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Central 1994 Spring Sectional Meeting
Manhattan, KS, March 25-26, 1994
Meeting #891

Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

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Friday March 25, 1994

• Friday March 25, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Groups and Geometries, I
  Room 348, Waters
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Representations of finite groups on cell complexes.
    Michael Aschbacher*, California Institute of Technology
    (891-20-50)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Approaching a geometric theory of the geometries of sporadic groups.
    Jonathan I. Hall, Michigan State University
    Sergey Shpectorov*, Michigan State University
    (891-20-94)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Maximal 2-locals of the monster.
    Ulrich Meierfrankenfeld*, Michigan State University
    (891-20-87)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Embeddings of sporadic geometries.
    Stephen D. Smith*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (891-20-16)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Special Functions, I
  Room 103, Cardwell
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bessel functions on Jordan pairs.
    Hongming Ding*, St. Louis University
    (891-33-54)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Intertwining for differential-difference operators.
    Charles F. Dunkl*, University of Virginia
    (891-33-69)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Multidimensional special functions and representations of groups.
    Alexander Rozenblyum*, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    (891-33-190)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Contiguous relations and continued fractions.
    David R. Masson*, University of Toronto
    (891-33-145)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Algebraic Groups and Quantum Groups, I
  Room 350, Waters
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Holomorphic orbifolds and the quantum double.
    Geoffrey Mason*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (891-20-215)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Elliptic functions and orbifold theory.
    Chongying Dong*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (891-17-141)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An approach to tensor product theory for representations for a vertex operator algebra.
    Haisheng Li*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (891-17-125)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Z-algebra representations of quantum affine algebras.
    Naihuan Jing*, University of Kansas
    (891-17-195)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Theory, I
  Room 231, Waters
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On unconditional bases of invariant subspaces of contractions with finite defects.
    Sergei Treil*, Michigan State University
    (891-47-25)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A time-variant analogue of point evaluation of analytic functions.
    Joseph A. Ball*, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University
    (891-47-20)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Kronecker theorem for higher order Hankel forms.
    Richard Rochberg*, Washington University
    (891-46-15)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Integral representations of completely positive Hankel Toeplitz kernels acting in C^* algebras.
    Mischa Cotlar, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
    Cora Sadosky*, Howard University
    (891-47-32)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Convergence Problems in Ergodic Theory, I
  Room 328, Waters
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ergodic measures for the Pascal adic and ratio limit theorems for transient Markov chains.
    Karl Petersen*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (891-28-81)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Oriented local entropies for commuting automorphisms.
    Vijay Chothi, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
    Graham Everest, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
    Thomas Ward*, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
    (891-22-18)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A cocycle theorem with an application to Rosenthal sets.
    Peter O. Schwartz*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (891-28-121)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Calculation of the limit in the return times theorem for Dunford-Schwartz operators.
    James H. Olsen*, North Dakota State University
    (891-28-204)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Fluid Dynamics, I
  Room 146, Cardwell
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Turbulent bursts in Taylor-Couette flow.
    Philip Marcus*, University of California, Berkeley
    Katie Coughlin, University of California Berkeley
    (891-76-161)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Scaling solutions of the 3-D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.
    Zhen-Su She*, University of Arizona
    (891-76-109)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Parametric probability distribution function closures.
    B. J. Bayly*, University of Arizona
    (891-76-108)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symmetry and chaos: Patterns on average.
    Martin Golubitsky*, University of Houston, Downtown
    (891-34-44)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, I
  Room 333, Waters
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some new results on numerical analysis of hyperbolic conservation laws.
    Huanan Yang*, Kansas State University
    (891-65-156)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Spectral method for shock calculations.
    David Gottlieb, Brown University
    Chi-Wang Shu*, Brown University
    (891-65-04)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    New construction for CMC surfaces.
    David Lerner*, University of Kansas
    (891-65-80)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symplectic discretizations for modern classical mechanics problems.
    Ben Leimkuhler*, University of Kansas
    (891-65-103)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Global Fields, I
  Room 244, Waters
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Mordell-Weil theorem for Drinfeld modules.
    Bjorn Poonen*, University of California, Berkeley
    (891-11-38)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A regulator for an Euler product associated to a rank one elliptic A-module.
    Greg W. Anderson*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (891-11-93)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Divisors of solitons and algebraic Hecke characters.
    S. K. Sinha*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (891-35-14)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Arithmetic of higher-dimensional function fields: The Goss zeta function.
    Mikhail M. Kapranov*, Northwestern University
    (891-11-33)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables and Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 143, Cardwell
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A counterexample to the differentiability of the Bergman kernel function.
    So-Chin Chen*, State University of New York, Albany
    (891-32-68)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A necessary condition for analytic hypoellipticity.
    Michael Christ*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (891-35-133)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Integrability of germs of Mizohata structures.
    Abdelhamid Meziani*, Florida International University
    (891-32-116)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Higher order caratheodory distances and H^infinity-modules.
    Norberto Salinas*, University of Kansas
    (891-32-99)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 9:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Topology, I
  Room 145, Cardwell
  

  • 9:20 p.m.
    Finite-dimensional ribbon Hopf algebras and 3-manifold invariants.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (891-57-178)
  • 10:10 p.m.
    Invariants of plane algebraic curves and representations of the braid groups.
    A. Libgober*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (891-57-209)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Topics and Critical Phenomena in Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 144, Cardwell
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    A reaction-diffusion problem with nonlinear absorbtion versus release through the boundary.
    Qi-Xiao Ye*, Beijing Institute of Technology, People's Republic of China
    (891-35-222)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Positive steady-state solutions of a competing reaction-diffusion system with cross diffusion.
    W. H. Ruan*, Purdue University, Calumet Campus
    (891-35-13)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discrete spectrum of the perturbed Dirac operator.
    M. Sh Birman, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
    Arij Laptev*, Linkoping University, Sweden
    (891-35-206)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Probability, I
  Room 102, Cardwell
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Recurrence for Lacunary series.
    Charles Moore*, Kansas State University
    (891-42-210)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the angle between past and future for bivariate stationary processes.
    Abol G. Miamee, Hampton University
    Bernd S. W. Schr\"oder*, Hampton University
    (891-42-06)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Zeta functions of characteristic p arithmetic.
  Room 101, Cardwell
  David M. Goss*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (891-11-92)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Solvability and estimates for the tangential Cauchy-Riemann operators.
  Room 101, Cardwell
  Mei-Chi Shaw*, University of Notre Dame
  (891-32-135)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Topics and Critical Phenomena in Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 144, Cardwell
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Nonlinearity, localization and chaos in solutions of partial differential equations.
    James Glimm*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    (891-35-08)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Existence of global weak solutions to one-component Vlasov-Poisson and Fokker-Planck-Poisson systems in one space dimension with measures as initial data.
    Yuxi Zheng*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Andrew Majda, Princeton University
    (891-35-130)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Compensated compactness and the van Karman model for plates.
    Daniel Tataru*, Northwestern University
    (891-35-162)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Regularized Euler and Navier-Stokes equations for rotating fluids.
    A. Babin, Moscow Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, Russia
    A. Mahalov*, Arizona State University
    B. Nicolaenko, Arizona State University
    (891-35-155)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Jacobians associated with systems of vector fields satisfying Hormander's condition.
    Loukas Grafakos*, Washington University
    (891-35-137)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Global existence of some nonlinear wave equations in the finite Einstein energy space.
    Zhengfang Zhou*, Michigan State University
    (891-35-221)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Probability, II
  Room 102, Cardwell
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bilinear Hilbert transform.
    Michael Lacey*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (891-42-200)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Pointwise Fourier inversions and related Jacobi polynomial expansions.
    Mark Pinsky*, Northwestern University
    (891-42-106)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Uniqueness and approximate identities in n-dimensional trigonometric series.
    D. J. Grubb*, Northern Illinois University
    (891-42-194)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Packing measure analysis of harmonic measure.
    Elizabeth Ann Housworth*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    (891-30-89)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Radial divergence in BMOA.
    David C. Ullrich*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
    (891-32-78)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Entropy norms and their applications.
    Boris Korenblum*, State University of New York, Albany
    (891-42-42)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Groups and Geometries, II
  Room 348, Waters
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Monodromy groups of coverings of the projective line.
    Robert M. Guralnick*, University of Southern California
    (891-20-165)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the maximality of irreducible cross characteristically embedded classical groups.
    Kay Magaard*, Wayne State University
    (891-20-88)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the maximality of symmetric and alternating groups in the classical groups.
    William J. Husen*, Wayne State University
    (891-20-53)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Basic conjugacy results for G_2(C).
    Robert L. Griess, Jr.*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (891-20-129)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Fixed point ratios on buildings.
    Daniel Frohardt*, Wayne State University
    Kay Magaard, Wayne State University
    (891-51-52)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Quillen's complex and normal subgroups.
    Peter Webb*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (891-20-199)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Topology, II
  Room 145, Cardwell
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Isotopy classes of braid movies form a braided monoidal 2-category.
    J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
    Masahico Saito, University of Texas, Austin
    (891-57-152)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Some new aspects of 4-dimensional braid theory.
    J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
    Masahico Saito*, University of Texas, Austin
    (891-57-151)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Integral formulae for Drinfeld's associator.
    Xiao-Song Lin*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (891-57-203)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Special Functions, II
  Room 103, Cardwell
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Pearson equation and the Beta integral on the q-linear lattice.
    Mizanur Rahman*, Carleton University
    Sergei K. Suslov, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow
    (891-33-29)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    q-extensions of Abel-Rothe type identities.
    Warren P. Johnson*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    (891-05-118)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The weighted logarithmic mean of several variables.
    Edward Neuman*, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
    (891-33-45)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The spectral properties of Askey-Wilson operator in weighted spaces.
    Ruiming Zhang*, University of Toronto, Canada
    (891-33-187)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Algebraic Groups and Quantum Groups, II
  Room 350, Waters
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Characters of generic irreducible representations of Lie superalgebras.
    Ivan Penkov*, University of California, Riverside
    (891-17-176)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the vanishing of extensions of modules over reduced enveloping algebras.
    Jon F. Carlson, University of Georgia
    Daniel K. Nakano, Northwestern University
    Karl M. Peters*, Loyola University of Chicago
    (891-17-55)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The adjoint representation of quantized enveloping algebras.
    Chen Liu*, University of Oregon
    (891-20-184)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Modular representation theory for Lie algebras of Cartan type.
    Zongzhu Lin, Kansas State University
    Daniel K. Nakano*, Northwestern University
    (891-20-31)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Standard basis theorems for the classical groups and applications.
    Mihalis Maliakas*, University of Arkansas
    (891-20-185)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Theory, II
  Room 231, Waters
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Restriction of the Bergman shift to invariant subspaces.
    Kehe Zhu*, State University of New York, Albany
    (891-47-09)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Schatten class Hankel operators on Bergman spaces.
    Daniel H. Luecking*, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
    (891-47-26)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Fredholmness of singular integral operators and related properties of Hunt-Muckenhoupt-Wheeden weights.
    I. Gohberg, Tel Aviv University, Israel
    N. Krupnik, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
    I. Spitkovsky*, College of William and Mary
    (891-47-41)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Toeplitz operators on semi-simple Lie groups.
    Harald Upmeier*, University of Kansas
    Yi Chu, University of Kansas
    (891-47-21)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the optimal L^2 solution of the Caratheodory-Schur interpolation problem.
    Ciprian Foia\c s*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    A. E. Frazho, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    W. S. Li, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (891-15-10)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Hilbert spaces of vector-valued holomorphic functions on symmetric tube domains.
    Bent Orsted, Odense University, Denmark
    Genkai Zhang*, Odense University, Denmark
    (891-32-23)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Some norm operator inequalities of H\"older type.
    Mary Beth Ruskai*, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
    (891-47-158)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Convergence Problems in Ergodic Theory, II
  Room 328, Waters
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Convolution powers of spread-out probabilities.
    Michael Lin*, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
    Rainer Wittmann, University of G\"ottingen, Germany
    (891-22-225)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Singular spectral type of rank one transformations.
    Ivo Klemes, McGill University, Canada
    Karin Reinhold*, State University of New York, Albany
    (891-28-171)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The convergence problems arising from harmonic analysis and ergodic theory.
    Guodong Li*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    Joseph Rosenblatt, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (891-40-138)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Strongly approximately transitive actions of a semisimple Lie group and boundaries of random walks.
    Wojciech Jaworski*, Dalhousie University
    (891-28-172)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Interval translation mappings.
    Michael Boshernitzan, Rice University
    Isaac Kornfeld*, North Dakota State University
    (891-58-173)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Fluid Dynamics, II
  Room 146, Cardwell
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Decompositions of vector fields and the equations for incompressible flow.
    Giles Auchmuty*, University of Houston, University Park
    (891-76-47)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stability and instability criteria for ideal fluids and MHD.
    Susan Friedlander*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Misha Vishik, University of Texas, Austin
    (891-76-39)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Some analytical results for the Hele-Shaw problem.
    M. Pugh*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    (891-35-84)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Short wavelength instabilities of rotating fluid masses.
    Norman Lebovitz*, University of Chicago
    (891-76-28)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Multipolar fluids of grade 3.
    Jindrich Necas*, Northern Illinois University
    (891-76-71)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Large time behaviour of solutions to the magneto-hydrodynamics equations.
    Maria E. Schonbek*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (891-76-139)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, II
  Room 333, Waters
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A moving grid method for unsteady problems.
    Guojun Liao*, University of Texas, Arlington
    (891-65-101)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Adaptive finite element methods using grid deformation.
    Bill Semper*, University of Texas, Arlington
    (891-65-49)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Mixed finite element methods for approximation of fluid velocities in heterogeneous porous media.
    Richard E. Ewing*, Texas A & M University
    Jian Shen, Texas A & M University
    (891-65-166)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Bifurcation and stability analysis of functional differential equations: Application to a reactive mixing problem.
    Rodney O. Fox*, Kansas State University
    (891-65-193)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Molecular dynamics simulation of colliding microdrops of water.
    Bryant M. Wyatt*, E-Systems, Garland, Texas
    (891-65-40)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Global Fields, II
  Room 244, Waters
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Order of vanishing of the characteristic p zeta functions.
    Dinesh S. Thakur*, University of Arizona
    (891-11-148)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Drinfeld modules of Carlitz type.
    Ji-Nong Co*, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    (891-11-76)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Average Lang-Trotter conjecture for Drinfeld modules.
    Chantal David*, Concordia University
    (891-11-61)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Average values of L-series in cyclic extensions of F(T).
    Michael Rosen*, Brown University
    (891-11-177)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A relative class number formula for global function fields.
    Linghsueh Shu*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (891-11-150)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables and Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 143, Cardwell
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On bounded point evaluation in C^n.
    R. Michael Range*, State University of New York, Albany
    Michael I. Stessin, University of Pittsburgh
    (891-32-95)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    L^p and Holder smoothing of the barred partial-Neumann operator, and subellipticity.
    Emil J. Straube*, Texas A & M University, College Station
    (891-32-123)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Kobayshi metric of the ellipsoids.
    Daowei Ma*, Wichita State University
    (891-32-164)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    L^p estimates of Cauchy-Riemann equations.
    Zhenhua Chen*, Tennessee Technological University
    (891-35-126)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    W^k,p-estimates for barred parshall on bounded convex domains in C^2.
    Deyun Wu*, University of Notre Dame
    (891-32-134)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Type functions of CR manifolds.
    Roman Dwilewicz*, University of Western Ontario
    (891-32-224)
• Friday March 25, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  General Session
  Room 122, Cardwell
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    k-maximal subgroups of classical groups.
    Ralph Bremigan*, Ball State University
    (891-20-77)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    A removable singularities theorem for families of ruled surfaces.
    Adam Harris*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    (891-32-58)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Parametrically excited surface waves.
    Lawrence Turyn*, Wright State University
    (891-35-27)

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