AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
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
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
(909-57-207) -
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
(909-57-58) -
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
(909-82-124) -
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
(909-35-167) -
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
(909-76-109) -
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
(909-82-126) -
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
(909-76-120) -
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
(909-11-194) -
3:30 p.m.
The minimal representation of $SO(4,3)$ over a local non-archimedian field.
Julie Rina Roskies*, Stanford University
(909-11-173) -
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.