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1996 Fall Western Sectional Meeting
Pasadena, CA, November 16-17, 1996
Meeting #917

Associate secretaries:
William A Harris, Jr, AMS wharris@math.usc.edu

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Sunday November 17, 1996

• Sunday November 17, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Their Representations, III
  Room 107, Downs Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Davida Fischman, California State University, San Bernardino fischman@math.csusb.edu
  M. Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California smontgom@mtha.usc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Hopf algebras of order $p^2$ and braided Hopf algebras of order $p$.
    Hans-J\"urgen Schneider*, Universit\"at M\"unchen, Germany
    (917-17-130)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quantum Groups of Dimension $pq^2$
    Shlomo Gelaki*, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva 84105 Israel
    (917-16-83)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the faithful flatness of a Hopf algebra over its group-likesubHopf algebra
    Siu-Hung Ng*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (917-16-92)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Detrminants and symmetries in Yetter-Drinfel'd categories.
    Miriam Cohen, Ben Gurion University
    Sara Westreich*, Bar-Ilan University
    (917-16-122)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Self dual Hopf algebras
    Edward L. Green*, Virginia Tech
    (917-16-20)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Faithfully flat forms and cohomology of Hopf algebra extensions.
    Akira Masuoka*, Shimane University
    (917-16-01)
• Sunday November 17, 1996, 8:05 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Group Actions and Noncommutative Algebra, III
  Room 103, Downs Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Zinovy Reichstein, Oregon State University zinovy@math.orst.edu
  Nikolaus Vonessen, University of Montana vonessen@selway.umt.edu
  

  • 8:05 a.m.
    Imbeddings of topological groups into linear spaces.
    Boris S. Khots*,
    (917-22-136)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Primitive Ideals in the Enveloping Algebra of the Lie Superalgebra$osp(1,2r)$
    Ian M Musson*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (917-17-103)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Quantum ${{\Bbb P}}^3$s which embed Quantum Quadrics
    Michaela Vancliff*, University of Oregon
    Kristel Van Rompay, University of Antwerp, U.I.A.
    (917-16-27)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Quadratic algebras of global dimension three.
    Darin R. Stephenson*, University of California, San Diego
    (917-16-114)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    On the trace of graded automorphisms
    James J. Zhang*, University of Washington
    (917-16-40)
• Sunday November 17, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
  Room 151, Sloan Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Shawnee L. McMurran, Pomona College
  James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Charles Babbage and Cryptography
    James J. Tattersall*, Providence College
    (917-01-72)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Early Voyages Into Logarithmic Seas
    Barnabas B. Hughes*, California State University, Northridge
    (917-01-18)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Historical pi calculations via the student project
    C. Ara Pehlivanian*, U.S. Military Academy, West Point
    (917-01-101)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Debeaune's Commentary on Descartes' Geometry
    C. Edward Sandifer*, Western Connecticut State University
    (917-01-97)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Early History of the Cornell Math Department: A Case Study inthe Emergence of the American Mathematical Community
    Gary G. Cochell*, Culver-Stockton College
    (917-01-107)
• Sunday November 17, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis on Singular and Noncompact Spaces, III
  Room 159, Sloan Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California xdai@mtha.usc.edu
  Rafe R. Mazzeo, Stanford University mazzeo@hodge.stanford.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Heat Kernel for Manifolds with Conic Singularities
    Edith A . Mooers*, UCLA
    (917-35-44)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Singular Curves and a Sard Theorem in subRiemannian Geometry
    Richard W. Montgomery*, USCS Santa Cruz
    (917-58-65)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Spectral theory of the Laplacian on fractals
    Leonid Malozemov, Kaiser Permanente, California
    Alexander Teplyaev*, Cornell University
    (917-35-127)
• Sunday November 17, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 153, Sloan Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin llave@math.utexas.edu
  Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Arizona maciejw@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dynamical systems with some hyperbolic properties
    Lai-Sang Young*, UCLA
    (917-58-63)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Convergence of densities for piecesise affine approximations of interval maps.
    Nicolai Haydn*, University of Southern California
    (917-58-61)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Properties of solutions of complex differential equations
    Alberto Candel*, Caltech
    (917-58-87)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Extremal rotation numbers for torus shear homeomorphisms
    Erik Doeff*, Montana State University - Bozeman
    Michal Misiurewicz, IUPUI
    (917-58-32)
• Sunday November 17, 1996, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Essential dimension of reductive groups.
  Room 201, E. Bridge Laboratory
  Zinovy Reichstein*, Oregon State University
  (917-16-03)
• Sunday November 17, 1996, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Hamiltonian Systems with Hyperbolic Properties.
  Room 201, E. Bridge Laboratory
  Maciej P. Wojtkowski*, University of Arizona
  (917-58-133)
• Sunday November 17, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis on Singular and Noncompact Spaces, I
  Room 159, Sloan Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California xdai@mtha.usc.edu
  Rafe R. Mazzeo, Stanford University mazzeo@hodge.stanford.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Inverse scattering problems for the Schr\"odinger operators with external Young-Mills potentials
    Gregory Eskin*, UCLA
    James Ralston, UCLA
    (917-35-66)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Invariant Gibbs measures for 2D nonlinear wave equations
    Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Study
    Arthur Jaffe, Harvard University
    Wensheng Wang*, USC, Los Angeles
    (917-35-76)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Regularity of fourth order equation in conformal geometry
    Sun-Yung A. Chang, UCLA
    Matthew J. Gursky, Indiana University
    Paul C. Yang*, USC
    (917-53-134)
• Sunday November 17, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, IV
  Room 153, Sloan Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin llave@math.utexas.edu
  Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Arizona maciejw@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The integral manifold of the three-body problem
    Qiudong Wang*, UCLA
    (917-34-59)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Arnold Diffusion-Issues and Recent Results
    Stephen Wiggins*, Caltech
    (917-58-62)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Strange Attractors in Dynamical Systems
    Bjorn Birnir*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (917-58-112)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Periodic orbits and complexity for billiards in polygons
    Eugene Gutkin*, University of Southern California
    (917-58-57)
• Sunday November 17, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV
  Room 151, Sloan Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Shawnee L. McMurran, Pomona College
  James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Charles L. Dodgson's Contributions to Linear Algebra and to the Theory of Parallels
    Francine F. Abeles*, Kean College of New Jersey
    (917-01-81)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Alfred Tarski comes to the USA: The hard years.
    Anita Burdman Feferman*, Stanford University
    (917-01-117)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    When Tarski met G\"odel.
    Solomon Feferman*, Stanford University
    (917-01-118)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Mathematical Etymology
    John Horton Conway*, Princeton University
    (917-01-126)
• Sunday November 17, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Their Representations, IV
  Room 107, Downs Laboratory
  Organizers:
  Davida Fischman, California State University, San Bernardino fischman@math.csusb.edu
  M. Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California smontgom@mtha.usc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Indecomposable Modules of Reduced Enveloping Algebras
    Rolf Farnsteiner*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (917-16-90)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Finite stratification of spectra, the Dixmier-Moeglin Equivalence,and $q$-skew polynomial algebras
    Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Edward S. Letzter*, Texas A & M University
    (917-16-100)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Invariants of skew derivations.
    Jeffrey Bergen*, DePaul University
    Piotr Grzeszczuk, Univesity of Warsaw
    (917-16-128)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Crossed Products, Goldie Rings, and Rings of Quotients
    Dmitriy Rumynin*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    (917-16-43)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Irreducible Representations of Crossed Products
    Sarah J. Witherspoon*, University of Toronto and University of California, Berkeley
    Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California
    (917-16-13)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the Grothendieck ring of a Hopf algebra
    Martin W. Lorenz*, Temple University, Philadelphia
    Loretta F. Tokoly, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122-6094
    (917-16-58)
• Sunday November 17, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
  Contributed Papers, I
  Room 103, Downs Laboratory
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rate of convergence of some neural network operators to the unit-univariate case.
    George A. Anastassiou*, The University of Memphis
    (917-41-07)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Induced Embeddings in Steinhaus Graphs
    Franz A. Delahan*, University of California.Irvine
    (917-05-54)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Vedic mathematics and pre-historic research.
    Jamuna P. Ambasht*, Benedict College
    (917-01-137)

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