AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:47

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday March 20, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Affine Space, I
Room 162, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Gene Freudenburg, University of Southern Indiana freudenb.ucs@smtp.usi.edu
David Wright, Washington University wright@einstein.wustl.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Nonlinearizable actions of reductive groups.
  Gerald W. Schwarz*, Brandeis University
  (931-14-237)
- 8:40 a.m.
  Moduli of $G$-equivariant vector bundles over representations with two-dimensional quotient: First Examples.
  Kurt Mederer*, Mercersburg Academy
  (931-14-280)
- 9:10 a.m.
  Non-linearizable holomorphic group actions.
  Harm Derksen*, Northeastern University
  Frank Kutzschebauch, University of Basel
  (931-14-290)
- 9:50 a.m.
  Reductive subgroups of $\hbox{Aut}\Bbb {A}^3$ and $\hbox{Aut}\Bbb {A}^4$.
  Vladimir L. Popov*, MGIEM, B. Trekhsvyatitel'sk\v i per., 3/12, Moscow, 109028, Russia.
  (931-14-68)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Equivariant cancellation problem.
  Kayo Masuda*, Department of Mathematics, Himeji Institute of Technology
  (931-14-132)

Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Affine Space, II
Room 162, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Gene Freudenburg, University of Southern Indiana freudenb.ucs@smtp.usi.edu
David Wright, Washington University wright@einstein.wustl.edu
- 2:45 p.m.
  Affine rulings of rational surfaces: a reduction theorem.
  Daniel Daigle*, University of Ottawa
  (931-14-257)
- 3:25 p.m.
  Affine rulings of weighted projective planes.
  Peter Russell*, McGill University
  (931-14-258)
- 4:05 p.m.
  A Public-Key Scheme With Signature and Master Key Functions.
  Tzuong-Tsieng Moh*, Purdue University
  (931-14-141)
- 4:45 p.m.
  \'{E}tale endomorphisms of smooth affine surfaces.
  Masayoshi Miyanishi*, Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Osaka University
  (931-14-102)
- 5:25 p.m.
  Homology planes with pencils of rational curves.
  Toru Sugie*, Faculty of Education, Shiga University
  (931-14-104)

Saturday March 21, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Affine Space, III
Room 162, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Gene Freudenburg, University of Southern Indiana freudenb.ucs@smtp.usi.edu
David Wright, Washington University wright@einstein.wustl.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 8:30 a.m.
  Invariants for Additive Group Actions.
  James K Deveney*, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
  David R Finston, New Mexico State Univ
  (931-13-139)
- 9:10 a.m.
  Local Triviality of Proper Actions of the Additive Group.
  David R. Finston*, New Mexico State University
  James K. Deveney, Virginia Commonwealth University
  (931-14-137)
- 9:50 a.m.
  Hypersurfaces invariant under a $C^*$ action.
  Ted E Petrie*, Rutgers University
  (931-14-171)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Affine modifications and affine hypersurfaces with a very transitive automorphism group.
  Shulim Kaliman*, University of Miami
  Mikhail Zaidenberg, University of Grenoble
  (931-14-303)

Saturday March 21, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Affine Space, IV
Room 162, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Gene Freudenburg, University of Southern Indiana freudenb.ucs@smtp.usi.edu
David Wright, Washington University wright@einstein.wustl.edu
- 2:45 p.m.
  Analytic Desingularization In Characteristic Zero.
  Shreeram S. Abhyankar*, Purdue University
  (931-14-92)
- 3:25 p.m.
  Local Factorization of Birational Morphisms.
  Steven Dale Cutkosky*, Univ. Missouri
  (931-14-186)
- 4:45 p.m.
  From ind-affine varieties to the Jacobian Problem.
  Tac Kambayashi*, Tokyo Denki University
  (931-14-134)
- 5:25 p.m.
  Stably tameness of a new class of automorphisms.
  David L Wright*, Washington University
  Engelbert Hubbers, University of Nijmegen
  (931-13-326)

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