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
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 groups
Ralph J Bremigan*, Ball State University
(924-20-188) -
10:30 a.m.
Theory of Tensor Invariants of Dynamical Systems
Oleg I. Bogoyavlenskij*, Queen's University
(924-58-122)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Analysis and Spectral Theory, III
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.
Corrugated Boundaries amd AC Spectrum
Vojkan Jaksic*, Assistant Professor
Yoram Last, Assistant Proffesor
(924-47-231) -
8:30 a.m.
Heat content asymptotics
Sylvie Desjardins*,
(924-35-308) -
9:00 a.m.
Heat Asymptotics on Periodic Spaces
John W. Lott*, University of Michigan
(924-58-92) -
9:30 a.m.
Eta invariants of Dirac operators on collapsing circle bundles over Riemann surfaces
Liviu I. Nicolaescu*,
(924-58-28)
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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 Non-Euclidean and Spacetime Geometries, V
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.
www.Hyperbolic.Geometry.edu -- The Internet as an Educational Tool
Colleen M Robles*, University of Washington
(924-51-78) -
8:35 a.m.
Relativity on 3-manifolds
Dipak K Sen*, University of Toronto
(924-83-66) -
9:10 a.m.
Perfect Transsymmetric Spaces
Larissa V. Sbitneva*, Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics
Lev V. Sabinin, Russian Friendship of Nations University
(924-20-32) -
9:45 a.m.
Dynamics on Lorentz manifolds
Scot Adams*, University of Minnesota
(924-51-46) -
10:20 a.m.
Hyperbolic Geometry and Conformal Field Theory
Peter H. Kleban*, University of Maine
(924-51-172)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Book Sale and Exhibit
Auditorium Lobby, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal -
Sunday September 28, 1997, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Differential Topology, V
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.
Index of contact transformations
David Borthwick,
Ana Canas da Silva*,
Alan Weinstein,
(924-53-229) -
9:00 a.m.
Exotic components of $F$ theory moduli spaces
Ludmil V Katzarkov, UC Irvine
Tony G Pantev*, University of Pennsylvania
(924-14-283) -
9:40 a.m.
On a formula of Goresky, Kottwitz and MacPherson
Susan Tolman*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(924-58-289) -
10:20 a.m.
On the cohomology rings of symplectic quotients
Jonathan Weitsman*, University of California
(924-58-292)
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8:20 a.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Geometry, IV
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.
On the Mixing Rate of the Triangulation Walk.
Michael Molloy, University of Toronto
Bruce Reed, CNRS
William Steiger*, Rutgers University
(924-05-225) -
9:00 a.m.
Subdivision of a Rectangle into Polygons of Equal Area
Mario Szegedy*, ATT Labs-Research
(924-52-249) -
9:30 a.m.
The translative kissing number of tetrahedra is eighteen
Istvan Talata*, Auburn University
(924-52-234) -
10:00 a.m.
A generalization of the Erd\H os-Szekeres theorem to convex sets
J\'anos Pach,
G\'eza T\'oth*,
(924-52-137) -
10:30 a.m.
Constrained Facility Location
Ferran Hurtado, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya
Vera Sacristan, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya
Godfried Toussaint*, McGill University
(924-68-106)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 8:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Category Theory and Its Applications, V
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.
Dg-thickenings of classifying spaces.
Mikhail M Kapranov*,
(924-18-255) -
9:40 a.m.
The Petit Topos of Globular Sets
Ross H Street*, Macquarie University
(924-18-130) -
10:20 a.m.
Opetopes and bar constructions
Todd H. Trimble*,
(924-18-288)
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8:45 a.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Potential Theory, V
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.
Growth estimates for modified Poisson integrals
Erik O Talvila*, University of Waterloo
(924-31-176) -
9:40 a.m.
Extreme points of the unit ball of the Bloch space of a homogeneous tree
Joel M Cohen, University of Maryland
Flavia Colonna*, George Mason University
(924-31-153) -
10:20 a.m.
Harmonic Approximation on closed subsets of ${\bf R}^n$.
Andr\'e Boivin*, University of Western Ontario
Peter V. Paramonov, Moscow State University
(924-31-166)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, V
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.
On the analytic rank of $J_0(q)$
Emmanuel G. Kowalski*, Rutgers University
Philippe Michel, Universite de Paris Sud
(924-11-44) -
9:35 a.m.
Discussion -
10:10 a.m.
Twists of Modular Forms and Elliptic Curves.
Kevin James*, Pennsylvania State University
(924-11-43)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Session on Contributed Papers, II
Room 225, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
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9:00 a.m.
How to Fill a (Rational) Mixed Volume
J. Maurice Rojas*, MIT
(924-52-297) -
9:15 a.m.
Categorial problems of $H$ - Limits of Hausdorff Spectra of $H$ - Spaces
Eugeny, Ivanovich E.I. Smirnov*,
(924-46-14) -
9:30 a.m.
Bi-Hamiltonian formalism: A constructive approach (In memory of Irene Dorfman).
Roman G. Smirnov*,
(924-58-100) -
9:45 a.m.
Best Uniform Approximation of Complex-Valued Functions by Generalized Polynomials Having Restricted Ranges
Georgey S. Smirnov,
Roman G. Smirnov*,
(924-41-89) -
10:00 a.m.
Solutions of a certain family of diophantine equations of degree 4
Alain Togbe*,
(924-11-117) -
10:15 a.m.
Fundamental systems of units for families of fields of degree 4 and degree 6
M'hammed Ziane*,
(924-11-120) -
10:30 a.m.
Reducibility of Partially Invariant Solutions of PDE's.
Terrance J. Quinn*,
Sanjay K. Rai,
C.C.A. Sastri,
(924-35-314)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 9:15 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, III
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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9:15 a.m.
Density estimation on the circle and FFT.
Harrie Hendriks*, University of Nijmegen
(924-62-232) -
9:50 a.m.
Canonical Estimating Functions
Abram M. Kagan*, University of Maryland
(924-62-216) -
10:25 a.m.
Umbral Calculus and Exponential Families
Alessandro Di Bucchianico*, Eindhoven University of Technology
(924-62-163)
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9:15 a.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Convex Geometry on Affine Grassmannians and Geometric Transversals.
Room 110, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Jacob E. Goodman*, City College, City University of New York
(924-52-236) -
Sunday September 28, 1997, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Symplectic topology, an interface between geometry and physics.
Room 110, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Francois Lalonde*, University of Quebec at Montreal -
Sunday September 28, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Potential Theory, VI
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.
Approximation on Long Islands
Ashot Nersessian*, Concordia University
Kohur GowriSankaran, McGill University
(924-31-279) -
3:10 p.m.
Sets of Determination for Poisson-Szego Integrals
Xun Zhang*, McGill University
(924-31-240) -
3:50 p.m.
Boundary behaviour of harmonic functions.
Luna Zaru*, McGill University
(924-31-274)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Differential Topology, VI
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.
Contact structures, Stein manifolds and Seiberg-Witten invariants
Gordana Matic*, University of Georgia
Paolo Lisca, University of Pisa, Italy
(924-58-294) -
3:10 p.m.
Null sets of Hofer-Zehnder capacity
Tadashi F. Tokieda*,
(924-53-287) -
3:50 p.m.
Moduli spaces of holomorphic bundles and the Verlinde formula
Lisa Claire Jeffrey*, McGill University
(924-58-276) -
4:30 p.m.
Framed parabolic bundles
Jacques Hurtubise*, McGill University
Lisa Jeffrey, McGill University
(924-14-293)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Geometry, V
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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2:30 p.m.
Flipping Edges of Triangulations in Parallel
Ferran Hurtado, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya
Marc Noy, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya
Jorge Urrutia*, University of Ottawa
(924-05-261) -
3:00 p.m.
On constructing piecewise linear homeomorphisms, isomorphic triangulations and pairwise disjoint paths in the plane
Rephael Wenger*, The Ohio State University
(924-57-169) -
3:30 p.m.
Independence of Geometric Constraints for CAD
Walter J. Whiteley*, York University
(924-52-105) -
4:00 p.m.
On Configurations of Moving Points
Naixun Pei, McGill University
Sue Whitesides*, McGill University
(924-68-311)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, V
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.
Curvature for Infinite Resolutions
Luchezar L Avramov*, Purdue University
(924-13-246) -
3:00 p.m.
The structure of closed ideals
Joseph P. Brennan*, North Dakota State University
Wolmer V. Vasconcelos, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(924-13-134) -
3:30 p.m.
Local rings of finite Cohen-Macaulay type
Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
(924-13-47) -
4:00 p.m.
Characterizing Etale Intermediate Rings $A \subseteq D \subseteq A^{hs}$
Mark S. McCormick*, Michigan State University
(924-13-73)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Category Theory and Its Applications, VI
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.
Objective number theory
Stephen H Schanuel*, SUNY at Buffalo, NY (USA)
(924-18-154) -
3:25 p.m.
Syntactic characterizations of various classes of locally presentable categories.
Aurelio Carboni*,
(924-18-142) -
4:05 p.m.
What is the category of sets? (A tribute to Bill Lawvere)
J. Lambek*, McGill University
(924-18-95) -
4:45 p.m.
Higher-dimensional multicategories
Claudio A Hermida*, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2K6
(924-18-253)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, VI
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.
Discussion -
3:05 p.m.
Curves of small genus. Preliminary report.
Armand Brumer*, Fordham University
(924-14-284) -
3:40 p.m.
Base change for the conjecture of Brumer-Stark
David R Hayes*, UMASS Amherst
(924-11-85) -
4:15 p.m.
Supersingular primes of elliptic curves and Drinfeld modules
Bjorn Poonen*, University of California at Berkeley
(924-11-238) -
4:50 p.m.
Geometric proofs of classical reciprocity laws
David Grant*, University of Colorado at Boulder
(924-11-74)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Invariant Theory, V
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.
Nilpotent orbit varieties and the atomic decomposition of the $q$-Kostka polynomials
William Brockman*, Michigan State University
Mark Haiman, University of California, San Diego
(924-05-200) -
3:00 p.m.
Springer correspondence and small modules for simple Lie groups
Mark Reeder*, Boston College
(924-22-50) -
3:30 p.m.
Multisymmetric Functions
John Paul Dalbec*,
(924-05-205) -
4:00 p.m.
Twisted Chow Forms and Intrinsic Elimination Theory
J. Maurice Rojas*, MIT
(924-14-298)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday September 28, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Non-Euclidean and Spacetime Geometries, VI
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