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1993 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Syracuse, NY, September 18-19, 1993
Meeting #884

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

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Saturday September 18, 1993

• Saturday September 18, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Potential Theory, I
  Room 313, Carnegie Building
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The branched Schwarz lemma via circle packing.
    Tomasz Dubejko, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Kenneth Stephenson*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (884-30-46)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The commutator spectrum of a discrete two generator group.
    F. W. Gehring*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    G. J. Martin, University of Auckland, New Zealand
    (884-30-44)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quasiconformal manifolds.
    Dennis Sullivan*, City College, City University of New York
    (884-53-145)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Locally conformally flat metrics.
    Patricio U. Aviles*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (884-31-82)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Isoperimetric inequalities on the plane.
    Roman Kosecki*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
    (884-30-60)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, I
  Room 219, Carnegie Building
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    A-priori bounds for the support of a uniformly rotating white dwarf star.
    S. Chanillo*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    Y. Y. Li, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (884-85-04)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    L^p estimates on CR manifolds with a diagonalizable Levi form.
    Der-Chen Chang*, University of Maryland, College Park
    Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
    (884-42-16)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Pointwise convergence of wavelet expansions.
    Susan Kelly, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
    Mark Kon*, Boston University
    Louise Raphael, Howard University
    (884-41-65)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    A polar coordinates wavelet-type expansion.
    Jay Epperson, University of New Mexico
    Michael Frazier*, Michigan State University
    (884-41-43)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, I
  Room 300, Carnegie Building
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Relaxation and control over the circle.
    Stratos Prassidis*, Vanderbilt University
    Bruce Hughes, Vanderbitl University
    (884-57-53)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Approximate finiteness properties.
    C. W. Stark*, University of Florida
    (884-57-149)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Controlled algebra and splitting assembly maps.
    Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University
    Erik Kjaer Pedersen*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    (884-55-168)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Problems Involving Polynomials, I
  Room 208, Carnegie Building
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Improved algorithms for approximating complex polynomial zeros.
    Victor Y. Pan*, Herbert H Lehman College, City University of New York
    (884-68-121)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computing the continued fraction expansion of a real algebraic number.
    Jeremy Johnson*, Drexel University
    (884-68-118)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Counting zeros and degrees of polynomial maps from^R^n to itself.
    Moss Sweedler*, Cornell University
    (884-68-124)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Determinant formulas for the resultant.
    A. Zelevinsky*, Northeastern University
    J. Weyman, Northeastern University
    (884-12-127)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 106, Physics Building
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Finding sparse systems of parameters.
    David Eisenbud, Brandeis University
    Bernd Sturmfels*, Cornell University
    (884-13-08)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Contractible threefolds with C*-action.
    Peter Russell*, McGill University,
    (884-14-88)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Resolution of singularities of a quasi-excellent Noetherian scheme.
    Mark Spivakovsky*, University of Toronto
    (884-14-106)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Intersections of two quadrics, Clifford algebras and hyperellipic curves.
    Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz*, University of Toronto
    (884-14-176)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:10 a.m.
  Session on Contributed Papers, I
  Room 114, Carnegie Building
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On monotonic pairs of solid tori.
    James R. Bozeman*, Lyndon State College, Vermont and Dartmouth College
    (884-57-21)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Torus pairs and Whitehead manifolds.
    Gabriele M. Germann*, Dartmouth College
    (884-57-22)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Positive braids with a full twist are prime.
    Michael C. Sullivan*, University of Texas, Austin
    (884-57-41)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Parametrization of pairs of transverse measured foliations without saddle connections on a compact surface.
    Lev Slutskin*, New York, New York
    (884-57-31)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On automorphism groups of the ^4-Sphere.
    Duane Randall*, Loyola University
    (884-57-166)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Topology, I
  Room 104, Physics Building
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Suspension orders and Cartesian products.
    Paul Silberbush*, Dartmouth College
    (884-55-137)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Homotopic nilpotency and Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory.
    Octavian Cornea*, University of Rochester
    (884-55-69)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The unstable Adams spectral sequence of two-stage Postnikov towers.
    Kathryn Lesh*, University of Toledo
    (884-55-159)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Finite Dimensional Algebras, I
  Room 311, Carnegie Building
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    New properties of almost split sequences.
    Maurice Auslander*, Brandeis University
    (884-16-06)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quotient categories of modules.
    Jon F. Carlson*, University of Georgia
    (884-20-19)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Right approximations and functorial torsion theories.
    Ron Gentle*, Eastern Washington University, Cheney
    Gordana Todorov, Northeastern University
    (884-18-98)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 9:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Probability, I
  Room 316, Carnegie Building
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Subdiffusive fluctuations for internal diffusion limited aggregation.
    Gregory F. Lawler*, Duke University
    (884-60-40)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    The contact process on homogeneous trees.
    Rinaldo Schinazi*, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
    (884-05-51)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 9:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Lie Theoretic Methods in Mathematical Physics, I
  Room 220, Carnegie Building
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Spinor construction of the c = 1/2 minimal model.
    Alex J. Feingold*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    John F. X. Ries, East Carolina University
    (884-17-174)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Global vertix operators on Riemann surfaces.
    Yongchang Zhu*, California Institute of Technology
    (884-17-93)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and Global Analysis, I
  Room 306, Carnegie Building
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the harmonic mean curvature flow of surfaces.
    Michael E. Gage*, University of Rochester
    (884-53-160)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A pinching and classification theorems for minimal submanifolds.
    Bang-Yen Chen*, Michigan State University
    (884-53-23)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Minimal series representations and conformal symmetry.
  Stolkin Auditorium, Physics Building
  Alvany Rocha*, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
  (884-17-177)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, II
  Room 300, Carnegie Building
  

  • 2:40 p.m.
    Transversality homology manifolds.
    John Bryant, Florida State University
    Washington Mio*, Florida State University
    (884-57-163)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Topological finiteness theorems in Gromov-Hausdorff space.
    Steven C. Ferry*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    (884-53-171)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Ends of G-manifolds, I.
    Frank Connolly, University of Notre Dame
    Bogdan Vajiac*, University of Notre Dame
    (884-57-76)
  • 4:55 p.m.
    Ends of G-manifolds, II.
    Frank Connolly*, University of Notre Dame
    Bogdan Vajiac, University of Notre Dame
    (884-57-77)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 106, Physics Building
  

  • 2:40 p.m.
    Uniform Artin-Rees, Briancon-Skoda, and resolution of singularities.
    Craig Huneke*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    (884-13-84)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Hilbert series and Betti numbers.
    E. Graham Evans, Jr.*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (884-18-89)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Ramification in infinite integral extensions.
    Shreeram S. Abhyankar, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    William J. Heinzer*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    (884-13-70)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Initial generators of Gorenstein ideals.
    Matthew Miller*, University of South Carolina, Columbia
    Rafael Villarreal, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico
    (884-13-29)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    On fat points and fat curves.
    Karen A. Chandler*, University of Chicago
    (884-14-150)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, II
  Room 219, Carnegie Building
  

  • 2:40 p.m.
    The pin, the fin and the cone.
    Gregory Verchota*, Syracuse University
    Jill Pipher, Brown University
    (884-35-175)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Mixed boundary value problems for Laplace's equation in Lipschitz domains.
    Russell M. Brown*, University of Kentucky
    (884-35-54)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Weighted norm estimates for some operators related to starlike sets.
    Richard Wheeden*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (884-42-07)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Finite Dimensional Algebras, II
  Room 311, Carnegie Building
  

  • 2:40 p.m.
    Algebras whose radicals have top trace filtrations.
    I. \'Agoston, Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
    V. Dlab*, Carleton University
    E. Luk\'acs, Technical Univeristy, Budapest, Hungary
    (884-16-71)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Glueings of tilted algebras.
    Ibrahim Assem*, University of Sherbrooke
    Flavio Ulhoa Coelho, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
    (884-16-10)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Divisible torsion-free modules for successor closed subcategories.
    Andrew P. Dean*, Bishop's University
    (884-16-108)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Descriptions of some extensionless modules.
    Frank Okoh*, Wayne State University
    (884-16-61)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    A question on classical orders of finite global dimension.
    James Kuzmanovich, Wake Forest University
    Ellen Kirkman*, Wake Forest University
    (884-16-96)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Minimal prime ideals in the enveloping algebras of Lie superalgebras.
    James Kuzmanovich*, Wake Forest University
    Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University
    (884-16-97)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Potential Theory, II
  Room 313, Carnegie Building
  

  • 2:40 p.m.
    Unique continuation for elliptic equations.
    Tom Wolff*, University of California Berkeley
    (884-31-114)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    A-harmonic tensors.
    Craig A. Nolder*, Florida State University
    (884-30-59)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Estimates for solutions of p-harmonic systems.
    Emanuele DiBenedetto*, Northwestern University
    (884-35-81)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Topological properties of mappings with finite energy.
    Vladim\u\i r \v Sver\'ak*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (884-30-78)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    A non-existence result for the n-Laplacian.
    Tilak Bhattacharya*, Indian Statistical Institute, India
    (884-31-80)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Weakly elliptic systems with obstacle constraints.
    David R. Adams*, University of Kentucky
    (884-35-12)
  • 5:40 p.m.
    On very weak solutions of certain parabolic systems.
    John Lewis*, University of Kentucky
    (884-30-17)
  • 6:10 p.m.
    Capacities and harmonic measures for elliptic operators of nondivergence form.
    Jang-Mei Wu*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (884-31-48)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Probability, II
  Room 316, Carnegie Building
  

  • 2:40 p.m.
    Lim inf results for Gaussian samples and Chung's FLIL.
    James Kuelbs*, University of Wisconsin, Madison and University of Delaware
    Michael Talagrand, University of Paris, France
    (884-60-05)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Trimmed sums and the central limit theorem.
    Daniel C. Weiner*, Boston University
    (884-60-155)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stationary additive random fields indexed by sets.
    Loren D. Pitt*, University of Virginia
    (884-60-68)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Gaussian chaos and functional LIL's for Ito-Wiener integrals.
    Victor Goodman*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (884-60-83)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Lie Theoretic Methods in Mathematical Physics, II
  Room 220, Carnegie Building
  

  • 2:40 p.m.
    The generalization of Kodaira-Spencer deformation theory to the case of differential operators of higher order.
    V. Schechtman*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    (884-17-173)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Homotopy lie algebra structures in conformal field theory.
    Jim Stasheff*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Alexander A. Voronov, Princeton University
    (884-81-147)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Operadic formulation of topological vertex algebras and Gerstenhaber-Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras.
    Yi-Zhi Huang*, University of Pennsylvania
    (884-08-85)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    A classification of type 1 vertex operator algebras.
    Bong H. Lian*, University of Toronto
    (884-17-178)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 2:45 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Session on Contributed Papers, II
  Room 114, Carnegie Building
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Preimages of thin sets under inner functions.
    G. T. Cargo*, Syracuse University
    (884-30-107)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Harmonic mappings and extremal quasiconformal extensions.
    Shanshuang Yang*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (884-30-87)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Independent variables in electrodynamics.
    Domina Eberle Spencer*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    (884-78-63)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Retarded potentials and Maxwell's equations.
    Philip J. Mann*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    (884-78-64)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Characterization of spherical transform of functions and Schwartz multipliers on the Heisenberg group.
    Tefera Worku*, State University of New York, Albany
    (884-43-02)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hypoellipticity results in spaces of generalized distributions.
    Jeffrey J. Ibbotson*, Merrimack College
    (884-35-101)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Non-recursive functions, knots ``with thick ropes''and self-clenching ``thick''hyperspheres.
    Alexander Nabutovsky*, University of Toronto
    (884-53-38)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Sufficient conditions for one domain to enclose another in the plane of constant curvature.
    Jiazu Zhou*, Temple University
    (884-53-01)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    L^pa theory of differential forms on manifolds.
    Chad Scott*, Syracuse University
    (884-58-165)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Topology, II
  Room 104, Physics Building
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the realizations of certain a-modules and their properties.
    Binhua Mao*, University of Rochester
    (884-55-86)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the action of Steenrod squares on polynomial algebras.
    Judith Silverman*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (884-55-132)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The functorial approach to ring and module spectra.
    Anthony D. Elmendorf*, Purdue University, Calumet Campus
    (884-55-135)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Change of universe functors in equivariant stable homotopy theory.
    L. Gaunce Lewis, Jr.*, Syracuse University
    (884-55-136)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic calculations in the stable stems.
    Igor Kriz*, Chicago University
    (884-55-134)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and Global Analysis, II
  Room 306, Carnegie Building
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Weitzenbock formulas, isometric immersions, and integral homology vanishing theorems.
    K. D. Elworthy, University of Warwick, England
    Steven Rosenberg*, Boston University
    (884-53-37)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Extremal unit vector fields on 3-sphere.
    Jiangfan Li*, University of Pennsylvania
    (884-53-03)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Focal points and support functions in affine differential geometry.
    Thomas E. Cecil*, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
    (884-53-11)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A new isoperimetric estimate and applications to the Martin boundary.
    Jianguo Cao*, Cornell University
    (884-53-66)
• Saturday September 18, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Problems Involving Polynomials, II
  Room 208, Carnegie Building
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Solving systems of real quadratic equations.
    A. Barvinok*, Cornell University
    (884-68-115)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Counting curves over finite fields.
    Joachim Von Zur Gathen*, University of Toronto,
    (884-68-116)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Complexity of solving systems of linear differential equations.
    D. Yu Grigoriev*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    (884-68-117)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Current status of the sparse Nullstellensatz.
    Paul Pedersen*, Cornell University
    (884-68-122)

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