AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program

Current as of Monday, October 16, 2006 00:25:09

2006 Fall Western Section Meeting
Salt Lake City, UT, October 7-8, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1019

Saturday October 7, 2006

• Saturday October 7, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Faculty Lounge, John Widtsoe Building
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Faculty Lounge, John Widtsoe Building
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonconvex Variational Problems: Recent Advances and Applications, I
  Room 103, James Fletcher Building
  Organizers:
  Marian Bocea, North Dakota State University and University of Utah bocea@math.utah.edu
  Andrej Cherkaev, University of Utah cherk@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Steady Poiseuille flow of nematic liquid crystals: effective equations and momentum relations for Young measures.
    ALexander Panchenko*, Department of Mathematics, Washington State University
    (1019-35-154)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Homogenization and field concentrations in heterogeneous media.
    Robert Lipton*, Louisiana State University
    (1019-35-145)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Min-max variational problem of optimal design.
    Elena Cherkaev*, University of Utah
    (1019-35-208)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Optimal design of an optical resonator.
    Chiu-Yen Kao, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University
    Fadil Santosa*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1019-35-50)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Variational principles in $L^{\infty}$ under general PDE constraints.
    Marian Bocea*, North Dakota State University
    (1019-49-144)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Quadratic cost functionals in the gradient and linear state laws.
    Pablo Pedregal*, Departamento de Matem\'aticas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real (SPAIN)
    (1019-49-31)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Multi-variable Operator Theory, I
  Room 219, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  William B. Arveson, University of California Berkeley arveson@math.berkeley.edu
  Scott A. McCullough, University of Florida sam@math.ufl.edu
  Geoffrey L. Price, U.S. Naval Academy glp@usna.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Two-Isometric d-tuples of commuting operators.
    Stefan Richter*, University of Tennessee
    (1019-47-169)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A canonical isomorphism from a Hilbert module to its sheaf model.
    Xiang Fang*, Kansas State University
    (1019-47-91)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A constructive proof of the corona theorem for $H^{\infty}(D)$.
    Tavan T Trent*, University of Alabama
    (1019-47-119)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Free holomorphic functions on the unit ball of $B(H)^n$.
    Gelu Popescu*, University of Texas at San Antonio
    (1019-47-86)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Certain Quotient Modules of the Bergman Module.
    Jingbo Xia*, State University of New York at Buffalo
    (1019-47-34)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Noncommutative Inequalities.
    J William Helton*, Math Dept UC San Diego
    (1019-47-157)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory, I
  Room 140, James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Jasbir Singh Chahal, Brigham Young University jasbir@math.byu.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley State College vanframa@uvsc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Sums of two relatively prime cubes.
    Roger C Baker*, Brigham Young University
    (1019-11-09)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    p-rank stratification of Artin-Schreier curves.
    Hui June Zhu*, State University of New York at Buffalo
    (1019-14-28)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Explicit elliptic K3 surfaces.
    Jaap Top*, IWI, University of Groningen
    (1019-11-32)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Elementary geometry applied to analytic number theory.
    Peter D.T.A. Elliott*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1019-11-41)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dyson's challenge for the future: The mock theta functions.
    Ken Ono*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    Kathrin Bringmann, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    (1019-11-45)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Atkin-Serre Conjecture.
    Jeremy A Rouse*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1019-11-46)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis: Trends and Perspectives, I
  Room 130, James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Alex Iosevich, University of Missouri iosevich@math.missouri.edu
  Michael T. Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology lacey@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    New results on Irregularity of Distribution and Discprepancy in Three Dimensions.
    Michael T Lacey*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Dmitry Bilyk, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1019-42-44)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On an Argument of Shkredov on Two-Dimensional Corners in a Finite-Field Setting.
    Michael T Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology
    William C McClain*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1019-00-92)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Kloosterman sums, distance sets and sum-product theorems in combinatorics.
    Alex Iosevich*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Doowon Koh, University of Missouri
    Jozsef Solymosi, Uinversity of British Columbia
    (1019-05-201)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On a theorem of S\'ark\"ozy.
    Neil Lyall*, University of Georgia
    \'Akos Magyar, University of Georgia
    (1019-42-195)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Pointwise polynomial type ergodic theorems for nilpotent group actions.
    A Magyar*, University of Georgia
    (1019-42-185)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Breaking the duality in the "Return times" theorem.
    Ciprian Demeter*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1019-42-180)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Differential Equations: Methods and Applications, I
  Room 101, James Fletcher Building
  Organizers:
  David G. Costa, University of Nevada costa@unlv.nevada.edu
  Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University zhi-qiang.wang@usu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A semilinear wave equations without resonance.
    Alfonso Castro*, Harvey Mudd College
    (1019-35-152)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Semilinear Equations with Logistic Type Nonlinearities and Constant Yield Harvesting in $\mathbb{R}^N$.
    Hossein T. Tehrani*, UNLV
    David G. Costa, UNLV
    (1019-35-73)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Multiple Positive Solutions for Singular Boundary Value Problems.
    Maya Chhetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Stephen Robinson*, Wake Forest University
    (1019-34-65)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On a class of anisotropic nonlinear elliptic equations.
    Francois A van Heerden*, University of Utah
    Z.-Q. Wang, Utah State University
    (1019-35-79)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A variational problem in climate dynamics.
    Chjan Lim, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
    (1019-35-129)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 310, James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Paul Roberts, University of Utah roberts@math.utah.edu
  Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
  Oana Veliche, University of Utah oveliche@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Intersection Multiplicity, Local and Global.
    Sankar P Dutta*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1019-13-53)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geometric exotic modules.
    W Frank Moore, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    Greg Piepmeyer*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (1019-18-121)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An overview of Euler class theory.
    S M Bhatwadekar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
    Mrinal K Das, University of Kansas
    Satya Mandal*, University of Kansas
    (1019-13-52)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The commutativity of intersection with divisors.
    Sandra M Spiroff*, Seattle University
    Paul C Roberts, University of Utah
    (1019-13-179)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the number of Rees valuations.
    Irena Swanson*, Reed College
    (1019-13-39)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the highest Lyubeznik number of a local ring.
    Wenliang Zhang*, Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1019-13-58)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics Motivated by Physics, I
  Room 121, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Aaron J. Bertram, University of Utah bertram@math.utah.edu
  Yuan-Pin Lee, University of Utah yplee@math.utah.edu
  Eric R. Sharpe, University of Utah ersharpe@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Pfaffian-Grassmannian derived equivalence.
    Andrei H Caldararu*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Lev Borisov, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1019-14-95)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sheaves and Metrics on Canonical Singularities.
    David R Morrison*, Duke University
    (1019-14-150)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Birational Geometry and Homological Mirror Symmetry.
    Ludmil Katzarkov*, University of California, Irvine
    (1019-14-78)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Theory and Applications of Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 222, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Peter W. Bates, Michigan State University bates@math.msu.edu
  Kening Lu, Brigham Young University klu@math.byu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Invariant Manifolds of Spikes.
    Peter W Bates*, Michigan State University
    Kening Lu, Brigham Young University
    Chongchun Zeng, Georgia Tech
    (1019-35-87)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A possible approach to the dynamic of forward-backward parabolic equations.
    Giorgio Fusco*, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, ITALY
    (1019-35-66)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Attractors for the Singularly Perturbed FitzHugh-Nagumo System.
    Bixiang Wang*, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
    (1019-35-80)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Floer Methods in Low-dimensional Topology, I
  Room 225, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Alexander Felshtyn, Boise State University felshtyn@math.boisestate.edu
  Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the Fukaya Categories of Surfaces.
    Mohammed Abouzaid*, University of Chicago
    (1019-57-135)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Spectral invariants in Lagrangian intersections Floer theory.
    Remi Leclercq*, University of Montreal
    (1019-55-163)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Floer homology and knot concordance order.
    Stanislav Jabuka*, University of Nevada Reno
    Swatee Naik, University of Nevada Reno
    (1019-57-82)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Low-dimensional symplectic field theory and holomorphic foliations.
    Chris Wendl*, MIT
    (1019-53-160)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the classification of Floer-type theories.
    N. Shirokova*, Stanford University
    (1019-57-139)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry, I
  Room 215, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah bestvina@math.utah.edu
  Kenneth W. Bromberg, University of Utah bromberg@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Punctured surface mapping class groups.
    Richard P. Kent, Brown U.
    Christopher J. Leininger*, U. of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
    Saul Schleimer, Rutgers U., New Brunswick
    (1019-51-107)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Infinite Presentations of the Torelli Group.
    Andrew Putman*, University of Chicago
    (1019-55-177)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dimension of Torelli groups.
    Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
    Kai-Uwe Bux, University of Virginia
    Dan Margalit*, University of Utah
    (1019-20-131)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Random walks on the mapping class group.
    Joseph Maher*, Oklahoma State
    (1019-57-08)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Random Motion in Random Media, I
  Room B-1, James Fletcher Building
  Organizers:
  Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah firas@math.utah.edu
  Tom Schmitz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich schmitz@math.ethz.ch
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Random walks in reversible random environments: some solutions and open problems.
    Marek Biskup*, Department of Mathematics at UCLA
    (1019-60-151)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Transient random walks on a strip in a random environment.
    Alexander Roitershtein*, University of British Columbia
    (1019-60-193)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Interface of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Gaussian Analysis, I
  Room 102, James Fletcher Building
  Organizers:
  Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah davar@math.utah.edu
  Eulalia Nualart, University of Paris XIII nualart@math.univ-paris13.fr
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stochastic Heat Equation Driven by Fractional Noise.
    David Nualart*, The University of Kansas
    (1019-60-126)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Malliavin derivatives, supremum analysis, and Lyapunov exponents for stochastic PDEs.
    Frederi G Viens*, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
    (1019-60-113)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Complex Geometry, Kaehler Groups, and Related Topics, I
  Room 110, James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Terrence Napier, Lehigh University tjn2@lehigh.edu
  Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York at Buffalo ramac-m@math.buffalo.edu
  Domingo Toledo, University of Utah toledo@math.utah.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Projective geometry and topology.
    Daryl Cooper*, UCSB
    Darren Long, UCSB
    Morwen Thistlethwaite, Univesity of Tennessee at Knoxville
    (1019-51-35)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Moduli Space of Cubic Threefolds as a Ball Quotient.
    Daniel Allcock, University of Texas (Austin)
    James A Carlson*, Clay Mathematics Institute
    Domingo Toledo, University of Utah
    (1019-14-130)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Schur processes.
  Room 335, John Widtsoe Building
  Alexei Borodin*, California Institute of Technology
  (1019-60-159)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Harmonic analysis and incidence geometry: a survey.
  Room 335, John Widtsoe Building
  Izabella Laba*, University of British Columbia
  (1019-42-191)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonconvex Variational Problems: Recent Advances and Applications, II
  Room 103, James Fletcher Building
  Organizers:
  Marian Bocea, North Dakota State University and University of Utah bocea@math.utah.edu
  Andrej Cherkaev, University of Utah cherk@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Comparison of the asymptotic analyses of a non-planar rod in linear elasticity and non-linear elasticity.
    Pierre Seppecher*, Insitut de Mathematiques de l'Universite du Sud-Toulon-Var
    (1019-49-166)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Contact-angle Condition for Stranski-Krastanow Islands.
    Giovanni Leoni*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1019-49-51)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Threshold-based quasistatic evolution of brittle damage.
    A Garroni, University of Rome
    C J Larsen*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (1019-49-200)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quasiconvexity-based sufficient conditions for strong local minima: the smooth case.
    Yury Grabovsky*, Temple University
    Tadele Mengesha, Temple University
    (1019-49-21)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    New bounds for multiphase conducting composites.
    Andrej Cherkaev*, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
    (1019-49-204)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The dipole problem for $S^1$-valued maps with $H^{1/2}$-regularity.
    Vincent Millot*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Adriano Pisante, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
    (1019-49-112)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Random Motion in Random Media, II
  Room B-1, James Fletcher Building
  Organizers:
  Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah firas@math.utah.edu
  Tom Schmitz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich schmitz@math.ethz.ch
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Diffusions in random environment and ballistic behaviour.
    Tom Schmitz*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1019-60-102)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Variance bounds for the current in the asymmetric simple exclusion process.
    M\'arton Bal\'azs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Timo Sepp\"al\"ainen*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1019-60-117)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 219, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  William B. Arveson, University of California Berkeley arveson@math.berkeley.edu
  Scott A. McCullough, University of Florida sam@math.ufl.edu
  Geoffrey L. Price, U.S. Naval Academy glp@usna.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Semi-crossed products and their C*-envelopes.
    Justin R. Peters*, Iowa State University
    (1019-47-23)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Combinatorics of free Wick products.
    Michael Anshelevich*, Texas A&M University
    (1019-46-182)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A dynamical restriction on $C^*$-algebras of graphs.
    Jack Spielberg*, Arizona State University, Dept. of Maths & Stats
    (1019-46-115)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Graded Groups in K-theory.
    Michael V. Pimsner*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1019-46-132)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The asymptotic lift of a completely positive map.
    William Arveson*, UC Berkeley
    (1019-46-47)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Multiplicative properties of positive maps of operator algebras.
    Erling Stormer*, Dept. of Math., University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
    (1019-46-194)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory, II
  Room 140, James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Jasbir Singh Chahal, Brigham Young University jasbir@math.byu.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley State College vanframa@uvsc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Powers of rationals in short intervals.
    Cameron L. Stewart*, University of Waterloo
    (1019-11-108)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Sharp bounds for the number of solutions to classes of systems of simultaneous Pell equations.
    P.G. Walsh*, University of Ottawa
    (1019-11-63)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A problem on zeros of L-series of elliptic curves.
    Xian-Jin Li*, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
    (1019-11-70)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The $\omega(q)$ mock theta function and vector-valued Maass-Poincar\'e series.
    Sharon Anne Garthwaite*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1019-11-97)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    An equivalence for the Riemann hypothesis in terms of coefficients of orthogonal projections.
    Andreas Weingartner*, Southern Utah University
    (1019-11-105)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On a family of quintic Thue equations.
    Claude Levesque*, U. Laval
    (1019-11-116)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis: Trends and Perspectives, II
  Room 130, James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Alex Iosevich, University of Missouri iosevich@math.missouri.edu
  Michael T. Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology lacey@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Affine fractals and their harmonic analysis.
    Palle E. T. Jorgensen*, The University of Iowa
    (1019-42-19)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Geometric properties of intersection bodies.
    Maria Angeles Alfonseca*, North Dakota State University
    Dmitry Ryabogin, Kansas State University
    Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University
    (1019-52-141)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Sharp constants in the integral John-Nirenberg inequality and the corresponding weak-form estimates.
    Leonid Slavin*, University of Connecticut
    Vasily Vasyunin, St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute
    (1019-42-199)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Strichartz estimates for Schr\"odinger operators with large magnetic potentials in $\mathbb{R}^3$.
    M. B. Erdogan*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    (1019-35-96)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The optimal bound for Riesz transforms in weighted spaces.
    Stefanie Petermichl*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1019-42-72)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Multilinear oscillatory integrals.
    Xiaochun Li*, UIUC
    (1019-42-64)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Differential Equations: Methods and Applications, II
  Room 101, James Fletcher Building
  Organizers:
  David G. Costa, University of Nevada costa@unlv.nevada.edu
  Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University zhi-qiang.wang@usu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Local Theory for Finding Multiple Solutions.
    Jianxin Zhou*, Texas A&M University
    (1019-35-99)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some three-body problems in atomic and molecular quantum mechanics.
    Zhonghai Ding*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    (1019-35-101)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Symmetry and Automated Branch Following for Nonlinear Elliptic PDE and PdE on Graphs.
    John M Neuberger*, Northern Arizona University
    Nandor Sieben, Northern Arizona University
    James W Swift, Northern Arizona University
    (1019-35-172)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Brunn-Minkowski-type Inequalities Related to Partial Differential Equations.
    David Hartenstine*, Western Washington University
    (1019-35-147)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Nontrivial Critical Groups in p-Laplacian Problems via the Cohomological Index.
    Kanishka S. Perera*, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1019-35-155)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A stable method for finding multiple solutions to noncooperative elliptic systems.
    Xianjin Chen*, Texas A&M University, College Station
    Jianxin Zhou, Texas A&M University, College Station
    (1019-35-15)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
  Room 310, James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Paul Roberts, University of Utah roberts@math.utah.edu
  Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
  Oana Veliche, University of Utah oveliche@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Detecting completeness from ext-vanishing.
    Sean M Sather-Wagstaff*, California State University, Dominguez Hills
    Anders Frankild, University of Copenhagen
    (1019-13-42)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Acyclicity of complexes detects Gorensteinness of rings.
    Lars Winther Christensen*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Oana Veliche, University of Utah
    (1019-13-128)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the triviality of self-extensions.
    David A Jorgensen*, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1019-13-153)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Generic modules over small algebras.
    Luchezar Avramov, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Srikanth Iyengar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Liana Sega*, University of Missouri-Kansas City
    (1019-13-198)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Loewy length of modules of finite projective dimension.
    Luchezar L. Avramov, University of Nebraska
    Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, University of Toronto
    Srikanth B. Iyengar*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
    (1019-13-88)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry, II
  Room 215, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah bestvina@math.utah.edu
  Kenneth W. Bromberg, University of Utah bromberg@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Automorphisms of the genus 2 Heegaard splitting of $S^3$.
    Ian Agol*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1019-57-74)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Spaces with nonpositive immersions.
    Robert W Bell*, Michigan State University
    (1019-20-176)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quasi-isometric classification of graph manifolds.
    Jason A. Behrstock*, University of Utah
    Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University
    (1019-20-109)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Ricci flow for nilmanifolds.
    Tracy L Payne*, Idaho State University
    (1019-22-184)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics Motivated by Physics, II
  Room 121, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Aaron J. Bertram, University of Utah bertram@math.utah.edu
  Yuan-Pin Lee, University of Utah yplee@math.utah.edu
  Eric R. Sharpe, University of Utah ersharpe@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Integrable Hierarchies and Mirror Symmetry for Quasi-homogeneous Singularities.
    Huijun Fan, Peking University
    Tyler Jarvis*, Univ. Connecticut
    Yongbin Ruan, University of Michigan
    (1019-14-134)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Computation of (0,2) correlation functions.
    Josh Guffin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Sheldon Katz*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1019-81-219)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Geometric Langlands duality, gauge theory, and mirror symmetry.
    Anton Kapustin*, California Institute of Technology
    (1019-81-59)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Theory and Applications of Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 222, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Peter W. Bates, Michigan State University bates@math.msu.edu
  Kening Lu, Brigham Young University klu@math.byu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Approximations of the Generalized Euler-Poisson-Darboux Equation.
    Cheng-Hsiung Hsu*, Department of Mathematics, National Central University, Taiwan
    (1019-35-127)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Evans Function Computation for Large Systems.
    Jeffrey Humpherys*, Brigham Young University
    Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University
    (1019-35-56)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Energy estimates of free boundary problems of the Euler equation.
    Jalal Shatah, New York University
    Chongchun Zeng*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1019-35-100)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Interface of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Gaussian Analysis, II
  Room 102, James Fletcher Building
  Organizers:
  Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah davar@math.utah.edu
  Eulalia Nualart, University of Paris XIII nualart@math.univ-paris13.fr
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some rigorous results on a stochastic GOY model.
    Hakima Bessaih*, University of Wyoming Department of Mathematics
    Michele Barsanti, University of Pisa
    David Barbato, University of Pisa
    Franco Flandoli, University of Pisa
    (1019-60-178)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hitting probabilities for systems of non-linear stochastic heat equations.
    Eulalia Nualart*, University of Utah & Universite Paris 13
    (1019-60-110)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Floer Methods in Low-dimensional Topology, II
  Room 225, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Alexander Felshtyn, Boise State University felshtyn@math.boisestate.edu
  Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On symplectic analog of Lusternik--Schnirelmann theory.
    Yuli B Rudyak*, University of Florida
    (1019-53-57)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Exploded Torus Fibrations.
    Brett D Parker*, MIT
    (1019-58-25)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Floer homotopy type of the cotangent bundle and string topology.
    Ralph L Cohen*, Stanford University
    (1019-57-123)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Moduli space transversality for knot complements.
    Christopher M. Herald*, University of Nevada, Reno
    (1019-57-218)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The SU(3) Casson invariant and spliced sums.
    Hans U. Boden*, McMaster University
    (1019-57-203)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Complex Geometry, Kaehler Groups, and Related Topics, II
  Room 110, James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Terrence Napier, Lehigh University tjn2@lehigh.edu
  Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York at Buffalo ramac-m@math.buffalo.edu
  Domingo Toledo, University of Utah toledo@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the geometry of the moduli space of real binary octics.
    Kenneth Chung-kan Chu*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1019-53-103)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hyperbolicity and the geometry of submanifolds of $\Bbb P^n$ via symmetric differentials.
    Bruno N De Oliveira*, Department of Mathematics, University of Miami
    (1019-32-217)
• Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 323, LeRoy Cowles Building
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Action of Operator Semigroups on the Topological Dual of the Beurling-Bjork Space.
    Michael S Eydenberg*, New Mexico State University
    Josefina Alvarez, New Mexico State University
    Hamed Obiedat, Alhashemite University
    (1019-46-18)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    A Hahn-Banach Theorem Converse.
    Fred E.J. Linton*, Math. Dept., Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT 06459 USA
    (1019-46-54)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An Efficient Adaptive Algorithm for the Solution of Fredholm Integral Equations of the First Type.
    Kourosh Modarresi*, Stanford University(Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics-SCCM)
    Gene H. Golub, Stanford University(Professor:Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics-SCCM)
    (1019-15-120)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Length in Thompson's Group F.
    Matthew E Horak*, University of Wisconsin -- Stout
    Melanie Stein, Trinity College
    (1019-20-94)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Proven cases of a generalization of Serre's conjecture.
    Jonathan Blackhurst*, Brigham Young Univeristy
    (1019-11-171)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    The Distribution of Prime Numbers and Its Application to a Proof.
    Hyeok-Je Jeong*, Hynix Semiconductor
    (1019-11-06)

Sunday October 8, 2006

• Sunday October 8, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Faculty Lounge, John Widtsoe Building
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Faculty Lounge, John Widtsoe Building
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonconvex Variational Problems: Recent Advances and Applications, III
  Room 103, James Fletcher Building
  Organizers:
  Marian Bocea, North Dakota State University and University of Utah bocea@math.utah.edu
  Andrej Cherkaev, University of Utah cherk@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The homogenization of energies arising in the van der Waals-Cahn-Hilliard theory of phase transitions.
    Cristina Popovici*, North Dakota State University
    (1019-49-143)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Proof of the conjectures of Polya-Szego and Eshelby.
    Graeme W. Milton*, University of Utah
    Hyeonbae Kang, Seoul National University
    (1019-35-181)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Optimal Multiphase Composites: Navigating the Translation Bound.
    Nathan Albin*, Universitat Duisburg-Essen
    (1019-49-158)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The unfolding method for perforated domains.
    Doina Cioranescu, University Paris 6
    Georges Griso, University Paris 6
    Alain Damlamian, University Paris 12
    Daniel Onofrei*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (1019-35-170)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Distortion Minimal Morphing of Compact Embedded Manifolds.
    Oksana Bihun*, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
    Carmen Chicone, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
    (1019-49-10)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Multi-variable Operator Theory, II
  Room 219, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  William B. Arveson, University of California Berkeley arveson@math.berkeley.edu
  Scott A. McCullough, University of Florida sam@math.ufl.edu
  Geoffrey L. Price, U.S. Naval Academy glp@usna.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Uses of multivariable operator theory in recursive algorithms.
    Palle E. T. Jorgensen*, University of Iowa
    (1019-47-11)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Functional Spectrum of Contractions.
    Rongwei Yang*, SUNY at Albany
    (1019-47-90)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Transfer-function realization and de Branges-Rovnyak functional models: multivariable settings.
    Joseph A. Ball*, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
    Vladimir Bolotnikov, Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary
    Quanlei Fang, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
    (1019-47-26)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Row contractions, composition operators, and generalized de Branges-Rovnyak kernels.
    Michael T Jury*, University of Florida
    (1019-47-84)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Lipschitz estimates for Berezin's operator calculus.
    L. A. Coburn*, University at Buffalo, SUNY
    (1019-32-20)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Functional Representations of the Hardy Algebra and Some Applications.
    Paul S. Muhly*, University of Iowa
    Baruch Solel, Technion
    (1019-47-38)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory, III
  Room 140, James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Jasbir Singh Chahal, Brigham Young University jasbir@math.byu.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley State College vanframa@uvsc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Ihara power series for function fields.
    Dinesh S. Thakur*, University of Arizona
    (1019-11-122)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On Rubin's variant of the p-adic Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.
    A. Agboola*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1019-11-156)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Galois representations and arithmetic cohomology.
    Darrin M Doud*, Brigham Young University
    (1019-11-164)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Open conditions for infinite multiplicity eigenvalues on elliptic curves.
    Bo-Hae Im*, Chung-Ang University/University of Utah
    Michael Larsen, Indiana University
    (1019-11-190)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Linear operators on entire functions with zeros in a strip with application to the Riemann $\xi$-function.
    David A Cardon*, Brigham Young University
    (1019-11-202)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Cassels-Tate Pairing for Jacobians of Fermat Curves.
    William McCallum*, University of Arizona
    (1019-11-205)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Differential Equations: Methods and Applications, III
  Room 101, James Fletcher Building
  Organizers:
  David G. Costa, University of Nevada costa@unlv.nevada.edu
  Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University zhi-qiang.wang@usu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Multiple positive solutions for classes of elliptic systems with combined nonlinear effects.
    Jaffar Ali, Mississippi State University
    Mythily Ramaswamy, Tata Institute For Fundamental Research, India
    Ratnasingham Shivaji*, Mississippi State University
    (1019-35-12)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Continuity of solutions to an elliptic eigenvalue problem with respect to parameters.
    Yongqing Li*, Department of Mathematics, Fujian Normal University, China
    (1019-35-40)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Traveling Waves and Shocks in a Viscoelastic Generalization of Burgers Equation.
    Victor Camacho, Harvey Mudd College
    Robert Guy, UC Davis
    Jon Jacobsen*, Harvey Mudd College
    (1019-35-71)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the local H\"{o}lder continuity of the inverse of the $p$-Laplace operator.
    An H. Le*, Utah State University
    (1019-35-49)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An Allen-Chan type problem with curvature modification.
    Xiaofeng Ren*, Utah State University
    Juncheng Wei, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    (1019-35-30)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
  Room 310, James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Paul Roberts, University of Utah roberts@math.utah.edu
  Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
  Oana Veliche, University of Utah oveliche@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Approimate Liftings in Local Algebra.
    Phillip A Griffith*, University of Illinois
    (1019-13-133)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Lower Bounds for Hilbert-Kunz Multiplicities.
    Ian M. Aberbach, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
    Florian Enescu*, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
    (1019-13-106)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Artin functions of rings with approximation property.
    Trung Dinh*, University of Utah
    (1019-13-146)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Growth of the length of local cohomology.
    C\u at\u alin Ciuperc\u a*, North Dakota State University
    (1019-13-174)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Galois cohomology and ring theory.
    Kazuma Shimomoto*, University of Minnesota
    (1019-13-37)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Local cohomology and the constant term of a Hilbert-Samuel polynomial.
    C-Y. Jean Chan*, University of Arkansas and Purdue University
    Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
    (1019-13-207)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics Motivated by Physics, III
  Room 121, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Aaron J. Bertram, University of Utah bertram@math.utah.edu
  Yuan-Pin Lee, University of Utah yplee@math.utah.edu
  Eric R. Sharpe, University of Utah ersharpe@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Algebraic Topology of Calabi-Yau Threefolds in Toric Varieties.
    Charles F Doran*, University of Washington
    John W Morgan, Columbia University
    (1019-14-83)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The "Jacobi genus": relation between the Witten genus and the two-variable elliptic genus.
    Matthew Ando*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Nora Ganter, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Christopher P French, Grinnell College
    (1019-55-162)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Physics of Knot Homologies.
    Sergei G Gukov*, Caltech
    (1019-51-67)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Theory and Applications of Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 222, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Peter W. Bates, Michigan State University bates@math.msu.edu
  Kening Lu, Brigham Young University klu@math.byu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Quasilinear parabolic problems with fully nonlinear boundary conditions.
    Yuri Latushkin*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1019-35-69)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of solutions of parabolic equations via Liouville theorems.
    Peter Polacik*, University of MInnesota, Minneapolis, MN
    (1019-35-165)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Strange Attractors for PDE's.
    Kening Lu*, Brigham Young University
    Qiudong Wang, University of Arizona
    Lai-Sang Young, New York University
    (1019-37-55)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Floer Methods in Low-dimensional Topology, III
  Room 225, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Alexander Felshtyn, Boise State University felshtyn@math.boisestate.edu
  Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Khovanov homology and contact knot theory.
    Hao Wu*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1019-57-104)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Graded Poisson algebras on bordism groups of odd-dimensional garlands and minimizing the intersection of loops on a surface.
    Vladimir V. Chernov*, Dartmouth College
    (1019-57-13)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    From Topological Quantum Field Theory to Geometry.
    Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    (1019-57-161)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Long exact sequence for the Khovanov homology corresponding to the Jones skein relation of oriented links.
    Alexander N Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
    (1019-57-214)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry, III
  Room 215, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah bestvina@math.utah.edu
  Kenneth W. Bromberg, University of Utah bromberg@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bounded geometry and combinatorics for hyperbolic handlebodies.
    Jeffrey Brock*, Brown University
    Yair Minsky, Yale University
    Hossein Namazi, Princeton University
    Juan Souto, University of Chicago
    (1019-51-188)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Krull Dimension of Limit groups.
    Larsen E Louder*, University of Utah
    (1019-20-124)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some residual properties of groups.
    Henry Wilton*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1019-51-76)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Poisson Structure on SL(3)-Character Varieties Relative to a Punctured Surface.
    Sean Dodd Lawton*, Kansas State University
    (1019-51-17)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Random Motion in Random Media, III
  Room B-1, James Fletcher Building
  Organizers:
  Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah firas@math.utah.edu
  Tom Schmitz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich schmitz@math.ethz.ch
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Detecting the path of a random walker in a random scenery.
    Noam Berger*, UCLA
    Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
    (1019-60-75)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An Almost Sure Invariance Principle for Non-Nestling Random Walk in Mixing Random Environment.
    Firas Rassoul-Agha*, University of Utah
    Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1019-60-89)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis: Trends and Perspectives, III
  Room 130, James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Alex Iosevich, University of Missouri iosevich@math.missouri.edu
  Michael T. Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology lacey@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Spectral multipliers for Schr\"odinger operators.
    Shijun Zheng*, University of South Carolina
    (1019-35-24)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Unbounded singular integral operators, weighted Hardy spaces, and $A_p$ weights.
    Ryan Berndt*, Kansas State University
    (1019-42-14)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Two weight bounds on the Beurling Operator.
    Janine E Wittwer*, Westminster College, Salt Lake City
    Stefanie Petermichl,
    (1019-47-148)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $L^2$ decay estimates for oscillatory integral operators in several variables with homogeneous polynomial phases.
    Allan Greenleaf, University of Rochester, NY
    Malabika Pramanik*, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
    Wan Tang, University of Rochester, NY
    (1019-42-61)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Interface of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Gaussian Analysis, III
  Room 102, James Fletcher Building
  Organizers:
  Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah davar@math.utah.edu
  Eulalia Nualart, University of Paris XIII nualart@math.univ-paris13.fr
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some remarks on the CLT and the Compact LIL.
    James D. Kuelbs*, Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1019-60-68)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    High moment asymptotics associated with large permutation groups.
    Xia Chen*, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee
    (1019-60-77)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Complex Geometry, Kaehler Groups, and Related Topics, III
  Room 110, James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Terrence Napier, Lehigh University tjn2@lehigh.edu
  Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York at Buffalo ramac-m@math.buffalo.edu
  Domingo Toledo, University of Utah toledo@math.utah.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Finite subgroups of arithmetic lattices in U(2,1).
    D B McReynolds*, Caltech
    (1019-22-175)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Property (FA) and lattices in SU(2,1).
    Matthew Stover*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1019-22-48)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Operator theory and the K-homology of algebraic varieties.
  Room 335, John Widtsoe Building
  William Arveson*, UC Berkeley
  (1019-46-81)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Residual properties and beyond for hyperbolic manifolds.
  Room 335, John Widtsoe Building
  Darren Long*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1019-57-60)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Random Motion in Random Media, IV
  Room B-1, James Fletcher Building
  Organizers:
  Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah firas@math.utah.edu
  Tom Schmitz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich schmitz@math.ethz.ch
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lyapunov norms for random walks random with random potential.
    Nikos Zygouras*, University of Southern California
    (1019-31-85)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 219, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  William B. Arveson, University of California Berkeley arveson@math.berkeley.edu
  Scott A. McCullough, University of Florida sam@math.ufl.edu
  Geoffrey L. Price, U.S. Naval Academy glp@usna.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On pure $E_0$-semigroups.
    Remus Floricel*, University of Regina
    (1019-46-138)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fractals, wavelets, and groupoids.
    Marius V Ionescu*, Deparmtent of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
    Paul S Muhly, Department of Mathematics, The University of Iowa
    (1019-47-29)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Comparison Theory for E-semigroups.
    Robert T. Powers*, Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
    (1019-37-114)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    $E_0$-semigroups of $II_1$-factors.
    Alexis Alevras*, United States Naval academy
    (1019-46-168)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    $E_0$-semigroups induced from CP-flows.
    Robert T. Powers, University of Pennsylvania
    Geoffrey L. Price*, United States Naval Academy
    (1019-46-33)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory, IV
  Room 140, James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Jasbir Singh Chahal, Brigham Young University jasbir@math.byu.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley State College vanframa@uvsc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On uniqueness of p-adic period morphisms.
    Wieslawa Niziol*, university of utah
    (1019-11-222)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Arithmetic progressions of zeros of the Riemann zeta function.
    Machiel van Frankenhuijsen*, Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
    (1019-11-07)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cauchy and Priority Selection.
    Donald W Robinson*, Brigham Young University
    (1019-11-98)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Differential Equations: Methods and Applications, IV
  Room 101, James Fletcher Building
  Organizers:
  David G. Costa, University of Nevada costa@unlv.nevada.edu
  Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University zhi-qiang.wang@usu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    One Dimensional Conformal Metric Flows.
    Yilong Ni*, University of Oklahoma
    (1019-35-43)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dynamics of Unstable Fluid Interfaces.
    Yan Guo, Brown University
    Chris Hallstrom*, University of Portland
    Daniel Spirn, University of Minnesota
    (1019-35-16)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Discrete Multi-compartmental pharmacokinetic model.
    Mostafa Ghandehari*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Jennifer Holyk, Houston, Texas
    (1019-34-22)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, IV
  Room 310, James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Paul Roberts, University of Utah roberts@math.utah.edu
  Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
  Oana Veliche, University of Utah oveliche@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On Borel fixed ideals generated in one degree.
    Achilleas Sinefakopoulos*, Cornell University
    (1019-13-36)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Resolutions of edge ideals.
    Noam Horwitz*, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
    (1019-13-189)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the degree of Hilbert polynomials associated to the torsion functor.
    Daniel Katz*, University of Kansas
    Emanoil Theodorescu, University of Iowa
    (1019-13-93)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Approximating Artinian rings by Gorenstein rings.
    Ananthnarayan Hariharan*, University of Kansas
    (1019-13-118)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Gorenstein rings, parameter ideals, and limit closure.
    Thomas Marley*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Mark W. Rogers, Missouri State University
    (1019-13-125)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Comparison of relative cohomology theories with respect to semidualizing modules.
    Diana M White*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1019-13-213)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry, IV
  Room 215, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah bestvina@math.utah.edu
  Kenneth W. Bromberg, University of Utah bromberg@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Length equivalent hyperbolic manifolds.
    Alan W Reid*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1019-57-149)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Commensurability of Link Complements.
    Jason DeBlois*, University of Texas-Austin
    (1019-57-167)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Examples of Deformation Spaces of G-trees.
    Matt T Clay*, University of Oklahoma
    (1019-20-183)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Symplectic actions of tori on four manifolds.
    Alvaro Pelayo*, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
    (1019-53-173)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics Motivated by Physics, IV
  Room 121, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Aaron J. Bertram, University of Utah bertram@math.utah.edu
  Yuan-Pin Lee, University of Utah yplee@math.utah.edu
  Eric R. Sharpe, University of Utah ersharpe@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Gromov-Witten theory of twisted projective lines and intergable hierarchies.
    Hsian-Hua Tseng*, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
    (1019-14-27)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Moduli space of 4-manifolds and the universal Seiberg-Witten invariant.
    N. Shirokova*, Stanford University
    (1019-57-140)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Gerstenhaber Structures and Vertex Algebras.
    Vassily Gorbounov*, University of Kentucky
    (1019-81-142)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Theory and Applications of Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems, IV
  Room 222, LeRoy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Peter W. Bates, Michigan State University bates@math.msu.edu
  Kening Lu, Brigham Young University klu@math.byu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On some nonlocal phase-field equations.
    Peter Bates, Michigan State University
    Jianlong Han*, Southern Utah University
    (1019-35-137)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Traveling Pulses for the Nonlocal and Lattice Klein-Gordon Equations.
    Peter W Bates, Department of Mathematics , Michigan State University
    Chunlei Zhang*, Department of Mathematics, Southern Utah University
    (1019-37-136)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Multiplicative Ergodic Theorem for Infinite Dimensional Random Dynamical Systems in Banach Spaces.
    Zeng Lian*, Brigham Young University
    Kening Lu, Brigham Young University
    (1019-37-187)
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Interface of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Gaussian Analysis, IV
  Room 102, James Fletcher Building
  Organizers:
  Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah davar@math.utah.edu
  Eulalia Nualart, University of Paris XIII nualart@math.univ-paris13.fr
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Strong Local Nondeterminism of Anisotropic Gaussian Random Fields with Applications to SPDEs.
    Yimin Xiao*, Michigan State University
    (1019-60-111)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Complex Geometry, Kaehler Groups, and Related Topics, IV
  Room 110, James Talmage Building
  Organizers:
  Terrence Napier, Lehigh University tjn2@lehigh.edu
  Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York at Buffalo ramac-m@math.buffalo.edu
  Domingo Toledo, University of Utah toledo@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Filtered ends of Kahler groups.
    Mohan Ramachandran*, Dept of Mathematics ,SUNY at Buffalo
    Terrence Napier, Dept of Math,Lehigh University
    (1019-32-206)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion

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