AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:49
1998 Fall Central Section Meeting
Chicago, IL, September 12-13, 1998
Meeting #935
Associate secretaries: Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu
Saturday September 12, 1998
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Lobby (8th floor), Lewis Center -
Saturday September 12, 1998, 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Lobby (8th floor), Lewis Center -
Saturday September 12, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Topological Dynamics, I
Room 1007, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Roger L. Jones, DePaul University rjones@condor.depaul.edu
Randall McCutcheon, Wesleyan College cutch@claude.math.wesleyan.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Joint ergodicity along sequences of intervals.
Sergey G Butkevich*, The Ohio State University
(935-28-214) -
9:00 a.m.
The Worst Sums in Ergodic Theory.
Mustafa Akcoglu, University of Toronto
Roger Jones, DePaul University
Joseph Rosenblatt*, University of Illinois
Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis
(935-28-34) -
9:30 a.m.
Ergodicity and periodic orbits for billiards in polygons.
Eugene Gutkin*, USC
(935-58-17) -
10:00 a.m.
The Uncertainty Principle for Polygonal Billiards and Geodesics on the Surface of Polyhedra.
Gregory Galperin*, Eastern Illinois University
(935-58-167) -
10:30 a.m.
Rotation numbers for maps of the $n$-od.
Alexander Blokh, University of Alabama in Birmingham
Michal Misiurewicz*, IUPUI
(935-58-188)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
Room 1115, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Irena V. Peeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology irena@math.mit.edu
Michael Stillman, Cornell University mike@math.cornell.edu
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8:30 a.m.
A criterion for equality of radicals of ideals, and some applications.
Alexandre B Tchernev*, Purdue University
(935-13-181) -
9:00 a.m.
Permanental Ideals.
Reinhard C Laubenbacher*, New Mexico State University
Irena Swanson, New Mexico State University
(935-13-180) -
9:30 a.m.
Codimension three subcanonical schemes.
David Eisenbud, University of California at Berkeley
Sorin E Popescu*, Columbia University
Charles Walter, Universite de Nice, France
(935-14-220) -
10:00 a.m.
Algebraic Fundamental Group of a Curve Singularity.
Hema Srinivasan*, University of Missouri-Columbia
Steven D Cutkosky, University of Missouri
(935-13-27) -
10:30 a.m.
Indecomposable Gorenstein Modules of Odd Rank.
Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
Dana Weston, University of Missouri
Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
(935-13-144)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes and Related Topics, I
Room 8005, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Sung Yell Song, Iowa State University sung@math.iastate.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Coherent configurations and $2$-distance sets in real Euclidean spaces.
Eiichi Bannai*, Kyushu University
Etsuko Bannai, Kyushu University
(935-05-125) -
9:00 a.m.
Quotients of coherent configurations.
Alyssa D Sankey*, Slippery Rock University
(935-05-149) -
9:30 a.m.
Completely regular codes in Hamming graphs.
William J. Martin*, University of Winnipeg
Tara D. Taylor, University of Winnipeg
(935-05-236) -
10:00 a.m.
Tight 2-designs and perfect 1-codes in Doob graphs.
Akihiro Munemasa*, Kyushu University
Jacobus Hendricus Koolen, Kyushu University
(935-05-155) -
10:30 a.m.
Applying combinatorics of finite geometry to algebraic topology.
Stephen D Smith*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(935-05-39)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Analysis, I
Room 8009, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Richard B. Sowers, University of Illinois-Urbana r-sowers@math.uiuc.edu
Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University elton@math.nwu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Dirichlet functions, random walks, spanning forests, and percolation.
Russell D Lyons*, Indiana University
(935-60-94) -
9:30 a.m.
Some laws of the iterated logarithm for functionals of Harris recurrent Markov chains.
Xia Chen*, Case Western Reserve University
(935-60-28) -
10:00 a.m.
One-dimensional interacting particle systems with spatially-inhomogeneous flip rates.
Shirin Joy Handjani*, The University of Mississippi
(935-60-100) -
10:30 a.m.
Some central limit theorems for the motion of a tagged particle in the simple exclusion process.
Sunder Sethuraman*, Iowa State Univ.
Horng-Tzer Yau, Courant Inst.
Srinivasa Varadhan, Courant Inst.
(935-60-117)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topics in Mathematics and Curriculum Reform, I
Room 8012, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Richard J Maher, Loyola University Chicago rjm@math.luc.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Mathematicians and Mathematics Education.
John Baldwin*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(935-98-59) -
9:30 a.m.
Computer Lab On Wheels.
James R. Olsen*, Western Illinois University
(935-98-82) -
10:00 a.m.
Calculus for the Liberal Arts Student.
Richard A Gillman*, Valparaiso University
(935-98-25) -
10:30 a.m.
Historical, philosophical, and cognitive considerations of students' conception of proof.
Guershon Harel*, Purdue University
(935-98-44)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Coding, I
Room 8014, DePaul Center
Organizers:
William C. Huffman, Loyola University of Chicago wch@math.luc.edu
Vera S. Pless, University of Illinois at Chicago pless@math.uic.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Lower bounds on code invaritants.
A. Ashikhmin, Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
A. Barg*, Bell Labs
(935-94-210) -
9:30 a.m.
An improved upper bound on the minimum distance of doubly-even self-dual codes.
Simon Litsyn*, Tel Aviv University
(935-94-84) -
10:00 a.m.
The Mysterious Turbo Codes.
Robert J. McEliece*, California Institute of Technology
(935-94-237)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on K-Theory and Motivic Cohomology, I
Room 1114, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Kevin Knudson, Northwestern University knudson@math.nwu.edu
Mark Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mwalker@math.unl.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Transfer Maps and Algebraic K-theory.
Bruce Williams*, U. of Notre Dame
(935-19-195) -
10:00 a.m.
An isomorphism between Bredon and Quinn homology and the K-theoretic Isomorphism Conjecture.
Robert N Talbert*, Bethel College (IN)
(935-19-118)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Complexity of Geometric Structures on Manifolds, I
Room 1006, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Melvin G. Rothenberg, University of Chicago mel@math.uchicago.edu
Shmuel A. Weinberger, University of Chicago shmuel@math.uchicago.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Discrete groups acting on compact manifolds .
Benson Farb*, University of Chicago
Peter Shalen, University of Illinois at Chicago
(935-57-224) -
9:30 a.m.
Functional Integrals and Vassiliev Invariants
Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(935-55-129) -
10:00 a.m.
Positive Scalar Curvature for Complete Manifolds of Bounded Geometry.
Kevin M Whyte*, Univ. of Utah
(935-57-204) -
10:30 a.m.
Counterexamples to the Equivariant Borel Conjecture.
Nadya K Shirokova*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne
(935-51-106)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Complex Dynamics, I
Room 1405, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Shmuel Friedland, University of Illinois at Chicago friedlan@uic.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The Mandelbrot Set for the Complex Henon Map.
John E Fornaess, University of Michigan
Estela A Gavosto*, University of Kansas
(935-32-47) -
10:00 a.m.
Dessins d'enfants and Hubbard trees.
Kevin M Pilgrim*, Univ. of Missouri, Rolla
(935-11-16)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, I
Room 1536, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Jeremy T Teitelbaum, University of Illinois at Chicago jeremy@math.uic.edu
Yuri Tschinkel, University of Illinois at Chicago yuri@math.uic.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Simultaneous Diagonal Inequalities .
Scott T Parsell*, University of Michigan
(935-11-23) -
10:00 a.m.
Arithmetic torsors.
Yuri Tschinkel*, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
(935-11-132) -
10:30 a.m.
On simultaneous diophantine approximation in $\alpha{\Bbb Q} + {\Bbb Q}$.
Edward B Burger*, Williams College and The University of Colorado at Boulder
(935-11-56)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in Geometry and Dynamics, I
Room 1008, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Steven E Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago hurder@uic.edu
Ralf J. Spatzier, University of Michigan spatzier@math.lsa.umich.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Projective factors of group actions with stationary measure.
Robert J. Zimmer*, The University of Chicago
(935-22-30) -
10:30 a.m.
Arithmetic Quotients adn Fundamental Groups of Manifolds Admitting Lattice Actions.
David M Fisher*, University of Chicago
(935-53-221)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Mirror Symmetry, I
Room 1109, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University getzler@math.nwu.edu
Mikhail Kapranov, Northwestern University kapranov@math.nwu.edu
Sheldon Katz, Oklahoma State University katz@math.okstate.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The topological cup product on semiample hypersurfaces in toric varieties.
Anvar R Mavlyutov*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
(935-14-196) -
10:00 a.m.
Compactifying the space of stable maps.
Dan Abramovich*, Boston University
Angelo Vistoli, Universita di Bologna
(935-14-55)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, I
Room 1014, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University gqchen@math.nwu.edu
Konstantina Trivisa, Northwestern University trivisa@math.nwu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Weak Continuity of Minors in Nonlinear Elasticity.
Irene Fonseca*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
(935-35-92) -
9:30 a.m.
Undercompressive shocks in a model of thin film motion.
Michael Shearer*, North Carolina State University
(935-35-238) -
10:00 a.m.
Existence of Entropy Solutions to the Compressible Euler Equations.
Philippe G. LeFloch*, Ecole Polytechnique
(935-35-232) -
10:30 a.m.
Bifurcation of Nonclassical Viscous Shock Profiles from the Constant State.
Arthur V. Azevedo, Universidade de Brasilia
Dan Marchesin, Instituto de Matem\'atica Pura e Aplicada
Bradley J. Plohr*, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University
(935-35-203)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Fourier Analysis, I
Room 1312, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Marshall Ash, DePaul University mash@math.depaul.edu
Mark A. Pinsky, Northwestern University pinsky@math.nwu.edu
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9:30 a.m.
The $\bar\partial_b$ Complex on Certain Quadratic CR Submanifolds .
Alexander J Nagel*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(935-42-93) -
10:00 a.m.
Central Mean Oscillation, Morrey Spaces, and Central Carleson Measures.
Josefina Alvarez*, New Mexico State University
Martha Guzman-Partida, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Joseph Lakey, New Mexico State University
(935-42-123) -
10:30 a.m.
Pseudo-differential operators and non-linear dispersive equations.
Carlos E Kenig*, University of Chicago
(935-35-199)
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9:30 a.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Rigidity Phenomena in Geometry and Dynamics.
Room 241, Lewis Center
Ralf J Spatzier*, University of Michigan
(935-58-138) -
Saturday September 12, 1998, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Motivic homotopy type?
Room 241, Lewis Center
Vladimir Voevodsky*, Northwestern University -
Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Analysis, II
Room 8009, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Richard B. Sowers, University of Illinois-Urbana r-sowers@math.uiuc.edu
Elton P. Hsu, Northwestern University elton@math.nwu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Robustness of phase transition for general spherical models.
Robin Pemantle*, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Jeff Steif, Math. Department, Chalmers Univ.
(935-60-32) -
3:30 p.m.
Logarithmic Sobolev Inequality for Some Models of Random Walks.
Tzong-Yow Lee*, University of Maryland
Horng-Tzer Yau, New York University
(935-60-35) -
4:00 p.m.
Stochastic Curvature Driven Flows.
Nung Kwan Yip*, University of Wisonsin-Madison
(935-60-95) -
4:30 p.m.
Doubly perturbed random walk and Brownian motion.
Burgess J Davis*, Purdue University
(935-60-31) -
5:00 p.m.
Martin Boundary and Integral Representations for Harmonic Functions of Symmetric Stable Processes.
Zhen-Qing Chen, Cornell University
Renming Song*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamapign
(935-60-48) -
5:30 p.m.
Problems of Perturbation Theory.
I H Dinwoodie*, Tulane University
(935-60-63)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topics in Mathematics and Curriculum Reform, II
Room 8012, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Richard J Maher, Loyola University Chicago rjm@math.luc.edu
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3:00 p.m.
How to Reinvigorate Undergraduate Mathematics Education.
Jerry Uhl*, University of Illinois
(935-98-51) -
3:30 p.m.
In Praise of Thales.
Joseph J Rotman*, UniDepartment of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(935-00-18) -
4:00 p.m.
Forging Connections Between Mathematics and Science General Education Courses.
Janet L Andersen*, Hope College
(935-98-101) -
4:30 p.m.
Problems that students must actually use calculus to solve.
Charlene E. Beckmann*, Grand Valley State University
(935-98-208) -
5:00 p.m.
Calculus assessment at the UIUC: The Indicators Project.
Paul M Weichsel*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(935-98-52) -
5:30 p.m.
Fostering Effective Communication in Mathematics Classes as a Means for Improving Learning.
Susan F Pustejovsky*, Alverno College
(935-98-131)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Coding, II
Room 8014, DePaul Center
Organizers:
William C. Huffman, Loyola University of Chicago wch@math.luc.edu
Vera S. Pless, University of Illinois at Chicago pless@math.uic.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Some properties of geometric codes.
Jennifer D. Key*, Clemson University, SC
(935-05-127) -
3:30 p.m.
New Nonlinear Codes Constructed from Reed-Muller Codes.
Xiang-dong Hou*, Wright State University
(935-94-207) -
4:00 p.m.
The presence of the all-1 vector.
Harold N. Ward*, University of Virginia
(935-94-112) -
4:30 p.m.
Memorial for Ed Assmus
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on K-Theory and Motivic Cohomology, II
Room 1114, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Kevin Knudson, Northwestern University knudson@math.nwu.edu
Mark Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mwalker@math.unl.edu
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3:00 p.m.
On the $K$-theory of elliptic curves.
Kevin P. Knudson*, Northwestern University
(935-19-122) -
4:00 p.m.
Algebras satisfying the condition of Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg and their topological Hochschild homology.
Ayelet Lindenstrauss*, Indiana University
Michael Larsen, Indiana University
(935-19-165) -
5:00 p.m.
The lower algebraic K-theory of cocompact Fuchsian groups.
Ethan Berkove, United States Military Academy
Daniel Juan-Pineda, Instituto de Matem\'aticas-Unidad Morelia
Kimberly Pearson*, Valparaiso University
(935-19-116)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Fourier Analysis, II
Room 1312, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Marshall Ash, DePaul University mash@math.depaul.edu
Mark A. Pinsky, Northwestern University pinsky@math.nwu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Applications of weighted Laguerre transplantation theorems.
George Gasper*, Northwestern University
Walter Trebels, TU Darmstadt
(935-42-86) -
3:30 p.m.
Regularity properties of wave propagation on conic manifolds.
Detlef M\"uller, Christian-Albrechts-Universit\"at Kiel
Andreas Seeger*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(935-42-75) -
4:00 p.m.
Nonuniqueness for a bounded, differentiable complete orthonormal system.
Gang Wang*, DePaul University
J Marshall Ash, DePaul University
(935-42-74) -
4:30 p.m.
Convolution squares of measures on surfaces.
Robert Kaufman*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(935-42-45) -
5:00 p.m.
Calderon reproducing formula and Hardy space theory on product spaces of stratified groups.
Yongsheng Han, Auburn University
Guozhen Lu*, Wright State University
(935-42-104) -
5:30 p.m.
Grunsky Transformation for the upper half plane.
Subhajit Ghosechowdhury*, University of Missouri
(935-42-230)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Topological Dynamics, II
Room 1007, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Roger L. Jones, DePaul University rjones@condor.depaul.edu
Randall McCutcheon, Wesleyan College cutch@claude.math.wesleyan.edu
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3:00 p.m.
$\Bbb Z^d$ Staircase Actions.
Terrence Adams, Ohio State University
Cesar E. Silva*, Williams College
(935-28-191) -
3:30 p.m.
On Ergodic 2-to-1 Endomorphisms.
Stanley J Eigen*, Northeastern University
(935-28-176) -
4:00 p.m.
A problem in ergodic theory.
Karin Reinhold*, University at Albany, SUNY
(935-28-169) -
4:30 p.m.
Results in Polynomial Recurrence for Actions of Fields.
Paul G. Larick*, Dept of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43201
(935-46-58) -
5:00 p.m.
An infinitary polynomial Hales-Jewett theorem.
Randall G McCutcheon*, University of Maryland
(935-05-121) -
5:30 p.m.
Recent problems I have not been able to solve.
M\'at\'e Wierdl*, University of Memphis
(935-28-77)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Complex Dynamics, II
Room 1405, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Shmuel Friedland, University of Illinois at Chicago friedlan@uic.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Universal holomorphic motion of a closed set in the Riemann sphere.
Sudeb Mitra*, Cornell University
(935-32-53) -
4:00 p.m.
Maps on $\bf{P}^2$ with the symmetries of the symmetric group $S_5$.
Scott Crass*, Buffalo State College
(935-51-172) -
5:00 p.m.
Remarks on complex dynamics.
John E. Fornaess*, University of Michigan
(935-32-241)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, II
Room 1536, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Jeremy T Teitelbaum, University of Illinois at Chicago jeremy@math.uic.edu
Yuri Tschinkel, University of Illinois at Chicago yuri@math.uic.edu
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3:00 p.m.
estimating the speed of the quadratic sieve.
Daniel J. Bernstein*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(935-11-29) -
3:30 p.m.
A $q$-analogue of Mahler Expansions.
Keith Conrad*, Ohio State Univ.
(935-11-168) -
4:00 p.m.
Elliptic curves over function fields.
Douglas Ulmer*, University of Arizona
(935-11-126) -
4:30 p.m.
Jordan's Theorem in Characteristic p.
Michael J Larsen*, University of Indiana
(935-11-90)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
Room 1115, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Irena V. Peeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology irena@math.mit.edu
Michael Stillman, Cornell University mike@math.cornell.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Good and bad Koszul algebras.
Jan-Erik Roos*, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm Universiy, Stockholm, Sweden
(935-13-145) -
3:30 p.m.
On Cohen-Macaulay approximation.
Jee Heub Koh*, Korea Institute for Advanced Study and Indiana University
(935-13-141) -
4:00 p.m.
Strictly positive regular functions on compact real varieties.
Eberhard Becker*, Universit\"at Dortmund
(935-13-190) -
4:30 p.m.
Simultaneous Resolution.
Steven D Cutkosky*, University of Missouri-Columbia
(935-14-26) -
5:00 p.m.
Hilbert functions and homogeneous generic forms.
Vesselin Gasharov*, Cornell University
(935-13-202) -
5:30 p.m.
Annihilators and associated primes of local cohomology modules.
Christel Rotthaus*, Michigan State University
Markus Brodmann, Universit\"at Z\"urich
Rodney Sharp, University of Sheffield
(935-13-69) -
6:00 p.m.
The Chern polynomial of a three arrangement .
Henry K Schenck*, Northeastern University
(935-14-113) -
6:30 p.m.
Derivations and powers of ideals.
Reinhold H\"ubl, University of Regensburg
Irena Swanson*, New Mexico State University
(935-13-146)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in Geometry and Dynamics, II
Room 1008, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Steven E Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago hurder@uic.edu
Ralf J. Spatzier, University of Michigan spatzier@math.lsa.umich.edu
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3:00 p.m.
H\"older Regularity of Horocycle Foliations.
Marlies Gerber*, Indiana University
Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University
(935-53-177) -
3:30 p.m.
Non-Smooth Dynamical Systems that Exhibit Hyperbolic Behavior.
Marian Gidea*, Loyola University of Chicago
(935-58-15) -
4:00 p.m.
Genuine partial hyperbolicity in a stably Bernoullian diffeomorphism.
Michael Shub, IBM
Amie Wilkinson*, Northwestern
(935-58-229) -
4:30 p.m.
An open dense set of stably ergodic diffeomorphisms in a neighborhood of a non-ergodic one.
Viorel Nitica*, University of Notre Dame
Andrei Torok, Princeton University
(935-58-166) -
5:00 p.m.
Rigidity of volume preserving partially hyperbolic actions of property (T) groups.
Andrew T\"or\"ok*, Princeton University
(935-58-61) -
5:30 p.m.
New results on rigidity of invariant measures for actions of higher rank abelian groups.
Anatole Katok*, Pennsylvania State University
(935-22-239)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes and Related Topics, II
Room 8005, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Sung Yell Song, Iowa State University sung@math.iastate.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Combinatorial Inequalities for Quasi-polynomial Semilattices.
Dijen K Ray-Chaudhuri*, Department of Mathematics The Ohio State University
Jin Qian, Department of Mathematics The Ohio State University
(935-05-156) -
3:30 p.m.
On Cayley graphs of 3-transposition groups.
Norio Yamazaki*, Inperial College, London
(935-05-183) -
4:00 p.m.
Superschemes and $t$-vertex Condition Graphs.
Jerzy Wojdylo*, Southeast Missouri State University
(935-05-96) -
4:30 p.m.
Association schemes with a nonsymmetric relation of valency two.
Mitsugu Hirasaka*, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
Mikhail Muzychuk, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
(935-05-205) -
5:00 p.m.
A new inequality for bipartite distance-regular graphs.
Michael Lang*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(935-05-218) -
5:30 p.m.
Distribution invariants of association schemes.
Nachimuthu Manickam*, DePauw University
(935-05-234)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Orthogonal Polynomial Series, Summability and Conjugates, I
Room 1410, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Calixto P. Calderon, University of Illinois at Chicago cpc@uic.edu
Calixto P. Calderon, University of Illinois at Chicago cpc@uic.edu
Luis A. Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin caffarel@math.utexas.edu
Luis A. Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin caffarel@math.utexas.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Difference Equations and Quantized Discriminants for $q$-Orthogonal Polynomials.
Mourad E.H. Ismail*, University of South Florida
(935-33-24) -
3:40 p.m.
poisson integrals for temperature functions.
Elizabeth A Kochneff*, Hewitt Associates
(935-40-133) -
4:20 p.m.
Singular integrals associated with surfaces of revolution.
Sarah N Ziesler*, Dominican University
(935-42-128) -
5:00 p.m.
On the Riesz Transforms for the Laguerre Semigroup.
Cristian E. Gutierrez*, Department of Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 19122
(935-42-97)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Mirror Symmetry, II
Room 1109, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University getzler@math.nwu.edu
Mikhail Kapranov, Northwestern University kapranov@math.nwu.edu
Sheldon Katz, Oklahoma State University katz@math.okstate.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Admissible Variations of Mixed Hodge Structure.
Gregory J Pearlstein*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Aroldo Kaplan, University of Masschusetts, Amherst
(935-14-135) -
4:00 p.m.
Tessellations of Moduli Spaces and the Mosaic Operad.
Satyan L Devadoss*, Johns Hopkins University
(935-14-79)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 1014, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University gqchen@math.nwu.edu
Konstantina Trivisa, Northwestern University trivisa@math.nwu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
A Proof of Existence of Perturbed Steady Transonic Shocks via a Free Boundary Problem .
Suncica Canic, University of Houston
Barbara Lee Keyfitz*, University of Houston
Gary M. Lieberman, Iowa State University
(935-35-60) -
3:30 p.m.
Fully nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations.
Panagiotis E. Souganidis*, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin
(935-35-91) -
4:00 p.m.
On the asymptotic behavior of entropy solutions to hyperbolic conservation laws.
Hermano Frid Neto*, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
(935-35-114) -
4:30 p.m.
Relaxation to the equations of isothermal elastodynamics.
Athanasios E. Tzavaras*, Univ. of Wisconsin
(935-35-98) -
5:00 p.m.
Relaxation Approximations to PDEs.
Shi Jin*, Georgia Institute of Technology
Markos Katsoulakis, University of Massachusetts
Zhouping Xin, Courant Institute
(935-65-198) -
5:30 p.m.
Global Solutions and Asymptotic Behavior of Nonlinear Magnetohydrodynamics.
Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
Dehua Wang*, University of California at Santa Barbara
(935-35-179) -
6:00 p.m.
Thin film equations: existence and properties of steady states.
Richard S. Laugesen*, University of Illinois, Urbana--Champaign
Mary C. Pugh, University of Pennsylvania
(935-35-22)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday September 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers
Room to be announced, DePaul Center
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3:00 p.m.
An Invariance Principle for Triangular.
Anthony D'Aristotile*, SUNY
(935-60-134) -
3:15 p.m.
Enumerating Unordered Sets of Finite Size N.
C. S. Felicitas*, Pan Asian Congress of Mathematicians(Amer&NY)
(935-18-09) -
3:30 p.m.
Posets from Conjugacy Classes of Coxeter Groups.
Robert V Gill*, University of Michigan
(935-20-115) -
3:45 p.m.
Analytical functions and infinite-dimensional P-groups.
Boris S Khots*, Compressor Controls Corporation
(935-46-14) -
4:00 p.m.
The Hasse Principle Modulo $N$th Powers.
Victor Scharaschkin*, University of Michigan
(935-11-197)
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3:00 p.m.