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1994 Central Sectional Meeting
Stillwater, OK, October 28-29, 1994
Meeting #895

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

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Saturday October 29, 1994

• Saturday October 29, 1994, 3:00 a.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on The Evolving Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum, I
  Room 265, Student Union
  

  • 3:00 a.m.
    Menger, derive and chapter 6 of Harvard calculus.
    Joseph Harkin*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
    (895-98-144)
  • 3:30 a.m.
    Linear algebra: Restructuring for a technology rich environment.
    Donald R. LaTorre*, Clemson University
    (895-15-148)
  • 4:00 a.m.
    Real and complex analysis: An amalgam for undergraduates.
    Anant P. Godbole*, Michigan Technological University
    (895-98-110)
  • 4:30 a.m.
    A mathematics minor for pre-service elementary teachers - making connections.
    Joel K. Haack*, University of Northern Iowa
    Jack Wilkinson, University of Northern Iowa
    (895-98-18)
  • 5:00 a.m.
    Mathematics across the curriculum.
    Jerry A. Johnson*, University of Nevada, Reno
    (895-98-113)
  • 5:30 a.m.
    Mathematics for the nontechnical: Why and What.
    Michael Starbird*, University of Texas, Austin
    (895-98-202)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 416, Student Union
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Intersection lattices and the topological structures of complements of arrangements.
    T. Jiang, Chicago State University
    Stephen S.-T. Yau*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (895-14-52)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Set theoretic complete intersections in projective space.
    David B. Jaffe*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (895-14-129)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Refined residual intersections and some applications.
    Xian Wu*, University of South Carolina
    (895-14-27)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Chow groups of singular varieties.
    Masaki Hanamura*, University of Chicago
    (895-14-96)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Invariants of PGL_n and third cohomology.
    David Saltman*, University of Texas, Austin
    (895-14-123)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Segre classes and graph colorings.
    Paolo Aluffi*, Florida State University
    (895-14-100)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Representations of Lie Groups, III
  Room 215, Student Union
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Boundary value maps and unitarity.
    Leticia Barchini*, Temple University, Philadelphia
    (895-22-167)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geometric realizations for highest weight representations.
    Mark G. Davidson*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    Raymond C. Fabec, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    (895-22-164)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The oscillator character formula.
    Andrzej Daszkiewicz, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland
    Tomasz Przebinda*, University of Oklahoma
    (895-22-84)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Small subrepresentations of (degenerate) principal series.
    Nolan R. Wallach*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    (895-22-124)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Whittaker models, nilpotent orbits and asymptotics of Harish-Chandra modules.
    David H. Collingwood*, University of Washington
    (895-22-104)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The minimal representation for real exceptional Lie groups.
    Jing-Song Huang*, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
    (895-22-86)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Groups and Topology, II
  Room 415/417, Student Union
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Cohomology of the symplectic group SP(4,Z).
    Alan B. Brownstein, Rutgers University, Newark
    Ronnie Lee*, Yale University
    (895-22-126)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Periodicity in the cohomology of Out(F_n).
    Henry H. Glover*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (895-35-200)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the non-existence of free actions of infinite groups on $\Bbf R^k x (S^n)^l$.
    Chun-Nip Lee*, Northwestern University
    (895-57-16)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Orlik-Solomon algebras and arithmetic groups.
    Alan B. Brownstein*, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
    (895-11-186)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cohomological invariants of mapping class groups.
    Stewart B. Priddy, Northwestern University
    Yining Xia*, Northern Illinois University
    (895-55-195)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Differential operators for SL(3,R).
    Douglas Grenier*, University of Texas of the Permian Basin
    Eric G. Stade, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (895-11-171)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on New Doctoral Work in Mathematics, III
  Room 203, Student Union
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On Jentzsch's theorem.
    Xiaoling Qian*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (895-30-153)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    O-miminal homology.
    Arthur A. Woerheide*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (895-03-137)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dynamics of piecewise isometries.
    Arek Jozef Goetz*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (895-53-136)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Semigroups for which every right congruence is essential.
    Rekha Bai*, University of Iowa
    (895-20-154)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Automorphism groups of combinatorial structures.
    Robert Jajcay*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (895-93-43)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Algebraic Groups, III
  Room 408, Student Union
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Resolutions and parabolic Schur algebras.
    Mihalis Maliakas*, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
    (895-20-31)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Infinitesimal Schur algebras.
    S. R. Doty*, Loyola University of Chicago
    (895-20-180)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Complexity for infinitesimal Schur algebras.
    Daniel K. Nakano*, Northwestern University
    S. R. Doty, Loyola University of Chicago
    Karl M. Peters, Loyola University of Chicago
    (895-20-37)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Exact Borel subalgebras.
    Brian Parshall*, University of Virginia
    Jian Pan Wang, East China Normal University, People's Republic of China
    (895-16-165)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The units subgroup of a restricted envelope.
    William J. Haboush*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (895-20-156)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory, II
  Room 412, Student Union
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Sums of squares over function fields and spectral theory.
    Lynne H. Walling*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Kathy D. Merrill, Colorado College
    (895-11-135)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fourth spectral moments of cusp forms.
    Nigel J. Pitt*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (895-11-190)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On sums of consecutive squares.
    Andrew Bremner*, Arizona State University
    Eileen Wolfley, Arizona State University
    (895-11-117)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mellin transforms of Whittaker functions.
    Eric G. Stade*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (895-11-188)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Average values of cubic L-series.
    Daniel Lieman*, Columbia University
    (895-11-162)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables, III
  Room 450, Student Union
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On exhaustion of domains.
    Buma Fridman*, Wichita State University
    Daowei Ma, Wichita State University
    (895-32-25)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Boundary limits of the Bergman kernel and metric.
    Harold P. Boas, Texas A & M University, College Station
    Emil J. Straube*, Texas A & M University, College Station
    Jiye Yu, Texas A & M University, College Station
    (895-32-185)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Analysis on the Wu metric $1$: The case of the Tullen domains.
    Chi-Keung Cheung*, Boston College
    Kang-Tae Kim, Brown University
    (895-32-122)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    More on zeroes of the Bergman kernel.
    Harold P. Boas*, Texas A & M University, College Station
    (895-32-183)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    CR singular surfaces.
    Gary A. Harris*, Texas Tech University
    (895-32-119)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Complex Hyperbolic Geometry and Discrete Groups, III
  Room 413, Student Union
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Global rigidity of manifolds with symmetry.
    Yoshinobu Kamishima*, Kumamoto University, Japan
    (895-57-51)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Invariant differential operators for projective geometry.
    Robert Molzon*, University of Kentucky
    Hirotaka Tamanoi, University of Kentucky
    (895-32-128)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Fluid Dynamics, II
  Room 280, Student Union
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Statistical equilibria and coherent structures in magnetohydrodynamics.
    Richard Jordan*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (895-76-161)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bypass transition to turbulence - the role of linear and nonlinear mechanisms.
    Peter Schmid*, University of Washington
    (895-76-26)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Corner vortices in two dimensional hydrodynamics.
    Kenneth G. Miller*, Wichita State University
    (895-76-94)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Technology in the Classroom, III
  Room 265, Student Union
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Using interactive MINITAB lessons to enhance the teaching of statistics.
    John C. Longnecker*, University of Northern Iowa
    (895-98-64)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    X(PLORING) undergraduate mathematics.
    Daniel C. Kemp*, South Dakota State University
    (895-98-66)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Pictorial matrix ill-conditioning using MATLAB.
    Martin Rooney*, University of Central Oklahoma
    (895-98-55)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    DERIVE and differential equations.
    Benny Evans*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
    (895-98-54)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Geodesics, II
  Room 460, Student Union
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Riemannian invariant and its applications to submanifold theory.
    Bang-Yen Chen*, Michigan State University
    (895-53-78)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Spi from Scri.
    Adam Helfer*, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (895-83-178)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Pseudoconvex and disprisoning homogeneous sprays.
    Lilia Del Riego*, University Autonoma de San Luis Potos, Mexico
    Phillip E. Parker, Wichita State University
    (895-53-177)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Gravitational fields as two-dimensional geodesics.
    Hernando Quevedo*, University National Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
    (895-53-197)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Session on Analysis and Applied Mathematics
  Room 420, Student Union
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The large eigenvalues of layered media.
    Gerassimos A. Athanassoulis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
    Vassilis G. Papanicolaou*, Wichita State University
    (895-35-03)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Quantum field theory and relativistic computation over the continuum.
    A. C. Manoharan*, University of Central Oklahoma
    M. Manoharan, University of Central Oklahoma
    (895-32-36)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some mathematical problems of tomography and radiotherapy.
    Serguei V. Lissianoi*, Wichita State University
    (895-44-157)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Steepest descent and nonlinearly constrained energy-minimizing maps.
    Javier Garza*, Tarleton State University
    (895-49-69)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Abstract of the relativistic fluid dynamics.
    Jing Chen*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (895-76-01)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Regularity results for the solutions of the primitive equations of the atmosphere and the ocean.
    Mohammed B. Ziane*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (895-86-143)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Two constant theorems for Hardy spaces in several variables.
    John T. Anderson*, College of the Holy Cross
    Joseph A. Cima, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (895-32-39)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  On the Gaussian measure of the intersection of symmetric convex sets.
  Room 203, Student Union
  Gideon Schechtman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  Thomas Schlumprecht, Texas A & M University, College Station
  Joel Zinn*, Texas A & M University, College Station
  (895-60-76)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Counting number fields as orbits of representations.
  Room 203, Student Union
  David J. Wright*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
  (895-11-75)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory, III
  Room 412, Student Union
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Galois theory, elliptic curves, and root numbers.
    David Rohrlich*, Boston University
    (895-11-105)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Split primes of small norm.
    John B. Friedlander*, University of Toronto
    (895-11-93)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Converse theorems without twisting.
    Brian Conrey, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
    David Farmer*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
    (895-11-187)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Kubota symbol for $Sp(2n,Q(\sqrt{-m}))$.
    Ozlem Erverdi Imamoglu*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (895-11-120)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Sums of multiplicative functions on shifted primes.
    P.D.T.A. Elliott*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (895-11-196)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Zeros of Fekete polynomials.
    Brian Conrey, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
    Andrew J. Granville*, University of Georgia
    Bjorn Poonen, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
    (895-11-198)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An application of combinatorics.
    Ilan Vardi*, Stanford University
    (895-11-199)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on New Doctoral Work in Mathematics, IV
  Room 203, Student Union
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Diophantine approximation with prime numbers.
    Kwok-Kwong Choi*, University of Texas, Austin
    (895-11-139)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    L-theory of crystallographic groups.
    Kimberly L. Pearson*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (895-19-140)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Equations with Mathieu groups as their Galois groups in characteristic 3.
    Ikkwon Yie*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    (895-12-151)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Prime enveloping algebras.
    Mark Curtis Wilson*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (895-16-09)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Difference set: Its multiplier and existence.
    Qing Xiang*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (895-05-142)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Complex Hyperbolic Geometry and Discrete Groups, IV
  Room 413, Student Union
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quasi-isometries between complex hyperbolic lattices.
    Richard Schwartz*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    (895-81-149)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stratification of the deformations of the complex structures on complex hyperbolic surfaces.
    Shigeru Takamura*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (895-53-82)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Triangle group actions on hyperbolic $4$-manifolds.
    Peter L. Waterman*, Northern Illinois University
    Nicolaas H. Kuiper, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France
    (895-30-80)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Algebraic Groups, IV
  Room 408, Student Union
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bases for Demazure modules.
    V. Lakshmibai*, Northeastern University
    (895-20-89)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Actions on the Lakshmibai-Seshadri bases in the minuscule cases.
    Robert A. Proctor*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (895-17-95)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Shapovalov determinant for restricted and quantized restricted enveloping algebras.
    Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Gail R. Letzter*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (895-17-111)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Freeness of the quantum coordinate algebras.
    Zongzhu Lin*, Kansas State University
    (895-17-83)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, IV
  Room 416, Student Union
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Generators and resolutions of ideals defining certain surfaces in projective space.
    Sandeep H. Holay*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (895-14-72)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Torsion sections of elliptic surfaces.
    Rick Miranda, Colorado State University
    Peter F. Stiller*, Texas A & M University, College Station
    (895-14-29)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Resolutions for fat points in the plane.
    Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (895-14-103)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Examples of liftings of surfaces and a problem in de Rham cohomology.
    William E. Lang*, Brigham Young University
    (895-14-30)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Equivalence and finite determinancy of mappings.
    Steven Dale Cutkosky*, University of Missouri, Columbia
    Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (895-14-06)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Representations of Lie Groups, IV
  Room 215, Student Union
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some Bott-Borel-Weil results for unitary highest weight modules.
    Ronald J. Stanke*, Baylor University
    (895-22-98)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Embeddings of unitary highest weight representations.
    Thomas J. Enright*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    (895-22-131)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Jordan algebras and small unitary representations.
    Siddhartha Sahi*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (895-22-22)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Model algebras and nilpotent orbits in semisimple Lie algebras.
    William McGovern*, University of Washington
    (895-17-10)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Representations of semisimple Lie groups with infinite center.
    Robert D. Shalla*, University of Utah
    (895-22-88)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Fluid Dynamics, III
  Room 280, Student Union
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Resonant triads of capillary-gravity waves in the presence of a wind-drift current.
    Lawrence Christopher Morland*, Southern Methodist University
    (895-76-49)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Spatial bifurcations of water and interfacial waves.
    Frederic Dias*, Institute Nonlineaire de Nice, France
    (895-76-112)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Slip over rough and coated surfaces.
    Michael J. Miksis*, Northwestern University
    Stephen H. Davis, Northwestern University
    (895-76-24)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Informal Discussions
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables, IV
  Room 450, Student Union
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Embedding three dimensional CR manifolds.
    John S. Bland*, University of Toronto
    Charles L. Epstein, University of Pennsylvania
    (895-32-159)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Integrable analytic vector fields with a nilpotent linear part.
    Xianghong Gong*, University of Chicago
    (895-32-182)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Automorphisms of CR quadrics, automorphisms of nondegenerate CR quadrics and Siegel domains. Explicit description.
    Vladimir V. Ezov*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
    (895-32-114)
• Saturday October 29, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Geodesics, III
  Room 460, Student Union
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Closed geodesics in 2-step nilmanifolds.
    Maura B. Mast*, Northeastern University
    (895-53-170)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Geodesics in pseudoriemannian 2-step nilpotent Lie groups.
    Luis A. Cordero, University of Santiago, Spain
    Phillip E. Parker*, Wichita State University
    (895-53-175)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Every Riemann surface has a hall ray at each cusp.
    Mark Sheingorn*, Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York
    Thomas A. Schmidt, Oregon State University
    (895-30-02)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Reflected geodesics.
    Thomas A. Schmidt*, Oregon State University
    Mark Sheingorn, Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York
    (895-30-127)

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