
AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:13
1994 Western Section Meeting
Eugene, OR, June 16-18, 1994
Meeting #893
Associate secretaries: Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu
Thursday June 16, 1994
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Thursday June 16, 1994, 2:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on 3-Manifolds, I
Room 244, Gilbert
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2:00 p.m.
Detecting Heegaard splittings of Seifert manifolds.
John Hempel*, Rice University
(893-57-62) -
2:30 p.m.
On two-generator 3-manifolds.
Steven A. Bleiler, Portland State University
Amelia C. Jones*, University of California, Davis
(893-57-18) -
3:00 p.m.
On the genus two 3-manifolds admitting a nontrivial torus decomposition.
John R. Neil*, Portland State University
(893-57-58) -
3:30 p.m.
Hyperbolic 3-manifolds and 3-orbifolds with two generators.
Colin Adams*, Williams College
(893-57-07) -
4:00 p.m.
Incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic bundles.
A. W. Reid*, University of Cambridge, England
D. Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara
D. D. Long, University of California, Santa Barbara
(893-57-13) -
4:30 p.m.
Embedding curves in the boundary of a handlebody.
Edith Starr*, Vassar College
(893-57-28) -
5:00 p.m.
Heegaard splittings of Seifert manifolds.
Yoav Moriah, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Jennifer Schultens*, Emory University
(893-57-16) -
5:30 p.m.
Finite laminations and geometric finiteness.
D. Cooper*, University of California, Santa Barbara
D. D. Long, University of California, Santa Barbara
A. W. Reid, University of Cambridge, England
(893-57-09)
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2:00 p.m.
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Thursday June 16, 1994, 2:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Simple C*-Algebras, I
Room 242, Gilbert
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2:00 p.m.
Classification of certain infinite simple C*-algebras, II.
George A. Elliott*, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and University of Toronto
Mikael R\o rdam, Odense University, Denmark
(893-19-76) -
2:30 p.m.
On the classification of certain simple inductive limit C*-algebras.
Liangqing Li*, University of Toronto
(893-46-37) -
3:00 p.m.
Classification of direct limits of even Cuntz-circle algebras.
Huaxin Lin*, State University of New York, Buffalo
N. Christopher Phillips, University of Oregon
(893-46-35) -
3:30 p.m.
Abelian C*-subalgebras of C*-algebras of real rank zero and inductive limit C*-algebras.
George A. Elliott, University of Toronto and Copenhagen University, Denmark
Guihua Gong, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Huaxin Lin, State University of New York, Buffalo
Cornel Pasnicu*, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
(893-46-30) -
4:00 p.m.
Non-isomorphic real rank zero inductive limit C*-algebras with same K-theory.
Guihua Gong*, University of Toronto
(893-46-38) -
4:30 p.m.
Cut down method in the inductive limit decomposition of noncommutative tori.
George Elliott, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Qing Lin*, Academia Sinica, People's Republic of China
(893-46-63) -
5:00 p.m.
The range of the Elliott invariant.
Jesper Villadsen*, Aarhus University, Denmark
(893-47-65) -
5:30 p.m.
Inductive limit automorphisms of the irrational rotation algebra.
Samuel G. Walters*, University of Western Ontario
(893-46-71)
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2:00 p.m.
Friday June 17, 1994
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Friday June 17, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on 3-Manifolds, II
Room 244, Gilbert
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9:00 a.m.
Comparing Heegaard splittings of non-Haken 3-manifolds.
Hyam Rubinstein, Melbourne University, Australia
Martin Scharlemann*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(893-57-22) -
9:30 a.m.
How to construct a large collection of Laminar 3-manifolds.
Elly Claus-McGahan*, University of Puget Sound
(893-57-10) -
10:00 a.m.
Surgery information from surfaces.
Rachel Roberts*, California Institute of Technology
(893-57-15)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday June 17, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Probability Groups, I
Room 231, Gilbert
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9:00 a.m.
Equivalence of matrices over commutative rings.
Frank DeMeyer*, Colorado State University
(893-13-68) -
9:30 a.m.
Topological invariants of a fan associate to a toric variety.
Timothy J. Ford*, Florida Atlantic University
(893-14-42) -
10:00 a.m.
Tensor products, equivalence relations, and Galois theory.
Andy R. Magid*, University of Oklahoma
(893-13-06) -
10:30 a.m.
Biquadratic Hopf-Galois extensions.
H. F. Kreimer, Jr.*, Florida State University
(893-16-40)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday June 17, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Simple C*-Algebras, II
Room 242, Gilbert
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9:00 a.m.
Purely infinite simple C*-algebras generated by one projection and reduced group C*-algebras.
Shuang Zhang*, University of Cincinnati
(893-46-60) -
9:30 a.m.
C*-algebras of dynamical systems of quasi rotations on tori.
Neil A. Watling*, Widener University
Carla E. Farsi, University of Colorado, Boulder
(893-46-24) -
10:00 a.m.
K-theoretic classification for certain inductive limit order two actions C*-algebras.
Hongbing Su*, University of California, Berkeley
(893-46-34) -
10:30 a.m.
Factorization in purely infinite simple C*-algebras.
Michael Leen*, University of Oregon
(893-47-59)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday June 17, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:10 a.m.
Special Session on Undergraduate Research, I
Room 133, Gilbert
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9:00 a.m.
Monte Carlo simulation of chromosome aberrations.
Allen M. Chen*, University of California, Berkeley
Rainer K. Sachs, University of California, Berkeley
(893-92-66) -
9:40 a.m.
On the canonical proboscis.
Robert Finn, Stanford University
Tanya L. Leise*, Texas A & M University, College Station
(893-49-55)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday June 17, 1994, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Algebras with a Scottish lilt: The life and work of Joseph H. M. Wedderburn (1882-1948).
Room 138, Gilbert
Karen V. H. Parshall*, University of Virginia
(893-01-01) -
Friday June 17, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Nonlinear dispersive equations.
Room 138, Gilbert
Gustavo A. Ponce*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(893-35-04) -
Friday June 17, 1994, 3:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Rings and Their Representations, I
Room 232, Gilbert
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3:30 p.m.
Ideal extensions and Pierce sheaves.
W. D. Burgess*, University of Ottawa
R. Raphael, Concordia University
(893-16-17) -
4:00 p.m.
Square-free rings.
Barbara D'Ambrosia*, University of Oregon
(893-16-54) -
4:30 p.m.
On when a graded ring is graded equivalent to a crossed product.
Jeremy Haefner*, University of Colorado, Boulder
(893-16-31) -
5:00 p.m.
The geometry of uniserial representations of finite dimensional algebras.
Birge Zimmermann Huisgen*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(893-16-61) -
5:30 p.m.
Simultaneous relative injective hulls.
S. K. Jain*, Ohio University, Athens
Sergio R. Lopez-Permouth, Ohio University, Athens
Safdar Raza Syed, Ohio University, Athens
(893-16-44)
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3:30 p.m.
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Friday June 17, 1994, 3:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on 3-Manifolds, III
Room 244, Gilbert
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3:30 p.m.
Linear representations of mapping class groups.
Steven J. Kangas*, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico
(893-57-23) -
4:00 p.m.
Describing open 3-manifolds by means of infinite framed links.
Jim Hoste*, Pitzer College
(893-57-12) -
4:30 p.m.
Topological quantum field theory and 3-manifolds.
Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
(893-57-11) -
5:00 p.m.
Negatively curved groups have the convergence property, II.
Eric M. Freden*, Brigham Young University
(893-20-19) -
5:30 p.m.
On the classification of 2-complexes with spherical-space-form fundamental groups.
F. Rudolf Beyl*, Portland State University
M. Paul Latiolais, Portland State University
Nancy Waller, Portland State University
(893-57-21)
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3:30 p.m.
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Friday June 17, 1994, 3:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Probability Groups, II
Room 231, Gilbert
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3:30 p.m.
A comparison of the tight radical and the radical of the group of automorphisms of a transcendental field extension.
Karin Deck*, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
(893-12-14) -
4:00 p.m.
On valuations and term orderings of polynomial rings.
Marie A. Vitulli*, University of Oregon
(893-13-20) -
4:30 p.m.
Vandermonde's identity and Klee's identity as bilinear forms.
Michael J. Gilpin*, Michigan Technological University
(893-05-53) -
5:00 p.m.
Rational places on algebraic function fields.
Ron Brown*, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Jonathan L. Merzel, Holy Names College
(893-12-47) -
5:30 p.m.
Galois extensions of rings and Galois cohomology.
C. Greither*, Math Institute, Germany
(893-13-33)
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3:30 p.m.
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Friday June 17, 1994, 3:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Simple C*-Algebras, III
Room 242, Gilbert
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3:30 p.m.
Purely infinite simple C*-crossed products.
Ja A. Jeong*, Seoul National University, Korea
(893-46-69) -
4:00 p.m.
On the Fock representation of the q-commutation relations.
Kenneth J. Dykema*, University of California, Berkeley
Alexandru Nica, University of California, Berkeley
(893-46-29) -
4:30 p.m.
Multiplier algebras of simple C*-algebras with real rank zero.
K. R. Goodearl*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(893-46-43) -
5:00 p.m.
Rational symmetrized tori.
Carla E. Farsi*, University of Colorado, Boulder
Neil Watling, Widener University
(893-46-41) -
5:30 p.m.
Simplicity of reduced amalgamated products of C*-algebras.
Kevin McClanahan*, University of Mississippi
(893-47-48)
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3:30 p.m.
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Friday June 17, 1994, 3:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Undergraduate Research, II
Room 133, Gilbert
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3:30 p.m.
On cyclotomic polynomials, power residues, and reciprocity laws.
Romyar Sharifi*, Berkeley, California
(893-11-67) -
4:10 p.m.
Counting pandiagonal magic squares.
Joshua L. Levenberg*, Reed College
(893-05-72) -
4:50 p.m.
Unknoting numbers and minimal knot diagrams.
James A. Bernhard*, Harvard University
(893-57-73) -
5:30 p.m.
Upper chromatic numbers.
Aaron D. Abrams*, University of California, Berkeley
(893-05-52)
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3:30 p.m.
Saturday June 18, 1994
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Saturday June 18, 1994, 8:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
Session on Contributed Papers
Room 244, Gilbert
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8:00 a.m.
Irreducible representations of Lie algebras of reductive groups and the Kac-Weisfeiler conjecture.
Alexander Premet*, University of Hamburg, Germany
(893-17-02) -
8:15 a.m.
A characterization of ultrafilters in a complementary topology.
Rahim G. Karimpour*, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
(893-54-25) -
8:30 a.m.
Backward shifts on C(X).
M. Rajagopalan, Tennessee State University
K. Sundaresan*, Cleveland State University
(893-46-26) -
8:45 a.m.
The Fibonacci series: Functional basis and generalization of nth term.
C. Mus\`es*, Mathematics & Morphology Research Center, Canada
(893-11-46) -
9:00 a.m.
Positivity conditions for quadratic forms and applications.
Jimin Tian, Richland College
David C. Barnes*, Washington State University
(893-35-57) -
9:10 a.m.
Counting spanning converging forests.
Elena Shamis*, Institute of Control Sciences, Russia
(893-06-75)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday June 18, 1994, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Probability Groups, III
Room 231, Gilbert
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8:30 a.m.
Klein-Hilbert parts of convex modules.
D. Pumpluen, Fern University, Germany
H. Rohrl*, La Jolla, California
(893-52-56) -
9:00 a.m.
Dave Harrison and the beginnings of category theory.
Peter Freyd*, University of Pennsylvania
(893-18-27) -
9:30 a.m.
Acyclic models.
Michael Barr*, McGill University
(893-13-08) -
10:00 a.m.
Reconstruction of hidden symmetries.
Bodo Pareigis*, University of Munich, Germany
(893-16-74) -
10:30 a.m.
Weakly Henselian rings.
Thomas McKenzie*, Bradley University
(893-13-64)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday June 18, 1994, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Undergraduate Research, III
Room 133, Gilbert
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8:30 a.m.
Circular planar graphs and resistor networks.
David Ingerman*, University of Washington
(893-05-70) -
9:10 a.m.
Approaches to an inverse problem concerning electrical networks.
Kevin Rosema*, University of Washington
(893-94-50) -
9:50 a.m.
CD-4/CD-8 ratios in chronic fatigue and AIDS patients.
Vincent C. Lombardi*, Sierra Nevada College
Suzanne C. Welsch, Sierra Nevada College
(893-62-51)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday June 18, 1994, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
K-theory for rings of algebraic integers.
Room 110, Fenton
Stephen Ames Mitchell*, University of Washington
(893-11-05) -
Saturday June 18, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Rings and Their Representations, II
Room 232, Gilbert
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2:30 p.m.
Stable Artin algebras: Structure and representations.
S. Jagadeeshan, Syracuse University
Mark Kleiner*, Syracuse University
(893-16-36) -
3:00 p.m.
Faithful representations of finite-dimensional algebras.
Ming-Sun Li*, University of Minnesota, Morris
(893-16-49) -
3:30 p.m.
On principally injective rings.
W. K. Nicholson*, University of Calgary
M. F. Yousif, Ohio State University, Lima
(893-16-03) -
4:00 p.m.
Direct sums of reflexive modules.
K. R. Fuller, University of Iowa
W. K. Nicholson, University of Calgary
J. F. Watters*, University of Leicester, England
(893-16-32) -
4:30 p.m.
A class of left monomial rings.
Darren D. Wick*, University of Oregon
(893-16-45)
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2:30 p.m.