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1992 Fall Western Section Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, November 7-8, 1992
Meeting #877

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

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Sunday November 8, 1992

• Sunday November 8, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Finite and Algebraic Groups, III
  Room 144, Kaprielian Hall
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Extending Steinberg characters.
    Walter Feit*, Yale University
    (877-20-44)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Realizable sequences of partitions.
    John G. Thompson*, University of Cambridge, England
    (877-20-03)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    GL_n(q) and PU_n(q^2) as Galois groups over under barred Q.
    H. Ve\"olklein*, University of Florida
    (877-20-06)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Long maximal subgroups of linear groups.
    Douglas Brozovic, University of North Texas
    Ron Solomon*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (877-20-33)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Sporadic groups of even and p type.
    Richard Lyons*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    Daniel Gorenstein, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (877-20-36)
• Sunday November 8, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory and Four Manifolds, III
  Room 146, Kaprielian Hall
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Smooth 4-manifolds versus symplectic 6-manifolds.
    Yongbin Ruan*, Michigan State University
    (877-57-114)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Yang-Mills-Higgs fields on the 4-sphere.
    Thomas H. Parker*, Michigan State University
    (877-57-111)
• Sunday November 8, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Hyperbolic PDE and Fluid Mechanics, III
  Room 145, Kaprielian Hall
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the Zakharov-Schulman system.
    Carlos E. Kenig*, University of Chicago
    Gustavo Ponce, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Luis Vega, University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
    (877-35-67)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On global action-angle variables for periodic KdV, Toda and nonlinear Schroedinger equations.
    Thomas Kappeler*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (877-35-66)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Branch singularities of nonlinear hyperbolic systems with two speeds.
    Nick Ercolani*, University of Arizona
    (877-35-63)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Shock wave solutions of the Einstein equations.
    Blake Temple*, University of California, Davis
    Joel Smoller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (877-35-64)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The initial value problem for higher order dispersive equations.
    Gustavo Ponce*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Carlos E. Kenig, University of Chicago
    Luis Vega, University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
    (877-35-65)
• Sunday November 8, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Geometry, II
  Room 140, Kaprielian Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Spectral theory of the Laplacian in domains with corners.
    Gregory Eskin*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (877-58-86)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Analytic torsion and Witten complex.
    D. Burghelea, Ohio State University, Columbus
    L. Friedlander*, University of Arizona
    T. Kappeler, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (877-58-01)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Analytic surgery and the Eta invariant.
    Rafe Mazzeo*, University of Washington
    (877-58-90)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Sobolev constants, injectivity radius, and volume.
    Peter Petersen*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (877-58-34)
• Sunday November 8, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry, III
  Room 163, Kaprielian Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Deformations of spherical structures on two-bridge knot complements.
    William D. Dunbar*, Pennsylvania State University, Erie
    (877-57-92)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tubes in hyperbolic manifolds and eigenvalue estimates.
    Ara Basmajian*, University of Oklahoma
    (877-58-09)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Topological rigidity and an extension of a theorem of Cannon and Thurston.
    Yair N. Minsky*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (877-53-77)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Deformations of singular hyperbolic structures.
    Steve Kerckhoff*, Stanford University
    (877-53-78)
• Sunday November 8, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 147, Kaprielian Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rigidity of one-dimensional dynamical Cantor sets.
    R. de la Llave*, University of Texas, Austin
    R. P. Schafer, University of Texas, Austin
    (877-34-02)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Teichmuller geodesic flow.
    Howard Masur*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (877-58-94)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Quasiconformal methods for the Denjoy problem on T^2.
    Alec Norton*, University of Texas, Austin
    (877-58-37)
• Sunday November 8, 1992, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Syzygies of algebraic varieties.
  Room 123, Seeley G. Mudd Building
  Robert K. Lazarsfeld*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (877-14-40)
• Sunday November 8, 1992, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Geometry, III
  Room 140, Kaprielian Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Isospectral plane domains.
    Peter Doyle*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    (877-58-106)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Spectral diameter estimates for k-regular graphs.
    Gregory Quenell*, Bucknell University
    (877-58-10)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On isospectral deformations on two-step nilmanifolds.
    He Ouyang*, Enertronics Research, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri
    (877-58-82)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Upper bound of the first eigenvalue for algebraic submanifolds.
    Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Ecole Polytechnic
    Peter Li*, University of California, Irvine
    Shin Tung Yau, Harvard University
    (877-58-89)
• Sunday November 8, 1992, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry, IV
  Room 163, Kaprielian Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Geometrization of toroidal 3-manifolds.
    A. Casson*, University of California, Berkeley
    (877-57-118)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Tunnel number and volume for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Colin Adams*, Williams College
    (877-57-76)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Constructing representations of braid groups.
    D. D. Long*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    J. A. Moody, Columbia University
    (877-57-45)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Seifert fiber spaces and quasi-symmetric groups.
    G. Mess*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (877-57-120)
• Sunday November 8, 1992, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Complex Geometry, II
  Room 158, Kaprielian Hall
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Position of singularities of hypersurfaces and the topology of their complenments.
    A. Libgober*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (877-14-46)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Vector bundles of small rank on projective spaces.
    Mei-Chu Chang*, University of California, Riverside
    (877-14-23)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Research in algebraic geometry.
    Zlv Ran*, University of California, Riverside
    (877-14-22)
• Sunday November 8, 1992, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 147, Kaprielian Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Stability analysis of Hamiltonian systems by geometric methods.
    Tudor Ratiu*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (877-58-97)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Fractal properties of invariant subsets for piecewise monotonic maps on the interval.
    Mariusz Urbanski*, University of North Texas
    (877-99-30)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Topological versions of th Wiener-Wintner theorem.
    Peter Walters*, University of Warwick
    (877-28-54)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Lyapunov exponents of monotone symplectic cocycles.
    Maciej P. Wojtkowski*, University of Arizona
    (877-58-79)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Exponential mixing and stochastic stability.
    L. S. Young*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (877-58-81)
• Sunday November 8, 1992, 2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Geometry and Physics, III
  Room 101, Seeley G. Mudd Building
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Spectral theory of Neumann Laplacians.
    Barry Simon*, California Institute of Technology
    (877-51-17)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    An algebraic approach to planar coloring problems.
    Hubert Saleur*, Yale University
    (877-82-12)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    The Toda field equations on arbitrary Riemann surfaces.
    Eric D'hoker*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (877-83-20)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On correlation functions in integrable models of quantum field theory.
    N. Reshetikhin*, Harvard University
    (877-81-13)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Geometry of quantization of gauge theories.
    Albert Schwarz*, University of California, Davis
    (877-81-19)

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