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1999 Spring Central Section Meeting
Urbana, IL, March 18-21, 1999
Meeting #941

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

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Saturday March 20, 1999

• Saturday March 20, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Second Floor, Altgeld Hall
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Library, Altgeld Hall
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonstandard Analysis, III
  Room 269, Everitt Laboratory
  Organizers:
  C. Ward Henson, University of Illinois-Urbana henson@math.uiuc.edu
  Peter Loeb, University of Illinois-Urbana loeb@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Nonstandard methods in o-minimal structures.
    H. Jerome Keisler*, University of Wisconsin
    (941-03-321)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic Numbers, Asymptotic Functions and a Solution of the Problem of Multiplication of Schwartz Distributions.
    Todor D. Todorov*, Cal Poly. SLO
    (941-46-74)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hahn Field Representation of A. Robinson's Asymptotic Numbers.
    Robert S. Wolf*, Cal Poly State University
    Todor D. Todorov, Cal Poly State University
    (941-03-42)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Non-Cooperative Games on Hyperfinite Loeb Spaces.
    Mohammed A Khan*, The Johns Hopkins University
    Yeneng Sun, The National University of Singapore
    (941-90-188)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Elementary and Analytic Number Theory, III
  Room 245, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Harold G. Diamond, University of Illinois, Urbana diamond@math.uiuc.edu
  A. J. Hildebrand, University of Illinois, Urbana hildebr@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On an Irreducibility Theorem of A.~Schinzel Associated with Coverings of the Integers .
    Michael Filaseta*, University of South Carolina
    Kevin Ford, University of South Carolina
    Sergei Konyagin, Moscow State University
    (941-11-87)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Congruence properties of the Stern sequence.
    Bruce Reznick*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (941-11-279)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Wythoff pairs, semigroups, and recurrences.
    Kenneth Stolarsky*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (941-11-90)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Expressing a positive integer as the sum of a given number of odd squares.
    Paul T. Bateman*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (941-11-80)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Distribution of Generalized q-Additive Functions Modulo 1.
    Abigail Hoit*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (941-11-341)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Diophantine Equations, Inequalities and Related Arithmetic Problems, III
  Room 143, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Bennett, University of Illinois, Urbana mabennett@math.uiuc.edu
  Trevor Wooley, University of Michigan wooley@math.lsa.umich.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Systems of Quadratic Forms defined over the $p$-adic Numbers.
    David B Leep*, University of Kentucky
    (941-11-284)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Artin's Conjecture for Forms of Degree 7 and 11.
    Michael P Knapp*, University of Michigan
    (941-11-39)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Rational Lines on Hypersurfaces.
    Scott T. Parsell*, University of Michigan
    (941-11-40)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Values of Positive Definite Quadratic Forms.
    D. Eric Freeman*, University of Michigan
    (941-11-23)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Recursion, Cubic Irrationals and Pell-type Equations.
    Karl Dilcher*, Dalhousie University
    (941-11-197)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Equations, III
  Room 147, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Igor Krichever, Columbia University krichev@cpw.math.columbia.edu
  Kirill Vaninsky, Kansas State University vaninsky@math.ksu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Knot types and spectra for multi-phase solutions of vortex filament flow.
    Thomas A Ivey*, Ball State University
    Annalisa Calini, College of Charleston
    (941-35-195)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The determiant represesentaions for correlation functions of quantum completely integrable models
    Vladimir Korepin*, SUNY Stony Brook
    (941-35-69)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quantum Field Theory on Algebraic Curves.
    Leon A Takhtajan*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (941-81-18)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    symplectic staructures for the cubic Schrodinger equation in periodic and scattering case.
    Kirill L. Vaninsky*, Kansas State
    (941-35-342)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Integration of the Gauss-Codazzi equations.
    Vladimir E. Zakharov*, University of Arizona
    (941-51-298)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Spaces and Their Applications, III
  Room 165, Everitt Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Gilles Pisier, Texas A & M gip@ccr.jussieu.fr
  Zhong-Jin Ruan, University of Illinois-Urbana ruan@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quasidiagonality and K-theory.
    Marius Dadarlat*, Purdue University
    (941-46-66)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    K-theory of certain C*-algebras associated with free products of cyclic groups.
    Shuang Zhang*, University of Cincinnati
    Wojciech Szymanski, The University of Newcastle
    (941-46-352)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Pure states on $\mathcal{O}_{d}$.
    Ola Bratteli, University of Oslo
    Palle E.T. Jorgensen*, The University of Iowa
    Akitaka Kishimoto, University of Hokkaido
    Reinhard F. Werner, Universit\"{a}t Braunschweig
    (941-46-156)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some minimization problems for the free analogue of the Fisher information.
    Nica M. Alexandru*, University of Waterloo
    Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, UCLA
    Speicher Roland, University of Heidelberg
    (941-46-204)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Unbounded operators affiliated to some II-1 factors.
    Florin G Radulescu*, Univ of Iowa
    (941-46-346)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Designs, III
  Room 241, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Ilene H. Morgan, University of Missouri-Rolla imorgan@umr.edu
  Walter D. Wallis, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale wdwallis@math.siu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the construction of compound orthogonal arrays.
    Samad Hedayat*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    John Stufken, Iowa State University
    (941-05-162)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Constructing Starters with Holes.
    Rolf Rees*, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland
    Nabil Shalaby, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland
    (941-05-291)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On algebraic designs in association schemes.
    Sung Y Song*, Iowa State University
    (941-05-175)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Constructing orthomorphisms of $GF(3)^+\times GF(q)^+$.
    Anthony B Evans*, Wright State University
    (941-05-215)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
  Room 345, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Joseph Brennan, North Dakota State University brennan@plains.nodak.edu
  Sankar Dutta, University of Illinois, Urbana dutta@math.uiuc.edu
  Robert Fossum, University of Illinois, Urbana r-fossum@uiuc.edu
  Phillip Griffith, University of Illinois, Urbana griffith@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Core of ideals and modules.
    Alberto Corso*, Michigan State University
    (941-13-324)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Intersection multiplicities over Gorenstein rings.
    Claudia M Miller*, University of Michigan
    Anurag K Singh, University of Illinois-Urbana
    (941-13-293)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Serre positivity conjecture and associated graded rings.
    Paul C Roberts*, University of Utah
    (941-13-235)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extremal Betti Numbers and Applications to monomial ideals.
    Dave Bayer, Barnard College, Columbia University
    Hara Charalambous*, University at Albany, SUNY
    Sorin Popescu, Columbia University
    (941-13-351)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Toric Hilbert Schemes.
    Irena V. Peeva*, Cornell University
    Mike Stillman, Cornell University
    (941-13-310)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Wavelet Analysis and Multiresolution Methods, III
  Room 151, Everitt Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Tian-Xiao He, Illinois Wesleyan University the@sun.iwu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Squeezable orthogonal bases.
    George C Donovan, Princeton University
    Jeffrey S Geronimo, Georgia Institute of Technology,
    Douglas P Hardin*, Vanderbilt University
    (941-41-349)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A robust construction of wavelets.
    Thomas A Hogan*, Vanderbilt University
    Douglas P Hardin, Vanderbilt University
    (941-39-354)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Time-domain methods for nonhomogeneous refinement.
    Thomas B Dinsenbacher*, Vanderbilt University
    Douglas P Hardin, Vanderbilt University
    (941-39-257)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Refinement Equations, Joint Spectral Radius and Wavelets.
    Ding-Xuan Zhou*, City University of Hong Kong
    (941-42-111)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A geometric approach to ergodic non-homogeneous Markov chains.
    Jianhong Shen*, Department of Math, UCLA
    (941-15-54)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 8:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Optimization Problems in Geometry, I
  Room 447, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert Kusner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst kusner@math.umass.edu
  John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Urbana jms@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 8:45 a.m.
    A general variational method for crystalline triple junction motion.
    Jean E. Taylor*, Rutgers University
    (941-53-75)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discrete Minimal Surfaces on Non-Conforming Triangulations.
    Konrad Polthier*, Technical University Berlin
    (941-53-322)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Conjectured minimal surfaces derived from Hamiltonian polyhedra in the cubic lattice.
    Chaim Goodman-Strauss*, Univ. Arkansas
    (941-53-169)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Elementary Geometry, IV
  Room 445, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  John E. Wetzel, University of Illinois-Urbana jwetzel@math.uiuc.edu
  Clark Kimberling, University of Evansville ck6@evansville.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Enumerative Triangle Geometry.
    Clark H Kimberling*, University of Evansville
    (941-51-72)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the Ajima-Malfatti problem.
    Peter Yff*, American University of Beirut
    (941-51-208)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Remarks on Triangles Inscribed in a Cubic Curve.
    Lawrence S. Evans*, none
    (941-51-118)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Galois Representations, III
  Room 141, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Nigel Boston, University of Illinois-Urbana boston@math.uiuc.edu
  Michael Larsen, University of Missouri larsen@math.missouri.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Twisted Galois Representations and Elliptic Curves .
    Brian Conrad*, Harvard University
    Siman Wong, Brown University
    (941-11-244)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Lifts of mod $p$ Galois representations with large image.
    Yihsiang Liow*, University of Arizona
    (941-11-300)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Iwasawa Invariants for Elliptic Curves.
    Ralph Greenberg*, University of Washington
    (941-11-146)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Martingales and Analysis, III
  Room 161, Everitt Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Joseph Max Rosenblatt, University of Illinois-Urbana jrsnbltt@math.uiuc.edu
  Renming Song, University of Illinois-Urbana rsong@math.uiuc.edu
  Richard B. Sowers, University of Illinois-Urbana r-sowers@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Wavelet theory for Probabilists.
    Richard Gundy*, Rutgers University
    (941-60-248)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The B. Davis' Inequality for Orthogonal Martingales Under Differential Subordination.
    Gang Wang*, DePaul University
    Rodrigo Banuelos, Purdue University
    (941-60-110)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dispersion under stochastic flows.
    Michael C Cranston*, University of Rochester
    Michael Scheutzow, Technische Universtiat
    David Steinsalz, University of California
    (941-60-106)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    From Boundary Crossing of Non-random Functions to First Passage Times of Random Processes .
    Victor H de la Pena*, Columbia University
    Ming Yang, Columbia University
    (941-60-115)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, III
  Room 243, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Douglas B. West, University of Illinois, Urbana west@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A distance property of $2m$ points.
    Andre E Kezdy*, University of Louisville
    Mark J. Nielsen, University of Idaho
    Hunter S. Snevily, University of Idaho
    (941-05-226)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Strengthening Distance-Hereditary Graphs.
    Terry A. McKee*, Wright State University
    (941-05-10)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generalizing the Ramsey Problem through Diameter.
    Dhruv Mubayi*, Georgia Tech
    (941-05-125)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Edge-Maximal Triangle-Free Point-Determining Graphs.
    Richard H. Schelp*, University of Memphis
    Alex Scott, University College London
    (941-05-105)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Topology, II
  Room 145, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Eugene M. Lerman, University of Illinois-Urbana lerman@math.uiuc.edu
  Susan Tolman, University of Illinois-Urbana stolman@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Contact Homologies for Legendrian Tangles.
    Lisa M Traynor*, Bryn Mawr College
    (941-58-236)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Blowing up on symplectic orbifolds.
    Leonor Godinho*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (941-51-296)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Holomorphic Vector Bundles and Complex Geometry, III
  Room 343, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Maarten Bergvelt, University of Illinois-Urbana bergv@math.uiuc.edu
  Steven Bradlow, University of Illinois-Urbana bradlow@vortex.math.uiuc.edu
  John P. D'Angelo, University of Illinois-Urbana jpda@math.uiuc.edu
  Lawrence Ein, University of Illinois-Chicago
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Brill-Noether theory for Holomorphic Vector Bundles on Riemann Surfaces.
    Ivona Grzegorczyk*, University of Massachussetts Dartmouth
    (941-14-270)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Brill-Noether reflections for moduli spaces of sheaves on K3 surfaces.
    Eyal Markman*, University of Massachusetts
    (941-14-302)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some new analysis on the $K$-trivial extremal contractions of smooth threefolds: Preliminary report.
    Kenji Matsuki*, Purdue University
    Csilla Tamas, Purdue University
    (941-14-163)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Quotient and Moduli in Differential and Complex geometry.
    Yi Hu*, UT
    (941-14-333)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Low-dimensional Topology, III
  Room 341, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark Brittenham, University of North Texas britten@unt.edu
  Charles Delman, Eastern Illinois University cfcid@eiu.edu
  Rachel Roberts, Washington University roberts@sulu.wustl.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The universal circle for foliations and transverse laminations.
    Sergio R Fenley*, Washington University and Princeton University
    (941-57-230)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Palmeira's Theorem for Laminations.
    David Gabai, Caltech
    William H Kazez*, UGA
    (941-57-317)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Alexander and Thurston norms of fibered 3-manifolds.
    Nathan M. Dunfield*, University of Chicago
    (941-57-134)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Session on Number Theory, II
  Room 443, Altgeld Hall
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Multiplier systems of complex weight on the Hecke groups.
    Paul C Pasles*, Saint Joseph's University
    (941-11-27)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    A transformation on the space of rational functions.
    Victor H Moll*, Tulane University
    George Boros, University of New Orleans
    Michael Joyce, Tulane University
    (941-11-93)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    On Modified r-Regular Partitions.
    Neville Robbins*, San Francisco State Univ.
    (941-11-138)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Continued Fraction expansions of Pell Polynomials.
    James G Mc Laughlin*, University of Illinois at Champaign
    (941-11-334)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Constructing regular polygons with your favorite number of sides.
    Florian Luca*, Bielefeld University
    (941-11-12)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Automorphic descent from GL(N) to classical groups
  Room 314, Altgeld Hall
  Stephen Rallis*, Ohio State University
  (941-11-04)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Affine Grassmannians and the Bernstein center
  Room 314, Altgeld Hall
  Alexander Beilinson*, University of Chicago
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Elementary and Analytic Number Theory, IV
  Room 245, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Harold G. Diamond, University of Illinois, Urbana diamond@math.uiuc.edu
  A. J. Hildebrand, University of Illinois, Urbana hildebr@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Applications of number theory to cyclic codes and difference sets.
    Ronald J. Evans*, UCSD
    Henk Hollman, Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven
    Christian Krattenthaler, University of Vienna
    Qing Xiang, University of Delaware
    (941-11-202)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    New results in comparative prime number theory.
    Kevin Ford*, University of South Carolina
    Richard H. Hudson, University of South Carolina
    (941-11-122)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Distribution of the RSA Generator.
    John B Friedlander*, Univ. of Toronto
    Daniel Lieman, Univ. of Missouri
    Igor Shparlinski, Macquarie University
    (941-11-301)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The cubic moment of central values of automorphic L-functions.
    Brian Conrey*, American Institute of Mathematics
    Henryk Iwaniec, Rutgers University
    (941-11-231)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The geometry of badly approximable vectors.
    Doug Hensley*, Texas A&M University
    (941-11-223)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On sums of four smooth squares.
    Gergely Harcos*, Princeton University
    (941-11-332)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Sums of Nonnegative multiplicative functions over $y$-smooth numbers.
    Joung M Song*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (941-11-73)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Inverse problems for partition functions.
    Yifan Yang*, University of Illinois
    (941-11-233)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Diophantine Equations, Inequalities and Related Arithmetic Problems, IV
  Room 143, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Bennett, University of Illinois, Urbana mabennett@math.uiuc.edu
  Trevor Wooley, University of Michigan wooley@math.lsa.umich.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Integer Apollonian Circle Packings.
    Jeffrey C Lagarias*, A T & T Labs
    (941-11-297)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Higher-order Carmichael numbers.
    Everett W. Howe*, Center for Communications Research, La Jolla
    (941-11-192)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Diophantine problem arising in the use of Galois Descent .
    Kristin E. Lauter*, University of Michigan
    (941-11-201)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Exponential sums with applications to codes over rings.
    Judy L Walker*, University of Nebraska
    (941-11-227)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Schmidt's matrix normality conjecture.
    Gavin Brown, Sydney University
    William Moran, Flinders University
    Andrew D Pollington*, BYU
    (941-11-288)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Elementary Geometry, V
  Room 445, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  John E. Wetzel, University of Illinois-Urbana jwetzel@math.uiuc.edu
  Clark Kimberling, University of Evansville ck6@evansville.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The geometry of the cardiac cycle.
    Dennis F. Cudia*, none
    (941-52-43)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The solution to the isoperimetric problem in 3-dimensional Minkowski space.
    Anthony C. Thompson*, Dalhousie University
    (941-52-49)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The smallest convex cover for triangles of perimeter two.
    Zoltan F\"uredi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    John E. Wetzel*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (941-52-207)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Planar Packings and Mappings related to Minmax Problems.
    Seon-Hong Kim*, University of Illinois
    (941-52-217)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Packing problems with congruent polygons.
    Heiko Harborth*, TU Braunschweig, Germany
    (941-52-211)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonstandard Analysis, IV
  Room 269, Everitt Laboratory
  Organizers:
  C. Ward Henson, University of Illinois-Urbana henson@math.uiuc.edu
  Peter Loeb, University of Illinois-Urbana loeb@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Foundations of Infinitesimal Calculus.
    Keith D Stroyan*, U of Iowa
    (941-99-178)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Verification of Numerical Software using Nonstandard Methods
    Ian Sutherland, Bell Laboratories
    Curtis Tuckey*, Motorola
    (941-68-359)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Nonstandard topologies with standard bases.
    Nader Vakil*, Western Illinois University
    (941-46-24)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some results in nonstandard topology .
    Hermann Render*, University of Duisburg
    (941-54-113)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Combinatorial Formulations of Strong Saturation Principles.
    Mauro DiNasso, University of Pisa
    Karel Hrbacek*, City College of New York
    (941-03-177)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Nonstandard applications to problems from combinatorial number theory: a survey and update.
    Steven C. Leth*, University of Northern Colorado
    (941-03-327)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Galois Representations, IV
  Room 141, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Nigel Boston, University of Illinois-Urbana boston@math.uiuc.edu
  Michael Larsen, University of Missouri larsen@math.missouri.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Automorphic Induction and Leopoldt type Conjectures for GL(n).
    Haruzo Hida*, UCLA
    (941-11-145)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On p-adic Galois representations associated to automorphic forms and applications.
    Eric JP Urban*, UCLA
    (941-11-261)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Even Galois representations and group cohomology.
    Avner D Ash*, Ohio State Univ.
    (941-11-67)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    The Monodromy Pairing .
    Robert F Coleman*, University of California
    (941-14-205)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Martingales and Analysis, IV
  Room 161, Everitt Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Joseph Max Rosenblatt, University of Illinois-Urbana jrsnbltt@math.uiuc.edu
  Renming Song, University of Illinois-Urbana rsong@math.uiuc.edu
  Richard B. Sowers, University of Illinois-Urbana r-sowers@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sharp estimates for the spectral gap of biconvex domains Sharp estimates for the spectral gap of biconvex domains Sharp estimates for the spectral gap of doubly symmetric convex domains .
    Rodrigo Banuelos, Purdue University
    Burgess Davis*, Purdue University
    (941-00-123)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Local time flow related to skew Brownian motion.
    Krzysztof Burdzy, University of Washington
    Zhen-Qing Chen*, University of Washington
    (941-60-107)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Long-time Asymptotics of the stochastic parallel transport on hyperbolic space.
    Robert O Bauer*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (941-60-131)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Oscillation inequalities for singular integrals.
    James T. Campbell, University of Memphis
    Roger L. Jones*, DePaul University
    Karin Reinhold, University at Albany
    M\'at\'e Wierdl, University of Memphis
    (941-26-65)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
  Room 243, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Douglas B. West, University of Illinois, Urbana west@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Game Coloring Number .
    H. A. Kierstead*, Arizona State University
    (941-05-262)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dimension, Graph and Hypergraph Coloring.
    William T. Trotter*, Arizona State University
    Stefan Felsner, Freie Universit\"{a}t Berlin
    (941-05-212)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Testing Bipartiteness Efficiently.
    Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University
    Michael Krivelevich*, DIMACS Center, Rutgers University
    (941-05-185)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the power of LBFS.
    Derek G Corneil*, University of Toronto
    (941-05-103)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Improved Algorithms for Weakly Triangulated Graphs.
    Ryan B Hayward, University of Lethbridge
    R Sritharan, Indiana State University
    Jeremy P. Spinrad*, Vanderbilt University
    (941-05-132)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Low Dilation embeddings of grids into hypercubes.
    Zevi Miller*, Miami University
    Dan Pritikin, Miami
    (941-05-318)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic K-Theory (and the 5th Annual Great Lakes K-Theory Conference), I
  Room 347, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel Grayson, University of Illinois-Urbana dan@math.uiuc.edu
  Randy McCarthy, University of Illinois-Urbana randy@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    $K(K)$.
    Henri Gillet*, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (941-19-228)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    K-theory and geometric Galois representations.
    Wieslawa Niziol*, University of Utah
    (941-19-313)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Spaces and Their Applications, IV
  Room 165, Everitt Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Gilles Pisier, Texas A & M gip@ccr.jussieu.fr
  Zhong-Jin Ruan, University of Illinois-Urbana ruan@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some New Properties of Injective Envelopes.
    Vern I Paulsen*, University of Houston
    (941-47-278)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Higher Order Hankel Forms, Factorization and Derivations.
    William Cohn, Wayne State University
    Sarah Ferguson*, Wayne State University
    Richard Rochberg, Washington University
    (941-47-224)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    When do the norm and the cb-norm of elementary operators coincide?
    Robert J Archbold, University of Aberdeen
    Martin Mathieu*, The Queen's University of Belfast
    Douglas W.B. Somerset, University of Aberdeen
    (941-46-22)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Decomposition properties and an invariant for the free group *-algebra.
    Marius B. Stefan*, University of Iowa
    (941-46-335)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Topology, III
  Room 145, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Eugene M. Lerman, University of Illinois-Urbana lerman@math.uiuc.edu
  Susan Tolman, University of Illinois-Urbana stolman@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Gromov Invariants of $S^2$ bundles over 4-manifolds.
    Haydee Herrera*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (941-53-130)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cohomological splitting of symplectic fibrations.
    Fran\c{c}ois Lalonde*, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
    (941-53-328)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Holomorphic Vector Bundles and Complex Geometry, IV
  Room 343, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Maarten Bergvelt, University of Illinois-Urbana bergv@math.uiuc.edu
  Steven Bradlow, University of Illinois-Urbana bradlow@vortex.math.uiuc.edu
  John P. D'Angelo, University of Illinois-Urbana jpda@math.uiuc.edu
  Lawrence Ein, University of Illinois-Chicago
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Moduli of Sheaves on Surfaces and Action of the Oscillator Algebra.
    Vladimir Baranovsky*, University of Chicago
    (941-14-158)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Global Quantum Cohomology of the Complex Projective Plane.
    Jan Segert*, University of Missouri
    (941-53-173)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Verlinde formula for moduli spaces of parabolic bundles.
    Lisa C. Jeffrey*, University of Toronto
    (941-58-179)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Cohomology of line bundles over the moduli space of G-bundles over a smooth curve .
    Constantin Teleman*, Stanford University
    (941-14-305)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    G-bundles on Abelian surfaces, hyperkahler manifolds, and stringy Hodge numbers.
    Jim A Bryan*, Tulane University
    Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania
    Conan Leung, University of Minnesota
    (941-14-247)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    PU(2) monopoles and a conjecture of Moore, Marino, and Peradze.
    Paul M. N. Feehan*, Institute for Advanced Study
    Peter B Kronheimer, Harvard University
    Thomas G. Leness, Florida International University
    Tomasz S. Mrowka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (941-58-267)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Designs, IV
  Room 241, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Ilene H. Morgan, University of Missouri-Rolla imorgan@umr.edu
  Walter D. Wallis, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale wdwallis@math.siu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Designing For Experimental Results That Arise Sequentially.
    Deborah J Street*, UTS
    (941-05-243)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On a balanced incomplete split-block design.
    K. Ozawa, Gifu University, Japan
    M. Jimbo*, Keio University, Japan
    S. Kageyama, Hiroshima University
    S. Mejza, Agricultural University of Paznan, Poland
    (941-05-326)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On c-Bhaskar Rao Designs.
    Spencer P. Hurd, The Citadel
    Dinesh G. Sarvate*, University of Charleston
    (941-05-114)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Cyclic Difference Packings.
    Christopher N. Swanson*, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
    (941-05-35)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Constructing balanced nested designs.
    Ying Miao*, University of Tsukuba
    (941-05-198)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Optimization Problems in Geometry, II
  Room 447, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert Kusner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst kusner@math.umass.edu
  John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Urbana jms@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Instability of the wet cube cone soap film.
    Kenneth A. Brakke*, Susquehanna University
    (941-49-77)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On the Free Boundary Variational Problem for Minimal Disks.
    Ailana M. Fraser*, New York University
    (941-53-276)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Willmore Energy of Quaternionic Line Bundles.
    George I. Kamberov*, Washington University
    (941-58-294)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Connected sums of constant mean curvature surfaces in Euclidean 3-space.
    Frank Pacard*, ENS Cachan
    (941-53-357)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Low-dimensional Topology, IV
  Room 341, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark Brittenham, University of North Texas britten@unt.edu
  Charles Delman, Eastern Illinois University cfcid@eiu.edu
  Rachel Roberts, Washington University roberts@sulu.wustl.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Critical Shapes of Knots.
    Gregory Buck, St. Anselm College
    Eric Rawdon, Chatham College
    Jonathan Simon*, University of Iowa
    Joshua Tokle, University of Iowa
    (941-57-277)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Automorphisms of Handlebodies and Compression Bodies.
    Ulrich Oertel*, Rutgers University
    (941-57-153)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Minimal Handle Presentations for 4--manifolds.
    Robert Craggs*, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
    (941-57-157)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Surgery on knots which yield the same 3-manifold.
    John K. Osoinach, Jr.*, Eureka College
    (941-57-345)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, IV
  Room 345, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Joseph Brennan, North Dakota State University brennan@plains.nodak.edu
  Sankar Dutta, University of Illinois, Urbana dutta@math.uiuc.edu
  Robert Fossum, University of Illinois, Urbana r-fossum@uiuc.edu
  Phillip Griffith, University of Illinois, Urbana griffith@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the localization of tight closure.
    Craig L. Huneke*, University of Kansas
    (941-13-325)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some conditions for the equivalence of weak and strong F-regularity .
    Ian M. Aberbach*, University of Missouri
    (941-13-220)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The tight integral closure of a set of ideals.
    Melvin Hochster*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (941-13-344)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Normal ideals in regular rings.
    Sam Huckaba*, Florida State University
    Craig Huneke, University of Kansas
    (941-13-165)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Permanental ideals and Zarankiewicz problem.
    Irena Swanson*, New Mexico State University
    (941-13-252)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    A survey of obstruction theory for projective Modules of top rank.
    M.Pavaman Murthy*, University of Chicago
    (941-13-355)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    The LCM lattice.
    Vesselin N. Gasharov*, Cornell University
    Irena V. Peeva, Cornell University
    Volkmar Welker, Technische Universit\"at Berlin
    (941-13-307)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Wavelet Analysis and Multiresolution Methods, IV
  Room 151, Everitt Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Tian-Xiao He, Illinois Wesleyan University the@sun.iwu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sampling and stability.
    Joseph M Rosenblatt*, Univerity of Illinois
    (941-42-55)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Wavelets and Multiwavelets for Signal Denoising.
    Vasily Strela*, Dartmouth College
    (941-94-343)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Design of Rational Wavelet Filter.
    Cheng Peng, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871,= P. R. China
    Lizhong Peng*, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871,= P. R. China
    (941-42-206)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Best $m$-term approximation of functions with bounded mixed derivative or difference by Haar wavelets.
    Alexander V Andrianov*, University of South Carolina
    (941-42-171)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On periodic wavelets and frames.
    Hrushikesh N Mhaskar*, Cal. St. Univ., L. A.
    (941-41-135)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Nonseparable Scaling Function Interpolation and Approximation.
    EnBing Lin*, University of Toledo
    (941-41-245)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Applications of Wavelets in Industry: Simulations, Prototypes and Products.
    Mei Kobayashi*, Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Japan, Ltd.
    (941-33-78)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Biorthogonal Wavelets with Certain Regularities.
    Tian-Xiao He*, Illinois Wesleyan University
    (941-41-266)
• Saturday March 20, 1999, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Elementary Geometry, VI
  Room 445, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  John E. Wetzel, University of Illinois-Urbana jwetzel@math.uiuc.edu
  Clark Kimberling, University of Evansville ck6@evansville.edu
  

  • 7:00 p.m.
    Convex illumination problems
    Gregory Galperin*, Eastern Illinois University
    (941-51-232)
  • 8:00 p.m.
    A Generalization of Post's Theorem.
    John M Sullivan*, Univ. of Illinois
    (941-52-143)
  • 8:30 p.m.
    Dynamic Geometry of Polygons.
    Richard L. Hitt, Univ. of South Alabama
    Xin-Min Zhang*, University of South Alabama
    (941-51-09)

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