Speakers at the 1997 Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, California, January 8-11, 1997:
Sue Geller, ``A teaching option for a Master of Science in mathematics,'' AMS Session on Mathematics and Education Reform.
Roger R. Smith, ``Bilinear completely bounded maps and injectivity,'' with Allan M. Sinclair, AMS Special Session on Recent Developments in C* Algebras and Operator Spaces.
Darrin M. Speegle, ``A construction of single function wavelets in Rn,'' joint work with Xingde Dai and David Larson, AMS Special Session on Wavelets, Multi-Wavelets and Their Application.
Peter F. Stiller, ``Applications of computational algebraic geometry to image understanding and machine vision,'' AMS Special Session on Computational Algebraic Geometry.
Rekha R. Thomas, ``Applications in integer programming,'' AMS Short Course on Applications of Computational Algebraic Geometry.
Paulo Lima-Filho, ``Generating functions for Euler-Chow invariants of projective varieties,'' Texas Geometry and Topology Conference, Texas Christian University, February 7-9, 1997.
Speakers at the Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Memphis, TN, March 21-22, 1997:
Harold P. Boas, ``Bohr's power series theorem in several variables'' (joint work with Dmitry Khavinson).
Emil J. Straube, ``Plurisubharmonic functions and subellipticity of the d-bar-Neumann problem on nonsmooth domains.''
Emil J. Straube, ``D-bar methods in complex analysis,'' University of Notre Dame, April 16, 1997.
William Rundell, ``Inverse obstacle scattering: reconstructions from the least possible data'' (joint work with Rainer Kress), Spring Western Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Corvallis, OR, April 19-20, 1997.
Emil J. Straube, ``D-bar methods in complex analysis,'' University of Houston, April 30, 1997.
Harold P. Boas, ``The football player and the infinite series,'' Spring Central Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Detroit, MI, May 2, 1997.
Francis J. Narcowich, ``The multilevel method: rates of approximation'' (joint work with Robert Schaback and Joseph D. Ward), IMACS Conference on Radial Basis Functions, Asilomar, May 27-30, 1997.
N. Sivakumar, ``Stability results for scattered-data interpolation on Euclidean spheres'' (joint work with Francis Narcowich and Joseph D. Ward), IMACS Conference on Radial Basis Functions, Asilomar, May 27-30, 1997.
G. R. Blakley, ``An abstract theory of codes,'' 54th Workshop on General Algebra, Klagenfurt, Austria, May 30, 1997.
Huai-Dong Cao spoke on "The structure of complete stable minimal hypersurfaces", UCLA, June 2, 1997.
David L. Barrow and Stephen A. Fulling attended the Foundation Coalition Faculty Conference in Plymouth, Mass., June 23-24, 1997.
Carl Maxson was an organizer of the Special Session on Non-Commutative Algebra at the joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the South African Mathematical Society at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, June 26-28, 1997. He spoke on ``When do maximal submodules determine linearity?''
Edward S. Letzter spoke on ``The Dixmier-Moeglin equivalence in quantum matrices and quantized Weyl algebras'' at the conference on Noncommutative Geometry and Ring Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, June 1997.
Huai-Dong Cao spoke on "The structure of complete stable minimal hypersurfaces" at the First Tianyuan Mathematics Conference in North America, Berkeley, June 30, 1997.
Carl Maxson spoke on ``Full ideals of polynomial rings'' at the international meeting on Near-rings and Near-fields held at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 13-18, 1997.
Speakers at the Conference on Complex Analysis and Applications, Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Warsaw, July 14-25, 1997:
Emil J. Straube, ``Subellipticity of the d-bar Neumann operator on non-smooth domains of finite type.''
Al Boggess, ``The holomorphic extension of Hp-CR functions on tubes.''
Jon McCammond spoke on ``Torus knots and Artin groups of large type'' at the London-Sussex-Southampton Topology conference and geometric group theory workshop held at the University of Southampton, Southampton, England, July 18-25, 1997.
Edward S. Letzter spoke on ``Prime ideals in coordinate rings of quantum matrices'' at the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Trends in the Representation Theory of Finite Dimensional Algebras, University of Washington, Seattle, July 20-24, 1997.
Jon McCammond spoke on ``Small cancellation theory and the Burnside groups'' at the Groups St. Andrews 1997 in Bath conference held at the University of Bath, Bath, England, July 26-August 9, 1997.
Edward S. Letzter spoke on ``Twisted quantum Frobenius maps'' at the conference on Noncommutative Algebra and Representation Theory at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, August, 1997.
Jon McCammond gave a talk entitled ``The tea-kettle on the table by the stove: a lecture in honor of Professor Arnold M. Wedel'' at the annual Fall Festival, Bethel College, Kansas, October 4, 1997. The talk was in honor of Wedel's 45 years of service to the mathematics department.
Huai-Dong Cao spoke on "Singularities of Kähler-Ricci flow and symplectic geometry" at Oklahoma State University, October 10, 1997.
Jon McCammond spoke on ``Torus knots and Artin groups of large type'' at the SUNY-Albany Topology and Group Theory conference held at the Rensselaer Institute in Albany, New York, October 10-12, 1997.
Speakers at the Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Atlanta, Georgia, October 17-19, 1997:
Tamás Erdélyi, ``Inequalities for polynomials with {-1,0,1} coefficients.''
William B. Johnson, ``Approximation of Lipschitz maps by affine maps'' (joint work with S. Bates, J. Lindenstrauss, D. Preiss, and G. Schechtman).
Thomas B. Schlumprecht, ``The w* topology and option pricing.''
Joel Zinn, ``Some correlation inequalities'' (joint work with Gideon Schechtman and Thomas Schlumprecht).
Huai-Dong Cao spoke on "Singularities of Kähler-Ricci flow and symplectic geometry" at MIT, October 21, 1997.
Huai-Dong Cao spoke on "Recent development in the Kähler-Ricci flow" at Dartmouth College, October 23, 1997.
Jon McCammond spoke on ``Braid groups, torus knots, and Artin groups of large type'' at the University of Texas Topology seminar, Austin, Texas, November 3, 1997.
Huai-Dong Cao spoke on "Singularities of the Kähler-Ricci flow and periodic orbits" at Columbia University, December 4, 1997.