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1998 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Philadelphia, PA, April 4-6, 1998
Meeting #933

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

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Saturday April 4, 1998

• Saturday April 4, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Ground Level, 1616 Walnut Street, TUCC
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Book Sale
  Ground Level, 1616 Walnut Street, TUCC
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 8:25 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Manifolds and Varieties, I
  Room 305, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Sylvain E. Cappell, New York University-Courant Institute
  Georgia Triantafillou, Temple University georgia@euclid.math.temple.edu
  

  • 8:25 a.m.
    Homology Manifold Bordism.
    Heather M Johnston*, Rutgers University
    Andrew A Ranicki, University of Edinburgh
    (933-57-230)
  • 9:05 a.m.
    Analytic torsion for bundles with the covering space of a compact manifold as typical fiber.
    Mel Rothenberg*, University of Chicago
    (933-57-251)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    A Bivariant Riemann-Roch Theorem for Geometric Topology.
    Bruce Williams*, U. of Notre Dame
    (933-57-247)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Holomorphic K-theory, Algebraic co-cycles and Loop groups.
    Ralph L. Cohen*, Stanford University
    (933-55-206)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Modular Identities and Q-Series in Number Theory, I
  Room 8B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Marvin I. Knopp, Temple University
  Boris Datskovsky, Temple University bdats@euclid.math.temple.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Distribution of parity of the partition function on arithmetic progressions.
    Scott D. Ahlgren*, Penn State University
    (933-11-73)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Septic theta function identities in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook .
    Seung H Son*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (933-11-42)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modular equations of degree 5 found in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook .
    Soon-Yi Kang*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (933-11-46)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Incomplete Elliptic Integrals in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook.
    Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (933-11-81)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rational Landen transformations: the sixth degree case.
    Victor H. Moll*, Tulane University
    George Boros, Tulane University
    (933-33-250)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Pedagogy, I
  Room 5B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Orin N. Chein, Temple University orin@euclid.math.temple.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Calculus Using Maple and Scientific Notebook.
    Philip B. Yasskin*, Texas A&M University
    (933-98-149)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Connecting Nursing Research to Nursing Statistics with a Web-Based Dataset Archive.
    Thomas H. Short*, Villanova University
    Marilyn S. Fetter, Villanova University
    (933-62-196)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Using Maple to Create Calculus Laboratory Activities.
    Shari Prevost*, Gainesville College
    (933-98-141)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The "New" Differential Equations and the "Old" Numerical Analysis.
    James P Fink*, Gettysburg College
    (933-98-12)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Collaborative learning: What works, what doesn't, and why.
    Raymond F. Coughlin*, Temple University
    (933-98-197)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometric Methods in Hydrodynamics, I
  Room 2B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Gerard K. Misiolek, University of Notre Dame and California Institute of Technology gmisiole@artin.helios.nd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geometric and Topological Aspects of Vortex Knot Dynamics.
    Renzo L Ricca*, Department of Mathematics, University College London, UK
    (933-58-97)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Embedding Hamiltonian Systems into Geodesic Systems on Lie Groups.
    Toshihiko Ono*, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
    (933-70-228)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lagrangian formalism on complex manifolds: Leray residue vs. Stokes formula.
    Boris A. Khesin*, University of Toronto/IAS
    (933-58-191)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Jacobi fields in hydrodynamics and some integrable systems.
    Tsutomu Kambe*, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo
    (933-76-140)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Algebraic-geometric $n$-orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems.
    Igor Krichever*, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
    (933-14-102)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 8:50 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on PDEs in Several Complex Variables, I
  Room 306, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Shiferaw Berhanu, Temple University berhanu@euclid.math.temple.edu
  Gerardo Mendoza, Temple University gmendoza@math.temple.edu
  

  • 8:50 a.m.
    Analytic regularity of the Bergman kernel.
    Gabor Francsics*, Columbia University
    Nicholas Hanges, Lehman College/CUNY
    (933-35-186)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Boundary behavior of the Bergman kernel .
    Gabor Francsics, Columbia University
    Nicholas Hanges*, Lehman College/CUNY
    (933-32-187)
  • 9:55 a.m.
    Using the Szego" Projection to solve classical boundary value problems on non-smooth domains in the plane.
    Loredana Lanzani*, The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
    (933-31-53)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A trace theorem for function spaces defined by vector fields.
    Shif Berhanu, Temple University
    Isaac Pesenson*, Temple University
    (933-00-161)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Radon Transforms and Tomography, I
  Room 302, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Eric L. Grinberg, Temple University grinberg@euclid.math.temple.edu
  Eric Todd Quinto, Tufts University etq@math.tufts.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Two Radius Support Theorems for the Sphere Transform.
    Yiying Zhou*, Tufts University
    (933-44-75)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sampling and the Three Squares Theorem.
    David F Walnut*, George Mason University
    (933-44-157)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Anti-self-dual sympnectic forms and integral geometry.
    Juan Carlos Alvarez Paiva*, Universite Catholique de Louvain
    Izrail M Gelfand, Rutgers University
    (933-44-153)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $SL(2,\Bbb R)$ and complex horosphers.
    Simon Gindikin*, Rutgers University
    (933-44-212)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The History of American Mathematics, I
  Room 10B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  David E. Zitarelli, Temple University davidz@euclid.math.temple.edu
  Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia khp3k@virginia.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Declaration of American Independence and other mathematical texts of the eighteenth century.
    John G Fauvel*, The Open University, England
    (933-01-91)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    From so obscure a beginning: The Analyst of Joel E. Hendricks.
    Joe Albree*, Auburn U. at Montgomery
    (933-01-101)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    W. W. Johnson and Newton's Calculus.
    George M. Rosenstein*, Franklin & Marshall C.
    (933-01-104)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mathematics Curriculum at West Point during the Nineteenth Century: Courses, Textbooks, Content, Faculty, Students, and Influences.
    David C Arney*, United States Military Academy
    (933-01-32)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Rings and Representations, I
  Room 9B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Maria E. Lorenz, Ursinus College
  Martin Lorenz, Temple University lorenz@euclid.math.temple.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Donald-Flanigan Conjecture.
    Murray Gerstenhaber*, University of Pennsylvania
    (933-16-233)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Aspects of the Donald-Flanigan Conjecture.
    Tony Giaquinto*, Texas A&M University
    (933-16-229)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Branching Rules for Finite Unitary Groups.
    Thomas R Hagedorn*, The College of New Jersey
    (933-20-18)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Practical Algorithm for Finding Matrix Representations for Polycyclic Groups.
    Eddie H. Lo, National Security Agency
    Gretchen Ostheimer*, Tufts University
    (933-20-174)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Its Applications to PDE's, I
  Room 303, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Cristian E. Gutierrez, Temple University gutier@math.temple.edu
  Guozhen Lu, Wright State University gzlu@math.wright.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Two weight norm estimates for potential and maximal operators on spaces of homogeneous type.
    Carlos P\'erez, Universidad Aut\'onoma de Madrid
    Richard L. Wheeden*, Rutgers University
    (933-35-47)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lebesgue space estimates for operators associated with the Neumann problem for the wave equation on an exterior domain.
    Michael Beals*, Rutgers University
    (933-35-172)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stable solutions of semi-linear elliptic Equations in Convex Domains.
    Sagun Chanillo*, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick NJ,08903.
    (933-35-37)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Self-improving properties of Poincar\'e inequalities in metric spaces.
    Bruno Franchi*, University of Bologna
    (933-46-118)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Heat Kernel Analysis on Lie Groups, I
  Room 3B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Leonard Gross, Cornell University gross@math.cornell.edu
  Omar Hijab, Temple University hijab@euclid.math.temple.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Analysis and geometry on the pseudogroup of univalent functions.
    Paul Malliavin*, Jussieu
    (933-58-116)
  • 9:25 a.m.
    Brownian motion on large unitary groups.
    Philippe Biane*, Ecole Normal Superieure
    (933-58-115)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:05 a.m.
    Characterizing Yang-Mills fields by stochastic parallel transport.
    Robert O Bauer*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (933-60-25)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Short Time Behavior of Logarithmic Derivatives of the Heat Kernel
    James Turetsky*, Harvard University
    (933-58-239)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 6B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Yanyan Li, Rutgers University yyli@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Boundary value problems at infinity for surfaces of constant mean curvature in Hyperbolic space.
    Joel Spruck*, Johns Hopkins University
    (933-35-105)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Function theory and minimal surfaces.
    William P. Minicozzi, II*, Johns Hopkins University
    Tobias H. Colding, NYU
    (933-53-122)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extremal Hermitian metrics in Riemann surface and generalization of the uniformization theorem to surface with boundary.
    xiuxiong Chen*, Stanford University
    (933-58-190)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Harmonic Maps on Complete Manifolds.
    Wenxiong Chen*, Southwest Missouri State University
    Congming Li, University of Colorado
    (933-35-110)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Sparse Elimination Methods in Polynomial System Solving, I
  Room 7B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Ioannis Z. Emiris, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France emiris@sophia.inria.fr
  J. Maurice Rojas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology rojas@math.mit.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Multivariate Descartes Rule.
    Tien-Yien Li*, Michigan State University
    Xiaoshen Wang, University of Central Arkansas
    (933-65-124)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Integral Points on Sparse Algebraic Curves.
    J. Maurice Rojas*, City University of Hong Kong
    (933-14-185)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Expected Number of Roots of a Multihomogeneous Systems of Polynomial Equations.
    Andrew M McLennan*, University of Minnesota
    (933-14-23)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Manifolds with Ricci curvature bounds.
  Room 5B, TUCC
  Tobias H. Colding*, Courant Institute - New York University
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Why foundations are important.
  Room 5B, TUCC
  Martin Davis*, University of California, Berkeley
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Modular Identities and Q-Series in Number Theory, II
  Room 8B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Marvin I. Knopp, Temple University
  Boris Datskovsky, Temple University bdats@euclid.math.temple.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Universal deformation rings of representations of finite groups.
    Frauke M. Bleher, Univ. of Penn.
    Ted C. Chinburg*, Univ. of Penn.
    (933-11-120)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Hyperbolic Geometry of the Crisp-Moran Conjecture.
    Thomas A. Schmidt, Oregon State University
    Mark Sheingorn*, CUNY - Baruch College and Graduate Center
    (933-11-54)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Divisibility of class numbers and orders of Tate-Shafarevich groups.
    Ken Ono*, Penn State University
    (933-11-40)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Character sums and automorphic forms.
    Ching-Li Chai, University of Pennsylvania
    Wen-Ching Winnie Li*, Pennsylvania State University
    (933-11-78)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Nonanalytic Automorphic Integrals.
    Paul C Pasles*, Saint Joseph's University
    (933-11-139)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Log-Ploynomial Period Functions for Hecke Groups.
    Abdulkadir Hassen*, Rowan University
    (933-11-60)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Radon Transforms and Tomography, II
  Room 302, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Eric L. Grinberg, Temple University grinberg@euclid.math.temple.edu
  Eric Todd Quinto, Tufts University etq@math.tufts.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Radon transform on direct limit groups.
    Elinor Velasquez*, U.C. Berkeley
    (933-44-181)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Morera Theorems on $C^n$ and manifolds.
    Eric L. Grinberg, Temple University
    Eric Todd Quinto*, Tufts University
    (933-44-26)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    $L^p$ estimates for restricted X-ray transforms and integrals over curves in $R^4$.
    Allan Greenleaf*, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
    Andreas Seeger, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
    (933-44-39)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Uniqueness and non-uniqueness for overdetermined X-ray transforms.
    Jan Boman*, Stockholm University
    (933-44-129)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    New range theorems for the Radon transform and its dual.
    Alexander Katsevich*, University of Central Florida
    (933-44-57)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on The History of American Mathematics, II
  Room 10B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  David E. Zitarelli, Temple University davidz@euclid.math.temple.edu
  Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia khp3k@virginia.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    "Moulding the Mathematical Education of 55 Million" Americans: Sylvester at Hopkins (1876--1883).
    Karen V.H. Parshall*, University of Virginia
    (933-01-83)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    C. S. Peirce as a Mathematician.
    Albert C. Lewis*, Indiana University
    (933-01-243)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Remarkable Charlotte Scott.
    James J Tattersall*, Providence College
    (933-01-14)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Early History of the Cornell University Mathematics Department.
    Gary G. Cochell*, Culver-Stockton College
    (933-01-35)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Pedagogy, II
  Room 5B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Orin N. Chein, Temple University orin@euclid.math.temple.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    From Algorithm to Exploration.
    Peter G. Jessup*, Ursinus College
    (933-98-133)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Calculus Consortium based at Harvard turns 10: Reflections on lessons learned.
    Jeff Tecosky-Feldman*, Haverford College
    (933-98-137)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Using history to teach undergraduate real analysis.
    David M. Bressoud*, Macalester College
    (933-28-09)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Involving Prospective Teachers in the Design of Maple Laboratory Assignments.
    Louise M Berard*, Wilkes University
    (933-98-20)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Beyond Testing -- ways to assess student learning.
    Alice A Deanin*, Villanova University
    (933-98-193)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Does cognitive psychology support standards based reform?
    Malcolm J Sherman*, State University of New York at Albany
    (933-97-225)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometric Methods in Hydrodynamics, II
  Room 2B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Gerard K. Misiolek, University of Notre Dame and California Institute of Technology gmisiole@artin.helios.nd.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Instablity of geodesics on the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms (motions of fluid) of 2-sphere.
    Kyo Yoshida*, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo
    (933-76-150)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hamiltonian Hydrodynamic Type Systems and Riemannian Geometry.
    Sergey P. Novikov*, University of Maryland at College Park and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow
    (933-58-119)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Flows on Diffeomorphisms of the Circle, Grassmannians and the Geometry of the Periodic KdV Equation.
    Maria E Schonbek, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Cruz
    Andrey N Todorov*, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Cruz
    Jorge P Zubelli, IMPA, Brazil
    (933-58-93)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability and Instability Criteria for Magnetohydrodynamics.
    Susan Friedlander*, Mathematics Department, University of Illinois, Chicago
    Misha Vishik, Mathematics Department, University of Texas, Austin
    (933-35-100)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Solutions to the Euler equations with unbounded vorticity.
    Misha Vishik*, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
    (933-35-103)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 6B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Yanyan Li, Rutgers University yyli@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Prescribing scalar curvature on n-spheres.
    Congming Li*, Univ. of Colorado
    (933-35-144)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic behavior for positive solutions to $\Delta_gu = u^q + Su$ with prescribed singularities.
    David L Finn*, Merrimack College
    (933-35-10)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Double vortex-condensates in the Chern-Simons-Higgs theory.
    Gabriella Tarantello*, Universit\'a di Roma "Tor Vergata"
    (933-35-79)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Applications of a minmax principle.
    Alfonso Castro*, University of North Texas
    (933-35-62)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Diffusion vs. cross-diffusion: an elliptic approach.
    Yuan Lou*, University of Chicago
    Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota
    (933-35-109)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Sparse Elimination Methods in Polynomial System Solving, II
  Room 7B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Ioannis Z. Emiris, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France emiris@sophia.inria.fr
  J. Maurice Rojas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology rojas@math.mit.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Groebner Bases and Invariants.
    Karin Gatermann*, FU Berlin / ZIB
    (933-68-184)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Degrees of Groebner bases of toric ideals.
    Serkan Hosten*, George Mason University
    (933-14-182)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Computing the State Polytope of a Toric Ideal.
    Rekha Rachel Thomas*, Texas A&M University
    Birkett Huber, Texas A&M University
    (933-14-178)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Certificates for Deficient Sparse Polynomial Systems:.
    Birkett Huber*, Texas A&M University
    Jan Verschelde, Michagan State University
    (933-14-171)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Session on Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 1B, TUCC
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Additive Isometries of Continuoius Functions.
    Edward Beckenstein*, Temple University
    (933-46-19)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Krylov-subspace solvers for emission tomograph.
    Tuan Cao-Huu*, Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital
    (933-15-22)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Eta-equivalent solutions of nonlinear PDE-problems.
    Efim Galperin*, University of Quebec at Montreal
    (933-35-67)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Illuminating Points with Tangent Lines.
    Alan L Horwitz*, Penn State University
    (933-26-215)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An a-priori estimate establishing regularity for the viscosity solution of an HJB equation with large discount factor.
    Clifford A Johnston*, West Chester University
    (933-35-07)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Attenuated Radon Transform and High-frequency Scattering Theory.
    Alexander Panchenko*, University of Delaware
    (933-44-201)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A numerical procedure for estimating model parameters.
    Yixum Shi*, Bloomsburg University
    (933-65-70)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    A cumulant spectral density for a two-valued random field with summable $\rho^*$-mixing coefficients.
    Curtis P. Miller*, Southeast Missouri State University
    (933-60-11)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Inequalities and stability for a linear scalar functional differential equation.
    Tingxiu Wang*, Oakton Community College
    (933-34-44)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:35 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Manifolds and Varieties, II
  Room 305, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Sylvain E. Cappell, New York University-Courant Institute
  Georgia Triantafillou, Temple University georgia@euclid.math.temple.edu
  

  • 2:35 p.m.
    Torelli group action on the homology of representation variety.
    Ronnie Lee*, Yale University
    (933-55-235)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Analytic compactifications of character varieties.
    Georgios Daskalopoulos, Brown University
    Stamatis Dostoglou*, University of Missouri
    Richard Wentworth, U.C. Irvine
    (933-53-134)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    The geography problem for symplectic 4-manifolds.
    Zoltan Szabo*, Princeton University
    (933-57-203)
  • 4:35 p.m.
    Braid groups and Lagrangian spheres.
    Paul Seidel*, IAS, Princeton
    (933-57-170)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:40 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Rings and Representations, II
  Room 9B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Maria E. Lorenz, Ursinus College
  Martin Lorenz, Temple University lorenz@euclid.math.temple.edu
  

  • 2:40 p.m.
    Grading and Derivations.
    Christof Geiss, UNAM
    Edward L Green*, Virginia Tech
    Eduardo N Marcos, Univ. of Sao Paulo
    (933-16-211)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    The homology of string algebras.
    Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann*, University of California
    Sverre O. Smal\o, Norwegian University for Science and Technology
    (933-16-213)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Groebner-Shirshov bases for relations of a Lie algebra and its enveloping algebra.
    Leonid Bokut', Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk
    Peter Malcolmson*, Wayne State University
    (933-17-232)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Ideals of the Enveloping Algebra $U(sl_3)$.
    Stefan Catoiu*, Temple University
    (933-16-50)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Symmetric Pairs for Quantized Enveloping Algebras.
    Gail Letzter*, Virginia Tech
    (933-17-152)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Poisson polynomial identities, coadjoint orbits, and Krull dimension.
    Daniel R Farkas*, Math Dept, Virginia Tech
    (933-16-63)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:40 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Heat Kernel Analysis on Lie Groups, II
  Room 3B, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Leonard Gross, Cornell University gross@math.cornell.edu
  Omar Hijab, Temple University hijab@euclid.math.temple.edu
  

  • 2:40 p.m.
    Some variational problems in quantum communication theory.
    Eric A Carlen*, Georgia Tech
    (933-46-237)
  • 3:05 p.m.
    Heat kernel measures and cohomology.
    Edward L Bueler*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    (933-58-88)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Break
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Complexifications of symmetric spaces and associated Bargmann transforms.
    Bent \O{}rsted*, Odense University
    (933-58-113)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Unitary Representations with Reflection Symmetry.
    Gestur Olafsson*, Louisiana State University
    (933-57-114)
  • 4:35 p.m.
    Unitary representations of Lie groups with reflection symmetry.
    Palle E.T. Jorgensen*, University of Iowa
    (933-46-131)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on PDEs in Several Complex Variables, II
  Room 306, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Shiferaw Berhanu, Temple University berhanu@euclid.math.temple.edu
  Gerardo Mendoza, Temple University gmendoza@math.temple.edu
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Pseudoconvex Mizohata Structures on Compact Manifolds.
    Abdelhamid Meziani*, Florida International University
    (933-32-106)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    CR circle bundles and Mizohata structures.
    Anbo Le*, Ohio State University
    (933-32-58)
  • 4:05 p.m.
    Homogeneous CR submanifolds in ${\Bbb C}^n$.
    Nancy K. Stanton*, University of Notre Dame
    (933-32-95)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    On a linearity problem of CR mappings between spheres of different dimensions.
    Xiaojun Huang*, Rutgers University
    (933-00-199)
• Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Its Applications to PDE's, II
  Room 303, TUCC
  Organizers:
  Cristian E. Gutierrez, Temple University gutier@math.temple.edu
  Guozhen Lu, Wright State University gzlu@math.wright.edu
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Estimates for Bilinear Cone Operators.
    Andrea R. Nahmod*, Institute for Advanced Study
    John Gilbert, University of Texas at Austin
    (933-42-189)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    $L^p$ boundedness of singular integrals with rough kernels.
    Yibiao Pan*, University of Pittsburgh
    (933-42-128)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Oscillatory Integrals with Nonhomogeneous Phase Functions Related to Schr\" odinger Equations.
    Lawrence A Kolasa*, Ryerson Polytechnic University
    (933-42-30)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Harnack Inequality for the Linearized Parabolic Monge-Amp\`ere Equation.
    Qingbo Huang*, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122
    (933-35-72)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Weighted inequalities on John Domains.
    Seng-Kee Chua*, National University of Singapore
    (933-46-204)

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