AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:22
1995 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Boston, MA, October 7-8, 1995
Meeting #903
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Sunday October 8, 1995
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Discussion Across Boundaries in Mathematics Education, I
Room 50, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Paul W. Davis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Maurice E. Gilmore, Northeastern University
Deborah Hughes Hallett, Harvard University
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8:00 a.m.
The role of university mathematics departments in renewing the urban secondary school curriculum.
Robert W. Case*, Northeastern University
(903-97-168) -
8:30 a.m.
Dissemination of the collaborative workshop model.
Michael B. Freeman*, University of Kentucky
(903-98-241) -
9:00 a.m.
The interactive mathematics program and its implications for university level teaching.
Carla Oblas*, Northeastern University
(903-97-169) -
9:30 a.m.
University/high school collaboration increases mathematics access.
Roberta L. Dees*, University of Illinois, Chicago
(903-97-185) -
10:00 a.m.
Open Discussion
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 8:15 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations in Geometry and Mathematical Physics, III
Room 348, Student Center
Organizers:
Christopher K. King, Northeastern University
Robert C. McOwen, Northeastern University
Mikhail A. Shubin, Northeastern University
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8:15 a.m.
Resonances and decay phenomena in quantum mechanics.
Roger Waxler*, State University of New York, Buffalo
(903-81-224) -
8:50 a.m.
Dynamical stability in single particle systems.
Andrzej T. Lesniewski*, Harvard University
(903-35-214) -
9:25 a.m.
Yang-Mills over compact surfaces.
Ambar Niel Sengupta*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
(903-81-189) -
10:00 a.m.
Gluing rank two monopoles and applications to smooth four-manifolds.
Paul M. N. Feehan*, Harvard University
(903-58-212) -
10:30 a.m.
Darboux transformations for the higher-rank $KP$ hierarchy.
Geoffrey A. Latham, Burdett Buckeridge and Young Limited, Melbourne, Australia
Emma Previato*, Boston University
(903-35-226)
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8:15 a.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, III
Room 333, Student Center
Organizers:
Karen L. Collins, Wesleyan University
Ruth Haas, Smith College
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8:30 a.m.
Graphic representations of spline modules.
Lauren L. Rose*, Wellesley College
(903-05-130) -
9:00 a.m.
Dual Eulerian and Gaussian properties of plane multigraphs.
Brigitte Servatius*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(903-05-56) -
9:30 a.m.
Graphs, Cayley graphs, and connectivity.
Herman Servatius*, Worcester, Massachusetts
(903-05-55) -
10:00 a.m.
Symmetry breaking in graphs: The key problem, cycles, and dihedral and abelian groups.
Michael O. Albertson, Smith College
Karen L. Collins*, Wesleyan University
(903-05-89) -
10:30 a.m.
Symmetry breaking in graphs: Bounds, complexity issues and the symmetric group.
Michael O. Albertson*, Smith College
Karen L. Collins, Wesleyan University
(903-05-96)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of 3-manifolds, III
Room 342, Student Center
Organizers:
William Dart Dunbar, Jr., Simon's Rock of Bard College
Robert Meyerhoff, Boston College
Jeffrey R. Weeks, Canton, New York
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8:30 a.m.
Exact arithmetic of hyperbolic $3$-manifolds in SnapPea.
Oliver A. Goodman*, University of Bielefeld, Germany
(903-57-78) -
9:00 a.m.
Spectral geometry of hyperbolic $3$-manifolds.
Patrick J. Callahan*, University of Texas, Austin
(903-57-205) -
9:30 a.m.
Solid tubes around shortest geodesics in hyperbolic $3$-manifolds and applications.
Robert Meyerhoff*, Boston College
David Gabai, California Institute of Technology
Nathaniel John Thurston, Reed College
(903-57-198) -
10:00 a.m.
Vol $3$.
David Gabai*, California Institute of Technology
Robert Meyerhoff, Boston College
Nathaniel John Thurston, University of California, Berkeley
(903-57-37) -
10:30 a.m.
The solid tubes program for hyperbolic $3$-manifolds.
Nathaniel John Thurston*, University of California, Berkeley
David Gabai, California Institute of Technology
Robert Meyerhoff, Boston College
(903-55-239)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:29 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, III
Room 433, Student Center
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
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8:30 a.m.
Finite type and topological dynamics for polyominoe tilings.
E. Arthur Robinson, Jr.*, George Washington University
(903-28-59) -
9:00 a.m.
Dynamics of self-similar tilings.
Boris Solomyak*, University of Washington
(903-28-07) -
9:30 a.m.
Ergodic theory and the symmetry of tilings.
Charles Radin*, University of Texas, Austin
(903-28-24) -
10:00 a.m.
A law of large numbers for the random domino tiling process.
James Propp*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(903-28-66)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry, III
Room 270, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Marjorie Senechal, Smith College
Egon Schulte, Northeastern University
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8:30 a.m.
Arranging planes so they are as far apart as possible: Packings in Grassmannian manifolds.
Neil J. A. Sloane*, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
(903-05-81) -
9:00 a.m.
Isoperimetric inequalities and the Dodecahedral conjecture.
Karoly Bezdek*, Cornell University, Ithaca
(903-16-192) -
9:30 a.m.
Chiral integers and chiral polytopes.
Barry R. Monson*, University of New Brunswick
Asia Ivic Weiss, York University
(903-52-100) -
10:00 a.m.
Hurwitz integers and Coxeter groups.
Asia Ivic Weiss*, York University
Norman W. Johnson, Wheaton College
(903-51-115) -
10:30 a.m.
How to draw a conformal model for the fundamental region of a hyperbolic reflection group.
H. S. MacDonald Coxeter*, University of Toronto
(903-05-05)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Cohomology of Groups and Geometric Topology, III
Room 430, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Solomon M. Jekel, Northeastern University
Alexandru I. Suciu, Northeastern University
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8:30 a.m.
On the Cayley graph of amenable groups.
Gabor Elek*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(903-05-40) -
9:00 a.m.
Witten deformation of the analytic torsion and the spectral sequence of a filtration.
Maxim Braverman*, Tel Aviv University, Israel
(903-58-48) -
9:30 a.m.
Lie algebra cohomology of meromorphic functions and theta functions.
Roberto Silvotti*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
(903-05-233) -
10:00 a.m.
Ergodic theory on moduli spaces.
William Mark Goldman*, University of Maryland, College Park
(903-05-184) -
10:30 a.m.
The Margulis lemma and the thick and thin decomposition for convex real projective surfaces.
Suhyoung Choi*, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
(903-57-01)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Maps, Locally Symmetric Spaces, and Related Issues, III
Room 318, Student Center
Organizers:
Kevin David Corlette, University of Chicago,
Jonathan Adam Poritz, University of Maryland, College Park
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9:00 a.m.
On the Shafarevich conjecture.
Ludmil Vasilev Katzarkov*, University of Pennsylvania
(903-14-86) -
9:30 a.m.
Weakly $1$-complete K\"ahler manifolds with a large automorphism group.
Terrence J. Napier*, Lehigh University
Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York, Buffalo
(903-32-225) -
10:00 a.m.
Applications of harmonic functions to negatively curved K\"ahler manifolds.
Mohan Ramachandran*, State University of New York, Buffalo
(903-32-206) -
10:30 a.m.
On fundamental groups of class {\rm VII} surfaces.
James A. Carlson*, University of Utah
Domingo Toledo, University of Utah
(903-53-242)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Representation Theory and Combinatorics, III
Room 344, Student Center
Organizers:
Sergey Fomin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard P. Stanley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrei V. Zelevinsky, Northeastern University
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9:00 a.m.
Symmetric functions in the homology of partition posets.
Sheila Sundaram*, University of Miami
(903-05-29) -
9:30 a.m.
The (co)homology of the lattice of partitions with lower bounded block size.
Anne E. Sanders, University of Miami
Michelle L. Wachs*, University of Miami
(903-05-171) -
10:00 a.m.
Unimodality of differences of $q$-binomial coefficients.
Victor S. Reiner*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Dennis W. Stanton, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
(903-11-02) -
10:30 a.m.
A new plethysm formula for $p\lambda \circ s_a$.
William F. Doran, IV*, California Institute of Technology
(903-05-157)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Syzygies and Geometry, III
Room 346, Student Center
Organizers:
Anthony A. Iarrobino, Jr., Northeastern University
Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University
Jerzy M. Weyman, Northeastern University
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9:00 a.m.
Minimal resolutions of ideals associated to triangulated homology manifolds.
John Alonzo Eagon*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
(903-13-117) -
9:30 a.m.
Algebraic perspectives on the Kodaira vanishing theorem.
Karen E. Smith*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Craig L. Huneke, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(903-14-229) -
10:00 a.m.
Moore matrices and syzygies of abelian and bielliptic surfaces in ${\bf P^4}$.
Sorin Popescu*, Brandeis University
(903-14-208) -
10:30 a.m.
Syzygies and multivariate splines.
Lauren L. Rose*, Wellesley College
(903-14-181)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Representation Theory, III
Room 440, Student Center
Organizers:
L. E. Morris, Clark University
Freydoon Shahidi, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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9:00 a.m.
On first occurrence in the theta correspondence.
Stephen S. Kudla*, University of Maryland, College Park
S. Rallis, Ohio State University, Columbus
(903-11-250) -
9:30 a.m.
Generalized Bessel models for $GSp(2n)$. {\rm I}: Local uniqueness.
Dihua Jiang*, Yale University
(903-22-20) -
10:00 a.m.
Nonunique models in the Rankin-Selberg method.
Masaaki Furusawa*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
(903-11-131) -
10:30 a.m.
Sums of twisted automorphic $L$-functions.
Daniel Willis Bump, Stanford University
Solomon Friedberg*, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jeffrey Hoffstein, Brown University
(903-99-252)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Lie Groups, III
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern University
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9:00 a.m.
Isometric immersions and integrable systems.
Franz Pedit*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(903-53-121) -
9:30 a.m.
On constant mean curvature surfaces with symmetry groups.
Josef F. Dorfmeister*, University of Kansas
Guido Haak, KITCS, Lawrence, Kansas
(903-53-215) -
10:00 a.m.
B\"acklund transformations and Poisson group actions.
Karen Uhlenbeck*, University of Texas, Austin
(903-53-249) -
10:30 a.m.
Harmonic $2$-spheres in $U(n)$, revisited.
Martin A. Guest*, University of Rochester
(903-53-143)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Session on Contributed Papers, II
Room 340, Student Center
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9:00 a.m.
Simplicial complexes, monomial ideals and characteristic.
Hara Charalambous*, State University of New York, Albany
(903-13-109) -
9:15 a.m.
0-Borel fixed ideals.
Irena V. Peeva*, University of California, Berkeley
(903-13-110) -
9:30 a.m.
A uniform generalized measure on the space of connections.
Stephen F. Sawin*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John C. Baez, University of California, Riverside
(903-83-74) -
9:45 a.m.
A basis for the $Y^2$ subspace of diagonal harmonics.
Joseph A. Alfano*, Assumption College
(903-05-75) -
10:00 a.m.
Direct limit Lie groups and their representations.
Loki Natarajan*, Tufts University
Enriqueta Rodriguez-Carrington, City University of New York, College of Staten Island
Joseph A. Wolf, University of California, Berkeley
(903-22-80) -
10:15 a.m.
Translation cokernels of rational modules.
Kevin J. Carlin*, Assumption College
(903-20-45) -
10:30 a.m.
On the $\lambda$-design conjecture.
Yury J. Ionin, Central Michigan University
Mohan Sharad Shrikhande*, Central Michigan University
(903-05-50) -
10:45 a.m.
Invariant measure of piecewise concave mappings.
Jiu Ding*, University of Southern Mississippi
(903-46-61)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Hyperbolic Dynamics, III
Room 435, Student Center
Organizers:
Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University
Zbigniew H. Nitecki, Tufts University
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9:30 a.m.
Hyperbolicity in near-integrable $N$-degree of freedom Hamiltonian systems.
Tasso J. Kaper*, Boston University
(903-58-228) -
10:00 a.m.
A remarkable global bifurcation diagram in a Hamiltonian system.
Pau Atela*, Smith College
(903-99-251) -
10:30 a.m.
Nondense orbits of flows on homogeneous spaces.
Dmitry Yanovich Kleinbock*, Yale University
(903-58-139)
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9:30 a.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Totally positive factorizations of unipotent matrices.
Ballroom, Ell Center
Andrei V. Zelevinsky*, Northeastern University
(903-17-13) -
Sunday October 8, 1995, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Automorphic $L$-functions and representation theory.
Ballroom, Ell Center
Freydoon Shahidi*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(903-11-09) -
Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Maps, Locally Symmetric Spaces, and Related Issues, IV
Room 318, Student Center
Organizers:
Kevin David Corlette, University of Chicago,
Jonathan Adam Poritz, University of Maryland, College Park
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
Room 333, Student Center
Organizers:
Karen L. Collins, Wesleyan University
Ruth Haas, Smith College
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2:30 p.m.
Bitolerance digraphs and digraph dimension.
Kenneth P. Bogart, Dartmouth College
Ann N. Trenk*, Wellesley College
(903-05-106) -
3:00 p.m.
Some generalizations of interval graphs.
Kenneth P. Bogart*, Dartmouth College
(903-05-38) -
3:30 p.m.
Transitive orientation of comparability graphs.
Ross M. McConnell*, Amherst College
Jeremy P. Spinrad, Vanderbilt University
(903-05-98) -
3:50 p.m.
Break -
4:30 p.m.
Graphs with induced subgraphs having all vertices of degree congruent to $1$ mod $k$.
David M. Berman*, University of New Orleans
Hong Wang, University of New Orleans
Lawrence A. Wargo, University of New Orleans
(903-05-124) -
5:00 p.m.
The automorphism group of an almost perfect $1$-factorization of the complete graph.
E. C. Ihrig, Arizona State University
Emily R. Petrie*, Merrimac College
(903-05-93) -
5:30 p.m.
Rectangle visibility representation for graphs.
Kathleen Romanik*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(903-05-126)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of 3-manifolds, IV
Room 342, Student Center
Organizers:
William Dart Dunbar, Jr., Simon's Rock of Bard College
Robert Meyerhoff, Boston College
Jeffrey R. Weeks, Canton, New York
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2:30 p.m.
Volumes of hyperbolic $3$-manifolds with Betti number $2$.
Marc E. Culler*, University of Illinois, Chicago
Peter B. Shalen, University of Illinois, Chicago
(903-55-230) -
3:00 p.m.
An analytic function defined on the hyperbolic Dehn-surgery space.
Mingqing Ouyang*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(903-57-179) -
3:30 p.m.
Minimal index torsion-free subgroups of Kleinian groups.
Kerry N. Jones*, Ball State University
Alan W. Reid, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
(903-57-102) -
4:00 p.m.
Simple quotients of hyperbolic $3$-manifold groups.
David Darren Long, University of California Santa Barbara
Alan W. Reid*, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
(903-57-34) -
4:30 p.m.
Unknotting tunnels in two-bridge knot and link complements.
Colin C. Adams*, Williams College
Alan W. Reid, University of Cambridge, England
(903-57-22) -
5:00 p.m.
An algebraic annulus theorem.
Peter Scott*, University of Michigan
Gadde A. Swarup, University of Melbourne, Australia
(903-57-245)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory, IV
Room 433, Student Center
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
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2:30 p.m.
$G$-Maps in the centralizer of compact abelian group extensions.
Geoffrey Ross Goodson*, Towson State University
(903-28-64) -
3:00 p.m.
The mean-ergodic theorem and spectral decomposition of complete isometries.
B. S. Yadav*, University of Delhi, India
(903-28-10) -
3:30 p.m.
Comparison of generalizations of the Hopf decomposition.
Gary L. Raduns, Jr.*, State University of New York, Binghamton
(903-47-14)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Representation Theory and Combinatorics, IV
Room 344, Student Center
Organizers:
Sergey Fomin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard P. Stanley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrei V. Zelevinsky, Northeastern University
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2:30 p.m.
Modular tensor categories and Macdonald's polynomials at roots of unity.
Alexander Kirillov, Jr.*, Yale University
(903-05-16) -
3:00 p.m.
Macdonald's polynomials and representations of quantum $sl_n$.
Pavel I. Etingof*, Harvard University
(903-05-210) -
3:30 p.m.
A conjecture for the computation of the decomposition matrices of the Hecke algebras of type $A$ at roots of unity.
Alain Lascoux, University of Paris VII, France
B. Leclerc*, University of Paris VII, France
Jean-Yves Thibon, University Marne-la-Vallee, France
(903-05-28) -
3:50 p.m.
Break -
4:15 p.m.
Crystallized structure for level 0 part of modified quantum affine algebra.
Toshiki Nakashima*, Northeastern University
(903-05-76) -
4:45 p.m.
On the representations of quantum affine algebras.
Ya S. Soibelman*, Kansas State University
(903-05-27) -
5:15 p.m.
Quantum affine Weyl duality and $q$-deformed wedges for $U_q(\backslash \hat {sl}_n)$.
Eugene Stern*, University of California, Berkeley
(903-05-137)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Hyperbolic Dynamics, IV
Room 435, Student Center
Organizers:
Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University
Zbigniew H. Nitecki, Tufts University
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2:30 p.m.
Regularity of solutions for cocycle equations.
Viorel Nitica, Princeton University
Andrei Stefan Torok*, Princeton University
(903-58-220) -
3:00 p.m.
Cohomologies of group actions and their applications.
Alexey V. Kononenko*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
(903-58-105) -
3:30 p.m.
Smooth conjugacy for Anosov diffeomorphisms and rigidity of Anosov actions of higher rank lattices.
Nantian Qian*, Yale University
(903-58-72) -
4:00 p.m.
Gibbs measures for hyperbolic coupled-map lattices.
Yakov B. Pesin*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
(903-58-195)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Syzygies and Geometry, IV
Room 346, Student Center
Organizers:
Anthony A. Iarrobino, Jr., Northeastern University
Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University
Jerzy M. Weyman, Northeastern University
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2:30 p.m.
On a generalization of Dubreil's theorems.
Peter Schenzel*, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany
(903-14-88) -
3:00 p.m.
Highest weight vectors for coordinate rings of nilpotent conjugacy classes of matrices.
Mark Shimozono*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jerzy M. Weyman, Northeastern University
(903-13-32) -
3:30 p.m.
Adjoints of ideals.
Irena Swanson*, New Mexico State University
(903-13-166)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations in Geometry and Mathematical Physics, IV
Room 348, Student Center
Organizers:
Christopher K. King, Northeastern University
Mikhail A. Shubin, Northeastern University
Robert C. McOwen, Northeastern University
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2:30 p.m.
Invariants of Dirac operators in odd dimensions.
Yoshiaki Maeda, Keio University, Hiyoshi, Japan
Steven Rosenberg*, Boston University
Philippe Tondeur, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(903-58-213) -
3:05 p.m.
Continuum percolation web: Construction and conjected conformal invariance properties.
Michael Aizenman*, Princeton University
(903-35-247) -
3:40 p.m.
Laplacian on symmetric fractals and fractal graphs.
Alexander V. Teplyaev*, Cornell University, Ithaca
(903-35-209) -
4:10 p.m.
Semiclassical spectral estimates for Toeplitz operators.
Thierry Paul, University of Paris-Dauphine, France
David Borthwick*, University of Michigan
Alejandro Uribe, University of Paris-Dauphine, France
(903-58-99)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Representation Theory, IV
Room 440, Student Center
Organizers:
L. E. Morris, Clark University
Freydoon Shahidi, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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2:30 p.m.
Unipotent representations and geometric quantization.
William Graham, University of Chicago
David A. Vogan, Jr.*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(903-22-134) -
3:00 p.m.
Hecke algebra invariants of Langlands parameters.
Neil A. Chriss*, Harvard University
(903-57-08) -
3:30 p.m.
Germ expansions for characters of representations of level zero.
Dan M. Barbasch*, Cornell University, Ithaca
Allen Moy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(903-22-231) -
4:00 p.m.
Lifting of characters on orthogonal and metaplectic groups.
Jeffrey Adams*, University of Maryland, College Park
(903-22-201)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Cohomology of Groups and Geometric Topology, IV
Room 430, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Solomon M. Jekel, Northeastern University
Alexandru I. Suciu, Northeastern University
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2:30 p.m.
Higher analogues of the Euler characteristic.
Ross Geoghegan*, State University of New York, Binghamton
Andrew J. Nicas, McMaster University
(903-57-148) -
3:00 p.m.
An easily calculated lower bound for the slice genus of a knot.
Lee Rudolph*, Clark University
(903-05-112) -
3:30 p.m.
$K$-theory and cohomology of two-dimensional crystallographic groups.
Kimberly L. Pearson*, Indiana University, Bloomington
(903-20-160) -
4:00 p.m.
Weight systems for finite type $3$-manifold invariants.
Stavros Garoufalidis*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(903-05-172)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 8, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Lie Groups, IV
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern University
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2:30 p.m.
Exotic holonomies and Poisson geometry.
Quoshin Chi*, Washington University
Lorenz J. Schwachhoefer, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany
(903-53-146) -
3:00 p.m.
Continuous families of isospectral metrics which are not locally isometric.
Carolyn S. Gordon*, Dartmouth College
Edward N. Wilson, Washington University
(903-53-167) -
3:30 p.m.
Some new homogeneous Einstein metrics on symmetric spaces.
Megan M. Kerr*, Dartmouth College
(903-53-128) -
4:00 p.m.
On the $ODE$ system arising from Einstein's equation for Riemannian metrics.
McKenzie Y. Wang*, McMaster University
(903-53-161) -
4:30 p.m.
Scalar curvature rigidity.
Maung Min-oo*, McMaster University
(903-53-187)
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2:30 p.m.