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1996 Fall Western Sectional Meeting
Pasadena, CA, November 16-17, 1996
Meeting #917

Associate secretaries:
William A Harris, Jr, AMS wharris@math.usc.edu

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Saturday November 16, 1996

• Saturday November 16, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Their Representations, I
  Room 107, Downs Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Davida Fischman, California State University, San Bernardino fischman@math.csusb.edu
  M. Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California smontgom@mtha.usc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Brauer Groups of Quantum Groups and Braided Categories.
    Fred Van Oystaeyen*, University of Antwerp, Belgium
    (917-16-132)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Galois extensions for Co-Frobenius Hopf Algebras.
    Margaret Beattie*, Mount Allison University, Canada
    Sorin Dascalescu, University of Bucharest, Romania
    Serban Raianu, University of Bucharest, Romania
    (917-16-135)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hopf algebras over noncommutative rings
    Peter C. Schauenburg*, Universitat Munchen, Germany
    (917-16-116)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Weak and Strong Structure Theorems.
    Claudia Menini*, Universit\'a degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy
    (917-16-102)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Isomorphic Galois Extensions
    Robert G. Underwood*, Auburn University at Montgomery
    (917-13-106)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The $R/k$-bialgebra of trees and differential algebra
    Richard G. Larson*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (917-16-41)
• Saturday November 16, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
  Room 151, Sloan Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Shawnee L. McMurran, Pomona College
  James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Pythagoras and the Crisis over Incommensurability
    Samuel S. Kutler*, CSHPM
    (917-01-95)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The History of the Bachet Equation
    William Sherron Anglin*, University of Toronto
    (917-01-16)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Mathematician's Tale: The Life of Vito Volterra
    Judith Goodstein*, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
    (917-01-80)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A research student in Cambridge, 1931-1933.
    John Todd*, Caltech
    (917-01-14)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Multiple Fourier Series in the Post World War II Era.
    Victor L. Shapiro*, University of California, Riverside
    (917-01-78)
• Saturday November 16, 1996, 8:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Group Actions and Noncommutative Algebra, I
  Room 103, Downs Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Zinovy Reichstein, Oregon State University zinovy@math.orst.edu
  Nikolaus Vonessen, University of Montana vonessen@selway.umt.edu
  

  • 8:40 a.m.
    Actions of Picard groups on graded rings.
    Jeremy Haefner*, University of Colorado
    Angel del R\'io, Universidad de Murcia
    (917-16-94)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    On moduli spaces of stable vector bundles
    Yi Hu*, University of California Berkeley
    (917-14-115)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Actions of algebraic groups on the spectrum of rational ideals
    Nikolaus Vonessen*, University of Montana
    (917-16-73)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    Multiplicative actions of finite groups
    Martin W. Lorenz*, Temple University, Philadelphia
    (917-16-46)
• Saturday November 16, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis on Singular and Noncompact Spaces, I
  Room 159, Sloan Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California xdai@mtha.usc.edu
  Rafe R. Mazzeo, Stanford University mazzeo@hodge.stanford.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Adiabatic limits of the Seiberg-Witten equations on Seifert manifolds
    Liviu I. Nicolaescu*, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
    (917-58-45)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Seiberg-Witten Floer Theory
    Matilde Marcolli*, The University of Chicago
    (917-57-52)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    On the space of self-dual Einstein metrics on the 4-ball
    John M. Lee*, University of Washington
    Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
    (917-53-98)
• Saturday November 16, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 153, Sloan Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin llave@math.utexas.edu
  Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Arizona maciejw@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Perturbations of Hamiltonian Normal Forms
    Jerrold E. Marsden*, Caltech
    (917-58-55)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Equichordal Point Problem and the existence of heterolinic and homoclinic connections
    Marek R. Rychlik*, University of Arizona
    (917-39-47)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The dynamics of contact structures
    Robert W. Ghrist*, University of Texas, Austin
    John B. Etnyre, University of Texas, Austin
    (917-57-53)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some aspects of the Arnold's diffusion problem
    Michael Rudnev*, Caltech
    (917-34-84)
• Saturday November 16, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability, I
  Room 114, E. Bridge Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Thomas M. Liggett, University of California, Los Angeles tml@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Asymmetric Random Cluster Model and Comparisons Among Potts Models
    Kenneth S. Alexander*, University of Southern California
    (917-60-50)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    A Strict Inequality Between Site and Bond Critical Probabilities
    Alan M Stacey*, University of Cambridge
    (917-60-70)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Mixing and Determinism in Random Fields
    Robert M. Burton*, Oregon State University
    (917-60-75)
• Saturday November 16, 1996, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Geometric microlocal analysis and its applications
  Room 201, E. Bridge Laboratory
  Rafe Mazzeo*, Stanford University
  (917-58-24)
• Saturday November 16, 1996, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The Ising model in recent years: Wulff droplets, metastability and strong mixing properties.
  Room 201, E. Bridge Laboratory
  Roberto Henrique Schonmann*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (917-60-10)
• Saturday November 16, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis on Singular and Noncompact Spaces, II
  Room 159, Sloan Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California xdai@mtha.usc.edu
  Rafe R. Mazzeo, Stanford University mazzeo@hodge.stanford.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Gluing Self-Dual 4-Orbifolds
    Jian Zhou*, UC at Santa Barbara
    (917-53-96)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Shifted $L^2$-Invariants
    John W. Lott*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (917-53-99)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Gluing Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces
    Daniel Pollack*, University of Washington
    (917-58-111)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Higher Spectral Flow.
    Xianzhe Dai*, USC
    Weiping Zhang, Nankai Institute of Mathematics, Tainjing, PRC
    (917-58-64)
• Saturday November 16, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 153, Sloan Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin llave@math.utexas.edu
  Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Arizona maciejw@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Denjoy minimal sets are far from affine.
    Alec Norton*, University of Texas, Austin
    (917-58-48)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Non-invertible Piecewise Continous Mappings and Subshifts of Finite Type
    Arek J. Goetz*, Boston University
    (917-58-74)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Estimating the dimension of spectral measures of ergodic transformations and flows.
    Oliver R. Knill*, University of Arizona, Tucson
    A. Hof, Caltch
    (917-58-37)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Topics in holomorphic dynamics
    Ricardo Perez-Marco*, Univ of Cal, Los Angeles
    (917-58-113)
• Saturday November 16, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Group Actions and Noncommutative Algebra, II
  Room 103, Downs Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Zinovy Reichstein, Oregon State University zinovy@math.orst.edu
  Nikolaus Vonessen, University of Montana vonessen@selway.umt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Near subgroups of finite groups
    Michael Aschbacher*, Caltech
    (917-20-19)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Crossed products of restricted enveloping algebras
    Mark C. Wilson*, University of Auckland
    (917-16-56)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Torsion in the Class Group of a Noncommutative Curve
    Christopher J. Pappacena*, University of Southern Claifornia
    (917-16-68)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Linear Ultrafilters
    George M. Bergman*, University of California, Berkeley
    Ehud Hrushovski, Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
    (917-16-60)
  • 5:20 p.m.
    Higher commutators, ideals, and cardinality
    Charles P. Lanski*, University of Southern California
    (917-16-105)
• Saturday November 16, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
  Room 151, Sloan Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Shawnee L. McMurran, Pomona College
  James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    P.A.M. Dirac
    Shawnee L. McMurran*, Pomona College
    (917-01-69)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Solution to an ancient combinatorial riddle
    Richard P. Stanley*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (917-01-22)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cubic curves, coordinates and classification: Geometric style between Newton and Euler.
    John D. Andersen*, Institute for History and Philosphy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto
    (917-01-109)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Number Theoretic Legacy of Sophie Germain
    Reinhard C Laubenbacher*, New Mexico State University
    David Pengelley, New Mexico State University
    (917-01-36)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Report on the Institute in the History of Mathematics and its Use in Teaching
    David Barsky, California State University, San Marcos
    Janet Beery, University of Redlands
    John Burns, Mt. San Antonio College
    Shirley Gray, California State University, Los Angeles
    Lilian Metlitzky*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Robert Stein, California State University, San Bernardino
    (917-01-119)
• Saturday November 16, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Their Representations, II
  Room 107, Downs Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Davida Fischman, California State University, San Bernardino fischman@math.csusb.edu
  M. Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California smontgom@mtha.usc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Cocycle deformations of quantum matrix bialgebras.
    Mitsuhiro Takeuchi*, University of Tsukuba, Japan
    (917-16-89)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quasi-Discrete Quantums
    A. Van Daele, Katholieke Univ. Leuven
    Yinhuo Zhang*, University of Antwerp, Belgium
    (917-16-131)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quantum Coalgebras
    David E. Radford*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (917-16-123)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quantum convolution when $q$ is not a root of unity
    Earl J. Taft*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (917-16-108)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Quantum determinant and Dieudonne determinant
    Horia C. Pop*, University of Iowa
    (917-16-38)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Normal elements in braided bialgebras
    Kenneth R Goodearl*, University of California at Santa Barbara
    Kenneth A Brown, University of Glasgow
    (917-16-110)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Injective comodules for the quantized function coalgebra of SL(2) at a root of 1.
    William Chin*, DePaul University
    Krop Leonid, DePaul University
    (917-17-67)
• Saturday November 16, 1996, 3:30 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability, II
  Room 114, E. Bridge Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Thomas M. Liggett, University of California, Los Angeles tml@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    Almost-sure mixing for stochastic flows of diffeomorphisms
    Peter H Baxendale*, University of Southern California
    (917-60-71)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Properties of critical threshold growth dynamics
    Janko Gravner*, University of California, Davis
    (917-60-17)
  • 4:50 p.m.
    Deterministic and Stochastic Models for Coalescence: A Survey of the Mean-Field Theory
    David J. Aldous*, University of California, Berkeley
    (917-60-31)

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