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2001 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Hoboken, NJ, April 28-29, 2001
Meeting #966

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

Sunday April 29, 2001

Sunday April 29, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Bissinger Room, 4th Floor, Howe Center

Sunday April 29, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Special Session on Stability of Nonlinear Dispersive Waves, III
Room 105, McLean Hall
Organizers:
Yi Li, Stevens Institute of Technology yili@cs.stevens-tech.edu
Keith S. Promislow, Simon Fraser University kpromisl@cs.sfu.ca
- 8:00 a.m.
  Spectrally stable encapsulated-vortex solutions of focusing-defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations.
  Robert L Pego*, University of Maryland, College Park
  Henry A Warchall, University of North Texas
  (966-35-135)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A normal form for nonlinear resonance of embedded solitons.
  Dmitry E Pelinovsky*, McMaster University (Canada)
  Jianke Yang, University of Vermont
  (966-35-40)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Regular traveling waves in a one-dimensional network of theta neurons.
  Remus Osan, University of PIttsburgh
  Jonathan Rubin*, University of Pittsburgh
  Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
  (966-34-45)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Break
- 9:40 a.m.
  Nonlinear Dispersive Waves in Periodic Structures.
  Michael I Weinstein*, Mathematical Sciences Research - Bell Laboratories
  (966-35-167)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Pulse dynamics in coupled reaction-diffusion equations.
  Arjen Doelman, University of Amsterdam
  Tasso J Kaper*, Boston University
  (966-35-170)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Book Sale and Exhibit
Bissinger Room, 4th Floor, Howe Center

Sunday April 29, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computational Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications, III
Room 329, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts at Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Maximum Distance Separable Convolutional Codes, Constructions and Decoding.
  Joachim Rosenthal*, University of Notre Dame
  Roxana Smarandache, University of Notre Dame
  (966-94-132)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Hypergeometric systems and embedded primes.
  Laura F Matusevich*, University of California at Berkeley
  (966-05-62)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Classifying weakly ${\cal A}$-graded algebras.
  James J Madden*, Wesleyan U. and Louisiana State U.
  (966-13-164)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Supernormal vector configurations.
  Serkan Ho\c{s}ten, San Francisco State University
  Diane Maclagan*, Institute for Advanced Study
  Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley
  (966-13-188)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Mean versus random exponents for unitarily invariant probability measures on $GL(n,C)$.
  Mike Shub*, IBM Yorktown Heights
  Jean-Pierre Dedieu, University Paul Sabatier
  (966-14-196)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Error Correction and Related Aspects of Coding Theory, II
Room 104, McLean Hall
Organizers:
Harriet S. Pollatsek, Mount Holyoke College hpollats@mtholyoke.edu
M. Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts at Lowell bruskai@cs.uml.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Quantum biweight enumerators.
  Eric M Rains*, AT&T Labs--Research
  (966-81-98)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some Properties of Clifford Codes.
  Andreas Klappenecker*, Texas A\&M University
  (966-94-46)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quantum error-correcting codes associated with graphs.
  Dirk M Schlingemann*, TU-Braunschweig
  Reinhard F Werner, TU-Braunschweig
  (966-81-78)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Nonbinary Quantum Codes and Asymptotically Good Quantum Codes.
  Alexei Ashikhmin*, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
  (966-81-156)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Extracting an entangled state of $n - t$ qubits from an $n$-qubit entangled state after errors at $t$ sites.
  Chui-Ping Yang*, University of Arkansas
  Julio Gea-Banacloche, University of Arkansas
  (966-81-74)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Surface Geometry and Shape Perception, III
Room 230, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Gary R. Jensen, Washington University
George I. Kamberov, Stevens Institute of Technology kamberov@cs.stevens-tech.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Rational minimal surfaces through the UP-iteration.
  Catherine McCune*, University of Connecticut
  (966-53-204)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Coordinates and the Associated Non-Euclidean Geometry.
  Stephen Pizer*, University of North Carolina
  Andrew Thall, University of North Carolina
  (966-68-205)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Self-Linking of Torus Knots on the Three-Sphere and the Geometry of the Osculating Tube.
  Thomas F Banchoff*, Brown University
  (966-53-155)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Landmark matching via large deformation diffeomorphisms.
  Sarang Joshi*, University of North Carolina
  (966-68-206)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Some Infinite Mass Limits Associated with Mappings and Fractional Power Integral-geometric Functionals.
  Robert M Hardt*, Rice University
  (966-49-157)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computational Group Theory, III
Room 330, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Robert Gilman, Stevens Institute of Technology rgilman@stevens-tech.edu
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexei@rio.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Sean Cleary, City College, New York cleary@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometric and algorithmic properties of free-by-cyclic groups.
  Martin R Bridson*, Oxford University
  (966-20-152)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Random methods in group theory.
  Charles Leedham-Green*, QMW, London
  (966-20-183)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A new approach to the Combination Theorem.
  Ilya Kapovich*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (966-20-120)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Varietal Amalgams and a Freiheitssatz.
  Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University
  Anthony Gaglione, US Naval Academy
  Alexei Myasnikov, City College of New York
  Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Dortmund
  Denis Spellman, Temple University
  (966-20-144)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Singular and Degenerate Nonlinear Elliptic Boundary Value Problems, III
Room 106, McLean Hall
Organizers:
Joe McKenna, University of Connecticut mckenna@math.uconn.edu
Changfeng Gui, University of Connecticut gui@math.uconn.edu
Yung Sze Choi, University of Connecticut choi@math.uconn.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Semilinear elliptic equations in strips: uniqueness and existence.
  Joe McKenna, University of Connecticut
  Changfeng Gui*, University of Connecticut and University of British Columbia
  (966-35-179)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Annular rings: existence and stability.
  David S Morgan, Boston University
  Tasso J Kaper*, Boston University
  (966-35-168)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A simple ODE And Anisotropic Curvature Flows.
  Juncheng Wei*, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  (966-35-158)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Periodic solutions and connecting orbits of Hamiltonian systems.
  Chao-Nien Chen*, National Changhua University of Education
  Shyuh-yaur Tzeng, National Changhua University of Education
  (966-34-123)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ricci Curvature and Related Topics, III
Room 212, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
George I. Kamberov, Stevens Institute of Technology gkambero@stevens-tech.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Megan M. Kerr, Wellesley College mkerr@wellesley.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Isospectral metrics on spheres and other manifolds.
  Carolyn S Gordon*, Dartmouth College
  (966-58-127)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Conditions for nonnegative curvature on vector bundles and sphere bundles.
  Kristopher R Tapp*, SUNY Stony Brook
  (966-53-88)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Metrics of positive Ricci curvature on vector bundles over nilmanifolds.
  Igor Belegradek*, California Institute of Technology
  Guofang Wei, University of California Santa Barbara
  (966-53-36)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Polar actions.
  Andreas M Kollross*, Universitaet Augsburg
  (966-53-137)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Deformation Quantization and Its Applications, III
Room 229A, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Siddhartha Sahi, Rutgers University sahi@math.rutgers.edu
Martin J. Andler, University of Versailles andler@math.uvsq.fr
- 9:00 a.m.
  Traces for star products on duals of Lie algebras.
  Simone Gutt*, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
  (966-53-140)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Iterated Integrals and the Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff Formula.
  Vinay Kathotia*, University of California Davis
  (966-53-119)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Poisson bracket, deformed bracket and gauge group actions.
  Dominique Manchon*, Institut Elie Cartan (CNRS), Nancy
  (966-16-102)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory (Dedicated to Frank Harary on His 80th Birthday), III
Room 322, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Michael L. Gargano, Pace University mgargano@pace.edu
Louis V. Quintas, Pace University lquintas@pace.edu
Charles Suffel, Stevens Institute of Technology csuffel@stevens-tech.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Full $L(2,1)$-colorings of Graphs and the Channel Assignment Problem.
  Peter C Fishburn, AT\&T Labs
  Fred S Roberts*, Rutgers University
  (966-05-26)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Small Cycle Cover of 2-connected Cubic Graphs.
  Xiangwen Li*, West Virginia University
  Hong-Jian Lai, West Virginia University
  (966-05-34)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Balanced Digraphs.
  Michael L Gargano*, Pace University, SCSIS
  (966-05-59)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 9:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Matchings in Graphs and Hypergraphs, III
Room 323, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Alexander Barvinok, University of Michigan barvinok@math.lsa.umich.edu
Alex Samorodnitsky, Institute for Advanced Study asamor@ias.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Line Graphs and Forbidden Induced Subgraphs.
  Hong-Jian Lai*, West Virginia University
  Lubo Soltes, Memphis, TN
  (966-05-31)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Vertex Arboricity and Girth.
  Zhan Mingquan*, West Virginia University
  Lai Hongjian, West Virginia University
  (966-05-33)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Combinatorics, quantum computers, and cellular phones.
Room 118, Burchard Building
Robert Calderbank*, AT\&T Laboratories Research
(966-05-03)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
On Tarski's problems.
Room 118, Burchard Building
Alexei Miasnikov*, City College, New York

Sunday April 29, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computational Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications, IV
Room 329, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts at Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Applications of the Groebner basis in statistics.
  Ian H Dinwoodie*, Tulane University
  (966-62-177)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Computing Cohomology.
  Gregory G Smith*, UC Berkeley
  (966-14-181)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Solutions to a polynomial system arising in biophysics.
  Jeff Phan*, Columbia University
  (966-00-129)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Solving the Selesnick-Burrus Filter Design Equations (Preliminary Report).
  John B Little*, College of the Holy Cross
  (966-93-131)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The use of Groebner bases in the design of wavelets.
  Ivan W Selesnick*, Polytechnic University
  (966-42-82)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computational Group Theory, IV
Room 330, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Robert Gilman, Stevens Institute of Technology rgilman@stevens-tech.edu
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexei@rio.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Sean Cleary, City College, New York cleary@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Generalised tetrahedron groups.
  Gerhard Rosenberger*, Univerity of Dortmund
  (966-20-192)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Positively Generated Subgroups of Free Groups and the Hanna Neumann Conjecture.
  Bilal Khan*, City University of New York, Graduate Center
  (966-20-77)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Evolutionary Algorithm in Coset Enumeration.
  Li-Tien Wang*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  (966-20-56)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Finitely generated malnormal subgroups of free groups.
  Toshiaki Jitsukawa*, CUNY Graduate Center and CUNY City College
  (966-20-148)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Growth and Gelfand-Kirillov superdimension for semigroups.
  Lev M. Shneerson*, Baruch College, The City University of New York
  (966-20-125)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Matchings in Graphs and Hypergraphs, IV
Room 323, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Alexander Barvinok, University of Michigan barvinok@math.lsa.umich.edu
Alex Samorodnitsky, Institute for Advanced Study asamor@ias.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Generalization of Hall's Theorm to Families of Hypergraphs.
  Ron Aharoni, Technion
  Maria Chudnovsky*, Princeton University
  Andrei Kotlov, CWI
  (966-05-60)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Hypergraph Matching and Homology.
  Roy Meshulam*, IAS/Technion
  (966-05-146)
- 3:50 p.m.
  On phase transition for the hard-core model on ${\bf Z}^d$.
  Jeffry N. Kahn*, Rutgers University
  David Galvin, Rutgers University
  (966-70-101)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Triangle factors in pseudo-random graphs.
  Michael Krivelevich, Tel Aviv University
  Benny Sudakov*, Princeton University and IAS
  Tibor Szabo, ETH
  (966-05-149)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Ricci Curvature and Related Topics, IV
Room 212, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
George I. Kamberov, Stevens Institute of Technology gkambero@stevens-tech.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Megan M. Kerr, Wellesley College mkerr@wellesley.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Sasakian-Einstein Geometry and Algebraic Geometry.
  Charles P Boyer*, University of New Mexico
  (966-53-107)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Minimal Submanifolds of K\"{a}hler-Einstein Manifolds.
  Isabel M.C. Salavessa*, Instituto Superior Tecnico
  (966-53-109)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Affine Spheres and K\"ahler-Einstein Metrics.
  John C Loftin*, Columbia University
  (966-53-92)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Ricci Curvature and Seiberg-Witten Theory.
  Claude R LeBrun*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (966-53-43)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Error Correction and Related Aspects of Coding Theory, III
Room 104, McLean Hall
Organizers:
Harriet S. Pollatsek, Mount Holyoke College hpollats@mtholyoke.edu
M. Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts at Lowell bruskai@cs.uml.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Parafermionic Quantum Computation.
  Wu Lian-Ao, University of Toronto
  Daniel A Lidar*, University of Toronto
  (966-81-89)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Pauli Exchange Errors and the Symmetric Group.
  Mary Beth Ruskai*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  (966-81-143)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Beyond the Clifford Group.
  Daniel E Gottesman*, UC Berkeley
  (966-81-165)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
Special Session on Surface Geometry and Shape Perception, IV
Room 230, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Gary R. Jensen, Washington University
George I. Kamberov, Stevens Institute of Technology kamberov@cs.stevens-tech.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Prescribing Gaussian Curvature in Negative Case.
  Wenxiong Chen*, Southwest Missouri State University
  Congming Li, University of Colorado at Boulder
  (966-53-162)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Second order conformal deformations of surfaces and Darboux transformations.
  Emilio Musso*, Universit� dell'Aquila
  (966-53-114)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Laguerre isothermic surfaces: deformation and integrable systems.
  Lorenzo Nicolodi*, University of Parma
  (966-51-172)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory (Dedicated to Frank Harary on His 80th Birthday), IV
Room 322, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Michael L. Gargano, Pace University mgargano@pace.edu
Louis V. Quintas, Pace University lquintas@pace.edu
Charles Suffel, Stevens Institute of Technology csuffel@stevens-tech.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Pancentral Graphs.
  Marty Lewinter*, Purchase College
  David Aulicino, Bryam Hills High School
  (966-05-18)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Degree Sequences---Analysis and Synthesis.
  Frank Boesch*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  Charles Suffel, Stevens Institute of Technology
  (966-05-32)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Degree Sequences - Analysis and Synthesis - Part II.
  Charles L Suffel*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  Frank T Boesch, Stevens Institute of Technology
  (966-05-61)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Achievement and Avoidance Games on geometries, graphs, grids, groups and numbers.
  Frank Harary*, New Mexico State University
  (966-05-194)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 2:45 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers
Room 231, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
- 2:45 p.m.
  The Integral Brick Problem.
  Susil K Jena*, Bhubaneswar,Orissa
  (966-11-52)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Primitive polynomials over finite fields with two coefficients prescribed in advance.
  Donald D Mills*, USMA
  (966-11-85)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Analysis of Spectrum on Sl(3,Z)Sl(3,R)/So(3,R).
  Nam Jong Moh*, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
  (966-11-133)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Invariant Means.
  Alan L Horwitz*, Penn State University
  (966-26-174)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Criteria for normality of lattices.
  Carmen D Vlad*, Pace University
  (966-28-42)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Application of Monodromy Data Method on the Fifth Painlev\'{e} Transcendent.
  Youmin Lu*, Bloomsburg University
  Zhoude Shao, Millersville University
  (966-34-58)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Solution of first order cubic differential equation.
  Ali A Salim*, Amman-city center
  (966-34-64)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Uniqueness of Semilinear Inverse Problem.
  Chaochun Qu, Yunnan University
  Ping Wang*, Penn State University
  (966-35-07)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Continuous function spaces and the locally convex property (db).
  Aaron R. Todd*, Baruch College, CUNY
  Hermann Render, Gerhard-Mercator-Universit\"at Duisburg
  (966-46-166)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Condition {$\lg \varepsilon$} and homogeneous torsion-free groups.
  Peter Loth*, Sacred Heart University
  (966-22-103)
- 5:15 p.m.
  The JR(ligge) Event Outcome and the D(u)**hXD(u)**h Effects.
  C. S. Felicitas*, CFCTE Foundation and the Gottlieb Library
  M. W. Auslander, CFCTE Foundation and the Gottlieb Library
  (966-22-08)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Deformation Quantization and Its Applications, IV
Room 229A, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Siddhartha Sahi, Rutgers University sahi@math.rutgers.edu
Martin J. Andler, University of Versailles andler@math.uvsq.fr
- 3:00 p.m.
  Convolution of invariant distribution on Lie groups.
  Martin Andler, Universit� de Versailles (France)
  Siddhartha Sahi, Rutgers University
  Charles Torossian*, CNRS-Ecole Normale Sup�rieure
  (966-81-72)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Kontsevich quantization and analysis on Lie supergroups.
  Martin Andler, Universite de Versailles-Saint-Quentin
  Alexander Dvorsky*, University of Miami
  Siddhartha Sahi, Rutgers University
  (966-53-38)
- 4:20 p.m.
  Equivariant star products on coadjoint orbits.
  Ranee Brylinski*, Penn State University
  (966-53-117)

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AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

2001 Spring Eastern Section Meeting Hoboken, NJ, April 28-29, 2001 Meeting #966

Sunday April 29, 2001

2001 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Hoboken, NJ, April 28-29, 2001
Meeting #966