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2000 Western Section Meeting
Santa Barbara, CA, March 11-12, 2000
Meeting #951

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

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Sunday March 12, 2000

• Sunday March 12, 2000, 7:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
  Meetings Registration
  Foyer, Girvetz Hall
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 7:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Foyer, Girvetz Hall
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in 3-manifolds, III
  Room 2128, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Daryl Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara cooper@math.ucsb.edu
  Darren Long, University of California, Santa Barbara long@math.ucsb.edu
  Martin Scharlemann, University of California, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Complexity of algorithms for 3-manifolds.
    Joachim H Rubinstein*, University of Melbourne
    William H Jaco, Oklahoma State University
    Ben Burton, University of Melbourne
    David Lestcher, Oklahoma State University
    (951-57-22)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Layered triangulations and Heegaard splittings of lens spaces and small Seifert fibered spaces.
    William H Jaco*, Oklahoma State University
    David Letscher, Oklahoma State University
    Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
    Eric Sedgwick, DePaul University
    (951-57-23)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geometric Triangulations of 3-Manifolds.
    David Letscher*, Oklahoma State
    Greg Leibon, Dartmouth
    (951-57-28)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Brunnian links are determined by their complements.
    Brian S Mangum*, Barnard College, Columbia University
    Theodore Stanford, United States Naval Academy
    (951-57-121)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Virtual Betti Numbers of Closed Bundles.
    Joseph D Masters*, Rice University
    (951-57-51)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Convex subgroups and torsion in CAT(0) groups.
    Eric L Swenson*, BYU
    (951-20-167)
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Schrodinger-Type Operators, III
  Room 2115, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Abel Klein, University of California, Irvine aklein@math.uci.edu
  Svetlana Jitomirskaya, University of California, Irvine szhitomi@math.uci.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Cwickel--Lieb--Rozenblum bound for Schr\"odinger operators with operator--valued potentials.
    Dirk Hundertmark*, Caltech
    (951-81-154)
  • 8:35 a.m.
    Multi-scale analysis implies strong dynamical localization.
    David Damanik*, California Institute of Technology
    Peter Stollmann, Frankfurt University
    (951-47-70)
  • 9:10 a.m.
    Generalized eigenfunctions for waves in inhomogeneous media.
    Abel Klein, University of California, Irvine
    Maximilian Seifert*, University of California, Irvine
    (951-78-168)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Strong Dynamical Localization for Classical Waves in Random Media.
    Francois Germinet, Universite de Lille I
    Abel Klein*, University of California, Irvine
    (951-78-160)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Zero-dimensionality of spectral measure for quasiperiodic operators with analytic potential.
    Michael D Landrigan*, UC Irvine
    (951-81-170)
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Subfactors and Free Probability Theory, III
  Room 2112, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Dietmar Bisch, University of California, Santa Barbara bisch@math.ucsb.edu
  Sorin Popa, University of California, Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
  Dan Voiculescu, University of California, Berkeley dvv@math.berkeley.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Invariant Subspaces for Voiculescu's Circular Operator (joint work with K. Dykema).
    Uffe Haagerup*, Odense University, Denmark
    (951-46-182)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    The coalgebra of the free difference quotient in free probability theory.
    Dan V Voiculescu*, U.C. Berkeley
    (951-46-101)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Free diffusions and matrix models.
    Philippe Biane*, CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure
    (951-47-80)
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Uniformly and Partially Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 2116, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Bjorn Birnir, University of California, Santa Barabara birnir@math.ucsb.edu
  Nicolai T. A. Haydn, University of Southern California nhaydn@math.usc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Vortex motion on a sphere.
    Paul K. Newton*, University of Southern California
    (951-34-189)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Scalings of Fluvial Landscapes.
    Bjorn Birnir*, Dept. of Math., UCSB
    Terence R Smith, Dept. of Georgraphy, UCSB
    George E Merchant, Dept. of Geography, UCSB
    (951-37-145)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Computations in Ergodic Theory of Particle Systems.
    Marek R Rychlik*, University of Arizona
    (951-37-150)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Analysis of a class of strange attractors.
    Qiudong (Don) Wang*, UCLA
    (951-34-83)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Towards a geometric theory of hybrid systems.
    Slobodan N Simic*, UC Berkeley
    (951-37-110)
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 8:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, III
  Room 2129, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Xian-Zhe Dai, University of California, Santa Barbara dai@henri.math.ucsb.edu
  Doug Moore, University of California, Santa Barbara moore@math.ucsb.edu
  Guofang Wei, University of California, Santa Barbara wei@henri.math.ucsb.edu
  Rick Ye, University of California, Santa Barbara yer@henri.math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 8:40 a.m.
    A Deformation of Noncompact Einstein Solvmanifolds.
    Megan M Kerr*, Wellesley College
    (951-53-114)
  • 9:25 a.m.
    On Manifolds with Positive Curvature Almost Everywhere.
    fred wilhelm*, Univ. of Calf., Riverside
    Peter Petersen, UCLA
    (951-53-99)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Orbits of SU(2) - representations and Minimal Isometric Immersions.
    Christine M Escher*, Oregon State University
    Gregor Weingart, Universitaet Bonn
    (951-53-89)
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
  Room 2127, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  James Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799): A commemorative on the 200th anniversary of her death. A Lasting Contribution from the First Surviving Mathematical Work Written by a Woman.
    S. I. B. Gray*, California State University Los Angeles
    (951-01-05)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Conics of Gilles Personne de Roberval.
    Barnabas B Hughes*, California State University, Northridge
    (951-01-33)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fair representation, apportionment and proportional representation: Charles L. Dodgson's approach.
    Francine F Abeles*, Kean University
    (951-01-97)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Remarkable Gerbert.
    James J Tattersall*, Providence College
    (951-01-57)
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms, III
  Room 2119, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Ozlem Imamoglu, University of California, Santa Barbara ozlem@math.ucsb.edu
  Jeffrey Stopple, University of California, Santa Barbara stopple@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hidden symmetries for a renormalized integral of Eisenstein series.
    Jennifer Beineke*, Trinity College
    Daniel Bump, Stanford University
    (951-11-54)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    A Rankin-Selberg integral using the automorphic minimal representation of $SO(7)$.
    Daniel Bump, Stanford University
    Solomon Friedberg*, Boston College
    David Ginzburg, Tel-Aviv University
    (951-11-81)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Sums of quadratic twists of L-functions.
    Daniel W Bump*, Stanford University
    (951-11-152)
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory of Algebras, III
  Room 2123, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  F. W. Anderson, University of Oregon anderson@math.uoregon.edu
  K. R. Fuller, University of Iowa kent-fuller@uiowa.edu
  B. Huisgen-Zimmermann, University of California, Santa Barbara birge@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A proof of the flat cover conjecture, and beyond.
    Paul C. Eklof*, Univ. of California, Irvine
    Jan Trlifaj, Charles University, Prague
    (951-16-38)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Left and right approximations via endoproperties of modules.
    Lidia Angeleri Huegel*, University of Munich, Germany
    (951-16-96)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Family of Noetherian Rings with Their Finite Length Modules under Control.
    Markus Schmidmeier*, Florida Atlantic University
    (951-16-164)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Zeta functions and Dirichlet series.
  Room 1004, Girvetz Hall
  Ram M Murty*, Queen's University
  (951-11-188)
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  1D Quasiperiodic operators. Arithmetics and localization.
  Room 1004, Girvetz Hall
  Svetlana Jitomirskaya*, UCI
  (951-81-171)
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in 3-manifolds, IV
  Room 2128, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Daryl Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara cooper@math.ucsb.edu
  Darren Long, University of California, Santa Barbara long@math.ucsb.edu
  Martin Scharlemann, University of California, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Alexander and Thurston norms of fibered 3-manifolds.
    Nathan M Dunfield*, Harvard University
    (951-57-137)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A symplectic model for the Seiberg-Witten Floer homology of mapping tori.
    Michael L Hutchings*, Stanford University
    (951-58-17)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Convexity in Contact Topology.
    John B Etnyre*, Stanford University
    (951-57-14)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Results in geometric group theory.
    Jeremy Shor*, UCSB
    (951-20-166)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Intrinsically knotted or linked graphs in $R^3$.
    Erica Flapan, Pomona College
    Ramin Naimi*, Occidental College
    James Pommersheim, Pomona College
    (951-57-85)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Stabilizations of Heegaard Splittings and PL Index 2 Minimal Surfaces.
    Bachman C David*, Portland State University
    (951-57-12)
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, IV
  Room 2129, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Xian-Zhe Dai, University of California, Santa Barbara dai@henri.math.ucsb.edu
  Doug Moore, University of California, Santa Barbara moore@math.ucsb.edu
  Guofang Wei, University of California, Santa Barbara wei@henri.math.ucsb.edu
  Rick Ye, University of California, Santa Barbara yer@henri.math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On locally conformally flat 4-manifolds.
    Alice Chang, Princeton University
    Jie Qing*, UCSC
    Paul Yang, USCand PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
    (951-53-149)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Determinant of Dirac Operators and Global Anomalies.
    Siye Wu*, University of California at Santa Barbara and University of Adelaide, Australia
    (951-58-180)
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms, IV
  Room 2119, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Ozlem Imamoglu, University of California, Santa Barbara ozlem@math.ucsb.edu
  Jeffrey Stopple, University of California, Santa Barbara stopple@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The modular symbol in the Siegel upper half plane.
    Arpad Toth*, University of Michigan
    (951-11-102)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Applications of Hecke operators on Siegel modular forms.
    Lynne H Walling*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (951-11-118)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Towards a GL(3) generalization of the Katok-Sarnak formula.
    Daniel B Lieman*, University of Missouri and the American Institute of Mathematics
    (951-11-156)
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Subfactors and Free Probability Theory, IV
  Room 2112, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Dietmar Bisch, University of California, Santa Barbara bisch@math.ucsb.edu
  Sorin Popa, University of California, Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
  Dan Voiculescu, University of California, Berkeley dvv@math.berkeley.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fusion of Positive Energy Representations of $LE_8$ using von Neumann algebras.
    Antony J Wassermann*, CNRS Luminy / DPMMS Cambridge
    (951-46-127)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Algebraic orbifold conformal field theories.
    Feng Xu*, University of Oklahoma
    (951-46-116)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Compact Kac algebras and subfactors.
    Teodor Banica*, UC Berkeley
    (951-46-132)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Braid representations and tensor categories.
    Hans G Wenzl*, UC San Diego
    (951-46-144)
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory of Algebras, IV
  Room 2123, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  F. W. Anderson, University of Oregon anderson@math.uoregon.edu
  K. R. Fuller, University of Iowa kent-fuller@uiowa.edu
  B. Huisgen-Zimmermann, University of California, Santa Barbara birge@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Splitting and Dual Pairs.
    Juan Jacobo Simon Pinero, University of Murcia
    Victor P Camillo*, University of Iowa
    (951-16-131)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Torsion theories of dual extension algebras.
    Xianneng Du*, Anhui University
    (951-16-169)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Weakly cotilting bimodules of finite injective dimension.
    Alberto Tonolo*, Universita' di Padova
    (951-16-90)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Uniformly and Partially Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems, IV
  Room 2116, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Bjorn Birnir, University of California, Santa Barabara birnir@math.ucsb.edu
  Nicolai T. A. Haydn, University of Southern California nhaydn@math.usc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dissipative dynamics of W-flows.
    Maciej P Wojtkowski*, University of Arizona
    (951-58-173)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Relaxation in Hamiltonian systems.
    Peter Smereka*, University of Michigan
    (951-70-175)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On-off intermittency associated with almost invariant manifolds.
    Dieter Armbruster*, Arizona State University
    Daniel Marthaler, Arizona State University
    (951-37-87)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An additional Gibbs' state for the cubic Schrodinger equation on the circle.
    Kirill L Vaninsky*, Kansas State University
    (951-35-128)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Oscillation properties of solutions of dissipative PDEs.
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    (951-35-153)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A Geometric Analysis of the Averaged Euler Equations.
    Steve Shkoller*, University of California Davis
    (951-35-106)
• Sunday March 12, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Schrodinger-Type Operators, IV
  Room 2115, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Abel Klein, University of California, Irvine aklein@math.uci.edu
  Svetlana Jitomirskaya, University of California, Irvine szhitomi@math.uci.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    First KdV integrals and a.c. spectrum for 1-D Schrodinger operator.
    S Molchanov, UNC at Charlotte
    M Novitskii, UNC at Charlotte
    B Vainberg*, UNC at Charlotte
    (951-35-133)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On the Periodic Magnetic Schr\"{o}dinger Operator.
    Yulia Karpeshina*, UAB
    (951-35-77)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A problem in constrained minimization.
    Alexander Y Gordon*, UNC-Charlotte
    (951-35-162)

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