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1998 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
State College, PA, October 24-25, 1998
Meeting #937

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

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Saturday October 24, 1998

• Saturday October 24, 1998, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration and AMS Book Sale and Exhibit
  Lobby, Schwab Auditorium
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Inhomogeneous Materials: Homogenizaton and Related Topics, I
  Room 160, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Leonid Berlyand, The Pennsylvania State University berlyand@math.psu.edu
  Karl Voss, The Pennsylvania State University voss@math.psu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Percolation in Sea Ice.
    Kenneth M Golden*, University of Utah
    (937-35-11)
  • 8:25 a.m.
    Gradient estimates related to composite media with closely spaced fibers.
    Yanyan Li, Rutgers University
    Michael Vogelius*, Rutgers University
    (937-35-126)
  • 8:50 a.m.
    MRA Homogenization: An overview.
    Anna C Gilbert*, AT&T Labs--Research
    (937-65-24)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Exact relations for composites: towards a complete solution.
    Yury Grabovsky*, University of Utah
    Graeme W Milton, University of Utah
    Daniel S Sage, University of Utah
    (937-73-14)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Biot Fissured Media.
    R. E. Showalter*, The University of Texas
    (937-35-07)
  • 10:05 a.m.
    Heat Conduction in fine Scale Mixtures with Interfacial Contact Resistance.
    Robert P Lipton*, Worcester Polytechnic Inst.
    (937-73-08)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Interfacial effects in electrorheological fluids.
    Bogdan Vernescu*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (937-73-19)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partitions and q-Series, I
  Room 162, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  George E. Andrews, The Pennsylvania State University andrews@math.psu.edu
  Ken Ono, The Pennsylvania State University ono@math.psu.edu
  Scott D. Ahlgren, The Pennsylvania State University ahlgren@math.psu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Ramanujan and the Probability of Nuclear War.
    William A. Beyer*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (937-40-17)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Plane partitions.
    David M. Bressoud*, Macalester College
    (937-11-31)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Family of Partitions with Attached Parts and "N copies of N".
    Jose O Santos*, UNICAMP
    Paulo Mondek, UFMS
    (937-11-71)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Type-B partitions and restricted permutations.
    Rodica Simion*, The George Washington Univ.
    (937-05-123)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    New Proofs and Generalizations of the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities.
    Tina Garrett, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
    Dennis W. Stanton, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
    Mourad E. H. Ismail*, University of South Florida
    (937-33-144)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Arithmetic Geometry, I
  Room 358, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Kevin L. James, The Pennsylvania State University klj@math.psu.edu
  Wen-Ching Winnie Li, The Pennsylvania State University wli@math.psu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Unipotent groups and curves of genus two.
    David K Penniston*, Pennsylvania State University
    (937-11-68)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hilbert-Siegel moduli spaces in positive characteristic.
    Jeffrey D Achter*, UMass Amherst
    (937-14-79)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Newton Polygons as Lattic Points.
    Ching-Li Chai*, Univ. of Pennsylvania
    (937-14-48)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hecke's convergence factor and modular forms of weight zero.
    Marvin I Knopp*, Temple University
    (937-11-66)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lattice Points in Ellipses and Dirichlet Series.
    W. Duke*, Rutgers University
    (937-11-93)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 8:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry, I
  Room 262, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Victor Nistor, The Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
  Paul F. Baum, The Pennsylvania State University baum@math.psu.edu
  Adrian Ocneanu, The Pennsylvania State University adrian@math.psu.edu
  

  • 8:45 a.m.
    Some minimization problems for the free analogue of the Fisher information .
    Alexandru M. Nica*, University of Waterloo
    Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, U.C.L.A.
    Roland Speicher, Universitat Heidelberg
    (937-00-63)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Operator-Valued semicircular systems.
    Dimitri Y Shlyakhtenko*, UCLA
    (937-46-38)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Subfactors and planar algebras of small dimension.
    Dietmar Bisch*, University of California at Santa Barbara
    (937-46-56)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on C*-Algebraic Methods in Geometry and Topology, I
  Room 362, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Nigel D. Higson, The Pennsylvania State University higson@math.psu.edu
  Erik Guentner, Dartmouth College guentner@dorset.dartmouth.edu
  John D. Trout, Jr., Dartmouth College john.d.trout@dartmouth.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Groupoids and the integration of Lie algebroids.
    Victor Nistor*, Penn State Univ.
    (937-58-49)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    An Operator Algebra Approach to Eta Invariants for Families.
    Steven E. Hurder*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (937-58-125)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    The coarse Baum-Connes conjecture for spaces which admit a uniform embedding into Hilbert space.
    Guoliang Yu*, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
    (937-19-23)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Quantization, I
  Room 258, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Jean-Luc Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University jlb@math.psu.edu
  Ranee Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University rkb@math.psu.edu
  Boris Tsygan, The Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
  Ping Xu, The Pennsylvania State University ping@math.psu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Strict Deformation Quantization of Symmetric Spaces.
    Pierre Bieliavsky*, Dartmouth College
    (937-81-72)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    On deformation quantization with seperation of variables of Poisson manifolds.
    Alexander Astashkevich*, UC Davis
    (937-81-92)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    On deformation theory of associative algebras.
    Yan Soibelman*, Kansas State U
    (937-16-113)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Metric Topology
  Room 273, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Steve Armentrout, The Pennsylvania State University sxa@math.psu.edu
  Joseph Borzelino, The Pennsylvania State University borzelli@math.psu.edu
  Hossein Movahedi-Lankarani, The Pennsylvania State University hml@math.psu.edu
  Robert Wells, The Pennsylvania State University wells@math.psu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Smooth finite dimensional embeddings.
    R. Mansfield, Pensylvania State University
    Hossein Movahedi-Lankarani*, Pensylvania State University
    Robert Wells, Pensylvania State University
    (937-53-149)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Almost flat subsets of euclidean spaces and lipschitz graphs.
    Alireza Ranjbar-Motlagh*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    (937-53-148)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the Locally Euclidean Metric Gauge.
    Juha Heinonen*, University of Michigan
    (937-53-147)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Minimal surfaces in Banach spaces, asymptotic volume of tori and Finsler filling volumes.
    Dmitri Burago*, Pennsylvania State University
    Sergei Ivanov, University of Illinois, Urbana
    (937-53-152)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Least Squares and Total Least Squares, I
  Room 260, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Jesse L. Barlow, The Pennsylvania State University barlow@cse.psu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Recursive Total Least Squares and Complete Orthogonal Decompositions.
    Jesse L Barlow*, The Pennsylvania State University
    (937-65-29)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    The Quasi-Gram-Schmidt Method and Sparse Low-Rank Approximations.
    G. W. Stewart*, University of Maryland
    (937-65-99)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Total Least Squares in Image Processing.
    Nirmal Kumar Bose*, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
    (937-15-62)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory, I
  Room 360, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Thomas Jech, The Pennsylvania State University jech@math.psu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some cardinal characteristics of the continuum .
    Andreas R. Blass*, University of Michigan
    (937-03-28)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The automorphism tower problem revisited.
    Simon R Thomas*, Rutgers University
    (937-04-41)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Measures on Boolean Algebras.
    Fred Galvin, University of Kansas
    Karel Prikry*, University of Minnesota
    (937-04-57)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Admissible Ordinals and Patterns of Resemblance.
    Timothy J Carlson*, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
    (937-03-145)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:10 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 217, Willard Building
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Orbits of Exponents. II.
    Saul I. Drobnies*, San Diego State University
    (937-40-16)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Properties of Circulant and Negacirculant Matrices.
    Eugene C. Boman*, PennState University
    (937-15-44)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Compositions of Polynomials with Coefficients in a given Field.
    Alan L Horwitz*, Penn State University
    (937-39-87)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generalized Fourier transform and Maslov's canonical operator.
    Vladimir Tulovsky*, St. John's University
    (937-35-18)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 11:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Welcome and Opening Remarks
  AUD, Schwab Auditorium
  

  • 11:00 a.m.
    Welcome.
    Gary Mullen*, Chair, Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University
  • 11:05 a.m.
    Opening remarks.
    Daniel Larson*, Dean, Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 11:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Character Theory.
  AUD, Schwab Auditorium
  Jeffrey Adams*, University of Maryland
  (937-22-131)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The Baum-Connes Conjecture.
  AUD, Schwab Auditorium
  Nigel D. Higson*, Pennsylvania State University
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Partitions and q-Series, II
  Room 162, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  George E. Andrews, The Pennsylvania State University andrews@math.psu.edu
  Ken Ono, The Pennsylvania State University ono@math.psu.edu
  Scott D. Ahlgren, The Pennsylvania State University ahlgren@math.psu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Lecture hall partitions.
    Kimmo Eriksson*, Royal Institute of Technology
    (937-05-42)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Multivariable maj statistics.
    Dennis W Stanton*, University of Minnesota
    Dongsu Kim, KAIST
    (937-05-103)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    MacMahon's Master Theorem and rational functions with nonnegative power series coefficients.
    Ira M. Gessel*, Brandeis University
    (937-05-95)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Divisibility of restricted partition functions.
    John H Rickert*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (937-11-110)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Proving congruences for partition functions.
    Dennis Eichhorn*, University of Illinois
    (937-11-111)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on C*-Algebraic Methods in Geometry and Topology, II
  Room 362, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Nigel D. Higson, The Pennsylvania State University higson@math.psu.edu
  Erik Guentner, Dartmouth College guentner@dorset.dartmouth.edu
  John D. Trout, Jr., Dartmouth College john.d.trout@dartmouth.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A coarse look at Bott periodicity.
    John Roe*, Penn State
    (937-19-22)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Concordance classes of positive scalar curvature metrics.
    Stephan A Stolz*, Notre Dame
    (937-53-118)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Counterexample to the Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture .
    Thomas Schick*, visiting research fellow
    (937-53-76)
  • 4:50 p.m.
    Assembly and Applications.
    James F Davis*, Indiana University
    (937-57-130)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Baum Connes map and assembly.
    Erik K. Pedersen*, Binghamton University
    (937-19-65)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Modeling of Phase Transitions of Partially Ordered Physical Systems, I
  Room 158, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Maria-Carme T. Calderer, The Pennsylvania State University mcc@math.psu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:10 p.m.
    A Three-Dimensional Superconductor in a Strong Magnetic Field.
    Patricia Bauman*, Purdue University
    Melvyn Royer, Parkland College
    (937-35-133)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Weak Continuity of Minors and Lower Semicontinuity Results in Nonlinear Elasticity.
    Irene Fonseca*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
    (937-35-132)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Configurations of Bipolar Droplets of Nematic Liquid Crystals.
    Quan Shen*, Purdue University
    Carme Calderer, Penn State University
    Chun Liu, Penn State University
    (937-35-139)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Existence of Solutions for the Dynamics System of Smectic A Liquid Crystals.
    Chun Liu*, Penn State University
    (937-35-138)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Quantization, II
  Room 258, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Jean-Luc Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University jlb@math.psu.edu
  Ranee Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University rkb@math.psu.edu
  Boris Tsygan, The Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
  Ping Xu, The Pennsylvania State University ping@math.psu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Multiplets of representations and a new kind of Dirac operartor involving a cubic term .
    Bertram Kostant*, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
    (937-22-50)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    The dispersionless limit of the Toda system and Toeplitz quantization.
    A. Bloch, University of Michigan
    T. Paul, CEREMADE
    A. Uribe*, University of Michigan
    (937-70-43)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Moment maps and Riemannian symmetric pairs.
    Luis O'Shea, Cornell University
    Reyer Sjamaar*, Cornell University
    (937-58-85)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Homotopy Gerstenhaber algebras.
    Alexander A. Voronov*, Michigan State University
    (937-81-40)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Formal solution of the master equation via HPT.
    Johannes Huebschman, Universite de Lille I
    Jim Stasheff*, UNC-Chapel Hill
    (937-58-91)
  • 5:50 p.m.
    Compatible deformations.
    Murray Gerstenhaber*, University of Pennsylvania
    Anthony Giaquinto, Loyola University of Chicago
    (937-18-122)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Arithmetic Geometry, II
  Room 358, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Kevin L. James, The Pennsylvania State University klj@math.psu.edu
  Wen-Ching Winnie Li, The Pennsylvania State University wli@math.psu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On a Positivity Property of the Riemann Xi Function.
    Jeffrey C Lagarias*, A T & T Labs
    (937-11-104)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Universal Deformation Rings and Embedding Problems.
    Ted C Chinburg*, Univ. of Pennsylvania
    Frauke M Bleher, Univ. of Pennsylvania
    (937-11-26)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Galois representations with non-surjective traces.
    Chantal David*, Concordia University
    Hershy Kisilevsky, Concordia University
    Francesco Pappalardi, University of Roma III
    (937-11-54)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $p$-adic properties of Artin representations.
    Vinayak Vatsal*, University of Toronto
    (937-11-74)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A $q$-analogue of Mahler Expansions.
    Keith Conrad*, Ohio State Univeristy
    (937-11-58)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Exponential sums and cryptography.
    Daniel B Lieman*, University of Missouri
    (937-11-88)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Bound for incomplete hyper-Kloosterman sum.
    Wenzhi Luo*, Princeton University
    (937-11-30)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-6:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry, II
  Room 262, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Victor Nistor, The Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
  Paul F. Baum, The Pennsylvania State University baum@math.psu.edu
  Adrian Ocneanu, The Pennsylvania State University adrian@math.psu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Joint Special Session talk by John Roe in Room 362.
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Twist Positivity.
    Arthur Jaffe*, Harvard Univ.
    (937-81-67)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    The eta invariant, relative cyclic cocycles and quasi-action of groups.
    Hitoshi Moriyoshi*, Keio University
    (937-58-96)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Homotopical algebra and cyclic cohomology.
    Masoud Khalkhali*, University of Western Ontario
    (937-18-73)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Analog Baum-Connes map and an index theorem for manifols with proper actions.
    Ronghui Ji*, IUPUI
    (937-58-97)
• Saturday October 24, 1998, 2:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory, II
  Room 360, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Thomas Jech, The Pennsylvania State University jech@math.psu.edu
  

  • 2:40 p.m.
    Squares, scales and stationary sets.
    James Cummings*, CMU
    (937-03-86)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Square below a superstrong.
    Ernest Schimmerling*, CMU and UConn
    (937-03-89)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Sigma ideals and generic reals.
    Jindrich Zapletal*, Dartmoth College
    (937-03-32)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    The domestic levels of $K^c$ are iterable.
    Itay Neeman*, Harvard University
    John R Steel, University of California at Berkeley
    (937-04-64)

Sunday October 25, 1998

• Sunday October 25, 1998, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration and AMS Book Sale and Exhibit
  Lobby, Schwab Auditorium
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Inhomogeneous Materials: Homogenizaton and Related Topics, II
  Room 160, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Leonid Berlyand, The Pennsylvania State University berlyand@math.psu.edu
  Karl Voss, The Pennsylvania State University voss@math.psu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Energy minimization and recoverable strains in shape-memory polycrystals.
    Kaushik Bhattacharya*, California Institute of Technology
    (937-73-09)
  • 8:25 a.m.
    On the new model for the vibrating of a thin plate with rapidly oscillating boundary .
    Gregory A Chechkin*, Moscow State University
    Doina Cioranescu, Universite Paris-VI
    (937-35-10)
  • 8:50 a.m.
    From Atomic to Continuum for Nanoscale Deformable Objects.
    Richard D James*, University of Minnesota
    Gero Friesecke, University of Oxford
    (937-73-12)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Distribution of minimum values of weakly stochastic functionals.
    Victor L. Berdichevsky*, Wayne State University
    (937-82-13)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Microscopic misfit strains in polycrystals.
    Oscar P Bruno*, Caltech
    Guillermo H Goldsztein, Caltech
    (937-73-06)
  • 10:05 a.m.
    Remarks about the dynamics of the Fokker-Planck Equation.
    David Kinderlehrer*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (937-73-101)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Second-order estimates of the self-consistent type for nonlinear polycrystals.
    Pedro Ponte Castaneda*, University of Pennsylvania
    (937-73-05)
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Quantization, III
  Room 258, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Jean-Luc Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University jlb@math.psu.edu
  Ranee Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University rkb@math.psu.edu
  Boris Tsygan, The Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
  Ping Xu, The Pennsylvania State University ping@math.psu.edu
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Morita equivalence of Poisson manifolds and Poisson (co)homology.
    Viktor L Ginzburg*, University of California Santa Cruz
    (937-58-116)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cohomology rings of nonabelian symplectic quotients.
    S Tolman, UIUC
    J Weitsman*, UCSC
    (937-58-115)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    The Verlinde formula for moduli spaces of parabolic bundles.
    Lisa Claire Jeffrey*, Univ. of Toronto
    (937-58-106)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    The Verlinde formulas as fixed point formulas .
    Anton Alekseev, Uppsala University
    Eckhard Meinrenken, University of Toronto
    Chris T Woodward*, Rutgers University
    (937-53-60)
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partitions and q-Series, III
  Room 162, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  George E. Andrews, The Pennsylvania State University andrews@math.psu.edu
  Ken Ono, The Pennsylvania State University ono@math.psu.edu
  Scott D. Ahlgren, The Pennsylvania State University ahlgren@math.psu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Properties of $\left( 2,3\right) -$core partitions.
    Lawrence H.T. Sze*, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
    (937-05-94)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Two identities for mock theta function in Ramanujan's lost notebook .
    Youn-Seo Choi*, University of Illinois
    (937-11-69)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Eisenstein series in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook.
    Bruce C. Berndt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Heng H. Chan, National University of Singapore
    Jaebum Sohn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Seung H. Son*, University of Missouri
    (937-11-27)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Permutation Statistics and $q$-Rook Polynomials.
    James B Haglund*, Penn. State. Univ.
    (937-05-78)
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 8:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry, III
  Room 262, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Victor Nistor, The Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
  Paul F. Baum, The Pennsylvania State University baum@math.psu.edu
  Adrian Ocneanu, The Pennsylvania State University adrian@math.psu.edu
  

  • 8:45 a.m.
    Characters of cycles and equivariant Chern character.
    Alexander Gorokhovsky*, Ohio State University
    (937-58-81)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    $S^1$ Equivariant Novikov Conjecture.
    John W Lott*, University of Michigan
    (937-58-51)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Hopf algebra cyclic cohomology and characteristic classes of foliations.
    Alain Connes, Coll\`ege de France, Paris
    Henri Moscovici*, Ohio State University
    (937-46-107)
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on C*-Algebraic Methods in Geometry and Topology, III
  Room 362, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Nigel D. Higson, The Pennsylvania State University higson@math.psu.edu
  Erik Guentner, Dartmouth College guentner@dorset.dartmouth.edu
  John D. Trout, Jr., Dartmouth College john.d.trout@dartmouth.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Bivariant Chern Character.
    Paul Baum*, The Pennsylvania State University
    (937-19-80)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    A counterexample to a question on the rationality of the trace map.
    Ranja Roy*, SUNY at Binghamton
    (937-19-15)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Index Theory for Algebraic K-theory.
    Edward Bruce Williams*, U. of Notre Dame
    (937-19-45)
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Least Squares and Total Least Squares, II
  Room 260, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Jesse L. Barlow, The Pennsylvania State University barlow@cse.psu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Solving Total Least Squares Problems in Information Filtering.
    Michael W. Berry*, University of Tennessee
    Eric P. Jiang, University of Tennessee
    (937-15-46)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Lanczos Method with Inner-Outer Iterations.
    Hongyuan Zha*, Penn State Univ.
    (937-65-100)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Intrinsic least square estimators on manifolds and their asymptotic distributions.
    Victor Patrangenaru*, Georgia State University
    (937-62-112)
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Arithmetic Geometry, III
  Room 358, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Kevin L. James, The Pennsylvania State University klj@math.psu.edu
  Wen-Ching Winnie Li, The Pennsylvania State University wli@math.psu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tame construction of supercuspidal representations.
    Jiu-Kang Yu*, Princeton Univ
    (937-22-105)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Rankin-Selberg Integrals in Two Complex Variables.
    Daniel Bump, Stanford University
    Solomon Friedberg*, Boston College
    David Ginzburg, Tel-Aviv University
    (937-11-21)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Holomorphic Kernel of the Rankin-Selberg Convolution.
    Dorian Goldfeld*, Columbia University
    (937-11-75)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Arithmeticity of Fuchsian groups of the first kind.
    Dihua Jiang*, University of Minnesota
    Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Yale University
    (937-11-108)
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory, III
  Room 360, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Thomas Jech, The Pennsylvania State University jech@math.psu.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Filters and sequences.
    Slawomir J. Solecki*, Indiana University
    (937-03-114)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Images of co-analytic sets.
    Greg Hjorth*, UCLA
    (937-04-90)
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  The Determinant of the Laplacian on Compact Manifolds.
  AUD, Schwab Auditorium
  Kate Okikiolu*, University of California, San Diego
  (937-53-153)
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Aspects of stability theory for pattern formation in reaction-diffusion equations.
  AUD, Schwab Auditorium
  Tasso J. Kaper*, Boston University
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Partitions and q-Series, IV
  Room 162, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  George E. Andrews, The Pennsylvania State University andrews@math.psu.edu
  Ken Ono, The Pennsylvania State University ono@math.psu.edu
  Scott D. Ahlgren, The Pennsylvania State University ahlgren@math.psu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Zeros of certain modular functions.
    Frank G Garvan*, University of Florida
    (937-11-109)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Hall-Littlewood Polynomials, the Finite General Linear Groups, and the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities.
    Jason E Fulman*, Dartmouth College
    (937-05-39)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Partitions Defined by Rank Conditions.
    Sylvie Corteel, LRI, Orsay
    Carla D Savage*, North Carolina State University
    Radhika Venkatraman, GTE
    (937-05-77)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Bernoulli Trials and q-Identities.
    Don P. Rawlings*, California Polytechnic State University
    (937-60-70)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Congruences for $m$--ary Partitions: Revisiting the Work of Andrews and others.
    James A Sellers*, Cedarville College
    (937-11-34)
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on C*-Algebraic Methods in Geometry and Topology, IV
  Room 362, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Nigel D. Higson, The Pennsylvania State University higson@math.psu.edu
  Erik Guentner, Dartmouth College guentner@dorset.dartmouth.edu
  John D. Trout, Jr., Dartmouth College john.d.trout@dartmouth.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Joint Special Session talk by Alain Connes in Room 262.
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The $K$-homology class of the equivariant Euler characteristic operator.
    Jonathan M Rosenberg*, University of Maryland
    (937-19-25)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Perturbed Dirac Operators.
    Jeffrey Fox, University of Colorado
    Cezary Gajdzinski, Virginia Tech
    Peter Haskell*, Virginia Tech
    (937-58-53)
  • 4:50 p.m.
    Geometric Constructions in $KK_G(C,C)$.
    Jeffrey Fox*, University of Colorado
    Peter Haskell, Virginia Tech
    G Kasparov, Institut de Mathematiques de Luminy
    (937-19-117)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Lefschetz formulas and the K-theory of the unstable algebras for hyperbolic dynamical systems.
    Jerome Kaminker*, IUPUI
    Ian F. Putnam, University of Victoria
    Jack Spielberg, Arizona State University
    (937-19-137)
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Modeling of Phase Transitions of Partially Ordered Physical Systems, II
  Room 158, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Maria-Carme T. Calderer, The Pennsylvania State University mcc@math.psu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Grain boundary energy and evolution.
    David Kinderlehrer*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (937-73-102)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Kinetic theory for polymer-liquid crystal systems.
    Weinan E*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, New York, NY 10012
    Cyrill Muratov, Courant Institute, NYU
    (937-35-146)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Entropic elasticity of martensites.
    Lev Truskinovsky*, Dept of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
    (937-35-135)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Dynamics of free surface and pure elongational flows of liquid crystalline polymers.
    Qi Wang*, Purdue University-Indiana University
    (937-35-136)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Scaling Relations for Chemical Spirals: Dispersion and Selection .
    Andrew L. Belmonte*, Penn State University
    J-M. Flesselles, ESPCI, Paris, France
    Q. Ouyang, NEC Research
    Vilmos Gaspar, Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary
    (937-92-141)
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Quantization, IV
  Room 258, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Jean-Luc Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University jlb@math.psu.edu
  Ranee Brylinski, The Pennsylvania State University rkb@math.psu.edu
  Boris Tsygan, The Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
  Ping Xu, The Pennsylvania State University ping@math.psu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Poisson harmonic forms and a theorem of Kostant.
    Sam Evens*, U. of Arizona
    Jiang-Hua Lu, U. of Arizona
    (937-22-35)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    A Littelmann-type formula for Duistermaat-Heckman measures.
    Allen Knutson*, Brandeis
    (937-53-59)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    On the Moduli Space of Yang-Baxter Operators .
    Anthony Giaquinto*, Loyola University Chicago
    (937-17-127)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quantum States Localized on Lagrangian Submanifolds.
    Fran\c cois Ziegler*, University of Georgia
    (937-22-140)
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Arithmetic Geometry, IV
  Room 358, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Kevin L. James, The Pennsylvania State University klj@math.psu.edu
  Wen-Ching Winnie Li, The Pennsylvania State University wli@math.psu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Central derivative of Hecke L-series .
    Tonghai Yang*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (937-11-37)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On Dirichlet series whose coefficients are class numbers of binary quadratic forms.
    Boris A Datskovsky*, Temple University
    (937-11-36)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tate's Conjecture for Elliptic Surfaces - Some Examples.
    Michael I. Rosen*, Brown University
    (937-11-55)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Canonical heights on elliptic curves in characteristic $p$.
    Matthew A Papanikolas*, Pennsylvania State University
    (937-11-61)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Convolution structures and arithmetic cohomology.
    Alexander A. Borisov*, Penn State University
    (937-11-33)
• Sunday October 25, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry, IV
  Room 262, Willard Building
  Organizers:
  Victor Nistor, The Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
  Paul F. Baum, The Pennsylvania State University baum@math.psu.edu
  Adrian Ocneanu, The Pennsylvania State University adrian@math.psu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The trace formula in Noncommutative Geometry and the Riemann Zeta function.
    Alain Connes*, I.H.E.S and Ecole Normale, Paris, France
    (937-47-124)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Two-dimensional groups and the Baum-Connes assembly map.
    Alain J Valette*, University of Neuchatel
    (937-46-52)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Hochschild and cyclic homology of certain dynamical systems arising in number theory.
    Eric Leichtnam*, Ecole Normale Superieure
    (937-46-129)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Generation properties in some group von Neumann algebras tensor B(H) .
    Florin G Radulescu*, University of Iowa
    (937-46-119)

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