AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:29
1996 Spring Central Sectional Meeting
Iowa City, IA, March 22-23, 1996
Meeting #909
Associate secretaries: Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu
Friday March 22, 1996
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Friday March 22, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mostly Finite Geometries, I
Room 335, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Norman L. Johnson, University of Iowa
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8:00 a.m.
Remarks on linear systems with parallelism.
T. G. Ostrom*, Washington State University
(909-51-27) -
8:30 a.m.
Regulus-free spreads of $PG(3,q)$.
Gary L. Ebert*, University of Delaware
Ronald D. Baker, West Virginia State College
(909-51-219) -
9:00 a.m.
Ovals and hyperovals in Hall planes.
William E. Cherowitzo*, University of Colorado, Denver
(909-51-96) -
9:30 a.m.
A family of non-Buekenhout unitals in the Hall plane.
Jeremy M. Dover*, University of Delaware
(909-22-92) -
10:00 a.m.
Semifield planes with a transitive autotopism group.
Minerva Cordero-Vourtsanis*, Texas Tech University
Raul Francisco Figueroa, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
(909-51-153) -
10:30 a.m.
On projective planes of order $16$.
M. J. De Resmini*, University of Rome, Italy
(909-51-155)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, I
Room 256, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Daniel D. Anderson, University of Iowa
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8:00 a.m.
Factorization in subrings of power series rings.
David F. Anderson*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(909-13-115) -
8:30 a.m.
Half-factorial domains in quadratic fields.
James Barker Coykendall, IV*, Lehigh University
(909-13-47) -
9:00 a.m.
Generalized integral closures.
Franz Halter-Koch*, Karl Franzens Universit\"at, Austria
(909-13-16) -
9:30 a.m.
On generalizations of Krull domains.
Alfred Geroldinger*, Karl Franzens Universit\"at, Austria
(909-13-05) -
10:00 a.m.
Absolutely injective integral domains.
David E. Dobbs*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(909-13-100) -
10:30 a.m.
Extensions of commutative rings with linearly ordered intermediate rings.
Michael S. Gilbert*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(909-13-190)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Moments and Operators, I
Room 348, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Raul E. Curto, University of Iowa
Palle E. T. Jorgensen, University of Iowa
Paul S. Muhly, University of Iowa
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8:30 a.m.
Informal discussion -
9:00 a.m.
Groupoids and operators.
Arlan B. Ramsay*, University of Colorado, Boulder
(909-47-133) -
9:30 a.m.
Hyponormal operators with finite rank self-commutator and quadrature domains.
Daoxing Xia*, Vanderbilt University
(909-47-13) -
10:00 a.m.
Spectral theory for semi-bounded Jacobi matrices.
Steen Pedersen*, Wright State University, Dayton
(909-46-43) -
10:30 a.m.
Moment problems and positivity conditions for commuting multioperators.
Florian-Horia Vasilescu*, University of Lille I, France
(909-47-107)
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8:30 a.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Physical Knot Theory, I
Room 346, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Jonathan K. Simon, University of Iowa
Gregory Buck, Saint Anselm's College
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8:30 a.m.
Informal discussion -
9:00 a.m.
DNA base sequence and long-range three-dimensional structure.
Wilma Olson*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(909-57-256) -
9:30 a.m.
Buckling transitions in superhelical DNA: Dependence on the elastic constants and DNA size.
Gomathi Ramachandran, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Tamar Schlick*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
(909-35-189) -
10:00 a.m.
Conformational variability of kilobase-sized DNA molecules.
Nancy C. Stellwagen*, University of Iowa
Kurt Strutz, University of Iowa
(909-92-257) -
10:30 a.m.
Control of DNA structure and topology.
Nadrian C. Seeman*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
(909-57-64)
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8:30 a.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Cohomology, I
Room 343, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Walter I. Seaman, University of Iowa
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8:30 a.m.
A characterization of complex projective space.
Stephen P. Bean*, University of Iowa
(909-53-11) -
9:00 a.m.
Lengths of closed geodesics in certain $2$-step nilmanifolds.
Maura B. Mast*, University of Northern Iowa
Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech University
(909-53-217) -
9:30 a.m.
Quasi-regular representations and the geometry of nilmanifolds.
Ruth Gornet*, Texas Tech University
(909-53-191) -
10:00 a.m.
Asymptotics of heat kernels on Riemannian foliations.
Kenneth S. Richardson*, Texas Christian University
(909-58-66)
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8:30 a.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topology of 3-manifolds, I
Room 345, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
Ying-Qing Wu, University of Iowa
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8:30 a.m.
$SU(3)$ representations of some easy knot groups.
Hans Ulysses Boden*, McMaster University
(909-57-19) -
9:00 a.m.
Perturbed flat moduli spaces for composite knots.
Christopher M. Herald*, McMaster University
(909-58-61) -
9:30 a.m.
A splitting formula for spectral flow.
Mark Daniel*, Indiana University, Bloomington
(909-57-51) -
10:00 a.m.
Analytic deformations of the spectrum of Dirac operators on a $3$-manifold with boundary.
Paul A. Kirk*, Indiana University, Bloomington
Eric P. Klassen, Florida State University
(909-57-62) -
10:30 a.m.
The spectral flow of the odd signature operator and higher Massey products.
Paul A. Kirk, Indiana University, Bloomington
Eric P. Klassen*, Florida State University
(909-58-59)
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8:30 a.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, I
Room 351, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University
Richard C. Randell, University of Iowa
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9:00 a.m.
Quadratic algebras of hyperplane arrangements.
Sergey Yuzvinsky*, University of Oregon
(909-52-149) -
9:30 a.m.
Braid monodromy and fundamental groups of arrangements.
Daniel C. Cohen*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Alexandru I. Suciu, Northeastern University
(909-14-209) -
10:00 a.m.
Some four-dimensional convex polyhedra.
Vincent J. Matsko*, Quincy University
(909-52-42) -
10:30 a.m.
Intersection theory in $\Omega$*(log$D$).
Roberto Silvotti*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
(909-52-241)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Group Representations and Mathematical Physics, I
Room 301, Van Allen Hall
Organizers:
Tuong Ton-That, University of Iowa
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9:00 a.m.
A gravitational theory arising from $2D$ string symmetries.
V. G. J. Rodgers*, University of Iowa
R. P. Lano, University of Iowa
(909-22-235) -
9:30 a.m.
Orthosymplectic Lie superalgebras and Brauer algebras.
Georgia M. Benkart*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(909-17-202) -
10:00 a.m.
Invariant theory and Clebsch-Gordan-Racah coefficients of compact group.
W. H. Klink*, University of Iowa
(909-22-180) -
10:30 a.m.
On harmonic analysis in spaces of rectangular matrices.
Ray A. Kunze*, University of Georgia
(909-42-204)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, I
Room 337, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Lihe Wang, University of Iowa
Gerhard O. Strohmer, University of Iowa
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9:00 a.m.
Campanato-John-Nirenberg-Morrey estimates for solutions of parabolic equations and applications.
Hong-Ming Yin*, University of Notre Dame
(909-35-14) -
9:30 a.m.
Global entropy weak solutions of the initial-boundary-value problem for the nonlinear Euler-Poisson equations.
Gui-Qiang Chen*, Northwestern University
Dehua Wang, University of Chicago
(909-35-136) -
10:00 a.m.
Stable solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau system with an applied magnetic field.
Patricia E. Bauman*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Daniel Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Qi Tang, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
(909-35-160) -
10:30 a.m.
Isoperimetric and Sobolev inequalities on Carnot-Caratheodory spaces and applications.
Nicola Garofalo*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Duy-Minh Nhieu, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(909-35-262)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Current Issues in Nonlinear Conservation Laws, I
Room 253, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Suncica Canic, Iowa State University
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9:30 a.m.
Riemann solutions for conservation laws.
James G. Glimm*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
(909-76-98) -
10:00 a.m.
Riemann problem solutions of codimensions $0$ and $1$.
Stephen Schecter*, North Carolina State University
(909-35-108) -
10:30 a.m.
Structural stability of Riemann solutions with respect to the change in viscosity.
Suncica Canic*, Iowa State University
(909-76-196)
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9:30 a.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Holomorphic automorphisms of $\Bbb C^n$.
Auditorium, Pappajohn Business Administration Building
Franc Forstneric*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(909-32-01) -
Friday March 22, 1996, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Geometry and algebra: A unified voice.
Auditorium, Pappajohn Business Administration Building
Ruth J. Lawrence*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(909-57-04) -
Friday March 22, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Mostly Finite Geometries, II
Room 335, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Norman L. Johnson, University of Iowa
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2:30 p.m.
Informal discussion -
3:00 p.m.
A new family of extended generalized quadrangles.
Anna Kasikova, Kansas State University
Ernest E. Shult*, Kansas State University
(909-51-113) -
3:30 p.m.
On the construction of Coulter and Matthews.
Michael J. Kallaher*, Washington State University
(909-51-121) -
4:00 p.m.
Some generalized quadrangles in characteristic $2$.
Geoffrey Mason*, University of California, Santa Cruz
(909-20-157) -
4:30 p.m.
Recent results concerning Singer groups.
Chat Yin Ho*, University of Florida
(909-51-243) -
5:00 p.m.
Coset representation of homogenous geometrical structures.
Thomas Q. Sibley*, Saint John's University
(909-51-81) -
5:30 p.m.
On the classification of $4$-dimensional projective planes.
D. Betten*, University of Kiel, Germany
(909-51-176) -
6:00 p.m.
Four dimensional projective planes with a solvable collineation group.
Hauke Klein*, University of Kiel, Germany
(909-51-177)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Group Representations and Mathematical Physics, II
Room 301, Van Allen Hall
Organizers:
Tuong Ton-That, University of Iowa
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2:30 p.m.
Representations of $p$-adic groups and continuum limits in physically motivated eigenvalue problems.
Yannick Meurice*, University of Iowa
(909-22-150) -
3:00 p.m.
Geometric approach to representations of the Virasoro algebra.
Alexandre A. Kirillov*, University of Pennsylvania
(909-22-17) -
3:30 p.m.
Coherent state representations and coherent tensors.
David J. Rowe*, University of Toronto
(909-20-242) -
4:00 p.m.
A $BBG$ type resolution of produced modules.
Floyd L. Williams*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(909-22-24) -
4:30 p.m.
Scattering equivalence and representations of the Poincar\'e group.
Wayne N. Polyzou*, University of Iowa
(909-81-162) -
5:00 p.m.
Unitary representations of pseudounitary groups.
Raj Wilson*, University of Texas, San Antonio
(909-22-234) -
5:30 p.m.
Spectrum generating operators.
Thomas Patrick Branson*, University of Iowa
(909-22-245) -
6:00 p.m.
Hypergeometric functions and highest weight representations.
Mark G. Davidson*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
(909-22-182)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, II
Room 256, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Daniel D. Anderson, University of Iowa
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2:30 p.m.
On root closure in noetherian domains.
Moshe Roitman*, University of Haifa, Israel
(909-13-168) -
3:00 p.m.
Radicals and subextensions.
Ahmed Ayache, Poste de l'Ancienne Universite, Republic of Yemen
Paul-Jean Cahen*, Faculty de Science de St Jerome, France
(909-13-164) -
3:30 p.m.
On cross numbers of minimal zero sequences.
Scott Thomas Chapman*, Trinity University
Alfred Geroldinger, Karl Franzens Universit\"at, Austria
(909-13-130) -
4:00 p.m.
$UMT$-domains and domains with Pr\"ufer integral closure.
Marco Fontana, Terza University Degli Study of Rome, Italy
Stefania Gabelli, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Evan G. Houston*, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
(909-13-156) -
4:30 p.m.
A basis for the ring of polynomials integer-valued on prime numbers.
William W. Smith*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jean-Luc Chabert, University de Picardie, France
Scott Thomas Chapman, Trinity University
(909-13-20) -
5:00 p.m.
One-dimensional bounded factorization domains.
Jeanam Park*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(909-13-163) -
5:30 p.m.
The $u$, $u^{-1}$ Lemma revisited.
Daniel D. Anderson, University of Iowa
Dong Je Kwak*, Kyungpook University, Korea
(909-13-45) -
6:00 p.m.
$t$-Invertibility IV.
Daniel D. Anderson, University of Iowa
M. Zafrullah*, MTA Teleport, Silver Spring, Maryland
(909-13-144)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 2:45 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Derivatives and Financial Mathematics, I
Room 337, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
John F. Price, Maharishi International University
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2:45 p.m.
Option pricing theory: From partial differential equations to fractals.
John F. Price*, Maharishi International University
(909-90-71) -
3:30 p.m.
Insurance derivatives.
Thomas V. O'Brien*, Bowling Green State University
(909-90-70) -
4:00 p.m.
Lattice methods for exotic options.
Robert Benhenni*, First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Anlong Li, First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
(909-90-75) -
4:30 p.m.
Using stock price as numeraire in lattice-based option pricing models.
Anlong Li*, First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
(909-90-73) -
5:00 p.m.
Pricing perpetual American options on two stocks.
Hans U. Gerber, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Elias S. Shiu*, University of Iowa
(909-90-72) -
5:30 p.m.
Emerging opportunities to combine studies in mathematics and finance.
Anand M. Vijh*, University of Iowa
(909-98-36)
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2:45 p.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Moments and Operators, II
Room 348, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Raul E. Curto, University of Iowa
Palle E. T. Jorgensen, University of Iowa
Paul S. Muhly, University of Iowa
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3:00 p.m.
On the atoms of free convolutions.
Hari Bercovici*, Indiana University, Bloomington
Dan Voiculescu, University of California, Berkeley
(909-46-265) -
3:30 p.m.
Subnormality and composition operators on Hardy spaces.
Carl C. Cowen*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(909-47-31) -
4:00 p.m.
Moment problems in non-commutative settings.
Mischa Cotlar, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela
Cora S. Sadosky*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
(909-47-105) -
4:30 p.m.
A $C*$-algebra generated by a finite set of projections.
N. L. Vasilevski*, CINVESTAV del IPN, Mexico
(909-46-170) -
5:00 p.m.
Boundary interpolation and Hamburger moment problem: The state space method for parametrizing the set of all solutions.
Joseph A. Ball*, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University
(909-47-95) -
5:30 p.m.
Orthogonal polynomials in several variables and operator theory.
Yuan Xu*, University of Oregon
(909-47-172) -
6:00 p.m.
A model for joint seminormality and the Cowen-Douglas class.
Norberto Salinas*, University of Kansas
(909-47-264)
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3:00 p.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, II
Room 351, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University
Richard C. Randell, University of Iowa
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3:00 p.m.
On the topology of strata in the standard discriminant.
Boris Z. Shapiro*, Stockholm University, Sweden
Volkmar Welker, Institute for Experimental Mathematics, University at GH-Essen, Germany
(909-57-268) -
3:30 p.m.
On twisted de Rham cohomology.
Alan C. Adolphson*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Steven Sperber, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
(909-14-210) -
4:00 p.m.
Signed-graphic arrangements of hyperplanes.
Guy David Bailey*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
(909-52-18) -
4:30 p.m.
Configuration spaces and subspace arrangements.
Sheila Sundaram*, University of Miami
(909-05-230) -
5:00 p.m.
Cohomology and classification of $OS$ algebras.
Michael J. Falk*, Northern Arizona University
(909-52-233) -
5:30 p.m.
A normal form algorithm for modules over two lines in the plane.
Reinhard Laubenbacher*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
(909-13-46)
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3:00 p.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Physical Knot Theory, II
Room 346, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Jonathan K. Simon, University of Iowa
Gregory Buck, Saint Anselm's College
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3:00 p.m.
Informal discussion -
3:30 p.m.
DNA knots.
Andrzej Stasiak*, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Didier Michoud, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
(909-57-55) -
4:00 p.m.
Equilibrium topological links of closed polymer chains.
Alexander Vologodskii*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
(909-57-39) -
4:30 p.m.
Entanglement complexity of lattice ribbons.
Stuart G. Whittington*, University of Toronto
(909-57-12) -
5:00 p.m.
Random knotting in uniform embeddings of graphs in $Z^3$.
Christine E. Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
(909-57-84) -
5:30 p.m.
A strand passage metric for topoisomerase action.
Isabel K. Dazey*, Florida State University
De Witt L. Sumners, Florida State University
(909-57-206) -
6:00 p.m.
Informal discussion
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3:00 p.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Cohomology, II
Room 343, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Walter I. Seaman, University of Iowa
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3:00 p.m.
The Fary-Milnor theorem for Hadamard $3$-manifolds.
Stephanie B. Alexander*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Richard L. Bishop, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(909-53-237) -
3:30 p.m.
Can one hear the braid group?
Garth Baker*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(909-51-69) -
4:00 p.m.
Racetracks and extremal problems for curves of bounded curvature in metric spaces.
Stephanie B. Alexander, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Richard L. Bishop*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(909-51-244) -
4:30 p.m.
Distributed vortices and the Seiberg-Witten equations.
Steven B. Bradlow*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Oscar Garcia-Prada, University Autonoma de Cantoblanco, Spain
(909-51-179) -
5:00 p.m.
Kernels of monodromy representations.
James A. Carlson*, University of Utah
Domingo Toledo, University of Utah
(909-14-223)
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3:00 p.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topology of 3-manifolds, II
Room 345, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
Ying-Qing Wu, University of Iowa
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3:00 p.m.
Comparing Heegaard splittings---the bounded case.
Rubinstein, Melbourne University, Australia
Martin G. Scharlemann*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(909-57-94) -
3:30 p.m.
Quantum obstructions to embedding a manifold in $S^3$.
Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
Joanna M. Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
(909-57-56) -
4:00 p.m.
$SL(2,C)$ topological quantum field theory with corners.
Razvan Gelca*, University of Iowa
(909-57-30) -
4:30 p.m.
Graph manifolds and taut foliations.
Mark W. Brittenham*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Ramin Naimi, University of California, Davis
Rachel Dedwydd Roberts, Washington University
(909-57-52) -
5:00 p.m.
Intersecting surfaces.
Rachel Dedwydd Roberts*, Washington University
(909-54-111) -
5:30 p.m.
Detecting the unknot in polynomial time.
Charles I. Delman*, Eastern Illinois University
Keith D. Wolcott, Eastern Illinois University
(909-57-99)
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3:00 p.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 341, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Lihe Wang, University of Iowa
Gerhard O. Strohmer, University of Iowa
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3:00 p.m.
On steady two dimensional flows with concentrated vortices.
Alan R. Elcrat*, Wichita State University
(909-35-122) -
3:30 p.m.
Can damping inhibit blowup?
Howard A. Levine*, Iowa State University
James B. Serrin, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
(909-35-35) -
4:00 p.m.
A new proof of boundary gradient estimates for quasilinear elliptic equations.
Gary M. Lieberman*, Iowa State University
(909-35-259) -
4:30 p.m.
On a connection between linearized stability and the bifurcation function.
Michael W. Smiley*, Iowa State University
(909-35-181) -
5:00 p.m.
Functionals with free interfaces and their flows.
Qing Han*, University of Notre Dame
(909-35-159)
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3:00 p.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Current Issues in Nonlinear Conservation Laws, II
Room 253, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Suncica Canic, Iowa State University
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3:00 p.m.
Global solutions for the Navier-Stokes equations of multidimensional, compressible, heat-conducting flow with discontinuous initial data.
David C. Hoff*, Indiana University, Bloomington
(909-35-38) -
3:30 p.m.
On a nonlocal dispersive equation modeling suspensions.
Kevin R. Zumbrun*, Indiana University, Bloomington
(909-35-134) -
4:00 p.m.
Asymptotic decay of periodic solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws.
Gui-Qiang Chen*, Northwestern University
Hermano Frid, Northwestern University and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janiero, Brazil
(909-35-135) -
4:30 p.m.
Weak detonation solutions of a combustion model.
Tong Li*, University of Iowa
(909-76-187)
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3:00 p.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Theta Correspondences and Automorphic Forms, I
Room 347, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
David C. Manderscheid, University of Iowa
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3:00 p.m.
The theta correspondence for $GSp(2)$ and $GO(4)$.
Brooks Keiluweit Roberts*, University of Toronto
(909-11-90) -
3:30 p.m.
Theta liftings and special values of Hecke $L$-functions.
Tonghai Yang*, Institute for Advanced Study
(909-11-139) -
4:00 p.m.
Twisted symmetric-square $L$-functions and the nonexistence of Siegel zeroes on $GL(3)$.
William D. Banks*, McGill University
(909-11-125) -
4:30 p.m.
Shimura integrals for metaplectic covers of $GSp(4)$.
Solomon Friedberg*, University of California, Santa Cruz
(909-11-175) -
5:00 p.m.
Representations of non-linear groups.
Jeffrey Adams*, University of Maryland, College Park
(909-22-198) -
5:30 p.m.
Theta correspondence for unitary groups over $R$.
Annegret Paul*, University of Maryland, College Park
(909-22-48)
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3:00 p.m.
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Friday March 22, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Analytic Methods in Several Complex Variables, I
Room 257, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Franc Forstneric, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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3:00 p.m.
A Polya theorem in several complex variables.
John P. D'Angelo*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(909-32-08) -
3:30 p.m.
Infinitesimal $CR$ automorphisms and uniqueness results.
M. Salah Baouendi, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
P. Ebenfelt*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
Linda Preiss Rothschild, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
(909-32-132) -
4:00 p.m.
Dynamics of birational maps of $\Bbb P^2$.
Jeffrey Diller*, Cornell University
(909-32-07) -
4:30 p.m.
Solutions of Cauchy Riemann equations on a pseudoconvex domain with non smooth boundary.
Seongan Yie*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(909-32-06) -
5:00 p.m.
The tangential Cauchy-Riemann operator on the boundary of convex domains in $\Bbb C^n$.
Khalid Filali-Adib*, San Diego, California
(909-32-09) -
5:30 p.m.
Proper holomorphic mappings between domains in complex n-space.
Xiaojun Huang*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
(909-32-34)
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3:00 p.m.
Saturday March 23, 1996
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Moments and Operators, III
Room 348, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Raul E. Curto, University of Iowa
Palle E. T. Jorgensen, University of Iowa
Paul S. Muhly, University of Iowa
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8:00 a.m.
Moment problems and prediction.
I. C. Gohberg, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Henry J. Landau*, AT&T Research, Murray Hill, New Jersey
(909-42-131) -
8:30 a.m.
Quadrature domains and operator theory.
Liming Yang, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
John E. McCarthy*, Washington University
(909-47-112) -
9:00 a.m.
Positive-definite functions on free semigroups.
Gelu Fanica Popescu*, University of Texas, San Antonio
(909-47-82) -
9:30 a.m.
The truncated complex moment problem.
Lawrence A. Fialkow*, State University of New York, College at New Paltz
(909-47-26) -
10:00 a.m.
One-term solutions of certain moment problems.
Jingbo Xia*, State University of New York, Buffalo
(909-47-102) -
10:30 a.m.
The complex moment problem and subnormality.
F. H. Szafraniec*, Jagiellonian University, Poland
(909-47-114)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mostly Finite Geometries, III
Room 335, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Norman L. Johnson, University of Iowa
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8:00 a.m.
$p$-Ranks of finite geometric structures.
G. Eric Moorhouse*, University of Wyoming
(909-51-232) -
8:30 a.m.
Building a cyclic $q$-clan.
Stanley E. Payne*, University of Colorado, Denver
Tim Penttila, University of Western Australia, Australia
Gordon F. Royle, University of Western Australia, Australia
(909-51-80) -
9:00 a.m.
On completing a union of $3$-spaces to a plane.
Julia Nowlin Brown*, York University
(909-51-251) -
9:30 a.m.
Virtual derivation.
Robert Allen Liebler*, Colorado State University
(909-51-238) -
10:00 a.m.
Weighted circles in $EG(2,q)$.
F. A. Sherk*, University of Toronto
(909-51-249) -
10:30 a.m.
Parallelisms of $PG(3,3)$.
Alan R. Prince*, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
(909-51-226)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Physical Knot Theory, III
Room 346, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Jonathan K. Simon, University of Iowa
Gregory Buck, Saint Anselm's College
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8:00 a.m.
Knot energies by ropes.
Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
Yuanan Diao, Kennesaw State College
Esaias J. Janse van Rensburg, York University
(909-57-65) -
8:30 a.m.
In search of a good polygonal knot energy function.
Yuanan Diao*, Kennesaw State College
Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University
Esaias J. Janse van Rensburg, York University
(909-57-87) -
9:00 a.m.
Energies for polygonal knots.
Yuanan Diao, Kennesaw State College
Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University
Esaias J. Janse van Rensburg*, York University
(909-65-101) -
9:30 a.m.
Equilateral polygonal knots.
Kenneth C. Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(909-57-247) -
10:00 a.m.
M\"obius energy of Hopf links and the Morse theory of electrons on $S^2$.
Robert Barnard Kusner*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
John M. Sullivan, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
James Lawrence, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Nick Schmitt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(909-57-255) -
10:30 a.m.
Discretizations of M\"obius knot energies.
John M. Sullivan*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
(909-57-254)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, III
Room 256, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Daniel D. Anderson, University of Iowa
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8:00 a.m.
The residue fields of a zero-dimensional ring.
William J. Heinzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette
David C. Lantz*, Colgate University
Roger A. Wiegand, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
(909-13-252) -
8:30 a.m.
Minimal generating sets for ideals in local domains.
Kurt D. Herzinger*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
(909-13-116) -
9:00 a.m.
The $S_2$-fication of a commutative ring.
Joseph P. Brennan*, North Dakota State University
(909-13-118) -
9:30 a.m.
Unique factorization of bonds and other cashflows.
Douglas L. Costa*, University of Virginia
(909-13-165) -
10:00 a.m.
Characterizing when $R(X)$ is completely integrally closed.
Thomas G. Lucas*, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
(909-13-154) -
10:30 a.m.
Properties of the projective line over the integers.
Aihua Li, Loyola University
Sylvia Margaret Wiegand*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
(909-13-216)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates
Room 259, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Carl C. Cowen, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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8:00 a.m.
Informal discussion -
8:30 a.m.
Elasticity of factorizations of power series.
Janice M. Winner*, University of Kentucky
(909-13-88) -
9:00 a.m.
Improved bounds for the reliability of d-dimensional consecutive-k-out-of-n systems.
Laura Kay Potter*, University of Northern Iowa
(909-60-15) -
9:30 a.m.
Redundant matrices for linear transformations.
Carl C. Cowen, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Daniel E. Crosby*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(909-15-148) -
10:00 a.m.
A graph-dependent condition for a pattern of matrices allowing a line sum constant matrix.
Michael E. Holcomb*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
David P. Stanford, College of William & Mary
(909-15-229) -
10:30 a.m.
Control of redundant robots.
Jason A. Aubrey*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Carl C. Cowen, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Lorena I. Romero, Wellesley College
(909-15-147)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Derivatives and Financial Mathematics, II
Room 337, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
John F. Price, Maharishi International University
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8:30 a.m.
On an interior-point column-generation algorithm for stochastic financial optimization.
Yinyu Ye*, University of Iowa
(909-90-74) -
9:00 a.m.
Pricing options when asset return follows a ``colored'' Brownian process.
Steven H. Zhu*, First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
(909-90-76) -
9:30 a.m.
Path structure of the bond price process in the Heath, Jarrow, and Morton model.
Valery Alexandrovich Kholodnyi, Integrated Energy Services, Fairfield, Iowa
Milan N. Lukic*, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
(909-60-211) -
10:00 a.m.
Testing the Heath, Jarrow and Morton model for interest rates.
Mukarram Attari*, University of Iowa
(909-90-78) -
10:30 a.m.
Problem session
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Group Representations and Mathematical Physics, III
Room 301, Van Allen Hall
Organizers:
Tuong Ton-That, University of Iowa
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8:30 a.m.
Computing cohomology using covariant differential operators.
Ronald J. Stanke*, Baylor University
(909-22-158) -
9:00 a.m.
Quantization of collective dynamics.
George Rosensteel*, Tulane University
(909-22-193) -
9:30 a.m.
Algebras of growth one.
Efim Zelmanov*, Yale University
(909-22-270) -
10:00 a.m.
$p$-Adic Bessel functions and harmonic analysis.
Paul J. Sally, Jr.*, University of Chicago
(909-22-240) -
10:30 a.m.
Current densities in relativistic few-body systems.
F. Coester*, Argonne National Laboratories, Argonne, Illinois
(909-81-146)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Cohomology, III
Room 343, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Walter I. Seaman, University of Iowa
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8:30 a.m.
On the incompleteness of Berger's list of holonomy representations.
Quoshin Chi*, Washington University
Sergey Merkulov, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Lorenz J. Schwachhoefer, University of Leipzig, Germany
(909-53-79) -
9:00 a.m.
On symmetries of constant mean curvature surfaces.
Josef F. Dorfmeister*, University of Kansas
Guido Haak, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
(909-53-205) -
9:30 a.m.
Seiberg-Witten invariants of complex surfaces with the reversed orientation.
Tedi C. Draghici*, Michigan State University
(909-57-68) -
10:00 a.m.
Dupin hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures.
Gary R. Jensen*, Washington University
Thomas E. Cecil, College of the Holy Cross
(909-53-110)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topology of 3-manifolds, III
Room 345, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
Ying-Qing Wu, University of Iowa
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8:30 a.m.
Dehn surgery.
C. M. Gordon*, University of Texas, Austin
(909-57-258) -
9:00 a.m.
On mutatative $3$-manifolds.
Yongwu Rong*, George Washington University
(909-57-60) -
9:30 a.m.
The Kauffman bracket skein module and $SL_2(F)$ representations of $\pi(M)$.
Doug Bullock*, Boise State University
(909-57-54) -
10:00 a.m.
Elementary moves on Heegaard diagrams.
Feng Luo*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(909-57-53) -
10:30 a.m.
On graph manifolds.
Hyam Rubinstein, Melbourne University, Australia
Shicheng Wang*, Beijing University, People's Republic of China
Fengchun Yu, Beijing University, People's Republic of China
(909-57-63)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Theta Correspondences and Automorphic Forms, II
Room 347, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
David C. Manderscheid, University of Iowa
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8:30 a.m.
Exceptional $\Theta$-correspondences.
Kay Magaard*, Wayne State University
Gordan Savin, University of Utah
(909-22-50) -
9:00 a.m.
Minimal representations, shared orbits and dual pair correspondences.
Jing-Song Huang*, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
(909-22-93) -
9:30 a.m.
$K$-types of minimal representations ($p$-adic case).
Gordan Savin*, University of Utah
(909-22-49) -
10:00 a.m.
Explicit models for small unitary representations.
Siddhartha Sahi*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(909-22-174) -
10:30 a.m.
Coperiods.
S. Rallis*, Ohio State University, Columbus
(909-11-227)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Analytic Methods in Several Complex Variables, II
Room 257, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Franc Forstneric, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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8:30 a.m.
An estimate on pseudoconvex boundaries.
Emil J. Straube*, Texas A & M University, College Station
(909-32-184) -
9:00 a.m.
The Cauchy-Riemann equation on singular spaces.
John Erik Fornaess, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Estela A. Gavosto*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(909-32-220) -
9:30 a.m.
Divergence of the normalization for real Lagrangian surfaces near complex tangents.
Xianghong Gong*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
(909-32-21) -
10:00 a.m.
Proper holomorphic mappings.
Victoria Pambuccian*, Indiana University, Bloomington
(909-32-199) -
10:30 a.m.
The Ahlfors map and Szeg\H o kernel for an annulus.
Thomas J. Tegtmeyer, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Anthony D. Thomas*, University of Wisconsin, Platteville
(909-30-22)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, III
Room 351, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University
Richard C. Randell, University of Iowa
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9:00 a.m.
Ordered configurations of roots of real polynomials.
Volkmar Welker*, Institute for Experimental Mathematics, Germany
(909-57-127) -
9:30 a.m.
Homotopy theory of arrangements.
Richard C. Randell*, University of Iowa
(909-52-214) -
10:00 a.m.
Intersection lattices of discriminantal arrangements.
Margaret M. Bayer*, University of Kansas
(909-52-178) -
10:30 a.m.
Complex hyperplane arrangements.
Helene Barcelo*, Arizona State University
E. C. Ihrig, Arizona State University
(909-52-195)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, III
Room 341, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Lihe Wang, University of Iowa
Gerhard O. Strohmer, University of Iowa
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9:00 a.m.
Weak continuity of multilinear operators and homogenization.
Sijue Wu*, Northwestern University
(909-35-263) -
9:30 a.m.
The Plateau Problem for boundary curves with connectors.
Henry C. Wente*, University of Toledo
(909-49-250) -
10:00 a.m.
Topological decomposition of Sobolev functions.
Ed W. Stredulinsky*, University of Wisconsin, Richland Center
Peter Michael Laurence, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
(909-35-261) -
10:30 a.m.
Multi-dimensional diffusion waves for the Navier-Stokes equations of compressible flow.
David C. Hoff*, Indiana University, Bloomington
Kevin R. Zumbrun, Indiana University, Bloomington
(909-35-37)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Current Issues in Nonlinear Conservation Laws, III
Room 253, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Suncica Canic, Iowa State University
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9:30 a.m.
Mass conserving front tracking for miscible two phase flow.
Kou Kang Chang, Indiana University, Bloomington
W. Brent Lindquist*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
(909-76-40) -
10:00 a.m.
Viscous shock profiles and post-shock oscillations.
Smadar Karni*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
(909-76-137) -
10:30 a.m.
A class of positive difference schemes for symmetrizable systems of conservation laws in any number of space dimensions.
Peter D. Lax*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Xu-Dong Liu, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
(909-76-97)
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9:30 a.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Unique continuation for solutions to partial differential equations.
Auditorium, Pappajohn Business Administration Building
Daniel I. Tataru*, Northwestern University
(909-35-03) -
Saturday March 23, 1996, 1:30 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
Rotation sets in dynamical systems.
Auditorium, Pappajohn Business Administration Building
Michal Misiurewicz*, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
(909-54-02) -
Saturday March 23, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mostly Finite Geometries, IV
Room 335, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Norman L. Johnson, University of Iowa
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2:30 p.m.
Informal discussion -
3:00 p.m.
Quasiregular collineation groups and related Schur rings.
Yutaka Hiramine*, University of Iowa
(909-51-91) -
3:30 p.m.
Partial geometries and Steiner designs.
Vladimir D. Tonchev*, Michigan Technological University
(909-51-119) -
4:00 p.m.
Blueprints for classical quadrangles and hexagons.
Michael Andrew Abramson*, Bowling Green State University
(909-51-225) -
4:30 p.m.
The Terwilliger algebra of a generalized quadrangle.
Sylvia A. Hobart*, University of Wyoming
(909-05-231) -
5:00 p.m.
Classification results for ovoids in $O_8^{+}(q)$.
Athula Gunawardena*, Wayne State College
(909-05-32) -
5:30 p.m.
Morphisms of buildings and related geometries.
Peter M. Johnson*, University of London, United Kingdom
(909-51-248) -
6:00 p.m.
Informal discussion
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Group Representations and Mathematical Physics, IV
Room 301, Van Allen Hall
Organizers:
Tuong Ton-That, University of Iowa
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2:30 p.m.
Geometry and analysis on nonconvex tubes.
Simon G. Gindikin*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(909-22-183) -
3:00 p.m.
Invariant theory and the oscillator representation.
Kenneth I. Gross*, University of Vermont
(909-22-188) -
3:30 p.m.
Nonlinear dynamical systems which are not integrable.
Robert Gilmore*, Drexel University
(909-22-222) -
4:00 p.m.
Group representation theory, number theory and wavelet inverse theory.
Brian DeFacio*, University of Missouri, Columbia
Jon A. Sjogren, Bolling AFB, District of Columbia
(909-20-83) -
4:30 p.m.
Laws of trigonometry in symmetric spaces.
Helmer Aslaksen*, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Hsueh-Ling Huynh, AT&T Research, Murray Hill, New Jersey
(909-53-166) -
5:00 p.m.
Generalised Casimir operators.
Helmer Aslaksen, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Eng-Chye Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Chen-Bo Zhu*, National University of Singapore, Singapore
(909-17-142) -
5:30 p.m.
A new set of operator-valued Bessel functions.
Hongming Ding*, Saint Louis University
(909-22-151) -
6:00 p.m.
On some reciprocity theorems for infinite-dimensional dual pairs of groups.
Tuong Ton-That*, University of Iowa
(909-22-208)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, IV
Room 256, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Daniel D. Anderson, University of Iowa
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2:30 p.m.
Factorization in rings and modules.
Daniel D. Anderson, University of Iowa
Silvia Valdes-Leon*, University of Southern Maine
(909-13-145) -
3:00 p.m.
Cohomological varieties, lifting, and Tor on a complete intersection.
David Allen Jorgensen*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
(909-13-117) -
3:30 p.m.
Ideals of integer-valued polynomial rings.
Alan Loper*, Ohio State University, Newark
(909-13-123) -
4:00 p.m.
A strictly algebraic approach to the Jacobian Conjecture.
Eloise Ann Hamann*, San Jose State University
(909-13-28) -
4:30 p.m.
Gaussian polynomials and content ideals.
William J. Heinzer*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Craig L. Huneke, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(909-13-143) -
5:00 p.m.
Gaussian polynomials and content invertibility.
Sarah Glaz*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
(909-13-23) -
5:30 p.m.
The depth of a tensor product of modules.
Craig L. Huneke, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Roger A. Wiegand*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
(909-13-140) -
6:00 p.m.
An intersection condition for prime ideals.
Robert Gilmer*, Florida State University
(909-13-44)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Moments and Operators, IV
Room 348, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Raul E. Curto, University of Iowa
Palle E. T. Jorgensen, University of Iowa
Paul S. Muhly, University of Iowa
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3:00 p.m.
A general maximum entropy principle in time varying interpolation theory.
Ciprian Ilie Foias*, Indiana University, Bloomington
Arthur E. Frazho, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(909-47-266) -
3:30 p.m.
On the multiplication of free $n$-tuples of non-commutative random variables.
Alexandru M. Nica*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Roland Speicher, University of Heidelberg, Germany
(909-47-212) -
4:00 p.m.
Trigonometric moment problems for arbitrary finite subsets of $\bold Z^n$.
Jean-Pierre Gabardo*, McMaster University
(909-42-197) -
4:30 p.m.
The operator of Foias and Williams: Some algebraic properties.
Srdjan Petrovic*, Indiana University, Bloomington
(909-47-218) -
5:00 p.m.
Estimates for Banach space norms in the von Neumann algebras in the Berezin quantization of Riemann surfaces.
Florin Radulescu*, University of Iowa
(909-47-246) -
5:30 p.m.
Multidimensional spectral theory of non-commuting operators.
Vladimir V. Kisil*, University Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
(909-47-85) -
6:00 p.m.
Fourier-Stieltjes algebras of locally compact groupoids.
Martin E. Walter*, University of Colorado, Boulder
(909-43-103)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, IV
Room 351, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Michael J. Falk, Northern Arizona University
Richard C. Randell, University of Iowa
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3:00 p.m.
Topology of the complements and geometry of finite sets of points.
Anatoly S. Libgober*, University of Illinois, Chicago
(909-14-186) -
3:30 p.m.
Infinite arrangements and cohomology of $SL_n(Z)$.
Yining Xia*, Northern Illinois University
(909-55-41) -
4:00 p.m.
Perversity, duality, and arrangements in $\Bbb C^3$.
David B. Massey*, Northeastern University
(909-32-171) -
4:30 p.m.
Braid monodromy of arrangements and representations of braid groups.
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Alexandru I. Suciu*, Northeastern University
(909-20-239) -
5:00 p.m.
Informal discussion
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Physical Knot Theory, IV
Room 346, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Jonathan K. Simon, University of Iowa
Gregory Buck, Saint Anselm's College
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3:00 p.m.
Energy minimizing knots in $S^3$ and $H^3$.
Jun O'Hara*, Tokyo Metropolitan University,
(909-57-253) -
3:30 p.m.
On the energy and length of a knot.
Gregory Buck*, Saint Anselm's College
(909-57-224) -
4:00 p.m.
Magnetic flux tubes, elastic rods and uniformly charged loops.
Atta Y.K Chui*, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
H. K. Moffatt, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
(909-57-267) -
4:30 p.m.
Cutting the knot: Reconnection in superfluids, dislocations, and flood plains.
Klaus Schwarz*, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
(909-57-221) -
5:00 p.m.
Knotted and linked periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations.
Robert W. Ghrist*, Cornell University
(909-57-228) -
5:30 p.m.
Results on harmonic knots.
Aaron Keith Trautwein*, Carthage College
(909-57-152) -
6:00 p.m.
The thickness of knots.
Rick Litherland*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Oguz C. Durumeric, University of Iowa
Jonathan K. Simon, University of Iowa
(909-57-269)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Cohomology, IV
Room 343, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Walter I. Seaman, University of Iowa
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3:00 p.m.
Dirac operators on Clifford bundles and jointly seminormal spectra.
Mircea Martin*, University of Kansas
(909-58-213) -
3:30 p.m.
Minimal orbits of metrics and applications.
Yoshiaki Maeda, Keio University, Japan
Steven Rosenberg, Boston University
Philippe Tondeur*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(909-58-67) -
4:00 p.m.
On Seiberg-Witten solutions.
Shuguang Wang*, University of Missouri, Columbia
(909-57-215) -
4:30 p.m.
On the dressing action of loop groups on harmonic maps.
Hongyou Wu*, Northern Illinois University
(909-53-104) -
5:00 p.m.
Geodesic length functions and cohomology of mapping class groups.
Yining Xia*, Northern Illinois University
(909-55-29)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Topology of 3-manifolds, IV
Room 345, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
Ying-Qing Wu, University of Iowa
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3:00 p.m.
Incompressible surfaces in knot exteriors.
Marc E. Culler, University of Illinois, Chicago
Peter B. Shalen*, University of Illinois, Chicago
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3:30 p.m.
The Burau representations modulo $2$.
Daryl Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara
David Darren Long*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(909-57-57) -
4:00 p.m.
Minimal cusp lengths in hyperbolic $3$-manifolds.
Colin C. Adams*, Williams College
(909-57-25) -
4:30 p.m.
Almost normal surfaces in $3$-manifolds.
Michelle M. Stocking*, University of California, Davis
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5:00 p.m.
Rank, Heegaard genus, and the Meridional generator conjecture.
Steven A. Bleiler*, Portland State University
Amelia Jones, Vassar College
(909-54-141)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, IV
Room 337, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Lihe Wang, University of Iowa
Gerhard O. Strohmer, University of Iowa
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3:00 p.m.
A transonic flow problem.
Yuxi Zheng*, Indiana University, Bloomington
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3:30 p.m.
Navier-Stokes equations in thin three dimensional domains with various boundary conditions.
Roger Temam, Indiana University, Bloomington
Mohammed B. Ziane*, Indiana University, Bloomington
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4:00 p.m.
Head-media interaction in magnetic recording.
Avner Friedman, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Bei Hu*, University of Notre Dame
(909-35-10) -
4:30 p.m.
Compressible flows under the influence of gravity.
Gerhard O. Strohmer*, University of Iowa
Wojciech M. Zajaczkowski, Academy of Science, Poland
(909-35-161)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Current Issues in Nonlinear Conservation Laws, IV
Room 253, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Suncica Canic, Iowa State University
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3:00 p.m.
Remarks on Mach configurations for the small-disturbance equation.
Cathleen S. Morawetz*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
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3:30 p.m.
Steady states of the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck system.
Robert T. Glassey, Indiana University, Bloomington
John W. Schaeffer, Carnegie Mellon University
Yuxi Zheng*, Indiana University, Bloomington
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4:00 p.m.
A numerical method for a free-boundary problem arising in weak shock reflection.
Dragan Mirkovic*, Iowa State University
Suncica Canic, Iowa State University
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4:30 p.m.
Diffraction of weak shocks: Linear and weakly nonlinear scalings.
Esteban G. Tabak*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Ruben R. Rosales, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(909-76-128)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Theta Correspondences and Automorphic Forms, III
Room 347, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
David C. Manderscheid, University of Iowa
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3:00 p.m.
Minimal representations of exceptional $p$-adic groups.
Karl E. Rumelhart*, Ohio State University, Columbus
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3:30 p.m.
The minimal representation of $SO(4,3)$ over a local non-archimedian field.
Julie Rina Roskies*, Stanford University
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4:00 p.m.
Theta representations and the Rankin-Selberg method.
Daniel Willis Bump*, Stanford University
(909-11-200) -
4:30 p.m.
A remark on certain periods on $GL(4)$.
Masaaki Furusawa*, Johns Hopkins University
(909-11-192) -
5:00 p.m.
The Seigel-Weil formula for the metaplectic group.
W. Jay Sweet, Jr.*, Florida International University
(909-22-203) -
5:30 p.m.
A Cauchy-Harish-Chandra integral.
Tomasz Przebinda*, University of Oklahoma
(909-22-169)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday March 23, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
General Session
Room 341, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
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3:00 p.m.
Peano postulates for a finite set.
Jack M. Anderson*, South Dakota State University
Sam F. Adli, South Dakota State University
(909-03-236) -
3:15 p.m.
Frobenius matrix approximation with linearly singular values.
Yves Nievergelt*, Eastern Washington University
(909-15-89) -
3:30 p.m.
Propagation of wedge-extendibility by geometric methods.
Charles A. Pehlivanian*, United States Military Academy
(909-32-33) -
3:45 p.m.
Approximation properties of a strongly nonlinear boundary-value problem on unbounded domains.
Michael D. Marcozzi*, United States Military Academy
(909-35-86) -
4:00 p.m.
Infinite bump solutions of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations.
Neeza Thandi*, Dalhousie University
(909-35-185) -
4:15 p.m.
A numerical clustering algorithm and some results on convexity.
Richard Andrew Holley, University of Colorado, Boulder
Jerome I. Malitz, University of Colorado, Boulder
Seth M. Malitz*, Evolving Systems, Incorporated, Boulder, Colorado
(909-68-129)
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3:00 p.m.