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1995 Fall Western Sectional Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, November 11-12, 1995
Meeting #905

Associate secretaries:
Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu

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Saturday November 11, 1995

• Saturday November 11, 1995, 8:50 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Invariants and Conformal Geometry, I
  Room 351, Denny Research Building
  Organizers:
  Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California
  Paul C. Yang, University of Southern California
  

  • 8:50 a.m.
    A signature theorem on manifolds with corners.
    Andrew W. Hassell*, Stanford University
    (905-58-30)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture.
    Peter B. Gilkey*, University of Oregon
    (905-58-11)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Spectra of surfaces.
    Peter Sarnak*, Princeton University
    (905-58-59)
• Saturday November 11, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Classical Orders and Finite Dimensional Algebras, I
  Room 299, Denny Research Building
  Organizers:
  Lawrence S. Levy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Birge K. Zimmermann-Huisgen, University of California, Santa Barbara
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Outer induced Picard groups.
    Gene D. Abrams*, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
    Jeremy A. Haefner, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
    (905-16-39)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Generic modules over pullback rings.
    David M. Arnold*, Baylor University
    Reinhard Laubenbacher, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
    (905-16-36)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The position of uniserial modules in the Auslander-Reiten quiver of hereditary algebras.
    Axel Boldt*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (905-16-28)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Torsion in Picard groups of noncommutative curves.
    Robert M. Guralnick*, University of Southern California
    (905-16-26)
• Saturday November 11, 1995, 9:15 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Maps, I
  Room 319, Kaprielian
  Organizers:
  Luen-fai Tam, University of California, Irvine
  Andrejs E. Treibergs, University of Utah
  

  • 9:15 a.m.
    Worn stones become round.
    Ben Andrews*, Stanford University
    (905-35-10)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    On harmonic Riemannian submersions.
    Shaoping Chang*, University of Utah
    (905-53-19)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    Remarks about prescribed scalar curvature equation.
    Alice Chang*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (905-53-49)
• Saturday November 11, 1995, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Flat Surface and Billiard Dynamics, I
  Room 345, Kaprielian
  Organizers:
  Eugene Gutkin, University of Southern California
  Nicolai Hayden, University of Southern California
  Christopher M. Judge, Stanford University
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Delaunay partitions.
    William A. Veech*, Rice University
    (905-58-37)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Moduli of singular flat surfaces.
    Igor Rivin*, California Institute of Technology
    (905-32-56)
• Saturday November 11, 1995, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Dimensions of rings.
  Room 122, Olin Hall of Engineering
  Ellen E. Kirkman*, Wake Forest University
  (905-16-04)
• Saturday November 11, 1995, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Cohomology is global, but homology is local.
  Room 122, Olin Hall of Engineering
  Paul G. Goerss*, University of Washington
  (905-55-05)
• Saturday November 11, 1995, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Flat Surface and Billiard Dynamics, II
  Room 345, Kaprielian
  Organizers:
  Eugene Gutkin, University of Southern California
  Nicolai Hayden, University of Southern California
  Christopher M. Judge, Stanford University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lattices in polygonal billiards.
    Clayton C. Ward*, Rice University
    (905-58-38)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Similiarity interval exchange maps, flat surfaces, and $3$-manifolds.
    Daryl Cooper*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    David Darren Long, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Alan W. Reid, Cambridge University, England
    (905-57-48)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Branched coverings of flat surfaces with applications to billiards.
    Eugene Gutkin, University of Southern California
    Christopher M. Judge*, Stanford University
    (905-51-40)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Length spectra of flat surfaces and rational polygonal billiards.
    Eugene Gutkin*, University of Southern California
    Christopher M. Judge, Stanford University
    (905-58-43)
• Saturday November 11, 1995, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Invariants and Conformal Geometry, II
  Room 351, Denny Research Building
  Organizers:
  Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California
  Paul C. Yang, University of Southern California
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Analytic and Reidemeister torsion for representations in finite type Hilbert modules.
    Leonid Friedlander*, University of Arizona
    Dan Burghelea, Ohio State University, Columbus
    Thomas Kappeler, Ohio State University, Columbus
    P. McDonald, Ohio State University
    (905-58-58)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Conformal geometry and spectral invariants.
    Thomas Patrick Branson*, University of Iowa
    (905-58-51)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The higher $\Gamma$-index theorem for manifolds with boundaries.
    Fang-Bing Wu*, Kansas State University
    (905-58-23)
  • 5:40 p.m.
    On the prescribing mean curvature problem.
    Alice Chang, University of California, Los Angeles
    Xingwang Xu*, National University of Singapore, Singapore
    Paul C. Yang, University of Southern California
    (905-58-52)
• Saturday November 11, 1995, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis, I
  Room 122, Olin Hall of Engineering
  Organizers:
  Kenneth S. Alexander, University of Southern California
  Ruth J. Williams, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Problems and Discussions
• Saturday November 11, 1995, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Classical Orders and Finite Dimensional Algebras, II
  Room 299, Denny Research Building
  Organizers:
  Lawrence S. Levy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Birge K. Zimmermann-Huisgen, University of California, Santa Barbara
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A class of rings with tame module categories.
    Lee C. Klingler*, Florida Atlantic University
    Lawrence S. Levy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (905-16-20)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Finitistic dimensions under change of rings.
    Ellen E. Kirkman, Wake Forest University
    James J. Kuzmanovich*, Wake Forest University
    (905-16-27)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A tiled order having large global dimension.
    Willem G. Jansen, University of Toledo
    Charles J. Odenthal*, University of Toledo
    (905-16-55)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The length of endomorphism rings of indecomposable modules over Artin algebras of infinite representation type.
    Sverre O. Smalo*, University of Trondheim, Norway
    (905-16-25)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    One-dimensional rings of finite representation type.
    Nuri Cimen, Seyranbaglari, Ankara
    Sylvia Margaret Wiegand, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    Roger A. Wiegand*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (905-13-07)
• Saturday November 11, 1995, 3:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  General Session
  Room 337, Denny Research Building
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Parameter estimation with singular value decomposition in tomography.
    Cao-Huu Tuan*, Harvard University
    (905-15-62)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Curve fitting via Kalman filter.
    Stanley R. Lenihan*, Yuma, Arizona
    (905-65-01)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Education at the geometry center.
    Harvey B. Keynes*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (905-98-13)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On the scientific shortcomings of May's `deterministic chaos' in representing stochasticity.
    G. Arthur Mihram*, Princeton, New Jersey
    Danielle Mihram, University of Southern California
    (905-60-32)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Yosida approximations for multivalued stochastic differential equations.
    Roger Pettersson*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (905-60-31)
• Saturday November 11, 1995, 3:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Maps, II
  Room 319, Kaprielian
  Organizers:
  Luen-fai Tam, University of California, Irvine
  Andrejs E. Treibergs, University of Utah
  

  • 3:10 p.m.
    Isoperimetric constants and the gap of the first two eigenvalues.
    Shiu-Yuen Cheng*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (905-53-21)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Rigidity questions for harmonic maps to metric spaces.
    Nicholas Jacob Korevaar*, University of Utah
    (905-53-34)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Remarks about harmonic maps of complete manifolds.
    Peter W. K. Li*, University of California, Irvine
    (905-53-46)
  • 4:55 p.m.
    Stable minimal surfaces and sphere theorems.
    Y. Shen*, Texas A & M University, College Station
    S. Zhu, Texas A & M University, College Station
    (905-53-24)

Sunday November 12, 1995

• Sunday November 12, 1995, 8:50 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Invariants and Conformal Geometry, III
  Room 351, Denny Research Building
  Organizers:
  Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California
  Paul C. Yang, University of Southern California
  

  • 8:50 a.m.
    The Paneitz operator and a Pohozaev-type identity.
    Matthew J. Gursky*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (905-35-60)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Prescribing scalar curvature on $S^4$: Existence and compactness.
    YanYan Li*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (905-35-17)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    The spectrum of an asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein manifold.
    John M. Lee*, University of Washington
    (905-35-50)
• Sunday November 12, 1995, 8:50 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis, II
  Room 122, Olin Hall of Engineering
  Organizers:
  Kenneth S. Alexander, University of Southern California
  Ruth J. Williams, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
  

  • 8:50 a.m.
    Positive $T$-martingales and cascades: Some theory and examples.
    Edward C. Waymire*, Oregon State University
    (905-60-08)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The disconnection exponent for simple random walk.
    Emily E. Puckette*, Occidental College
    Gregory F. Lawler, Duke University
    (905-60-16)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Traces of Markov processes used in renormalization on nested fractals.
    Volker Metz*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    (905-60-02)
• Sunday November 12, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Classical Orders and Finite Dimensional Algebras, III
  Room 299, Denny Research Building
  Organizers:
  Lawrence S. Levy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Birge K. Zimmermann-Huisgen, University of California, Santa Barbara
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Problems and Discussion
• Sunday November 12, 1995, 9:15 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Maps, III
  Room 319, Kaprielian
  Organizers:
  Luen-fai Tam, University of California, Irvine
  Andrejs E. Treibergs, University of Utah
  

  • 9:15 a.m.
    On function theory on spaces with a lower Ricci curvature bound.
    Tobias H. Colding, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    William P. Minicozzi, II*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
    (905-58-53)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Regularity theory of harmonic maps into metric spaces.
    Tomasz Serbinowski*, University of California, Irvine
    Nicholas Jacob Korevaar, University of Utah
    (905-53-61)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    Remarks about perturbation methods in geometry.
    Nat Smale*, University of Utah
    (905-53-45)
• Sunday November 12, 1995, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Flat Surface and Billiard Dynamics, III
  Room 345, Kaprielian
  Organizers:
  Eugene Gutkin, University of Southern California
  Nicolai Hayden, University of Southern California
  Christopher M. Judge, Stanford University
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    One parameter families of billiard maps with convex tables.
    Oliver Ralph Knill*, California Institute of Technology
    (905-58-29)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Singular spectrum of discrete Schroedinger operators with disorder driven by ergodic dynamical systems.
    Lana Jitomirskaya*, University of California, Irvine
    (905-46-42)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Entropy estimates for polygon exchanges and polygonal billiards.
    Nicolai T. A. Haydn*, University of Southern California
    (905-58-54)
• Sunday November 12, 1995, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Diffusions and the heat equation on some fractal spaces.
  Room 122, Olin Hall of Engineering
  Martin Thomas Barlow*, University of British Columbia
  (905-60-03)
• Sunday November 12, 1995, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Harmonic maps on noncompact manifolds.
  Room 122, Olin Hall of Engineering
  Luen-fai Tam*, University of California, Irvine
  (905-35-06)
• Sunday November 12, 1995, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Invariants and Conformal Geometry, IV
  Room 351, Denny Research Building
  Organizers:
  Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California
  Paul C. Yang, University of Southern California
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Nondegenerate solutions and the geometry of moduli spaces of metrics and surfaces of constant curvature.
    Daniel Pollack*, University of Chicago
    (905-53-33)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    A paradigm for gluing in conformal geometry.
    Rafe R. Mazzeo*, Stanford University
    (905-58-57)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    A priori estimates for prescribing scalar curvature problem.
    Wenxiong Chen, Southwest Missouri State University
    Congming Li*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (905-35-44)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The zeta functional determinants on manifolds with boundary.
    Alice Chang, University of California, Los Angeles
    Jie Qing*, Columbia University
    (905-53-35)
• Sunday November 12, 1995, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis, III
  Room 122, Olin Hall of Engineering
  Organizers:
  Kenneth S. Alexander, University of Southern California
  Ruth J. Williams, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Staggered phases in systems with continuous symmetry, produced by the annealed disorder.
    Senya B. Shlosman*, University of California, Irvine
    (905-60-15)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Spin glass mean-field model at high temperature and stochastic calculus.
    Francis Comets*, University of California, Irvine
    (905-60-12)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Multiple transition points for the contact process on the binary tree.
    Thomas M. Liggett*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (905-60-14)
• Sunday November 12, 1995, 3:10 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Maps, IV
  Room 319, Kaprielian
  Organizers:
  Luen-fai Tam, University of California, Irvine
  Andrejs E. Treibergs, University of Utah
  

  • 3:10 p.m.
    Remarks about complex surfaces.
    Ronald J. Stern*, University of California, Irvine
    (905-53-47)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Harmonic functions on locally flat domains.
    Carlos E. Kenig, University of Chicago
    Tatiana Toro*, University of Chicago
    (905-53-09)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:55 p.m.
    Controlled geometry via smoothing.
    Guofang Wei*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (905-53-18)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Remarks about harmonic maps to nonpositively curved surfaces.
    Andrejs E. Treibergs*, University of Utah
    (905-53-22)

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