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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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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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