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2002 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
Boston, MA, October 5-6, 2002
Meeting #979

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Sunday October 6, 2002

Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Indoor Quad, Mezzanine Level, Curry Student Center

Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quivers and Their Generalizations, III
Room 173, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University
Gordana G. Todorov, Northeastern University
Jerzy M. Weyman, Northeastern University weyman@neu.edu
Andrei V. Zelevinsky, Northeastern University andrei@neu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Weak Morita Duality.
  Robert R Colby, University of Iowa
  Kent R Fuller*, University of Iowa
  (979-16-47)
- 8:35 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 9:10 a.m.
  Hochschild cohomology rings, support varieties, and finite generation.
  E L Green*, Virginia Tech
  Nicole Snashall, University of Leicester
  Oyvind Solberg, NTNU
  (979-16-23)
- 9:45 a.m.
  Cotorsion rings.
  Pedro Antonio Guil Asensio, Universidad de Murcia
  Ivo Herzog*, The Ohio State University at Lima
  (979-16-111)
- 10:20 a.m.
  A grading on the preprojective algebra of a locally finite quiver.
  Mark Kleiner*, Syracuse University
  (979-16-73)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Gallery, Mezzanine Level, Curry Student Center

Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:15 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Hilbert Schemes, III
Room 330, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Mark De Cataldo, SUNY at Stony Brook mde@math.sunysb.edu
Anthony A. Iarrobino, Northeastern University a.iarrobino@neu.edu
- 8:15 a.m.
  Rational Cherednik Algebras and Differential Operators on Varieties of Quasi-Invariants.
  Yuri Berest*, Cornell University
  Pavel Etingof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Victor Ginzburg, University of Chicago
  (979-16-231)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Finite dimensional representations of the rational Cherednik algebra.
  Yuri Berest, Cornell University
  Pavel Etingof*, MIT
  Victor Ginzburg, University of Cheicago
  (979-16-197)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Symmetric products, Symmetric group Frobenius algebras and Discrete Torsion.
  Ralph M Kaufmann*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK and Max--Planck--Institut fuer Mathematik,Bonn, Germany
  (979-14-123)
- 10:20 a.m.
  An elementary construction of an open affine covering of the Hilbert scheme of points of an affine space.
  Mark E Huibregtse*, Skidmore College
  (979-14-230)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, III
Room 119, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell vidhu_prasad@uml.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Dynamics of McMullen's Root-Finding Algorithm for cubic polynomials.
  Jane M. Hawkins*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (979-37-41)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Parameter space of the Weierstrass elliptic function.
  Jane Hawkins, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Lorelei Koss*, Dickinson College
  (979-37-189)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Dynamics of Quadratic One-Dimensional Continuous Cellular Automata.
  Randall E Rausch*, University of Texas at Dallas
  (979-37-181)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Asymptotic Behaviour of Measures with Long Range Correlations under the Action of Cellular Automata.
  Reem Yassawi*, Trent University
  Marcus Pivato, Trent University
  (979-37-204)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Dimension of hyperbolic sets computed from stable and unstable slices.
  Boris Hasselblatt*, Tufts University
  Joerg Schmeling, Lunds Universitet
  (979-37-48)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, III
Room 130, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern University terng@neu.edu
Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame xliu3@nd.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 9:00 a.m.
  Painlev\'e Expansions, Cohomogeneity One Metrics, and Exceptional Holonomy.
  A. Dancer, Oxford University
  M. Wang*, McMaster University
  (979-53-153)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Some fully nonlinear equations in conformal geometry.
  Jeff A Viaclovsky*, MIT
  (979-53-207)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Gromov-Hausdorff Stability of the Spacelike Friedman Model.
  Christina Sormani*, Lehman College, CUNY
  (979-58-85)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The minimal marked length spectrum of Riemannian two-step nilmanifolds.
  Ruth Gornet, University of Texas at Arlington
  Maura B Mast*, University of Massachusetts Boston
  (979-53-235)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, III
Room 230, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Matthew A. Papanikolas, Brown University map@math.brown.edu
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst siman@math.umass.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 8:30 a.m.
  Recent progress on families of twisted $L$-functions.
  Solomon Friedberg*, Boston College
  (979-11-45)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Nonholomorphic cocyclic Eisenstein series.
  Gautam Chinta*, Brown University
  Cormac O'Sullivan, CUNY
  (979-11-126)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Can a Drinfeld module be modular?
  David M Goss*, Ohio State University
  (979-11-40)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Newton polygons of wildly ramified curves.
  Rachel J. Pries*, Columbia University
  (979-11-129)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Algebraic independence of the divided derivatives of the Carlitz modules.
  W. Dale Brownawell*, Penn State
  Alfred J. van der Poorten, Macquarie University
  (979-11-170)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in the Orbit Method for Real and p-adic Groups, III
Room 344, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Donald R. King, Northeastern University donking@neu.edu
Alfred G. Noel, University of Massachusetts, Boston alfred.noel@umb.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Complexity of Nilpotent Orbits and the Kostant-Sekiguchi Correspondence.
  Donald R. King*, Northeastern University
  (979-22-42)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Triangularity results for characteristic cycles.
  Peter E Trapa*, University of Utah
  (979-22-158)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discussion.

Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The History of Mathematics, III
Room 333, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Adrian C. Rice, Randolph-Macon College arice4@rmc.edu
Amy E. Shell-Gellasch, U. S. Military Academy aa7423@usma.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Taylor's Theorem: A historical link between discrete and continuous mathematics.
  Dick Jardine*, Keene State College
  (979-01-115)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Jacobian School in Mathematics?
  Tom Archibald*, Acadia University
  (979-01-54)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Kinematic space in special relativity.
  Paul R Wolfson*, West Chester University of PA
  (979-01-38)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Evolution of American Geometry Education, 1750-1950.
  Amy Ackerberg-Hastings*, Rockville, MD
  (979-01-09)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Old Books and Hidden Gems.
  Amy Shell-Gellasch*, United States Military Academy
  (979-01-11)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convex Geometry, III
Room 50, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Daniel_Klain@uml.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Directed Projection Functions.
  Paul Goodey*, University of Oklahoma
  Wolfgang Weil, Universit\"at Karlsruhe
  (979-52-198)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A regularity theorem for support functions of convex bodies.
  Ralph Howard*, University of South Carolina
  (979-52-116)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Smoothing Convex Polytopes.
  Mohammad Ghomi*, University of South Carolina
  (979-53-157)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Convex bodies: metrics and dimension.
  R A Vitale*, University of Connecticut
  (979-52-70)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On directly additive selectors for convex and star bodies.
  Maria Moszy\'nska*, Warsaw University
  (979-52-36)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, III
Room 150, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
Christopher T. Woodward, Rutgers University ctw@math.rutgers.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Schubert calculus recurrence from the noncomplex $W$-action on $G/B$.
  Allen Knutson*, UC Berkeley
  (979-05-236)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Grothendieck Polynomials via Permutation Patterns and Chains in the Bruhat Order.
  Cristian Lenart, State University of New York at Albany
  Shawn Robinson*, Rutgers University
  Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts
  (979-05-143)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Computational aspects of Schubert Calculus.
  Alexander Yong*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (979-05-161)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Multiplication Formulas in the Grothendieck Ring of a Flag Variety.
  Cristian P. Lenart*, SUNY Albany
  (979-14-178)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic and Analytic Geometry, III
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University gaff@neu.edu
David B. Massey, Northeastern University dmassey@neu.edu
Caroline Grant Melles, U. S. Naval Academy cgg@usna.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Equisingularity of sections, $t^r$ condition, and the integral closure of modules.
  Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University
  David Trotman, Universite de Provence
  Leslie Wilson*, University of Hawai`i
  (979-32-97)
- 9:50 a.m.
  Equisingularity and the multiplicity of a pair of modules.
  Terence Gaffney*, Northeastern University
  (979-32-75)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, III
Room 70, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
Mary Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@cs.uml.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Exponential speedup via quantum random walk.
  Sam Gutmann*, Northeastern University
  (979-81-121)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Conditions for Equality in the Strong Subadditivity Inequality.
  Andreas Winter*, University of Bristol
  Patrick Hayde, Institution for Quantum Information, Caltech
  Richard Jozsa, University of Bristol
  (979-94-87)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quantum Channels with Limited Access.
  Neal G. Anderson*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  (979-81-185)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The communication cost of entanglement transformations.
  Patrick Hayden*, California Institute of Technology
  Sumit Daftuar, California Institute of Technology
  Andreas Winter, University of Bristol
  (979-81-243)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Operators on Noncompact Manifolds, III
Room 170, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Maxim Braverman, Northeastern University maxim@neu.edu
Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Mikhail A. Shubin, Northeastern University shubin@neu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The density of states of a periodic media in a large coupling limit.
  Leonid Friedlander*, University of Arizona
  (979-35-175)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Adiabatic decompositions formulas for the zeta-determinant of the Dirac Laplacian.
  Krzysztof P Wojciechowski*, IUPUI
  (979-58-112)
- 10:20 a.m.
  On complete Ricci-flat metrics.
  Gang Tian*, MIT
  (979-53-192)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III
Room 346, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Sean T. Cleary, City College, CUNY cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Murray Elder, Tufts University melder@math.tamu.edu
Jennifer Taback, University of Albany jtaback@math.albany.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The girth of groupsd and quasi-isometry.
  Azer Akhmedov*, Yale University
  (979-20-107)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Trivializations of group presentations and the Andrews-Curtis conjecture.
  Andrew Casson*, Yale University
  (979-20-203)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The gallery length filling function for finite presentations of groups.
  Tim R Riley*, Yale University
  Steve M Gersten, University of Utah
  (979-20-154)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Approximating CAT(0) geodesics by Cayley graph geodesics.
  Kim E. Ruane*, Tufts University
  (979-20-168)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Presentation: Part I
TA development using case studies: A workshop for faculty.
Room 342, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Solomon Friedberg, Boston College

Sunday October 6, 2002, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Information capacity of quantum channels.
Ballroom, Curry Student Center
Christopher K. King*, Northeastern University
(979-81-02)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
Erd\H os Memorial Lecture
The conjecture of Erd\H os-Turan and its impact on ergodic theory.
Ballroom, Curry Student Center
Hillel Furstenberg*, Einstein Institute of Mathematics
(979-05-05)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, IV
Room 150, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
Christopher T. Woodward, Rutgers University ctw@math.rutgers.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Polynomial representatives of Schubert classes in $QH^*(G/B)$.
  Liviu Mare*, University of Toronto
  (979-22-162)
- 2:30 p.m.
  A Pieri formula for universal Schubert polynomials.
  Linda Chen*, Columbia University
  (979-14-217)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Peterson variety and total positivity.
  Konstanze Rietsch*, King's College London
  (979-22-145)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Symmetries in quantum Schubert calculus.
  Harald Hengelbrock*, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
  (979-05-160)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Quantum Bruhat graph and Schubert polynomials.
  Alexander Postnikov*, MIT
  (979-05-240)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Gromov-Witten invariants on Grassmannians.
  Harry Tamvakis*, Brandeis University
  (979-14-174)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, IV
Room 119, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell vidhu_prasad@uml.edu
- 2:00 a.m.
  Properties of Topological Entropy which Characterize it.
  Ethan M. Coven*, Wesleyan University
  (979-37-18)
- 2:30 a.m.
  Entropy Points, Expansiveness and Symbolic Dynamics.
  Doris Fiebig, Goettingen, Germany
  Ulf Rainer Fiebig, Goettingen, Germany
  Zbigniew H Nitecki*, Tufts University
  (979-37-14)
- 3:00 a.m.
  On weak mixing and multiple recurrence for infinite measure-preserving transformations.
  Cesar E Silva*, Williams College
  (979-37-222)
- 3:30 a.m.
  Distributions of Special One-dependent Measures.
  Jorge E Navarro*, University of Texas-Brownsville
  (979-37-149)
- 4:00 a.m.
  Complementing subsets of the integers and a conjecture of Yuji Ito.
  Stanley J. Eigen*, Northeastern University
  (979-37-206)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, IV
Room 230, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Matthew A. Papanikolas, Brown University map@math.brown.edu
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst siman@math.umass.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  p-adic rigidity of arithmetic cohomology.
  Avner Ash*, Boston College
  (979-11-10)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Cusp singularities and special values of $L$-functions.
  Paul E. Gunnells*, UMass Amherst
  Jacob Sturm, Rutgers University, Newark
  Robert Sczech, Rutgers University, Newark
  (979-11-148)
- 3:00 p.m.
  1-Motives and Iwasawa Theory.
  Cristian D. Popescu*, Johns Hopkins University
  (979-11-163)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Adequate equivalence relations and cycles on abelian varieties.
  Reza Akhtar*, Miami University
  (979-14-179)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Optimal curves and their $j-$invariants.
  Mihran Papikian*, University of Michigan
  (979-11-98)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Quivers and Their Generalizations, IV
Room 173, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University
Gordana G. Todorov, Northeastern University
Jerzy M. Weyman, Northeastern University weyman@neu.edu
Andrei V. Zelevinsky, Northeastern University andrei@neu.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Cotilting modules for tame quivers.
  Henning Krause*, University of Bielefeld
  (979-16-113)
- 2:40 p.m.
  Koszul algebras and sheaves over projective space.
  Roberto Martinez-Villa*, UNAM
  (979-16-71)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Infinite dimensional representations of canonical algebras.
  Idun Reiten*, NTNU, Norway
  Claus Michael Ringel, Universit�t Bielefeld, Germany
  (979-16-180)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Representations of selfinjective Koszul algebras.
  Dan Zacharia*, Syracuse University
  Roberto Martinez-Villa, UNAM
  (979-16-74)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Direct products of representations and the pure-semisimplicity conjecture.
  Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann*, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Manuel Saorin, Universidad de Murcia
  (979-16-132)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
Special Session on Hilbert Schemes, IV
Room 330, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Mark De Cataldo, SUNY at Stony Brook mde@math.sunysb.edu
Anthony A. Iarrobino, Northeastern University a.iarrobino@neu.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Auto-equivalences of the derived category of a K3 surface and monodromy of its Hilbert schemes.
  Eyal Markman*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  (979-14-166)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Hilbert schemes and singular curves on a surface.
  Ragni Piene*, University of Oslo, Norway
  (979-14-58)
- 3:25 p.m.
  Chow motives for semismall maps.
  Mark Andrea A de Cataldo*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Luca Migliorini, University of Bologna
  (979-14-43)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, IV
Room 70, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
Mary Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@cs.uml.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 2:30 p.m.
  Quantum Reverse Shannon Theorem.
  Charles H. Bennett*, IBM Research Division
  (979-94-239)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Application of operator space methods to conditional expectation and completely positive maps in $L_p$ spaces.
  Marius Junge*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (979-46-151)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Entanglement Breaking Channels.
  M. Beth Ruskai*, Arlington, MA
  (979-81-69)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Operators on Noncompact Manifolds, IV
Room 170, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Maxim Braverman, Northeastern University maxim@neu.edu
Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Mikhail A. Shubin, Northeastern University shubin@neu.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Adjoints of elliptic cone operators.
  Juan B Gil*, Temple University
  Gerardo A Mendoza, Temple University
  (979-35-119)
- 2:40 p.m.
  Dirac operators and periodic connections.
  Marcos Jardim*, University of Pennsylvania
  (979-58-08)
- 3:20 p.m.
  $b$-holomorphic manifolds.
  Howard Jacobowitz, Rutgers University
  Gerardo A. Mendoza*, Temple University
  (979-35-95)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Convex Geometry, IV
Room 50, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Daniel_Klain@uml.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  A local Steiner-type formula for closed sets and applications.
  Daniel Josef Hug*, Universit�t Freiburg
  G�nter Last, Universit�t Karlsruhe
  Wolfgang Weil, Universit�t Karlsruhe
  (979-52-159)
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the uniqueness of solutions to the discrete ${\hbox{L}}_0$-Minkowski problem in the plane.
  Alina Stancu*, Polytechnic University of New York
  (979-52-110)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the State of Voronoi's Conjecture on Parallelohedra.
  Konstantin Rybnikov*, UMASS Lowell
  (979-52-142)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Volumes of symmetric random polytopes.
  Mark W Meckes*, Case Western Reserve University
  (979-52-94)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Inequalities for mixed volumes and the Minkowski problem for polytopes.
  Daniel A. Klain*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  (979-52-227)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, IV
Room 346, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Sean T. Cleary, City College, CUNY cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Murray Elder, Tufts University melder@math.tamu.edu
Jennifer Taback, University of Albany jtaback@math.albany.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Sections of projections from a free product to one of its factors.
  Mauricio Gutierrez*, Tufts University
  (979-20-57)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Three Dimensional FC Artin Groups are CAT(0).
  Robert W Bell*, The Ohio State University
  (979-20-215)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Properties of relatively hyperbolic groups.
  Inna Bumagin*, McGill University
  (979-20-202)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Superrigidity for Quasi-isometric Embeddings.
  David M Fisher*, Lehman College
  Kevin Whyte, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (979-22-209)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Automorphisms of right-angled Coxeter groups.
  Anton Kaul*, Tufts University
  (979-20-104)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Special Presentation: Part II
TA development using case studies: A workshop for faculty.
Room 342, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Solomon Friedberg, Boston College

Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic and Analytic Geometry, IV
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University gaff@neu.edu
David B. Massey, Northeastern University dmassey@neu.edu
Caroline Grant Melles, U. S. Naval Academy cgg@usna.edu
- 2:15 p.m.
  Lipschitz Stratifications and Generic Wings.
  Dwi Juniati, Universitas Negeri Surabaya (UNESA), Indonesia
  David J. A. Trotman*, University of Provence
  Guillaume Valette, University of Provence
  (979-58-208)
- 3:05 p.m.
  Recent results on the Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture.
  Francois Lucas, Universite d'Angers, Angers, France
  James J. Madden, University of Louisiana, Baton Rouge
  Daniel Schaub, Universite d'Angers, Angers, France
  Mark Spivakovsky*, Labo. de Math. E. Picard, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
  (979-14-228)
- 3:55 p.m.
  Additive invariants of real varieties.
  Clint McCrory*, University of Georgia
  Adam Parusinski, University of Angers
  (979-14-77)
- 4:25 p.m.
  Betti numbers of semialgebraic and sub-Pfaffian sets.
  Andrei Gabrielov*, Purdue University
  (979-14-92)

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AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

2002 Fall Eastern Section Meeting Boston, MA, October 5-6, 2002 Meeting #979

Sunday October 6, 2002

2002 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
Boston, MA, October 5-6, 2002
Meeting #979