AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program

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2000 Fall Central Section Meeting
Toronto, Ontario Canada, September 23-24, 2000
Meeting #957

Saturday September 23, 2000

• Saturday September 23, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Foyer, Sandford Fleming Building
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 1013, Sandford Fleming Building
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 4171, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Anthony Geramita, Queens University tony@mast.queensu.ca
  William Traves, United States Naval Academy traves@usna.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Uniform behavior of symbolic powers of ideals.
    Lawrence Ein, University of Illinois, Chicago
    Robert Lazarsfeld, University of Michigan
    Karen E Smith*, Univeristy of Michigan
    (957-13-131)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Applications of pseudocanonical covers to tight closure problems.
    Florian Enescu*, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
    (957-13-99)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Closed formulas for the core of an ideal.
    Claudia Polini*, University of Oregon
    (957-13-20)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Conductor of Submonoids of $\mathbb{N}^n$.
    Leslie G Roberts*, Queen's University
    Les Reid, Southwest Missouri State University
    (957-13-119)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $\mathcal{D}$-modules on Smooth Toric Varieties.
    Mircea Mustata, University of California, Berkeley
    Gregory G Smith*, University of California, Berkeley
    Harrison Tsai, Cornell University
    Uli Walther, Purdue University
    (957-14-223)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    How to compute associated primes of $D$-modules.
    Harrison K Tsai*, Cornell University
    (957-13-110)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory of Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras, I
  Room 3163, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Yun Gao, York University ygao@yorku.ca
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Radicals of vertex operator algebras.
    Chongying Dong*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (957-17-152)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Down-up algebras and two-parameter quantum groups.
    Sarah Witherspoon*, University of Massachusetts
    Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin
    (957-16-213)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Modules of Bounded Multiplicities.
    Daniel J. Britten*, University of Windsor
    Francis W. Lemire, University of Windsor
    (957-17-339)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete and Applied Geometry, I
  Room 3171, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Asia Ivic Weiss, York University weiss@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  Walter Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Triangles that tile the sphere: some new results.
    Robert J Dawson*, Saint Mary's University
    (957-52-293)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Matroidally rigid polytopes.
    Ted Bisztriczky*, University of Calgary
    (957-51-81)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Separation in Totally-Sewn 4-Polytopes (Part 1).
    Wendy A Finbow-Singh*, University of Calgary
    Deborah Oliveros-Braniff, University of Calgary
    (957-52-264)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Separation in Totally-Sewn 4-Polytopes (Part 2).
    Wendy A Finbow-Singh, University of Calgary
    Deborah Oliveros-Braniff*, University of Calgary
    (957-52-263)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Shapes that do well in covering, tiling and packing problems.
    T.Y. Lee*, University of Maryland
    Doug Szajda, University of Maryland
    (957-52-14)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 1105, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Andres del Junco, University of Toronto deljunco@math.toronto.edu
  Blair Madore, SUNY, Potsdam madorebf@potsdam.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dynamics of measure preserving homeomorphisms.
    Vidhu S Prasad*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
    (957-37-34)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The $T,T^{-1}$--process, finitary codings and weak Bernoulli.
    Jeffrey E Steif*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (957-37-100)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Centralizers and Factors of Products of Nonsingular Chacon Transformations.
    Andres del Junco, University of Toronto
    Cesar E. Silva*, Williams College
    (957-37-301)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Some questions on squarefunctions and subsequence theorems.
    Mate Wierdl*, University of Memphis
    (957-37-209)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonabsolute Integration, I
  Room 120, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Patrick Muldowney, University of Ulster P.Muldowney@ulst.ac.uk
  Erik Talvila, University of Illinois, Urbana talvila@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Non-absolute Integration in the Twentieth Century.
    Peter Bullen*, University of British Columbia
    (957-26-83)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Construction of Major and Minor Functions Using Gauges and Riemann Sums.
    John Coffey*, Purdue University Calumet
    Robert Merkovsky, Purdue University Calumet
    (957-26-09)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Impulsive retarded differential equations in Banach spaces via Bochner-Lebesgue and Henstock integrals.
    M\'{a}rcia Federson*, Universidade de S\~{a}o Paulo / ICMC
    Pl\'{a}cido T\'{a}boas, Universidade de S\~{a}o Paulo / ICMC
    (957-34-10)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Covering Theorems and Lebesgue Integration.
    Peter A Loeb*, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
    Erik Talvila, University of Alberta
    (957-26-48)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Functional Differential Equations and Applications, I
  Room 244, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Anatoli F. Ivanov, Pennsylvania State University afi1@psu.edu
  Jianhong Wu, York University wujh@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Contracting return maps for monotone delayed feedback.
    Hans-Otto Walther*, Universitaet Giessen
    (957-34-28)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Structured Population on Two Patches: Modeling Dispersal and Delay.
    Joseph So*, University of Alberta
    Jianhong Wu, York University
    Xingfu Zou, Memorial University
    (957-92-161)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A R-D model for age-structured population on unbounderd domain---traveling wave fronts.
    Xingfu Zou*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    (957-35-62)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
  Special Session on Pseudo-differential Operators, Wavelet Transforms and Related Topics, I
  Room 220, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  M. W. Wong, York University mwwong@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Berezin-Toeplitz Calculus.
    Lewis A Coburn*, SUNY at Buffalo
    (957-47-06)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Plancherel Transform, Square-integrability and Wigner functions.
    Syed T Ali*, Concordia University, Montreal
    (957-20-246)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Operator-Theoretic Interpolation of Wavelets and Frames.
    David R. Larson*, Texas A\&M University
    (957-46-277)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory and Set-Theoretic Topology, I
  Room 4102, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Franklin D. Tall, University of Toronto tall@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Another covering property proof via elementarysubmodels.
    Zoltan T. Balogh*, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056
    (957-54-58)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    CH and the Moore-Mrowka Problem.
    Erick Todd Eisworth*, University of Northern Iowa
    (957-54-331)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Polyadic spaces of tightness $\tau$.
    Murray Bell*, University of Manitoba
    (957-54-343)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Locally compact Dowker spaces.
    Peter J Nyikos*, University of South Carolina
    (957-54-309)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On spaces related to $\omega_\mu$-metrizable spaces.
    Jerry E Vaughan*, University of North Carolina at Greesnboro
    (957-54-314)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Wavelet Analysis, I
  Room 221, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Sebastian Ferrando, Ryerson Polytechnic University ferrando@acs.ryerson.ca
  Larry Kolasa, Ryerson Polytechnic University lkolasa@acs.ryerson.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Wavelet analysis of seasonal long-memory time series.
    Brandon J Whitcher*, EURANDOM
    (957-62-35)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Wavelet Analysis of Raman Spectral Data.
    Tony T Cai*, Department of Statistics/Purdue University
    (957-62-237)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Multiple Components Representation of Functional MR images for Human Brain Mapping.
    Francois G. Meyer*, university of colorado
    (957-92-307)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Anisitropic wavelet smoothing of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
    Bradley j Lucier*, Purdue University
    (957-65-286)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Categorical Structures, I
  Room 2173, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Joan Wick Pelletier, York University jwpell@yorku.ca
  Walter Tholen, York University walter.tholen@mathstat.yorku.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Higher category theory.
    Andre Joyal*, UQAM Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal
    (957-18-235)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some absolute pullbacks and pushouts in $\boldsymbol{\Delta}$.
    Myles Tierney*, Rutgers University
    (957-18-76)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nerves of Bicategories: Morphisms and Simplicial Maps.
    John W Duskin*, State University of New York at Buffalo
    (957-18-198)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Higher fundamental functors in some categories of presheaves.
    Marco Grandis*, Dipartimento di Matematica, Univ. di Genova, I
    (957-18-39)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A higher dimensional homotopy sequence.
    Marco Grandis, Universita' di Genova
    Enrico Vitale*, Universite' catholique de Louvain
    (957-18-77)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, I
  Room 119, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Nantel Bergeron, York University bergeron@mathstat.yorku.ca
  Frank Sottile, University of Wisconsin sottile@math.umass.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stratified spaces formed by totally positive varieties.
    Sergey Fomin*, University of Michigan
    Michael Z Shapiro, KTH Stockholm
    (957-14-239)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Connected components of real double Bruhat cells.
    Andrei Zelevinsky*, Northeastern University
    (957-14-247)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Connections between singular loci and cohomology of Schubert Varieties.
    Sara C Billey*, M.I.T.
    (957-05-302)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Smooth Schubert varieties in partial flag manifolds.
    Vesslin Gasharov, Cornell University
    Victor Reiner*, University of Minnesota
    (957-05-173)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Isotropic Schubert calculus and polytopes.
    Nantel Bergeron, York University
    Stefan Mykytiuk, York University
    Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    Stephanie van Willigenburg*, Cornell University
    (957-05-206)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, I
  Room 2172, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  John Friedlander, University of Toronto frdlndr@math.toronto.edu
  Steve Gonek, University of Rochester gonek@math.rochester.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Zeta functions of an infinite family of $K3$ surfaces.
    Scott D Ahlgren*, Colgate University
    Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin
    David Penniston, Furman University
    (957-11-220)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Extensions of the Chowla-Selberg formula.
    Kenneth S Williams*, Carleton University
    (957-11-150)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Class Numbers of Binary Cubic Forms.
    Michael A Bennett*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Trevor D Wooley, University of Michigan
    (957-11-127)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Monochromatic Unit Fractions.
    Ernest S Croot*, The University of Georgia
    (957-11-170)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Subconvexity bounds for Artin L-functions.
    William Duke, Rutgers University
    John B Friedlander, University of Toronto
    Henryk Iwaniec*, Rutgers University
    (957-11-145)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Functional Analysis, I
  Room 248, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Sankatha Singh, Memorial University of Newfoundland ssingh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
  Bruce Watson, Memorial University of Newfoundland bruce2@math.mun.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Simultaneous interpolation and approximation by a class of multivariate positive operators.
    Giampietro Allasia*, University of Turin
    (957-47-47)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On some singularity concept for kernels of nonlinear integral operators.
    Carlo Bardaro*, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universit\'a degli Studi di Perugia
    (957-47-85)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The attainable order of collocation solutions for weakly singular nonlinear Volterra integral equations with nonvanishing delays.
    Hermann Brunner*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    (957-45-138)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Recent progress on iterative methods for nonlinear pseudocontractions.
    Charles Chidume*, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
    (957-47-43)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Constrained saddle point theorems and eigenvalues of nonlinear operators.
    Raffaele Chiappinelli*, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Siena
    (957-47-68)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, I
  Room 3202, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Ryszard Nest, University of Copenhagen rnest@math.ku.dk
  Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
  Boris Tsygan, Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homology of complete symbols and non-commutative geometry.
    Moulay-Tahar Benameur*, Institut Desargues, Lyon, France
    (957-58-243)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Secondary Characteristic Classes and Cyclic Cohomology of Hopf Algebras and Algebroids.
    Alexander Gorokhovsky*, University of Michigan
    (957-53-287)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Cyclic Cohomology of Quantum Groups.
    Masoud Khalkhali*, Western Ontario
    (957-18-249)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the index of perturbed Dirac Operators on Manifolds with Corners.
    Paul A Loya*, Boston University
    Richard B Melrose, MIT
    (957-58-84)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability, I
  Room 305, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Neal Madras, York University madras@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  George L. O'Brien, York University obrien@yorku.ca
  Thomas Salisbury, York University salt@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  Donna Salopek, York University dsalopek@yorku.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the volume of the intersection of two Wiener sausages.
    Frank den Hollander*, EURANDOM
    (957-60-191)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Idempotent probability and large deviations.
    Anatolii A. Puhalskii*, University of Colorado at Denver
    (957-60-332)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Coalescents with simultaneous multiple collisions.
    Jason R Schweinsberg*, U.C. Berkeley
    (957-60-188)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Incipient infinite clusters.
    Antal J\'arai, Jr.*, PIMS-UBC
    (957-60-325)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Operator Theory, I
  Room 3201, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Man-Duen Choi, University of Toronto choi@math.toronto.edu
  George Elliott, University of Toronto elliott@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Commutators of Idempotents and Invariant Subspaces.
    Peter Rosenthal*, University of Toronto
    (957-47-180)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hankel operators on the Bergman space and Schatten p-classes: the case where p is strictly between 1 and 2.
    Jingbo Xia*, SUNY at Buffalo
    (957-47-196)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Weak Reflexivity for Operators.
    Deguang Han*, McMaster University and University of Central Florida
    (957-47-184)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Brown-Douglas-Fillmore theorem revisited.
    Peter Friis*, University of Waterloo
    (957-46-251)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Normal dilations of operators.
    Man-Duen Choi*, University of Toronto
    (957-47-179)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Hamiltonian Systems, I
  Room 1101, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto jeffrey@math.toronto.edu
  Velimir Jurdjevic, University of Toronto jurdj@math.toronto.edu
  Boris Khesin, University of Toronto khesin@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Symplectic Structures and Hamiltonian Dynamics on Cross Products of Lie Groups.
    Anthony M Bloch*, University of Michigan
    Peter E Crouch, Arizona State University
    Jerrold E Marsden, California Institute of Technology
    Tudor S Ratiu, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
    (957-70-149)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Reconstruction phase formulas.
    Anthony D Blaom*, Vienna, Virginia
    (957-70-71)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mechanisms of chaos in Hamiltonian systems: hyperbolicity and astigmatism.
    Leonid Bunimovich*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (957-37-269)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Lagrangian Hydrodynamics.
    Steve Shkoller*, University of California, Davis
    (957-35-210)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Group actions and Helly's Theorem.
  Room 3154, Medical Sciences Building
  Benson Farb*, University of Chicago
  (957-20-02)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  A brief survey of structure and classification theory for amenable C*-algebras.
  Room 3154, Medical Sciences Building
  George Elliott*, University of Toronto
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 4171, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Anthony Geramita, Queens University tony@mast.queensu.ca
  William Traves, United States Naval Academy traves@usna.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Local equations for the toric Hilbert scheme.
    Michael Stillman*, Cornell University
    (957-13-120)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mod $p$ Invariants of the Cyclic group, $C_p$, of order $p$.
    H. E. A. Eddy Campbell*, Queen's University
    (957-13-341)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cartier Isomorphism for Toric Varieties.
    Manuel Blickle*, University of Michigan
    (957-14-176)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Vector bundle vanishing and approximation theory.
    Hal Schenck*, Northeastern University
    Peter Stiller, Texas A&M University
    (957-14-33)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On Equations Defining Coincident Root Varieties.
    Jaydeep V Chipalkatti*, Queen's University
    (957-14-112)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 1105, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Andres del Junco, University of Toronto deljunco@math.toronto.edu
  Blair Madore, SUNY, Potsdam madorebf@potsdam.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ergodicity and exactness of real and complex analytic maps of manifolds.
    Jane M Hawkins*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (957-37-91)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some open problems and conjectures.
    Vitaly Bergelson*, Ohio State University
    (957-37-296)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Oscillation and variation inequalities for singular integrals.
    James Campbell, University of Memphis
    Roger L Jones, De Paul University
    Karin Reinhold*, University at Albany, SUNY
    Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis
    (957-42-260)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Exact Rate of Approximation in Ulam's Method.
    Chris J Bose*, University of Victoria
    Rua D Murray, University of Waikato
    (957-37-65)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonabsolute Integration, II
  Room 120, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Patrick Muldowney, University of Ulster P.Muldowney@ulst.ac.uk
  Erik Talvila, University of Illinois, Urbana talvila@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Nuclear mappings and a Riemann approach to vector valued integration.
    Shizu Nakanishi*, Osaka Prefecture University
    (957-28-13)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the dual of Henstock-Kurzweil integrable functions in n dimensions.
    Tepper L. Gill, Howard University
    Woodford W Zachary*, Howard University
    (957-28-18)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Existence Conditions for Feynman Path Integrals.
    Patrick Muldowney*, University of Ulster
    (957-28-56)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Continuous Major and Minor functions for the Henstock-Kurzweil integral.
    Tuo-Yeong Lee*, National Institute of Education, Singapore
    Peng-Yee Lee, National Institute of Education, Singapore
    (957-26-93)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Refinement Integral.
    Isidore Fleischer*, CRM, Universite de Montreal
    (957-28-143)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Functional Differential Equations and Applications, II
  Room 244, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Anatoli F. Ivanov, Pennsylvania State University afi1@psu.edu
  Jianhong Wu, York University wujh@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Delayed feedback and oscillations in a model for the regulation of platelet production.
    Jacques B\'elair*, Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
    (957-92-340)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Singularities and Normal Forms for Semilinear Functional Differential Equations in Banach Spaces.
    Teresa Faria*, University of Lisbon, Portugal
    (957-34-95)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Stability and dissipativity of semilinear time-variant functional differential equations in a Banach space.
    M. I. Gil'*, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
    (957-34-190)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Exponential Dichotomies and the Fredholm Alternative for Partial Functional Differential Equations.
    Shigui Ruan*, Dalhousie University
    (957-34-256)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory of Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras, II
  Room 3163, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Yun Gao, York University ygao@yorku.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Principal homogeneous spaces and conjugacy Theorems.
    Arturo Pianzola*, University of Alberta
    (957-17-169)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Generalized Witt type Lie algebras in characteristic 0.
    Kaiming Zhao*, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    (957-17-295)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Pseudo-differential Operators, Wavelet Transforms and Related Topics, II
  Room 220, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  M. W. Wong, York University mwwong@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Wavelet-based methods in image processing.
    James S Walker*, Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    (957-42-32)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Traces of Localization Operators with Two Admissible Wavelets.
    Mah Wah Wong, York University
    Zhaohui Zhang*, York University
    (957-47-151)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Parametrizations of paraunitary matrices associated with symmetric tight wavelet frames.
    Qingtang Jiang*, University of Alberta
    (957-42-261)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Microlocal Analysis with Multiwavelets.
    Ryuichi Ashino, Prof. Osaka Kyoiku University
    Christopher Heil, Prof., Georgia Institute of Technology
    Michihiro Nagase, Prof., Osaka University
    R\'emi Vaillancourt*, Prof., Universit\'e d'Ottawa
    (957-42-259)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory and Set-Theoretic Topology, II
  Room 4102, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Franklin D. Tall, University of Toronto tall@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Forcing Many Positive Polarized Partition Relations Below the Continuum.
    Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University
    Lee J Stanley*, Lehigh University
    (957-03-322)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A partition relation for triples for non-special partial orders.
    Albin L Jones*, Kenyon College
    (957-05-304)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Which spaces have a coarser connected Hausdorff topology?
    William Fleissner, University of Kansas
    Jack Porter, University of Kansas
    Judith Roitman*, University of Kansas
    (957-54-102)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Variations of topological spaces due to Steve Watson.
    Koichi Tsuda*, Ehime University
    (957-54-36)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Combinatorics of games on $\omega$.
    Christopher C. Leary*, SUNY Geneseo
    (957-03-345)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Wavelet Analysis, II
  Room 221, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Sebastian Ferrando, Ryerson Polytechnic University ferrando@acs.ryerson.ca
  Larry Kolasa, Ryerson Polytechnic University lkolasa@acs.ryerson.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Non-uniform sampling in multiply generated shift-invariant subspaces of $L_p(R^d)$.
    Akram Aldroubi*, Vanderbilt University
    Qiyu Sun, University of Singapore
    Wai-Shing Tang, University of Singapore
    (957-42-175)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Wavelet in Integral Equation and Finite Difference Time Domain Methods.
    Jaideva C Goswami*, Schlumberger Oilfield Services
    Richard E Miller, Texas A\&M University
    Robert D Nevels, Texas A\&M University
    (957-41-232)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Design of Smooth Wavelet Tight Frames with Zero Moments.
    Ivan W Selesnick*, Polytechnic University, New York
    (957-65-224)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On a perturbed Haar wavelet.
    Richard A. Zalik*, Auburn University
    (957-42-276)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Characterization of Wavelet Convergence in Sobolev Spaces.
    Louise A. Raphael*, Howard University
    Mark A. Kon, Boston University
    (957-42-338)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Categorical Structures, II
  Room 2173, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Joan Wick Pelletier, York University jwpell@yorku.ca
  Walter Tholen, York University walter.tholen@mathstat.yorku.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Relating realizability using sheaves.
    Steve Awodey*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Andrej Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University
    Dana S Scott, Carnegie Mellon University
    (957-18-59)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Relative and Modified Relative Realizability.
    Lars Birkedal*, The IT University of Copenhagen
    Jaap van Oosten, Dept. of Mathematics, Utrecht University
    (957-18-51)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Certain spans of sketches model problems of complexity NP.
    David B Benson*, Washington State University
    (957-68-123)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Monads and Structure.
    John L. MacDonald*, University of British Columbia
    (957-18-61)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Modelling a sketch in an object in a 2-category.
    Michael Johnson, Macquarie University
    Robert Rosebrugh, Mount Allison University
    R. J. Wood*, Dalhousie University
    (957-18-214)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, II
  Room 119, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Nantel Bergeron, York University bergeron@mathstat.yorku.ca
  Frank Sottile, University of Wisconsin sottile@math.umass.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Descent-cycling in Schubert calculus.
    Allen I Knutson*, U. C. Berkeley
    (957-05-236)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Littlewood-Richardson rule for multiplying Schur polynomials by certain Schubert polynomials.
    Mikhail Kogan*, Northeastern University
    (957-05-297)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Pieri's Formula for the $T$-Equivariant Cohomology of the Flag Variety.
    Shawn A Robinson*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (957-22-312)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Littlewood-Richardson rule for the $K$-theory of Grassmannians.
    Anders S Buch*, MIT
    (957-14-197)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete and Applied Geometry, II
  Room 3171, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Asia Ivic Weiss, York University weiss@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  Walter Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spaces of affine configurations of flats; their polyhedral structure.
    Javier Bracho*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
    (957-52-317)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    "Open Questions in Tiling".
    Chaim Goodman-Strauss*, University of Arkansas
    (957-52-310)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Minimal generically rigid subgraphs of grid-like triangulated tori.
    Camille C Mittermeier*, York University
    (957-52-284)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    First-Order Rigidity in Cayley-Klein Geometries.
    Franco V Saliola*, York University
    Walter J Whiteley, York University
    (957-52-290)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Partial Extension of the Maxwell-Cremona Correspondence to Spatial Frameworks.
    Robert M Erdahl, Queen's
    Konstantin Rybnikov*, Cornell
    (957-52-318)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Hamiltonian Systems, II
  Room 1101, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto jeffrey@math.toronto.edu
  Velimir Jurdjevic, University of Toronto jurdj@math.toronto.edu
  Boris Khesin, University of Toronto khesin@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bending flows of polygonal linkages in $E^3$, $H^3$, and $S^3$.
    Thomas I Treloar*, University of Maryland
    (957-53-245)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Convex functions on symmetric spaces and the geometric invariant theory of configuration spaces of weighted points of flag manifolds.
    John James Millson*, University of Maryland
    (957-53-212)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Euler angles and time-optimal factorizations in SO(3).
    Dirk Mittenhuber*, TU Darmstadt
    (957-49-244)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Connections along curves, parallel translations, and the nonsmooth maximum principle of optimal control theory.
    Hector J.. Sussmann*, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
    (957-49-171)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Hamiltonian Seifert Conjecture.
    Viktor L Ginzburg*, UC Santa Cruz
    (957-37-137)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, II
  Room 2172, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  John Friedlander, University of Toronto frdlndr@math.toronto.edu
  Steve Gonek, University of Rochester gonek@math.rochester.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Computing Maass forms.
    David W Farmer*, Bucknell University
    Stefan Johansson, IAS
    (957-11-203)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Systems of Additive Forms over $p$-Adic Fields.
    Michael P Knapp*, University of Rochester
    (957-11-211)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An Asymptotic Estimate Related to Selberg's Sieve II.
    Dan A. Goldston, San Jose State University
    Sidney W. Graham*, Central Michigan University
    (957-11-230)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A special type of Diophantine equation and its application.
    Gang Yu*, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
    (957-11-303)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Simple arithmetic methods which give good (and effective) elementary prime number estimates simultaneous with equivalents to the P.N.T.
    Edward A Bertram*, Mathematics Dept.,University of Hawaii at Manoa,Honolulu,Hawaii
    (957-11-178)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Functional Analysis, II
  Room 248, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Sankatha Singh, Memorial University of Newfoundland ssingh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
  Bruce Watson, Memorial University of Newfoundland bruce2@math.mun.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Application of Baire Category Techniques in Approximation Theory.
    Francesco de Blasi*, Department of Mathematics, Universita di Roma 2
    (957-47-139)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Birkhoff Interpolation on Some Perturbed Roots of Unity.
    Hanuman Prasad Dikshit*, Madhya Pradesh Bhoj (Open) University
    (957-41-141)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Functions without exceptional family of elements and the solvability of variational inequalities on unbounded sets.
    Gheorghe Isac*, Royal Military College of Canada
    M. G. Cojocaru, Queen's University
    (957-49-37)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On Some Complementarity Problems.
    Jinlu Li*, Department of Mathematics, Shawnee State University
    (957-47-142)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, II
  Room 3202, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Ryszard Nest, University of Copenhagen rnest@math.ku.dk
  Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
  Boris Tsygan, Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A descent theorem in the K-theory of Banach algebras.
    Max Karoubi*, University Paris 7
    (957-19-126)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Equivariant Chern Character.
    Paul Frank Baum*, Penn State University
    (957-19-134)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Baum-Connes conjecture.
    Nigel Higson*, Penn State
    (957-19-285)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability, II
  Room 305, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Neal Madras, York University madras@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  George L. O'Brien, York University obrien@yorku.ca
  Thomas Salisbury, York University salt@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  Donna Salopek, York University dsalopek@yorku.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Interacting particle systems modelling epidemics.
    Rinaldo B Schinazi*, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
    (957-60-87)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Hitting properties of the random string.
    Carl E Mueller*, University of Rochester
    Roger Tribe, University of Warwick
    (957-60-147)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Critical Phenomena for Hierarchical Random Walks.
    Donald A. Dawson*, Carleton University
    (957-60-193)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Operator Theory, II
  Room 3201, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Man-Duen Choi, University of Toronto choi@math.toronto.edu
  George Elliott, University of Toronto elliott@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Extremely amenable groups.
    Thierry Giordano*, University of Ottawa
    Vladimir Pestov, Victoria University of Wellington
    (957-22-288)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cyclic homology of convolution algebras of p-adic groups.
    Victor Nistor*, Penn State
    (957-19-136)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Differential Calculus on Quantum Groups and Cyclic Cohomolgy.
    Masoud Khalkhali*, Western Ontario
    (957-47-250)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Continuous fields of C*-algebras, boundary value problems and index theorems.
    Ryszard Nest*, Copenhagen University
    (957-58-280)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Non-commutative Curvature Invariant.
    David Kribs*, University of Waterloo
    (957-47-326)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 304, Galbraith Building
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Laplace Transforms and American Call Options.
    Roland Mallier*, University of Western Ontario
    Ghada Alobaidi, University of Western Ontario
    (957-44-57)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Random walks on wreath products of groups.
    Clyde H Schoolfield*, Harvard University
    (957-60-222)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Minimum Feedback Arc Sets of Tournaments.
    Darren A. Narayan*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (957-05-234)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Geometry of modulus spaces.
    Roshdi R. Khalil*, University of jordan
    Deeb m Hussein, Univ.of jordan
    Wael m Amin, univ.of jordan
    (957-46-08)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The changing role of discrete mathematics in the undergraduate curriculum. Preliminary report.
    Diane M Spresser*, National Science Foundation
    (957-97-153)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some Results On Splitting The Powers Of Integers.
    Susil K. Jena*, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India
    (957-11-321)
• Saturday September 23, 2000, 6:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Erd\H os Memorial Lecture
  New ways to look at quadratic forms.
  Auditorium, Convocation Hall
  John H. Conway*, Princeton University
  (957-00-05)

• Sunday September 24, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Registration
  Foyer, Sandford Fleming Building
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 1013, Sandford Fleming Building
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 4171, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Anthony Geramita, Queens University tony@mast.queensu.ca
  William Traves, United States Naval Academy traves@usna.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Level Artin algebras: components of ${\mathrm{LEVALG(T)}}$.
    Anthony A. Iarrobino, Jr.*, Mathematics Department, Northeastern University
    (957-13-168)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gorenstein Ideals of Embedding Codimension Four.
    Anthony Iarrabino, Northeastern University
    Hema Srinivasan*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (957-13-299)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Conjectures on the Hilbert function of multiple points.
    Karen A. Chandler*, University of Notre Dame
    (957-14-306)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Polarization and Syzygies of Multigraded modules.
    Hara Charalambous*, University at Albany, SUNY
    (957-13-160)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Resolutions of subsets of finite sets of points in projective space.
    Steven P. Diaz*, Syracuse University
    Geramita V. Anthony, Queen's University
    Migliore C. Juan, University of Notre Dame
    (957-14-103)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Syzygies, Euclidean Algorithm and Fractals.
    Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz*, Dept. of Math., Univ. of Toronto
    (957-13-281)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory of Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras, III
  Room 3163, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Yun Gao, York University ygao@yorku.ca
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Root multiplicities of the indefinite Kac-Moody algebra $HA_n^{(1)}$.
    Kailash C. Misra*, North Carolina State University
    (957-17-79)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Irreducible modules for the generalized Virasoro-toroidal Lie algebras.
    Shaobin Tan*, Department of Mathematics, Xiamen University
    (957-17-242)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Kac-Moody groups and prescribed Gauss decompositions.
    Jun Morita*, University of Tsukuba
    (957-17-228)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Pseudo-differential Operators, Wavelet Transforms and Related Topics, III
  Room 220, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  M. W. Wong, York University mwwong@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Gabor Expansions in $L^p$.
    Karlheinz Gr\"ochenig, University of Connecticut
    Christopher Heil*, Georgia Tech
    (957-42-229)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Localization operators on the Weyl-Heisenberg group and the Bargmann transform.
    Sid C Scull*, York University
    (957-43-195)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Weyl-Heisenberg dual frames and operator algebras.
    Jean-Pierre Gabardo*, McMaster University
    Deguang Han, McMaster University
    (957-42-192)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Collection of Frames.
    Keith F Taylor*, University of Saskatchewan
    (957-43-27)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Classifying certain irregular Weyl-Heisenberg frames.
    Peter G. Casazza*, University of Missouri
    Ole Christensen, Technical University of Denmark
    (957-43-104)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete and Applied Geometry, III
  Room 3171, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Asia Ivic Weiss, York University weiss@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  Walter Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Minimum-Turn Milling.
    Erik D Demaine*, University of Waterloo
    (957-52-300)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Recent Results on Reconfiguring Polygonal Chains in Space.
    Michael Soss, McGill University
    Godfried T Toussaint*, McGill University
    (957-51-257)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Flattening Polyhedra.
    Erik D Demaine, University of Waterloo
    Martin L Demaine, University of Waterloo
    Anna Lubiw*, University of Waterloo
    (957-52-292)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rigidity of pseudo-triangulations.
    Ileana Streinu*, Smith College
    (957-52-124)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Daisy Structure in Desarguesian Projective Planes.
    Gabriela Araujo-Pardo*, Instituto de Matematicas,UNAM.
    (957-05-72)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Priority Scheduling: an Application for the Permutahedron.
    Ethan D. Bolker*, University of Massachusetts - Boston
    (957-52-207)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, III
  Room 2172, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  John Friedlander, University of Toronto frdlndr@math.toronto.edu
  Steve Gonek, University of Rochester gonek@math.rochester.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Properties of certain character analogues of the Dedekind sum.
    Jeffrey L Meyer*, Syracuse University
    (957-11-116)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the second moment of symetric square $L$ functions.
    Philippe G. Michel*, IUF and Univ. Montpellier II
    (957-11-166)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    q-series identities and certain L-functions.
    Ken Ono*, University of Wisconsin
    (957-11-41)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dedekind cotangent sums.
    Matthias Beck*, SUNY Binghamton
    (957-11-07)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Slimmer exceptional sets in Waring's problem.
    Trevor D Wooley*, University of Michigan
    (957-11-162)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Zeta Spirals.
    Steve M. Gonek, University of Rochester
    Hugh L. Montgomery*, University of Michigan
    (957-11-248)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 1105, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Andres del Junco, University of Toronto deljunco@math.toronto.edu
  Blair Madore, SUNY, Potsdam madorebf@potsdam.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Equipartition of interval partitions and an application to number theory.
    Karma Dajani, Utrecht University
    Adam Fieldsteel*, Wesleyan University
    (957-28-202)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Positive operators in $L^1$, cocycles, and the mean ergodic theorem.
    Isaac Kornfeld*, North Dakota State University
    (957-37-122)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 11:00 a.m.
    $T,T^{-1}$-endomorphisms entropy and Kakutani equivalence.
    Deborah Heicklen, UC Berkeley
    Christopher Hoffman, U. of Washington
    Daniel Rudolph*, U. of Maryland
    (957-37-283)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonabsolute Integration, III
  Room 120, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Patrick Muldowney, University of Ulster P.Muldowney@ulst.ac.uk
  Erik Talvila, University of Illinois, Urbana talvila@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The use on non-absolute integration in the theory of stochastic processes.
    Ralph Henstock*, University of Ulster
    (957-28-64)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonabsolutely convergent Poisson integrals.
    Erik O Talvila*, University of Alberta
    (957-26-315)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-absolute integration in Black-Scholes pricing.
    Patrick Muldowney, University of Ulster
    Wojciech Wojdowski*, Technical University of Lodz
    (957-28-73)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Abstract Derivation Bases.
    Brian S Thomson*, Simon Fraser University
    (957-28-187)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A nonabsolutely convergent PU-integral.
    Giuseppa Riccobono*, UNIVERSITA' DI PALERMO
    (957-26-227)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Functional Differential Equations and Applications, III
  Room 244, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Anatoli F. Ivanov, Pennsylvania State University afi1@psu.edu
  Jianhong Wu, York University wujh@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the merits of a diagram from functional differential equations.
    John Haddock*, University of Memphis
    (957-34-337)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A generalized Lefschetz fixed point theorem and symbolic dynamics in delay equations.
    Bernhard Lani-Wayda*, Mathematical Institute, University of Giessen (Germany)
    Roman Szrednicki, Institute of Mathematics, Jagiellonian University
    (957-34-15)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Monotone Iteration from discontinuous super-sub solutions and travelling waves.
    Q. Lan*, York University
    (957-34-335)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory and Set-Theoretic Topology, III
  Room 4102, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Franklin D. Tall, University of Toronto tall@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Topology of the Uniform Ultrafilters.
    Kenneth Kunen*, University of Wisconsin
    (957-54-254)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Normal Subspaces of Products of Ordinals.
    William G Fleissner*, University of Kansas
    (957-54-181)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generalizations of Totally Paracompact Spaces.
    John E Porter*, Auburn University
    Gary Gruenhage, Auburn University
    (957-54-63)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Covering $\omega^\omega$ by special Cantor sets.
    Gary Gruenhage*, Auburn University
    Ronnie Levy, George Mason University
    (957-03-298)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Ladder systems and subsets of $\omega_1\times\omega_1$.
    Paul J. Szeptycki*, York University
    Erick Todd Eisworth, University of Northern Iowa
    (957-54-344)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Wavelet Analysis, III
  Room 221, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Sebastian Ferrando, Ryerson Polytechnic University ferrando@acs.ryerson.ca
  Larry Kolasa, Ryerson Polytechnic University lkolasa@acs.ryerson.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Wavelets in some biological problems.
    Carlos E D'Attellis*, Univ. Favaloro and Buenos Aires
    Vladimir D Flores, Univ. Favaloro and Buenos Aires
    Silvia V Gigola, Univ. Favaloro-UTN and Buenos Aires
    Gustavo A Hirchoren, Univ. Favaloro-UTN and Buenos Aires
    Melina Rapacioli, Universidad Favaloro
    Alicia Tinnirello, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional-Rosario
    Raquel Voget, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional-Rosario
    (957-92-98)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Analysis of the edge effects in local Fourier and brushlet dictionaries.
    Brons M Larson, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
    Naoki Saito*, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
    (957-42-316)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Vibration Analysis and Modelling Using Gaussian Wavelet Algorithm.
    Gaoyong Luo*, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
    David Osypiw, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
    Mark Irle, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
    (957-65-121)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An adaptive wavelet method for calculating turbulent flow in complex geometries.
    Nicholas K-R Kevlahan*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University
    Oleg Vasilyev, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Missouri atColumbia
    Abdessadek Cherhabili, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University
    (957-65-221)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Categorical Structures, III
  Room 2173, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Joan Wick Pelletier, York University jwpell@yorku.ca
  Walter Tholen, York University walter.tholen@mathstat.yorku.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dominances and Spread Completions.
    Marta C Bunge*, McGill University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    (957-18-140)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A summary report on the state of our knowledge of weak higher dimensional categories.
    Michael Makkai*, McGill University
    (957-18-157)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Game theory revisited: categorical proof theories for games.
    J. Robin B. Cockett*, University Of Calgary
    (957-18-30)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Open problems on finiteness and their counting measures.
    Mbila-Mambu Mawanda*, Roma, LESOTHO
    (957-18-204)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Toposes and Continuum Microphysics.
    F. William Lawvere*, SUNY Buffalo
    (957-18-19)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, III
  Room 119, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Nantel Bergeron, York University bergeron@mathstat.yorku.ca
  Frank Sottile, University of Wisconsin sottile@math.umass.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Equivariant cohomology and regular ${\mathfrak B}$-actions actions.
    James B. Carrell*, Univ. of B. C.
    Michel Brion, Univ. de Grenoble
    (957-14-215)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Schubert Calculus in Symplectic Geometry.
    Rebecca F Goldin*, University of Maryland
    (957-51-262)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Positivity in equivariant Schubert calculus.
    William Graham*, University of Georgia
    (957-14-311)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Gr\"obner geometry of formulae for (double) Schubert polynomials.
    Allen I. Knutson, UC Berkeley
    Ezra N. Miller*, MIT
    (957-14-270)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Hamiltonian Systems, III
  Room 1101, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto jeffrey@math.toronto.edu
  Velimir Jurdjevic, University of Toronto jurdj@math.toronto.edu
  Boris Khesin, University of Toronto khesin@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Persistence of extremal relative equilibria in symmetric hamiltonian systems.
    Eugene Lerman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    James Montaldi, Institut Non Lineaire de Nice
    Tadashi Tokieda*, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
    (957-37-253)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Exact solutions to plasma equilibrium equations.
    Oleg I Bogoyavlenskij*, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
    (957-76-294)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Transversal Relative Equilibria of a Hamiltonian System with Symmetry.
    George W Patrick*, University of Saskatchewan
    Mark Roberts, University of Warwick
    (957-70-238)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Gauge conservation laws in nonholonomic systems.
    Larry Bates*, University of Calgary
    (957-58-327)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Almost Poisson Spaces in Mechanics.
    Jedrzej Sniatycki*, University of Calgary
    (957-70-144)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Functional Analysis, III
  Room 248, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Sankatha Singh, Memorial University of Newfoundland ssingh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
  Bruce Watson, Memorial University of Newfoundland bruce2@math.mun.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Recent results on fixed points of multivalued contractive maps and isometries.
    Teck C Lim*, George Mason University
    (957-47-23)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Transversality Conditions for Bifurcation: an Elementary Approach.
    Mario Martelli*, Claremont McKenna College
    Gareguin Mikaelian, University of California Irvine
    Suzanne Sindi, California State University Fullerton
    (957-47-167)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    HAUSDORFF STRONG UNIQUENESS OF BEST SIMULTANEOUS APPROXIMATION.
    D. V. Pai*, Indian Institute of Technology
    Indira K. Pai, Indian Institute of Technology
    (957-47-201)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The KKM Principle Implies Many Known Fixed Point Theorems.
    Sehie Park*, Seoul National Univ., Seoul 151-742, KOREA
    (957-47-46)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Finding common fixed points of a family of nonexpansive mappings by iteration.
    Billy E Rhoades*, Indiana University
    (957-47-133)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, III
  Room 3202, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Ryszard Nest, University of Copenhagen rnest@math.ku.dk
  Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
  Boris Tsygan, Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quantum String Topology.
    Alexander A Voronov*, Michigan State University
    (957-58-282)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A-infinity constraint and classical Yang-Baxter equation.
    Alexander Polishchuk*, Boston University
    (957-14-89)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some recent applications of operads.
    Dmitry Tamarkin*, Harvard University
    (957-53-279)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    String Topology of Manifolds.
    Dennis Sullivan*, Graduate School at CUNY
    (957-54-342)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability, III
  Room 305, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Neal Madras, York University madras@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  George L. O'Brien, York University obrien@yorku.ca
  Thomas Salisbury, York University salt@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  Donna Salopek, York University dsalopek@yorku.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dynamical sensitivity of randomness.
    Itai Benjamini, The Weizmann Institute of Science
    Olle Haggstrom, Chalmers University of Technology
    Yuval Peres, UC Berkeley and Hebrew University
    Jeffrey E Steif*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (957-60-101)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Isoperimetric Constants and Percolation.
    Russell D Lyons*, Indiana University
    (957-60-80)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the Critical Behavior of Long-Range Percolation and Ising Model.
    Noam Berger*, Hebrew university/U.C. Berkeley
    (957-60-113)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Operator Theory, III
  Room 3201, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Man-Duen Choi, University of Toronto choi@math.toronto.edu
  George Elliott, University of Toronto elliott@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Operator versions of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.
    Chandler Davis*, University of Toronto
    (957-47-252)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The structure of free semigroup algebras.
    Kenneth R. Davidson*, University of Waterloo
    Elias Katsoulis, East Carolina University
    David R. Pitts, University of Nebraska
    (957-47-148)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Projective Operator Spaces in Harmonic Analysis.
    Brian Forrest*, University of Waterloo
    (957-43-189)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the $\mathcal {OL}_{\infty}$ structure of nuclear $C^*$-algebras.
    Marius Junge, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Narutaka Ozawa, Texas A&M University
    Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (957-46-158)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    First and Second Order Arithmetic Means, Operator Ideals and a Solution to a Problem of Wodzicki.
    Victor Kaftal, University of Cincinnati
    Gary Weiss*, University of Cincinnati
    (957-47-308)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Index theorems, formality theorems, and homotopy algebras.
  Room 3154, Medical Sciences Building
  Boris Tsygan*, Pennsylvania State University
  (957-58-03)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, IV
  Room 1105, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Andres del Junco, University of Toronto deljunco@math.toronto.edu
  Blair Madore, SUNY, Potsdam madorebf@potsdam.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Limit Measures for Affine Cellular Automata.
    Reem A Yassawi*, Trent University
    Marcus Pivato, University of Toronto
    (957-28-291)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the general convergence of Halley's Method and other superquadratic root-finding algorithms.
    Kyle E Kneisl*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (957-37-53)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Asymptotics for the Jumps of Ergodic Averages.
    Pedro J Catuogno, Mar del Plata National University. Mar del Plata, Argentina.
    Sebastian E Ferrando*, Ryerson Polytechnic University. Toronto, Canada.
    (957-37-50)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonabsolute Integration, IV
  Room 120, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Patrick Muldowney, University of Ulster P.Muldowney@ulst.ac.uk
  Erik Talvila, University of Illinois, Urbana talvila@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On the $C$-integral.
    Benedetto Bongiorno*, University of Palermo
    (957-26-330)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On some nonabsolute convergent integrals of Banach valued functions.
    Luisa Di Piazza*, Universita' di Palermo
    (957-28-328)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On weak convergence of Banach valued stochastic processes of Pettis and McShane integrable functions.
    Valeria Marraffa*, Universita' di Palermo
    (957-26-329)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On tensor products of $AC_*$ charges and Radon measures.
    Zolt\'an Buczolich*, E\"otv\"os University
    (957-26-109)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Functional Differential Equations and Applications, IV
  Room 244, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Anatoli F. Ivanov, Pennsylvania State University afi1@psu.edu
  Jianhong Wu, York University wujh@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Mathematical Models of bilingualism and biculturism.
    Herb I. Freedman*, University of Alberta
    (957-34-333)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Non-Local Delayed and Diffusive Predator-Prey Model.
    Xiaoqiang Zhao*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    (957-35-60)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On perturbations of delay-differential equations with periodic orbits.
    Jack K Hale, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Marion Weedermann*, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
    (957-39-241)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability of Stochastic Differential Delay Equations with Jumps with Applications to Finance and Insurance.
    Anatoliy V Swishchuk*, Intern. Mathem. Center
    (957-60-106)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Chaos and asymptotical stability in discrete time recurrent neural networks with generalized input-output function.
    Zhu-jun Jing*, Academy of Science
    (957-34-334)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Class of Differential Equations Arising from Modulation Theory.
    Bathi Kasturiarachi*, Kent State University - Stark Campus
    (957-34-313)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory of Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras, IV
  Room 3163, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Yun Gao, York University ygao@yorku.ca
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Down-up Algebras, Their Structure and Representations.
    Georgia Benkart*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (957-16-267)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quantum general affine algebras and symmetric polynomials.
    Naihuan Jing*, North Carolina State University
    (957-17-208)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Crystal bases for quantum affine algebras and combinatorics of Young walls.
    Seok-Jin Kang*, Seoul National University
    (957-17-226)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Covering Algebras of Extended Affine Lie Algebras.
    Stephen Berman*, Univ. of Sask.
    (957-17-78)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Pseudo-differential Operators, Wavelet Transforms and Related Topics, IV
  Room 220, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  M. W. Wong, York University mwwong@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Hodge theory in the Sobolev topology.
    Steven G Krantz*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (957-35-305)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Construction of wavelets using special functions.
    Ahmed I Zayed*, University of Central Florida
    (957-33-74)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Time-Frequency Analysis of Pseudodifferential Operators.
    Demetrio Labate*, Washington University
    (957-42-205)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Cauchy Transforms and Hilbert Problems in Weighted Spaces of Integrable distributions.
    Christiane Carton-Lebrun*, Universite de Mons-Hainaut
    (957-46-69)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Categorical Structures, IV
  Room 2173, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Joan Wick Pelletier, York University jwpell@yorku.ca
  Walter Tholen, York University walter.tholen@mathstat.yorku.ca
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Injective hulls of partially ordered monoids.
    J. Lambek*, McGill University
    (957-06-218)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Monoreflections in categories of ordered rings.
    James J Madden*, Wesleyan Univ. \& Louisiana State Univ.
    (957-18-199)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Finitely productive classes of uniform spaces which generate cartesian-closed categories.
    Gloria Tashjian*, Worcester, MA
    (957-18-132)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Free Double Categories and the Word Problem for Groups.
    Robert Par\'e*, Dalhousie University
    Robert MacG. Dawson, Saint Mary's University
    (957-18-90)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Flat covers and factorizations.
    Jiri Rosicky*, Masaryk University
    (957-18-107)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the pivotal, symmetric case of involutory Hopf objects.
    Fernando J. O. Souza*, Theoretical Division, T6, Los Alamos National Lab.
    (957-18-265)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, IV
  Room 119, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Nantel Bergeron, York University bergeron@mathstat.yorku.ca
  Frank Sottile, University of Wisconsin sottile@math.umass.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Quantum Cohomology of Flag Manifolds.
    Linda Chen*, Columbia University
    (957-14-255)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Standard conjectures for the arithmetic Grassmannian $G(2,n)$.
    Andrew Kresch*, University of Pennsylvania
    Harry Tamvakis, University of Pennsylvania
    (957-14-52)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Embeddings of Schur functions into types $B/C/D$.
    Michael Kleber*, MIT
    (957-05-172)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Honeycombs and Facets of the Littlewood Richardson cone.
    Allen Knutson, Berkeley
    Terry Tao, UCLA
    Chris Woodward*, Rutgers
    (957-05-278)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Eigenvalues of majorized Hermitian matrices and Schubert calculus.
    William Fulton*, University of Michigan
    (957-15-194)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete and Applied Geometry, IV
  Room 3171, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Asia Ivic Weiss, York University weiss@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  Walter Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Colored Frieze Patterns.
    Heidi L Burgiel*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    John H Conway, Princeton University
    Chaim Goodman-Strauss, University of Arkansas
    (957-52-266)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Symmetric Tessellations on Euclidean Space-forms.
    Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
    (957-51-273)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A structure theorem for Voronoi polytopes for lattices.
    Robert Erdahl*, Queen's University
    (957-52-324)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Hamiltonian Systems, IV
  Room 1101, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto jeffrey@math.toronto.edu
  Velimir Jurdjevic, University of Toronto jurdj@math.toronto.edu
  Boris Khesin, University of Toronto khesin@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A unified geometrical approach to the problem of integrability of Hamiltonian systems by separation of variables.
    Roman Smirnov*, University of Waterloo
    Raymond G McLenaghan, University of Waterloo
    Aaron T Bruce, University of Waterloo
    (957-58-24)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Periodic orbits of a particle in a magnetic field.
    Ely Kerman*, Fields Institute
    (957-37-135)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, IV
  Room 2172, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  John Friedlander, University of Toronto frdlndr@math.toronto.edu
  Steve Gonek, University of Rochester gonek@math.rochester.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On a variant of quantum ergodicity.
    Wenzhi Luo*, The Ohio State University
    (957-11-154)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the mean lattice point discrepancy of a convex disc.
    Werner Georg Nowak*, Universit\"at f\"ur Bodenkultur, Vienna
    (957-11-114)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the greatest prime factor of shifted products.
    Cameron L Stewart*, University of Waterloo
    (957-11-233)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Biases in the Shanks-R{\'e}nyi Prime Number Race.
    Andrey Feuerverger, University of Toronto
    Greg Martin*, University of Toronto
    (957-11-163)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Z[$\sqrt{14}$] is Euclidean.
    Malcolm Harper, McGill University
    Ram Murty*, Queen's University
    (957-11-155)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Functional Analysis, IV
  Room 248, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Sankatha Singh, Memorial University of Newfoundland ssingh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
  Bruce Watson, Memorial University of Newfoundland bruce2@math.mun.ca
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Local Solvability for semi-linear partial differential equations with constant strength.
    Luigi Rodino*, Universita' di Torino
    (957-47-29)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Ky Fan's Best Approximation and Applications.
    Antonio Carbone, Univ. of Calabria
    S P Singh*, Memorial University
    (957-47-108)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tauberian Theorems and its Applications.
    Vikramaditya Singh*, Mehta Research Institute of Mathematics and Mathematical Physics
    (957-40-159)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Iterative Methods for Approximation of Fixed Points and Applications.
    Wataru Takahashi*, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    (957-47-86)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Approximation results by nonlinear integral operators and applications to signal processing.
    Gianluca Vinti*, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universit\'a degli Studi di Perugia
    (957-47-97)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability, IV
  Room 305, Galbraith Building
  Organizers:
  Neal Madras, York University madras@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  George L. O'Brien, York University obrien@yorku.ca
  Thomas Salisbury, York University salt@pascal.math.yorku.ca
  Donna Salopek, York University dsalopek@yorku.ca
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Dominating edge property for a class of reinforced random walks.
    Vlada Limic*, Cornell University
    (957-60-272)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Operator Theory, IV
  Room 3201, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Man-Duen Choi, University of Toronto choi@math.toronto.edu
  George Elliott, University of Toronto elliott@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Finite approximations and physics over unconventional fields and rings.
    Trond Digernes*, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    (957-81-274)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    $q$-Circular elements and non-commutative tori.
    James A. Mingo*, Queen's University
    Alexandru Nica, University of Waterloo
    (957-46-231)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    R-cyclic matrices in free probability.
    Alexandru M Nica*, University of Waterloo
    Roland Speicher, Queen's University
    Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, U.C.L.A.
    (957-46-216)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Maximization problems for free entropy.
    Roland Speicher*, Queen's University, Kingston
    (957-46-75)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, IV
  Room 4171, Medical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Anthony Geramita, Queens University tony@mast.queensu.ca
  William Traves, United States Naval Academy traves@usna.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Desingularization Algorithms.
    Edward Bierstone*, University of Toronto
    Pierre Milman, University of Toronto
    (957-14-225)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Monomialization of Morphisms.
    Steven D Cutkosky*, University of Missouri
    (957-14-130)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Equations of modular curves.
    Sorin E Popescu*, Columbia University
    (957-14-174)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quot schemes and effective base point freeness on moduli spaces of vector bundles.
    Mihnea Popa*, University of Michigan
    (957-14-185)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Weighted projective planes and automorphisms of ${\mathbb C}^3$.
    Peter Russell*, McGill University
    (957-14-115)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Branched covers of the sphere and the geometry and topology of the moduli space of curves.
    Ravi Vakil*, M.I.T.
    (957-14-289)
• Sunday September 24, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, IV
  Room 3202, Sandford Fleming Building
  Organizers:
  Ryszard Nest, University of Copenhagen rnest@math.ku.dk
  Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
  Boris Tsygan, Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Classification of Symplectic Leaves of Complex Reductive Poisson-Lie Groups.
    Milen T Yakimov*, University of California at Berkeley
    (957-22-268)