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1991 Central Section Meeting
South Bend, IN, March 15-16, 1991
Meeting #864

Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

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Friday March 15, 1991

• Friday March 15, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Economics and Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 01, Northside Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    New methods for the analysis of broad band time series.
    Robert Savit*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (864-90-134)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Learning while playing via classifier systems.
    Carl P. Simon*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (864-90-143)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Comparative statics of dynamic programming.
    Mark Feldman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Andrew McLennan*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (864-90-142)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Privacy preserving mechanisms.
    Kenneth R. Mount*, Northwestern University
    (864-90-147)
• Friday March 15, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, I
  Room 06, Northside Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Coverings of singular spaces.
    Mathew Timm*, Bradley University
    (864-57-70)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Psuedofree orbifolds of low rank.
    Dariusz M. Wilczynski*, University of Notre Dame
    (864-57-108)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Intersection homology and topological quantum field theory.
    Charles Frohman*, University of Iowa
    A. Nicas, McMaster University
    (864-57-85)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On exotic smoothings of 4-manifolds.
    \v Zarko Bi\v zaca*, University of Notre Dame
    (864-57-88)
• Friday March 15, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Non-commutative Ring Theory, I
  Room 05, Northside Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Dubrovin valuation rings in crossed product algebras.
    Darrell Haile*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Patrick Morandi, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
    (864-16-112)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Valuations on group rings in nonzero characteristic.
    Alexander Lichtman*, University of Wisconsin, Parkside
    (864-16-118)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Remarks on graded and filtered algebras.
    E. Behr*, Illinois State University
    (864-16-117)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Noncommutative algebraic geometry and representations.
    Alexander L. Rosenberg*, Harvard University
    (864-13-119)
• Friday March 15, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hilbert Spaces of Analytic Functions, I
  Room 107, Northside Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Interpolation by multipliers of the Dirichlet space.
    Sheldon Axler*, Michigan State University
    (864-46-56)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The n-width of the unit ball of H^2(CAP OMEGA).
    Stephen D. Fisher*, Northwestern University
    (864-30-33)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Proper holomorphic mappings and the Cowen-Douglas class.
    Norberto Salinas*, University of Kansas
    (864-47-41)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Multiplication operators on functional Hilbert spaces in several variables.
    Raul E. Curto*, University of Iowa
    (864-47-60)
• Friday March 15, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Prediction Theory, I
  Room 013, Northside Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On mixing conditions and Markov representation.
    Richard C. Bradley*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (864-60-08)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Necessary and sufficient conditions for a second-order Wiener-Ito integral process to be mixing.
    Daniel W. Chambers*, Boston College
    (864-60-36)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Limit theorems for non-linear functions of a stationary vector-valued Gaussian process.
    Tae-Il Jeon, Wayne State University
    Tze-Chien Sun*, Wayne State University
    (864-60-62)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Prediction for I.D. processes: Some recent developments.
    Balram S. Rajput*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (864-60-18)
• Friday March 15, 1991, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Infinite-dimensional skew fields.
  Room 113, Northside Hall
  Leonid G. Makar-Limanov*, Wayne State University
  (864-16-144)
• Friday March 15, 1991, 12:30 p.m.-1:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Simplicial complexes associated to finite groups and their representations.
  Room 113, Northside Hall
  Stephen D. Smith*, University of Illinois, Chicago and California Institute of Technology
  (864-20-145)
• Friday March 15, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Economics and Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 01, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A game-theoretic characterization of competitive economies.
    Myrna H. Wooders*, University of Toronto
    (864-90-23)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the mathematical structure of large games with imperfect information.
    M. Ali Khan*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
    (864-90-48)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A characterization of random matching schemes.
    Richard Boylan*, Washington University
    (864-90-25)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Recursive utility: Discrete time theory.
    R. A. Becker*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    J. H. Boyd, III, University of Rochester
    (864-90-47)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Intermediation, bubbles, and Pareto efficiency in economies with production.
    Mark Pingle, University of Nevada
    Leigh Tesfatsion*, Iowa State University
    (864-90-79)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Projection and aggregation paradoxes in statistical rankings.
    Deanna B. Haunsperger*, Northwestern University and University of Delaware
    (864-90-22)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Some aspects of information sigma-fields in general equilibrium theory.
    Beth Allen*, University of Pennsylvania
    (864-90-02)
• Friday March 15, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Simplicial Complexes Associated to Finite Groups and their Representations, I
  Room 106, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The local determination of Mackey functors.
    Peter J. Webb*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (864-20-128)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Complexes in block theory.
    Geoffrey Robinson*, University of Florida
    (864-20-96)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the topology of conjugacy classes.
    J. L. Alperin*, University of Chicago
    (864-20-32)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Permutation complexes and homology representations.
    Amir H. Assadi*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (864-57-95)
• Friday March 15, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Model Theory, I
  Room 09, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Definability over definable sets.
    David W. Kueker, University of Maryland, College Park
    Philip W. Steitz*, Beloit College
    (864-03-106)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Projective planes associated with algebraically closed fields.
    Kitty L. Holland*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (864-03-83)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Uncountable weakly minimal theories.
    Philipp Rothmaler*, Univeristy of Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany
    (864-03-111)
• Friday March 15, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, II
  Room 06, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Groups with infinite virtual cohomological dimension which act freely on R^m x S^n-1.
    Stratos Prassidis*, McMaster University
    (864-57-109)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic aspects of group actions.
    Christopher W. Stark*, University of Florida
    (864-57-133)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Nil groups in K-theory and surgery.
    Frank X. Connolly, University of Notre Dame
    Tadeusz Ko\'zniewski*, University of Notre Dame
    (864-57-135)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Counting simple-homotopy types.
    Steven C. Ferry*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    (864-57-139)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
• Friday March 15, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Topology, I
  Room 08, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Divisibility properties of the integral cohomology ring of BSpin(n).
    Jay A. Wood*, Purdue University, Calumet Campus
    (864-55-10)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the homotopy theory of structured ring spectra.
    Thomas Hunter*, University of Kentucky
    (864-55-30)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Adams spectral sequence for the homotopy of spheres.
    Robert R. Bruner*, Wayne State University
    (864-55-71)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Constructing homology theories from group theory.
    K. Lesh*, Brandeis University
    (864-55-15)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The bar construction for spectra.
    Anthony D. Elmendorf*, Indiana University, South Bend
    (864-55-19)
• Friday March 15, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Non-commutative Ring Theory, II
  Room 05, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Monomorphisms of the Weyl algebra.
    Carolyn Dean*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    Jeanne Wald Kerr, Michigan State University
    (864-16-114)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Commutativity techniques in the Weyl algebra.
    Jeanne Wald Kerr*, Michigan State University
    Carolyn Dean, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (864-16-113)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mappings on skew polynomial rings.
    Jerry D. Rosen*, California State University, Northridge
    Mary P. Rosen, California State University, Northridge
    (864-16-102)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A criterion for a module to be injective and some applications.
    Ian M. Musson*, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    (864-16-104)
• Friday March 15, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Hilbert Spaces of Analytic Functions, II
  Room 107, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Commutants of subnormal operators.
    W. R. Wogen*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (864-47-09)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The factorization of functions in the polydisc.
    Hari Bercovici, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Derek Westwood*, Wright State University
    (864-32-61)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Julia operators and complementation in Krein spaces.
    Michael A. Dritschel*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    James Rovnyak, University of Virginia
    (864-47-82)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Toeplitz operators on weighted Hardy spaces.
    B. Mark Davis, University of California, Berkeley
    John E. McCarthy*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (864-46-37)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation on multiply connected domains.
    Joseph A. Ball*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Kevin F. Clancey, University of Georgia
    (864-30-27)
• Friday March 15, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Prediction Theory, II
  Room 013, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Deconvolutions and the commutant lifting theorem.
    Ciprian Foias*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (864-47-100)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Infinite dimensional stationary sequences with multipicity one.
    A. Makagon, Michigan State University
    H. Salehi*, Michigan State University
    (864-60-53)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Continuous time periodically correlated processes: Spectrum and prediction.
    A. Makagon*, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland and Michigan State University
    A. G. Miamee, Hampton University
    H. Salehi, Michigan State University
    (864-60-72)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Correlation autoregressive processes.
    A. G. Miamee*, Hampton University
    (864-60-73)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    J. von Neumann alternating projections and interpolation of stationary processes.
    Mohsen Pourahmadi*, Northern Illinois University
    (864-60-101)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Unrestrained relative entropy.
    P. R. Masani*, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
    (864-60-99)
• Friday March 15, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  Session on Foundations, Combinatorics, and Algebra
  Room 105, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The relative strength of two union theorems without AC.
    Paul Howard*, Eastern Michigan University
    (864-03-127)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    t-wise balanced design.
    D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri, Ohio State University, Columbus
    Tianbao Zhu*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (864-05-03)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Dependence systems.
    Marcin Schroeder*, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
    (864-06-141)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Filets in autometrized algebras.
    Mary Hansen*, Indiana University, Kokomo
    (864-06-97)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rings whose cyclics have finite Goldie dimension.
    A. H. Al-Huzali, Ohio University, Athens
    S. K. Jain, Ohio University, Athens
    S. R. Lopez-Permouth*, Ohio University, Athens
    (864-16-92)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Constructing injective hulls for sums of injectives.
    A. H. Al-Huzali*, Ohio University, Athens
    S. K. Jain, Ohio University, Athens
    S. R. Lopez-Permouth, Ohio University, Athens
    (864-16-64)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On nearness algebras.
    Vijaya Gompa*, Ball State University
    (864-18-126)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Cayley algebras and the isomorphisms of orthogonal groups in characteristic two.
    Mary T. Treanor*, Valparaiso University
    (864-20-130)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the near Frattini subgroups of ordinary free products of groups.
    Mohammad K. Azarian*, University of Evansville
    (864-20-42)

Saturday March 16, 1991

• Saturday March 16, 1991, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Prediction Theory, III
  Room 013, Northside Hall
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    Level crossings, multiple Wiener integrals, and prediction.
    Eric V. Slud*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (864-60-39)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    Stability in distribution for a class of singular diffusions.
    Gopal Basak, University of California, Berkeley
    Rabi Bhattacharya*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (864-60-54)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the a.s. convergence in the sampling theorem.
    Christian Houdr\'e*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (864-60-38)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Central limit theorems for classical fiber bundles.
    Joseph Yukich*, Lehigh University
    (864-60-29)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Simulations of solutions of stochastic differential equations.
    Philip Protter*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    (864-60-55)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Logistic prediction of exceedances.
    Benjamin Kedem*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (864-62-52)
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Economics and Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 01, Northside Hall
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Semialgebraic economies.
    Donald J. Brown*, Stanford University
    Rosa L. Matzkin, Yale University
    (864-90-146)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    A survey of equilibrium methods in incomplete market models.
    Wayne J. Shafer*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (864-90-49)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Existence of equilibrium in infinite horizon economies with taxes.
    Larry E. Jones*, Northwestern University
    Rodolfo E. Manuelli, Stanford University
    (864-90-26)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Core equivalence and the overlapping generations model.
    C. D. Aliprantis, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
    Owen Burkinshaw*, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
    (864-90-20)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A dynamical system in the study of Ramsey equilibria.
    Ciprian Foias*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Robert A. Becker, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (864-90-21)
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Topology, II
  Room 08, Northside Hall
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Decomposition theorems in the K-theory of simplicial rings.
    Ross E. Staffeldt*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
    (864-19-06)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Clones of spaces and maps in homotopy theory.
    C. A. McGibbon*, Wayne State University
    Jesper Moller, Mathematical Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    (864-55-66)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The equivariant suspension theorem.
    L. Gaunce Lewis, Jr.*, Syracuse University
    (864-55-07)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Completions of G-spectra at ideals of the Burnside ring.
    J. P. May*, University of Chicago
    (864-55-16)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Lin tower and v_i-periodicity in Brown Peterson homology.
    Hal Sadofsky*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
    (864-55-13)
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Simplicial Complexes Associated to Finite Groups and their Representations, II
  Room 106, Northside Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Simple connectivity of p-group complexes.
    Michael Aschbacher*, California Institute of Technology
    (864-20-91)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A structure theorem for groups of weak characteristic p-type.
    Alberto L. Delgado*, Kansas State University
    (864-20-63)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some projective modules determined by sporadic geometries.
    A. J. E. Ryba*, Marquette University
    Stephen D. Smith, University of Illinois, Chicago
    Satoshi Yoshiara, Hirosaki University, Japan
    (864-20-129)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Subgroup complexes and cohomology of sporadic simple groups.
    Alejandro Adem*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (864-55-14)
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, III
  Room 06, Northside Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Periodicity in equivariant surgery.
    Min Yan*, University of Chicago and Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    (864-57-93)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Torsion invariants and algebraic K-theory of von Neumann algebras.
    Wolfgang L\H uck*, University of Kentucky
    (864-46-90)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Classification of simply connected six dimensional manifolds.
    Herman J. Serrano*, University of Notre Dame
    (864-57-138)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    HP^2-bundles and elliptic homology.
    Matthias Kreck, University of Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany
    Stephan Stolz*, University of Notre Dame
    (864-57-136)
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Non-commutative Ring Theory, III
  Room 05, Northside Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the theory of Frobenius extensions and its application to Lie superalgebras.
    Allen D. Bell*, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    Rolf Farnsteiner, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    (864-16-116)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Examples of rings with computable finitistic dimension.
    Ellen Kirkman*, Wake Forest University
    (864-16-51)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Universal localization and indecomposable modules of widetilde A_11.
    Mike May, S.J.*, Cambridge, Massachusetts
    (864-16-67)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hidden matrices.
    L. S. Levy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    J. C. Robson, University of Leeds, England
    J. T. Stafford*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (864-16-121)
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hilbert Spaces of Analytic Functions, III
  Room 107, Northside Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Levy-Hincin type theorems for multiplicative and additive free convolution.
    Hari Bercovici*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Dan Voiculescu, University of California, Berkeley
    (864-30-75)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Index theory of Toeplitz algebras on flows.
    Efton Park*, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
    (864-47-58)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The invariant subspaces that lie between two Bergman spaces.
    William T. Ross*, University of Virginia
    (864-47-59)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Spectra of some composition operators.
    Carl C. Cowen*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    Barbara D. MacCluer, University of Richmond
    (864-47-35)
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
  Session on Geometry, Analysis, and Probability
  Room 105, Northside Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Lie algebras and Lagrangian mechanics.
    Jerzy Kocik*, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
    (864-53-140)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    The topological product structure of systems of Lebesque spaces.
    Jan J. Dijkstra, University of Alabama
    Jerzy Mogilski*, Bradley University
    (864-54-69)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On topological R^4-bundles.
    Duane Randall*, Loyola University
    (864-55-98)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Gysin sequence in intersection cohomology.
    Martin Saralegi*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Gilbert Hector, Universit\'e Claude-Bernard, France
    (864-55-45)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A natural decomposition for second-order stationary random fields.
    Ray Cheng*, University of Louisville
    (864-60-124)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    UMVU estimators for bivariate families.
    Kandasamy Selvavel*, Claflin College
    (864-62-74)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A unimodal hazard rate and its failure distribution functions.
    Michael Greenwich*, Purdue University, Calumet Campus
    (864-62-01)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Gromov-Hausdorff convergence to non-manifolds.
    Teresa Engel Moore*, Ithaca College
    (864-53-123)
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Model Theory, II
  Room 09, Northside Hall
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A remark on the cohomology of locally finite groups.
    Alexandre V. Borovik*, University of California, Irvine
    (864-03-68)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A proof of Vaught's conjecture for varieties.
    B. Hart*, McMaster University
    S. Starchenko, McMaster University,
    M. Valeriote, McMaster University
    (864-03-84)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Definable properties of sets and elimination of imaginaries.
    Jan Hutson*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (864-03-81)
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Questions relating Riemannian geometry and the topology of 3-manifolds.
  Room 113, Northside Hall
  Deane Yang*, Columbia University
  (864-16-120)
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 12:30 p.m.-1:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Dynamics and symmetry: Explanation of paradoxes from statistics, voting, and economics.
  Room 113, Northside Hall
  Donald G. Saari*, Northwestern University
  (864-58-132)
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Economics and Dynamical Systems, IV
  Room 01, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Core and equilibria in economies with a continuum of agents and commodities.
    Nicholas C. Yannelis*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (864-90-24)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Existence of Radner equilibrium with a continuum of states.
    Andreu Mas-Colell, Harvard University
    William R. Zame*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
    (864-90-50)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Equilibria in double auctions.
    Steven R. Williams*, Northwestern University
    (864-90-137)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Special alpha-limit point for mappings of the interval.
    Michael W. Hero*, Bradley University
    (864-90-78)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Simplicial Complexes Associated to Finite Groups and their Representations, III
  Room 106, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A general homotopy complementation formula.
    Anders Bj\"orner*, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
    (864-05-131)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Order analogues and Betti polynomials.
    Lynne M. Butler*, Princeton University
    (864-06-94)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The topology of posets and its orbit posets.
    Volkmar Welker*, University of Erlangen, Federal Republic of Germany
    (864-20-76)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Model Theory, III
  Room 09, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Stable actions of periodic abelian groups on abelian groups.
    Andreas Baudisch*, Karl Weiserstrass Institute, German Democratic Republic
    (864-03-110)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Prime existentially complete commutative rings.
    Dan Saracino*, Colgate University
    (864-03-87)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Reducts of structures over R.
    Ya$'$acov Peterzil*, University of California, Berkeley
    (864-03-86)
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, IV
  Room 06, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The group NK_0(Zpi) is a Noetherian M_1-module if pi is a finite group.
    Frank X. Connolly, University of Notre Dame
    M\'ario Da Silva*, Indiana University, South Bend, and University of Federal Fluminense, Brazil
    (864-55-122)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Algebraic L-theory assembly.
    Andrew A. Ranicki*, Edinburgh University, Scotland
    (864-57-77)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hochschild homology traces and an n-parameter Lefschetz fixed point theorem.
    Ross Geoghegan*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    Andrew Nicas, McMaster University
    (864-57-89)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Topology, III
  Room 08, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The fibre of secondary suspension.
    B. Gray, University of Illinois, Chicago
    M. Mahowald, Northwestern University
    R. Thompson*, Northwestern University
    (864-55-11)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A Hopf type construction for iterated loop spaces.
    Michael Slack*, University of Virginia
    Frank Williams, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
    (864-55-05)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Higher Reidemeister torsion and parametrized Morse theory.
    John R. Klein*, University of Siegen, Federal Republic of Germany
    (864-57-107)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    ZcapSIGMA_*-Hopf algebras and unstable homotopy classes of maps.
    Christopher Stover*, University of Chicago
    (864-55-12)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Functors of homotopy groups and composite functors.
    David Blanc*, Northwestern University
    Christopher Stover, University of Chicago
    (864-55-04)
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Non-commutative Ring Theory, IV
  Room 05, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Galois correspondence for modules over Hopf algebras.
    Jeffrey Bergen*, DePaul University
    (864-16-115)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Nonabelian group actions and the Connes spectrum.
    James Osterburg*, University of Cincinnati
    D. S. Passman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (864-16-105)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Connes spectrum for Hopf algebras.
    James Osterburg, University of Cincinnati
    D. S. Passman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Declan Quinn*, Syracuse University
    (864-16-103)
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Hilbert Spaces of Analytic Functions, IV
  Room 107, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Cyclic and chaotic properties of composition operators.
    Paul S. Bourdon, Washington & Lee University
    Joel H. Shapiro*, Michigan State University
    (864-47-31)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Hermitian geometry of invariant subspaces.
    Keren Yan*, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
    (864-47-43)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The commutant of multiplication by z on the closure of polynomials in L^t(mu).
    Robert Olin*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Liming Yang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    (864-47-80)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Removable sets and Sobolev spaces.
    Robert Kaufman*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (864-30-34)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A space of analytic functions.
    Thomas L. Kriete, III*, University of Virginia
    (864-46-57)
• Saturday March 16, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Prediction Theory, IV
  Room 013, Northside Hall
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On the law of large numbers for the bootstrap mean.
    S\'andor Cs\"org\H o*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (864-60-46)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Inequalities for partial sums of multi-dimensional arrays of independent random vectors.
    Nasrollah Etemadi*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (864-60-65)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Marcinkiewicz strong laws of large numbers for random fields in Banach spaces.
    Robert L. Taylor*, University of Georgia
    (864-60-40)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some strong laws of large numbers for sums of random elements.
    Andr\'e Adler, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Andrew Rosalsky*, University of Florida
    Robert L. Taylor, University of Georgia
    (864-60-28)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Almost sure limit theorems for normalized sums of random variables.
    Andre Adler*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (864-60-44)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Symmetry groups for random vectors.
    Mark M. Meerschaert*, Albion College
    (864-60-17)

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