AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:33
1996 Fall Western Sectional Meeting
Pasadena, CA, November 16-17, 1996
Meeting #917
Associate secretaries: William A Harris, Jr, AMS wharris@math.usc.edu
Sunday November 17, 1996
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Sunday November 17, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Their Representations, III
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
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8:00 a.m.
Hopf algebras of order $p^2$ and braided Hopf algebras of order $p$.
Hans-J\"urgen Schneider*, Universit\"at M\"unchen, Germany
(917-17-130) -
8:30 a.m.
Quantum Groups of Dimension $pq^2$
Shlomo Gelaki*, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva 84105 Israel
(917-16-83) -
9:00 a.m.
On the faithful flatness of a Hopf algebra over its group-likesubHopf algebra
Siu-Hung Ng*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(917-16-92) -
9:30 a.m.
Detrminants and symmetries in Yetter-Drinfel'd categories.
Miriam Cohen, Ben Gurion University
Sara Westreich*, Bar-Ilan University
(917-16-122) -
10:00 a.m.
Self dual Hopf algebras
Edward L. Green*, Virginia Tech
(917-16-20) -
10:30 a.m.
Faithfully flat forms and cohomology of Hopf algebra extensions.
Akira Masuoka*, Shimane University
(917-16-01)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday November 17, 1996, 8:05 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Group Actions and Noncommutative Algebra, III
Room 103, Downs Laboratory
Organizers:
Zinovy Reichstein, Oregon State University zinovy@math.orst.edu
Nikolaus Vonessen, University of Montana vonessen@selway.umt.edu
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8:05 a.m.
Imbeddings of topological groups into linear spaces.
Boris S. Khots*,
(917-22-136) -
8:40 a.m.
Primitive Ideals in the Enveloping Algebra of the Lie Superalgebra$osp(1,2r)$
Ian M Musson*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(917-17-103) -
9:15 a.m.
Quantum ${{\Bbb P}}^3$s which embed Quantum Quadrics
Michaela Vancliff*, University of Oregon
Kristel Van Rompay, University of Antwerp, U.I.A.
(917-16-27) -
9:50 a.m.
Quadratic algebras of global dimension three.
Darin R. Stephenson*, University of California, San Diego
(917-16-114) -
10:25 a.m.
On the trace of graded automorphisms
James J. Zhang*, University of Washington
(917-16-40)
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8:05 a.m.
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Sunday November 17, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
Room 151, Sloan Laboratory
Organizers:
Shawnee L. McMurran, Pomona College
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Charles Babbage and Cryptography
James J. Tattersall*, Providence College
(917-01-72) -
9:00 a.m.
Early Voyages Into Logarithmic Seas
Barnabas B. Hughes*, California State University, Northridge
(917-01-18) -
9:30 a.m.
Historical pi calculations via the student project
C. Ara Pehlivanian*, U.S. Military Academy, West Point
(917-01-101) -
10:00 a.m.
Debeaune's Commentary on Descartes' Geometry
C. Edward Sandifer*, Western Connecticut State University
(917-01-97) -
10:30 a.m.
The Early History of the Cornell Math Department: A Case Study inthe Emergence of the American Mathematical Community
Gary G. Cochell*, Culver-Stockton College
(917-01-107)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday November 17, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Analysis on Singular and Noncompact Spaces, III
Room 159, Sloan Laboratory
Organizers:
Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California xdai@mtha.usc.edu
Rafe R. Mazzeo, Stanford University mazzeo@hodge.stanford.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The Heat Kernel for Manifolds with Conic Singularities
Edith A . Mooers*, UCLA
(917-35-44) -
9:40 a.m.
Singular Curves and a Sard Theorem in subRiemannian Geometry
Richard W. Montgomery*, USCS Santa Cruz
(917-58-65) -
10:20 a.m.
Spectral theory of the Laplacian on fractals
Leonid Malozemov, Kaiser Permanente, California
Alexander Teplyaev*, Cornell University
(917-35-127)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday November 17, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, III
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
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9:00 a.m.
Dynamical systems with some hyperbolic properties
Lai-Sang Young*, UCLA
(917-58-63) -
9:30 a.m.
Convergence of densities for piecesise affine approximations of interval maps.
Nicolai Haydn*, University of Southern California
(917-58-61) -
10:00 a.m.
Properties of solutions of complex differential equations
Alberto Candel*, Caltech
(917-58-87) -
10:30 a.m.
Extremal rotation numbers for torus shear homeomorphisms
Erik Doeff*, Montana State University - Bozeman
Michal Misiurewicz, IUPUI
(917-58-32)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday November 17, 1996, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Essential dimension of reductive groups.
Room 201, E. Bridge Laboratory
Zinovy Reichstein*, Oregon State University
(917-16-03) -
Sunday November 17, 1996, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
Hamiltonian Systems with Hyperbolic Properties.
Room 201, E. Bridge Laboratory
Maciej P. Wojtkowski*, University of Arizona
(917-58-133) -
Sunday November 17, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.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
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3:00 p.m.
Inverse scattering problems for the Schr\"odinger operators with external Young-Mills potentials
Gregory Eskin*, UCLA
James Ralston, UCLA
(917-35-66) -
3:40 p.m.
Invariant Gibbs measures for 2D nonlinear wave equations
Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Study
Arthur Jaffe, Harvard University
Wensheng Wang*, USC, Los Angeles
(917-35-76) -
4:20 p.m.
Regularity of fourth order equation in conformal geometry
Sun-Yung A. Chang, UCLA
Matthew J. Gursky, Indiana University
Paul C. Yang*, USC
(917-53-134)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday November 17, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, IV
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
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3:00 p.m.
The integral manifold of the three-body problem
Qiudong Wang*, UCLA
(917-34-59) -
3:30 p.m.
Arnold Diffusion-Issues and Recent Results
Stephen Wiggins*, Caltech
(917-58-62) -
4:00 p.m.
Strange Attractors in Dynamical Systems
Bjorn Birnir*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(917-58-112) -
4:30 p.m.
Periodic orbits and complexity for billiards in polygons
Eugene Gutkin*, University of Southern California
(917-58-57)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday November 17, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV
Room 151, Sloan Laboratory
Organizers:
Shawnee L. McMurran, Pomona College
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Charles L. Dodgson's Contributions to Linear Algebra and to the Theory of Parallels
Francine F. Abeles*, Kean College of New Jersey
(917-01-81) -
3:30 p.m.
Alfred Tarski comes to the USA: The hard years.
Anita Burdman Feferman*, Stanford University
(917-01-117) -
4:00 p.m.
When Tarski met G\"odel.
Solomon Feferman*, Stanford University
(917-01-118) -
4:30 p.m.
Mathematical Etymology
John Horton Conway*, Princeton University
(917-01-126)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday November 17, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Their Representations, IV
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
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3:00 p.m.
Indecomposable Modules of Reduced Enveloping Algebras
Rolf Farnsteiner*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(917-16-90) -
3:30 p.m.
Finite stratification of spectra, the Dixmier-Moeglin Equivalence,and $q$-skew polynomial algebras
Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California, Santa Barbara
Edward S. Letzter*, Texas A & M University
(917-16-100) -
4:00 p.m.
Invariants of skew derivations.
Jeffrey Bergen*, DePaul University
Piotr Grzeszczuk, Univesity of Warsaw
(917-16-128) -
4:30 p.m.
Crossed Products, Goldie Rings, and Rings of Quotients
Dmitriy Rumynin*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
(917-16-43) -
5:00 p.m.
Irreducible Representations of Crossed Products
Sarah J. Witherspoon*, University of Toronto and University of California, Berkeley
Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California
(917-16-13) -
5:30 p.m.
On the Grothendieck ring of a Hopf algebra
Martin W. Lorenz*, Temple University, Philadelphia
Loretta F. Tokoly, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122-6094
(917-16-58)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday November 17, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
Contributed Papers, I
Room 103, Downs Laboratory
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3:00 p.m.
Rate of convergence of some neural network operators to the unit-univariate case.
George A. Anastassiou*, The University of Memphis
(917-41-07) -
3:15 p.m.
Induced Embeddings in Steinhaus Graphs
Franz A. Delahan*, University of California.Irvine
(917-05-54) -
3:30 p.m.
Vedic mathematics and pre-historic research.
Jamuna P. Ambasht*, Benedict College
(917-01-137)
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3:00 p.m.