AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:31
1996 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Lawrenceville, NJ, October 5-6, 1996
Meeting #914
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Sunday October 6, 1996
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:15 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:40 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 6, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
Contributed Papers, II
Room 318, Memorial Hall
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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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2:45 p.m.