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1997 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Montreal, Quebec Canada, September 26-28, 1997
Meeting #924
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Friday September 26, 1997
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Friday September 26, 1997, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Auditorium Lobby, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
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Friday September 26, 1997, 8:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Category Theory and Its Applications, I
Room B-4265, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Michael Barr, McGill University barr@triples.math.mcgill.ca
Ieke Moerdijk, University of Utrecht. Netherlands moerdijk@math.ruu.nl
Myles Tierney, Rutgers University tierney@math.uqam.ca
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8:45 a.m.
The theory of $h$-categories
Andr\'e Joyal*,
(924-18-301)
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9:40 a.m.
Functions versus distributions on Grothendieck toposes
Marta Bunge*,
(924-18-143)
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Friday September 26, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Differential Topology, I
Room B-4260, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Jacques C. Hurtubise, McGill University hurtubise@math.mcgill.ca
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University jeffrey@math.mcgill.edu
Francois Lalonde, University of Quebec at Montreal flalonde@math.uqam.ca
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9:00 a.m.
Bott-Samelson Geometry of Gelfand-Cetlin Bases
Michael D. Grossberg*,
Miljenko Zabcic,
(924-14-259)
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9:40 a.m.
Hamiltonian Circle Actions on Four-Dimensional Symplectic Orbifolds
Stephanie Frank Singer*, Haverford College
Janet Talvacchia, Swarthmore College
(924-58-201)
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10:20 a.m.
Discrete Abelian Chern-Simmons TQFT via Whitney Forms and Finite Element Discretizations
P. Robert Kotiuga*, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
(924-57-60)
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11:00 a.m.
Hamiltonian Structure of Isomonodromic Deformations
John Harnad*, Concordia & CRM
(924-58-88)
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Friday September 26, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, I
Room B-4275, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University and CICMA darmon@math.mcGill.ca
Chantal David, Concordia University and CICMA chantal@abacus.concordia.ca
Adrian Iovita, McGill University and CICMA iovita@math.bu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
On semi-reduced quadratic forms
Claude Levesque*, Universit\'e Laval
Eug\`ene Dubois, Universit\'e de Caen
(924-11-21)
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9:35 a.m.
Frobenius distributions and Galois representations
V. Kumar Murty*,
(924-11-303)
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10:10 a.m.
On certain integral points of a modular curve of level 5 (Preliminary report)
Imin Chen*, UC Berkeley
(924-11-42)
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10:45 a.m.
One-motives associated with varieties and a conjecture of Deligne
Niranjan Ramachandran*,
(924-14-63)
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11:20 a.m.
Some remarks on a Euclidean ring containing ${\Bbb Z}[\sqrt{14}]$
David A Cardon*, Queen's University
(924-11-62)
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Friday September 26, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
Room B-4270, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Israel Kleiner, York University kleiner@yorku.ca
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Duncan F. Gregory: The Unknown Gregory
Patricia R. Allaire*, Queensborough Community College, The City University of New York
(924-01-280)
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9:40 a.m.
Measure vs Integral in the Bourbaki Integration
Liliane Beaulieu*, University of Montreal
(924-01-264)
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10:20 a.m.
Proof: A Many-Splendored Thing
Israel Kleiner*, York University
(924-01-138)
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11:00 a.m.
Cubic curves, coordinates and classification: geometric style between Newton and Euler.
John D Anderson*, University of Toronto
(924-01-262)
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Friday September 26, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
Special Session on Non-Euclidean and Spacetime Geometries, I
Room B-4275, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Abraham A. Ungar, North Dakota State University ungar@tammy.math.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Higher Dimensional Crooked Planes
Todd A. Drumm*,
(924-51-15)
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9:40 a.m.
Properly Discontinuous Actions of Free Groups on ${\Bbb R}^{2,1}$.
Virginie Charette*, University of Maryland, College Park
(924-51-38)
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10:20 a.m.
A heat kernel approach to the Selberg trace formula.
Jonathan Huntley*,
(924-51-124)
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11:00 a.m.
A new 5D geometric formalism for physics and for data processing
Vladik Kreinovich*, University of Texas at El Paso
Scott A. Starks, NASA PACES Center
(924-51-65)
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11:40 a.m.
Orbits of isometric actions on Lorentz manifolds
J\'anos Szenthe*, E\"otv\"os University
(924-53-81)
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Friday September 26, 1997, 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Special Session on Potential Theory, I
Room B-4255, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Kohur Gowri Sankaran, McGill University gowri@math.McGill.ca
David H. Singman, George Mason University dsingman@osf1.gmu.edu
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9:30 a.m.
Potential Theory of Semi-Elliptic Differential Operators.
J\"urgen E. Bliedtner*, University of Frankfurt a.M.
(924-31-98)
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10:10 a.m.
Capacity integrals: strong type inequalities and duality.
David R Adams*, University of Kentucky
(924-31-144)
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10:50 a.m.
Growth and Asymptotic Sets of Subharmonic Functions
Jang-Mei Wu*, University of Illinois
(924-31-104)
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11:30 a.m.
On Integral Representation Formulae for Polyharmonic Functions
Bernhard F. Burgeth*, McGill University, Montr\'{e}al
(924-31-158)
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Friday September 26, 1997, 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Book Sale and Exhibit
Auditorium Lobby, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
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Friday September 26, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Potential Theory, II
Room B-4255, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Kohur Gowri Sankaran, McGill University gowri@math.McGill.ca
David H. Singman, George Mason University dsingman@osf1.gmu.edu
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2:00 p.m.
Boundary Limits of Subharmonic Functions on Domains in ${\Bbb R}^n$
Manfred Stoll*, University of South Carolina
(924-31-87)
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2:40 p.m.
A generalized Littlewood theorem for Weinstein potentials on a half space.
Kohur GowriSankaran*, McGill University
David H Singman, George Mason University
(924-31-152)
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3:20 p.m.
Minimal fine limits for a class of potentials.
Kohur GowriSankaran, McGill University
David H Singman*, George Mason University
(924-31-151)
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4:00 p.m.
The Nagel-Stein phenomenon in theorems of Fatou type
Fausto Di Biase*, Univ Roma Tor Vergata
(924-31-145)
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4:40 p.m.
Mimimal surfaces with univalent Gauss map onto the upper sphere.
Walter Hengartner*, Universiti Laval, Quibec.
Daoud Bshouty, Technion, Haifa.
(924-30-221)
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Friday September 26, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Differential Topology, II
Room B-4260, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Jacques C. Hurtubise, McGill University hurtubise@math.mcgill.ca
Lisa Claire Jeffrey, McGill University jeffrey@math.mcgill.edu
Francois Lalonde, University of Quebec at Montreal flalonde@math.uqam.ca
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2:00 p.m.
On the Caratheodory conjecture
Janna Nikolaeva*, Institute of Applied Physics, Moldova
(924-58-273)
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2:40 p.m.
On the quantum cohmology rings of Fano toric manifolds
Jeffrey Ho*, University of Illinois
(924-53-213)
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3:20 p.m.
Incompatible Poisson structures.
Oleg I. Bogoyavlenskij*, Queen's University
(924-58-121)
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4:00 p.m.
A Theorem on Lagrangian Intersections and applications to the principle of minimal action.
Daniel C. Offin*, Queens University
(924-58-45)
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4:40 p.m.
Calabi-Yau and Seiberg-Witten integrable systems
Ron Y Donagi*, UPenn
(924-14-266)
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Friday September 26, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Geometry, I
Room 245, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
David Avis, McGill University avis@mutt.cs.mcgill.ca
Jacob E. Goodman, City College, City University of New York jegcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Richard Pollack, Courant Institute-New York University pollack@geometry.nyu.edu
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2:00 p.m.
Five spheres in mutual contact
Harold S. M. Coxeter*, University of Toronto
(924-05-202)
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2:30 p.m.
On regular vertices of the union of planar shapes
Boris Aronov*, Brooklyn Poly
(924-52-212)
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3:00 p.m.
Sylvester's question: the probability that $n$ points are in convex position
Imre B\'ar\'any*, Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(924-52-260)
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3:30 p.m.
The area and perimeter of an intersection of disks
Marshall W. Bern*, Xerox PARC
David Eppstein,
(924-52-140)
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4:00 p.m.
On 0ptimal Route Planning in the $3$-Dimensional Space
Andr\'as Bezdek*, Auburn University, AL and Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
(924-52-257)
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4:30 p.m.
On the strong dodecahedral conjecture
K\'aroly Bezdek*,
(924-52-223)
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5:00 p.m.
Symmetric Tensegrities--A Catalog
Allen Back, Cornell University
Robert Connelly*, Cornell University
(924-52-178)
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Friday September 26, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
Room 225, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Israel Kleiner, York University kleiner@yorku.ca
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
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2:00 p.m.
Maaseh Hoshev - The Arithmetic, Algebra and Combinatorics of Levi ben Gershom
Shai Simonson*, Stonehill College
(924-01-192)
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2:40 p.m.
From Anaximander to St. Augustine: Early mathematical, theological, and physical conceptions of the infinite.
Gregory Moore*, McMaster University
(924-01-235)
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3:20 p.m.
Mathematics in "La Logique ou l'Art de Penser" of Port-Royal
Jacques Lefebvre*,
(924-01-198)
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4:00 p.m.
Eulerian Heuristics and the zeta function
Roger D Rosenkrantz*, Dartmouth College
(924-01-271)
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4:40 p.m.
Toward a History of Primality Testing
Hardy Grant*, York University
(924-01-233)
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Friday September 26, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Category Theory and Its Applications, II
Room B-4265, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Michael Barr, McGill University barr@triples.math.mcgill.ca
Ieke Moerdijk, University of Utrecht. Netherlands moerdijk@math.ruu.nl
Myles Tierney, Rutgers University tierney@math.uqam.ca
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2:30 p.m.
Computation and visualization: a new philosophy of categories
Pierre Cartier*,
(924-18-203)
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3:25 p.m.
Remarks on Categorical Fixed Points
Philip S Mulry*, Colgate University
(924-18-217)
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4:05 p.m.
From NNO to Complexity
James R Otto, Jr*,
(924-18-26)
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4:45 p.m.
On the Cardinality of Functors
Robert Pare*,
(924-18-170)
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Friday September 26, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, II
Room 142, S Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University and CICMA darmon@math.mcGill.ca
Chantal David, Concordia University and CICMA chantal@abacus.concordia.ca
Adrian Iovita, McGill University and CICMA iovita@math.bu.edu
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1:55 p.m.
On the curves associated to certain rings of automorphic forms
Kamal Khuri-Makdisi*, Harvard University
(924-11-265)
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2:30 p.m.
Discussion
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3:05 p.m.
Galois Theory for Selmer Groups of Abelian Varieties
Ralph Greenberg*, University of Washington
(924-11-99)
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3:40 p.m.
False division towers of elliptic curves.
David E. Rohrlich*,
(924-11-52)
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4:15 p.m.
Positive Rational Points on Selmer Curves and Continued Fractions
Lin Tan*, West Chester University
(924-11-58)
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4:50 p.m.
Elliptic curves and class number divisibility
Siman Wong*, Brown University
(924-11-256)
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Friday September 26, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Invariant Theory, I
Room 250, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Abraham Broer, University of Montreal broera@dms.umontreal.ca
Yannis Y. Papageorgiou, C.R.M., University of Montreal papageor@crm.umontreal.ca
David L. Wehlau, Royal Military College and Queen's University wehlau@mast.queensu.ca
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2:30 p.m.
Invariant Theory Mod p
H E A Campbell*,
(924-13-68)
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3:00 p.m.
The Transfer in Modular Invariant Theory
Mara D. Neusel*, Universit\"at Magdeburg
(924-13-82)
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3:30 p.m.
Transfer between modular invariants of parabolic subgroups of $GL(n,Z/pZ)$
Nondas E Kechagias*, University of Ioannina
(924-13-185)
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4:00 p.m.
The Koszul Complex in Invariant Theory
Larry Smith*,
(924-13-112)
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4:30 p.m.
Formal modular seminvariants
R. James Shank*, Queen's University
(924-13-54)
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5:00 p.m.
Invariant Fields of Finite Irreducible Reflection Groups
Gregor Kemper*, Universit\"at Heidelberg
(924-12-22)
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5:30 p.m.
Non--Cohen-Macaulay vector invariants and a Noether bound for a Gorenstein ring of invariants
Ian P. Hughes*, Queen's University
(924-13-57)
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6:00 p.m.
On a conjecture by Guralnick and Thompson
Daniel Frohardt,
Kay Magaard*,
(924-20-286)
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Friday September 26, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Non-Euclidean and Spacetime Geometries, II
Room 340, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Abraham A. Ungar, North Dakota State University ungar@tammy.math.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Comtrans Algebras
Jonathan D.H. Smith*, Iowa State University
(924-17-19)
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3:10 p.m.
The conjectures of Thompson and Ore
Erich W Ellers*, North Dakota State University
(924-51-67)
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3:50 p.m.
A note on degenerate solutions of hyperbolicity equations.
Carlo Petronio*, University of Pisa
Jeff Weeks, Canton, NY
(924-51-91)
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4:30 p.m.
Applications of a Matrix Decomposition to Complex Hyperbolic Geometry
Hanna M. Sandler*, American University
Jeffrey L. Hakim, American University
(924-51-69)
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5:10 p.m.
On transsymetric spaces and smooth quasigroups
Liudmila Sabinina*, Michoacan University
(924-51-156)
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Friday September 26, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
Room 300, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Irena V. Peeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology irena@math.mit.edu
Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri mathhs@mizzou1.missouri.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Resultants and Eagon-Northcott Resolutions
John C McDonald*,
(924-14-300)
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3:30 p.m.
The Module of differentials
Ruth I. Michler*, University of North Texas
(924-13-160)
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4:00 p.m.
Cellular Resolutions of Monomial Modules
Dave Bayer*, Barnard College
Bernd Sturmfels, University of California at Berkeley
(924-14-113)
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4:30 p.m.
Spanning Trees and Quasi-Inverses
John A. Eagon*,
(924-13-251)
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5:00 p.m.
Gorenstein Divisors
Anthony A. Iarrobino, Jr.*, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115
(924-13-245)
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5:30 p.m.
The Projective Geometry of the Gale Transform
Sorin E Popescu*, Columbia University
David Eisenbud, Berkeley
(924-14-187)
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6:00 p.m.
Term Orders in Free Algebras
Reinhard C Laubenbacher*, New Mexico State University
(924-13-237)
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