AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:58
1992 Fall Western Section Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, November 7-8, 1992
Meeting #877
Associate secretaries: Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu
Saturday November 7, 1992
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Saturday November 7, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Finite and Algebraic Groups, I
Room 144, Kaprielian Hall
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8:30 a.m.
The 1-cohomology of simple modules for the group of type F_4 in characteristic 2.
Peter Sin*, University of Florida
(877-20-05) -
9:00 a.m.
Minimal character degrees.
Geoffrey Robinson*, University of Florida
(877-20-102) -
9:30 a.m.
A generalization of the conjugation character of a finite group.
Shahriar Shahriari*, Pomona College
(877-20-101) -
10:00 a.m.
2-modular embeddings of monster geometries.
Stephen D. Smith*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(877-20-04) -
10:30 a.m.
Group actions on finite collapsible simplicial complexes.
Yoav Segev*, California Institute of Technology
(877-20-103)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday November 7, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, I
Room 147, Kaprielian Hall
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8:30 a.m.
Weak turbulence.
Bj\"orn Birnir*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(877-35-80) -
9:00 a.m.
Structure of partially permutative cellular automata.
Kari Eloranta*, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
(877-82-29) -
9:30 a.m.
Interval exchanges and a group of paths in R^2.
Richard Kenyon*, Institute Fourier de Mathematics, Universite de Grenobele, France
(877-51-43) -
10:00 a.m.
A class of algebraic subshifts.
Wolfgang Krieger*, University of Heidelberg, Germany
(877-58-53) -
10:30 a.m.
Hausdorff and box dimensions of self-affine sets.
Steven P. Lalley*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Dimitrios Gatzouras, Yale University
(877-28-55)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday November 7, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory and Four Manifolds, I
Room 146, Kaprielian Hall
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8:30 a.m.
Floer homology for manifolds with boundary.
David M. Austin*, University of British Columbia
Peter J. Braam, University of Oxford, England
(877-57-112) -
9:00 a.m.
Discussion -
9:00 a.m.
Floer homotopy theory.
Ralph L. Cohen*, Stanford University
(877-57-104) -
9:30 a.m.
Topology of the Gauge group.
Selman Akbulut*, Michigan State University
(877-57-115) -
10:30 a.m.
Using Floer's exact triangle to compute Donaldson invariants.
Ronald Fintushel, Michigan State University
Ronald J. Stern*, University of California, Irvine
(877-57-113)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday November 7, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Topics in Geometry and Physics, I
Room 101, Seeley G. Mudd Building
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8:30 a.m.
Noncompact symmetries in supergravity and string theories.
John H. Schwarz*, California Institute of Technology
(877-82-16) -
9:10 a.m.
Picard groups of supertori.
Jeff Rabin*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
(877-51-14) -
9:50 a.m.
Semi-infinite cohomology in two-dimensional quantum field theory.
Krzysztof Pilch*, University of Southern California
(877-81-21)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday November 7, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Hyperbolic PDE and Fluid Mechanics, I
Room 145, Kaprielian Hall
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8:30 a.m.
Nonexistence of breathers.
Bj\"orn Birnir*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(877-35-60) -
9:00 a.m.
Singularity formation for complex solutions of the 3D Euler equations.
Russel E. Caflisch*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-35-61) -
9:30 a.m.
Nonlinear waves in bubbly fluids.
John K. Hunter*, University of California, Davis
Kan Tan, University of California, Davis
(877-35-74) -
10:00 a.m.
A kinetic theory for bubbly flow.
Peter Smereka*, University of California, Los Angeles
Giovanni Russo, University Degli Studi Dell'Aquila, Italy
(877-35-73) -
10:30 a.m.
Entropic convergence and the linearized limit for the Boltzmann equation.
C. David Levermore*, University of Arizona
(877-35-72)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday November 7, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Session on Contributed Papers, I
Room 167, Kaprielian Hall
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8:30 a.m.
Chebyshev spectra: Are these base states of the universe?
Michael Dombroski*, Los Angeles City College
(877-12-58) -
8:50 a.m.
Primitive linear series on curves.
Marc Coppens, Geel, Belgium
Changho Keem*, Seoul National University, Korea
Garriet Martens, Institut der Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
(877-14-35) -
9:10 a.m.
Subclasses of univalent functions and the Littlewood-Paley conjecture.
M. Jahangiri*, California State University, Bakersfield
(877-30-52) -
9:30 a.m.
Exact subelliptic estimate for n-1 forms.
Lop-Hing Ho*, Wichita State University
(877-32-47) -
9:50 a.m.
Geometric properties, minimax inequalities, and fixed point theorems on convex spaces.
Sehie Park*, Seoul National University, Korea
J. S. Bae, Myong-Ji University, Korea
H. K. Kang, Myong-Ji University, Korea
(877-47-39) -
10:10 a.m.
Euclidean theorems from Laguerre geometry.
Jay P. Fillmore*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
Arthur Springer, San Diego State University
(877-51-56) -
10:30 a.m.
Vector bundles over curves, generalized KP systems and Prym varieties.
Yingchen Li*, University of California, Davis
Motohico Mulase, University of California, Davis
(877-14-51)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday November 7, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry, I
Room 163, Kaprielian Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Canonical decompositions of cusped hyperbolic manifolds.
Makoto Sakuma, Osaka University, Japan
Jeff Weeks*, Geometry Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
(877-57-31) -
9:30 a.m.
Some applications of the hyperbolic volume formula of Lobachevsky and Milnor.
Igor Rivin*, Princeton University
(877-57-49) -
10:00 a.m.
Surface bundle covers of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Alan Reid*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
(877-57-07) -
10:30 a.m.
The volume of a hyperbolic 3-manifold of Betti number 2.
Marc Culler*, University of Illinois, Chicago
Peter B. Shalen, University of Illinois, Chicago
(877-57-93)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday November 7, 1992, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address -
Saturday November 7, 1992, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
The life span of 3D compressible and incompressible flow.
Room 123, Seeley G. Mudd Building
Thomas C. Sideris*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(877-35-75) -
Saturday November 7, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Finite and Algebraic Groups, II
Room 144, Kaprielian Hall
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3:00 p.m.
Subgroups of exceptional algebraic groups.
Martin Liebeck, Imperial College, England
Gary M. Seitz*, University of Oregon
(877-20-41) -
3:30 p.m.
Overgroups of irreducible linear groups.
Benjamin J. Ford*, University of Oregon
(877-20-85) -
4:00 p.m.
Nagata's example.
Robert Steinberg*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-20-32) -
4:30 p.m.
Representations of quantum groups at a root of unity and of semisimple groups in prime characteristic: Independence of p.
Henning Haahr Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Jens C. Jantzen*, University of Oregon
Wolfgang Soergel, Max-Plank Institute for Mathematics, Germany
(877-20-84) -
5:00 p.m.
Double cosets and clefs.
Ross Lawther*, California Institute of Technology
(877-20-116) -
5:30 p.m.
On the irreducibility of symmetric squares.
Kay Magaard*, Wayne State University
Donna Testerman, Wesleyan University
(877-20-08) -
6:00 p.m.
Large rank subgroups of finite and algebraic simple groups.
M. Liebeck, Imperial College, England
J. Saxl, Cambridge University, England
D. Testerman*, Wesleyan University
(877-20-42)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 7, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, I
Room 140, Kaprielian Hall
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3:00 p.m.
Estimates for conformally invariant equations.
Sun-Yung Alice Chang, University of California, Los Angeles
Paul Yang*, University of Southern California
(877-53-105) -
3:30 p.m.
The nu-ainvariant of Seifert-fibred geometric 3-manifolds.
Mingqing Ouyang*, Ohio State University, Columbus
(877-58-28) -
4:00 p.m.
The convex core and the Laplacian for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Richard D. Canary*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(877-58-87) -
4:30 p.m.
Eta invariants for manifolds with boundary.
Xianzhe Dai*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-58-88) -
5:00 p.m.
Convergence of geometric terms in the Selberg trace formula on degenerating surfaces of finite volume.
Rolf Lundelius*, University of Kentucky
(877-35-107)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 7, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry, II
Room 163, Kaprielian Hall
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3:00 p.m.
Singular hyperbolic structures and hyperbolic Dehn surgery.
Craig Hodgson*, University of Melbourne, Australia
(877-53-91) -
3:30 p.m.
Could we live in a small universe?
Geoff Hayward*, University of British Columbia
(877-57-117) -
4:00 p.m.
Hyperbolic metrics with concave boundary.
J. Hass*, University of California, Davis
(877-57-119) -
4:30 p.m.
Co-contractible Kleinian groups.
Daryl Cooper*, University of California, Santa Barbara
Darren Long, University of California, Santa Barbara
(877-53-59)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 7, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Complex Geometry, I
Room 158, Kaprielian Hall
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3:00 p.m.
Inequality of Bogomolov-Gieseker's type on arithmetic surfaces.
Atsushi Moriwaki*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-14-25) -
3:30 p.m.
Gaussian maps on general algebraic curves.
Roberto Paoletti*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-14-24) -
4:00 p.m.
Linear series on threefolds I.
Robert Lazarsfeld*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-14-26) -
4:30 p.m.
Global generation of lineaar systems on 3-fold II.
Lawrence Ein*, University of Illinois, Chicago
(877-14-27) -
5:00 p.m.
Algebro-geometric construction of certain non-linear differential equations.
Larry Green*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-14-99)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 7, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory and Four Manifolds, II
Room 146, Kaprielian Hall
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3:00 p.m.
Discussion -
3:00 p.m.
Chern-Simons invariants for manifolds with toral boundary.
Paul Kirk*, Indiana University, Bloomington
(877-57-108) -
3:30 p.m.
Computing spectral flow via cup products.
Eric P. Klassen*, Florida State University
Paul A. Kirk, Indiana University, Bloomington
(877-57-109) -
4:30 p.m.
SU(3) Casson invariants for Brieskorn spheres.
Hans U. Boden*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(877-57-110) -
5:00 p.m.
Perturbation of equivariant moduli spaces.
Ronnie Lee*, Yale University
Ian Hambleton, McMaster University
(877-57-96) -
5:30 p.m.
Unitary nilpotent groups and unstable pseudo-isotopies.
Slawomir Kwasik, Tulane University
Reinhard Schultz*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(877-57-83)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 7, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Hyperbolic PDE and Fluid Mechanics, II
Room 145, Kaprielian Hall
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3:00 p.m.
A counterexample to local existence in weak spaces for nonlinear wave equations.
Hans Lindblad*, Princeton University
(877-35-71) -
3:30 p.m.
Upper bounds for the life span of solutions to systems of nonlinear wave equations in two and three space dimensions.
Mohammad A. Rammaha*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
(877-35-70) -
4:00 p.m.
Lower bounds of rates of decay for solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations.
Maria E. Schonbek*, University of California, Santa Cruz
(877-35-69) -
4:30 p.m.
Global existence and regularity for 3-D convection in porous media.
Edriss S. Titi*, University of California, Irvine
(877-35-68) -
5:00 p.m.
Normal forms for water waves.
Walter Craig*, Brown University
(877-35-62) -
5:30 p.m.
New dispersive shallow water equations applicable to ocean dynamics.
Darryl D. Holm*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
(877-35-121)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 7, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Session on Contributed Papers, II
Room 167, Kaprielian Hall
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3:00 p.m.
Diverging eigenvalues and collapsing manifolds.
Youyu Xu*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-53-48) -
3:20 p.m.
The Poincare conjecture holds in (the dunce hat) x I.
David S. Gillman*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-57-57) -
3:40 p.m.
On the Kneser-Haken finiteness theorem. A Sharpness result.
William R. Sherman*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-57-98) -
4:00 p.m.
The analytic proof of higher reciprocity laws.
Michael Berg*, Loyola Marymount University
(877-11-50) -
4:20 p.m.
Asynchronous embryonic cellgrowth and the theory of lists.
Dov Tamari*, New York, New York
(877-92-11) -
4:40 p.m.
Television broadcasting: The ultimate culprit in the decline of mathematics education?
G. Arthur Mihram*, Princeton, New Jersey
Danielle Mihram, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-98-95) -
5:00 p.m.
Degeneration of moduli of stable bundles over algebraic curves.
Huashi Xia*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-14-100) -
5:20 p.m.
On the spectral geometry of 2-spheres.
Shaoping Chang*, Stanford University
(877-58-38)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday November 7, 1992, 3:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Topics in Geometry and Physics, II
Room 101, Seeley G. Mudd Building