AMS Meeting Program by Day

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1997 Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego, CA, January 8-11, 1997
Meeting #918

Friday January 10, 1997

• Friday January 10, 1997, 7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.
  Joint Pi Mu Epsilon and MAA Student Chapter Advisors' Breakfast
• Friday January 10, 1997, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, II
  Organizers:
  M. Kathleen Heid, Pennsylvania State University IK8@psu.edu
  David M. Mathews, Central Michigan University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mental Constructions Used in Understanding the Chain Rule Concept
    Julie M Clark, Emory & Henry College
    Francisco Cordero, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
    Jim Cottrill, Georgia State University
    Bronislaw Czarnocha, Hostos Community College, CUNY
    David J DeVries, Georgia College & State University
    Denny St. John, Central Michigan University
    Georgia Tolias*, Purdue University Calumet
    Draga Vidakovic, North Carolina State University
    (918-98-841)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Students' Construction of the Sequence Concept
    David M Mathews, Central Michigan University
    Michael A McDonald, Occidental College
    Kevin Strobel*, Pacific University
    (918-98-557)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Students' Understanding of Quantified Statements in Natural Language and in Mathematics
    Ed Dubinsky, Georgia State University
    Olga Yiparaki*, Agnes Scott College & University of Arizona
    (918-98-691)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Development of Students' Understanding of Permutations and Symmetries
    Mark Asiala, Georgia State University
    Anne Brown, Indiana University South Bend
    Jennifer Kleiman, Georgia State University
    David Mathews*, Central Michigan University
    (918-98-652)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Students' Understanding of Cosets, Normality and Quotient Groups
    Steve Morics*, University of Redlands
    Mark Asiala, Georgia State University
    Ed Dubinsky, Georgia State University
    David Mathews, Central Michigan University
    Asuman Oktac, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
    (918-98-1042)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    On learning binary operations, groups, and subgroups
    Anne E Brown*, Indiana University South Bend
    David J DeVries, Georgia College
    Ed Dubinsky, Georgia State University
    Karen Thomas, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
    (918-98-669)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the Relationship Between Students' Proof Schemes and the Formation of Their Conception of Basic Linear Algebra Ideas.
    Guershon Harel, Purdue University
    Sonia P Hristovitch*, Purdue University
    Larry Sowder, San Diego State University
    (918-98-831)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Students' Understanding of Mathematical Definitions in Real Analysis
    Barbara S Edwards*, Penn State University
    (918-98-482)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Mathematicians' Views of Mathematics
    John Selden, MERC
    Annie Selden*, Tennessee Tech. Univ.
    (918-98-648)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on On the Contributions of John F. Nash, Jr., II
  Organizers:
  William F. Lucas, Claremont Graduate School lucasw@cgs.edu
  John E. Morrill, DePauw University johnmorrill@depauw.edu
  Joel Spruck, Johns Hopkins University js@chow.mat.jhu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Economics and Mathematics; Prizes, People, Problems, Pedagogy
    John Morrill*, DePauw University
    (918-90-751)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Nash Equilibria in Dynamic Price Competition
    James Case*, Consultant
    (918-90-755)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multi-Unit Auctions
    Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans*, University of Illinoic at Urbana-Champaign
    Charles M. Kahn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (918-90-1185)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Note on Correlated Equilibria for Bimatrix Games (Joint work with Fe Evangelista)
    T.E.S. Raghavan, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Fe S. Evangelista*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (918-90-1524)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cores, Large Cores, and Convex Covers
    John M. Rulnick*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Lloyd S. Shapley, University of California, Los Angeles
    (918-90-1055)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Weak potential, pairwise consistency and the least square values
    Irinel Dragan*, University of Texas, Arlington
    (918-90-636)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Stochastic Modelling, IV
  Organizers:
  Raisa Epstein Feldman, University of California, Santa Barbara epstein@pstat.ucsb.edu
  Glen H. Swindle, University of California, Santa Barbara swindle@bernoulli.ucsb.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Risk-Sensitive Stochastic Control and Relationship with Stochastic Differential Games
    Tamer Ba\c{s}ar*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (918-93-832)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Option Pricing with Constraints
    H. Mete Soner*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (918-90-1001)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Random walks on groups: A strong stationary time approach.
    Igor Pak*, Harvard University
    (918-60-204)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities for Free Loop Groups
    Trevor R. Carson*,
    (918-60-369)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Coherence of an inference is equivalent to existence of a countably additive prior
    Yuri Y. Boykov*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (918-62-1361)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    The geometry of random images and mapping the human brain
    Keith J. Worsley*, McGill University
    (918-62-1419)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Diamond Lattice Model of Semicrystalline Polyethylene
    Zhong-Hui Duan*, Florida State University
    Louis Howard, Florida State University
    (918-92-1494)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Homotopy Theory, I
  Organizers:
  Paul G. Goerss, University of Washington pgoerss@math.washington.edu
  James P. Lin, University of California, San Diego jimlin@euclid.ucsd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The mod~$2$ cohomology of $\hbox{GL}_{32}(\bf Z[1/2])$.
    William G. Dwyer*, University of Notre Dame
    (918-55-248)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    A gap theorem for Lusternik-Schnirelmann $\pi_1$-categry
    Takao Matumoto*, Hiroshima University
    (918-55-497)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    $E_\infty$ Algebras and $p$-Adic Homotopy Theory
    Michael A. Mandell*, University of Chicago
    (918-55-606)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Model categories of algebras and modules
    Brooke E Shipley*, University of Chicago
    Stefan Schwede, University of Bielefeld
    (918-18-159)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
  Organizers:
  Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia khp3k@fermi.clas.virginia.edu
  James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Felix Hausdorff's Contributions to the Theory of Order Types
    Jacob M. Plotkin*, Michigan State University
    (918-01-31)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Story of the "Parallelogram Rule" for Finding Tangents
    Paul R Wolfson*, West Chester University
    (918-01-770)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    "Rational diameters" and the discovery of incommensurability
    Wilbur R. Knorr*, Stanford University
    (918-01-970)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    More light on Colin Maclaurin
    Judith V. Grabiner*, Pitzer College
    (918-01-627)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Euclid-Euler Theorem.
    William Dunham*, Muhlenberg College
    (918-01-92)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mathematics and ideology: The politics of infinesimals
    Joseph Dauben*, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
    (918-01-982)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#10: Part B
  Environmental mathematics.
  Organizers:
  Ben Fusaro, Florida State University
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#16: Part B
  Technology, modeling, cooperative learning: Putting it all together.
  Organizers:
  Rosalie Dance, Georgetown University
  James T. Sandefur, Georgetown University
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#6: Part A
  The geometry of multivariable calculus.
  Organizers:
  Yves Nievergelt, Eastern Washington University
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#7: Part A
  Linear algebra using an interactive text.
  Organizers:
  Eugene A. Herman, Grinnell College
  Michael D. Pepe, Seattle Central Community College
  Robert T. Moore, University of Washington, Seattle
  James R. King, University of Washington, Seattle
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
  AMS Session on Biology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Is the Nile Outflow Fractal ? Hurst's Analysis Revisited
    Harold M Hastings*, Hofstra University
    Robert Kissell, Hofstra University
    (918-92-587)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    A Comprehensive Mathematical Model of Respiratory Dynamics and Oxygen Transport
    J. Derrick Head*, Univ. of Minnesota, Morris
    Philip S. Crooke, Vanderbilt University
    John J. Marini,
    John R. Hotchkiss,
    Tomas D. Valdivia,
    (918-92-1326)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Nonlinear mathematical model of Pressure Preset Ventilation for a Single Compartment System
    Sanjukta Hota*,
    (918-92-823)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Autoregulation in a Compartmental Model of the Intracranial System
    Zsuzsanna M. Kadas*, St. Michael's College, Colchester, VT
    (918-92-1287)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A two-sex STD model with activity levels and recruitment
    Christopher M. Kribs*, University of Wisconsin
    (918-92-576)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    A 2- Backbone polymer Model for Interphase Chromosome Geometry
    Bing Liu*, College of St. Scholastica
    Rainer K Sachs, University of California, Berkeley
    (918-92-259)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Mathematical Model of Capillary Growth in the Retina
    Sophia A. Maggelakis*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Andreas E. Savakis, University of Rochester Medical Center
    (918-92-1360)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    On the Global Stability of Solutions of a Nonlinear FDE
    Sanjay Rai*, Texas A&M International University
    Dennis Brewer, University of Arkansas
    (918-92-732)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Mathematical Model for Skin Cancer Initiation
    Mei Zhu*, Lafayettte College
    Stephen A. Kunec, Lafayettte College
    (918-92-1311)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Stochastic Simulation of Multistage Model of Carcinogenesis Mutation.
    Reza R. Ahangar*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (918-92-1573)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-8:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Mathematics Education, I
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The missing link between problem solving and mathematics education
    Helmut Doll*, Bloomsburg University of PA
    Scott Inch,
    (918-97-687)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Encountering mathematical patterns everywhere
    Anne Hughes*, St. John's University
    (918-97-924)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Computing Galois Groups of Order Four Linear Differential Equations
    Sabrina A Hessinger*, North Carolina State University
    (918-99-1477)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    A basic inequality of sobolev type for quasiperiodic functions of fixed frequencies
    Luping Zhang*, University of Claifornia, Irvine
    (918-99-1506)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-9:25 a.m.
  AMS Session on Algebraic Topology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    New approaches to localization and periodicity
    Arone Z Gregory*,
    (918-55-555)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Infinitesimal index theory and Borsuk-Ulam type theorem.
    Necdet Guner*, University of Wisconsin
    (918-55-90)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Tori which Admit Tilings in Link Complements
    Valeriu Pinciu*, SUNY at Buffalo
    (918-55-1365)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    The $\beta$-genus on Homogeneous Spin Manifolds
    Scott J Simmons*, University of Kentucky
    (918-55-1099)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Relations Between Stratified and Equivariant Homology
    Robert N. Talbert*, Vanderbilt University
    (918-55-1201)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Parametrized groupoids and closed model structures on the category ofsmall categories
    Steven R. Costenoble*, Hofstra University
    (918-55-769)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Student Chapters Contributed Paper Session
  Organizers:
  Karen Schroeder, Bentley College kschroed@bentley.edu
  

• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Teaching the Practice of Statistics at All Levels, I
  Organizers:
  K. L. D. Gunawardena, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh gunaward@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu
  Anne D. Sevin, Framingham State College
  Chitra Gunawardena, University of Wisconsin Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Hands-on Activities for Probability and Mathematical Statistics Courses
    Anne D. Sevin*, Framingham State College
    (918-B1-1103)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    {\it Maple\/} and the Sample Mean from the Cauchy Distribution
    Elliot A Tanis*, Hope College
    John J Krueger, Hope College
    (918-B1-604)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Using writing in statistics courses
    Robert E Buck*, Slippery Rock University
    (918-B1-759)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Using the Computer Algebra System Maple in Applied Statistics
    Amy L. Rocha*, San Jose State University
    (918-B1-837)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Correlation, Regression, and Moments of Inertia
    Roger B. Nelsen*, Lewis & Clark College
    (918-B1-359)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Using Mathematica in Statistics Courses for Mathematics Majors
    Jenny Baglivo*, Boston College
    (918-B1-674)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Half-Course Offerings in Statistics
    John D. McKenzie, Jr.*, Babson College
    (918-B1-1116)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Enhancing Statistics Using an Industrial Simulation
    Bruce McLean*, Georgia Southern University
    (918-B1-347)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Time Series Analysis: An Introduction to Applied Statistics for Math Majors?
    Robin H Lock*, St. Lawrence University
    (918-B1-1217)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Simulation to the Rescue in ANOVA
    Donald E Miller*, Saint Mary's College
    (918-B1-817)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An in-depth case studies approach to statistics
    Deborah Nolan*, University of California, Berkeley
    Terence P Speed, University of California, Berkeley
    (918-B1-1485)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Improving Statistics Education Through Academe/Industry Collaboration
    Roxy L Peck*, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
    (918-B1-838)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA Session on Needed Connections: Preparation of Teachers K--12, I
  Organizers:
  Mary M. Lindquist, Columbus College lindquist_mary@colstate.edu
  Patrick Collier, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
  Albert Otto, Illinois State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Introduction
  • 8:10 a.m.
    Needed Connections Among Students, Cooperating Teachers, and Mathematics Professors for the Preparation of Mathematics Teachers 7-12
    Lucy C. Snead*, Columbia College
    (918-E1-1096)
  • 8:25 a.m.
    Connections: Before, During, and After Student Teaching
    Jon L Johnson*, Elmhurst College
    (918-E1-700)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Connecting technology, mathematics, and teachers
    Leonard J Lipkin*, Univ. of North Florida
    (918-E1-967)
  • 8:55 a.m.
    Partnership for Excellence
    Joanne V Peeples*, El Paso Community College
    (918-E1-1123)
  • 9:10 a.m.
    Connecting Preservice Teachers to the Real World of the Classroom
    Susan Gay*, University of Kansas
    (918-E1-1021)
  • 9:25 a.m.
    A Collaborative Approach to Course Restructuring for Preservice Teachers
    Mark L Klespis*, Sam Houston State University
    (918-E1-717)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Supporting New Teachers: A Role for Mathematicians
    John T. Kemper*, University of St. Thomas
    (918-E1-358)
  • 9:55 a.m.
    Establishing Connections: Using Technology in Elementary School Mathematics and Science
    Michael B Fiske, Dr.*, St. Cloud State Univ.
    Mark A Minger, St. Cloud State Univ.
    (918-E1-559)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Connecting Technology, Problem Based Instruction, and Cooperative Learning in the Training of Teachers
    Ronald J Harshbarger*, University of South Carolina-Beaufort
    (918-E1-1414)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    Westmont-San Jose State University Technology Collaborative.
    Barbara J. Pence, San Jose State Univ
    Joanne Rossi Becker*, San Jose State Univ
    (918-E1-1041)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Curriculum-Based Teacher Preparation using the Core-Plus Mathematics Project Curriculum
    Eric W. Hart*, Western Michigan University
    (918-E1-1376)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
  MAA Session on Establishing and Maintaining Undergraduate Research Programs in Mathematics, I
  Organizers:
  Emelie Kenney, Siena College kenney@siena.edu
  Joseph Gallian, University of Minnesota-Duluth
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Undergraduate Mathematics Research: A Budget of Resources
    Emelie A Kenney*, Siena College
    (918-G1-1059)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    The CPR of Undergraduate Research in Mathematics: Challenges, Pitfalls and Rewards
    Mario U Martelli*, Cal State Univ. Fullerton
    (918-G1-363)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Nurturing Undergraduate Student Researchers in Fractal/Chaos
    Linda Bailey Hayden, Elizabeth City State U
    Dipendra C. Sengupta*, Elizabeth City State U
    (918-G1-1091)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Soap Bubbles, Fluid Clusters, and Undergraduate Research
    Frank Morgan*,
    (918-G1-439)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Undergraduate Research: Opening Doors to the Beauty of Mathematics
    Hugh N. Howards*, UC San Diego
    (918-97-399)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Starting an Undergraduate Research Program at a Four Year Institution
    Daniel Schaal*, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
    (918-G1-737)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Undergraduate research and faculty research: a symbiotic relationship
    Anant P. Godbole*, Michigan Tech University
    (918-G1-335)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Undergraduate Research--A Personal Perspective
    Langdon D White*, Siena College
    (918-G1-1051)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Development Programs That Work, I
  Organizers:
  Mercedes McGowen, William Rainey Harper College mmcgowen@harper.cc.il.us
  Jacqueline B. Giles-Giron, Houston Community College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Applied Algebra at Augsburg College: What Makes it Work?
    Suzanne I. Doree*, Augsburg College
    (918-J1-740)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Geometry: A Problem Solving Approach
    Rose M. Dubec*, Purdue University Calumet
    Marcia K. Wallace, South Suburban College
    (918-J1-1278)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Empowering graduate student instructors and students in their developmental classes: providing opportunities for teacher development in response to different styles of student learning.
    Elena Anne Marchisotto*, California State University, Northridge
    (918-J1-689)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Intermediate Algebra: Learning Concepts via Technology
    Edward A. Gallo*, Indiana University East
    (918-J1-655)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Marilyn Reba and Dianna Zook
  • 9:20 a.m.
    The Silent Treatment: An Attempt to Bridge the Distance Between "At-Risk" Students and Mathematics
    Teri J Murphy*, University of Oklahoma
    (918-J1-339)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    The NKATE Reform Algebra Project
    Lillie F Crowley*, Lexington Community College
    Darrell H Abney, Maysville Community College
    (918-J1-735)
  • 10:05 a.m.
    Developmental Research as the Basis for Instructional Development
    Erna Yackel*, Purdue University Calumet
    Diana Underwood Gregg, Purdue University Calumet
    (918-J1-879)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Changing the Unwritten Social Contract: What Happens when youRenegotiate It?
    Mercedes Anne McGowen*,
    (918-J1-1346)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  Developing statistical indicators for monitoring and improving undergraduate mathematics education.
  Panelists:
  Alan Jacobs, Scottsdale Community College
  Organizers:
  Kenneth Travers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Panelists:
  Carolyn Mahoney, California State University at San Marcos
  Paul Weichsel, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  John A. Dossey, Illinois State University
  Curtis McKnight, University of Oklahoma
  Janet Ray, Seattle Central Community College
  Alan Schoenfeld, University of California at Berkeley
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Presentation
  Innovative programs using technology in mathematics service courses.
  Organizers:
  Susan S. Lenker, Central Michigan University
  Bostwik F. Wyman, The Ohio State University
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  SUMMA Workshop
  Presentation on intervention projects for minority precollege students.
  Organizers:
  William A. Hawkins, MAA
  Presenters:
  Martha Billoti-Aliaga, University of Michigan
  Richard Gillman, Valparaiso University
  Donald St. Mary, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:15 a.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Mathematical Sciences Employment Register
  Interviews only.
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Finsler Geometry, I
  Organizers:
  David Bao, University of Houston bao@math.uh.edu
  S. S. Chern, University of California, Berkeley
  Zhongmin Shen, Indiana Univ-Purdue Univ at Indianapolis
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Rigidity Problems in Finsler Geometry
    Patrick Foulon*,
    (918-53-179)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Mathieu transformations and Wagner spaces
    Peter Antonelli*,
    (918-53-174)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    The Lichnerowicz formula on Finsler spaces
    Frank Flaherty*,
    (918-53-178)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Finsler Geometry as a problem in Control Theory
    Robert Gardner*,
    (918-53-180)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Interactions Between Ergodic Theory and Number Theory, I
  Organizers:
  Lawrence W. Baggett, University of Colorado baggett@euclid.colorado.edu
  Herbert Antonio Medina, Loyola Marymount University hmedina@lmumail.lmu.edu
  Kathy Donovan Merrill, Colorado College kmerrill@ccnode.colorado.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The binomial transformation is weakly mixing
    Michael Keane*, CWI, Amsterdam
    (918-28-1154)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homoclinic points for commuting automorphisms of compact abelian groups
    Douglas A Lind*, University of Washington
    (918-54-1307)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Carlitz-Schur polynomials: a generalization of cellular automata
    Jean-Paul Allouche*, CNRS
    (918-11-284)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An extension of Furstenberg's Diophantine result
    Bryna Kra*,
    (918-11-158)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Algorithms for Determining Polynomials with Small Mahler Measure
    Michael J. Mossinghoff*, Appalachian State University
    (918-12-169)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA Project NExT-Young Mathematicians Network Poster Session
  Presentations by new or recent Ph.D.s in the mathematical sciences.
  Organizers:
  Kevin Charlwood, Saint Leo College
  James R. C. Leitzel, University of New Hampshire
• Friday January 10, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Partially Ordered Sets
  William T. Trotter*,
  (918-06-1214)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  ASL Session
• Friday January 10, 1997, 9:10 a.m.-10:10 a.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  Some topics on the interface between set theory and analysis
  Daniel Mauldin*, University of North Texas
• Friday January 10, 1997, 9:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Geometry, II
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Curvature and Torsion Tensors of Almost r-Paracontact Connections
    Andrew J. Bucki*, Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics
    (918-53-225)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Isometry Groups of Compact Hyper-lorentz Manifolds.
    Brett A Sovereign*, University of Maryland
    (918-53-229)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Global differential geometry of $C^{\infty}$ non-immersive closed curves in the Euclidean plane
    Yu Chen*, University of South Carolina
    (918-53-702)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Asymptotic curvature of $\Theta$-metrics
    Matthew B. Stenzel*, Ohio State University, Newark Campus
    (918-53-812)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Elastic Curves in Hyperbolic 2-Space of Rotation Index One
    Daniel Howard Steinberg*, John Carroll University
    (918-53-910)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Homogeneous Einstein Spaces
    Megan M Kerr*, Dartmouth College
    (918-53-1038)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 9:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Task Force on Excellence in Mathematics Scholarship Presentation
  How mathematics can compete in the modern university.
  Moderators:
  Morton Lowengrub, Indiana University
  Panelists:
  Carl C. Cowen, Purdue University
  James Lewis, University of Nebraska
  Douglas A. Lind, University of Washington, Seattle
• Friday January 10, 1997, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA CRAFTY Panel Discussion
  A roundtable discussion with the client disciplines.
  Organizers:
  Sheldon P. Gordon, Suffolk Community College
  Panelists:
  Ron Oaxaca, University of Arizona
  John Prados, NSF and the University of Tennessee
  Wayne Roberge, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  Michael Ruane, Boston University
• Friday January 10, 1997, 9:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  JPBM Presentation
  Math Awareness Week (MAW) 1997---Mathematics and the Internet.
  Organizers:
  Richard H. Herman, JPBM
  Kathleen Holmay, JPBM
  Moderators:
  Robert M. Fossum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Presenters:
  Earl D. Fife, Calvin College
  James P. Fink, Gettysburg College
  Fernando Gouv\^ea, Colby College
  Patrick D. F. Ion, {\it Mathematical Reviews}
  Gene Klotz, Swarthmore College
  Janis M. Oldham, North Carolina A\&T State University
  Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, University of Kansas
• Friday January 10, 1997, 10:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS-MAA-SIAM; Joint Committee on Employment Opportunities Presentation
  Effective job search strategies.
  Panelists:
  Katy Piotrowski, Bernard Haldane Associates
• Friday January 10, 1997, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Book Sales and Exhibits
• Friday January 10, 1997, 10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Von Neumann algebra techniques in analysis and topology.
  Mikhail A. Shubin*, Northeastern University
  (918-32-1543)
• Friday January 10, 1997, 10:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  The field of reals with the Gamma function is o-minimal
  Patrick Speissegger*, Fields Institute
• Friday January 10, 1997, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  Does mathematics need new axioms?
  Solomon Feferman*, Stanford University
• Friday January 10, 1997, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture III
  Analysis on spaces of paths
  Daniel W. Stroock*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Friday January 10, 1997, 1:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on On the Contributions of John F. Nash, Jr., III
  Organizers:
  William F. Lucas, Claremont Graduate School lucasw@cgs.edu
  John E. Morrill, DePauw University johnmorrill@depauw.edu
  Joel Spruck, Johns Hopkins University js@chow.mat.jhu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Nash-Moser Theorem in PDE
    Richard Hamilton*, University of California, San Diego
    (918-35-1536)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On Nash's Implicit Function Theorem and Applications to Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
    Sergiu KLainerman*, Princeton University
    (918-35-500)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ideas from Nash's paper "Continuity of Solutions of Parabolic and Elliptic Equations"
    Eugene B Fabes*, University of Minnesota
    (918-35-260)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Heat Equations in Carnot-Caratheodory Spaces: Local Regul