AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:40
1997 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Montreal, Quebec Canada, September 26-28, 1997
Meeting #924
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Friday September 26, 1997
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Friday September 26, 1997, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Auditorium Lobby, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal -
Friday September 26, 1997, 8:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Category Theory and Its Applications, I
Room B-4265, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Michael Barr, McGill University barr@triples.math.mcgill.ca
Ieke Moerdijk, University of Utrecht. Netherlands moerdijk@math.ruu.nl
Myles Tierney, Rutgers University tierney@math.uqam.ca
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Friday September 26, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Differential Topology, I
Room B-4260, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Jacques C. Hurtubise, McGill University hurtubise@math.mcgill.ca
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University jeffrey@math.mcgill.edu
Francois Lalonde, University of Quebec at Montreal flalonde@math.uqam.ca
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9:00 a.m.
Bott-Samelson Geometry of Gelfand-Cetlin Bases
Michael D. Grossberg*,
Miljenko Zabcic,
(924-14-259) -
9:40 a.m.
Hamiltonian Circle Actions on Four-Dimensional Symplectic Orbifolds
Stephanie Frank Singer*, Haverford College
Janet Talvacchia, Swarthmore College
(924-58-201) -
10:20 a.m.
Discrete Abelian Chern-Simmons TQFT via Whitney Forms and Finite Element Discretizations
P. Robert Kotiuga*, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
(924-57-60) -
11:00 a.m.
Hamiltonian Structure of Isomonodromic Deformations
John Harnad*, Concordia & CRM
(924-58-88)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday September 26, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, I
Room B-4275, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University and CICMA darmon@math.mcGill.ca
Chantal David, Concordia University and CICMA chantal@abacus.concordia.ca
Adrian Iovita, McGill University and CICMA iovita@math.bu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
On semi-reduced quadratic forms
Claude Levesque*, Universit\'e Laval
Eug\`ene Dubois, Universit\'e de Caen
(924-11-21) -
9:35 a.m.
Frobenius distributions and Galois representations
V. Kumar Murty*,
(924-11-303) -
10:10 a.m.
On certain integral points of a modular curve of level 5 (Preliminary report)
Imin Chen*, UC Berkeley
(924-11-42) -
10:45 a.m.
One-motives associated with varieties and a conjecture of Deligne
Niranjan Ramachandran*,
(924-14-63) -
11:20 a.m.
Some remarks on a Euclidean ring containing ${\Bbb Z}[\sqrt{14}]$
David A Cardon*, Queen's University
(924-11-62)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday September 26, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
Room B-4270, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Israel Kleiner, York University kleiner@yorku.ca
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Duncan F. Gregory: The Unknown Gregory
Patricia R. Allaire*, Queensborough Community College, The City University of New York
(924-01-280) -
9:40 a.m.
Measure vs Integral in the Bourbaki Integration
Liliane Beaulieu*, University of Montreal
(924-01-264) -
10:20 a.m.
Proof: A Many-Splendored Thing
Israel Kleiner*, York University
(924-01-138) -
11:00 a.m.
Cubic curves, coordinates and classification: geometric style between Newton and Euler.
John D Anderson*, University of Toronto
(924-01-262)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday September 26, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
Special Session on Non-Euclidean and Spacetime Geometries, I
Room B-4275, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Abraham A. Ungar, North Dakota State University ungar@tammy.math.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Higher Dimensional Crooked Planes
Todd A. Drumm*,
(924-51-15) -
9:40 a.m.
Properly Discontinuous Actions of Free Groups on ${\Bbb R}^{2,1}$.
Virginie Charette*, University of Maryland, College Park
(924-51-38) -
10:20 a.m.
A heat kernel approach to the Selberg trace formula.
Jonathan Huntley*,
(924-51-124) -
11:00 a.m.
A new 5D geometric formalism for physics and for data processing
Vladik Kreinovich*, University of Texas at El Paso
Scott A. Starks, NASA PACES Center
(924-51-65) -
11:40 a.m.
Orbits of isometric actions on Lorentz manifolds
J\'anos Szenthe*, E\"otv\"os University
(924-53-81)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday September 26, 1997, 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Special Session on Potential Theory, I
Room B-4255, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Kohur Gowri Sankaran, McGill University gowri@math.McGill.ca
David H. Singman, George Mason University dsingman@osf1.gmu.edu
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9:30 a.m.
Potential Theory of Semi-Elliptic Differential Operators.
J\"urgen E. Bliedtner*, University of Frankfurt a.M.
(924-31-98) -
10:10 a.m.
Capacity integrals: strong type inequalities and duality.
David R Adams*, University of Kentucky
(924-31-144) -
10:50 a.m.
Growth and Asymptotic Sets of Subharmonic Functions
Jang-Mei Wu*, University of Illinois
(924-31-104) -
11:30 a.m.
On Integral Representation Formulae for Polyharmonic Functions
Bernhard F. Burgeth*, McGill University, Montr\'{e}al
(924-31-158)
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9:30 a.m.
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Friday September 26, 1997, 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Book Sale and Exhibit
Auditorium Lobby, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal -
Friday September 26, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Potential Theory, II
Room B-4255, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Kohur Gowri Sankaran, McGill University gowri@math.McGill.ca
David H. Singman, George Mason University dsingman@osf1.gmu.edu
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2:00 p.m.
Boundary Limits of Subharmonic Functions on Domains in ${\Bbb R}^n$
Manfred Stoll*, University of South Carolina
(924-31-87) -
2:40 p.m.
A generalized Littlewood theorem for Weinstein potentials on a half space.
Kohur GowriSankaran*, McGill University
David H Singman, George Mason University
(924-31-152) -
3:20 p.m.
Minimal fine limits for a class of potentials.
Kohur GowriSankaran, McGill University
David H Singman*, George Mason University
(924-31-151) -
4:00 p.m.
The Nagel-Stein phenomenon in theorems of Fatou type
Fausto Di Biase*, Univ Roma Tor Vergata
(924-31-145) -
4:40 p.m.
Mimimal surfaces with univalent Gauss map onto the upper sphere.
Walter Hengartner*, Universiti Laval, Quibec.
Daoud Bshouty, Technion, Haifa.
(924-30-221)
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2:00 p.m.
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Friday September 26, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Differential Topology, II
Room B-4260, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Jacques C. Hurtubise, McGill University hurtubise@math.mcgill.ca
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University jeffrey@math.mcgill.edu
Francois Lalonde, University of Quebec at Montreal flalonde@math.uqam.ca
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2:00 p.m.
On the Caratheodory conjecture
Janna Nikolaeva*, Institute of Applied Physics, Moldova
(924-58-273) -
2:40 p.m.
On the quantum cohmology rings of Fano toric manifolds
Jeffrey Ho*, University of Illinois
(924-53-213) -
3:20 p.m.
Incompatible Poisson structures.
Oleg I. Bogoyavlenskij*, Queen's University
(924-58-121) -
4:00 p.m.
A Theorem on Lagrangian Intersections and applications to the principle of minimal action.
Daniel C. Offin*, Queens University
(924-58-45) -
4:40 p.m.
Calabi-Yau and Seiberg-Witten integrable systems
Ron Y Donagi*, UPenn
(924-14-266)
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2:00 p.m.
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Friday September 26, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Geometry, I
Room 245, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
David Avis, McGill University avis@mutt.cs.mcgill.ca
Jacob E. Goodman, City College, City University of New York jegcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Richard Pollack, Courant Institute-New York University pollack@geometry.nyu.edu
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2:00 p.m.
Five spheres in mutual contact
Harold S. M. Coxeter*, University of Toronto
(924-05-202) -
2:30 p.m.
On regular vertices of the union of planar shapes
Boris Aronov*, Brooklyn Poly
(924-52-212) -
3:00 p.m.
Sylvester's question: the probability that $n$ points are in convex position
Imre B\'ar\'any*, Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(924-52-260) -
3:30 p.m.
The area and perimeter of an intersection of disks
Marshall W. Bern*, Xerox PARC
David Eppstein,
(924-52-140) -
4:00 p.m.
On 0ptimal Route Planning in the $3$-Dimensional Space
Andr\'as Bezdek*, Auburn University, AL and Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
(924-52-257) -
4:30 p.m.
On the strong dodecahedral conjecture
K\'aroly Bezdek*,
(924-52-223) -
5:00 p.m.
Symmetric Tensegrities--A Catalog
Allen Back, Cornell University
Robert Connelly*, Cornell University
(924-52-178)
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2:00 p.m.
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Friday September 26, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
Room 225, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Israel Kleiner, York University kleiner@yorku.ca
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
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2:00 p.m.
Maaseh Hoshev - The Arithmetic, Algebra and Combinatorics of Levi ben Gershom
Shai Simonson*, Stonehill College
(924-01-192) -
2:40 p.m.
From Anaximander to St. Augustine: Early mathematical, theological, and physical conceptions of the infinite.
Gregory Moore*, McMaster University
(924-01-235) -
3:20 p.m.
Mathematics in "La Logique ou l'Art de Penser" of Port-Royal
Jacques Lefebvre*,
(924-01-198) -
4:00 p.m.
Eulerian Heuristics and the zeta function
Roger D Rosenkrantz*, Dartmouth College
(924-01-271) -
4:40 p.m.
Toward a History of Primality Testing
Hardy Grant*, York University
(924-01-233)
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2:00 p.m.
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Friday September 26, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Category Theory and Its Applications, II
Room B-4265, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Michael Barr, McGill University barr@triples.math.mcgill.ca
Ieke Moerdijk, University of Utrecht. Netherlands moerdijk@math.ruu.nl
Myles Tierney, Rutgers University tierney@math.uqam.ca
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2:30 p.m.
Computation and visualization: a new philosophy of categories
Pierre Cartier*,
(924-18-203) -
3:25 p.m.
Remarks on Categorical Fixed Points
Philip S Mulry*, Colgate University
(924-18-217) -
4:05 p.m.
From NNO to Complexity
James R Otto, Jr*,
(924-18-26) -
4:45 p.m.
On the Cardinality of Functors
Robert Pare*,
(924-18-170)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday September 26, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, II
Room 142, S Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University and CICMA darmon@math.mcGill.ca
Chantal David, Concordia University and CICMA chantal@abacus.concordia.ca
Adrian Iovita, McGill University and CICMA iovita@math.bu.edu
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1:55 p.m.
On the curves associated to certain rings of automorphic forms
Kamal Khuri-Makdisi*, Harvard University
(924-11-265) -
2:30 p.m.
Discussion -
3:05 p.m.
Galois Theory for Selmer Groups of Abelian Varieties
Ralph Greenberg*, University of Washington
(924-11-99) -
3:40 p.m.
False division towers of elliptic curves.
David E. Rohrlich*,
(924-11-52) -
4:15 p.m.
Positive Rational Points on Selmer Curves and Continued Fractions
Lin Tan*, West Chester University
(924-11-58) -
4:50 p.m.
Elliptic curves and class number divisibility
Siman Wong*, Brown University
(924-11-256)
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1:55 p.m.
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Friday September 26, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Invariant Theory, I
Room 250, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Abraham Broer, University of Montreal broera@dms.umontreal.ca
Yannis Y. Papageorgiou, C.R.M., University of Montreal papageor@crm.umontreal.ca
David L. Wehlau, Royal Military College and Queen's University wehlau@mast.queensu.ca
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2:30 p.m.
Invariant Theory Mod p
H E A Campbell*,
(924-13-68) -
3:00 p.m.
The Transfer in Modular Invariant Theory
Mara D. Neusel*, Universit\"at Magdeburg
(924-13-82) -
3:30 p.m.
Transfer between modular invariants of parabolic subgroups of $GL(n,Z/pZ)$
Nondas E Kechagias*, University of Ioannina
(924-13-185) -
4:00 p.m.
The Koszul Complex in Invariant Theory
Larry Smith*,
(924-13-112) -
4:30 p.m.
Formal modular seminvariants
R. James Shank*, Queen's University
(924-13-54) -
5:00 p.m.
Invariant Fields of Finite Irreducible Reflection Groups
Gregor Kemper*, Universit\"at Heidelberg
(924-12-22) -
5:30 p.m.
Non--Cohen-Macaulay vector invariants and a Noether bound for a Gorenstein ring of invariants
Ian P. Hughes*, Queen's University
(924-13-57) -
6:00 p.m.
On a conjecture by Guralnick and Thompson
Daniel Frohardt,
Kay Magaard*,
(924-20-286)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday September 26, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Non-Euclidean and Spacetime Geometries, II
Room 340, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Abraham A. Ungar, North Dakota State University ungar@tammy.math.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Comtrans Algebras
Jonathan D.H. Smith*, Iowa State University
(924-17-19) -
3:10 p.m.
The conjectures of Thompson and Ore
Erich W Ellers*, North Dakota State University
(924-51-67) -
3:50 p.m.
A note on degenerate solutions of hyperbolicity equations.
Carlo Petronio*, University of Pisa
Jeff Weeks, Canton, NY
(924-51-91) -
4:30 p.m.
Applications of a Matrix Decomposition to Complex Hyperbolic Geometry
Hanna M. Sandler*, American University
Jeffrey L. Hakim, American University
(924-51-69) -
5:10 p.m.
On transsymetric spaces and smooth quasigroups
Liudmila Sabinina*, Michoacan University
(924-51-156)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday September 26, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
Room 300, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Irena V. Peeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology irena@math.mit.edu
Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri mathhs@mizzou1.missouri.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Resultants and Eagon-Northcott Resolutions
John C McDonald*,
(924-14-300) -
3:30 p.m.
The Module of differentials
Ruth I. Michler*, University of North Texas
(924-13-160) -
4:00 p.m.
Cellular Resolutions of Monomial Modules
Dave Bayer*, Barnard College
Bernd Sturmfels, University of California at Berkeley
(924-14-113) -
4:30 p.m.
Spanning Trees and Quasi-Inverses
John A. Eagon*,
(924-13-251) -
5:00 p.m.
Gorenstein Divisors
Anthony A. Iarrobino, Jr.*, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115
(924-13-245) -
5:30 p.m.
The Projective Geometry of the Gale Transform
Sorin E Popescu*, Columbia University
David Eisenbud, Berkeley
(924-14-187) -
6:00 p.m.
Term Orders in Free Algebras
Reinhard C Laubenbacher*, New Mexico State University
(924-13-237)
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3:00 p.m.
Saturday September 27, 1997
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Auditorium Lobby, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal -
Saturday September 27, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
Room 310, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Irena V. Peeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology irena@math.mit.edu
Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri mathhs@mizzou1.missouri.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Intermediate rings between a local domain and its completion
William Heinzer, Purdue University
Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
Sylvia Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
(924-13-101) -
8:30 a.m.
Noetherian Rings Between a Local Domain and its Completion
Christel Rotthaus*, Michigan State University
(924-13-126) -
9:00 a.m.
Multiplicity of a Noetherian Intersection
Andrei Gabrielov*, Purdue University
(924-14-96) -
9:30 a.m.
Local factorization and monomialization of morphisms
Steven D Cutkosky*, Univ. Missouri
(924-14-177) -
10:00 a.m.
$\cal A$-graded ideals
Vesselin Gasharov*, University of Michigan
Irena Peeva, M.I.T.
(924-13-195) -
10:30 a.m.
Weak F-regularity deforms in $\Bbb Q$-Gorenstein rings
Ian M Aberbach*, University of Missouri
Mordechai Katzman, University of Minnesota
Brian MacCrimmon, University of Missouri
(924-13-173)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, I
Room 220, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Gerard G. Letac, Universit\'e Paul Sabatier, France letac@cict.fr
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8:00 a.m.
Fitting smooth histories to rotation data
Martin S. Hanna*, University of Kansas
Ted Chang, University of Virginia
(924-62-258) -
8:35 a.m.
Lie algebras, matrix spaces, and probability measures
Philip J Feinsilver*, AMS
Michael Giering,
(924-60-304) -
9:10 a.m.
Representation of an exponential dispersion model and allplications
G\'erard Letac, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
H\'el\`ene M Massam*, York University and University of Virginia
(924-62-157) -
9:45 a.m.
The representations of the Wishart distributions
Gerard G. Letac*, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
(924-62-115) -
10:20 a.m.
Deriving moments in multivariate statistics
Dietrich von Rosen*, Uppsala University
(924-62-270)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Analysis and Spectral Theory, I
Room 315, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
John Andrew Toth, McGill University toth@scylla.math.mcgill.ca
Yannis Petridis, McGill University petridis@math.mcgill.ca
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8:00 a.m.
Inversion of the F.B.I.\ transform on certain infinite radius tubes
Matthew B. Stenzel*, Ohio State University, Newark Campus
(924-58-250) -
8:30 a.m.
Propagation of growth and singularities for Schr\"odinger operators
Jared Wunsch*, Harvard University
(924-35-123) -
9:00 a.m.
Sup norms of Laplace eigenfunctions in the completely integrable case
Steve Zelditch, VIII*, Johns Hopkins University
(924-58-228) -
9:30 a.m.
Recovering asymptotics of short range potentials
Antonio Sa Barreto*,
(924-35-307) -
10:00 a.m.
Szego-type Limit Theorems
Kate Okikiolu*,
(924-35-306) -
10:30 a.m.
Limits of eigenfunctions.
Dmitry Jakobson*, Caltech and IAS
(924-58-125)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Non-Euclidean and Spacetime Geometries, III
Room 330, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Abraham A. Ungar, North Dakota State University ungar@tammy.math.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Explorations in Non-Euclidean Geometry with Software
Joe D Austin*, Rice University
(924-51-309) -
8:30 a.m.
Final stage of evolution of geometry and topology of space-time
Alexander K Guts*, Omsk State University
(924-51-77) -
9:00 a.m.
Trigonometry in Complex Hyperbolic and Elliptic Space
William M Goldman*, University of Maryland, College Park
(924-51-39) -
9:35 a.m.
Thomas Precession in Hyperbolic Geometry and in Special Theory of Relativity.
Abraham A Ungar*, North Dakota State University
(924-51-18) -
10:10 a.m.
Remarks on Riemann, based on Detlef Laugwitz's recent book {\it Bernhard Riemann}.
Abe Shenitzer*, York University
(924-51-51)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Book Sale and Exhibit
Auditorium Lobby, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal -
Saturday September 27, 1997, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Differential Topology, III
Room 240, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Jacques C. Hurtubise, McGill University hurtubise@math.mcgill.ca
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University jeffrey@math.mcgill.edu
Francois Lalonde, University of Quebec at Montreal flalonde@math.uqam.ca
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8:20 a.m.
Genus zero moduli space as a ``difference" of toric varieties
Allen I Knutson*,
Jean-Claude Hausmann,
(924-53-295) -
9:00 a.m.
Symplectic cross-sections and the equivariant index theorem
Reyer Sjamaar*,
(924-58-80) -
9:40 a.m.
Moduli spaces of flat connections and fusion
Christopher T Woodward*, Harvard University
(924-53-272) -
10:20 a.m.
Cobordism and moduli spaces of flat connections on 2-manifolds
Eckhard Meinrenken*, MIT
(924-53-190)
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8:20 a.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Geometry, II
Room 245, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
David Avis, McGill University avis@mutt.cs.mcgill.ca
Jacob E. Goodman, City College, City University of New York jegcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Richard Pollack, Courant Institute-New York University pollack@geometry.nyu.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Rhombic isohedra and rectangle-faced isohedra
Branko Gr\"unbaum*, University of Washington
(924-52-48) -
9:00 a.m.
The shape of a 3D point set
Nina Amenta*, University of Texas at Austin
Marshall Bern, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
(924-68-263) -
9:30 a.m.
The multiplicity of small distances among points
Gyorgy Csizmadia*,
(924-52-64) -
10:00 a.m.
Illumination and exposition of a convex $n$-body depending on its sharpness
Boris V. Dekster*, Mount Allison University
(924-52-09) -
10:30 a.m.
The {\bf cd}-index of zonotopes and hyperplane arrangements
Richard Ehrenborg*, Cornell University
(924-05-179)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariant Theory, II
Room 250, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Abraham Broer, University of Montreal broera@dms.umontreal.ca
Yannis Y. Papageorgiou, C.R.M., University of Montreal papageor@crm.umontreal.ca
David L. Wehlau, Royal Military College and Queen's University wehlau@mast.queensu.ca
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8:30 a.m.
Macdonald Polynomials and Vector Bundles over the Hilbert Scheme of Points in the Plane
Carol H. Chang*, University of California, San Diego
(924-05-181) -
9:00 a.m.
Applications of standard domino tableaux to representation theory
William M. McGovern*, University of Washington
(924-22-20) -
9:30 a.m.
Orbits and invariants associated with symmetric varieties
Aloysius G Helminck*, North Carolina State University
Gerald W Schwarz, Brandeis University
(924-20-194) -
10:00 a.m.
Invariant holonomic systems on a reductive Lie algebra and the Zuckerman functor
Markus Hunziker*, Brandeis University
(924-14-222) -
10:30 a.m.
Quantization and Invariant Theory: construction of covariant differential operators on homogeneous spaces.
Ranee K. Brylinski*, Penn State University
(924-58-136)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 8:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Category Theory and Its Applications, III
Room 320, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Michael Barr, McGill University barr@triples.math.mcgill.ca
Ieke Moerdijk, University of Utrecht. Netherlands moerdijk@math.ruu.nl
Myles Tierney, Rutgers University tierney@math.uqam.ca
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8:45 a.m.
Toposes of Laws of Motion
F. William Lawvere*, SUNY Buffalo
(924-18-206) -
9:40 a.m.
Conceptual Mathematics, Categories, Functors, and Tensors
Walter Noll*,
(924-18-247) -
10:20 a.m.
Geometric Construction of the Levi-Civita Parallelism
Anders Kock*, Aarhus University, Denmark
(924-53-131)
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8:45 a.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Potential Theory, III
Room 230, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Kohur Gowri Sankaran, McGill University gowri@math.McGill.ca
David H. Singman, George Mason University dsingman@osf1.gmu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Finding Zero Sets for the Best Approach to the Boundary.
Peter Albert Loeb*, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
J\"urgen E. Bliedtner, University of Frankfurt a.M.
(924-31-93) -
9:40 a.m.
Applications of Reverse Markov Inequalities to Potential Theory, Probability and Analysis
Murali Rao*, University of Florida
(924-31-285) -
10:20 a.m.
Distributions in local $H^p$ spaces.
Galia D. Dafni*, Northwestern University
(924-42-146)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, III
Room 325, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University and CICMA darmon@math.mcGill.ca
Chantal David, Concordia University and CICMA chantal@abacus.concordia.ca
Adrian Iovita, McGill University and CICMA iovita@math.bu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Adding new pages to the genus-three bestiary
Everett W. Howe*, Center for Communications Research, La Jolla
(924-14-108) -
9:35 a.m.
Moduli spaces of abelian varieties in positive characteristic
Jeffrey D Achter*, University of Pennsylvania
(924-14-24) -
10:10 a.m.
Central critical values of modular $L$-functions
Ken Ono*, Penn State University
(924-11-53)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
Room 225, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Israel Kleiner, York University kleiner@yorku.ca
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The concept of integration in Euler's analysis
Craig Fraser*, University of Toronto
(924-01-129)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Session on Contributed Papers, I
Room 300, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
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9:00 a.m.
A basis of cyclotomic units of a compositum of quadratic fields
Allal ElAouni*,
(924-11-119) -
9:15 a.m.
On cyclotomic units
Said ElMorchid*,
(924-11-118) -
9:30 a.m.
Stochastic integral not transferable
Isidore Fleischer*, Centre of Mathematical Research
(924-28-180) -
9:45 a.m.
A model towards a constructive interpretation of the Bell inequalities and non-locality.
Emmanuel Galatoulas*, University of London
(924-81-252) -
10:00 a.m.
Angular Ratio Transference (A New Technique in Plane Geometry)
James H Mulberry*,
(924-41-13) -
10:15 a.m.
Closed walks on weighted graphs
Gregory T Quenell*, Oberlin College
(924-05-103) -
10:30 a.m.
Topological Complexity, Computability, and Critical Point Theory
P. Robert Kotiuga, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
Vladimir Retakh*, Harvard University
(924-57-61)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Invariants of groupoids related to foliations.
Room 110, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
I. Moerdijk*, University of Utrecht, Netherlands -
Saturday September 27, 1997, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Einstein metrics and topology.
Room 110, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Dieter Kotschick*, Universit\" at Basel and Max-Planck-Institute f\" ur Mathematik, Bonn -
Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Potential Theory, IV
Room 230, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Kohur Gowri Sankaran, McGill University gowri@math.McGill.ca
David H. Singman, George Mason University dsingman@osf1.gmu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
A Sufficient Mass-density condition for a Bernstein-Markov Inequality.
Thomas Bloom*, University of Tornoto
Norman Levenberg, University of Auckland
(924-32-218) -
3:10 p.m.
Linear Invariant Families in Complex n-Space
Ted J. Suffridge*, University of Kentucky
John A. Pfaltzgraff, University of North Carolina
(924-32-34) -
3:50 p.m.
Inverse Mappings
Paul M Gauthier*, Universite de Montreal
(924-32-155) -
4:30 p.m.
Construction of Some Harmonic Mappings in the Punctured Disk
Michael D. Galloy*, University of Kentucky
(924-30-36)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Differential Topology, IV
Room 240, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Jacques C. Hurtubise, McGill University hurtubise@math.mcgill.ca
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University jeffrey@math.mcgill.edu
Francois Lalonde, University of Quebec at Montreal flalonde@math.uqam.ca
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2:30 p.m.
Relative equilibria at singular points of the moment map
Eugene Lerman*,
(924-58-111) -
3:10 p.m.
Floer Homology and Arnold Conjecture
Gang Liu*,
Gang Tian,
(924-53-211) -
3:50 p.m.
The topology of the symplectomorphism group of $S^2\times S^2$
Dusa McDuff*, SUNY at Stony Brook
Miguel Abreu,
(924-58-299) -
4:30 p.m.
Contact homology
Yakov Eliashberg*, Stanford University
(924-53-305)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Geometry, III
Room 245, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
David Avis, McGill University avis@mutt.cs.mcgill.ca
Jacob E. Goodman, City Collge, City University of New York jegcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Richard Pollack, Courant Institute-New York University pollack@geometry.nyu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
On Some Problems in Combinatorial Geometry
Zolt\'an F\"uredi*, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
(924-52-313) -
3:00 p.m.
Packing and covering the cube with equal balls.
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg*,
(924-52-239) -
3:30 p.m.
Pure Quasicrystals
Jeffrey C. Lagarias*, AT&T Labs - Research
(924-52-254) -
4:00 p.m.
An application of combinatorial convexity to a problem of visual processing.
Ted Lewis*, University of Alberta
Balder Von Hohenbalken, University of Alberta
(924-52-199) -
4:30 p.m.
New applications of the Regularity Lemma
Janos Pach*,
(924-52-220) -
5:00 p.m.
On the Visibility Graph of Convex Translates
David Rappaport*, Queen's University
(924-52-109)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
Room 310, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Irena V. Peeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology irena@math.mit.edu
Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri mathhs@mizzou1.missouri.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Capelli-Type Identities and Resolutions of Weyl Modules.
David A Buchsbaum*, Brandeis University
Gian-Carlo Rota, M.I.T.
(924-13-25) -
3:00 p.m.
Gor(T) and other classifying spaces for graded artinian level algebras
Anthony V. Geramita*, Queen's University(Kingston, Canada), University of Genova (Genova, Italy)
(924-13-12) -
3:30 p.m.
Hilbert-Kunz functions of quartics
Paul Monsky*, Brandeis University
(924-13-49) -
4:00 p.m.
Some results on test elements
Ian M Aberbach, University of Missouri
Brian MacCrimmon*, University of Missouri
(924-13-175) -
4:30 p.m.
Determinantal Varieties and moduli spaces for piecewise polynomial functions
Henry K Schenck*, Cornell University
(924-13-116) -
5:00 p.m.
Chern classes of regular embeddings.
Paul C. Roberts*, University of Utah
(924-13-224)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Category Theory and Its Applications, IV
Room 320, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Michael Barr, McGill University barr@triples.math.mcgill.ca
Ieke Moerdijk, University of Utrecht. Netherlands moerdijk@math.ruu.nl
Myles Tierney, Rutgers University tierney@math.uqam.ca
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2:30 p.m.
Categories and Representation Theory
Peter Gabriel*,
(924-18-204) -
3:25 p.m.
Semistabilization and infinite loop-spaces
Alex Heller*, Graduate School, C.U.N.Y.
(924-18-132) -
4:05 p.m.
Multirelations and power quantales
Kimmo I Rosenthal*, Union College
(924-18-147) -
4:45 p.m.
Triples vs. Theories -- one last time
Fred E. J. Linton*,
(924-18-29)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, IV
Room 325, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University and CICMA darmon@math.mcGill.ca
Chantal David, Concordia University and CICMA chantal@abacus.concordia.ca
Adrian Iovita, McGill University and CICMA iovita@math.bu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Uniformity of rational and integral points - recent progress
Dan Abramovich*, AMS
(924-11-40) -
3:05 p.m.
Uniform bounds for stably integral points on elliptic curves
Patricia L Pacelli*,
(924-11-248) -
3:40 p.m.
Recent results in Galois module theory
Adebisi Agboola*,
(924-11-90) -
4:15 p.m.
Height zeta functions
Yuri Tschinkel*, U.I.C.
(924-11-75) -
4:50 p.m.
Modular forms and potentially semistable Galois representations
Fred Diamond*, Rutgers University
(924-11-267)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Invariant Theory, III
Room 250, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Abraham Broer, University of Montreal broera@dms.umontreal.ca
Yannis Y. Papageorgiou, C.R.M., University of Montreal papageor@crm.umontreal.ca
David L. Wehlau, Royal Military College and Queen's University wehlau@mast.queensu.ca
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2:30 p.m.
Maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules supported in determinantal varieties.
Jerzy M Weyman*, Northeastern University
(924-13-214) -
3:00 p.m.
Polynomial bounds for rings of invariants
Harm Derksen*, University of Basel
(924-13-59) -
3:30 p.m.
Invariant Polynomials Associated with Multiplicity Free Actions
Gail D.L. Ratcliff*, University of Missouri - St.Louis
Chal Benson, University of Missouri - St.Louis
(924-22-243) -
4:00 p.m.
Generalized Binomial Coefficients for Multiplicity Free Actions
Chal Benson*, University of Missouri - St.Louis
Gail Ratcliff, University of Missouri - St.Louis
(924-22-242) -
4:30 p.m.
Invariant theory of classical groups and Levi subgroups.
Helmer Aslaksen*,
Eng-Chye Tan,
Chen-Bo Zhu,
(924-15-278) -
5:00 p.m.
Projections to P2 of six lines in P3.
Frank Grosshans*, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
(924-99-316)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, II
Room 220, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Gerard G. Letac, Universit\'e Paul Sabatier, France letac@cict.fr
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2:30 p.m.
Cumulants, partition lattices and generalizations of the FKG inequality
H\'el\`ene M. Massam,
Donald St.P. Richards*,
(924-60-182) -
3:05 p.m.
Estimation and testing for lattice conditional independence models on Euclidean Jordan algebras
Erhard Neher*, University of Ottawa
(924-62-189) -
3:40 p.m.
The covariance structure of random permutations
Marlos Viana*, The University of Illinois at Chicago
(924-62-227)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Analysis and Spectral Theory, II
Room 315, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
John Andrew Toth, McGill University toth@scylla.math.mcgill.ca
Yannis Petridis, McGill University petridis@math.mcgill.ca
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2:30 p.m.
Continuous families of isospectral closed Riemannian manifolds with different local geometry
Carolyn S Gordon*,
Ruth Gornet,
Dorothee Schueth,
David L Webb,
Edward N Wilson,
(924-58-226) -
3:00 p.m.
On the discrete spectrum of certain noncompact manifolds
Lizhen Ji*, University of Michigan
(924-58-135) -
3:30 p.m.
Exit time moments and the geometry of Euclidean domains
Patrick T McDonald*,
Kimberly K Kinateder,
(924-35-302) -
4:00 p.m.
Geometry of symplectic connections
Israel M Gelfand, Rutgers University
Vladimir S Retakh, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Mikhail A Shubin*, Northeastern University
(924-53-114) -
4:30 p.m.
K-area and scalar curvature
Maung Min-Oo*,
(924-53-110) -
5:00 p.m.
Upper Bounds for the Writhing of Knots and the Helicity of Vector Fields
Jason Cantarella, University of Pennsylvania
Dennis DeTurck*, University of Pennsylvania
Herman Gluck, University of Pennsylvania
(924-53-193)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV
Room 225, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Israel Kleiner, York University kleiner@yorku.ca
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Who is Ragsdale of the Ragsdale conjecture?
Judy Green*, Marymount University
(924-01-282) -
3:10 p.m.
Toward an unified algebra in the middle of the 17th century
Louis Charbonneau*,
(924-01-191) -
3:50 p.m.
Some Thoughts on Nicomachean Mathematics
James J Tattersall*, Providence College
(924-01-139) -
4:30 p.m.
History of Two
J. Lambek*, McGill University
(924-01-94)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Non-Euclidean and Spacetime Geometries, IV
Room 330, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Abraham A. Ungar, North Dakota State University ungar@tammy.math.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Gyrogroups and symmetric spaces of non-compact type
Werner Krammer*, Institut fur Theoretische Physik
(924-51-84) -
3:10 p.m.
Loopuscular Geometry
Lev V Sabinin*, Russian Friendship of Nations University
(924-20-31) -
3:50 p.m.
Non-Euclidean Geometry and Gyrogroups
Michael K Kinyon*, Indiana University South Bend
(924-51-37) -
4:30 p.m.
On the equivalence of categories of Riemannian globally symmetric spaces of non-compact type and gyro-vector spaces
Oliver Jones*, North Dakota State University
(924-51-41) -
5:10 p.m.
Quantization of spin$^c$ manifolds
Ana Canas da Silva*,
(924-53-230)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday September 27, 1997, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Leonard M. and Eleanor B. Blumenthal Award for the Advancement of Research in Pure Mathematics Presentation and Lecture
Presentation of the award by {\bf Hendrik. W. Lenstra Jr}., University of California, Berkeley
Room 110, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Rational points: The case of elliptic curves
Room 110, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Lo\"ic Merel*, Universit\'e Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Sunday September 28, 1997
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Auditorium Lobby, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal -
Sunday September 28, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, IV
Room 310, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Irena V. Peeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology irena@math.mit.edu
Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri mathhs@mizzou1.missouri.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Resolutions of determinantal ideals and the homology of chessboard and matching complexes
Vic Reiner*, Univ. of Minnesota
Joel Roberts, Univ. of Minnesota
(924-13-219) -
8:30 a.m.
Classification of Thom-Boardman strata that are Cohen-Macaulay along determinantal strata.
Jerzy M Weyman*, Northeastern University
(924-13-215) -
9:00 a.m.
Generalized principal ideal theorems
David Eisenbud, MSRI
Bernd Ulrich*, Michigan State University
(924-13-197) -
9:30 a.m.
On depth properties of the associated graded ring of $m$-primary ideals.
Alberto Corso, Purdue University
Claudia Polini*, Michigan State University
Maria Vaz Pinto, Universidade de Lisboa
(924-13-196) -
10:00 a.m.
Infinite free complexes with finite length homologies in characteristic $p(>0)$.
Sankar P. Dutta*, University of Illinois, Department of Mathematics
(924-13-76) -
10:30 a.m.
On the weak subintegral closure of ideals
Marie A. Vitulli*, University of Oregon
(924-13-97)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariant Theory, IV
Room 250, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Abraham Broer, University of Montreal broera@dms.umontreal.ca
Yannis Y. Papageorgiou, C.R.M., University of Montreal papageor@crm.umontreal.ca
David L. Wehlau, Royal Military College and Queen's University wehlau@mast.queensu.ca
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8:00 a.m.
Invariant Theory for Tame Representations of Infinite-Dimensional Classical Groups
Tuong Ton-That*, University of Iowa
(924-22-210) -
8:30 a.m.
Modules with rational action and rings of invariants
Andy R Magid*,
(924-20-207) -
9:00 a.m.
On Locally Trivial $G_{a}$ Actions
James K Deveney*, Virginia Commonwealth University
David R Finston, New Mexico State University
(924-14-56) -
9:30 a.m.
Complete Intersections in Toric Varieties
Amassa C. Fauntleroy*,
(924-14-208) -
10:00 a.m.
Bi-invariant domains in complex semisimple group
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8:00 a.m.