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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)

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