AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:23
1995 Fall Southern Sectional Meeting
Greensboro, NC, November 17-18, 1995
Meeting #906
Associate secretaries: Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu
Friday November 17, 1995
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Friday November 17, 1995, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Control and Optimization Design Arising in Industrial Processes, I
Kitty Hawk, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
H. T. Tran, North Carolina State University
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8:00 a.m.
Ocean current data blending.
Jason J. Brown, Applied Mathematics Incorporated, Gales Ferry, Connecticut
William J. Browning*, Applied Mathematics Incorporated, Gales Ferry, Connecticut
Ben Fitzpatrick, Jr., North Carolina State University
(906-62-199) -
8:30 a.m.
Modeling and optimal reactor design for a high pressure vapor transport reactor.
Jeffrey S. Scroggs*, North Carolina State University
H. Thomas Banks, North Carolina State University
Kazufumi Ito, North Carolina State University
H. T. Tran, North Carolina State University
(906-76-197) -
9:00 a.m.
Applications of electromagnetism.
Yun Wang*, Armstrong Laboratory
(906-78-196) -
9:30 a.m.
Optimal design using the boundary element method.
Jeff Borggard*, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University
(906-49-203) -
10:00 a.m.
Computational furnace modeling.
Marc B. Reider*, IBM
(906-80-198) -
10:30 a.m.
Particle suspension in a rotating drum chamber.
Bahman Asgharian*, Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Owen Moss, Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
(906-70-202)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday November 17, 1995, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Set-Theoretic Topology, I
Triad Ballroom Central, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Jerry E. Vaughan, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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8:00 a.m.
Cardinal functions on initial chain algebras.
Lynne A. Baur*, Carleton College
(906-06-113) -
8:30 a.m.
Linearly ordered topological semi-groups.
Robert W. Heath*, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
(906-54-142) -
9:00 a.m.
The existence of a scale implies the existence of a Michael space.
L. Brian Lawrence*, George Mason University
(906-54-200) -
9:30 a.m.
Pliable subsets of ordered topological spaces.
Joe D. Mashburn*, University of Dayton
(906-54-175) -
10:00 a.m.
Isocompactness and related properties.
Howard H. Wicke*, Ohio University, Athens
(906-54-137) -
10:30 a.m.
The fine topology on $C(X)$ and cardinal functions.
Robert A. McCoy*, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University
(906-54-193)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday November 17, 1995, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Complexity Theory, I
Triad Ballroom West, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Jie Wang, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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8:00 a.m.
The complexity of matrix rank and feasible systems of linear equations.
Eric W. Allender*, Rutgers University, Piscataway
Robert Beals, Institute for Advanced Study
Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Rochester
(906-68-26) -
8:30 a.m.
Comparing complexity classes.
Ronald V. Book*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(906-68-28) -
9:00 a.m.
The resolution of a Hartmanis conjecture: $P$-sparse hard sets.
Jin-Yi Cai*, State University of New York, Buffalo
D. Sivakumar, State University of New York, Buffalo
(906-68-29) -
9:30 a.m.
The bounded query complexity of $NP$-approximation problems.
Richard Chang*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
(906-68-30) -
10:00 a.m.
Inverting Onto functions.
Stephen A. Fenner*, University of Southern Maine
Lance J. Fortnow, University of Chicago
Ashish Naik, University of Chicago
John Rogers, University of Chicago
(906-68-31) -
10:30 a.m.
Sharply bounded alternation within $P$.
Stephen A. Bloch, Adelphi University
Jonathan F. Buss, University of Waterloo
Judy Goldsmith*, University of Kentucky
(906-68-32)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday November 17, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I
Southern Crescent Ballroom-Virginia, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Mark E. Feighn, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Michael Handel, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
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8:30 a.m.
Cerf theory for graphs.
Allen E. Hatcher, Cornell University, Ithaca
Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University, Ithaca
(906-20-59) -
9:00 a.m.
Local growth of subgroups of Lie groups and a discreteness criterion.
Eleanor G. Rieffel*, University of Southern California
(906-22-70) -
9:30 a.m.
All automorphisms of free groups with max rank fixed subgroups.
Edward C. Turner*, State University of New York, Albany
Donald J. Collins, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, England
(906-20-68) -
10:00 a.m.
Boundaries and $L^2$-cohomology for finitely generated groups.
Gabor Elek*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(906-20-12) -
10:30 a.m.
Counting fixed points of automorphisms of free groups.
Gilbert Levitt*, Universit\'e Paul Sabatier, France
(906-20-62)
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8:30 a.m.
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Friday November 17, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Related Topics, I
Southern Cresent Ballroom-Georgia, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Theresa P. Vaughan, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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8:30 a.m.
Explicit formulas for degenerate Bernoulli numbers.
Fredric T. Howard*, Wake Forest University
(906-11-16) -
9:00 a.m.
The Fibonacci triangle modulo $p$.
Brad L. Wilson*, State University of New York, College at Brockport
(906-11-54) -
9:30 a.m.
Rigorous discrete logarithm algorithms.
Carl Pomerance*, University of Georgia
(906-11-159) -
10:00 a.m.
Directed graphs defined by arithmetic $(mod $n$)$.
Ezra A. Brown*, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University
(906-11-53) -
10:30 a.m.
Dispelling myths about mathematics: A look at some of Leonard Eugene Dickson's number-theoretic work.
Della Dumbaugh Fenster*, University of Richmond
(906-01-107)
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8:30 a.m.
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Friday November 17, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Theory of Ordered Sets, I
Blue Ridge, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Bernd S. W. Schroeder, Hampton University
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9:00 a.m.
Problems related to the fixed point property for products of ordered sets.
Bernd Schroeder*, Hampton University
(906-06-93) -
9:30 a.m.
Perfect sequences of chain-complete posets.
Jonathan David Farley*, University of Oxford, England
(906-06-167) -
10:00 a.m.
Several complexity problems involving ordered sets.
Dwight A. Duffus*, Emory University
Ted Goddard, Emory University
(906-06-158) -
10:30 a.m.
Discussion
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday November 17, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics of Posets and Tableaux, I
Southern Cresent Ballroom-Carolina, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Lynne M. Butler, Haverford College
Curtis Greene, Haverford College
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9:00 a.m.
On a conjecture of Iztok Hozo.
Philip J. Hanlon*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(906-05-115) -
9:30 a.m.
The $d$-divisible subspace arrangement and generalizations: Cohomology representations.
Sheila Sundaram*, University of Miami
(906-16-144) -
10:00 a.m.
Planar decompositions of tableaux and Schur function determinants.
Angele Marie Hamel, University of Waterloo
Ian P. Goulden*, University of Waterloo
(906-05-128) -
10:30 a.m.
Murnaghan-Nakayama rules for characters of Iwahori-Hecke algebras of the complex reflection groups $G(r,p,n)$.
Thomas M. Halverson*, Macalester College
Arun Ram, University of Sydney, Australia
(906-16-152)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday November 17, 1995, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
Invited Address
Modeling, estimation and control in smart material systems.
Governor's Ballroom, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
H. Thomas Banks*, North Carolina State University
(906-00-05) -
Friday November 17, 1995, 1:10 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Invited Address
Iteration of complex polynomials.
Governor's Ballroom, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Bodil Branner*, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
(906-30-07) -
Friday November 17, 1995, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Complex Dynamics, I
Triad Ballroom West, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Bodil Branner, Technical University of Denmark
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2:15 p.m.
External rays and Cremer polynomials.
Jan B. Kiwi*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
(906-57-76) -
2:45 p.m.
Local connectivity of Julia sets for quadratic polynomials with a fixed, constant type Siegel disc.
Carsten Lunde Petersen*, Mathematical Institute, Denmark
(906-30-110) -
3:15 p.m.
Boundaries of certain Siegel disks of rational functions.
James T. Rogers, Jr.*, Tulane University
(906-58-79) -
3:45 p.m.
Commuting polynomials and polynomials with same Julia set.
Pau Atela*, Smith College
Jun Hu, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
(906-30-74) -
4:15 p.m.
Non-singularity in Quasi-Fuchsian space.
Linda Keen*, Lehman College
Caroline Series, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
(906-30-204) -
4:45 p.m.
Discrete harmonic functions.
Tomasz Dubejko*, Northwestern University
(906-30-71)
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2:15 p.m.
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Friday November 17, 1995, 2:15 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, I
Cape Fear, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Alexander Chigogidze, University of Saskatchewan
Richard B. Sher, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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2:15 p.m.
Limits of polyhedra in Gromov-Hausdorff space.
Steven C. Ferry*, State University of New York, Binghamton
(906-53-166) -
2:45 p.m.
Cores of noncompact manifolds.
Gerard A. Venema*, Calvin College
(906-57-102) -
3:15 p.m.
Extension theory: The interface between set-theoretic and algebraic topology.
Jerzy Dydak*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(906-55-108) -
3:45 p.m.
On Ohtsuki's invariants of integral homology $3$-spheres.
Xiao-Song Lin, Columbia University
Zhenghan Wang*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(906-57-48) -
4:15 p.m.
Combinatorial properties of pairs of transverse measured foliations without saddle connections on a compact surface.
Lev Slutskin*, New York, New York
(906-58-47) -
4:45 p.m.
Stable intersections with planes and dimension.
Alexander Nikolaevich Dranishnikov*, University of Miami
(906-54-02) -
5:15 p.m.
On properties of minimal triangulations of spheres.
Ivan Ivansic*, University of Zagreb, Croatia
(906-57-46)
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2:15 p.m.
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Friday November 17, 1995, 2:15 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
Southern Crescent Ballroom-Virginia, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Mark E. Feighn, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Michael Handel, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
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2:15 p.m.
Normal subgroups and end invariants of groups.
Michael L. Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
(906-20-57) -
2:45 p.m.
Local connectivity of certain amalgamated products.
Michael L. Mihalik, Vanderbilt University
Kim E. Ruane*, Florida State University
(906-20-60) -
3:15 p.m.
Higher geometric invariants of graph groups.
John E. Meier*, Lafayette College
Leonard A. VanWyk, Hope College
(906-20-58) -
3:45 p.m.
Rewriting systems and $3$-manifold groups.
Susan M. Hermiller*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
(906-20-183) -
4:15 p.m.
Kernels of actions on non-positively curved spaces.
Robert Bieri, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Ross Geoghegan*, State University of New York, Binghamton
(906-20-61)
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2:15 p.m.
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Friday November 17, 1995, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Kac-Moody Lie Algebras and Related Topics, I
Kitty Hawk, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Naihuan Jing, North Carolina State University
Kailash C. Misra, North Carolina State University
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2:15 p.m.
On the equality of Krull and global dimensions.
Ellen E. Kirkman*, Wake Forest University
James J. Kuzmanovich, Wake Forest University
(906-16-109) -
2:45 p.m.
Auslander-Gorenstein rings and their injective resolutions.
Kaushal Ajitabh, University of Texas, Austin
S. Paul Smith, University of Washington
James Zhang*, University of Washington
(906-16-87) -
3:15 p.m.
Quantum group constructions.
Edward L. Green*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(906-16-04) -
3:45 p.m.
Automorphisms of vertex operator algebras.
Robert Louis Griess, Jr.*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(906-17-119) -
4:15 p.m.
The structure of generalized Kac-Moody algebras.
Elizabeth Graf Jurisich*, University of Chicago
(906-17-148) -
4:45 p.m.
Quantum deformations of the imaginary Verma modules of $A_1^{(1)}$.
Duncan J. Melville*, Saint Lawrence University
(906-17-85)
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2:15 p.m.
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Friday November 17, 1995, 2:15 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems, I
Triad Ballroom East, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Alexandra Kurepa, North Carolina A & T State University
Stephen B. Robinson, Wake Forest University
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2:15 p.m.
Existence of symmetric deformations of membrane caps.
John V. Baxley*, Wake Forest University
(906-34-96) -
2:45 p.m.
On energy estimates for nonlinear wave equations with non-autonomous damping.
Xiaodong Zhu*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
(906-35-172) -
3:15 p.m.
Existence and asymptotic behavior for semilinear periodic-parabolic equations with nonlinear boundary conditions.
Mubenga Ngandu Nkashama*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
(906-35-188) -
3:45 p.m.
Nonsymmetric solutions to elliptic problems on symmetric regions.
Alfonso Castro*, University of North Texas
(906-35-147) -
4:15 p.m.
Perturbations of the $p$-Laplacian on bounded and on cylindrical domains.
David G. Costa*, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(906-35-145) -
4:45 p.m.
Strongly indefinite systems and Floer homology.
Robert C. Vandervorst*, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sigurd B. Angenent, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(906-49-18) -
5:15 p.m.
A quasilinear singular boundary value problem.
Y. S. Choi*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Patrick J. McKenna, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Alan C. Lazer, University of Miami
(906-35-179)
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2:15 p.m.
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Friday November 17, 1995, 2:15 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Set-Theoretic Topology, II
Triad Ballroom Central, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Jerry E. Vaughan, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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2:15 p.m.
A non normal product.
Mary E. Rudin*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(906-54-15) -
2:45 p.m.
The metrizability number and related invariants of spaces. Part {\rm I}.
Mohammad Ismail*, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Andrzej Szymanski, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
(906-54-125) -
3:15 p.m.
The metrizability number and related invariants of spaces. Part {\rm II}.
Mohammad Ismail, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Andrzej Szymanski*, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
(906-54-126) -
3:45 p.m.
The specialization in skew compact spaces.
Ralph D. Kopperman*, City College, City University of New York
(906-54-133) -
4:15 p.m.
The classification of metrics and multivariate data analysis.
Stephen Watson*, York University
(906-54-177) -
4:45 p.m.
Realcompactness vs. pseudocompactness.
Charles E. Aull*, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University
(906-54-98) -
5:15 p.m.
When is an initially $\omega_1$ compact separable $T_3$ space compact?
I. Juhasz*, Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia, Budapest, Hungary
(906-54-191)
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2:15 p.m.
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Friday November 17, 1995, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Related Topics, II
Southern Cresent Ballroom-Georgia, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Theresa P. Vaughan, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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2:15 p.m.
On Dickson polynomials, R\'edei functions, and formal group laws.
Paul T. Young*, University of Charleston
(906-11-141) -
2:45 p.m.
An explicit upper bound of the Riemann zeta function in the critical strip.
Yuanyou Cheng*, University of Georgia
(906-11-192) -
3:15 p.m.
Approximations to $\pi$ via modular equations for the Dedekind $\eta$-function.
Frank G. Garvan*, University of Florida
(906-11-160) -
3:45 p.m.
The average witness is $2$.
Ronald Joseph Burthe, Jr.*, University of Georgia
(906-11-20) -
4:15 p.m.
Some rook polynomials with real roots related to hypergeometric series.
James B. Haglund*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(906-11-118) -
4:45 p.m.
Computations of class numbers of quadratic fields.
Anitha Srinivasan*, University of Georgia
(906-11-205)
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2:15 p.m.
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Friday November 17, 1995, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
Special Session on Complexity Theory, II
Blue Ridge, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Jie Wang, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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2:15 p.m.
Tree canonization and transitive closure.
Kousha Etessami, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Neil Immerman*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(906-68-37) -
2:45 p.m.
The study on the computation theory over ordered rings and fields.
Li Xiang*, Guizhou University, People's Republic of China
Li Guangyuan, Guizhou University, People's Republic of China
Song Ronggong, Guizhou University, People's Republic of China
(906-68-39) -
3:15 p.m.
Resource bounded measure, then and now.
Luc Longpre*, University of Texas, El Paso
(906-68-40) -
3:45 p.m.
Observations on measure and lowness for $\Delta_2^P$.
Jack H. Lutz*, Iowa State University
(906-68-25) -
4:15 p.m.
Independence properties of algorithmically random sequences.
Steven M. Kautz*, Randolph-Macon Woman's College
(906-68-38) -
4:45 p.m.
The $PL$ hierarchy collapses.
Mitsunori Ogihara*, University of Rochester
(906-68-41) -
5:15 p.m.
Applications of error-correcting codes in complexity theory.
Kenneth W. Regan*, State University of New York, Buffalo
(906-68-42) -
5:45 p.m.
Non-immunity of $NEXP$-complete sets.
Nicholas Tran*, University of Pennsylvania
(906-68-45)
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2:15 p.m.
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Friday November 17, 1995, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics of Posets and Tableaux, II
Southern Cresent Ballroom-Carolina, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Lynne M. Butler, Haverford College
Curtis Greene, Haverford College
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2:15 p.m.
Subset sums spanning abelian groups.
Jerrold Robinson Griggs*, University of South Carolina, Columbia
(906-05-162) -
2:45 p.m.
Unimodality and Schur functions.
Victor S. Reiner, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Dennis W. Stanton*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
(906-05-120) -
3:15 p.m.
Bitableaux bases for diagonally invariant polynomial quotient rings.
Edward E. Allen*, Wake Forest University
(906-05-81) -
3:45 p.m.
Plane partitions and reduced words.
Sergey Fomin*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anatolii Nikolaevich Kirillov, University of Tokyo, Japan
(906-05-105) -
4:15 p.m.
Super Catalan numbers.
Ira M. Gessel*, Brandeis University
(906-05-153) -
4:45 p.m.
Polynomiality of entries in the Macdonald $q,t$ Kostka table.
Adriano M. Garsia*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
(906-05-150)
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2:15 p.m.