AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:59
1999 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Buffalo, NY, April 24-25, 1999
Meeting #943
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Saturday April 24, 1999
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:40 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 24, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
Session on Contributed Papers
Room 205, Diefendorf Hall
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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.
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:30 p.m.
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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
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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