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1990 Western Section Meeting
Irvine, CA, November 10-11, 1990
Meeting #862

Associate secretaries:
Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu

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Saturday November 10, 1990

• Saturday November 10, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions Between Group Theory and Geometry/Number Theory, I
  Room 108, Physical Sciences I
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    p-Algebras over maximally complete fields.
    Bill Jacob*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (862-16-22)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    K-admissibility of A_6 and A_7.
    Murray Schacher*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (862-12-23)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Maximal subfields of division algebras over rational function fields.
    Burton Fein*, Oregon State University
    (862-12-19)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The genus zero problem for M_24.
    Geoffrey Mason*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (862-20-34)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On multiplication by n in the Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves.
    David G. Cantor*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (862-20-49)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Solvable algebras and weight vectors for group geometries.
    Stephen D. Smith*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (862-20-25)
• Saturday November 10, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Theory/Operator Algebras, I
  Room 114, Physical Sciences I
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    A Hankel matrix approach to truncated moment problems.
    Raul E. Curto*, University of Iowa
    (862-47-57)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    Function algebras on Riemann surfaces and their representations: Induction and dilation.
    Palle E. T. J\o rgensen*, University of Iowa
    (862-46-89)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    M-ideals and quotients of subdiagonal algebras.
    Yiu Tung Poon, Iowa State University
    Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (862-47-55)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The structure of twisted SU(3) groups.
    Albert Jeu-Liang Sheu*, University of Kansas
    (862-46-27)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Properties of the Haagerup tensor product.
    Roger R. Smith*, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
    (862-46-01)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Riesz decomposition property and its consequences.
    Shuang Zhang*, University of Cincinnati
    (862-46-06)
• Saturday November 10, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability Theory in Mathematical Physics, I
  Room 230, Physical Sciences Classroom Facility
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Forest fires with regrowth in D = 2.
    C. Neuhauser*, University of Southern California
    R. Durrett, Cornell University
    (862-60-44)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Hydrodynamics for totally asymmetric attractive particle system with general initial profiles.
    Jean-Pierre Fouque*, University of California, Irvine
    (862-60-40)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Mathematical models of catalytic surfaces.
    Eric Grannan*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
    Glen Swindle, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (862-60-41)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The contact process in a random environment.
    Thomas M. Liggett*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (862-60-47)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Droplet model for autocorrelation functions in an Ising ferromagnet.
    C. Tang*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    H. Nakanishi, University of California, Santa Barbara
    J. S. Langer, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (862-60-43)
• Saturday November 10, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions Between Group Theory and Logic, I
  Room 210, Physical Sciences Classroom Facility
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On a class of abelian p-groups.
    Manfred Dugas*, Baylor University
    John Irwin, Wayne State University
    (862-20-70)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Infinite rank Butler groups, III.
    K. M. Rangaswamy*, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
    (862-20-10)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A class of groups characterized by their socles.
    Patrick Keef*, Whitman College
    (862-20-83)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Superstable differential fields.
    \v Zeljko Sokolovi\'c*, University of Notre Dame
    (862-03-74)
• Saturday November 10, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric P.D.E.'s: Mean and Scalar Curvature Problems, I
  Room 158, Physical Sciences I
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Harmonic maps on noncompact manifolds.
    Peter Li, University of Arizona
    Luen-Fai Tam*, University of California, Irvine
    (862-53-52)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Mean curvature evolution and front movement for the bistable equation.
    L. C. Evans*, University of California, Berkeley
    (862-35-86)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Curvature-dependent motion of curves and surfaces.
    J. A. Sethian*, University of California, Berkeley
    (862-35-33)
• Saturday November 10, 1990, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Parameter spaces in the inverse Galois problem.
  0, Physical Sciences Lecture Hall
  Michael D. Fried*, University of California, Irvine
  (862-12-12)
• Saturday November 10, 1990, 1:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions Between Group Theory and Logic, II
  Room 210, Physical Sciences Classroom Facility
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Involutions in groups of finite Morley rank.
    Alexandre Borovik*, Omsk University, USSR and University of California, Irvine
    (862-20-09)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Model theory of Lie algebras.
    Richard Rosengarden*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (862-03-77)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The cohomological dimension of locally finite groups.
    Peter Kropholler, Queen Mary College, England
    Simon Thomas*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (862-20-96)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Arities of finite permutation groups.
    Gary A. Martin*, Southeastern Massachusetts University
    Gregory Cherlin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (862-20-59)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday November 10, 1990, 1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions Between Group Theory and Geometry/Number Theory, II
  Room 108, Physical Sciences I
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Fixedpoint ratios for finite groups.
    Michael Aschbacher*, California Institute of Technology
    (862-20-60)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Extensions of simple modules for SL_3(2^n), SU_3(2^n), Sp_4(2^n) and Sz(2^m).
    Peter Sin*, University of Florida
    (862-20-48)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Some examples of infinite Frobenius groups.
    Michael J. Collins*, California Institute of Technology
    (862-20-30)
• Saturday November 10, 1990, 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum and Statistical Mechanics, I
  Room 230, Physical Sciences Classroom Facility
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Droplet shape, droplet condensation and large deviation estimates.
    Senya Shlosman*, Academy of Science of the USSR
    (862-82-66)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Effects of static disorder in statistical mechanics.
    Jan Wehr*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (862-82-68)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    One dimensional Anderson models in the weak disorder limit.
    Athanasios Speis*, University of Michigan
    (862-81-67)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Orstein-Zernike decay in the ground state of the Ising model in a strong transverse field.
    Tom Kennedy*, University of Arizona
    (862-82-73)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quantum spin systems with disorder.
    Abel Klein*, University of California, Irvine
    (862-82-63)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday November 10, 1990, 1:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Theory/Operator Algebras, II
  Room 114, Physical Sciences I
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Facial structure in operator algebra theory.
    Charles A. Akemann*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Gert K. Pedersen, Matematisk Institut, Denmark
    (862-46-05)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Algebras associated with sets of semigroups of isometries.
    William Arveson*, University of California, Berkeley
    (862-46-91)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Projective tensor products for operator spaces and non-commutative coactions.
    Edward Effros*, University of California, Los Angeles
    Zhong-Jin Ruan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (862-46-93)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A dense set of operators with tiny commutants.
    Domingo A. Herrero*, Arizona State University
    (862-47-03)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The derived tower of certain type III_lambda inclusions of index 4.
    Phan H. Loi*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (862-46-04)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    C^*-algebras generated by the elements of a unitary matrix.
    Kevin P. McClanahan*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (862-46-90)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Almost multiplicative maps between operator algebras.
    Barry E. Johnson*, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
    (862-46-87)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Cohomology for operator algebras.
    Frank L. Gilfeather*, University of New Mexico
    (862-47-100)
• Saturday November 10, 1990, 1:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric P.D.E.'s: Mean and Scalar Curvature Problems, II
  Room 158, Physical Sciences I
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Recent results on scalar curvature.
    R. Schoen*, Stanford University
    (862-53-50)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Higher order conformal invariants on S^n.
    Sun-Yung A. Chang*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (862-53-85)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    The singular Yamabe problem on the sphere.
    Rafe Mazzeo*, Stanford University
    Nat Smale, University of Utah
    (862-53-51)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Gaussian curvature on S^2-rotationally symmetric case.
    Xingwang Xu*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (862-53-81)
• Saturday November 10, 1990, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Moduli Space Applications, I
  Room 108, Physical Sciences I
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Extensions of number fields arising from branched coverings.
    Sybilla Beckmann*, University of Georgia
    (862-14-17)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Universal Cayley-Hamilton algebras.
    Zinovy Reichstein*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
    (862-14-101)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Canonical bundle and deformations.
    Ziv Ran*, University of California, Riverside
    (862-14-35)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Vanishing theorems and the equations defining projective varieties.
    Robert Lazarsfeld*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (862-14-28)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Curves as Hurwitz spaces.
    David Harbater*, University of Pennsylvania
    (862-14-15)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Singular hyperbolic structures.
    Steve Kerckhoff*, Stanford University
    (862-58-16)

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