y. Miller*, Polytechnic Institute of New York
  (874-57-136)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Geometry of characteristic classes.
  Auditorium I, Neville Hall
  Jean-Luc Brylinski*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  (874-55-16)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Finite Geometry, IV
  Auditorium II, Neville Hall
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    The use of projective geometry for shared secret schemes.
    Albrecht Beutelspacher*, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany
    (874-05-54)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The discriminant divisor of an algebraic curve over a finite field.
    Despina Polemis*, Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York
    (874-14-07)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    The Sperner capacity of linear and nonlinear codes for the cyclic triangle.
    A. R. Calderbank*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
    P. Frankl, CNRS, France
    R. L. Graham, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
    W.-C. W. Li, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    L. A. Shepp, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
    (874-05-14)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Sequence Spaces, IV
  Room 303, Christmas-Saucon Hall
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Hausdorff operators on l_p.
    David Borwein*, University of Western Ontario
    Xiaopeng Gao, University of Western Ontario
    (874-47-89)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On analytic sequence spaces.
    Karl-Goswin Grosse-Erdmann*, Fern University, Germany
    (874-46-87)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On conservative summability methods that are potent.
    Brian Kuttner, University of Manitoba
    Mangalam R. Parameswaran*, University of Manitoba
    (874-40-112)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Characteristic Classes, Algebraic K-Theory, and Field Theory, IV
  Room 302, Christmas-Saucon Hall
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    2-Categories and quantum field theories.
    Dennis A. McLaughlin*, Princeton University
    (874-55-76)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Compact Kahler manifolds and their embeddings in CP(n).
    N. Michelacakis*, University College of London, England
    (874-53-106)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, IV
  Room 343, Seeley G. Mudd Building
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    On the torsion-free integral cohomology of BSpin(n).
    Jay A. Wood*, Purdue University, Calumet Campus
    (874-55-27)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Another look at twisted Steenrod actions on H*(V).
    Mark W. Winstead*, University of Virginia
    (874-55-28)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On embedding polynomial functors in symmetric powers.
    Piotr Krason*, Lehigh University
    Nicholas J. Kuhn, University of Virginia
    (874-55-104)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, IV
  Room 353, Seeley G. Mudd Building
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Hypersurfaces of hyperbolic space that have nonnegative Ricci curvature.
    Robert J. Currier*, Smith College
    (874-53-65)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Generalizing the collar lemma.
    Ara Basmajian*, University of Oklahoma
    (874-53-04)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On the Einstein equation.
    Chuan-Chih Hsiung*, Lehigh University
    (874-53-60)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    On the possibilities for a convex domain to contain another in R^3.
    Jiazu Zhou*, Temple University
    (874-53-125)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  Special Session on New Invariants of Links and 3-Manifolds, IV
  Room 253, Seeley G. Mudd Building
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    A Seifert algorithm for knotted oriented surfaces.
    J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
    Masahiko Saito, University of Texas, Austin
    (874-57-17)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Reidemeister moves for surface isotopies and their interpretation as moves to movies.
    J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
    Masahiko Saito*, University of Texas, Austin
    (874-57-46)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Triality in braid theory.
    Michael Khovanov*, Yale University
    (874-57-137)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory, IV
  Auditorium III, Neville Hall
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Special topologies on omega_1.
    William G. Fleissner*, University of Kansas
    (874-54-91)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Instances of dependent choice and the measurability of aleph_omega+1.
    Arthur W. Apter*, Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York
    Menachem Magidor, Hebrew University, Israel
    (874-04-36)
• Sunday April 12, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Processes, IV
  Room 201, Christmas-Saucon Hall
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Some problems in classical probability.
    Abram Kagan, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
    Larry Shepp*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
    (874-60-73)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Self-normalized trimmed sums: Nonormal limits.
    Daniel C. Weiner*, Boston University
    (874-60-41)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Exact convergence rates for the bounded law of the iterated logarithm in Hilbert space.
    Uwe Einmahl*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (874-60-100)

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