AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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1997 Spring Western Sectional Meeting
Corvallis, OR, April 19-20, 1997
Meeting #921

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

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Special Session on Octonions and Clifford Algebras

• Saturday April 19, 1997, 8:50 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Octonions and Clifford Algebras, I
  Room 132, Strand Agricultural Hall
  Organizers:
  Tevian Dray, Oregon State University tevian@math.orst.edu
  Corinne Manogue, Oregon State University corinne@physics.orst.edu
  

  • 8:50 a.m.
    Matrix Exponential via Clifford Algebras
    Rafa\l F. Ab\l amowicz*, Gannon University
    (921-16-92)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Octonions and Clifford Algebras
    Susumu Okubo*, University of Rochester
    (921-17-30)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Dirac Operators, Conformal Transformations and Classical HarmonicAnalysis
    John Ryan*, University of Arkansas
    (921-30-37)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Octonionic M\"obius Transformations
    Corinne A. Manogue*, Oregon State University
    Tevian Dray, Oregon State University
    (921-17-81)
• Saturday April 19, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Octonions and Clifford Algebras, II
  Room 132, Strand Agricultural Hall
  Organizers:
  Tevian Dray, Oregon State University tevian@math.orst.edu
  Corinne Manogue, Oregon State University corinne@physics.orst.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Octonion X,Y-Product: Groups and Clifford Algebras
    Geoffrey Dixon*,
    (921-17-16)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Octonionic Eigenvalue Problem
    Tevian Dray*, Dept of Mathematics, Oregon State University
    Corinne A. Manogue, Dept of Physics, Oregon State University
    (921-17-80)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Should Absolute Metric Signature Matter in Multivector Theories?
    William M. Pezzaglia, Jr.*, Santa Clara University
    (921-58-130)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the symmetry principle in quaternionic analysis and applications
    Vladislav V. Kravchenko, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, MEXICO
    Michael V. Shapiro*, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, MEXICO
    (921-30-24)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Fundamental Theorem of Geometric Calculus via the Generalized Riemann Integral
    Alan L Macdonald*, Luther College
    (921-28-53)
• Sunday April 20, 1997, 8:50 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Octonions and Clifford Algebras, III
  Room 132, Strand Agricultural Hall
  Organizers:
  Tevian Dray, Oregon State University tevian@math.orst.edu
  Corinne Manogue, Oregon State University corinne@physics.orst.edu
  

  • 8:50 a.m.
    Duality, triality and the four-color theorem
    John C. Baez*, University of California, Riverside
    (921-05-19)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    The exceptions that prove the rule
    Anthony Sudbery*, University of York, United Kingdom
    (921-17-129)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Octonions and Exceptional Structures
    Frank D Smith, Jr.*,
    (921-17-15)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Exceptional nonlinear superconformal and quasi superconformal algebras and their realizations
    Murat Gunaydin*, Penn State Physics, University Park
    (921-20-123)
• Sunday April 20, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Octonions and Clifford Algebras, IV
  Room 109, Strand Agricultural Hall
  Organizers:
  Tevian Dray, Oregon State University tevian@math.orst.edu
  Corinne Manogue, Oregon State University corinne@physics.orst.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Computer Demonstrations

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