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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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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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