AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:04

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

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
- 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)

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
- 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)

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
- 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)

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
- 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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