AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:40

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Sunday May 4, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Registration
Lobby Area, State Hall Building

Sunday May 4, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Lobby Area, State Hall Building

Sunday May 4, 1997, 9:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Invited Address
Singular Integrals and Multivariate Stochastic Processes: New Problems and Methods
Auditorium, Upper Deroy Building
Alexander L. Volberg*, Michigan State University
(922-42-03)

Sunday May 4, 1997, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations: Theories, Applications and Numerical Approaches, IV
Room 114, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Jennifer Zhao, University of Michigan-Dearborn xich@umdsun2.umd.umich.edu
Frank J. Massey, III, University of Michigan-Dearborn fmassey@um-f1.umd.umich.edu
Daoqi Yang, Wayne State University yang@math.wayne.edu
- 10:30 a.m.
  Another fast algorithm for the heat conduction problems
  R. C. Y. Chin, Purdue University at Indianaplis
  S. Shao*, Cleveland State University
  (922-35-168)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The role of charge separation in the response of electrochemical systems
  Daniel R. Baker*, General Motors Research and Development Center
  Mark W. Verbrugge, General Motors Research and Development Center
  (922-35-09)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Analysis and computation of a cyclic plasticity model
  Peter Shi*, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
  (922-35-166)
- 12:00 p.m.
  A New Scheme for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations Employing Alternating-Direction Operator Splitting and Domain Decomposition
  John T. Spyropoulos*, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
  (922-76-257)

Sunday May 4, 1997, 10:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, IV
Room 123, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Daniel S. Drucker, Wayne State University drucker@math.wayne.edu
Chorng-Shi Houh, Wayne State University houh@math.wayne.edu
- 10:30 a.m.
  Lightlike hypersurfaces of Lorentz framed manifolds.
  Krishan L. Duggal*, University of Windsor
  (922-53-63)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Some basic facts about Lorentz surfaces
  Naomi L Klarreich*, Case Western Reserve University
  (922-53-199)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Causality conditions on simply connected Lorentz surfaces
  Luke A. Higgins*, Rutgers University
  (922-53-177)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Symplectic connections and quasars
  Ivan C Sterling*, University of Toledo
  Geoffrey Martin, University of Toledo
  (922-53-73)

Sunday May 4, 1997, 10:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, IV
Room 125, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Robert R. Bruner, Wayne State University rrb@math.wayne.edu
David Handel, Wayne State University handel@math.wayne.edu
- 10:30 a.m.
  Classical homotopy techniques and telescopes
  Paul L. Shick*, John Carroll University
  (922-55-213)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Connective K-theory and the Chern character
  Jay A. Wood*, Purdue University Calumet
  (922-55-18)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Hit polynomials and conjugation in the dual Steenrod algebra
  Judith H. Silverman*, Indiana University--Purdue University at Columbus
  (922-55-224)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Identification of Infinite Loop Spaces Arising From Group Theory
  Kathryn Lesh*, University of Toledo
  (922-55-238)
- 12:30 p.m.
  A simplicial model category structure for the category of small categories CAT
  Wojciech Chacholski*, The Fields Institute
  Jerome Scherer, ETH, Zurich
  (922-55-237)

Sunday May 4, 1997, 10:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Analysis and Geometry, IV
Room 113, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Carlos E. Kenig, University of Chicago cek@math.uchicago.edu
Tatiana Toro, University of Washington toro@math.washington.edu
- 10:30 a.m.
  Local Schauder Estimate and Its Applications
  Qing Han*, University of Notre Dame
  (922-35-160)
- 11:00 a.m.
  $C^\infty$ Regularity of the Free Boundary of the Porous Medium Equation
  Panagiota Daskalopoulos*, University of California, Irvine
  (922-35-275)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Boundary Regularity for Free Boundary Problems with Two Phases
  Alex Gurevich*, The University of Chicago
  (922-35-154)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Parabolic PDE's in time-varying domains, or with time varying coefficients
  Steve Hofmann*, University of Missouri
  John L. Lewis, University of Kentucky
  (922-42-156)

Sunday May 4, 1997, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, IV
Room 137, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Devadatta M. Kulkarni, Oakland University kulkarni@oakland.edu
- 10:30 a.m.
  No feedback card guessing for dovetail shuffles
  Mihai A. Ciucu*, MSRI, Berkeley
  (922-05-138)
- 11:00 a.m.
  A ``Fourier transform'' for multiplicative functions on non-crossing partitions
  Alexandru M. Nica*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Roland Speicher, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  (922-05-33)
- 11:30 a.m.
  How many quartic graphs have integral spectra?
  Allen J. Schwenk*, Western Michigan University
  (922-05-276)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Minimal transitive factorisations into pure cycles.
  David M. Jackson*, University of Waterloo
  (922-05-278)
- 12:30 p.m.
  Problem Session

Sunday May 4, 1997, 11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Related Topics, IV
Room 129, State Hall Building
Organizers:
David Howard Gluck, Wayne State University dgluck@math.wayne.edu
- 11:00 a.m.
  Calculating some Schur indices
  Alexandre Turull*, University of Florida
  (922-20-64)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Feit's conjecture on $p$-Steinberg characters
  Pham Huu Tiep*, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
  (922-20-28)
- 12:00 p.m.
  The McLaughlin Finite Simple Group $Mc$ and Dade's Conjecture.
  John C. Murray*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (922-20-85)

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