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2000 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Lowell, MA, April 1-2, 2000
Meeting #952

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

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Sunday April 2, 2000

• Sunday April 2, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  2nd Floor landing, Olsen Hall
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Geometry, III
  Room 402, Olsen Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert Connelly, Cornell University connelly@math.cornell.edu
  Marjorie Senechal, Smith College senechal@neal.smith.edu
  Robert M. Erdahl, Queen's University erdahlr@post.queensu.ca
  Walter J. Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal@math.yorku.ca
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Locally unitary groups generated by involutory reflections.
    Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
    (952-51-123)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Convexifying Polygons and Straightening Polygonal Arcs.
    Robert Connelly, Cornell University
    Erik D Demaine*, University of Waterloo
    G\"unter Rote, Freie Universit\"at Berlin
    (952-52-139)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Polygonal oriented matroids.
    Ileana Streinu*, Smith College
    (952-52-167)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Unified Model for the Classical Geometries with Geometric Algebra.
    Timothy F. Havel*, Harvard Medical School
    (952-52-175)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rigidity Theory Applied to Network Glasses and Proteins.
    Michael F Thorpe*, Michigan State University
    (952-82-169)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Constraining Plane Configurations in CAD: Circles, Lines and Angles.
    Franco V Saliola*, York University
    Walter J Whiteley, York University
    (952-52-156)
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 219A, Olsen Hall
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, III
  Room 408, Olsen Hall
  Organizers:
  M. Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@jupiter.cs.uml.edu
  Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Theory of Decoherence-Free Subspaces and their Stabilization.
    Daniel Lidar*, UC Berkeley
    (952-81-88)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Universal Computation on Decoherence Free Subsystems.
    Julia Kempe*, UC Berkeley
    (952-81-91)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quantum Error Correction for Interaction-induced Errors.
    Julio R Gea-Banacloche*, University of Arkansas
    (952-81-127)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantum Logic Gate constructions with one-bit teleportation.
    Xinlan Zhou*, Stanford University
    Debbie Leung, Stanford University
    Isaac Chuang, Stanford University
    (952-81-170)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Quantum Computation, the Power of One bit of Quantum Information and Quadratically Signed Weight Enumerators.
    Raymond Laflamme*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Emanuel Knill, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (952-81-40)
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Syzygies, III
  Room 405, Olsen Hall
  Organizers:
  Irena Peeva, Cornell University ivp1@cornell.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Finite regularity and Koszul algebras.
    Luchezar L Avramov*, Purdue University
    Irena Peeva, Cornell University
    (952-13-84)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Syzygies, Base Points, and Equations of Surfaces.
    David A Cox*, Amherst College
    (952-13-83)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Regularity of powers of an ideal sheaf.
    Steven D Cutkosky*, University of Missouri
    (952-14-111)
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Volumes on Minkowski and Finsler Spaces, III
  Room 305, Olsen Hall
  Organizers:
  Juan Carlos Alvarez, Universit\'e Catholique de Louvain alvarez@agel.ucl.ac.be
  Dimitri Burago, Pennsylvania State University
  Gaoyong Zhang, Polytechnic University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A note on positive centers and the Santalo-Bonnesen inequality.
    Michael E Gage*, University of Rochester
    (952-52-124)
  • 9:10 a.m.
    Remarks on outer billiards in the hyperbolic plane.
    Serge Tabachnikov*, University of Arkansas
    (952-51-105)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    The total absolute curvature of hypersurfaces in Minkowski geometries.
    Ralph E Howard*, University of South Carolina
    (952-51-109)
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 406, Olsen Hall
  Organizers:
  Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
  Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Vidhu_Prasad@uml.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mean ergodic theorem and operators in Banach spaces: some examples.
    Isaac Kornfeld*, North Dakota State University
    (952-28-65)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Wiener-Wintner type theorem for admissible superadditive processes.
    Dogan Comez*, Department of Mathematics, NDSU, Fargo, ND
    (952-28-25)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some Applications of Banach Principle in Non-commutative Ergodic Theory.
    Semyon N Litvinov*, St. Cloud State University
    (952-37-09)
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Teaching Mathematics in the New Millennium, III
  Room 306, Olsen Hall
  Organizers:
  Ronald Brent, University of Massachusetts Lowell RB733@aol.com
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Graphing Calculators Across the Calculus Curriculum.
    Marvin E Stick*, UMass Lowell
    (952-97-129)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mathematical software: making math harder?
    Murray Eisenberg*, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
    (952-97-157)
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative Geometry in Physics, III
  Room 407, Olsen Hall
  Organizers:
  Emma Previato, Boston University ep@bu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Counting representations onto finite groups, and torsion points on characteristic varieties.
    Daniel Matei, University of Rochester
    Alexander I. Suciu*, Northeastern University
    (952-20-57)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Trigonometric Sums and Moduli Spaces.
    Andras Szenes*, MIT
    (952-05-126)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Parabolic G-bundles and products of conjugacy classes.
    Chris T Woodward*, Rutgers University
    Constantin Teleman, University of Texas at Austin
    (952-58-90)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Real Rational Curves in Grassmannians.
    Frank Sottile*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (952-14-80)
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Invariance in Convex Geometry, III
  Room 404, Olsen Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel A. Klain, Georgia Institute of Technology klain@math.gatech.edu
  Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Intersection bodies and $L_p$-spaces.
    Alexander Koldobsky*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (952-52-17)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Random sections of a cube.
    Yossi Lonke*, Case Western Reserve University
    (952-52-99)
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Quantum information theory.
  Room 214, Ball Hall
  M. Beth Ruskai*, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  (952-81-06)
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Variational problems for Riemannian functionals, arithmetic groups, and noncomputable functions.
  Room 214, Ball Hall
  Alexander Nabutovsky*, University of Toronto
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Invariance in Convex Geometry, IV
  Room 404, Olsen Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel A. Klain, Georgia Institute of Technology klain@math.gatech.edu
  Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Upper semicontinuous valuations on the space of convex discs.
    Monika Ludwig*, University College London
    (952-52-71)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Looking for selectors of star bodies.
    Maria Moszynska*, Warsaw, Poland
    (952-52-08)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Invariant valuations on spherical star sets.
    Paolo Dulio, Politecnico di Milano
    Carla Peri*, Universita' Cattolica S. C. - Milano
    (952-52-33)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Projective center of symmetry.
    Luis Montejano*, University Nac. Autonoma de Mexico
    (952-52-180)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Continuous movements of convex bodies.
    Stefano Campi*, Università di Modena, Italy
    (952-52-104)
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, IV
  Room 408, Olsen Hall
  Organizers:
  M. Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@jupiter.cs.uml.edu
  Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Relative Entropy in Quantum Information Theory.
    Michael D Westmoreland*, Denison University
    Benjamin W Schumacher, Kenyon College
    (952-81-63)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Stationary quantum source coding.
    Denes Petz*, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
    (952-94-98)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Extreme points of completely positive maps on 2x2 complex matrices.
    Elisabeth Werner*, Case Western Reserve University
    S Szarek, Case Western Reserve University
    (952-81-140)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Minimal entropy of states emerging from noisy quantum channels.
    Christopher K King*, Northeastern University
    Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts Lowell
    (952-81-138)
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, IV
  Room 406, Olsen Hall
  Organizers:
  Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
  Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Vidhu_Prasad@uml.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A counting function and a square function in ergodic theory.
    Karin Reinhold*, University at Albany, SUNY
    (952-28-125)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Stability of the Helium Atom.
    Sam Kaplan*, UNC at Asheville
    (952-70-79)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dynamics of Superquadratic Root-Finding Algorithms.
    Kyle E Kneisl*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (952-37-14)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Complementing and Weak Complementing pairs of integers arising in ergodic theory.
    Stanley Eigen*, Northeastern University
    (952-37-116)
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Syzygies, IV
  Room 405, Olsen Hall
  Organizers:
  Irena Peeva, Cornell University ivp1@cornell.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Flatness and the construction of Noetherian rings.
    William Heinzer, Purdue University
    Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
    Sylvia M. Wiegand*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (952-13-106)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Stability and Jump Loci of a family of bundles on $P^2$.
    Henry K Schenck*, Northeastern University
    (952-14-22)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Syzygies and patchwork quilts.
    Paul Monsky*, Brandeis University
    (952-13-19)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Is (non-commutative) algebraic geometry part of stable module theory?
    Alex Martsinkovsky*, Northeastern University
    (952-18-20)
  • 5:50 p.m.
    Free summands of conormal modules and central elements in homotopy Lie algebras of local rings.
    Srikanth Iyengar*, University of Sheffield
    (952-13-42)
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative Geometry in Physics, IV
  Room 407, Olsen Hall
  Organizers:
  Emma Previato, Boston University ep@bu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Geometric Langlands conjecture for $GL(n)$.
    Dennis Gaitsgory*, Harvard University
    (952-14-161)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Smoothings of maps from nodal curves to nonsingular surfaces.
    Ravi D Vakil*, MIT
    (952-14-114)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    The Virtual Fundamental Class of a Complete Intersection.
    David A Cox*, Amherst College
    (952-14-85)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    The generalized Witten conjecture, integrable hierarchies, and moduli spaces of higher spin curves.
    Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young University
    Takashi Kimura*, Boston University
    Arkady Vaintrob, New Mexico State University
    (952-14-133)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Algebraic construction of the virtual class for spin cohomological field theories.
    Alexander Polishchuk*, Boston University
    Arkady Vaintrob, New Mexico State University
    (952-14-136)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion, open questions, proceedings project.
• Sunday April 2, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Geometry, IV
  Room 402, Olsen Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert Connelly, Cornell University connelly@math.cornell.edu
  Marjorie Senechal, Smith College senechal@neal.smith.edu
  Robert M. Erdahl, Queen's University erdahlr@post.queensu.ca
  Walter J. Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal@math.yorku.ca
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Plane geometric constraints: angles on lines.
    Melissa Bousfield, Toronto, Ontario
    Katherine Coulthard, Sutton District High School
    Linh Duong, Toronto, Ontario
    David Moskovitz, University of Toronto
    Walter J. Whiteley*, York University
    (952-52-146)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Voronoi zonotopes and Delaunay dicings.
    Robert Erdahl*, Queen's University
    (952-52-172)

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