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1999 AMS Western Section Meeting
Salt Lake City, UT, September 25-26, 1999
Meeting #946

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

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Saturday September 25, 1999

• Saturday September 25, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  outside Saltair and Collegiate Rooms, Union Building
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Complex Variables and Operator Theory, I
  Room 236, Orson Spencer Hall
  Organizers:
  Siqi Fu, University of Wyoming sfu@uwyo.edu
  Farhad Jafari, University of Wyoming fjafari@uwyo.edu
  Peter Polyakov, University of Wyoming polyakov@ledaig.uwyo.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Canonical conjugations at fixed points other than the Denjoy-Wolff point.
    Pietro Poggi-Corradini*, Kansas State University
    (946-30-08)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    $L^2$ existence theorems for $\bar\partial_b$ on Lipschitz boundaries.
    Mei-Chi Shaw*, University of Notre Dame
    (946-32-65)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sobolev estimate for $\partial_b$ on the boundary of convex domains in ${\bf C}^2$.
    Michael Christ, University of California, Berkeley
    Song-Ying Li*, University of California, Irvine
    (946-32-100)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Polynomial Approximation on Three-Dimensional Real Analytic Submanifolds of ${\Bbb C\/}^n$.
    John T. Anderson, College of the Holy Cross
    Alexander J. Izzo*, Bowling Green State University
    John Wermer, Brown University
    (946-32-96)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A New Result About the Dimensions of the Automorphism Groups of Domains.
    Alexander V Isaev, The Australian National University
    Steven G Krantz*, Washington University
    (946-32-64)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 232, Orson Spencer Hall
  Organizers:
  Paul Roberts, University of Utah roberts@math.utah.edu
  Roger Wiegand, University of Nebraska rwiegand@math.unl.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The LCM lattice.
    Vesselin N. Gasharov*, Cornell University
    Irena V. Peeva, Cornell University
    Volkmar Welker, Technische Universit\"at Berlin
    (946-13-11)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A new class of ladder determinantal varieties.
    N. Gonciulea, University of Michigan
    C. Miller*, University of Michigan
    (946-13-55)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Monomialization of Morphisms.
    S. Dale Cutkosky*, University of Missouri
    (946-14-71)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Alexander Duality Functors and Local Duality with Monomial Support.
    Ezra N. Miller*, University of California, Berkeley
    (946-13-33)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Toric Hilbert Schemes.
    Irena V. Peeva*, Cornell University
    Mike Stillman, Cornell University
    (946-13-09)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lagrangian subbundles and codimension 3 subcanonical subschemes.
    David Eisenbud, UC Berkeley
    Sorin E Popescu*, Columbia University
    Charles Walter, University of Nice
    (946-14-110)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Collegiate Room, Union Building
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Microlocal Analysis and Applications, I
  Room 237, Orson Spencer Hall
  Organizers:
  Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington gunther@math.washington.edu
  Maciej Zworski, University of California, Berkeley zworski@math.berkeley.edu
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    To be announced.
    Richard B. Melrose*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (946-35-130)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Wave Equations with Low Regularity Coefficients.
    Hart F Smith*, University of Washington, Seattle
    (946-35-82)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Sharp Spectral Asymptotics for Operators with Non-Smooth Coefficients.
    Victor Ivrii*, University of Toronto
    (946-35-32)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Existence of resonances for metric perturbation of the Euclidean Laplacian in even dimensional spaces.
    Siu-Hung Tang*, University of California, Berkeley
    (946-35-107)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory of Stochastic Processes, I
  Room 233, Orson Spencer Hall
  Organizers:
  Stewart N. Ethier, University of Utah ethier@math.utah.edu
  Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah davar@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Monotonicity of conditional distributions and growth models on trees.
    Thomas M Liggett*, UCLA
    (946-60-45)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Random Walks on Stochastic Sceneries.
    David A Levin*, University of Connecticut
    (946-60-89)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Joint Large Deviations for Additive Functionals of Harris Recurrent Markov Chains.
    Xia Chen*, University of Utah
    (946-60-85)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Random logistic maps.
    Krishna B Athreya*, Iowa State University
    (946-60-84)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic and Number Theory, I
  Room 234, Orson Spencer Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert Burton, Oregon State University bob@orst.edu
  Thomas Schmidt, Oregon State University toms@math.orst.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geodesics on Riemann Surfaces with Ramification Points of Order Greater than 2.
    Mark Sheingorn*, CUNY - Baruch
    (946-30-42)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Veech groups and polygonal coverings.
    Pascal Hubert, Institut de Math\'ematiques de Luminy
    Thomas A Schmidt*, Oregon State University
    (946-30-115)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Geodesic flow on nonpositively curved length spaces.
    Christopher M Judge*, Indiana University
    (946-37-77)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Periodic and singular geodesics on flat surfaces, with applications to billiards.
    Eugene Gutkin*, University of Southern California
    (946-37-97)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A tessellation associated to a quadratic differential.
    William A Veech*, Rice University
    (946-37-61)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetical Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 231, Orson Spencer Hall
  Organizers:
  Minhyong Kim, University of Arizona kim@math.arizona.edu
  Wieslawa Niziol, University of Utah niziol@math.utah.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Brauer-Manin Obstruction for $0$-cycles of degree $1$.
    Victor Scharaschkin*, University of Southern California
    (946-11-14)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A conjecture of Milne and its applications.
    Adrian Vasiu*, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
    (946-14-43)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the crystalline cohomology of Frobenius-split varieties.
    Kirti Joshi*, University of Arizona
    (946-14-119)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Distribution of almost division points.
    Shou-Wu Zhang*, Columbia University
    (946-11-62)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 235, Orson Spencer Hall
  Organizers:
  Benito Chen, Institute for Scientific Study, University of Wyoming
  Junping Wang, Institute for Scientific Study, University of Wyoming wang@everest.uwyo.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Large Finite Volume Element Methods in Porous Media Flow.
    Richard E Ewing*, ISC, Texas A&M University
    Raytcho Lazarov, Texas A&M University
    Yanping Lin, Texas A&M University
    (946-35-88)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Development of an adaptive mixed finite element simulator for coupled geomechanics and fluid flow problems.
    Hongsen Chen*, University of Wyoming
    (946-35-113)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Sinc-Galerkin Method for Differential Equations with an Application to Oceanography.
    Kenneth L Bowers*, Montana State University
    Donald F Winter, Department of Physics, University of Redlands
    John Lund, Montana State University
    (946-35-94)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Numerical Simulation Of Biofilm Growth at the Pore Scale.
    Benito M Chen*, University of Wyoming
    Yaqing Li, University of Wyoming
    (946-35-90)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Continued Fraction Algorithms: Dynamics, Convergence, and Stochastics.
  Saltair Room, Union Building
  Robert M. Burton*, Oregon State University
  (946-11-129)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Harmonic Maps to R-Trees.
  Saltair Room, Union Building
  Richard A Wentworth*, University of California, Irvine
  (946-58-78)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Complex Variables and Operator Theory, II
  Room 236, Orson Spencer Hall
  Organizers:
  Siqi Fu, University of Wyoming sfu@uwyo.edu
  Farhad Jafari, University of Wyoming fjafari@uwyo.edu
  Peter Polyakov, University of Wyoming polyakov@ledaig.uwyo.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Commutators on harmonic Bergman spaces.
    Zhijian Wu*, University of Alabama
    (946-47-75)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Beurling-Lax-Halmos Theorem for N.P. Kernels.
    Tavan T Trent*, University of Alabama
    Scott A McCollough, University of Florida
    (946-47-66)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Regularity of the Szeg\H o projection for non-smooth planar domains.
    Loredana Lanzani*, University of Arkansas
    Elias Stein, Princeton University
    (946-30-79)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Lempert
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Extending holomorphic functions of infinitely many variables.
    Laszlo Lempert*, Purdue University
    (946-46-127)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Hermatian metric with constant holomorphic sectional curvature on a convex domain.
    Wing-Sum Cheung, University of Hong Kong
    Bun Wong*, University of California, Riverside
    (946-32-99)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Some nonlinear representations of the Lorentz group by holomorphic automorphisms of a Lie ball.
    Yaakov Friedman, Jerusalem College of Technology
    Bernard Russo*, University of California, Irvine
    (946-32-103)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    A Transformation formula for the Bergman kernel functions.
    Siqi Fu*, The University of Wyoming
    (946-32-59)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetical Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 231, Orson Spencer Hall
  Organizers:
  Minhyong Kim, University of Arizona kim@math.arizona.edu
  Wieslawa Niziol, University of Utah niziol@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Singularities of the height strata in the moduli of K3 surfaces.
    Arthur E Ogus*, University of California, Berkeley
    (946-14-109)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Hodge-Arakelov Theory of Elliptic Curves.
    Shinichi Mochizuki*, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University
    (946-11-37)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Differential modular forms.
    Alexandru Buium*, University of New Mexico
    (946-11-10)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Mixed Tate motives and a conjecture of Hain.
    Norman P Levin*, University of Minnesota
    (946-14-76)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
  Room 232, Orson Spencer Hall
  Organizers:
  Paul Roberts, University of Utah roberts@math.utah.edu
  Roger Wiegand, University of Nebraska rwiegand@math.unl.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    An Alternative Definition of Serre's Intersection Multiplicity.
    C-Y. Jean Chan*, University of Utah
    (946-13-68)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Vanishing of (co)homology over local rings.
    David A Jorgensen*, University of Texas at Arlington
    (946-13-41)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Boundedness of local cohomology for graded affine algebras.
    Adela N Vraciu*, University of Michigan
    (946-13-36)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Multiplicities and Localization (preliminary report).
    Sean M Sather-Wagstaff*, University of Utah
    (946-13-30)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Absolute, relative, and stable cohomology of modules of finite G-dimension.
    Luchezar L Avramov*, Purdue University
    Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University
    (946-16-102)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory of Stochastic Processes, II
  Room 233, Orson Spencer Hall
  Organizers:
  Stewart N. Ethier, University of Utah ethier@math.utah.edu
  Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah davar@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Langevin diffusions and their applications in MCMC.
    Richard L Tweedie*, University of Minnesota
    (946-60-56)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Analysis of Fluid Models for Processor Sharing Queues.
    Amber L Puha*, California State University San Marcos
    Ruth J Williams, University of California San Diego
    (946-60-24)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Brownian Bubbles and Local Time of the Brownian Sheet.
    Thomas S Mountford*, UCLA
    (946-60-86)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discrete spectrum of nonstationary stochastic processes on groups.
    Leonid G. Hanin*, Idaho State University
    Bertram M. Schreiber, Wayne State University
    (946-60-40)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Representations and limits for functionals of stochastic processes.
    S. Borovkova,
    Robert M Burton*, Oregon State University
    H. Dehling,
    (946-60-121)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Microlocal Analysis and Applications, II
  Room 237, Orson Spencer Hall
  Organizers:
  Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington gunther@math.washington.edu
  Maciej Zworski, University of California, Berkeley zworski@math.berkeley.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Semi-classical resolvent estimates for trapping perturbations.
    Vesselin Petkov*, Universite de Bordeaux I
    (946-81-49)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Recovering asymptotics of some perturbations from fixed energy scattering data.
    Tanya J Christiansen*, University of Missouri
    Mark S Joshi, NatWest,London, England
    (946-35-87)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Characteristic Strichartz Estimates.
    Allan Greenleaf*, University of Rochester
    Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington
    (946-35-83)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Lower bound of the number of Rayleigh resonances.
    Plamen Stefanov*, East Carolina University
    (946-35-46)
  • 5:40 p.m.
    Inverse Scattering on Asymptotically Hyperbolic Spaces.
    Ant\^onio C S\'a Barreto*, Purdue University
    Mark S Joshi, University of Cambridge
    (946-35-44)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 235, Orson Spencer Hall
  Organizers:
  Benito Chen, Institute for Scientific Study, University of Wyoming
  Junping Wang, Institute for Scientific Study, University of Wyoming wang@everest.uwyo.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Numerical Study of Fluid Mixing in Multiphase Flows in Heterogeneous Porous Media.
    Frederico Furtado*, University of Wyoming
    (946-35-112)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Family of Numerical Methods for Stiffly Forced Conservation Laws.
    C Hillyard, University of Arizona
    J Koebbe*, Utah State University
    (946-35-105)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Models of low-speed flow for near-critical fluids.
    Diane L Denny*, University of Wyoming
    (946-35-106)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Multigrid Method and High Order Compact Scheme for Solving Boundary Layer Problems on Nonuniform Grids.
    Ge Lixin, University of Kentucky
    Jun Zhang*, University of Kentucky
    (946-65-111)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Mixed finite element methods for variational inequalities.
    Hong Huang, Texas A&M
    Junping Wang*, University of Wyoming
    Yongjun Yang, University of Wyoming
    (946-35-122)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Mass conservation and long time error control.
    Tong Sun*, Texas A and M University
    (946-35-126)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic and Number Theory, II
  Room 234, Orson Spencer Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert Burton, Oregon State University bob@orst.edu
  Thomas Schmidt, Oregon State University toms@math.orst.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The mother of all continued fractions.
    Karma Dajani*, Universiteit Utrecht
    Cor Kraaikamp, TUDelft
    (946-28-120)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mixing Measures Achieve Nearly Maximal Entropy in $\mathbb Z^d$ Shifts of Finite Type with Uniform Filling.
    E. Arthur Robinson, Jr., George Washington University
    Ayse A Sahin*, North Dakota State University
    (946-37-91)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Subshifts of a higher-dimensional shift of finite type.
    Anthony N Quas*, University of Memphis
    Paul B Trow, University of Memphis
    (946-58-98)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    $L^q$ densities and $q$-dimensions.
    Mariusz Urbanski*, University of North Texas
    (946-37-48)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the convergence of series of translates of measurable functions.
    Zoltan Buczolich, Eotvos Lorand University
    Jean-Pierre Kahane, Universit\'e de Paris-Sud
    R. Daniel Mauldin*, University of North Texas
    (946-28-128)
• Saturday September 25, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  General Session
  Room 209, Orson Spencer Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sphere of Influence Graphs and the $L_\infty$-Metric.
    Thomas Quint*, University of Nevada at Reno
    TS Michael, United States Naval Academy
    (946-05-13)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Notions of stability for one dimensional dynamical systems.
    TH Steele*, Weber State University
    (946-26-26)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    New quasi cyclic linear codes over $\mathbb{F}_5$ and improvements on bounds.
    Irfan Siap*, The Ohio State University
    Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri, The Ohio State University
    (946-05-05)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    New ternary quasi cyclic codes and improvements on minimum distances.
    Irfan Siap, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
    Nuh Aydin*, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
    Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri, Department of MAthematics, The Ohio State University
    (946-05-12)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Theory of Resultant of Diophantine Equations.
    Kau U Lu*, California State University, Long Beach
    (946-11-28)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Random Sperner Systems.
    Michelle K Bylund*, Brigham Young University
    Jayadev S Athreya, Iowa State University
    Anant P Godbole, Michigan Technological University
    Jessica Maia, Washington University
    (946-60-116)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Dominance of geometry over algebraic elegance.
    Gunwon Lee, Mr.*, Seoul National University
    (946-00-25)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A Brief History and Discussion on the Calculus.
    L.F. M. York*, CFCTE, Inc.
    (946-03-06)

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