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1998 Spring Western Section Meeting
Davis, CA, April 25-26, 1998
Meeting #934

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

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Sunday April 26, 1998

• Sunday April 26, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Meetings Registration
  Lounge, Wellman Hall
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Lounge, Wellman Hall
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Physics, III
  Room 226, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  Motohico Mulase, University of California, Davis mulase@math.ucdavis.edu
  Bruno L Nachtergaele, University of California, Davis bxn@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stochastic Ising Models at Zero Temperature.
    Charles M. Newman*, New York University
    (934-82-65)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    On the temperature zero limit in many-fermion systems.
    Joel Feldman, UBC, Vancouver
    Horst Kn\"{o}rrer, ETH Zurich
    Manfred Salmhofer*, ETH Zurich
    Eugene Trubowitz, ETH Zurich
    (934-82-98)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Internal DLA and the Stefan problem.
    Janko Gravner, University of California, Davis
    Jeremy Quastel*, University of Toronto
    (934-60-86)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    Magnetic isoperimetric inequality and Lifschitz tail.
    Laszlo Erdos*, Courant Institute, NYU
    (934-58-76)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The Geometry and Topology of 3-manifolds, III
  Room 1, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  Dmitry Fuchs, University of California, Davis fuchs@math.ucdavis.edu
  Joel Hass, University of California, Davis hass@math.ucdavis.edu
  Ramin Naimi, University of California, Davis naimi@math.ucdavis.edu
  William Thurston, University of California, Davis wpt@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geometric knot spaces and minimal stick numbers .
    Jorge Alberto Calvo*, UCSB
    (934-57-116)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Essential Laminations and Kneser Normal Form.
    David Gabai*, Caltech
    (934-57-118)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Algorithms in the Dehn surgery space.
    William Jaco, Oklahoma State University
    Eric Sedgwick*, Oklahoma State University
    (934-57-104)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some Surface Subgroups Survive Surgery.
    Daryl Cooper*, UCSB
    Darren Long, UCSB
    (934-57-23)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Orientations in contact homology.
    Yakov Eliashberg*, Stanford University
    (934-57-115)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on C*-algebras and Dynamics, III
  Room 202, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  Jerry Kaminker, Indiana Univ-Purdue Univ at Indianapolis kaminker@math.iupui.edu
  Ian Fraser Putnam, University of Victoria putnam@math.uvic.ca
  Jack Spielberg, Arizona State University jss@math.la.asu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Amenable C*-algebras.
    George A Elliott*, University of Toronto, University of Copenhagen, Fields Institute
    (934-47-144)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Duality for an expansive automorphism of a compact connected abelian group.
    Jerry Kaminker, IUPUI
    Ian Putnam, U. Victoria
    Jack Spielberg*, Arizona State U.
    (934-46-149)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Transverse Groupoids.
    Jerome Kaminker*, IUPUI
    Ian Putnam, University of Victoria
    (934-46-150)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Order on the K-theory of C*-algebras of minimal homeomorphisms.
    N.\ Christopher Phillips*, University of Oregon and Purdue University
    (934-46-122)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Dualities in Mathematics and Physics, III
  Room 216, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley frenkel@math.berkeley.edu
  Nicolai Reshetikhin, University of California, Berkeley reshetik@math.berkeley.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Nonlinear Serre duality .
    Alexander B Givental*, UC Berkeley
    (934-14-58)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Modular forms and the enumerative geometry of K3 and Abelian surfaces.
    Jim A Bryan*, Univ. of Cal., Berkeley
    Conan Leung, Univ. of Minnesota
    (934-14-33)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Homological mirror conjecture for elliptic curves.
    Alexander Polishchuk*, Harvard University
    Eric Zaslow, Harvard University
    (934-14-10)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, III
  Room 119, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  Chikako Mese, University of Southern California mese@math.usc.edu
  Richard M. Schoen, Stanford University schoen@gauss.stanford.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mathematical Aspects of Soap Films.
    Brian White*, Math Dept, Stanford University
    Jordan Drachman, Stanford University Math Dept
    (934-53-131)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Conformally invariant fourth order equations.
    Paul Yang*, Univ. of Southern California
    (934-58-123)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Manifolds of nonpositive curvature and their ideal boundaries.
    Bruce Kleiner*, Univ. of Utah
    (934-51-138)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Reduction from instantons to holomorphic curves.
    Jingyi Chen*, UBC
    (934-53-132)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Biology, I
  Room 115, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander Isaak Mogilner, University of California, Davis mogilner@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 8:50 a.m.
    Discussion - Introduction
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Energy transduction in ATP synthase.
    Hong Yun Wang*, University of California
    (934-92-61)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modeling celf-centering activity of cytoplasm.
    Alex Mogilner*, University of California
    (934-92-42)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Pattern formation induced by attractive diffusing and nondiffusing media.
    Angela Stevens*, Stanford University
    (934-92-44)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Urn models, replicator processes and genetic drift
    Sebastian Schreiber*, Western Washington Univ.
    (934-92-43)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis, V
  Room 6, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  John K. Hunter, University of California, Davis hunter@math.ucdavis.edu
  Blake Temple, University of California, Davis temple@itd.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The zero-Mach limit of compressible Navier-Stokes flows.
    David C Hoff*, Indiana University
    (934-76-83)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Particle-Like Solutions of the Einstein-Dirac Equations .
    Felix Finster*, Harvard University
    Joel Smoller, University of Michigan
    Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University
    (934-83-36)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Solutions of the Einstein Yang Mills equations.
    Arthur G Wasserman*, U. of Michigan
    (934-83-84)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Fluid flows in nonsmooth domains.
    Michael E. Taylor*, Univ. of North Carolina
    (934-35-20)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis, VI
  Room 26, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  John K. Hunter, University of California, Davis hunter@math.ucdavis.edu
  Blake Temple, University of California, Davis temple@itd.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bubbly Flows, Globally Coupled Oscillators, and Landau Damping.
    Peter Smereka*, University of Michigan
    (934-70-16)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Time-Independent Bounds on Spherically Symmetric Solutions of the Relativistic Euler equations on Non-Flat Spacetimes.
    Jeffrey M Groah*, La Sierra University
    (934-35-154)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Beyond Painlev\'e Equations: Darboux-Halphen Systems.
    Mark J. Ablowitz, University of Colorado
    Sarbarish Chakravarty, University of New South Wales
    Rodney G. Halburd*, University of Colorado
    (934-34-120)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Onset of Chaos in Vortex Sheet Roll-Up.
    Robert Krasny*, University of Michigan
    Monika Nitsche, Tufts University
    (934-76-30)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Random Fields and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 233, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  Arthur J. Krener, University of California, Davis ajkrener@ucdavis.edu
  Boris Rozovsky, University of Southern California rozovsky@cams.usc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Reciprocal Diffusions in Flat Space.
    Arthur J Krener*, University of California, Davis
    (934-60-142)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Exponential Stability for Zakai's SPDE.
    Ofer Zeitouni*, Technion
    (934-60-140)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Processes Reciprocal in Space and Markov in Time.
    Ram Vendatham*, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
    (934-60-141)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Representations for Functionals of Hilbert Space Valued.
    Amarjit Budhiraja*, Brown University
    (934-60-151)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Wiener chaos and stochastic PDE's.
  Room 1100, Social Sciences Building
  Boris Rozovsky*, University of Southern California
  (934-60-03)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 1:50 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Three-manifolds, foliations and circles.
  Room 1100, Social Sciences Building
  William Thurston*, University of California, Davis
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Dualities in Mathematics and Physics, IV
  Room 216, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  Edward Frenkel, University of California, Berkeley frenkel@math.berkeley.edu
  Nicolai Reshetikhin, University of California, Berkeley reshetik@math.berkeley.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Geometric Approach to Equations of KdV Type.
    David Ben-Zvi*, Harvard University
    Edward Frenkel, U.C. Berkeley
    (934-22-57)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Meromorphic tensor categories.
    Yan Soibelman*, Kansas State University
    (934-22-34)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Non-commutative analogue of Nahm transform.
    Alexander Astashkevich*, Math Dept, University of California at Davis
    Nikita Nekrasov, Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University
    Albert Schwarz, Math Dept, University of California at Davis
    (934-81-148)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Semi-infinite cohomology and superconformal algebras.
    Elena Poletaeva*, Univetsity of Lund
    (934-17-66)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Physics, IV
  Room 226, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  Motohico Mulase, University of California, Davis mulase@math.ucdavis.edu
  Bruno L Nachtergaele, University of California, Davis bxn@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fourier duality for twisted D-modules.
    Alexander Polishchuk*, Harvard University
    Mitchell Rothstein, University of Georgia, Athens
    (934-14-09)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On axiomatics of asymmetric superconformal field theories.
    Anatoly V. Konechny*, University of California Davis
    (934-81-96)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Infinite Grassmannian and Toda Lattices.
    Maarten J Bergvelt*, Department of Mathematics, UIUC
    (934-58-87)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Ubiquitous Dirac Monopole.
    Gregory L Naber*, California State Univ
    (934-99-77)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, IV
  Room 119, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  Chikako Mese, University of Southern California mese@math.usc.edu
  Richard M. Schoen, Stanford University schoen@gauss.stanford.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A general gluing construction for constant mean curvature surfaces.
    Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
    Frank Pacard, Unversit\' e Paris X11
    Daniel Pollack*, University of Washington
    (934-53-102)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Existence of Covariant Pseudo-Differential Operators.
    Edith A Mooers*, UCLA
    (934-58-93)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Christoffel's Problem Revisited.
    George I Kamberov*, Washington University
    (934-53-11)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Harmonic close-to-convex mappings.
    Jay M Jahangiri*, Kent State University
    Herb Silverman, College of Charleston
    (934-30-26)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on The Geometry and Topology of 3-manifolds, IV
  Room 1, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  Dmitry Fuchs, University of California, Davis fuchs@math.ucdavis.edu
  Joel Hass, University of California, Davis hass@math.ucdavis.edu
  Ramin Naimi, University of California, Davis naimi@math.ucdavis.edu
  William Thurston, University of California, Davis wpt@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Intrinsically chiral graphs.
    Erica L Flapan*, Pomona College
    (934-57-67)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Heegaard splittings of solvmanifolds.
    Daryl Cooper, Mathematics Department, U. C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
    Martin Scharlemann*, Mathematics Department, U. C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
    (934-57-74)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Multi-variable Alexander polynomial and solvable Lie algebras.
    Arkady Vaintrob*, New Mexico State University
    (934-57-130)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Bounds for Thurston-Bennequin numbers of Legendrian links from state models for knot polynomials.
    Sergei Tabachnikov*, University of Arkansas
    (934-57-128)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The geodesic core of a subgroup.
    Rita Gitik*, MSRI
    (934-20-85)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Biology, II
  Room 115, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander Isaak Mogilner, University of California, Davis mogilner@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discusssion - Introduction
  • 3:10 p.m.
    The Viscous Nonlinear Dynamics of Twist and Writhe.
    Raymond Goldstein*, University of Arizona
    (934-92-49)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    The Timing of Life Histories, Viewed From An Ultimate Perspective and A Proximate Perspective.
    Marc Mangel*, University of California
    (934-92-48)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    On the asymptotic speed of a stochastic invasion.
    Mark Lewis*, University of Utah
    (934-92-47)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    The role of transient dynamics in population and community ecology .
    Alan Hastings*, University of California
    (934-92-45)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis, VII
  Room 6, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  John K. Hunter, University of California, Davis hunter@math.ucdavis.edu
  Blake Temple, University of California, Davis temple@itd.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some bifurcation problems of Rayleigh-Benard heat convection.
    Takaaki Nishida*, Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University
    Hideaki Yoshihara, Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University
    (934-35-71)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Global Entropy Solutions for Exothermically Reacting Euler Equations .
    David H. Wagner*, University of Houston
    Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
    (934-35-40)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Solutions of Spherically Symmetric Einstein Yang Mills Equations with Cosmological Constant.
    Alexander N Linden*, University of Michigan
    (934-83-113)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis, VIII
  Room 26, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  John K. Hunter, University of California, Davis hunter@math.ucdavis.edu
  Blake Temple, University of California, Davis temple@itd.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Basic Attractor of Jet Engine Flow.
    Bjorn Birnir*, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara.
    Hoskuldur Ari Hauksson, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara.
    (934-35-19)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Euler-Poisson-Darboux Equations and Nonlinear Conservation Laws.
    Gui-Qiang Chen*, Northwestern University
    (934-35-156)
• Sunday April 26, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Random Fields and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 233, Wellman Hall
  Organizers:
  Arthur J. Krener, University of California, Davis ajkrener@ucdavis.edu
  Boris Rozovsky, University of Southern California rozovsky@cams.usc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the existence and the uniqueness of weak solutions to stochastic differential equation in a Hilbert space.
    V. Mandricar, Michigan State University
    Anatoly V. Skorokhod*, Michigan State University
    (934-60-152)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Transport by Time Dependent Stationary Flow.
    Leonid B Koralov*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (934-60-153)

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