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1995 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Hartford, CT, March 3-5, 1995
Meeting #898

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

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Sunday March 5, 1995

• Sunday March 5, 1995, 8:25 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Cayley Graphs and Computation, III
  Room 217, Undergraduate Building
  

  • 8:25 a.m.
    Time and space efficient routing algorithms for Cayley graphs.
    K. Wendy Tang*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    (898-68-01)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Normal algorithms and Cayley graphs.
    Richard N. Draper*, Supercomputing Research Center, Maryland
    (898-05-13)
  • 10:05 a.m.
    The Dopey-traveler problem on Cayley and coset graphs.
    Fred S. Annexstein*, University of Cincinnati
    (898-05-09)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative Geometry, Toric Varieties and Mirror Symmetry, III
  Room 212, Undergraduate Building
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Mirror symmetry for generic hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces.
    Per Berglund*, Institute for Advanced Study
    Sheldon Katz, Oklahoma State University
    Albrecht Klemm, CERN, Switzerland
    (898-14-75)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Brauer group and mirror symmetry.
    Paul S. Aspinwall*, Cornell University, Ithaca
    (898-14-76)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Series expansions of Grothendieck residues and enumeration of rational curves.
    David R. Morrison*, Duke University
    M. Ronen Plesser, Institute for Advanced Study
    (898-14-68)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mirror symmetry and rigid Calabi-Yau manifolds.
    Brian R. Greene*, Cornell University, Ithaca
    (898-14-79)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On string-theoretic Hodge numbers of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in toric varieties.
    Victor V. Batyrev*, University of Essen, Germany
    (898-14-72)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
  Room 208, Undergraduate Building
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Almost Dedekind overrings of Z[x].
    Alan Loper*, Ohio State University, Newark
    (898-13-53)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Classes of D+M rings defined by homological conditions.
    Douglas Costa*, University of Virginia
    Salah-Eddine Kabbaj, University of Fez, Morocco
    (898-13-27)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    When is a power series ring n-root closed?
    David F. Anderson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    David E. Dobbs*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Moshe Roitman, University of Haifa, Israel
    (898-13-30)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The radical trace property and primary ideals.
    Thomas G. Lucas*, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
    (898-13-55)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symbolic powers, serre conditions and Cohen-Macaulay Rees algebras.
    Susan Elaine Morey, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    Sunsook Noh*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    Wolmer V. Vasconcelos, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (898-13-95)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems, III
  Room 216, Undergraduate Building
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Exact multiplicity and stability of positive solutions for elliptic problems.
    Renate Schaaf*, Utah State University
    (898-58-158)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Aspects of gas-solid reactions.
    Ivar Stakgold*, University of Delaware
    (898-58-126)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A free boundary problem arising in conservation laws that change type.
    Barbara L. Keyfitz*, University of Houston, Downtown
    Milton de Costa Lopes-Filho, IMECC-UNICAMP, Brazil
    (898-35-43)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Positive radial solutions of some nonlinear pde's.
    Hai Dinh Dang, Mississippi State University
    Ra\'ul Man\'asevich, Universitad de Chile, Chile
    Klaus Schmitt*, University of Utah
    (898-35-90)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear elliptic and parabolic problems with boundary blowup.
    Catherine Bandle*, University of Basel, Switzerland
    (898-35-36)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Representation Theory, II
  Room 313, Undergraduate Building
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On tensor categories arising from configurational spaces.
    Michael Finkelberg, Independent Moscow University, Russia
    V. Schechtman*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    (898-18-38)
  • 9:05 a.m.
    Informal Discussion
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Quantum groups and the function 1--qx.
    Ian H. Grojnowski*, Yale University
    (898-16-105)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Geometric multiplicity formulas.
    Sam Evens*, University of Arizona
    (898-22-112)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 8:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Contributed Paper Session, III
  Room 304, Undergraduate Building
  

  • 8:40 a.m.
    On some work of B. F. Logan.
    L. A. Shepp*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
    (898-49-118)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some q-orthogonal polynomials from letters of Ben Logan.
    Richard A. Askey*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (898-33-119)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    A brief history of the work on band-limited signals.
    Henry O. Pollak*, Summit, New York
    (898-42-134)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Prediction for two processes and the Nehari problem.
    I. Gohberg, Tel Aviv University, Israel
    H. J. Landau*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
    (898-42-142)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Poincare's theorem and orthogonal polynomials on the real line.
    Paul Nevai*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (898-42-116)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Integral transforms related to orthogonal polynomials and solutions of 3D elliptic equations.
    David V. Chudnovsky*, Columbia University
    Gregory V. Chudnovsky, Columbia University
    (898-45-117)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Approximation by entire functions.
    Donald J. Newman*, Temple University
    (898-41-150)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Function Theory, IV
  Room 202-203, School of Social Work
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    What shape is a Maskit domain? Part I
    Linda Keen*, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
    John Parker, University of Durham, United Kingdom
    Caroline Series, University of Durham, United Kingdom
    (898-30-153)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    What shape is a Maskit domain? Part II
    Linda Keen, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
    John Parker, University of Durham, United Kingdom
    Caroline Series*, University of Durham, United Kingdom
    (898-30-154)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory, III
  Room 311, Undergraduate Building
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tilings and ergodic theory.
    Steven Eric Dworkin*, University of Texas, Austin
    (898-05-15)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tiling representations of R actions and alpha-equivalence in two dimensions.
    Ayse Arzu Sahin*, North Dakota State University
    (898-05-67)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Distality, mean-distality and tight processes.
    Jonathan King*, University of Florida
    (898-28-23)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Ergodicity and exchangeability.
    Karl Petersen*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (898-28-20)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Moduli Spaces, Operads and Representation Theory, III
  Room 308, Undergraduate Building
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Intertwining operators and operads.
    Yi-Zhi Huang*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (898-17-98)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cohomology of moduli spaces and operads.
    Alexander A. Voronov*, University of Pennsylvania
    (898-14-132)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Algebro-geometric construction of Quillen metrics.
    Dennis A. McLaughlin*, Princeton University
    (898-14-33)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Modular functor and representation theory at rational level.
    Feodor Malikov*, Yale University
    (898-58-125)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Height and arithmetic.
  Auditorium, Auditorium
  Shouwu Zhang*, Princeton University
  (898-11-28)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Fourier analysis, approximation, and functions analytic in a strip.
  Auditorium, Auditorium
  Benjamin F. Logan*, Colorado City, Texas
  (898-42-115)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Function Theory, V
  Room 202-203, School of Social Work
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Problem Session
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems, IV
  Room 216, Undergraduate Building
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Fundamental tones and buckling loads of clamped plates.
    Mark S. Ashbaugh, University of Missouri, Columbia
    Richard Laugesen*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (898-35-29)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A numerical mountain pass method for the nonlinear Beam equation.
    Lisa Doolittle Humphreys*, Rhode Island College
    (898-35-114)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Symmetry for an overdetermined boundary value problem in potential theory.
    Wolfgang Christoph Marti Reichel*, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
    (898-35-64)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Spectral flow and bifurcation for strongly indefinite functionals.
    Patrick M. Fitzpatrick*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (898-99-161)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Cayley Graphs and Computation, IV
  Room 217, Undergraduate Building
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Computing Boolean functions on anonymous Cayley networks.
    E. Kranakis, Carleton University
    D. Krizanc*, Carleton University
    (898-68-40)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    A model for wavefront computation based on Cayley graphs.
    Michael D. Rice, Wesleyan University
    Stephen B. Seidman*, Auburn University, Auburn
    (898-68-14)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Signature algorithms for interconnection networks.
    Michael D. Rice*, Wesleyan University
    Lewis C. Robertson, Wesleyan University
    (898-68-11)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, III
  Room 211, Undergraduate Building
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Symplectic geometry of the classical and quantum representation ring.
    Lisa Jeffrey, Princeton University
    Jonathan Weitsman*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (898-16-141)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Localization and Riemann-Roch numbers for symplectic quotients.
    Lisa Jeffrey*, Princeton University
    (898-58-140)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Vassiliev and quantum invariants of braids.
    Dror Bar-Natan*, Harvard University
    (898-58-155)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Finite type 3-manifold invariants.
    Stavros Garoufalidis*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (898-51-59)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Non-commutative residue and spectral geometry.
    Steven Zelditch*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
    (898-47-113)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Symplectic structures in gauge theory.
    Naichung Conan Leung*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (898-55-157)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Representation Theory, III
  Room 313, Undergraduate Building
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Bruhat cells and K-orbits on flag varieties.
    Hiroyuki Ochiai*, Rikkyo University, Japan and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (898-22-104)
  • 3:05 p.m.
    Associative braided algebras.
    Mikhail Khovanov*, Yale University
    (898-81-94)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Bernstein decomposition and types for smooth representations of SL(n,F), n prime and F p-adic.
    Guillaume D. Sanje Mpacko*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (898-20-39)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Integral intersection homology sheaves on loop Grassmannians.
    Ivan Mirkovi\'c*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Kari Vilonen, Brandeis University
    (898-14-131)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 2:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory, IV
  Room 311, Undergraduate Building
  

  • 2:40 p.m.
    Representing families of measures by homeomorphisms.
    V. S. Prasad*, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
    Vincent Christopher Peck, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
    (898-28-82)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Transformations conjugate to their inverses have even essential values.
    Geoffrey R. Goodson*, Towson State University
    Mariusz Lemanczyk, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland
    (898-28-56)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    A note on ergodic averages.
    Karin Reinhold*, State University of New York, Albany
    (898-28-133)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    A counterexample of the entropy of a skew product.
    Kye-Won Park*, Ajou University, Korea
    (898-28-46)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Coupling surfaces and weak Bernoulli for Z^n-actions.
    Robert M. Burton, Jr.*, Oregon State University
    Jeffrey Steif, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
    (898-60-160)
• Sunday March 5, 1995, 2:45 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Moduli Spaces, Operads and Representation Theory, III
  Room 308, Undergraduate Building
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Topological sector of open string theory.
    Maxim Kontsevich*, University of California, Berkeley
    (898-58-84)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Finite dimensional representations of quantum affine algebras at roots of unity.
    Victor Kac*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (898-16-86)
  • 4:05 p.m.
    Representations of moduli spaces.
    Takashi Kimura*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (898-14-136)

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