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2003 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
New York, NY, April 12-13, 2003
Meeting #986

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

Sunday April 13, 2003

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Lobby, Courant Building

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Quantum Groups, III
Room 1302, Courant Building
Organizers:
M. Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California smontgom@math.usc.edu
Earl J. Taft, Rutgers University etaft@math.rutgers.edu
Sarah J. Witherspoon, Amherst College sjwitherspoon@amherst.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Co-Frobenius Hopf algebras and the coradical filtration.
  N. Andruskiewitsch, University of Cordoba
  S. Dascalescu*, Kuwait University
  (986-16-35)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Generalized cocommutative elements and Nakayama automorphisms.
  Miriam Cohen*, Ben-Gurion University
  Sara Westreich, Bar-Ilan University
  (986-16-115)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Higher Frobenius-Schur indicators.
  Yorck Sommerh�user*, Universit�t M�nchen
  (986-16-116)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension $p^n$.
  Yevgenia Kashina*, DePaul University
  Mark Kleiner, Syracuse University
  (986-16-97)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Semisimplicity of Hopf Algebra of Dimension $pq$.
  Siu-Hung Ng*, Towson University
  (986-16-86)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Quantum lines over non-cocommutative cosemisimple Hopf algebras.
  Corina Calinescu*, Rutgers University, New Brunswi
  Sorin Dascalescu, Kuwait University
  Akira Masuoka, University of Tsukuba
  Claudia Menini, Ferrara University
  (986-16-51)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Statistical Group Theory, III
Room 1013, Courant Building
Organizers:
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexeim@att.net
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Geodesics in the Braid Group on Three Strands and a Related Group.
  Lucas A Sabalka*, U. of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
  (986-20-160)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A Wilson group of non-uniformly exponential growth.
  Laurent Bartholdi*, U. C. Berkeley
  (986-20-127)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Nonpositive immersions, local indicability and coherence.
  Daniel T. Wise*, McGill University
  (986-57-164)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Uniform non-amenability.
  Enric Ventura*, Universitat Polit�cnica de Catalunya
  (986-20-83)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Removable Pairs in Trivial Braid Words.
  Patrick Dehornoy*, Universite de Caen
  (986-20-136)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the coherence of coherent-by-cyclic groups.
  Inna Bumagin*, McGill University
  Daniel T Wise, McGill University
  (986-20-181)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
13th Floor Lounge, Courant Building

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics, III
Room 613, Courant Building
Organizers:
Eva-Maria Feichtner, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland feichtne@math.ethz.ch
Dmitry N. Kozlov, University of Bern, Switzerland; and KTH, Stockholm, Sweden kozlov@math.ethz.ch
- 8:15 a.m.
  Topological properties of active orders for matroid bases.
  Bruce E Sagan*, Michigan State University
  Rieuwert J Blok, Michigan State University
  (986-06-70)
- 8:55 a.m.
  The no-perfect-matching complex and related complexes.
  Svante Linusson, Link\"oping University
  John Shareshian*, Washington University
  Michelle Wachs, University of Miami
  Volkmar Welker, Philipps-Universit\"at Marburg
  (986-05-193)
- 9:35 a.m.
  Maps and graph colorings.
  Erik K. Babson*, University of Washington, Seattle
  Dmitry Kozlov, KTH
  (986-05-216)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Topological questions on non-Euclidean oriented matroids.
  Laura M Anderson*, Binghamton University
  (986-05-225)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, Integrable Systems, and Gauge Theory, III
Room 513, Courant Building
Organizers:
Marcos Jardim, University of Massachusetts, Amherst jardim@math.umass.edu
Eyal Markman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst markman@math.umass.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Cohomology rings of symplectic quotients.
  Lisa Claire Jeffrey*, University of Toronto
  (986-58-108)
- 9:10 a.m.
  Classical geometry and Painleve VI.
  Nigel J Hitchin*, Oxford University
  (986-14-157)
- 9:50 a.m.
  Elliptic Sklyanin integrable systems.
  Jacques Hurtubise*, McGill and CRM
  Eyal Markman, U. Massachusetts
  (986-14-143)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Analytical and Computational Methods in Electromagnetics, III
Room 102, Courant Building
Organizers:
Alexander P. Stone, University of New Mexico astone@math.unm.edu
Peter A. McCoy, U. S. Naval Academy pam@usna.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The inverse electromagnetic scattering problem for screens.
  Fioralba Cakoni*, University of Delaware
  (986-35-75)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Numerical Simulation of Electromagnetic Fields in a Complex, Two-Dimensional Rectangular Cavity.
  Terence J. Wieting*, US Naval Research Laboratory
  Dong Ho Wu, US Naval Research Laboratory
  Louis F. Libelo, SFA, Inc.
  Michael I. Haftel, US Naval Research Laboratory
  Jeff Braunstein, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  (986-78-227)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Differtential-Geometric Method in Electromagnetic Lens Design.
  Alexander P Stone*, University of New Mexico
  (986-78-104)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Artificial Boundary Conditions for the Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Waves Governed by Vector Models.
  Semyon V Tsynkov*, North Carolina State University
  (986-65-120)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Aspects of Complex Singularities, III
Room 401, Main Building
Organizers:
Sylvain E. Cappell, NYU-Courant Institute cappell@cims.nyu.edu
Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University neumann@math.columbia.edu
Agnes Szilard, Barnard College, Columbia University szilard@math.columbia.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the embedded resolution of cyclic surface singularities.
  Agnes Szilard*, Barnard College, Columbia University
  (986-14-214)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Recent progress in the study of some non-isolated singularities.
  Lee J. McEwan*, The Ohio State University
  (986-14-179)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On Hodge spectrum and multiplier ideals.
  Nero Budur*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (986-14-34)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Stringy invariants for general singularities.
  Willem Veys*, University of Leuven
  (986-14-95)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Calculating Euler Characteristics of Vanishing Cycles.
  David B. Massey*, Northeastern University
  (986-32-66)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Contact and Symplectic Geometry, III
Room 411, Main Building
Organizers:
John B. Etnyre, University of Pennsylvania etnyre@math.upenn.edu
Joshua M. Sabloff, University of Pennsylvania sabloff@math.upenn.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Fillings by pseudoholomorphic curves and the Chord Problem in Contact Geometry.
  Casim Abbas*, Michigan State University
  (986-53-37)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Counting pseudo-holomorphic curves in four-manifolds.
  Michael Hutchings, UC Berkeley
  Michael Sullivan*, University of Michigan
  (986-53-45)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Contact homology, contact embeddings and a partial order of contactomorphisms.
  Sang Seon Kim*, University of Southern California
  (986-53-156)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Unknottedness of Lagrangian tori in the standard symplectic ${\mathbb R}^4$.
  Alexander Ivrii*, Stanford University
  (986-53-201)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Fredholm Theory and Transversality for Non-compact Pseudoholomorphic Curves in Symplectizations.
  Dragomir L Dragnev*, University of Southern California
  (986-58-48)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Differential Geometry, III
Room 405, Main Building
Organizers:
John C. Loftin, Columbia University loftin@math.columbia.edu
Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University mtwang@math.columbia.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Remarks on a Class of Solutions to the Minimal Surface System.
  Mu-Tao Wang*, Columbia University
  (986-53-137)
- 9:10 a.m.
  Analytic properties of harmonic maps into Teichmuller spaces.
  Sumio Yamada*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (986-58-145)
- 9:50 a.m.
  Special Lagrangian Submanifolds with Boundary and Lagrangian Free Boundary Plateau Problem.
  Weiyang Qiu*, Harvard University
  (986-53-140)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Deformations of $G_2$ Structures on Manifolds.
  Spiro Karigiannis*, Harvard University
  (986-53-139)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:45 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on the History of Mathematics, III
Room 414, Main Building
Organizers:
Patricia R. Allaire, Queensborough Community College, CUNY pallaire@qcc.cuny.edu
Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University bradley@adelphi.edu
- 8:45 a.m.
  A Golden Decade: Euler in Berlin, 1746 - 1756 -- A Preliminary Study.
  Ronald S. Calinger*, Catholic University of America
  (986-01-218)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Euler's Solution of the Basel Problem - The Longer Story.
  Ed Sandifer*, Western Connecticut State U
  (986-01-65)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Euler's All-Purpose Counterexample.
  Robert E. Bradley*, Adelphi University
  (986-01-206)
- 10:30 a.m.
  d'Alembert's proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra: mathematical issues.
  Christopher Baltus*, SUNY College at Oswego
  (986-01-50)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:50 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in Dynamics, Geometry, and Group Theory, III
Room 408, Main Building
Organizers:
David Fisher, CUNY, Herbert H. Lehman College dfisher@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu
Steven E. Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kevin M. Whyte, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 8:50 a.m.
  Flats in outer space.
  Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University
  (986-20-220)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Quasi-isometric rigidity for some nonuniform $S$-arithmetic lattices.
  Kevin Wortman*, University of Chicago
  (986-20-210)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Centralizers of Partially Hyperbolic Diffeomorphisms.
  Lizzie Burslem*, University of Michigan
  (986-37-226)
- 10:40 a.m.
  Area preserving group actions on surfaces.
  John Franks*, Northwestern University
  Michael Handel, Lehman College, CUNY
  (986-37-71)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:55 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, III
Room 810, Main Building
Organizers:
James Conant, Cornell University jconant@polygon.math.cornell.edu
Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia krushkal@virginia.edu
Rob Schneiderman, NYU-Courant Institute schneid@cims.nyu.edu
- 8:50 a.m.
  $A$-polynomial and Bloch invariants of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Abhijit Champanerkar*, Columbia University
  (986-57-53)
- 9:20 a.m.
  Lie bialgebras of curves on surfaces and their computation.
  Moira Chas*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (986-57-165)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Remarks on combinatorial Yamabe flows.
  Feng Luo*, Rutgers University
  (986-57-125)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Galois Module Theory and Hopf Algebras, III
Room 813, Courant Building
Organizers:
Daniel R. Replogle, College of Saint Elizabeth dreplogle@CSE.edu
Robert G. Underwood, Auburn University underw@strudel.aum.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Nearly perfect complexes and Weil �tale cohomology.
  David Burns*, King's College London, U.K.
  (986-11-27)
- 9:50 a.m.
  Structure of a Quantum Hyperalgebra.
  W. Chin, DePaul University
  L. Krop*, DePaul University
  (986-16-41)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Diagonalization of Representation Operators for the Quantum Algebra $U_q(su_{1,1})$.
  N M Atakishiyev*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
  A U Klimyk, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
  (986-16-30)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Invited Address
The Riemannian geometry of the 2-Wasserstein metric and the nonlinear kinetic Fokker-Planck equation.
Room 109, Courant Building
Wilfrid Gangbo*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(986-35-03)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Asymptotic differential algebra.
Room 109, Courant Building
Matthias Aschenbrenner*, University of California Berkeley
(986-03-02)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Quantum Groups, IV
Room 1302, Courant Building
Organizers:
M. Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California smontgom@math.usc.edu
Earl J. Taft, Rutgers University etaft@math.rutgers.edu
Sarah J. Witherspoon, Amherst College sjwitherspoon@amherst.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Invariants of Skew Derivations.
  Jeffrey Bergen*, DePaul University
  Piotr Grzeszczuk, Bialystok Technical Institute
  (986-16-100)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Representing relatively free coalgebras by formal sums.
  Mikhail V. Kochetov*, University of Saskatchewan
  (986-16-110)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Divided power Hopf algebras over integral domains.
  Richard E. Block*, University of California Riverside
  (986-13-112)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Local theory of almost split sequences for comodules.
  William Chin*, DePaul University
  Declan Quinn, Syracuse University
  Mark Kleiner, Syracuse University
  (986-16-92)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Quasi-Hopf algebras, Hopf modules, and monoidal categories.
  Peter Schauenburg*, Mathematisches Institut, University of Munich, Ger
  (986-16-114)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Schur Algebras and Enveloping Algebras.
  Anthony Giaquinto*, Loyola University Chicago
  (986-16-171)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Statistical Group Theory, IV
Room 1013, Courant Building
Organizers:
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexeim@att.net
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Recent developments in the theory of Fuchsian and Kleinian groups.
  Gerhard Rosenberger*, Universit\"at Dortmund
  (986-20-59)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On Non-Trivially Discriminating Groups.
  Gilbert Baumslag, City University of New York
  Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University
  Anthony M. Gaglione, United States Naval Academy
  Dennis Spellman, Temple University
  (986-20-203)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Arithmetic properties of lattices in rank 2 Kac-Moody groups over finite fields.
  Lisa Carbone*, Rutgers University
  (986-20-81)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Growth in semigroup varieties.
  Lev M Shneerson*, Hunter College,The City University of New York
  (986-20-155)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A partial result on the complexity of Whitehead's algorithm.
  Donghi Lee*, College of Staten Island, CUNY
  (986-20-196)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Groups generated by positive multi-twists and the fake lantern problem.
  Hessam Hamidi-Tehrani*, New York, NY
  (986-20-90)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Groups of simultaneously even- and p-type.
  Inna A Korchagina*, Rutgers, The State University of NJ
  (986-20-208)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, Integrable Systems, and Gauge Theory, IV
Room 513, Courant Building
Organizers:
Marcos Jardim, University of Massachusetts, Amherst jardim@math.umass.edu
Eyal Markman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst markman@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Supersymmetry and stability of A-branes.
  Bobby Acharya, Rutgers University
  Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania
  Tony Pantev*, University of Pennsylvania
  (986-14-195)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Instantonic calculus, equivariant cohomology and partition function of topological N=2 super Yang-Mills theory.
  Ugo Bruzzo*, International School for Advanced Studies
  (986-81-174)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Fourier-Mukai transform for noncommutative tori and mirror symmetry.
  Alexander Polishchuk*, Boston University
  (986-14-134)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Differential Isomorphism and Equivalence of Algebraic Varieties.
  Yuri Berest*, Cornell University
  George Wilson, Imperial College
  (986-14-213)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on the History of Mathematics, IV
Room 414, Main Building
Organizers:
Patricia R. Allaire, Queensborough Community College, CUNY pallaire@qcc.cuny.edu
Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University bradley@adelphi.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Followers of Franklin.
  Paul C. Pasles*, Villanova University
  (986-01-44)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Mathematics Curriculum At West Point: The First Hundred Years.
  V. Frederick Rickey, United States Military Academy
  Amy Shell-Gellasch*, United States Military Academy
  (986-01-38)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Mathematical Aspects of Franz Reuleaux Kinematic Model Collection.
  Daina Taimina*, Cornell University
  (986-01-177)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in Dynamics, Geometry, and Group Theory, IV
Room 408, Main Building
Organizers:
David Fisher, CUNY, Herbert H. Lehman College dfisher@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu
Steven E. Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kevin M. Whyte, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 2:30 p.m.
  On spaces of higher spherical rank.
  Ralf J Spatzier*, University of Michigan
  (986-53-211)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Properness Conjecture for 3-Dimensional Affine Actions.
  W. Goldman*, University of Maryland
  F. Labourie, University of Paris, Sud
  G. Margulis, Yale University
  (986-37-130)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Strong isospectrality for groups of Lorentzian transformations.
  Todd A. Drumm*, Swarthmore College
  Virginie Charette, University of Manitoba
  William M. Goldman, University of Maryland
  (986-51-73)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Coding of geodesics on modular surfaces.
  Svetlana Katok*, The Pennsylvania State University
  (986-20-222)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Cohomology of skew extensions of hyperbolic systems.
  Dmitry Dolgopyat*, University of Maryland
  (986-37-205)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Topological Models of Simple Siegel Polynomials.
  Gaofei Zhang*, The City University of New York
  (986-37-28)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Contact and Symplectic Geometry, IV
Room 411, Main Building
Organizers:
John B. Etnyre, University of Pennsylvania etnyre@math.upenn.edu
Joshua M. Sabloff, University of Pennsylvania sabloff@math.upenn.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Symplectomorphism groups of toric manifolds.
  Dusa McDuff*, Stony Brook University
  (986-53-138)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Hofer-Zehnder capacity near symplectic submanifolds.
  Ely Kerman*, SUNY Stony Brook
  (986-37-154)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Locally conformal Dirac structures and infinitesimal automorphisms.
  Aissa Wade*, The Pennsylvania University
  (986-53-162)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Differential Geometry, IV
Room 405, Main Building
Organizers:
John C. Loftin, Columbia University loftin@math.columbia.edu
Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University mtwang@math.columbia.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Alexandrov type inequalities for Cartan-Hadamard manifolds.
  Joel Spruck*, Johns Hopkins University
  (986-35-101)
- 3:10 p.m.
  The Local Isometric Embedding Problem for 2-Dimensional Riemannian Manifolds.
  Marcus A. Khuri*, University of Pennsylvania
  (986-35-172)
- 3:50 p.m.
  A glueing theorem for the Ginzburg-Landau equations in higher dimensions.
  Simon A Brendle*, Princeton University
  (986-53-76)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Almost Rigidity and Stability.
  Christina Sormani*, Lehman College, CUNY
  (986-58-189)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Mean Curvature Flows and Homotopy of Maps Between Spheres.
  Mao-Pei Tsui*, Columbia University
  (986-53-148)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, IV
Room 810, Main Building
Organizers:
James Conant, Cornell University jconant@polygon.math.cornell.edu
Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia krushkal@virginia.edu
Rob Schneiderman, NYU-Courant Institute schneid@cims.nyu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Nocyclic Covers of Knot Complements.
  Nathan D Broaddus*, Columbia University
  (986-57-131)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Straight lines intersecting a knot in four points.
  Ryan Budney*, Rochester
  Jim Conant, Cornell
  Kevin Scannell, New York NY
  Dev Sinha, New York NY
  (986-57-107)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Stabilization in the braid groups.
  Joan Birman*, Columbia University, Barnard College
  (986-57-132)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 2:45 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics, IV
Room 613, Courant Building
Organizers:
Eva-Maria Feichtner, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland feichtne@math.ethz.ch
Dmitry N. Kozlov, University of Bern, Switzerland; and KTH, Stockholm, Sweden kozlov@math.ethz.ch
- 2:45 p.m.
  Some remarks about locally-defined combinatorial invariants.
  Robin Forman*, Rice University
  (986-57-199)
- 3:25 p.m.
  Combinatorial-topological aspects of hyperbolic volume.
  Ruth Kellerhals*, University of Fribourg
  (986-52-147)
- 4:05 p.m.
  Spreads of non-singular pairs in symplectic vector spaces.
  Steven H. Weintraub*, Lehigh Univ.
  (986-52-20)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Cluster algebras and Poisson Geometry.
  Michael Shapiro*, Michigan State University
  Michael Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame
  Alek Vainshtein, University of Haifa
  (986-57-151)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Aspects of Complex Singularities, IV
Room 401, Main Building
Organizers:
Sylvain E. Cappell, NYU-Courant Institute cappell@cims.nyu.edu
Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University neumann@math.columbia.edu
Agnes Szilard, Barnard College, Columbia University szilard@math.columbia.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Topological Invariants of Stratified Maps with Non-Witt Target.
  Markus Banagl*, University of Cincinnati
  (986-57-72)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Bifurcations in Gradient Systems with Symmetry.
  Christopher M. Herald*, University of Nevada, Reno
  (986-57-80)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Intersection Alexander Polynomials.
  Greg Friedman*, Yale University
  (986-57-78)

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AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

2003 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting New York, NY, April 12-13, 2003 Meeting #986

Sunday April 13, 2003

2003 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
New York, NY, April 12-13, 2003
Meeting #986