
AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:04
Eastern 1993 Spring Sectional Meeting
Washington, DC, April 17-18, 1993
Meeting #881
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Saturday April 17, 1993
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Wavelets in Sampling Theory and Signal Processing, I
Room 1002, Downing Hall
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8:00 a.m.
A class of band limited cardinal wavelets.
G. G. Walter*, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Y. M. Liu, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
(881-41-24) -
8:30 a.m.
Adaptive decompositions with time-frequency atoms.
Stephane Mallat, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Zhifeng Zhang*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
(881-94-15) -
9:00 a.m.
Acceleration of the frame algorithm.
Karlheinz Gr\"ochenig*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
(881-42-16) -
9:30 a.m.
Irregular sampling and a wavelet auditory model.
John J. Benedetto*, University of Maryland, College Park
(881-42-61) -
10:00 a.m.
On the extension of the Zak transform.
Ahmed I. Zayed*, University of Central Florida
Piotr Mikusinski, University of Central Florida
(881-42-188) -
10:30 a.m.
Some remarks on wavelet transforms and sampling.
E. Bing Lin*, University of Illinois, Chicago
Tomasz Bielecki, University of Illinois, Chicago
Jie Chen, University of Illinois, Chicago
Stephen S.T. Yau, University of Illinois, Chicago
(881-42-54)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Undergraduate Research in Applied Mathematics, I
Room 202, Locke Hall
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8:00 a.m.
Orientation -
8:30 a.m.
Discussion
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Undergraduate Research in Pure Mathematics, I
Room 200, Locke Hall
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8:00 a.m.
Orientation -
9:00 a.m.
On the shellability of the poset of p-subgroups of a finite group.
Samuel Kutin*, Old Westbury, New York
Murad \"Ozayd\i n, University of Oklahoma
(881-20-109) -
9:30 a.m.
Counting nilpotent pairs.
Jeffrey Vanderkam*, Durham, North Carolina
Jason Fulman, Harvard University
Mike Galloy, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
(881-20-93) -
10:00 a.m.
A formula for the distribution character of representations of SL(2,R), using the Cayley transform.
Sally Picciotto*, Yale University
(881-22-108) -
10:30 a.m.
Asymptotic cones of elliptic orbits in sp_4(R).
Linie Chang, Duke University
Michael Kleber, Harvard University
Edward Mosteig*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(881-22-112)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Problems in Geometry and Physics, I
Room 320, Just Hall
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8:20 a.m.
The level set method for nonlinear PDE.
Lawrence C. Evans*, University of California, Berkeley
(881-35-119) -
9:00 a.m.
Evolving plane curves by curvature in relative geometries II.
Michael E. Gage*, University of Rochester
Yi Li, University of Rochester
(881-53-77) -
9:40 a.m.
Flat flow is motion by crystalline curvature for curves with crystalline energies.
Fred Almgren, Princeton University
Jean E. Taylor*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(881-35-78) -
10:20 a.m.
Flat curvature flow and crystal growth.
Jean E. Taylor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Frederick Almgren*, Princeton University
Lihe Wang, Princeton University
(881-35-115)
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8:20 a.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dilation and Interpolation: Operator Theoretic Methods, I
Room 224, Just Hall
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8:30 a.m.
Prediction and the Nehari problem.
I. Gohberg, Tel Aviv University, Israel
H. J. Landau*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
(881-47-201) -
9:00 a.m.
Positive extensions of almost periodic functions.
Ilya M. Spitkovsky*, College of William & Mary
Hugo J. Woerdeman, College of William & Mary
(881-30-70) -
9:30 a.m.
A Nehari theorem in the bidisk.
Mischa Cotlar, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela
Cora Sadosky*, Howard University
(881-32-200) -
10:00 a.m.
Linearly constrained interpolation in nest algebras.
Mih\'aly Bakonyi, Georgia State University
Hugo J. Woerdeman*, College of William & Mary
(881-47-05) -
10:30 a.m.
Extensions with positive real part. A new version of the abstract band method.
Robert L. Ellis*, University of Maryland, College Park
(881-47-145)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, I
Room 2006, Downing Hall
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8:30 a.m.
On a problem of Posa and Seymour.
Ralph Faudree, Memphis State University
Ronald Gould, Emory University
Michael S. Jacobson*, University of Louisville
(881-05-85) -
9:00 a.m.
Toughness and triangle-free graphs.
D. Bauer*, Stevens Institute of Technology
J. van den Heuvel, University of Twente, Netherlands
E. Schmeichel, San Jose State University
(881-05-156) -
9:30 a.m.
Degree conditions and cycle extendability.
R. J. Faudree, Memphis State University
R. J. Gould, Emory University
M. S. Jacobson, University of Louisville
L. M. Lesniak*, Drew University
(881-05-137) -
10:00 a.m.
Monochromatic spanning trees in 2-colored graphs.
R. J. Faudree*, Memphis State University
R. J. Gould, Emory University
M. S. Jacobson, University of Louisville
L. M. Lesniak, Drew University
(881-05-207) -
10:30 a.m.
Mixed Ramsey numbers: Total chromatic number and stars.
Guantao Chen*, North Dakota State University, Fargo
(881-05-158)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Pure and Applied Recursion Theory, I
Room 2104, Downing Hall
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8:30 a.m.
Cantor singleton.
Georgia Martin, University of Maryland, College Park
James Owings*, University of Maryland, College Park
(881-03-37) -
9:00 a.m.
On the Cantor-Bendixon rank of recursively enumerable sets.
Peter Cholak*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Rod Downey, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
(881-03-10) -
9:30 a.m.
Iterated relative recursive enumerability.
Peter A. Cholak, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Peter G. Hinman*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(881-03-59) -
10:00 a.m.
Non-deterministic recursion.
Yiannis N. Moschovakis*, University of California, Los Angeles
(881-03-216) -
10:30 a.m.
Logic on an E-closed set.
Gerald E. Sacks*, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(881-03-17)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorics, I
Room 2002, Downing Hall
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8:30 a.m.
On sign-representable matroids.
James Oxley*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Geoff Whittle, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
(881-05-204) -
9:00 a.m.
Random packing of matroid bases.
Safwan Akkari*, Indiana University-Purdue University, Ft.\ Wayne
(881-05-127) -
9:30 a.m.
Quaternary paving matroids.
Sanjay Rajpal*, Dartmouth College
(881-05-198) -
10:00 a.m.
Recent progress on matroid reconstruction.
William P. Miller*, George Washington University
(881-05-144) -
10:30 a.m.
Rigidity matroids.
Brigitte Servatius*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(881-05-187)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Session on Contributed Papers, I
Room 236, Locke Hall
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8:30 a.m.
On ethnomathematics: An enquiry on comparative truth.
Danielle Mihram, University of California, Los Angeles
G. Arthur Mihram*, Princeton, New Jersey
(881-03-203) -
8:45 a.m.
Infinite covering systems of congruences which don't exist.
Ethan Lewis*, University of Pennsylvania
(881-11-13) -
9:00 a.m.
Resolving false computations in multiple item residue number systems.
John Sadowsky*, Johns Hopkins University
(881-11-74) -
9:15 a.m.
Product formula for minimal polynomials.
Jie-Tai Yu*, Cornell University
(881-12-06) -
9:30 a.m.
The relationship of generalized sub-Wronskians of phi:E^m right arrow E^n to linear dependence and curvature.
Kenneth Wolsson*, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck
(881-15-139) -
9:45 a.m.
Simple noncommutative Jordan algebras satisfying ([x,y],y,y)=0.
R. D. Schafer*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(881-17-131) -
10:00 a.m.
p-adic spherical distributions.
Jeffrey Hakim*, American University
(881-22-214) -
10:15 a.m.
A non-monotone coupling and a Poisson approximation.
Patrick D. Burghardt, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Anant P. Godbole*, Michigan Technological University
Amy B. Prengaman, Health Care Investment Analysts, Maryland
(881-60-80) -
10:30 a.m.
Automata and response pattern of individuals.
Ponnammal Natarajan*, Anna University, India
(881-92-30)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, Dynamical Systems and Applications, I
Room 3022, Downing Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Restricted orbit equivalence for ergodic Z^d-actions.
Janet Whalen Kammeyer*, United States Naval Academy
Daniel J. Rudolph, University of Maryland, College Park
(881-28-41) -
9:30 a.m.
Rotation intervals for diffeomorphisms of the plane.
Kathleen Alligood*, George Mason University
(881-58-42) -
10:00 a.m.
Quasiconformal extensions, Zygmund conformal structures and wandering domains.
Alec Norton*, University of Texas, Austin
Dennis Sullivan, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
(881-58-44) -
10:30 a.m.
Aperiodic tiling and substitution dynamics.
Charles Radin*, University of Texas, Austin
(881-52-03)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, I
Room 2114, Downing Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Entropy invariants for knots.
Daniel S. Silver*, University of South Alabama
(881-57-66) -
9:30 a.m.
Connected sums, Floer homology and spectral sequence.
Weiping Li*, Yale University
(881-57-14) -
10:00 a.m.
Mapping class groups, quantum invariants and quadratic forms.
Gretchen Wright*, Columbia University
(881-57-67) -
10:30 a.m.
Some mod 3 relations between Donaldson polynomial invariants.
Selman Akbulut*, Michigan State University
(881-57-208)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
Room 3116, Downing Hall
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9:30 a.m.
Eighty years of Sommerfeld's radiation condition.
Steven H. Schot*, American University
(881-01-07) -
10:00 a.m.
Euclid and his Victorian defender.
Thomas Drucker*, Modern Logic, Pennsylvania
(881-01-163) -
10:30 a.m.
Root extraction in the American curriculum.
David L. Roberts*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
(881-01-23)
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9:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 9:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematics of Two-dimensional Quantum Field Theory, I
Room 316, Just Hall
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9:40 a.m.
Fermionic sum representations for branching functions of affine Lie algebras.
Timothy R. Klassen, Rutgers University, Piscataway
Rinat Kedem, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Barry M. McCoy*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Ezer Melzer, State University of New York, Stony Brook
(881-81-182) -
10:20 a.m.
Characters, dilogarithm and TBA: The case of parafermion CFT.
Tomoki Nakanishi*, Harvard University
(881-81-180)
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9:40 a.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Graphs in representation theory.
Biology Greenhouse Auditorium, Just Hall
Fan R. K. Chung*, Bellcore, New Jersey
(881-05-155) -
Saturday April 17, 1993, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address -
Saturday April 17, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Special Session on Dilation and Interpolation: Operator Theoretic Methods, II
Room 224, Just Hall
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2:40 p.m.
Interpolation of real rational matrix functions.
J. A. Ball, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
I. Gohberg, Tel Aviv University, Israel
L. Rodman*, College of William and Mary
(881-15-140) -
3:10 p.m.
Zero-pole interpolation for matrix meromorphic functions on an algbraic curve with determinantal representation.
Joseph A. Ball*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(881-47-159) -
3:40 p.m.
Zero-pole subspace interpolation and complex vector bundles.
Kevin Clancey*, University of Georgia
(881-30-128)
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2:40 p.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Wavelets in Sampling Theory and Signal Processing, II
Room 1002, Downing Hall
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2:40 p.m.
Wavelet-frames and nonparametric statistical estimation: Irregular samples and noises.
Christian Houdre*, Stanford University
(881-62-194) -
3:10 p.m.
Time-varying orthogonal best bases.
Martin Vetterli*, Columbia University
Cormac Herley, Columbia University
Kannan Ramchandran, Columbia University
(881-42-213) -
3:40 p.m.
Discrete spline filters for multiresolutions and wavelets of l_2.
Akram Aldroubi*, National Institute of Health, Maryland
Murray Eden, National Institute of Health, Maryland
Michael Unser, National Institute of Health, Maryland
(881-42-149) -
4:10 p.m.
Reproducing kernal Hilbert spaces from sampling theorems.
M. Zuhair Nashed*, University of Delaware
Gilbert G. Walter, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
(881-42-189) -
4:40 p.m.
Continuity of the joint spectral radius: Application to wavelets.
Christopher Heil*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(881-39-81) -
5:10 p.m.
Wavelet transforms and spectral estimations.
Lonnie H. Hudgins*, Northrop Electronics Systems Division, California
(881-94-32)
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2:40 p.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, II
Room 2006, Downing Hall
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2:40 p.m.
How the rank of a graph is effected by vertex/edge addition or deletion.
Jean Bevis, Georgia State University
Kevin Blount, Georgia State University
George Davis, Georgia State University
Gayla Domke*, Georgia State University
Valeria Miller, Georgia State University
(881-05-171) -
3:10 p.m.
The latest on sphere-of-influence graphs.
Marc J. Lipman*, Office of Naval Research, Virginia
(881-05-205) -
3:40 p.m.
On Rado numbers.
Stefan A. Burr, City College, City University of New York
S. P. Loo*, West Virginia University
(881-05-132) -
4:10 p.m.
Either a graph or its complement contains a spanning broom.
Stefan A. Burr*, City College, City University of New York
(881-05-218)
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2:40 p.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Special Session on Undergraduate Research in Applied Mathematics, II
Room 202, Locke Hall
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2:40 p.m.
The inverse problem for arbitrary networks.
Kevin Rosema*, University of Washington
(881-94-86) -
3:10 p.m.
Flow dependent networks.
Christopher L. Cox*, Northwestern University
(881-94-110) -
3:40 p.m.
Computing Grobner bases on the MasPar MP-1.
Thomas Vincent Berry*, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
(881-68-102)
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2:40 p.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Special Session on Undergraduate Research in Pure Mathematics, II
Room 200, Locke Hall
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2:40 p.m.
Algebraic and topologic structure results for the space of infinite matrices.
Mitch Anderson, University of Hawaii, Hilo
Alistair K. Bostrom*, University of Hawaii, Hilo
(881-15-48) -
3:10 p.m.
Permutation invariant norms on R^n.
Paras P. Mehta*, Harvard University
(881-15-92) -
3:40 p.m.
Poisson approximation and the area of a random polygon.
Kevin Wald*, New York, New York
(881-60-106) -
4:10 p.m.
A counterexample to the conjecture on the coefficients of normalized univalent functions which map the unit disk into itself.
Daniel Lewis Dreibelbis*, University of Virginia
(881-30-107)
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2:40 p.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, Dynamical Systems and Applications, II
Room 3022, Downing Hall
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2:40 p.m.
Hidden linearity in relaxation oscillations.
Mark Levi*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(881-58-122) -
3:10 p.m.
Natural factors of measure-preserving maps.
Andres del Junco*, University of Toronto
Mariusz Lemanczyk, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland
Mieczyslaw Mentzen, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland
(881-28-153) -
3:40 p.m.
Approximating the invariant measures of finite dimensional maps.
Fern Hunt*, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Maryland
(881-58-08) -
4:10 p.m.
Wavelet projections of an evolution equation.
Juan Elezgaray, CNRS, France
Gal Berkooz, Cornell University
Philip Holmes*, Cornell University
(881-58-36) -
4:40 p.m.
IP cluster points and recurrent sequences.
Kamel N. Haddad*, California State University, Bakersfield
Aimee Johnson, Tufts University
(881-54-114)
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2:40 p.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Problems in Geometry and Physics, II
Room 320, Just Hall
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2:40 p.m.
The self-dual cosmological equations.
Yisong Yang*, Carnegie Mellon University
(881-35-25) -
3:20 p.m.
Statistical equilibrium solutions for the Euler equations.
Nathaniel Whitaker*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Bruce Turkington, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(881-35-116) -
4:00 p.m.
On the positive solutions of Matukuma equation.
Yi Li*, University of Rochester
(881-34-52) -
4:40 p.m.
Local behavior and classification of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations with supercritical Sobolev growth.
Henghui Zou*, Northwestern University
(881-35-76)
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2:40 p.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorics, II
Room 2002, Downing Hall
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2:40 p.m.
Connnecting characteristic and chromatic polynomials.
Andreas Blass, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Bruce E. Sagan*, Michigan State University
(881-52-136) -
3:10 p.m.
Sign-coherent identities for characteristic polynomials of matroids.
Joseph P. S. Kung*, University of North Texas
(881-05-49) -
3:40 p.m.
Greedoids and the Tutte polynomial.
Gary Gordon*, Lafayette College
(881-05-147) -
4:10 p.m.
An algorithmic view of Crapo's BETA-invariant.
Lorenzo Traldi*, Lafayette College
(881-05-126) -
4:40 p.m.
Ramsey numbers for matroids.
Talmage Reid*, University of Mississippi
(881-05-01)
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2:40 p.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, II
Room 2114, Downing Hall
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2:40 p.m.
Infinite framed link diagrams of open 3-manifolds.
Jim Hoste*, Pitzer College
(881-57-195) -
3:10 p.m.
Dehn surgery on knots in the 3-sphere.
Cameron Gordon*, University of Texas, Austin
John Luecke, University of Texas, Austin
(881-57-210) -
3:40 p.m.
Tangle sums producing simple tangles.
Ying-Qing Wu*, University of Texas, Austin
(881-57-55) -
4:10 p.m.
Spectral flow and analyticity for operators on manifolds with boundary.
Eric P. Klassen*, Florida State University
Paul A. Kirk, Indiana University, Bloomington
(881-57-217) -
4:40 p.m.
Casson's invariant for closed 3-manifolds with even first Betti number.
Cynthia L. Curtis*, Princeton University
(881-57-196)
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2:40 p.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 2:45 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematics of Two-dimensional Quantum Field Theory, II
Room 316, Just Hall
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2:45 p.m.
On the BRST-algebraic structure in string theory.
Bong Lian*, University of Toronto
Gregg Zuckerman, Yale University
(881-17-177) -
3:25 p.m.
Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras in quantum field theory.
Albert S. Schwarz*, University of California, Davis
(881-81-183) -
4:25 p.m.
Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras and two-dimensional topological field theory.
Ezra Getzler*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(881-55-174) -
5:05 p.m.
The Macdonald constant term conjecture.
Ivan Cherednik*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(881-17-173)
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2:45 p.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 2:45 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
Room 3116, Downing Hall
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2:45 p.m.
The volume of a sphere in ancient China.
Frank Swetz*, Pennsylvania State University
(881-01-118) -
3:25 p.m.
The algebra of logic: What Boole really started.
Judy Green*, Marymount University
(881-01-157) -
4:05 p.m.
Leonhard Euler: The Berlin years--A preliminary study.
Ronald Calinger*, Catholic University of America
(881-01-143) -
4:35 p.m.
The American Mathematical Endeavor: 1776-1876.
Karen V. H. Parshall*, University of Virginia
(881-01-125)
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2:45 p.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 2:45 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Session on Contributed Papers, II
Room 236, Locke Hall
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2:45 p.m.
Inequalities concerning the L^p norm of a polynomial and its derivative.
Robert B. Gardner, Louisiana State University, Shreveport
Narendra K. Govil*, Auburn University, Auburn
(881-30-150) -
3:00 p.m.
Sampling vs. interpolation for entire functions.
Carl Prather*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(881-30-170) -
3:15 p.m.
Factorization of A(z) + B(w) under composition.
Lee A. Rubel, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Chung-Chun Yang*, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
(881-32-04) -
3:30 p.m.
Metrics for singular analytic spaces.
C. G. Grant*, United States Naval Academy
P. Milman, University of Toronto
(881-32-151) -
3:45 p.m.
Precauchy spaces.
D. C. Kent*, Washington State University
Nandita Rath, Washington State University
(881-54-123) -
4:00 p.m.
Metrizability in isocompact wM spaces.
G. R. Hiremath*, Talladega College
(881-54-202) -
4:15 p.m.
The topology of quasibundles.
H. Movahedi-Lankarani*, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
R. Wells, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
(881-55-130) -
4:30 p.m.
Flat 3-manifolds appear as cusps of hyperbolic 4-manifolds.
Barbara E. Nimershiem*, Franklin & Marshall College
(881-57-75) -
4:45 p.m.
The Ore condition for polynomial rings.
Ferrran Ced\'o, University Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Delors Herbera*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(881-16-221) -
5:00 p.m.
Maximal module theorems.
Carl Faith*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(881-16-222)
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2:45 p.m.
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Saturday April 17, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Pure and Applied Recursion Theory, II
Room 2104, Downing Hall
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3:00 p.m.
Game extraction of programs from specifications.
Anil Nerode*, Cornell University
Jeffrey B. Remmel, Cornell University
Alex Yakhnis, Cornell University
(881-03-73) -
3:30 p.m.
Mixed systems.
C. J. Ash, Monash University, Australia
J. F. Knight*, University of Notre Dame
(881-03-19) -
4:00 p.m.
The structural approach to the P vs. NP problem.
Stuart A. Kurtz*, University of Chicago
(881-03-72) -
4:30 p.m.
Priority arguments using iterated trees of strategies, II.
Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Manuel Lerman*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
(881-03-40) -
5:00 p.m.
Priority arguments using iterated trees of strategies.
Steffen Lempp*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Manuel Lerman, University of Connecticut, Storrs
(881-03-39)
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3:00 p.m.
Sunday April 18, 1993
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Problems in Geometry and Physics, III
Room 138, Douglass Hall
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8:20 a.m.
The Dirichlet problem for a class of fully nonlinear elliptic equations.
Bo Guan*, Indiana University, Bloomington
(881-35-117) -
9:00 a.m.
On Weyl problem with nonnegative Gauss curvature.
Pengfei Guan*, McMaster University,
Yanyan Li, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(881-58-28) -
9:40 a.m.
Numerical solutions of boundary value problems for K-surfaces.
Frank Baginski*, George Washington University
Nate Whitaker, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(881-35-79) -
10:20 a.m.
A non-minimal solution of the Yang-Mills-Higgs equation with positive coupling constant.
Janet Talvacchia*, Swarthmore College
(881-35-220)
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8:20 a.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Pure and Applied Recursion Theory, III
Room 238, Douglass Hall
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8:30 a.m.
(alpha,Beta)-selective sets.
Georgia Martin*, University of Maryland, College Park
(881-03-12) -
9:00 a.m.
From recursive to on-line coloring of graphs.
Henry A. Kierstead*, Arizona State University
(881-03-56) -
9:30 a.m.
Pure and applied PI^0_1 classes.
Douglas Cenzer*, University of Florida
(881-03-47) -
10:00 a.m.
A cohesive degree which is not high.
Carl Jockusch*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Frank Stephan, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
(881-03-71) -
10:30 a.m.
Jumps of minimal degrees below Q'.
Rod Downey, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Richard A. Shore*, Cornell University
(881-03-09)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, Dynamical Systems and Applications, III
Room 201, Douglass Hall
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8:30 a.m.
Suspensions, inheritance, and flows on homogeneous spaces.
David B. Ellis*, Beloit College
(881-54-34) -
9:00 a.m.
Central configurations in the 1+n body problem.
Glen Hall*, Boston University
(881-70-160) -
9:30 a.m.
On the dynamics of some polynomial root-finding algorithms.
Scott Sutherland*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
(881-58-35) -
10:00 a.m.
Residual properties of alpha-flows.
Andres del Junco, University of Toronto,
Adam Fieldsteel*, Wesleyan University
Kye-Won Park, Ajou University,
(881-28-113) -
10:30 a.m.
Entropy on noncompact spaces.
Bruce Kitchens*, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
(881-28-38)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorics, III
Room 105, Douglass Hall
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8:30 a.m.
A poset of pseudoline arrangements.
Walter D. Morris, Jr.*, George Mason University
(881-90-22) -
9:00 a.m.
Gram's relation inside out.
Jim Lawrence*, George Mason University
(881-52-206) -
9:30 a.m.
Lattices and geometry.
M. K. Bennett*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(881-06-18) -
10:00 a.m.
Applications of combinatorial geometries in model theory.
Kitty L. Holland*, Simon Fraser University
(881-03-197) -
10:30 a.m.
The Borsuk conjecture holds for convex bodies with a belt of regular points.
Boris Dekster*, Mount Allison University
(881-52-11)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, III
Room 136, Douglass Hall
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8:30 a.m.
A diagrammatic theory of knotted surfaces.
J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
Masahico Saito, University of Texas, Austin
(881-57-60) -
9:00 a.m.
The formal Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov connection and a universal knot invariant.
Xiao-Song Lin*, Columbia University
(881-57-62) -
9:30 a.m.
A topological quantum theory approach to the Andrews-Curtis conjecture.
Frank Quinn*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(881-57-68) -
10:00 a.m.
Computing spectral flow via cup products.
Paul Kirk*, Florida State University
Eric Klassen, Indiana University, Bloomington
(881-57-211) -
10:30 a.m.
Infinite generation of PI_1(Diff(M)).
John Kalliongis*, Saint Louis University
Darryl McCullough, University of Oklahoma
(881-57-53)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Session on Contributed Papers, III
Room 145, Douglass Hall
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8:30 a.m.
The tangential structure of fractal measures.
Christoph Bandt*, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Germany
(881-28-215) -
8:45 a.m.
Discontinuous differential equations.
Abdelkader Boucherif*, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ghouti Boukli-Hacene, University of Tlemcen, Algeria
(881-34-166) -
9:00 a.m.
On a degenerate isotropic material.
Ping Wang*, Pennsylvania State University, Schuykill
(881-35-164) -
9:15 a.m.
The linear shallow water theory: A mathematical justification.
James A. Donaldson, Howard University
Daniel A. Williams*, Howard University
(881-35-165) -
9:30 a.m.
Solutions of physical problems by decomposition.
George Adomian*, General Analytics Corporation
(881-35-191) -
9:45 a.m.
Continuity of point derivations in Banach function algebras.
S. I. Ouzomgi*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
(881-46-152) -
10:00 a.m.
A new class of Banach spaces.
Tepper L. Gill*, Howard University
W. W. Zachary, Howard University
(881-46-185) -
10:15 a.m.
An extension of a fixed point theorem.
S. P. Singh*, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
(881-47-124) -
10:30 a.m.
Torsion relations in the spacetime tangent bundle.
Howard E. Brandt*, Army Research Labaoratory, Maryland
(881-53-133)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geodesic Flows, Hyperbolic Geometry, and Symbolic Dynamics, I
Room 237, Douglass Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Markoff geodesics as matrices.
Harvey Cohn*, City College, City University of New York
(881-11-02) -
9:30 a.m.
Invariant measures for general Gauss transforms.
Andrew Haas*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
(881-11-199) -
10:00 a.m.
The continuous diophantine approximation mapping of Szekeres.
Jeffrey C. Lagarias*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Andrew D. Pollington, Brigham Young University
(881-11-142) -
10:30 a.m.
A rigidity theorem for surfaces of variable negative curvature.
Steven P. Lalley*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(881-53-186)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Wavelets in Sampling Theory and Signal Processing, III
Room 223, Douglass Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Sampling and the multisensor deconvolution problem.
David F. Walnut*, George Mason University
(881-42-120) -
9:30 a.m.
Wavelets on closed sets and applications.
Bj\"orn Jawerth*, University of South Carolina, Columbia
(881-42-212) -
10:00 a.m.
Scale-angle representation: Application to frequency extraction and sampling.
J-P. Antoine, University Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
P. Carrette, University Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
R. Murenzi*, Clark Atlanta University
(881-62-168) -
10:30 a.m.
An almost orthogonal radial wavelet expansion for radial distributions.
Jay Epperson, University of New Mexico
Michael Frazier*, Michigan State University
(881-41-146)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, III
Room 216, Douglass Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Rectilinear crossing number of a complete graph and Sylvester's "Four Point Problem" of geometric probabilty.
Edward R. Scheinerman*, Johns Hopkins University
Herbert S. Wilf, University of Pennsylvania
(881-05-57) -
9:30 a.m.
The Dinitz problem solved for rectangles.
Jeannette C. M. Janssen*, Lehigh University
(881-05-148) -
10:00 a.m.
On p-intersection representations.
Nancy Eaton, University of Rhode Island
Ronald J. Gould*, Emory University
Vojtech Rodl, Emory University
(881-05-138) -
10:30 a.m.
Nowhere-zero 4-flows of solvable Cayley graphs.
B. Alspach, Simon Fraser University
Y-P. Liu, Nanjing Normal, People's Republic of China
C-Q Zhang*, West Virginia University
(881-05-31)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Undergraduate Research in Applied Mathematics, III
Room 205, Douglass Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Consistency in cooperative game theory.
Roger Lee*, Cambridge, Massachusetts
(881-90-103) -
9:30 a.m.
Reasonable allocations for PFF and CFF games.
Luz E. Pinzon*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(881-90-94) -
10:00 a.m.
Compound Poisson approximations for word patterns.
Garrick Lee Wallstrom*, Abington, Massachusetts
Allison Michelle Skolnick, East Brunswick, New Jersey
(881-60-96) -
10:30 a.m.
Statistical tests for Markov-dependence.
Sharyn Campbell*, Youngstown, Ohio
(881-62-111)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Undergraduate Research in Pure Mathematics, III
Room 204, Douglass Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Some results in Euclidean plane geometry.
Nathan Dunfield*, Corvallis, Oregon
(881-51-91) -
9:30 a.m.
Factorization in K[x^2,x^3].
Faith Inman*, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
(881-16-90) -
10:00 a.m.
Unknotting numbers and minimal knot diagrams.
James A. Bernhard*, Princeton University
(881-55-105) -
10:30 a.m.
Mapping class groups of compact 2-manifolds.
Dean Hildebrandt*, Harvard University
(881-55-89)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematics of Two-dimensional Quantum Field Theory, III
Room 137, Douglass Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Irreducible representations of affine superalgebras and number theory.
Victor Kac*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Minoru Wakimoto, Mie University, Japan
(881-17-175) -
9:40 a.m.
Representations of Kac-Moody algebras and quantum groups.
David Kazhdan*, Harvard University
George Lusztig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(881-17-178) -
10:20 a.m.
A q-deformation of Wakimoto representation and the quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation.
Atsushi Matsuo*, Nagoya University, Japan
(881-81-176)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
Room 103, Douglass Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Calculus after the calculus.
Paul D. Scofield*, Washington & Lee University
(881-01-167) -
9:40 a.m.
Saint Vincent and the logarithm.
V. Frederick Rickey*, Bowling Green State University
(881-01-190) -
10:15 a.m.
Pascal's triangle and the solution of polynolmial equations.
Victor J. Katz*, University of the District of Columbia
(881-01-162)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dilation and Interpolation: Operator Theoretic Methods, III
Room 133, Douglass Hall
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9:30 a.m.
A Krein space extension of the Caratheodory-Fejer problem.
Gene B. Christner*, University of Virginia
(881-47-50) -
10:00 a.m.
Julia operators and coefficient problems.
James Rovnyak*, University of Virginia
(881-47-51) -
10:30 a.m.
Operator theory and the Bose-like oscillator.
Marvin Rosenblum*, University of Virginia
(881-47-161)
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9:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
On the existence of convex hypersurfaces of constant Gauss curvature in hyperbolic space.
Biology Greenhouse Auditorium, Just Hall
Joel Spruck*, Johns Hopkins University
(881-53-219) -
Sunday April 18, 1993, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Geodesic flows and continued fractions.
Biology Greenhouse Auditorium, Just Hall
Leopold Flatto*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
(881-58-129) -
Sunday April 18, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Special Session on Geodesic Flows, Hyperbolic Geometry, and Symbolic Dynamics, II
Room 237, Douglass Hall
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2:40 p.m.
Fricke groups and continued fractions.
David Steinbach*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, California
(881-41-192) -
3:10 p.m.
Symbolic dynamics and flow on the Hecke surfaces.
Thomas A. Schmidt*, Widener University
(881-58-83) -
3:40 p.m.
Intersections of closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces.
Thea Pignataro, City College, City University of New York
Hanna Sandler*, American University
(881-51-69) -
4:10 p.m.
beta-Transformations and zeros for a class of power series.
Boris Solomyak*, University of Washington
(881-58-46)
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2:40 p.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Special Session on Wavelets in Sampling Theory and Signal Processing, IV
Room 223, Douglass Hall
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
Room 216, Douglass Hall
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2:40 p.m.
Maximal and forbidden unit distance graphs in the plane.
Carolyn R. Mahoney*, California State University, San Marcos
Kiran B. Chilakamarri, Central State University
(881-05-169) -
3:10 p.m.
Extreme values of the edge-neighbor-connectivity.
Margaret B. Cozzens*, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC
Shu-Shih Yang Wu, Northeastern University
(881-05-184) -
3:40 p.m.
Sturdy networks.
Barry Piazza, University of Southern Mississippi
Fred Roberts*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Sam Stueckle, Northeastern University
(881-05-135) -
4:10 p.m.
Strongly connected mixed graphs and connected detachments of graphs.
C. St. J. A. Nash-Williams*, University of Reading, England
(881-05-134)
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2:40 p.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Special Session on Undergraduate Research in Applied Mathematics, IV
Room 205, Douglass Hall
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2:40 p.m.
Exotic curves on the Genus-2 handlebody.
Michael Bolt*, Grand Rapids, Michigan
(881-53-100) -
3:10 p.m.
Counting critical points of polynomials.
Ian B. Robertson*, OCMR 1394, Oberlin, Ohio
(881-26-95) -
3:40 p.m.
An investigation of lifting modulo p as a method for computing Grobner bases.
William L. Cooper*, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Janine Ladick, Louisville, Kentucky
(881-12-87) -
4:10 p.m.
Computational methods for the Igusa local Zeta function.
Frederic Schoenberg*, Brown University
(881-11-88)
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2:40 p.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Undergraduate Research in Pure Mathematics, IV
Room 204, Douglass Hall
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2:40 p.m.
Upper bounds for covering numbers.
Sandra Thompson*, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Eric Vigoda, Rochester, New York
(881-05-104) -
3:10 p.m.
Randomly C_4-decomposable graphs.
Daniel Isaksen*, Berkeley, California
(881-05-98) -
3:40 p.m.
Which Cayley graphs of prime power order are isomorphic?.
Andrew J. Mauer*, Williams College
(881-05-99) -
4:10 p.m.
Structural characteristics of V_n(G).
David Weinreich*, Emory University
(881-05-97) -
4:40 p.m.
Characterization of singular graphs.
Maryanne Brown*, Newton, Massachusetts
(881-05-101)
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2:40 p.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, Dynamical Systems and Applications, IV
Room 201, Douglass Hall
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2:40 p.m.
Factors of Cartesian products of nonsingular Chacon maps.
A. del Junco, University of Toronto
Cesar E. Silva*, Williams College
(881-28-141) -
3:10 p.m.
Remarks on ergodic transformations isomorphic to their inverses.
Geoffrey R. Goodson*, Towson State University
Daniel J. Rudolph, University of Maryland, College Park
(881-28-33) -
3:40 p.m.
Shadowing and global error of differential equations calculations.
Tim Sauer*, George Mason University
(881-58-43)
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2:40 p.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Problems in Geometry and Physics, IV
Room 138, Douglass Hall
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2:40 p.m.
Adding handles to the helicoid.
David Hoffman*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Hermann Karcher, University of Bonn, Germany
Fusheng Wei, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
(881-53-29) -
3:20 p.m.
The Dirichlet energy of mappings on spheres.
D. Zhang*, Johns Hopkins University
(881-53-82) -
4:00 p.m.
Regular homotopy classes of minimal surfaces.
Rob Kusner*, Institute for Advanced Study
Nick Schmitt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(881-53-27) -
4:40 p.m.
Nodal sets on Riemannian manifolds.
Rui-Tao Dong*, Johns Hopkins University
(881-53-121)
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2:40 p.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, IV
Room 136, Douglass Hall
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2:40 p.m.
A subgroup of the mapping class group compatible with surgery.
Lawrence Smolinsky*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
(881-57-65) -
3:10 p.m.
A simple proof of the Traczyk Yokota criteria for periodic knots.
J\'ozef H. Przytycki*, Odense University,
(881-57-45) -
3:40 p.m.
Minimal energy electrostatic knots.
Samuel J. Lomonaco, Jr.*, University of Maryland Baltimore County
(881-78-21)
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2:40 p.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 2:45 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematics of Two-dimensional Quantum Field Theory, IV
Room 137, Douglass Hall
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2:45 p.m.
Introduction to W-algebras.
Kareljan Schoutens*, Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University
(881-81-179) -
3:25 p.m.
Semi-infinite cohomology of W-algebras.
Peter Bouwknegt*, University of Southern California
(881-81-172) -
4:05 p.m.
Dilogarithm identities, q-difference equations, and the Virasoro algebra.
Edward Frenkel, Harvard University
Andras Szenes*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(881-17-181)
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2:45 p.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 2:45 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV
Room 103, Douglass Hall
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2:45 p.m.
Biographical remarks on the life and work of Joaquin Basilio Diaz.
Florence Fasanelli*, Mathematical Association of America
(881-01-84) -
3:20 p.m.
Calculus for a new century: Granville, Smith and Longley.
George M. Rosenstein*, Franklin & Marshall College
(881-01-26) -
3:50 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson's contributions to mathematics.
J. J. Tattersall*, Providence College
(881-01-63)
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2:45 p.m.
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Sunday April 18, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Pure and Applied Recursion Theory, IV
Room 238, Douglass Hall
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3:00 p.m.
Using second order logic.
John N. Crossley*, Monash University, Australia
(881-03-154) -
3:30 p.m.
The two quantifier theory of the recursively enumerable weak truth-table degrees in decidable.
Klaus Ambos-Spies, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Peter A. Fejer*, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Manuel Lerman, University of Connecticut, Storrs
(881-03-58) -
4:00 p.m.
Recent progress in priority theory.
K. Kontostathis*, Villanova University
(881-03-64)
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3:00 p.m.