AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
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
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