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1992 Fall Western Section Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, November 7-8, 1992
Meeting #877
Associate secretaries: Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu
Sunday November 8, 1992
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Sunday November 8, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Finite and Algebraic Groups, III
Room 144, Kaprielian Hall
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8:30 a.m.
Extending Steinberg characters.
Walter Feit*, Yale University
(877-20-44)
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9:00 a.m.
Realizable sequences of partitions.
John G. Thompson*, University of Cambridge, England
(877-20-03)
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9:30 a.m.
GL_n(q) and PU_n(q^2) as Galois groups over under barred Q.
H. Ve\"olklein*, University of Florida
(877-20-06)
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10:00 a.m.
Long maximal subgroups of linear groups.
Douglas Brozovic, University of North Texas
Ron Solomon*, Ohio State University, Columbus
(877-20-33)
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10:30 a.m.
Sporadic groups of even and p type.
Richard Lyons*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Daniel Gorenstein, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(877-20-36)
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Sunday November 8, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Gauge Theory and Four Manifolds, III
Room 146, Kaprielian Hall
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8:30 a.m.
Discussion
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8:30 a.m.
Smooth 4-manifolds versus symplectic 6-manifolds.
Yongbin Ruan*, Michigan State University
(877-57-114)
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9:00 a.m.
Yang-Mills-Higgs fields on the 4-sphere.
Thomas H. Parker*, Michigan State University
(877-57-111)
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Sunday November 8, 1992, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Hyperbolic PDE and Fluid Mechanics, III
Room 145, Kaprielian Hall
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8:30 a.m.
On the Zakharov-Schulman system.
Carlos E. Kenig*, University of Chicago
Gustavo Ponce, University of California, Santa Barbara
Luis Vega, University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
(877-35-67)
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9:00 a.m.
On global action-angle variables for periodic KdV, Toda and nonlinear Schroedinger equations.
Thomas Kappeler*, Ohio State University, Columbus
(877-35-66)
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9:30 a.m.
Branch singularities of nonlinear hyperbolic systems with two speeds.
Nick Ercolani*, University of Arizona
(877-35-63)
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10:00 a.m.
Shock wave solutions of the Einstein equations.
Blake Temple*, University of California, Davis
Joel Smoller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(877-35-64)
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10:30 a.m.
The initial value problem for higher order dispersive equations.
Gustavo Ponce*, University of California, Santa Barbara
Carlos E. Kenig, University of Chicago
Luis Vega, University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
(877-35-65)
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Sunday November 8, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, II
Room 140, Kaprielian Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Spectral theory of the Laplacian in domains with corners.
Gregory Eskin*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-58-86)
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9:30 a.m.
Analytic torsion and Witten complex.
D. Burghelea, Ohio State University, Columbus
L. Friedlander*, University of Arizona
T. Kappeler, Ohio State University, Columbus
(877-58-01)
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10:00 a.m.
Analytic surgery and the Eta invariant.
Rafe Mazzeo*, University of Washington
(877-58-90)
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10:30 a.m.
Sobolev constants, injectivity radius, and volume.
Peter Petersen*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-58-34)
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Sunday November 8, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry, III
Room 163, Kaprielian Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Deformations of spherical structures on two-bridge knot complements.
William D. Dunbar*, Pennsylvania State University, Erie
(877-57-92)
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9:30 a.m.
Tubes in hyperbolic manifolds and eigenvalue estimates.
Ara Basmajian*, University of Oklahoma
(877-58-09)
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10:00 a.m.
Topological rigidity and an extension of a theorem of Cannon and Thurston.
Yair N. Minsky*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(877-53-77)
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10:30 a.m.
Deformations of singular hyperbolic structures.
Steve Kerckhoff*, Stanford University
(877-53-78)
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Sunday November 8, 1992, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, II
Room 147, Kaprielian Hall
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9:00 a.m.
Discussion
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9:00 a.m.
Rigidity of one-dimensional dynamical Cantor sets.
R. de la Llave*, University of Texas, Austin
R. P. Schafer, University of Texas, Austin
(877-34-02)
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9:30 a.m.
The Teichmuller geodesic flow.
Howard Masur*, University of Illinois, Chicago
(877-58-94)
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10:30 a.m.
Quasiconformal methods for the Denjoy problem on T^2.
Alec Norton*, University of Texas, Austin
(877-58-37)
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Sunday November 8, 1992, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Syzygies of algebraic varieties.
Room 123, Seeley G. Mudd Building
Robert K. Lazarsfeld*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-14-40)
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Sunday November 8, 1992, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, III
Room 140, Kaprielian Hall
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2:00 p.m.
Isospectral plane domains.
Peter Doyle*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
(877-58-106)
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2:30 p.m.
Spectral diameter estimates for k-regular graphs.
Gregory Quenell*, Bucknell University
(877-58-10)
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3:00 p.m.
On isospectral deformations on two-step nilmanifolds.
He Ouyang*, Enertronics Research, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri
(877-58-82)
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3:30 p.m.
Upper bound of the first eigenvalue for algebraic submanifolds.
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Ecole Polytechnic
Peter Li*, University of California, Irvine
Shin Tung Yau, Harvard University
(877-58-89)
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Sunday November 8, 1992, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry, IV
Room 163, Kaprielian Hall
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2:00 p.m.
Geometrization of toroidal 3-manifolds.
A. Casson*, University of California, Berkeley
(877-57-118)
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2:30 p.m.
Tunnel number and volume for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Colin Adams*, Williams College
(877-57-76)
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3:00 p.m.
Constructing representations of braid groups.
D. D. Long*, University of California, Santa Barbara
J. A. Moody, Columbia University
(877-57-45)
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3:30 p.m.
Seifert fiber spaces and quasi-symmetric groups.
G. Mess*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-57-120)
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Sunday November 8, 1992, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Complex Geometry, II
Room 158, Kaprielian Hall
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1:00 p.m.
Discussion
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2:00 p.m.
Discussion
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2:30 p.m.
Position of singularities of hypersurfaces and the topology of their complenments.
A. Libgober*, University of Illinois, Chicago
(877-14-46)
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3:30 p.m.
Vector bundles of small rank on projective spaces.
Mei-Chu Chang*, University of California, Riverside
(877-14-23)
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4:00 p.m.
Research in algebraic geometry.
Zlv Ran*, University of California, Riverside
(877-14-22)
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Sunday November 8, 1992, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, III
Room 147, Kaprielian Hall
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2:00 p.m.
Stability analysis of Hamiltonian systems by geometric methods.
Tudor Ratiu*, University of California, Santa Cruz
(877-58-97)
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2:30 p.m.
Fractal properties of invariant subsets for piecewise monotonic maps on the interval.
Mariusz Urbanski*, University of North Texas
(877-99-30)
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3:00 p.m.
Topological versions of th Wiener-Wintner theorem.
Peter Walters*, University of Warwick
(877-28-54)
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3:30 p.m.
Lyapunov exponents of monotone symplectic cocycles.
Maciej P. Wojtkowski*, University of Arizona
(877-58-79)
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4:00 p.m.
Exponential mixing and stochastic stability.
L. S. Young*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-58-81)
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Sunday November 8, 1992, 2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Topics in Geometry and Physics, III
Room 101, Seeley G. Mudd Building
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2:00 p.m.
Spectral theory of Neumann Laplacians.
Barry Simon*, California Institute of Technology
(877-51-17)
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2:40 p.m.
An algebraic approach to planar coloring problems.
Hubert Saleur*, Yale University
(877-82-12)
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3:20 p.m.
The Toda field equations on arbitrary Riemann surfaces.
Eric D'hoker*, University of California, Los Angeles
(877-83-20)
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4:00 p.m.
On correlation functions in integrable models of quantum field theory.
N. Reshetikhin*, Harvard University
(877-81-13)
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4:40 p.m.
Geometry of quantization of gauge theories.
Albert Schwarz*, University of California, Davis
(877-81-19)
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