AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
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1994 Eastern Spring Sectional Meeting
Brooklyn, NY, April 8-10, 1994
Meeting #892
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Sunday April 10, 1994
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Molecular Biology, III
Room 605, Rogers Hall
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8:20 a.m.
On the problem of detecting local similarity between sequences.
William I. Chang*, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York
(892-92-197) -
9:00 a.m.
Mathematical problems in developing a bio-mechanism data base.
Peter H. Sellers*, Rockefeller University
(892-92-213) -
9:40 a.m.
Long range electron transfer.
Joseph Malinsky*, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York
(892-92-172) -
10:20 a.m.
Interactions between line charges.
Jolly Ray, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Gerald S. Manning*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(892-82-174)
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8:20 a.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 8:25 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Teichm\"uller Theory and Dynamical Systems, III
Room 705, Rogers Hall
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8:25 a.m.
Geometric isomorphisms between Teichmuller spaces.
Clifford J. Earle*, Cornell University, Ithaca
Frederick P. Gardiner, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
(892-30-42) -
9:15 a.m.
Renormalization, scenery and the Teichmuller mapping flow.
Pierre Arnoux, Faculty of Sciences of Luminy, France
Albert M. Fisher*, State University of New York at Stony Brook
(892-32-77) -
9:50 a.m.
Rigidity in the tangent family.
Linda Keen*, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
Janina Kotus, Technical University of Warsaw, Poland
(892-30-76) -
10:25 a.m.
The area theorem, redux.
Brad Osgood*, Stanford University
(892-30-07)
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8:25 a.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Group Theory and Related Topics, IV
Room 503, Rogers Hall
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8:30 a.m.
An independence problem in the commutator calculus.
Anthony M. Gaglione, U. S. Naval Academy
Hermann V. Waldinger*, Polytechnic University
(892-20-50) -
9:00 a.m.
Euler characteristic for generalized triangle and tetrahedron groups.
Michael Stille*, University of Dortmund, Germany
(892-20-51) -
9:30 a.m.
Virtually one-relator groups.
Katalin A. Bencsath*, Manhattan College
Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University
(892-20-97) -
10:00 a.m.
Combinatorial group theory of T-systems.
Tim Hsu*, Princeton University
(892-20-69) -
10:30 a.m.
On splittings of groups acting freely on R-trees.
Luca Q. Zamboni*, University of North Texas
(892-20-73)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computational Geometry, IV
Room 200, Rogers Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Steiner trees with generalized edge weight.
Joseph L. Ganley, University of Virginia
Jeffrey S. Salowe*, University of Virginia
(892-68-44) -
9:30 a.m.
Discrete tomography.
L. A. Shepp*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
(892-52-246) -
10:00 a.m.
Constructing piecewise linear homeomorphisms.
Diane L. Souvaine*, Rutgers University, Piscataway
Rephael Wenger, Ohio State University, Columbus
(892-52-245) -
10:30 a.m.
Surface approximation and geometric partitions.
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Duke University
Subhash Suri*, Bellcore, Morristown, New Jersey
(892-68-53)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Low Dimensional Manifolds, IV
Room 721, Rogers Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Pi_1-train tracks, algebraic linearity theorem, and classification of surface diffeomorphisms.
Zhong-he Chen*, Columbia University
(892-57-221) -
9:30 a.m.
The Reshetikhin-Turaev representation of the mapping class group when r=6.
Gretchen Wright*, Columbia University
(892-57-186) -
10:00 a.m.
An extension of Milnor's barred mu invariants.
David Miller*, William Paterson College
(892-57-118) -
10:30 a.m.
The unitary structure of the WZW bundle over Teichmuller space.
Dennis A. McLaughlin*, Princeton University
Jean-Luc Brylinski, Harvard University
(892-51-46)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Analysis, IV
Room 302, Rogers Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Variational problems on fiber bundles.
Thomas H. Otway*, Yeshiva University
(892-58-106) -
9:30 a.m.
Regularity of mass-minimizing sections of fiber bundles.
David L. Johnson, Lehigh University
Penelope Smith*, Lehigh University
(892-51-107) -
10:00 a.m.
A Kummer-type construction of anti-self-dual 4-manifolds.
Claude LeBrun*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
(892-58-03) -
10:30 a.m.
On the Kahler classes of extremal metrics.
Santiago R. Simanca*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
(892-53-37)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Methods: Topological Measure Theory, III
Room 505, Rogers Hall
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9:00 a.m.
On coseparation of lattices.
Barry Mittag*, Kingsborough Community College
(892-28-142) -
9:30 a.m.
A measure theoretic study of various modifications of compactness and the Lindelof property.
Peter D. Stratigos*, Brooklyn Center-Long Island University
(892-28-60) -
10:00 a.m.
Finite approximations of spaces.
Ralph Kopperman*, City College, City University of New York
(892-54-200) -
10:30 a.m.
On measures, derived outer measures and measure regularity conditions.
Robert W. Schutz*, West Babylon, New York
(892-28-40)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, III
Room 505, Rogers Hall
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9:00 a.m.
The first eigenvalue of analytic level surfaces on spheres.
Sagun Chanillo*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(892-35-19) -
9:30 a.m.
Morse theory and min-max methods for an indefinite semilinear equation.
Stanley Alama*, McMaster University
Manuel Del Pino, University of Chicago
(892-35-147) -
10:00 a.m.
Prescribing scalar curvature on S^n and related topics.
Yanyan Li*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(892-35-103) -
10:30 a.m.
On the Dirichlet problem for harmonic maps with prescribed singularities.
Gilbert Weinstein*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
(892-58-150)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry, IV
Room 202, Rogers Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Geometry of sphere packing in bold E^3.
Igor Rivin*, Institute for Advanced Study
(892-52-241) -
9:30 a.m.
Separating translates in the plane: Combinatorial bounds.
Jurek Czyzowicz, University of Quebec at Hull
Hazel Everett, University of Quebec at Montreal
Jean-Marc Robert*, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi
(892-52-122) -
10:00 a.m.
Chirality in abstract polytopes.
Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
(892-51-135) -
10:30 a.m.
The tightest packings (or clusters) of N balls.
N. J. A. Sloane*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
(892-51-98)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory and Applications, IV
Room 615, Rogers Hall
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9:00 a.m.
An equivariant Atiyah-Ward correspondence.
Jan Segert*, University of Missouri, Columbia
(892-53-232) -
9:30 a.m.
Yang-Mills connections and ODE's.
Lorenzo Sadun*, University of Texas, Austin
(892-58-109) -
10:00 a.m.
Differential forms on the Yang-Mills moduli space.
Thomas H. Parker*, Michigan State University
David Groisser, University of Florida
(892-58-250) -
10:30 a.m.
A connected sum theorem for Kuranishi vector fields of 3-manifolds.
Su-Ming Wu*, Brandeis University
(892-58-234)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 9:25 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Contributed Paper Session, II
Room 304, Rogers Hall
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9:25 a.m.
Method of quasi-control and its application for mathematical modelling of thermal power systems.
Stanislav Danov*, Shoumen Defense Academy, Bulgaria
(892-65-140) -
9:40 a.m.
A polynomial curve of constant width.
Stanley Rabinowitz*, Westford, Massachusetts
(892-52-57) -
9:55 a.m.
On norms of powers of absolutely convergent power series.
Bogdan Baishanski*, Ohio State University, Columbus
(892-30-187) -
10:10 a.m.
Computations on the pair of transverse measured foliations associated with a pseudo-Anosov automorphism of a surface.
Lev Slutskin*, New York, New York
(892-57-61) -
10:25 a.m.
A proof of the Williams conjecture on shift equivalence.
Harold M. Hastings*, Hofstra University
Marysia T. Weiss, Hofstra University
Yihren Wu, Hofstra University
(892-54-217) -
10:40 a.m.
P-space extensions, light compactness, pseudocompleteness, and cardinality.
Aaron R. Todd*, Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York
(892-54-124)
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9:25 a.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Convexity, IV
Room 204, Rogers Hall
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9:30 a.m.
Gaussian measure and convexity.
Richard A. Vitale*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
(892-52-152) -
10:00 a.m.
Central sections of intersection bodies.
Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma
Hermann Fallert, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Wolfgang Weil*, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
(892-52-74) -
10:30 a.m.
Illumination bodies and affine surface area.
Elisabeth Werner*, Case Western Reserve University
(892-52-17)
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9:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Models in Telecommunications, I
Room 315, Rogers Hall
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9:30 a.m.
Induced rare events in queueing networks.
Alan Weiss*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
(892-60-24) -
10:00 a.m.
Some problems in polling with infinite servers.
Sid Browne*, Columbia University
(892-60-27) -
10:30 a.m.
Routing and congestion control in ATM networks.
Vladimir Marbukh*, New York, New York
(892-90-25)
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9:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address -
Sunday April 10, 1994, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
The impact of computation on algebraic geometry.
Auditorium, Dibner
Dave Bayer*, Columbia University
(892-14-132) -
Sunday April 10, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computational Geometry, V
Room 200, Rogers Hall
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2:30 p.m.
Graph drawing.
Roberto Tamassia*, Brown University
(892-68-94) -
3:00 p.m.
Some aperture-angle optimization problems.
Prosenjit Bose, McGill University
Ferran Hurtado-Diaz, University Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Elsa Omana-Pulido, McGill University
Godfried Toussaint*, McGill University
(892-68-255) -
3:30 p.m.
Geometric drawings of trees.
Sue Whitesides*, McGill University
(892-05-199) -
4:00 p.m.
Applications of computational geometry in design and manufacture.
G. Wilfong*, American Tel & Tel Bell Laboratories
B. Asberg, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
M. Overmars, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
G. Blanco, Escuela University de Informatica, Spain
J. Garcia-Lopez, Escuela University de Informatica, Spain
P. Bose, McGill University
Godfried Toussaint, McGill University
B. Zhu, McGill University
(892-68-06) -
4:30 p.m.
Steps towards exact geometric computation.
Chee K. Yap*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
(892-68-254)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Molecular Biology, IV
Room 605, Rogers Hall
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2:30 p.m.
Looking at proteins: Sequence, structure, and the folding code.
Shalom Rackovsky*, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York
(892-92-177) -
3:10 p.m.
Recognizing and comparing the outer surface of coiled-coil proteins.
Jeanette P. Schmidt*, Polytechnic Institute of New York
(892-68-192) -
3:50 p.m.
Automatized fitting of the simulated NOESY spectra to the experimental ones by means of a global optimization technique.
Istvan Sugar*, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York
Yuan Xu, University of Alabama, Birmingham
N. Rama Krishna, University of Alabama, Birmingham
(892-92-175) -
4:30 p.m.
Splicing languages and DNA: Examples and analysis.
Tom Head*, State University of New York, Binghamton
(892-92-191) -
5:10 p.m.
Segment determination in the fruit fly: Inverse dynamical modeling.
John Reinitz*, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York
David H. Sharp, Los Alamos National Laboratory
(892-92-251)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of Low Dimensional Manifolds, V
Room 721, Rogers Hall
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2:30 p.m.
A formula for computing the SL(2,C) generalized Casson invariant.
Cynthia L. Curtis*, Princeton University
(892-57-237) -
3:00 p.m.
The dimensional ladder for topological field theory.
Louis Crane*, Kansas State University
(892-57-183) -
3:30 p.m.
Geometry of the intersection ring of the moduli space of flat connections and the conjectures of Newstead and Witten.
Jonathan Weitsman*, Columbia University
(892-58-149) -
4:00 p.m.
1 + 1 dimensional topological quantum field theory.
Stephen Sawin*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(892-57-30) -
4:30 p.m.
Topology of linked defects in condensed matter.
Vladimir Retakh*, Harvard University
(892-55-155)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, III
Room 215, Rogers Hall
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2:30 p.m.
Omega results for special values of automorphic L-functions.
Jeffrey Hoffstein, Brown University
Paul Lockhart*, Brown University
(892-11-120) -
3:00 p.m.
Average of cubic L-series.
David Farmer*, Columbia University
Jeff Hoffstein, Brown University
(892-11-162) -
3:30 p.m.
On the average values of cubic elliptic L-series.
Daniel Lieman*, Columbia University
(892-11-166) -
4:00 p.m.
The density of rational points on Hardy-Littlewood varieties.
Ze'ev Rudnick*, Princeton University
(892-11-160) -
4:30 p.m.
Zero density near the critical line for Hecke L-functions associated with cusp forms.
Wenzhi Luo*, Institute for Advanced Study
(892-11-163) -
5:00 p.m.
Counting lattice points on homogeneous varieties.
Alex Eskin*, Princeton University
Shahar Mozes, Hebrew University, Israel
Nimish Shah, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
(892-11-239) -
5:30 p.m.
The Fourier coefficients of modular integrals and modular forms having small positive weight.
Wladimir de Azevedo Pribitkin*, Temple University, Philadelphia
(892-11-100)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Convexity, V
Room 204, Rogers Hall
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2:30 p.m.
Dual kinematic formulas.
Gaoyong Zhang*, Temple University, Philadelphia
(892-52-29) -
3:00 p.m.
Analytic and geometric isoperimetric inequalities.
Xin-Min Zhang*, University of South Alabama
Hsu-Tung Ku, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Mei-Chin Ku, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(892-51-31) -
3:30 p.m.
The isoperimetric inequality and analogues of Hadwiger's theorem in space.
Jiazu Zhou*, Temple University, Philadelphia
(892-53-14) -
4:00 p.m.
Redirecting and reshaping laser beams with Monge-Ampere equations.
Vladimir Oliker*, Emory University
(892-53-56)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Methods: Topological Measure Theory, IV
Room 505, Rogers Hall
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2:30 p.m.
The Bohr topology of a locally compact Abelian group.
W. W. Comfort*, Wesleyan University
Salvador Hernandez, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain
F. Javier Trigos-Arrieta, California State University, Bakersfield
(892-22-184) -
3:10 p.m.
More on the intermediate value theorem for polynomials with coefficients in a ring of continuous functions.
Melvin Henriksen*, Wesleyan University
Suzanne Larson, Loyola Marymount University
Jorge Martinez, University of Florida
(892-54-181)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry, V
Room 202, Rogers Hall
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2:30 p.m.
Different distances.
Endre Szemer\'edi*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(892-51-230) -
3:00 p.m.
Polytopes related to the Picard group.
B. Monson, University of New Brunswick
Asia Ivi\'c Weiss*, York University
(892-52-58) -
3:30 p.m.
On connected components of convex sets of lines in R^3.
Jacob E. Goodman, City College, City University of New York
Richard Pollack, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Rephael Wenger*, Ohio State University, Columbus
(892-52-36) -
4:00 p.m.
A new approach to packing and covering.
Ulrich Betke, University of Siegen, Germany
Martin Henke, University of Siegen, Germany
J\"org M. Wills*, University of Siegen, Germany
(892-52-35) -
4:30 p.m.
Polytopes that fill R^n and scissors congruences.
Jeffrey C. Lagarias*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
David Moews, University of California, Berkeley
(892-52-13) -
5:00 p.m.
Foundations of the polytope algebra.
Peter McMullen*, University College London, United Kingdom
(892-52-210) -
5:30 p.m.
Parallel drawings and dimensioning plane diagrams in CAD.
Walter Whiteley*, York University
John Owen, D-CUBED Limited, Cambridge, England
(892-52-59)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory and Applications, V
Room 615, Rogers Hall
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2:30 p.m.
Prescribing topological defects for the Einstein and Abelian Higgs equations.
Yisong Yang*, Institute for Advanced Study
(892-58-171) -
3:00 p.m.
Relations among Donaldson invariants arising from tori.
Daniel Ruberman*, Brandeis University
(892-57-233) -
3:30 p.m.
The Chern-Simons character of a lattice gauge field.
Anthony V. Phillips, State University of New York, Stony Brook
David A. Stone*, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
(892-53-212) -
4:00 p.m.
Gauge theory on compact surfaces.
Ambar Sengupta*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
(892-81-137)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Models in Telecommunications, II
Room 315, Rogers Hall
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2:30 p.m.
Fast efficient, parallel algorithms for performance evaluation of communication systems.
Albert Greenberg*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
(892-68-26) -
3:00 p.m.
The Joseph and Noah effects and high-speed network traffic.
Walter Willinger*, Bellcore, Morristown, New Jersey
(892-90-23) -
3:30 p.m.
Heavy-traffic limits for an open network of finite-buffer overflow queues.
Indrajit Bardhan*, Goldman, Sachs & Company, New York, New York
Sanjay Mithal, Columbia University
(892-60-28) -
4:00 p.m.
Large fluctuation rates and exit location distributions in a class of multidimensional discrete stochastic models.
Robert S. Maier*, University of Arizona
(892-93-70)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday April 10, 1994, 3:10 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Teichm\"uller Theory and Dynamical Systems, IV
Room 705, Rogers Hall
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3:10 p.m.
Rigidity of quadratic polynomials.
Mikhail Lyubich*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
(892-20-84) -
4:00 p.m.
Product structures and non-hyperbolicity in Teichmuller space.
Yair N. Minsky*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
(892-32-72) -
4:35 p.m.
Noncompactness of hyperbolic components.
Kevin Pilgrim*, University of California, Berkeley
(892-30-83) -
5:10 p.m.
A conjectural universal family in 2-dimensional dynamics.
Andre de Carvalho*, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
(892-30-113)
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3:10 p.m.