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1996 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Lawrenceville, NJ, October 5-6, 1996
Meeting #914

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

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Saturday October 5, 1996

• Saturday October 5, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 321, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Karen E. Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology kesmith@math.mit.edu
  Irena Swanson, New Mexico State University iswanson@nmsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Hilbert's Thirteenth Problem and Genus Zero Coverings
    Shreeram S. Abhyankar*, Purdue University
    (914-14-25)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Puiseux Expansions In Nonzero Characteristic
    Sanju Vaidya*,
    (914-13-192)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Noetherian rings between a local domain and its completion Noetherian rings between a local domain and its completion
    William Heinzer, Purdue University
    Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State Univ
    Sylvia M. Wiegand*, Univ. of Nebraska
    (914-13-234)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On a Question of Matsumura
    Susan Loepp*, Williams College
    (914-13-126)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the Hilbert Function of an Orbit
    Donna Glassbrenner*, Reed College
    Stuart Reiter, Reed College
    (914-13-268)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Classification and divisor class groups of normal cubicsurfaces in $\bf P^3$.
    Mike E. O'Sullivan*,
    (914-14-232)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Functional Analysis, I
  Room 317, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  N. Tomczak-Jaegermann, University of Alberta ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca
  Edward Odell, University of Texas, Austin odell@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On Various Modes of Scalar Convergence in $L_0(X)$
    Stephen J Dilworth*, Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina
    (914-46-109)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Distances between Banach spaces
    Nigel J. Kalton*, University of Missourii
    Mikhailo I. Ostrovskii,
    (914-46-70)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Nonlinear Quotients
    Sean M. Bates, Columbia University
    William B. Johnson*, Texas A\&M University
    Joram Lindenstrauss, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    David Preiss, University College London
    Gideon Schechtman, The Weizmann Institute of Science
    (914-46-284)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Invertible disjointness preserving operators.
    Yuri Abramovich*,
    Arkady Kitover,
    (914-46-248)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stability problems and some solutions of some properties in Banach spaces.
    Elias Saab*, University of Missouri
    (914-46-18)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Convolution Operators Associated to Vector Measures
    Mangatiana A. Robedera,
    Paulette Saab*,
    (914-46-199)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Infinite Groups and Group Rings, I
  Room 220, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Simon Thomas, Rutgers University, New Brunswick sthomas@lagrange.rutgers.edu
  Samuel M. Vovsi, Rutgers University, New Brunswick vovsi@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Finitely generated groups that are isomorphic with their subgroups of finite index
    Derek J. S. Robinson*, University of Illinois
    (914-20-110)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Permutable products of groups.
    James C. Beidleman*, University of Kentucky
    (914-20-60)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A group problem of P. Erd{\" o}s and B.H. Neumann and some of its analogues.
    Luise-Charlotte Kappe*, SUNY at Binghamton
    (914-20-73)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Locally (soluble--by--finite) groups with all proper non-nilpotent subgroups of finite rank
    Martyn R Dixon*,
    Martin J Evans,
    Howard Smith, University of Alabama
    (914-20-43)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Finite and Locally Finite Subgroups of Free BurnsideGroups of Large Even Exponent
    Sergei V Ivanov*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801
    (914-20-148)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On a class of para-free groups introduced by Gilbert Baumslag.
    Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield Univesity
    Gerhard Rosenberger, Universitat Dortmund, Germany
    Michael Stille, Universitat Dortmund, Germany
    (914-20-369)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 8:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, I
  Room 201, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Norman J. Levitt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick njlevitt@haven.ios.com
  Georgia Triantafillou, Temple University georgia@euclid.math.temple.edu
  

  • 8:15 a.m.
    Embedding obstructions and $4$-dimensional thickenings of $2$-complexes.
    Vyacheslav S. Krushkal*, Michigan State University
    (914-57-40)
  • 8:55 a.m.
    Finite type 3-manifold invariants and the Torelli group
    Stavros Garoufalidis*, Harvard University
    (914-57-338)
  • 9:35 a.m.
    Stability Theorems for Spaces of Holomorphic Maps
    R. James Milgram*, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
    (914-57-155)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Non-linear similarity
    Ian Hambleton,
    Erik K. . Pedersen*, Binghamton University
    (914-57-218)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, I
  Room 102, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Martin Bendersky, Hunter College, City University of New York mbenders@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu
  Donald M. Davis, Lehigh University dmd1@lehigh.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    New constructions with configuration spaces
    Nicholas J. Kuhn*, University of Virginia
    (914-55-79)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Odd-primary Brown-Gitler spectra, $\Omega^2 S^3$, and $\pi^S_*$
    David J. Hunter*, University of Virginia
    (914-55-275)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mixing up the Adams and Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequences
    Douglas C. Ravenel*, University of Rochester
    (914-57-240)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Finite localizations and the (really) classical Adams spectral sequence.
    Paul L. Shick*, John Carroll University
    (914-55-244)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Twisted Tate Spectra
    Robert R. Bruner*, Wayne State University
    (914-55-291)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Radon Transforms and Tomography, I
  Room 304, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrew G. Markoe, Rider University markoe@rider.edu
  Eric Todd Quinto, Tufts University equinto@math.tufts.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    support theorems for the sphere transform
    Yiying Zhou*, Tufts University
    (914-44-95)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Do solid tori have the Pompeiu property?
    Carlos A. Berenstein*,
    Dmitry Khavinson,
    (914-35-277)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Estimates for generalized Radon transforms with fold and cusp singularities
    Allan T. Greenleaf*, University of Rochester
    Andreas Seeger, University of Wisconsin
    (914-44-139)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    titleInjectivity of Cosine and Funk-Radon transforms on $k$-planes.
    Eric L. Grinberg*, Temple University
    (914-44-91)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Integral Geometry and the Kappa operator
    Simon Gindikin*, Department of Mathematics, MIT
    (914-44-344)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Computational Geometry, I
  Room 221, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  William Steiger, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  Ileana Streinu, Smith College streinu@cs.smith.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Approximating Shortest Paths on a Convex Polytope in Three Dimensions
    Pankaj K. Agarwal*, Duke University
    (914-68-202)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    DISCREPANCY THEORY AND COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY
    Bernard Chazelle*, Princeton University
    (914-52-332)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Peter Piper placed a polygon on pickled points.
    Matthew Dickerson*, Middlebury College
    (914-52-315)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On segment visibility graphs
    Hazel J. Everett*,
    Chinh T. Hoang,
    Kyriakos Kilakos,
    Marc Noy,
    (914-52-211)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rounding 3d polyhedra
    Steven J. Fortune*, Bell Laboratories
    (914-52-297)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Moduli Spaces of Vector Bundles Over Curves With or Without Additional Structure, I
  Room 222, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Hans Ulysses Boden, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany and McMaster University boden@icarus.mcmaster.ca
  Emma Previato, Boston University ep@math.bu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quantum Cohomology and the Verlinde Algebra
    Sharad Agnihotri*, University of Texas at Austin
    (914-14-132)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Moduli Space of Polygonal Linkages on the 2-Sphere.
    Amy Jan Galitzer*, University of Maryland
    (914-51-124)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Torus actions and symplectic volumes of moduli spaces
    Lisa Claire Jeffrey*, Mathematics Dept., McGill University
    Jonathan Weitsman, Mathematics Dept., Univ. of California at Santa Cruz
    (914-58-112)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    From polygons to vector bundles and back again
    Jonathan A. Poritz*,
    (914-53-231)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Perfect Morse Function on the Moduli Space of Flat Connections
    Michael Thaddeus*,
    (914-14-102)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 8:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic K-theory, I
  Room 218, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles A. Weibel, Rutgers University, New Brunswick weibel@lagrange.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:40 a.m.
    Controlled K-theory
    Erik K. Pedersen*, Binghamton University
    (914-19-216)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    On the Karoubi filtration of a category.
    Manuel Cardenas*, University of Sevilla
    Erik K. Pedersen, University of Binghamton
    (914-19-214)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Splitting Assembly Maps for Groups with Large actions at Infinity.
    Boris Goldfarb*, Stanford University
    (914-19-201)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    The homology of special linear groups over polynomial rings
    Kevin P. Knudson*, Duke University
    (914-19-54)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations In Geometry, I
  Room 302, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas Patrick Branson, University of Iowa branson@math.uiowa.edu
  Robert C. McOwen, Northeastern University mcowen@neu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics for the Singular Yamabe Problem
    David L. Finn*, Merrimack College
    (914-35-208)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Prescribing Scalar curvature on $S^3$.
    Wenziong Chen*, Southwest Missouri State University
    Congming Li, University of Colorado
    (914-35-366)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sharp Sobolev type inequalities on Riemannian manifolds with boundary
    YanYan Li*, Rutgers University
    Meijun Zhu, Rutgers University
    (914-35-375)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Applications of Variational Theory to the Scalar Curvature Equation
    Abbas Bahri*, Rutgers University
    (914-35-367)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operads, Hopf Algebras, and Categories, I
  Room 303, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Arthur M. Dupre, Rutgers University, New Brunswick dupre@math.rutgers.edu
  James D. Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill jds@math.unc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    An Adams-Novikov type spectral sequence based on Real cobordism
    Igor Kriz*, University of Michigan
    (914-18-306)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bousfield localization for $E_{\infty}$ rings
    Gerald J. Dunn*,
    (914-55-32)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Centrality of the KRH Link Invariants
    Louis H. Kauffman,
    David Radford,
    Stephen F. Sawin*, M. I. T./Fairfield U.
    (914-16-46)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Pasting schemes and their topological tensor product
    Michael S.J. Johnson*,
    (914-18-207)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Smooth 4-manifolds, I
  Room 217, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  John W. Morgan, Columbia University
  Frank S. Quinn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University quinn@math.vt.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gauge theory and invariants of homology 4-cobordism
    Nikolai N. Saveliev*,
    (914-57-21)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Links of singularities in moduli spaces of non-abelian monopoles
    Paul M. N. Feehan*, Harvard University
    (914-58-58)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    ${\underline {SW}}$=Milnor torsion
    Guowu Meng*, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Clifford H. Taubes, Harvard University
    (914-51-391)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Link of Reducibles in The Moduli Space of $SO(3)$ Monopoles
    Thomas G Leness*, Michigan State University
    (914-57-78)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms, I
  Room 219, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University darmon@math.princeton.edu
  Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, Princeton University villegas@math.princeton.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A converse theorem for Jacobi forms
    Yves Martin*,
    (914-11-349)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Values and derivatives of L-series over function fields
    Douglas Ulmer*,
    (914-11-300)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A $p$-adic operator on 1/2-integral weight modular forms.
    Adriana Sofer*, Princeton University
    (914-11-328)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Arithmetic Variation of Modular Forms
    Daqing Wan*, Pennsylvannia State University
    (914-11-197)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Contributed Papers,I
  Room 318, Memorial Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Two theorems of Arkin-Arney-Erdos.
    Joseph Arkin*, West Point
    David C. Arney, West Point
    Paul Erdos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
    (914-11-317)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Isomorphism Classes of Nonsingular Affine $k^*$-surfaces
    Sandra M Caravella*, Centenary College
    (914-14-146)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sullivan-Haefliger model for mapping spaces for flag-manifolds.
    Samuel B. Smith*, Saint Joseph's University
    (914-55-06)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Higher Order Convergence and the Newton Method
    Carl M. Koreen*, Monmouth University
    (914-99-377)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    From Pascal triangles to combinatorics.
    Larry Ericksen*,
    (914-05-41)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Localy (soluble-by-finite) groups with all proper insoluble subgroups of finite rank.
    Howard Smith, Bucknell University
    Martyn R. Dixon, University of Alabama
    Martin J. Evans*, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
    (914-20-376)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Elliptic Surfaces,I
  Room 306, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick hoyt@lagrange.rutgers.edu
  Charles Freund Schwartz, Rider University schwartz@enigma.rider.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Classification of sections of certain elliptic surfaces
    Charles F. Schwartz*, Rider University
    (914-14-182)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Twisted Legendre equations with Mordell--Weil rank $\leq 3$.
    William L. Hoyt*, Rutgers University
    Charles F. Schwartz, Rider University
    (914-14-162)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Comparing Canonical Heights and Weil Heights on Elliptic Surfaces
    Gregory S. Call*, Amherst College
    (914-11-295)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mirror Symmetry and Toric Varieties, I
  Room 301, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Ciprian S. Borcea, Rider University borcea@enigma@rider.edu
  Sylvain E. Cappell, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Degenerations of flag and Schubert varieties to toric varieties
    Nicolae Gonciulea*,
    Venkatramani Lakshmibai,
    (914-14-123)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Recent developments on elliptic Calabi-Yau manifolds
    Antonella Grassi*, University of Pennsylvania
    (914-14-298)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 11:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
  Opening Address
  Welcoming remarks.
  Theatre, Student Center
  Presenters:
  Phyllis M. Frakt, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Rider University
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Geometric and linear structures in infinite-dimensional Banach spaces.
  Theatre, Student Center
  Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann*, University of Alberta
  (914-46-364)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 1:30 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Vanishing theorems in algebraic geometry: What they are and why we need them.
  Theatre, Student Center
  Karen E. Smith*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (914-00-01)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, II
  Room 102, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Martin Bendersky, Hunter College, City University of New York mbenders@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu
  Donald M. Davis, Lehigh University dmd1@lehigh.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Ideals in the stable homotopy category: phantoms, ghosts and skeleta
    J. Daniel Christensen*, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (914-55-99)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Stable homotopy over the Steenrod algebra
    John H. Palmieri*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (914-55-319)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stable homotopical algebra
    Mark Hovey*, MIT
    (914-55-181)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cobordism invariants associated to algebraic plane curves
    Michael J. Hopkins*,
    (914-55-258)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Homotopy theory of sheaves
    Andrey Y. Lazarev*, U. of Pennsylvania
    (914-55-260)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mirror Symmetry and Toric Varieties, II
  Room 301, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Ciprian S. Borcea, Rider University borcea@enigma@rider.edu
  Sylvain E. Cappell, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Mirror Duality and string-theoretic Hodge numbers
    Victor V. Batyrev, University of Essen
    Lev A. Borisov*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (914-14-23)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mirror Symmetry and the Horrocks-Mumford bundle
    Ciprian S. Borcea*, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
    (914-14-245)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Intersection Homology of Toric Varieties and a Conjecture of Kalai
    Tom C. Braden*,
    Robert D. MacPherson,
    (914-14-221)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Applications of Deformation theory of Calabi-Yau Threefolds
    Mark Gross*,
    (914-14-331)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Crepant resolutions of orbifolds.
    Anatoly Libgober*, Univ of Il at Chicago.
    (914-14-166)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations In Geometry, II
  Room 302, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas Patrick Branson, University of Iowa branson@math.uiowa.edu
  Robert C. McOwen, Northeastern University mcowen@neu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Some Bochner-type theorems in 4- dimensional conformal geometry
    Matthew J. Gursky*,
    (914-35-322)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sharp fractional integral inequalities, and the spectrum of intertwining operators.
    Carlo Morpurgo*, University of Texas at Austin and Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita di Milano, Via Saldini, 50 Milan, Italy
    (914-58-274)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Geometric Inequalities in Kinetic Theory and Hydrodynamics
    Eric A. Carlen*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (914-60-361)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Sobolev inequalities, vortex dynamics and Lie groups
    William Beckner*, University of Texas at Austin
    (914-58-45)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Analogs of P.D.E.'s on fractals.
    Robert S. Strichartz*, Cornell University
    (914-35-370)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Wave propagation on symmetric spaces
    Gestur Olafsson*, Louisiana State University
    (914-35-381)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operads, Hopf Algebras, and Categories, II
  Room 303, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Arthur M. Dupre, Rutgers University, New Brunswick dupre@math.rutgers.edu
  James D. Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill jds@math.unc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Twisting the quantum group $A(R)$ for a symmetric $R$
    Horia C. Pop*, University of Iowa
    (914-17-362)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Combinatorial aspects of quantum convolution.
    Earl J. Taft*, Rutgers University
    (914-16-48)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the distinct Lie bialgebra structures of the Witt and Virasoro algebras
    Siu-Hung Ng*, Rutgers University
    (914-17-392)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Existence of triangular Lie bialgebra structures.
    Walter J. Michaelis*, University of New Orleans
    (914-17-357)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Elliptic Surfaces, II
  Room 306, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick hoyt@lagrange.rutgers.edu
  Charles Freund Schwartz, Rider University schwartz@enigma.rider.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Divisibility of the Specialization Map for Twists of Abelian Varieties
    Joseph H Silverman*, Brown University
    (914-11-122)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mordell-Weil Groups in Procyclic Extensions
    Lisa A Fastenberg*, Yale University
    (914-11-111)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Elliptic $K3$ surfaces with high Mordell-Weil rank.
    Masato Kuwata*, Universit\'e de Caen
    (914-11-289)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Cohomology Ring of the Fermat Quartic Surface
    Marvin Tretkoff*, Stevens Institute
    (914-14-247)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Radon Transforms and Tomography, II
  Room 304, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrew G. Markoe, Rider University markoe@rider.edu
  Eric Todd Quinto, Tufts University equinto@math.tufts.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Density jumps and high-resolution algorithms for $\Lambda$-tomography
    Adel Faridani*, Oregon State University
    (914-45-217)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Application of the X-ray Transform to 3D Conformal Radiotherapy
    Robert Y Levine*, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    Eugene A. Gregerson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    (914-92-213)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Bayesian Approach to Reconstruction Using Image-Modeling Gibbs Priors
    Gabor T. Herman*, University of Pennsylvania
    (914-45-115)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Pseudodifferential operators with nonsmooth symbols and local tomography
    Alexander J. Katsevich*, Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of Central Florida
    (914-44-86)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Pointwise inversion of the Radon transform
    W. R. Madych*, University of Connecticut
    (914-44-131)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Limited angle exterior tomography and integral geometry
    Eric Todd Quinto*, Tufts University
    (914-44-250)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic K-theory, II
  Room 218, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles A. Weibel, Rutgers University, New Brunswick weibel@lagrange.rutgers.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Cyclic polytopes and the $K$-theory of truncated polynomial algebras
    Lars Hesselholt*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Ib Madsen, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Denmark
    (914-19-184)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Topological Hochschild Homology of Number Rings
    Ayelet Lindenstrauss*, University of Pennsylvania
    Ib Madsen, Aarhus University
    (914-19-83)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    A candidate for a descent spectral sequence
    Stavros Tsalidis*, Brown University
    (914-19-282)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    On the pushforward of the metrized Poincare Bundle
    Eitan Bachmat*, Brown University
    (914-19-294)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms, II
  Room 219, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University darmon@math.princeton.edu
  Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, Princeton University villegas@math.princeton.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Realization of some Galois representations of low degree in Mordell-Weil groups
    David E. Rohrlich*, Boston University
    (914-11-325)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Images of Galois Representations for Abelian Varieties
    Michael J. Larsen*, University of Pennsylvania
    Richard Pink,
    (914-11-302)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The reduction of some Shimura varieties
    Georgios Pappas*,
    (914-11-318)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Explicit Elliptic Units
    Farshid Hajir, California Institute of Technology
    Fernando Rodriguez Villegas*, Princeton University
    (914-11-230)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Representations of $SL(2)\times G$
    Kamal Khuri-Makdisi*, Harvard University
    (914-11-227)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The ABC & D conjectures
    Ram Murty*, Queen's University and McGill University
    (914-11-190)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Computational Geometry, II
  Room 221, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  William Steiger, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  Ileana Streinu, Smith College streinu@cs.smith.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the Lattice diameter of a convex body
    Imre B\'ar\'any*, Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    Zolt\'an F\"uredi, Dept. Mathematics, University of Illinois
    (914-52-273)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Independence Number of Minimum Distance Graphs
    Gy\"orgy Csizmadia*, New York University, Courant Institute
    (914-52-93)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Random Weyl trees
    Luc Devroye*, McGill University
    (914-68-80)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Finite and Infinite Families of Circles and Spheres
    Herbert Edelsbrunner*,
    (914-52-333)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Lifting hyperplanes and the acuteness graph of a set of lines.
    Boris Aronov, Polytechnic University
    Jacob E. Goodman*, City College, CUNY
    Richard Pollack, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    (914-52-189)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Random Triangulations
    Luc Devroye, McGill University
    Philippe Flajolet, INRIA - Rocquencourt
    Ferran Hurtado, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
    Marc Noy*, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
    William Steiger, Rutgers University
    (914-52-176)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Quasi-Planar Graphs Have a Linear Number of Edges
    Pankaj K. Agarwal, Duke University
    Boris Aronov*, Polytechnic University
    J\'anos Pach, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    Richard Pollack, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
    Micha Sharir, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
    (914-52-380)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Moduli Spaces of Vector Bundles Over Curves With or Without Additional Structure, II
  Room 222, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Hans Ulysses Boden, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany and McMaster University boden@icarus.mcmaster.ca
  Emma Previato, Boston University ep@math.bu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Geometric moduli problem
    Alexander A. Voronov*, M.I.T.
    (914-14-74)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lines and loci in the moduli space of $SL(2)$-bundles on a curve
    William M. Oxbury, University of Durham
    Christian Pauly, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
    Emma Previato*, Boston University
    (914-14-154)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Strange Duality over an Elliptic Curve
    Loring W. Tu*,
    Ron Donagi,
    (914-14-249)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Abelian Chern-Simons Theory (after Mihaela Manoliu)
    Daniel S. Freed*, University of Texas at Austin
    (914-58-307)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Arrangements of lines in the projective plane and new nonquasiprojective fundamental groups
    John J. Millson*, University of Maryland
    (914-14-210)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Moduli spaces of SL(2)-characters over surfaces of low Euler characteristic
    William M. Goldman*,
    (914-53-105)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Open Problems/Discussion
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
  Room 321, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Karen E. Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology kesmith@math.mit.edu
  Irena Swanson, New Mexico State University iswanson@nmsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Iterated quadratic transforms and valuation
    Karen E. Smith, MIT
    Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    Sylvia Wiegand, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (914-14-269)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hilbert-Kunz functions of graded rings
    Keith Pardue*, Queen's University
    Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto
    Qun Chen, University of Toronto
    (914-13-183)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Lifting Modules and some consequences
    David A Jorgensen*, University of Texas
    (914-13-222)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Minimally elliptic singularities and tight closure
    Janet Cowden*, UCLA/Purdue University
    (914-13-251)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Coefficient modules over a $d$-dimensional quasi-unmixed normal local domain
    Jung-Chen Liu*, Purdue University
    (914-13-165)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Remarks on the Embedded Primary Components of Ideals in aNoetherian ring
    Kishor M. Shah*, Southwest Missouri State University
    (914-13-236)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Tschirnhausen approximate roots in arbitary dimension and characteristic.
    M. Spivakovsky*, University of Toronto
    (914-13-353)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Functional Analysis, II
  Room 317, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  N. Tomczak-Jaegermann, University of Alberta ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca
  Edward Odell, University of Texas, Austin odell@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On Asymptotic Properties of Banach spaces under Renormings
    Thomas Schlumprecht*, Texas A\&M University
    Edward Odell, University of Texas at Austin
    (914-46-309)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On certain renormings of Tsirelson's space
    Edward Odell*, University of Texas at Austin
    Nicole Tomczak Jaegermann, University of Alberta
    (914-46-206)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Modified mixed Tsirelson spaces
    Spiros A. Argyros,
    Irene Deliyanni*,
    Denka Kutzarova,
    Antonis Manoussakis,
    (914-46-270)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Krivine Theorem in Asymptotic Setting
    Petr Habala*, University of Alberta
    Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, University of Alberta
    (914-46-311)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the geometry of sequences in certain Banach spaces
    Vladimir Gurariy*, Kent State University
    (914-46-191)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    $1-$complemented subspaces of $\ell_p(\ell_q)$
    Beata Randrianantoanina*, University of Texas, Austin
    (914-46-129)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Maximal Norm of $C(S)$"
    Pei-Kee Lin*,
    (914-46-31)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Infinite Groups and Group Rings, II
  Room 220, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Simon Thomas, Rutgers University, New Brunswick sthomas@lagrange.rutgers.edu
  Samuel M. Vovsi, Rutgers University, New Brunswick vovsi@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On groups with periodic primitive elements
    Efim I Zelmanov*, Yale University
    (914-20-259)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A solution of the dimension subgroup problem
    Narain D Gupta*, University of Manitoba
    (914-20-261)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A small cancellation characterization of hyperbolic groups.
    Robert H. Gilman*,
    (914-20-200)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dehn functions of groups
    Mark V. Sapir*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (914-20-262)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Howson property for exponential groups
    Ilya Kapovich*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (914-20-62)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Some recent results in computational group theory
    Charles Sims*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
    (914-20-265)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 2:45 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, II
  Room 201, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Norman J. Levitt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick njlevitt@haven.ios.com
  Georgia Triantafillou, Temple University georgia@euclid.math.temple.edu
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Topics on four manifolds
    Dennis Sullivan*, City University New York
    (914-57-340)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Invariants of branched covering.
    Ronnie Lee*, Yale University
    (914-57-363)
  • 4:05 p.m.
    On the character variety of three-dimensional manifolds
    Stamatis Dostoglou*,
    (914-57-149)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    The Flux Homomorphism
    Dusa McDuff*, SUNY Stony Brook
    (914-57-293)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Smooth 4-manifolds, II
  Room 217, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  John W. Morgan, Columbia University
  Frank S. Quinn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University quinn@math.vt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Numerical Seiberg-Witten Invariants
    John D. Randall*, Dept of Math \& CS, Rutgers University, Newark NJ 07102
    (914-57-225)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stein manifolds and contact structures
    Paolo Lisca, Universita' di Pisa, Italy
    Gordana Matic*, University of Georgia
    (914-57-137)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Irreducible $4$-manifolds need not be symplectic.
    Zoltan Szabo*,
    (914-57-396)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    (3+1)-dimensional topological field theories from 2-categories
    Frank S. Quinn*,
    (914-57-134)
• Saturday October 5, 1996, 8:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
  Concert
  A program of song featuring Schubert's Sheperd on the Rock.
  Rider's Westminster Choir College, Princeton

Sunday October 6, 1996

• Sunday October 6, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
  Room 321, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Karen E. Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology kesmith@math.mit.edu
  Irena Swanson, New Mexico State University iswanson@nmsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Homological Degrees of Modules
    Wolmer V Vasconcelos*, Rutgers University
    (914-13-76)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the integral closure of ideals
    Alberto Corso*, Purdue University
    Wolmer V. Vasconcelos, Rutgers University
    (914-13-125)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Equality of ordinary and symbolic powers of an ideal
    Susan E. Morey*, University of Texas at Austin
    (914-13-147)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Linkage and Northcott Ideals
    Claudia Polini*, Michigan State University
    Bernd Ulrich, Michigan State University
    (914-13-119)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cohen--Macaulayness and defining equations of blowup algebras
    Bernd Ulrich*, Michigan State University
    (914-13-120)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Linkage and Sums of Ideals
    Mark R. Johnson*,
    (914-13-101)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Functional Analysis, III
  Room 317, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  N. Tomczak-Jaegermann, University of Alberta ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca
  Edward Odell, University of Texas, Austin odell@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Angelic spaces and the boundary problem
    Gilles B. Godefroy*, University of Paris VI
    (914-46-188)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Almost orthogonal submatrices of an orthogonal matrix
    Mark Rudelson*, MSRI
    (914-46-29)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the diameter of proportional sections of a symmetric convex body
    Apostolos A. Giannopoulos*,
    Vitali D. Milman,
    (914-46-175)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Inverse formula for the Blaschke representation
    Alexander Koldobsky*, University of Texas at San Antonio
    (914-46-17)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Santaloregion of a convex body
    Elisabeth M. Werner*,
    Mathieu Meyer,
    (914-46-67)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Remarks on Moser-Aubin-Onofri inequalities on $S^2$
    Nassif A. Ghoussoub*, University of British Columbia
    (914-46-356)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 8:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, III
  Room 201, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Norman J. Levitt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick njlevitt@haven.ios.com
  Georgia Triantafillou, Temple University georgia@euclid.math.temple.edu
  

  • 8:15 a.m.
    An End Theorem for Stratified Spaces
    Frank Connolly,
    Bogdan Vajiac*,
    (914-57-320)
  • 8:55 a.m.
    Homology manifold transversality.
    Heather M. Johnston*, Rutgers University
    (914-57-389)
  • 9:35 a.m.
    Non-linear similarity.
    Mark Steinberger*, Albany
    (914-57-330)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    K theory for group C* algebras.
    Paul-Frank Baum*, Pennsylvania State University
    (914-57-386)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, III
  Room 102, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Martin Bendersky, Hunter College, City University of New York mbenders@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu
  Donald M. Davis, Lehigh University dmd1@lehigh.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Unstable Splittings of $H$-spaces and $P(n)$-cohomology.
    J. Michael Boardman*, Johns Hopkins University
    W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University
    (914-55-20)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Brown-Peterson cohomology of Eilenberg-MacLane spaces
    W. Stephen Wilson*, Johns Hopkins University
    Douglas C. Ravenel, University of Rochester
    Nobuaki Yagita, Ibaraki University
    (914-55-113)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Self maps and unstable homotopy theory
    Lisa . Langsetmo*, University of Ottawa
    (914-55-246)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Problems and examples related to the preserving of simple connectivity by localization functors $L_f$
    Jin-yen Tai*, Rutgers Univ. and Dartmouth College
    (914-55-144)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    "The K-theory unstable Adams Spectral Sequence"
    Robert D. Thompson*,
    Martin Bendersky,
    (914-55-305)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operads, Hopf Algebras, and Categories, III
  Room 303, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Arthur M. Dupre, Rutgers University, New Brunswick dupre@math.rutgers.edu
  James D. Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill jds@math.unc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Using higher brackets in algebraic identities up to homotopy
    F\"{u}sun Akman*, Utah State University, Department of Math. and Stat.
    (914-17-312)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Koszul modules over an operad
    Victor Ginzburg, University of Chicago
    Alexander A. Voronov*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (914-08-84)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Operadic formulation of vertex operator superalgebras
    Katrina D. Barron*,
    (914-17-174)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Vertex categories and vertex tensor categories
    Yi-Zhi Huang*, Rutgers University
    (914-17-69)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Open Discussion
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Computational Geometry, III
  Room 221, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  William Steiger, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  Ileana Streinu, Smith College streinu@cs.smith.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A positive fraction Erd\H{o}s-Szekeres theorem
    Pavel Valtr*,
    (914-52-335)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Euclidean Ramsey Theory
    G\'eza T\'oth*, Courant Institute, New York University
    (914-52-81)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Family of Optimal Packings in Grassmannian Manifolds.
    Peter W. Shor*, AT&T Research
    N. J. A. Sloane, AT&T Research
    (914-51-198)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Computing roadmaps of semi-algebraic sets on a variety.
    Saugata Basu*,
    Richard Pollack, Courant Institute, NYU
    Marie-Francooise Roy,
    (914-14-07)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some metric generalizations of Ramsey's theorem
    Pach*, City College, CUNY, and Courant Institute, NYU.
    (914-52-92)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Moduli Spaces of Vector Bundles Over Curves With or Without Additional Structure, III
  Room 222, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Hans Ulysses Boden, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany and McMaster University boden@icarus.mcmaster.ca
  Emma Previato, Boston University ep@math.bu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Compactification of the Universal Picard Scheme for Stable Curves.
    Tyler J. Jarvis*, Mississippi State University
    (914-14-15)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    GEOGRAPHY OF BRILL-NOETHER LOCI FOR SMALL SLOPES
    Iwona Grzegorczyk*, University of Massachuseetts
    (914-14-61)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    mtgThe Moduli of Flat $SU(p,q)$ connections over Riemann Surfaces
    Eugene Z. Xia*, University of Maryland at College Park
    (914-14-100)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Equivariant stable bundles over flat projective bundles are vortices
    Steven Bradlow*,
    Jim Glazebrook,
    Franz Kamber,
    (914-53-118)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symplectic Structures on Symmetric Spaces and Integrability.
    Anthony M Bloch*, University of Michigan
    (914-70-252)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Infinite Groups and Group Rings, III
  Room 220, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Simon Thomas, Rutgers University, New Brunswick sthomas@lagrange.rutgers.edu
  Samuel M. Vovsi, Rutgers University, New Brunswick vovsi@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Applications of infinite combinatorics to algebra
    Saharon Shelah*, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    (914-20-264)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tame groups
    Gregory Cherlin*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
    (914-20-140)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Primitive Finitary Linear Groups
    Richard E. Phillips*, Michigan State University
    (914-20-223)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Maximal subgroups of simple locally finite groups
    Neil Flowers*, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
    (914-20-203)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Infinite products of finite simple groups
    Jan Saxl, Cambridge University, England
    Saharon Shelah, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    Simon Thomas*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
    (914-20-65)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 8:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic K-theory, III
  Room 218, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles A. Weibel, Rutgers University, New Brunswick weibel@lagrange.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:40 a.m.
    Elementwise Characterization of Subintegrality
    Leslie G. Roberts*,
    (914-13-287)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    The Artinean Berger Conjecture
    Corti\~nas Guillermo, Universidad de La Plata
    Susan C. Geller*, Texas A\&M University
    Charles A. Weibel, Rutgers University
    (914-19-28)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Adams operations on a weight filtration of $K$-theory
    Mark E Walker*, University of Nebraska
    (914-19-194)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    On the K-theory of schemes with endomorphisms
    Dongyuan Yao*, Washington University
    (914-19-346)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mirror Symmetry and Toric Varieties, III
  Room 301, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Ciprian S. Borcea, Rider University borcea@enigma@rider.edu
  Sylvain E. Cappell, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some Pencils of K3 surfaces.
    Helena A. Verrill*,
    (914-14-09)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    KO-Theory of Toric Manifolds
    Anthony Bahri*, Rider University
    Martin Bendersky, CUNY, Hunter College
    (914-55-153)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Arithmetic of certain Calabi--Yau type varieties over numberfields
    Noriko Yui*, Department of Mathematics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
    (914-14-94)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mirror symmetry is T-Duality
    Andrew Strominger, Harvard University
    Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University
    Eric Zaslow*, Harvard University
    (914-14-394)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations In Geometry, III
  Room 302, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas Patrick Branson, University of Iowa branson@math.uiowa.edu
  Robert C. McOwen, Northeastern University mcowen@neu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Laplace Transformations for Cartan Submanifolds and Applications to p.d.e.'s
    Niky Kamran, McGill University
    Keti Tenenblat*, University of Brasilia
    (914-35-224)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Geometric and spectral properties of noncompact self-similar sets
    Alexander Teplyaev*, Cornell University
    (914-35-299)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Segal-Bargmann transform for compact Lie groups
    Brian C. Hall*, McMaster University
    (914-22-161)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stability of Weakly Almost Conformal Mappings
    Zhengfang Zhou*, Michigan State University
    (914-49-242)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Elliptic Surfaces, III
  Room 306, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick hoyt@lagrange.rutgers.edu
  Charles Freund Schwartz, Rider University schwartz@enigma.rider.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Torsion Sections of Elliptic Surfaces
    Peter F. Stiller*, Texas A&M University
    (914-14-281)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    (Title to be announced)
    Paul R. Hewitt*, University of Toledo
    (914-14-350)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Indivisible Points on Families of Elliptic Curves
    Rajiv Gupta*, University of British Columbia
    Keith Ramsay, Boston College
    (914-11-347)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Moduli of Abelian Varieties, Preliminary Report
    Ching-Li Chai*, Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
    (914-14-173)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Radon Transforms and Tomography, III
  Room 304, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrew G. Markoe, Rider University markoe@rider.edu
  Eric Todd Quinto, Tufts University equinto@math.tufts.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Radon Transforms on Affine Grassmannians
    Fulton B. Gonzalez*, Tufts University
    Tomoyuki Kakehi, University of Tsukuba
    (914-44-278)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Integral Geometry and Partial Differential Equations
    Sigurdur Helgason*, Department of Mathematics, MIT
    (914-44-133)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Crofton-Radon Transforms
    Mikhail Smirnov*, Columbia University
    Israel Gelfand, Rutgers University
    (914-44-279)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Range conditions for the exponential Radon transform and analyticcontinuation of separately analytic functons
    Jan Boman*, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University
    Ozan \"Oktem, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University
    (914-44-228)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms, III
  Room 219, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University darmon@math.princeton.edu
  Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, Princeton University villegas@math.princeton.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homology of $GL(3,\bf Z)$ with twisted, mod $p$ coefficients
    Avner Ash*, Ohio State University
    (914-11-179)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonselfdual Galois representations.
    Jaap Top*, Math. Inst. univ. of Groningen
    Jasper Scholten,
    (914-11-323)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ramanujan's ternary quadratic form
    Ken Ono*, Inst. for Advanced Study
    (914-11-96)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Representing integers by ternary quadratic forms
    K. Soundararajan*,
    Ken Ono,
    (914-11-296)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Enumeration of Faces in Convex Polytopes, Spheres and Hyperplane Arrangements
  Theatre, Student Center
  Louis J. Billera*, Cornell University, Ithaca and MSRI, Berkeley
  (914-52-68)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 1:30 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The Taylor-Wiles Construction and its Aftermath
  Theatre, Student Center
  Fred Diamond*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (914-11-348)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, IV
  Room 102, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Martin Bendersky, Hunter College, City University of New York mbenders@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu
  Donald M. Davis, Lehigh University dmd1@lehigh.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Pairings in Tot.
    Jim McClure*,
    Jeff Smith,
    (914-55-219)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lie Algebra $p$-Groups
    William Browder*, Princeton University and Aarhus University
    Jonathan Nader Pakianathan, Princeton University
    (914-55-90)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Calculus of Homotopy Functors and Mac Lane's$Q$-construction
    Brenda Johnson*, Union College
    (914-55-266)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Change of Basis in the Steenrod Algebra
    Kenneth G. Monks*, University of Scranton
    (914-55-108)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Revisiting H. Cartan's Calculation of the Homology of the homology of Eilenberg-MacLane spaces.
    Paul G Goerss, University of Washington
    James M Turner*, University of Virginia
    (914-55-08)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations In Geometry, IV
  Room 302, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas Patrick Branson, University of Iowa branson@math.uiowa.edu
  Robert C. McOwen, Northeastern University mcowen@neu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Equations of Biharmonic Type
    Libin Mou*, Bradley University
    (914-35-159)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bubbling of the heat flows for harmonic maps from surfaces.
    Jie Qing*,
    Gang Tian,
    (914-58-66)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Motion by Surface Tension
    Nicholas Alikakos*, University of Tennessee
    (914-35-178)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Some global free boundary problems arising in differential geometry.
    Joel Spruck*, Johns Hopkins University
    (914-53-163)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Natural Lagrangian and Symplectic Structures for Constant Mean Curvature Moduli Spaces and Related Geometric Variational Problems
    Rob Kusner*, University of Massachusetts and The Institute for Advanced Study
    (914-53-97)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Elliptic Surfaces, IV
  Room 306, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick hoyt@lagrange.rutgers.edu
  Charles Freund Schwartz, Rider University schwartz@enigma.rider.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Mixed cusp forms and parabolic cohomology
    Min Ho Lee*, University of Northern Iowa
    (914-11-37)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Arithmetic of mirror images of certain K3 surfaces
    Noriko Yui*, Department of Mathematics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
    (914-14-114)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The L-series of a certain pencil of elliptic surfaces
    Helena A. Verrill*, (same as address)
    (914-14-327)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Radon Transforms and Tomography, IV
  Room 304, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrew G. Markoe, Rider University markoe@rider.edu
  Eric Todd Quinto, Tufts University equinto@math.tufts.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Exponential Radon transform, F.John's equation, and all that.
    Peter Kuchment*,
    Alex Panchenko,
    (914-44-103)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Uniqueness of Scattering Cross Sections from B.V. Data
    S. K. Patch*, Stanford University
    (914-35-85)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discrete tomography
    Larry Shepp*, ATT Labs & Lucent Technology,
    (914-44-89)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Toda lattices and radon transforms.
    Elinor Velasquez*, University of California
    (914-43-395)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Wavelet-based Multiresolution Local Tomography
    K J. R. Liu, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Partk, MD
    F. Rashid-Farrokhi, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
    C. Berenstein, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
    D. Walnut*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason Univeristy, Fairfax, VA
    (914-44-180)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Injectivity of the Finite Radon Transform on Finite Dimensional subspaces of $L^2$
    Andrew Markoe*, Rider University
    (914-44-351)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic K-theory, IV
  Room 218, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles A. Weibel, Rutgers University, New Brunswick weibel@lagrange.rutgers.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Rational K-theory in characteristic $p$
    Thomas Geisser*, Harvard University
    (914-19-237)
  • 3:05 p.m.
    Descent problems for higher Chow groups
    Masaki Hanamura*,
    (914-19-276)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    The Arason Invariant and Mod 2 Algebraic cycles
    Marc Levine*, Northeastern University
    H\'el\`ene Esnault, Universt\"at Essen
    Eckart Viehweg, Universit\"at Essen
    Bruno Kahn,
    (914-19-271)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    One-motives associated with schemes
    Niranjan Ramachandran*, University of Michigan
    (914-14-283)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms, IV
  Room 219, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University darmon@math.princeton.edu
  Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, Princeton University villegas@math.princeton.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The large sieve for cusp forms and elliptic curves
    William Duke*,
    (914-11-226)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A truncated Poisson summation formula
    Jason Levy*,
    (914-22-329)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Rank of Gross's elliptic curves
    Tonghai Yang*,
    (914-11-233)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A refined nonvanishing theorem for the central L-values twisted by quadratic characters
    Jeffrey Hoffstein, Brown University
    Wenzhi Luo*, Princeton University
    (914-11-267)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Average values of cubic L-series
    David Farmer, Bucknell University
    Jeffrey Hoffstein, Brown University
    Daniel Lieman*, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (914-11-310)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Computational Geometry, IV
  Room 221, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  William Steiger, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  Ileana Streinu, Smith College streinu@cs.smith.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    When Can a Polygon Fold to a Polytope?
    Joseph O'Rourke*,
    Anna Lubiw,
    (914-52-334)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On Removing Degeneracies in Computational Geometry
    Francisco Gomez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
    Suneeta Ramaswami, McGill University
    Godfried Toussaint*, McGill University
    (914-68-127)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Efficient Exact Arithmetic for Computational Geometry
    Christopher J. Van Wyk*, Drew University
    (914-68-286)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Lower Bound Techniques for Geometric Graph Representation
    Sue H. Whitesides*, McGill University
    (914-68-128)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On-line Algorithms for Compressing Digital Representations of Planar Curves
    Gordon T. Wilfong*, Bell Laboratories
    (914-52-88)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Issues in Geometric Tolerancing and Metrology
    Chee K. Yap*, Courant Institute, NYU
    (914-68-235)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Moduli Spaces of Vector Bundles Over Curves With or Without Additional Structure, IV
  Room 222, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Hans Ulysses Boden, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany and McMaster University boden@icarus.mcmaster.ca
  Emma Previato, Boston University ep@math.bu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Solutions of periodic KdV equations and Geodesic Flows on infinite Kaehler manifolds
    Andrey Todorov*, University of California at Santa Cruz
    (914-14-379)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Trigonal Locus in the Moduli Space $\overline{\germ M}_g$ of Curves of Genus $g$
    Zvezdelina E. Stankova-Frenkel*, Harvard University
    (914-14-292)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the quantization of Hitchin's systems
    Edward V. Frenkel*,
    (914-14-288)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Motivic local systems on curves
    Tony Pantev*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (914-14-378)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, IV
  Room 321, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  Karen E. Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology kesmith@math.mit.edu
  Irena Swanson, New Mexico State University iswanson@nmsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the schemes Gor(T)
    Anthony V. Geramita*, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario and Universita' di Genova, Genova, Italia
    (914-13-187)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On infinitesimal interpolation.
    Karen A. Chandler*, University of Notre Dame
    (914-14-290)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Singular loci of ladder determinantal varieties and Schubert varieties
    Nicolae Gonciulea*,
    Venkatramani Lakshmibai,
    (914-14-164)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An Algorithm for the Quillen-Suslin Theorem for Monoid Rings
    Cynthia J. Woodburn*,
    Reinhard C. Laubenbacher,
    (914-13-117)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Functionals and Outside Corners of Monomial Ideals
    Geir Agnarsson*, University of California at Berkeley
    (914-13-229)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Maximum growth of monomial ideals generated in one degree
    Heather Hulett*,
    (914-13-253)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the algera of embedded joins.
    Aron Simis*, UFBA, bahia, Brazil
    (914-13-354)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Functional Analysis, IV
  Room 317, Memorial Hall
  Organizers:
  N. Tomczak-Jaegermann, University of Alberta ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca
  Edward Odell, University of Texas, Austin odell@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Weakly Continuous Vector Functions and Operator Theory
    Victor Lomonosov*, Kent State University
    (914-46-374)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Extremal vectors and invariant subspaces.
    Per Enflo*, Kent State University
    (914-46-373)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some Applications of Banach Space Theory to Economics.
    Charalambos D. Aliprantis*, IUPUI
    (914-46-285)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dunford-Pettis property for vector-valued function spaces.
    Narcisse Randrianantoanina*, University of Texas -- Austin
    (914-46-130)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    $wc_0^*$-Biorthogonal Systems
    S. J. Dilworth, University of South Carolina
    Maria Girardi*, University of South Carolina
    W. B. Johnson, Texas A\&M University
    (914-46-280)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Metric Entropy of Homogeneous Spaces
    Stanislaw J . Szarek*, Case Western Reserve University and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    (914-51-359)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Infinite Groups and Group Rings, IV
  Room 220, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Simon Thomas, Rutgers University, New Brunswick sthomas@lagrange.rutgers.edu
  Samuel M. Vovsi, Rutgers University, New Brunswick vovsi@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The pro-algebraic completion of rigid groups
    Hyman Bass*, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
    (914-20-220)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Representations of Braid groups
    Edward Formanek*, Pennsylvania State University
    (914-20-98)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Free groups of units in $\Bbb ZG$.
    Sudarshan Sehgal*, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
    (914-20-209)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Free objects in differential polynomial rings
    Mazi Shirvani*, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
    (914-20-215)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some results on verbal ideals of the free group ring
    Samuel M. Vovsi*, Rutgers University
    (914-20-301)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  Contributed Papers, II
  Room 318, Memorial Hall
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The groups of homeomorphisms of the segment.
    Boris S. Khots*,
    (914-22-104)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Entire solutions of a certain type of nonlinear differential equations.
    C. C. Yang*, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    (914-30-59)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Leray Functor and Conley Index for Non-Invariant Sets
    Marian Gidea*, SUNY at Buffalo
    (914-55-38)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Explanatory Proofs and Mathematical Education
    David A. Sandborg*, University of Pittsburgh
    (914-97-255)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On existence of finite universal Korovkin sets in Segal algebras
    Manju Rani Agrawal, Institute of Advanced Study in Science & Technology, Guwahati, India
    Udai B. Tewari*, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
    (914-41-385)
• Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:45 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, IV
  Room 201, Science Hall
  Organizers:
  Norman J. Levitt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick njlevitt@haven.ios.com
  Georgia Triantafillou, Temple University georgia@euclid.math.temple.edu
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Invariants for knots in 3-manifolds
    Effie Kalfagianni*, Rutgers University
    (914-51-342)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Geometric intersection numbers and simple loops on surfaces.
    Feng Luo*, Rutgers University
    (914-57-388)
  • 4:05 p.m.
    A Proof Of The Hilbert-Smith Conjecture
    Louis F. McAuley*, SUNY-Binghamton
    (914-22-53)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Persistent equal length closed curves on surfaces.
    Thea Pignataro*, City College, CUNY
    Ara Basmajian, University of Oklahoma
    (914-57-387)

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