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1999 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Buffalo, NY, April 24-25, 1999
Meeting #943

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

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Saturday April 24, 1999

• Saturday April 24, 1999, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 114, Diefendorf Hall
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Rotunda, Diefendorf Hall
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knot and 3-Manifolds, I
  Room 2, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Thang T.Q. Le, State University of New York at Buffalo letu@math.buffalo.edu
  William W. Menasco, SUNY at Buffalo menasco@tait.math.buffalo.edu
  Morwen B. Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee morwen@math.utk.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Constructing horizontal and vertical compositions in cobordism and tangle double categories.
    Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State Univeristy
    Volodymyr V. Lyubashenko, Univerity of Kiev
    (943-57-172)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Positive links are strongly quasipositive.
    Lee Rudolph*, Clark University
    (943-57-127)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Non-trivial Invariants of Knotted Surfaces.
    J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
    Daniel Jelsovsky, University of South Florida
    Seiichi Kamada, Osaka City University
    Laurel Langford, University of Wisconsin at River Falls
    Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
    (943-57-94)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Coloring Virtual Knots and Links.
    Daniel S. Silver*, Univ. of South Alabama
    Susan G. Williams, Univ. of South Alabama
    (943-57-120)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ordering groups of pure braids and hyperplane arrangements.
    Dale P. Rolfsen*, Univ. of BC
    Djun M Kim, Univ. of BC
    (943-55-22)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Continuous Fraction expansions for Surface Diffeomorphisms.
    Klaus Johannson*, University of Tennessee
    (943-57-117)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Lie Algebras, I
  Room 8, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Duncan J. Melville, Saint Lawrence University dmel@music.stlawu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Generalized Cartan type H Lie algebras.
    Yuting Jia*, Queen's University
    (943-17-48)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Fourier transform on finite and p-adic Lie algebras.
    Clifton Cunningham*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    (943-22-125)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Centralizer Algebras of $SO(2n, {\Bbb C})$.
    Cheryl P. Grood*, Swarthmore College
    (943-17-43)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tensor Product Realizations of Torsion Free Lie Modules.
    Francis W Lemire*, University of Windsor
    Daniel J Britten, University of Windsor
    (943-17-24)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the Goldie Quotient Ring of the Enveloping Algebra of a Classical Simple Lie Superalgebra.
    Ian M. Musson*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (943-17-42)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Down-up Algebras and Weyl Algebras.
    Georgia Benkart*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (943-16-84)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Complex Geometry, I
  Room 103, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Terrence Napier, Lehigh University tjn2@lehigh.edu
  Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York at Buffalo ramac-m@newton.math.buffalo.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Transversely holomorphic foliations and CR structures.
    Howard Jacobowitz*, Rutgers University
    (943-32-97)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Projection of Runge Domains.
    Cezar Joita*, SUNY at Buffalo
    (943-32-82)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Lattice-invariant Riemann surfaces in the ball.
    Finnur L\'arusson*, University of Western Ontario
    (943-32-93)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 8:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Systems, I
  Room 104, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Mich\'ele Audin, Universit\'e Louis Pasteur et NCRS maudin@math.u-strasbg.fr
  Lisa Claire Jeffrey, University of Toronto jeffrey@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 8:40 a.m.
    A New Class of Homogeneous Manifolds with Liouville-Integrable Geodesic Flows.
    Leo Thomas Butler*, Queen's University
    (943-58-15)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Kaehler Structures On Four Dimensional Closed Hamiltonian $S^1$ Orbifolds With Isolated Fixed Points.
    Janet C Talvacchia*, Swarthmore College
    (943-53-86)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Invariants for Legendrian Tangles.
    Lisa M Traynor*, Bryn Mawr College
    (943-58-55)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    Number Theory and Quantization of Toric Actions.
    Ana M Cannas da Silva*, Instituto Superior Tecnico
    (943-51-113)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Smooth Categories in Geometry and Mechanics, I
  Room 5, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  F. William Lawvere, SUNY at Buffalo wlawvere@acsu.buffalo.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Synthetic Approach to Characteristic Cohomology.
    James J. Faran, V*, SUNY at Buffalo
    (943-18-72)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Infinitesimal Calculus of Variation.
    Hirokazu Nishimura*, University of Tsukuba, Japan
    (943-18-71)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Lebesgue Toposes.
    Jonathon Funk*, University of British Columbia
    (943-18-65)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Strongly Separable Morphisms.
    George Janelidze*, Georgean Academy of Science
    Walter Tholen, York University, Ont.Canada
    (943-18-73)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Thin Films: Solid and Liquid, I
  Room 148, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  E. Bruce Pitman, SUNY at Buffalo pitman@math.buffalo.edu
  Brian Spencer, State University of New York at Buffalo spencerb@math.buffalo.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Dynamics of a Spreading and Melting Drop on a Heated Substrate.
    Daniel M Anderson*, University of North Carolina
    M G Forest, University of North Carolina
    D D Glick, University of North Carolina
    R Superfine, University of North Carolina
    (943-76-130)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Undercompressive shocks in thin film flow.
    Andrea L Bertozzi*, Duke University
    Andreas M\"unch, Duke University
    Michael Shearer, North Carolina State University
    (943-35-28)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Long-wave instabilities in thin film equations -- blow-up, saturation, and steady-states.
    Mary Pugh*, University of Pennsylvania
    (943-76-83)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, I
  Room 6, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Harris Kwong, SUNY College at Fredonia kwong@cs.fredonia.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Congruences of Stirling numbers and Bell numbers via Weyl algebra.
    Ofer Hadas*, Wayne State University, Detroit
    (943-11-59)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tautologies of Boolean Variables and Combinatoial Identities.
    Melkamu Zeleke*, William Paterson University
    (943-05-144)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Covering a Bipartite Graph with Independent Quadrilaterals.
    Xiangwen Li*, West Virginia University
    Bin Wei, Institute of Systems, Acadmia Sinica, China
    Fan Yang, Institute of Systems, Acadmia Sinica, China
    (943-05-35)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Physics, I
  Room 7, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan Dimock, SUNY at Buffalo dimock@acsu.buffalo.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Algebraic Structures on Generalized Gauge Symmetries.
    Glenn Barnich, Universitat de Valencia
    Ron Fulp, N. C. State University
    Tom Lada*, N.C. State University
    Jim Stasheff, UNC-Chapel Hill
    (943-17-12)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Regularization of Yang-Mills Theory by Non-linear Wavelet Expansion.
    Paul G Federbush*, University of Michigan
    (943-81-52)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Geometry of Infinite Grassmannians and the Structure of the Proton.
    Sarada G Rajeev*, University of Rochester
    (943-81-80)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operads, Algebras, and Their Applications, I
  Room 4, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander A. Voronov, Michigan State University voronov@math.mit.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Constructions of $E_n$ Operads.
    Zbigniew Fiedorowicz*, Ohio State University
    (943-55-53)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Cohomology of graded generalizations of Poisson algebras.
    Gregg J. Zuckerman*, Yale University
    (943-17-89)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Fukaya's $A_{\infty}$ category and a CHAC operad.
    Jack Morava*, The Johns Hopkins University
    (943-18-147)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
  Session on Contributed Papers
  Room 205, Diefendorf Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Constrained Leja Points and Numerical Solution of the Constrained Energy Problem.
    Dan Coroian, Indiana-Purdue University
    Peter Dragnev*, Indiana-Purdue University
    (943-31-91)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Invariant Vector Fields on Flows of Certain Closed 3-Manifolds and their Confoliations.
    Richard H. Escobales, Jr.*, Canisius College
    (943-53-63)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An exact solution of $\pi(x)$ for any $X$.
    Robert J. Mack*, none
    (943-11-19)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    A sifter-type characterization for the Banach-Mazur game.
    Aaron R. Todd*, Bernard Baruch College
    (943-54-112)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Friedman Projection to Facet Measure Three Obeys the Euler Formula.
    C. S. Felicitas, CFCTE, Inc.
    Freddie Friedman*, CFCTE, Inc.
    (943-53-20)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Braid structures in 3-manifolds.
    Sofia Lambropoulou*, Universitaet Goettingen
    (943-57-169)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Symmetric Spectra.
  Room 148, Diefendorf Hall
  Jeffrey H. Smith*, Purdue University
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Integrable systems and spaces of curves.
  Room 148, Diefendorf Hall
  Michele Audin*, Universit\'e Louis Pasteur
  (943-58-173)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Smooth Categories in Geometry and Mechanics, II
  Room 5, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  F. William Lawvere, SUNY at Buffalo wlawvere@acsu.buffalo.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Atoms and categories of differential equations in Synthetic Differential Geometry.
    Gonzalo E Reyes*, Montreal University
    Anders Kock, Aarhus University
    (943-18-109)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Transversal Stability for infinitesimally represented germs.
    Felipe Gago*, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    (943-18-66)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Infinitesimal Geometric Aspects of Riemannian Metrics.
    Anders Kock*, Aarhus University, Denmark
    (943-18-68)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Infinitesimal Deformations in SDG.
    Rene Lavendhomme*, University of Louvain, Belgium
    (943-18-70)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Single universe for intensive and extensive quantities in a topos.
    Marta C. Bunge*, McGill University
    (943-18-76)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Thin Films: Solid and Liquid, II
  Room 148, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  E. Bruce Pitman, SUNY at Buffalo pitman@math.buffalo.edu
  Brian Spencer, State University of New York at Buffalo spencerb@math.buffalo.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Morphological Stability of Rods in the Presence of Surface Energy and Elastic Stress.
    Dimitri J Kirill, Northwestern University
    Harris Wong, Louisiana State University
    Stephen H. Davis, Northwestern University
    Michael J Miksis*, Northwestern University
    Peter W Voorhees, Northwestern University
    (943-73-40)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    A continuum model for the growth of thin solid films.
    Tim P Schulze*, New York University
    Weinan E, New York University
    (943-73-99)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Physics, II
  Room 7, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan Dimock, SUNY at Buffalo dimock@acsu.buffalo.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Quantum field theory and the renormalization group.
    David C. Brydges*, University of Virginia
    Jon Dimock, SUNY at Buffalo
    Tom R. Hurd, McMaster University
    (943-82-143)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Potts model duality on the annulus.
    Christopher K. King*, Northeastern University
    (943-82-61)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Probabilistic Considerations on Interacting Particle Systems.
    Patricia Giurgescu*, Pace University
    (943-60-49)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Stochastic dynamics for classical spin models.
    Tadeusz Balaban*, Rutgers University
    (943-82-146)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Knot and 3-Manifolds, II
  Room 2, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Thang T.Q. Le, State University of New York at Buffalo letu@math.buffalo.edu
  William W. Menasco, SUNY at Buffalo menasco@tait.math.buffalo.edu
  Morwen B. Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee morwen@math.utk.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Improper group actions and duality.
    John Meier*, Lafayette College
    Kenneth S. Brown, Cornell University
    (943-20-131)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A contribution of U(1)-reducible connections to the colored Jones polynomial and p-adic properties of quantum invariants.
    Lev Rozansky*, Yale University
    (943-57-122)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    $n$-string Tangles.
    John W Emert*, Ball State University
    Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University
    (943-57-16)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    q-homotopy skein module of 3-manifolds; properties and applications.
    Jozef H Przytycki*, GWU
    (943-57-148)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Brunnian braids and links, n-triviality, and group commutators.
    Theodore B Stanford*, United States Naval Academy
    (943-57-129)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Knot and 3-Manifolds, III
  Room 4, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Thang T.Q. Le, State University of New York at Buffalo letu@math.buffalo.edu
  William W. Menasco, SUNY at Buffalo menasco@tait.math.buffalo.edu
  Morwen B. Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee morwen@math.utk.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Kauffman Bracket Skein Module at 4th Root of Unity.
    Adam S Sikora*, UMCP and SUNY Buffalo
    (943-57-167)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The subgroup separable property in the braid groups.
    Oliver T Dasbach, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat
    Brian S Mangum*, Barnard College, Columbia University
    (943-57-158)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Group actions on order trees.
    Rachel Roberts, Washington University at St Louis
    Melanie Stein*, Trinity College
    (943-57-87)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Results on Thin Position.
    Curtis Feist*, Marshall University
    (943-57-98)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Extension of incompressible surfaces on the boundaries of 3-manifolds .
    Michael Freedman, UCSD, Microsoft
    Hugh N Howards*, Wake Forest University
    Wu Ying-Qing, University of Iowa
    (943-57-134)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Combinatorial Decomposition of Chinese Characters.
    Michael E. McDaniel*, Aquinas College
    (943-57-60)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Lie Algebras, II
  Room 8, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Duncan J. Melville, Saint Lawrence University dmel@music.stlawu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Representations of reduced enveloping algebras arising from the subregular nilpotent orbit.
    James E Humphreys*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (943-17-50)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On idempotents in enveloping algebras.
    George B. Seligman*, Yale University
    (943-17-33)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Schemes of Tori and the Structure of Tame Restricted Lie Algebras.
    Rolf Farnsteiner*, University of Wisconsin
    (943-17-45)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Nonrestricted representations of Cartan-type Lie algebras.
    Randall R. Holmes*, Auburn University
    (943-17-101)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Blocks of Finite Type in Reduced Enveloping Algebras for Classical Lie Algebras.
    Daniel K. Nakano, Utah State University
    David Pollack*, Queen's University
    (943-17-114)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Complexity for modules over classical Lie algebras and finite Chevalley groups.
    Zongzhu Lin, Kansas St. University
    Daniel K. Nakano*, Utah St. University
    (943-17-36)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operads, Algebras, and Their Applications, II
  Room 308, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander A. Voronov, Michigan State University voronov@math.mit.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Some problems in deformation theory and quantum groups.
    Murray Gerstenhaber*, University of Pennsylvnia
    (943-16-137)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    On Some Duality Theorems.
    Sorin Dascalescu, University of Bucharest
    Florin F. Nichita*, SUNY at Buffalo, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
    Samuel D. Schack, SUNY at Buffalo
    (943-16-27)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Integrable Hierarchies, Stable Maps, and Spin Curves.
    Tyler J Jarvis, Brigham Young University
    Takashi Kimura*, Boston University
    (943-14-159)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Systems, II
  Room 104, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Mich\'ele Audin, Universit\'e Louis Pasteur et NCRS maudin@math.u-strasbg.fr
  Lisa Claire Jeffrey, University of Toronto jeffrey@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stiefel-Whitney classes and eigenvalue inequalities.
    Arkady Berenstein, Cornell University
    Reyer Sjamaar*, Cornell University
    (943-58-115)
  • 3:05 p.m.
    Vanishing theorems for the kernel of a Dirac operator.
    Maxim Braverman*, Ohio State University
    (943-32-126)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Moduli of bundles with weighted frames.
    Jacques Hurtubise*, McGill University
    Lisa C. Jeffrey, University of Toronto
    (943-14-75)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Holomorphic bundles over complex surfaces.
    Boris Khesin*, University of Toronto
    Alexei Rosly, ITEP, Moscow
    (943-58-135)
  • 4:50 p.m.
    Automorphism group actions on moduli spaces.
    William M. Goldman*, University of Maryland
    (943-53-31)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, II
  Room 6, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Harris Kwong, SUNY College at Fredonia kwong@cs.fredonia.edu
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    Circulants and the Circular Chromatic Number.
    Karen L Collins*, Wesleyan University
    (943-05-46)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Graph Coloring and Noncommutative Symmetric Functions.
    Bruce E Sagan*, Michigan State University
    David D. Gebhard, Lenoir-Rhyne College
    (943-05-21)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Group Coloring of a Graph.
    Hong-Jian Lai*, West Virginia University
    (943-05-96)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Dynamic Vertex Coloring.
    Bruce Montgomery*, West Virginia University
    (943-05-90)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Complex Geometry, II
  Room 103, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Terrence Napier, Lehigh University tjn2@lehigh.edu
  Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York at Buffalo ramac-m@newton.math.buffalo.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Uniqueness of Grauert tubes.
    Richard K Hind*, University of Michigan
    (943-51-128)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Singular Levi-flat real analytic hypersurfaces.
    Daniel M. Burns, Jr.*, Univ. of Michigan
    Xianghong Gong, Univ. of Michigan
    (943-32-165)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 5:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Atomistic, continuum and bulk models for epitaxial growth.
  Room 148, Diefendorf Hall
  Russel E Caflisch*, UCLA
  (943-82-41)
• Saturday April 24, 1999, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
  UB Department of Mathematics Dinner Reception

Sunday April 25, 1999

• Sunday April 25, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Rotunda, Diefendorf Hall
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 114, Diefendorf Hall
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knot and 3-Manifolds, IV
  Room 2, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Thang T.Q. Le, State University of New York at Buffalo letu@math.buffalo.edu
  William W. Menasco, SUNY at Buffalo menasco@tait.math.buffalo.edu
  Morwen B. Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee morwen@math.utk.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Knots in non-Haken 3-Manifolds.
    Marc Culler*, AMS
    (943-57-171)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Yang-Mills measure in the Kauffman bracket skein module.
    Doug Bullock, Boise State University
    Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
    (943-57-121)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The A-polynomial from the Noncommutative Viewpoint.
    Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    Razvan Gelca, The University of Michigan
    Walter LoFaro, Boise State University
    (943-57-54)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Contact Structures On 3-Manifolds That Fiber Over $S^1$.
    Andrew P Lewis*, UC Berkeley
    (943-57-139)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Constructing tight contact 3-manifolds.
    John B. Etnyre, Stanford
    Robert W. Ghrist*, Geogia Institute of Technology
    (943-58-29)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A dynamics proof that Alexander polynomials multiply under connected sums .
    Michael C Sullivan*, Southern Illinois University
    (943-58-09)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Lie Algebras, III
  Room 8, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Duncan J. Melville, Saint Lawrence University dmel@music.stlawu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Homological Invariant of Weyl modules for $GL_n$.
    Upendra B Kulkarni*, University of Massachusetts
    (943-20-85)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Gr\"obner-Shirshov Pair in Representation Theory.
    Seok-Jin Kang, Seoul National University, Korea
    Kyu-Hwan Lee*, Seoul National University, Korea
    (943-17-26)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Combinatorics of Crystals for Demazure modules.
    Kailash C. Misra*, North Carolina State University
    (943-17-133)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Symmetric functions and $U_q(\widehat{sl}_2)$.
    Naihuan Jing*, MSRI and N. C. State Univ.
    (943-17-132)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fusion Rules From Elementary Group Theory.
    Alex J. Feingold*, Binghamton University
    (943-17-156)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Realization of affine algebras.
    Albert John Coleman*, Queen's University
    (943-17-58)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Complex Geometry, III
  Room 103, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Terrence Napier, Lehigh University tjn2@lehigh.edu
  Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York at Buffalo ramac-m@newton.math.buffalo.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the fundamental group of an elliptic fibration.
    Stephen S.Y. Lu*, Pure Math. Dept., University of Waterloo.
    (943-32-44)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hermitian-Einstein Metrics for Vector Bundles on Complete Kahler Manifolds.
    Lei Ni*, Purdue University
    (943-58-104)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extended bisectors in complex projective space.
    William M. Goldman*, University of Maryland
    (943-53-30)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, III
  Room 6, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Harris Kwong, SUNY College at Fredonia kwong@cs.fredonia.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Vertex reinforced random walks on arbitrary graphs.
    Stanislav Volkov*, University of Toronto
    (943-05-174)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Condensation Method.
    Tewodros Amdeberhan*, DeVry Institute of Technology
    (943-05-166)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Probabilistic Group Testing in the Presence of Errors and its Applications to DNA Library Screening.
    Arkadii G D'yachkov, SUNY Geneseo/Moscow State Univ.
    Anthony J Macula*, SUNY Geneseo
    Vyacheslav V Rykov, SUNY Geneseo/ Moscow State Univ.
    (943-05-10)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Cospectral Graphs with Arbitrary Centers.
    Ian C. Walter, Jr.*, D'Youville College
    (943-05-11)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 8:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Systems, III
  Room 104, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Mich\'ele Audin, Universit\'e Louis Pasteur et NCRS maudin@math.u-strasbg.fr
  Lisa Claire Jeffrey, University of Toronto jeffrey@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 8:40 a.m.
    Contact forms on Frobenius manifolds.
    Mich\`ele Audin, Universit\'e Louis Pasteur et CNRS
    Emma Previato*, Boston University
    (943-58-118)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Localization in equivariant cohomology for invariant submanifolds.
    Mikhail Kogan*, MIT
    (943-53-123)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Localization theorems for manifolds with boundary and geometric quantization.
    David S Metzler*, Rice University
    (943-53-116)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    Cohomology Ring of Weight Varieties.
    Rebecca F Goldin*, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology
    (943-51-155)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Smooth Categories in Geometry and Mechanics, III
  Room 5, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  F. William Lawvere, SUNY at Buffalo wlawvere@acsu.buffalo.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Arithmetic Categories.
    Peter Freyd*, University of Pennsylvania
    (943-18-69)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Vertex Algebras - An example of a relaxed multilinear category.
    Craig T. Snydal*, Cambridge University
    (943-18-67)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Conceptual Mathematics, Categories, Functors, and Tensors.
    Walter Noll*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (943-18-176)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Smoothness of Cubical Splines.
    F. William Lawvere*, SUNY at Buffalo
    (943-18-145)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Physics, III
  Room 7, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan Dimock, SUNY at Buffalo dimock@acsu.buffalo.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Heat kernel analysis on infinite dimensional complex groups.
    Maria Gordina*, McMaster University
    (943-46-136)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Boundary conformal fiel theory on the upper half plane.
    J\"urg Fr\"ohlich, ETHZ Z\"urich
    Olivier Grandjean*, Harvard University
    Andreas Recknagel, MPI Leipzig
    Volker Schomerus, Hamburg University
    (943-81-111)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Supersymmetry with a Twist.
    Arthur M. Jaffe*, Harvard University
    (943-81-62)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operads, Algebras, and Their Applications, III
  Room 4, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander A. Voronov, Michigan State University voronov@math.mit.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homology of $A_{\infty}$ and $L_{\infty}-$algebras.
    Masoud Khalkhali*, University of Western Ontario
    (943-18-142)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Formality conjectures for chains and characteristic classes.
    Boris L Tsygan*, Penn State University
    (943-18-170)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    A master identity for homotopy Gerstenhaber algebras.
    Fusun Akman*, Coastal Carolina University
    (943-17-100)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Operad Theory and Some Applications.
  Room 148, Diefendorf Hall
  Alexander A. Voronov*, Michigan State University
  (943-18-05)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Harmonic Algebra.
  Room 148, Diefendorf Hall
  Gregg J. Zuckerman*, Yale University
  (943-17-175)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Smooth Categories in Geometry and Mechanics, IV
  Room 5, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  F. William Lawvere, SUNY at Buffalo wlawvere@acsu.buffalo.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Round Table Discussion.
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Physics, IV
  Room 7, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan Dimock, SUNY at Buffalo dimock@acsu.buffalo.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Quantization of Massive Vector Fields in Curved Spacetime.
    Edward P Furlani*, Department of Physics, SUNY at Buffalo
    (943-81-17)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Faddeev formula in the inverse scattering for Dirac operators.
    Ghias Hachem*, Institut Galilée,Université Paris 13,France.
    (943-47-23)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dynamic Stability of Magnetic Vortices.
    Stephen J Gustafson*, University of Toronto
    (943-35-105)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Properties of the Laplacian on a Sierpinski Gasket.
    Alexander Teplyaev*, McMaster University
    (943-35-157)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On separability of the Toda lattice.
    Raymond G. McLenaghan, University of Waterloo
    Roman G. Smirnov*, University of Waterloo
    (943-58-149)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Knot and 3-Manifolds, V
  Room 2, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Thang T.Q. Le, State University of New York at Buffalo letu@math.buffalo.edu
  William W. Menasco, SUNY at Buffalo menasco@tait.math.buffalo.edu
  Morwen B. Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee morwen@math.utk.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Casson-Walker-Lescop Invariant and Link Invariants.
    Jeff Johannes*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    (943-57-18)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Casson-Walker invariant for double covers of rational homology 3-spheres.
    Cynthia L. Curtis*, The College of New Jersey
    (943-57-37)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Comparison among finite type 3-manifold invariants.
    Stavros Garoufalidis*, Harvard University
    Michael Polyak, Tel Aviv University
    Mikhal Goussarov, POMI, St. Petersburg, Russia
    (943-57-88)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Finite-type invariants, Massey products and the Johnson homomorphism.
    Jerome P Levine*, Brandeis University
    Stavros Garoufalidis, Harvard University
    (943-57-103)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Norm duality and hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Steven P Boyer*, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
    Xingru Zhang, SUNY Buffalo
    (943-57-119)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On Simple Points Of Character Varieties Of 3-Manifolds.
    Steven Boyer, UQAM
    Xingru Zhang*, SUNY at Buffalo
    (943-57-38)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Lie Algebras, IV
  Room 8, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Duncan J. Melville, Saint Lawrence University dmel@music.stlawu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Peterson's formula for generalized Kac-Moody superalgebras.
    Seok-Jin Kang*, Seoul National University, Korea
    Jae-Hoon Kwon, Seoul National University, Korea
    Young-Tak Oh, Seoul National University, Korea
    (943-17-138)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Irreducible Representations for toroidal Lie algebras.
    Stephen Berman*, Univ. of Sask.
    Yuly Billig, Univ. of New Brunswick
    (943-17-34)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stratification of algebras.
    Vlastimil Dlab*, Carleton University
    (943-16-140)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Affine braids, quantum groups and Jantzen filtrations.
    Rosa Orellana, University of California, San Diego
    Arun Ram*, Princeton University
    (943-16-110)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Representation theory of reductive normal algebraic monoids.
    Stephen R Doty*, Loyola University Chicago
    (943-20-102)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Representations of Kac-Moody algebras and the sine-Gordon equation.
    Yuly Billig*, University of New Brunswick
    (943-17-47)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    a realization of the infinite wedge space representation of $\mathfrak{gl}_{\infty}$.
    R. Michael Howe*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    (943-17-106)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operads, Algebras, and Their Applications, IV
  Room 4, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander A. Voronov, Michigan State University voronov@math.mit.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A Tale of Two Quantizations.
    Jim Stasheff*, UNC-CH
    (943-81-95)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Semi-infinite forms and topological vertex operator algebras.
    Yi-Zhi Huang*, Rutgers University
    Wenhua Zhao, University of Chicago
    (943-17-64)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    The Operads of locally trivialized holomorphic $G$-bundles over Riemann sphere.
    Wenhua Zhao*, University of Chicago
    (943-81-107)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Systems, IV
  Room 104, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Mich\'ele Audin, Universit\'e Louis Pasteur et NCRS maudin@math.u-strasbg.fr
  Lisa Claire Jeffrey, University of Toronto jeffrey@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Convex polytopes and moment maps in the geometry of an integrable system.
    Barbara A. Shipman*, The University of Texas at Arlington
    (943-70-51)
  • 3:05 p.m.
    Extended integrability and bi-Hamiltonian systems .
    Oleg I. Bogoyavlenskij*, Queen's University
    (943-58-151)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Representations of Fundamental Groups of Riemann Surfaces.
    Mark Hoyle*, Michigan State University
    (943-58-152)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Moduli spaces of flat connections on Riemann surfaces.
    Lisa C Jeffrey*, University of Toronto
    (943-58-141)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, IV
  Room 6, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Harris Kwong, SUNY College at Fredonia kwong@cs.fredonia.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Aspects of Representability of Bias Matroids of Signed Graphs.
    Steven R. Pagano*, University of Kentucky
    (943-05-74)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Symplectic matroids the easy way.
    Timothy Y Chow*, Tellabs Research Center
    (943-05-25)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Superimposed Codes based on Reed-Solomon Codes.
    Arkadii G D'yachkov, SUNY Geneseo/Moscow State Univ.
    Anthony J Macula*, SUNY Geneseo
    Vyacheslav V Rykov, SUNY Geneseo/Moscow State Univ.
    (943-05-14)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    New Applications and Results of Superimposed Code Theory.
    Arkadii G D'yachkov*, SUNY Geneseo/Moscow State Univ.
    Anthony J Macula, SUNY Geneseo
    Vyacheslav V Rykov, SUNY Geneseo/Moscow State Univ.
    (943-05-13)
• Sunday April 25, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Complex Geometry, IV
  Room 103, Diefendorf Hall
  Organizers:
  Terrence Napier, Lehigh University tjn2@lehigh.edu
  Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York at Buffalo ramac-m@newton.math.buffalo.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Generalized Boundary Schwarz's Lemma.
    Dov N. Chelst*, Drew University
    (943-30-161)

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