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1997 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Montreal, Quebec Canada, September 26-28, 1997
Meeting #924

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

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Friday September 26, 1997

• 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
  

  • 8:45 a.m.
    The theory of $h$-categories
    Andr\'e Joyal*,
    (924-18-301)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Functions versus distributions on Grothendieck toposes
    Marta Bunge*,
    (924-18-143)
• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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)
• 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
  

  • 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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