AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:13
2000 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
New York, NY, November 4-5, 2000
Meeting #959
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Saturday November 4, 2000
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
First Floor, Havemeyer Building -
Saturday November 4, 2000, 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
First Floor, Havemeyer Building -
Saturday November 4, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Algebra and Related Topics, I
Room 410, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Li Guo, Rutgers University at Newark liguo@newark.rutgers.edu
William Keigher, Rutgers University at Newark keigher@newark.rutgers.edu
William Sit, City College (CUNY) wyscc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Using Ritt's characteristic sets to compute the normalizers of the intransitive Lie algebras of vector fields on the plane.
Phyllis Cassidy*, Smith College (emerita)
(959-12-283) -
9:00 a.m.
Computing the Galois Group of $y^{(3)} + ay' + by = 0,\ a, b \in {\mathcal C}[x]$.
Peter H Berman*, North Carolina State University
(959-12-178) -
9:30 a.m.
Prounipotent Groups in Differential Galois Theory.
Andy R Magid*, University of Oklahoma
(959-12-157) -
10:00 a.m.
On a Generic Inverse Differential Galois Problem for GL$_n$.
Lourdes Juan*, MSRI
(959-13-123) -
10:30 a.m.
Model Theory and Differential Algebra.
David E Marker*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(959-03-128)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
Room 411, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Irena Peeva, Cornell University irena@math.cornell.edu
Luchezar Avramov, Purdue University avramov@math.purdue.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Secant Varieties of Segre Varieties and Monomial Ideals.
Maria V Catalisano, University of Genoa
Anthony V Geramita*, Univ. of Genoa, Queen's Univ.
Alessandro Gimigliano, University of Bologna
(959-13-148) -
9:00 a.m.
Effective results on the homology of powers of a maximal ideal.
Liana M Sega*, Purdue University
(959-13-173) -
9:30 a.m.
A formula of Solomon-Terao and bundles on ${\bf P}^n$.
Mircea Mustata, U/C Berkeley
Hal Schenck*, Harvard University
(959-13-155) -
10:00 a.m.
De Rham cohomology, Gr\"obner bases and stratifications.
Uli Walther*, Purdue University
(959-14-150) -
10:30 a.m.
Direct-sum decompositions over local rings.
Roger A Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
(959-13-211)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
Session for Contributed Papers, I
Room 520, Mathematics Building
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9:00 a.m.
Functional Measure for Separable Systems with Dynamical Activity.
C.S. Felicitas, C.F.C.T.E. Foundation, Inc.
M.W. Auslander*, C.F.C.T.E. Foundation, Inc.
(959-22-06) -
9:15 a.m.
Compositional Functions of Order N on Assymetric Fields of Analytic Data.
C. S. Felicitas*, CFCTE Foundation and Gottlieb Library
M. W. Auslander, CFCTE Foundation and Gottlieb Library
(959-76-243) -
9:30 a.m.
The Mystery of Knots - Computer Programming for Knot Tabulation.
Charilaos N Aneziris*, Stony Brook, New York
(959-57-81) -
10:15 a.m.
Angular Ratio Transference.
James H Mulberry*, AMS
(959-51-110)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 8:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, I
Room 207, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University michael.falk@nau.edu
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University alexsuciu@neu.edu
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8:40 a.m.
Triples of arrangements and local systems.
Daniel C Cohen*, Louisiana State University
(959-52-182) -
9:15 a.m.
Incidence combinatorics of model constructions.
Eva-Maria E Feichtner*, ETH Zurich
Dmitry N Kozlov, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
(959-06-252) -
9:50 a.m.
The cohomology rings of complements of subspace arrangements.
Mark de Longueville*, University of Minnesota
Carsten A Schultz, Freie Universitaet Berlin
(959-52-104) -
10:25 a.m.
Equivariant Euler characteristics of braid arrangements.
Graham C Denham*, University of Oregon
Nicole M Lemire, University of Oregon
(959-20-275)
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8:40 a.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on the Topology of 3-Manifolds, I
Room 312, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Joan S. Birman, Barnard College jb@math.columbia.edu
Brian S. Mangum, Barnard College mangum@math.columbia.edu
Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College neumann@math.columbia.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The Orbifold Theorem.
Daryl Cooper*, UCSB
Craig Hodgson, Melbourne
Steve Kerckhoff, Stanford
(959-57-166) -
9:30 a.m.
Covering spaces and Dehn fillings.
Cynthia L. Curtis*, The College of New Jersey
(959-57-198) -
10:00 a.m.
Towards unification of number theory and 3-dimensional topology.
Adam S Sikora*, CRM/ISM
(959-57-288) -
10:30 a.m.
Mahler measure and Alexander polynomials of links.
Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
(959-57-103)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Symbolic Computation and Kleinian Groups, I
Room 203, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Jane P. Gilman, Rutgers University gilman@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Mika K. Seppala, Florida State University Mika.Seppala@fsu.edu
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8:45 a.m.
Symbolic Computation on Kleinian Groups.
Jane Gilman*, Rutgers-Newark
(959-20-267) -
9:10 a.m.
Hyperbolic Volumes.
Gaven Martin*, University of Auckland, New Zealand
T. Marshall, University of Auckland, New Zealand
(959-20-293) -
9:35 a.m.
Hecke operators, arithmetic groups, and the cohomology of subgroups of $SL_{4} (\mathbb{Z})$.
Paul E Gunnells*, Rutgers University
(959-11-197) -
10:00 a.m.
1) Local fundamental groups and surface classification ( an extension of a theorem of Mumford).
Fabrizio ME Catanese*, University of Goettingen
(959-14-208) -
10:25 a.m.
Period doubling in the Tangent Family.
Linda Keen*, CUNY Lehman and Graduate Center
Janina Kotus, Institute of Mathematics, Technical Univerity of Warsaw
(959-37-170)
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8:45 a.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 417, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Sorin Popescu, Columbia University psorin@math.columbia.edu
Lev A. Borisov, Columbia University lborisov@math.columbia.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Hurwitz numbers and Hodge integrals.
Tom Graber*, Harvard
Ravi Vakil, MIT
(959-14-247) -
9:30 a.m.
Hurwitz numbers and the tautological ring of the moduli space of curves.
Ravi Vakil*, M.I.T.
Tom Graber, Harvard
(959-14-169) -
10:00 a.m.
Localization and Gromov-Witten theory.
Rahul V. Pandharipande*, Caltech
(959-14-279) -
10:30 a.m.
Hyperquot schemes and rational curves on flag varieties.
Linda Chen*, Columbia University
(959-14-276)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, I
Room 403, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Zheng-Chao Han, Rutgers University zchan@math.rutgers.edu
A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Princeton University shadi@princeton.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Singularities for solutions of the wave equation on conic manifolds.
Richard B Melrose, MIT
Jared Wunsch*, SUNY Stony Brook
(959-35-187) -
9:30 a.m.
Instantons, Characteristic Classes, and Nonlinear Elliptic Equations.
Yisong Yang*, Polytechnic University
(959-35-125) -
10:00 a.m.
Asymptotics for Maxwell-Chern-Simons vortices.
Tonia Ricciardi*, Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Universit\`a di Napoli ``Federico II''
(959-35-143) -
10:30 a.m.
$L^p$ Estimates for the Wave Equation with a Slowly-Decaying Potential.
John G Stalker*, Princeton University
Fabrice Planchon, CNRS, Paris VI
A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Rutgers University
(959-35-268)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Riemannian Manifolds and Their Limit Spaces, I
Room 405, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers University rong@math.rutgers.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
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9:00 a.m.
A class of generalized convex functions and its relation to warped products.
Stephanie B Alexander*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Richard L. Bishop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(959-53-164) -
9:45 a.m.
Differential Forms, Spinors and Bounded Curvature Collapse.
John Lott*, University of Michigan
(959-58-118) -
10:30 a.m.
A Sheaf Perspective on $L^2$ Harmonic Forms.
Eugenie Hunsicker*, Lawrence University
Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
(959-53-263)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Group Theory, I
Room 404, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Gilbert Baumslag, City College (CUNY) gilbert@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Sean T. Cleary, City College (CUNY) cleary@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Alexei Myasnikov, City College (CUNY)
Vladimir Shplirain, City College (CUNY) shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
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9:30 a.m.
Diophantine geometry for free groups, dimension of algebraic varieties.
Olga Kharlampovich*, McGill University, Canada
(959-20-204) -
10:00 a.m.
Finitely presented torsion-by-cyclic non-amenable group.
A.Yu. Ol'shanskii*, Vanderbilt University
M.V. Sapir, Vanderbilt University
(959-20-217) -
10:30 a.m.
Pro-algebraic hulls of discrete groups: examples and questions.
Andy R Magid*, University of Oklahoma
(959-20-80)
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9:30 a.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Operators on graphs: Soliton systems, scattering theory and symplectic geometry.
Room 309, Havemeyer Building
Sergey P. Novikov*, U. of Maryland and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
(959-47-02) -
Saturday November 4, 2000, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Equidistribution on Shimura varieties and applications.
Room 309, Havemeyer Building
Paula Cohen*, CNRS, Lille, France
(959-11-03) -
Saturday November 4, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Group Theory, II
Room 404, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Gilbert Baumslag, City College (CUNY) gilbert@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Sean T. Cleary, City College (CUNY) cleary@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Alexei Myasnikov, City College (CUNY)
Vladimir Shplirain, City College (CUNY) shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Word reversing and torsion freeness.
Patrick Dehornoy*, University of Caen, France
(959-20-136) -
3:00 p.m.
On subgroup separability in hyperbolic Coxeter groups.
Darren D Long*, UC Santa Barbara
Alan W Reid, University of Texas
(959-22-119) -
3:30 p.m.
Action of braid groups on determinantal ideals, compact spaces and a stratification of Teichm\"uller space.
Stephen P Humphries*, Brigham Young University
(959-20-78) -
4:00 p.m.
Break. -
4:20 p.m.
Finite and nilpotent quotients of braid groups and link groups.
Theodore Stanford*, New Mexico State University
(959-57-270) -
4:50 p.m.
The surjectivity problem for one-generator, one-relator extensions of torsion-free groups.
Marshall M. Cohen*, Cornell University
Colin Rourke, Warwick University
(959-20-160) -
5:20 p.m.
The chameleon groups of Richard J. Thompson: categories with mutliplication.
Matt Brin*, SUNY Binghamton
(959-20-235)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on the Topology of 3-Manifolds, II
Room 312, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Joan S. Birman, Barnard College jb@math.columbia.edu
Brian S. Mangum, Barnard College mangum@math.columbia.edu
Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College neumann@math.columbia.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Cusp volumes and cusp densities for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Colin C Adams*, Williams College
(959-57-260) -
3:00 p.m.
Metric characterizations of spherical and Euclidean buildings.
Ruth M Charney*, Ohio State University
Alexander Lytchak, University of Bonn
(959-20-273) -
3:30 p.m.
All flat manifolds are hyperbolic orbifold cusp cross-sections.
Darren D Long*, UC Santa Barbara
Alan W Reid, University of Texas
(959-57-116) -
4:00 p.m.
The Quest for the Low Volume Hyperbolic 3-Manifold.
Robert Meyerhoff*, Boston College
(959-57-272) -
4:30 p.m.
Bounded geometry for hyperbolic manifolds.
Yair N Minsky*, SUNY at Stony Brook
(959-57-175) -
5:00 p.m.
The double of the figure eight is GFERF.
Alan W Reid*, U. T. Austin
Darren Long, U.C.S.B.
(959-57-188)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, II
Room 207, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University michael.falk@nau.edu
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University alexsuciu@neu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Shephard Groups and the Sign Representation.
Peter Orlik, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Victor Reiner, School of Mathematics
Anne V Shepler*, University of California at Santa Cruz
(959-52-249) -
3:05 p.m.
Cohomology ring of the complement to rational arrangements and Generalized Aomoto Complexes.
Jos\'e I Cogolludo*, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
(959-14-264) -
3:40 p.m.
Constructing Canonical Generating Sets for the Module of A-Derivations of an Arrangement of Hyperplanes and Conditions Determining Freeness.
John M Keaty*, IBM Austin, Texas
(959-14-289) -
4:15 p.m.
Reflection Groups and Milnor Fiber Complexes.
Stephen D Szydlik*, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
(959-52-242) -
4:50 p.m.
Compactifications of real subspace and half-space arrangements.
Giovanni Gaiffi*, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
(959-52-132) -
5:25 p.m.
Resonance varieties and fibered arrangements.
Michael J Falk*, Northern Arizona University
(959-52-251)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry and Modular Forms, I
Room 209, Havemeyer Building
Organizers:
Dorian Goldfeld, Columbia University goldfeld@columbia.edu
Paula Cohen, University of Lille Paula.Cohen@agat.univ-lille1.fr
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2:30 p.m.
Nonanalytic Poincar\'e Series and Eichler Integrals.
Wladimir A Pribitkin*, Princeton University
(959-11-95) -
3:00 p.m.
N\'eron-Tate projection of algebraic points.
Bjorn Poonen*, U. C. Berkeley
(959-11-215) -
3:30 p.m.
Families of L -functions and applications.
Peter Sarnak*, Princeton University
(959-11-202) -
4:00 p.m.
The Least Prime in a Conjugacy Class.
Kumar Murty*, University of Toronto
(959-11-229) -
4:30 p.m.
Coverings of curves with asymptotically many rational points.
W.-C. W. Li*, Penn State University
H. Maharaj, Institute of Discrete Mathematics
(959-11-199) -
5:00 p.m.
The Euclidean Algorithm in Number Fields.
Ram Murty*, Queen's University
(959-11-180) -
5:30 p.m.
Subvarieties of Shimura varieties.
Bas Edixhoven*, University of Rennes
(959-11-142)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Algebra and Related Topics, II
Room 410, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Li Guo, Rutgers University at Newark liguo@newark.rutgers.edu
William Keigher, Rutgers University at Newark keigher@newark.rutgers.edu
William Sit, City College (CUNY) wyscc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Central configurations in the Newtonian N-body problem of Celestial Mechanics.
Ilias Kotsireas*, Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra
(959-70-269) -
3:00 p.m.
On Applications of Cartan's Method of Moving Frames.
Irina A Kogan*, Yale University
(959-53-237) -
3:30 p.m.
D-modules on smooth toric varieties.
Mircea Mustata, University of California at Berkeley
Gregory Smith, University of California at Berkeley
Harrison Tsai*, Cornell University
Uli Walther, Purdue University
(959-14-207) -
4:00 p.m.
Differential Operators on Toric Varieties.
William N Traves*, U.S. Naval Academy
Mutsumi Saito, Hokkaido University, Japan
(959-13-91) -
4:30 p.m.
Rank Jumps in $A$-Hypergeometric Systems.
Laura F Matusevich*, University of California at Berkeley
(959-05-138) -
5:00 p.m.
Multivariable Differential Dimension Polynomials.
Alexander B Levin*, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C.
(959-12-102)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
Room 411, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Irena Peeva, Cornell University irena@math.cornell.edu
Luchezar Avramov, Purdue University avramov@math.purdue.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Finite Correspondences between commutative rings and motivic functors.
Charles A Weibel*, Rutgers University
(959-13-193) -
3:00 p.m.
Polynomial functors on complexes.
Alexandre Tchernev*, University at Albany,SUNY
Jerzy Weyman, Northeastern University
(959-13-201) -
3:30 p.m.
Frobenius and Tor.
Claudia Miller*, Michigan State University
(959-13-274) -
4:00 p.m.
The Buchsbaum-Rim polynomial and the integral closure of a module.
Joseph P Brennan*, North Dakota State University
Bernd Ulrich, Michigan State University
Wolmer V Vasconcelos, Rutgers University
(959-13-291) -
4:30 p.m.
A Technique for the Explicit Computation of Local Cohomology with Respect to Monomial Ideals.
Andrew S Richardson*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(959-13-127) -
5:00 p.m.
Building integral domains using power series.
William Heinzer, Purdue
Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
Sylvia M Wiegand*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(959-13-209) -
5:30 p.m.
Commutativity of Hochschild Cohomology.
Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz*, Univ. of Toronto
Hubert Flenner, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
(959-18-205)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 417, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Sorin Popescu, Columbia University psorin@math.columbia.edu
Lev A. Borisov, Columbia University lborisov@math.columbia.edu
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2:30 p.m.
The Decomposition Theorem for Hochschild (Co-)Homology of Complex Spaces.
Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz*, Univ. of Toronto
Hubert Flenner, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
(959-14-203) -
3:00 p.m.
Deformations of moduli spaces and non-commutative geometry.
Ludmil Katzarkov, UC Irvine
Dmitry Orlov, Steklov Institute, Russia
Tony Pantev*, University of Pennsylvania
(959-14-221) -
3:30 p.m.
Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality, and the Hitchin system.
Michael Thaddeus*, Columbia University
(959-14-165) -
4:30 p.m.
A Fourier-Mukai approach to spectral data for instantons.
Marcos B Jardim*, University of Pennsylvania and Haverford College
Antony Maciocia, University of Edinburgh
(959-14-57)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 403, International Affairs Building
Organizers:
Zheng-Chao Han, Rutgers University zchan@math.rutgers.edu
A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Princeton University shadi@princeton.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Antiferromagnetism and quantum Hall effects on magnetic bubbles.
Fang-Hua Lin*, Courant Institute-NYU
(959-35-230) -
3:00 p.m.
A Ginzburg-Landau Type Equation from Ante-ferromagnets and Related Problems.
Fengbo Hang*, Courant Institute
Fanghua Lin, Courant Institute
(959-35-227) -
3:30 p.m.
Regularity of the blow-up set of a semilinear heat equation.
Hatem Zaag*, Courant Institute and CNRS ENS
(959-35-139) -
4:00 p.m.
Improved regularity results for the quasilinear wave equations.
Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University
Igor Rodnianski*, Princeton University
(959-35-189) -
4:30 p.m.
The Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system near vaccum.
Yan Guo*, Division of Applied Math. Brown University
(959-35-126)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday November 4, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers, II
Room 520, Mathematics Building