AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:43
2002 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
Boston, MA, October 5-6, 2002
Meeting #979
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Saturday October 5, 2002
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Indoor Quad, Mezzanine Level, Curry Student Center -
Saturday October 5, 2002, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Gallery, Mezzanine Level, Curry Student Center -
Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, I
Room 230, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Matthew A. Papanikolas, Brown University map@math.brown.edu
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst siman@math.umass.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Speculations on the ranks of elliptic curves.
Douglas Ulmer*, University of Arizona
(979-11-49) -
8:30 a.m.
An extension of the Fontaine-Mazur Conjecture.
Farshid Hajir*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(979-11-63) -
9:00 a.m.
The arithmetic of m-regular partition functions.
David K Penniston*, Furman University
(979-11-229) -
9:30 a.m.
Greenberg's conjecture: a non-abelian example.
William G. McCallum*, University of Arizona
Romyar T. Sharifi, Harvard University
(979-11-201) -
10:00 a.m.
Weierstrass points on $X_0(p)$ and supersingular $j$-invariants.
Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois
(979-11-91) -
10:30 a.m.
Picard modular varieties in positive characteristic.
Jeffrey D Achter*, Columbia University
(979-14-205)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:15 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Hilbert Schemes, I
Room 330, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Mark De Cataldo, SUNY at Stony Brook mde@math.sunysb.edu
Anthony A. Iarrobino, Northeastern University a.iarrobino@neu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The ample cone of the Hilbert scheme of points in the plane and of the Hilbert scheme of space curves.
Gerd Gotzmann*, Rheine,Germany
(979-14-31) -
9:40 a.m.
On the geometry of the parabolic Hilbert schemes.
Takuro Mochizuki*, Osaka City University, Institute for Advanced Study
(979-14-29) -
10:20 a.m.
An application of Hilbert schemes to some enumerative problems.
Heather J. Russell*, Oklahoma State University
(979-14-156)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, I
Room 130, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern University terng@neu.edu
Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame xliu3@nd.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Discussion. -
9:00 a.m.
Counting Fourier-Mukai Partners of K3 Surfaces.
Bong H Lian*, Brandeis University
(979-51-65) -
9:30 a.m.
Special Lagrangian Submanifolds and Mirror Symmetry.
Sema Salur*, Northwestern University
(979-53-237) -
10:00 a.m.
Special Lagrangian cones over tori.
Emma E. Carberry*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ian McIntosh, University of York
(979-53-210) -
10:30 a.m.
The Camassa-Holm hierarchy, $r$-matrix structure, and algebro-geometric solution.
Darryl D Holm, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Zhijun Qiao*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
(979-35-19)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Quivers and Their Generalizations, I
Room 173, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University
Gordana G. Todorov, Northeastern University
Jerzy M. Weyman, Northeastern University weyman@neu.edu
Andrei V. Zelevinsky, Northeastern University andrei@neu.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Quiver varieties and infinite Grassmannians of type A.
Maxim Vybornov*, MIT
(979-14-242) -
9:10 a.m.
Lie algebras associated to a Dynkin quiver.
Igor Frenkel, Yale
Anton Malkin*, MIT
Maxim Vybornov, MIT
(979-16-169) -
9:50 a.m.
Regions of the canonical basis of a quantized enveloping algebra.
Robert J Marsh*, University of Leicester
Markus Reineke, BUGH Wuppertal
(979-17-34) -
10:25 a.m.
Standard Monomial Theory for Affine SL(n).
V Lakshmibai, Northeastern University
Peter Magyar*, Michigan State University
Jerzy Weyman, Northeastern University
(979-14-226)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in the Orbit Method for Real and p-adic Groups, I
Room 344, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Donald R. King, Northeastern University donking@neu.edu
Alfred G. Noel, University of Massachusetts, Boston alfred.noel@umb.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Some tiny unitary representations of indefinite orthogonal groups.
Anthony W. Knapp*, State University of New York at Stony Brook
(979-22-07) -
9:00 a.m.
Associated varieties and signatures of Hermitian forms.
David A. Vogan*, MIT
(979-22-66) -
9:30 a.m.
Discussion. -
10:00 a.m.
Admissible nilpotent orbits of $p$-adic split exceptional groups.
Monica Nevins*, University of Ottawa
(979-22-155) -
10:30 a.m.
Components of the Springer Fiber and Domino Tableaux.
Thomas Pietraho*, Bowdoin College
(979-22-68)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The Mathematics of Water Waves, I
Room 140, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Diane Henderson, Pennsylvania State University dmh@math.psu.edu
Gene Wayne, Boston University cew@math.bu.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Rigorous approximations of water waves.
Guido Schneider, University of Karlsruhe
C. Eugene Wayne*, Boston University
(979-35-79) -
9:00 a.m.
Existence, Analyticity, and Stable Computation of Traveling Water Waves.
David P Nicholls*, University of Notre Dame
(979-76-124) -
9:30 a.m.
Boussinesq models of shallow water waves.
Min Chen*, University of Central Florida
(979-76-234) -
10:00 a.m.
Higher order corrections to KdV approximations.
J. Douglas Wright*, Boston University
(979-35-117) -
10:30 a.m.
Hamiltonians and long wave expansions for the dynamics of free surfaces and interfaces.
Walter Craig*, McMaster University
Philippe Guyenne, McMaster University
Henrik Kalisch, Lund University
(979-76-80)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convex Geometry, I
Room 50, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Daniel_Klain@uml.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Extremal slabs in the cube and the Laplace transform.
Franck Barthe, University of Marne-la-Vallee
Alexander Koldobsky*, University of Missouri-Columbia
(979-52-30) -
9:00 a.m.
Volume of Projections of Convex Bodies via Fourier Transform.
Alexander Koldobsky, University of Missouri-Columbia
Dmitry Ryabogin, University of Missouri-Columbia
Artem Zvavitch*, University of MIssouri-Columbia
(979-52-100) -
9:30 a.m.
Euclidean sections of direct sums of normed spaces.
A. E. Litvak*, University of Alberta
V. D. Milman, Tel Aviv University
(979-46-130) -
10:00 a.m.
Coordinate projections of convex bodies.
Mark Rudelson*, University of Missouri
Roman Vershynin, University of Alberta
(979-52-193) -
10:30 a.m.
Inequalities related to convex bodies and applications.
Yehoram Gordon*, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
(979-52-225)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, I
Room 150, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
Christopher T. Woodward, Rutgers University ctw@math.rutgers.edu
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9:00 a.m.
GKM spaces with non-isolated fixed points.
Victor Guillemin*, MIT
Tara S Holm, MIT
(979-14-223) -
9:30 a.m.
Schur and Schubert polynomials are Thom polynomials.
Richard Rimanyi*, Ohio State University
(979-14-90) -
10:00 a.m.
Schubert Calculus on Bott-Samelson Manifolds.
Rebecca Goldin*, George Mason University
(979-53-196) -
10:30 a.m.
Polynomials associated to Bott-Samelson resolutions and torsion in intersection cohomology.
Tom Braden*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(979-14-144)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, I
Room 119, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell vidhu_prasad@uml.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Rank one mixing actions of discrete Abelian groups.
Adam Fieldsteel, Wesleyan University
Andr\'es del Junco*, University of Toronto
(979-28-177) -
9:30 a.m.
Lower Bounds for Upcrossings of Ergodic Averages.
Sebastian E Ferrando*, Ryerson University
Pedro Catuogno, Mar del Plata National University
Alfredo Gonzalez, Mar del Plata National University
(979-28-122) -
10:00 a.m.
Local Rigidity of Group Actions.
David M Fisher*, Lehman College, CUNY
G A Margulis, Yale University
(979-37-219) -
10:30 a.m.
Growth of typical orbits on homogeneous spaces.
Dmitry Y Kleinbock*, Brandeis University
(979-37-84)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic and Analytic Geometry, I
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University gaff@neu.edu
David B. Massey, Northeastern University dmassey@neu.edu
Caroline Grant Melles, U. S. Naval Academy cgg@usna.edu
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, I
Room 70, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
Mary Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@cs.uml.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Entanglement and Quantum Error Correction.
Michael D Westmoreland*, Denison University
(979-81-183) -
9:30 a.m.
Continuous-time quantum error correction.
C S Ahn, Caltech
A C Doherty, Caltech
A J Landahl*, MIT
(979-81-139) -
10:00 a.m.
Empirically Combining Methods of Quantum Error Correction and Avoidance.
Mark S. Byrd*, Harvard University
Daniel A. Lidar, University of Toronto
(979-81-96) -
10:30 a.m.
Quantum Dynamical Semigroup Tomography.
Timothy F Havel*, MIT
(979-15-81)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The History of Mathematics, I
Room 333, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Adrian C. Rice, Randolph-Macon College arice4@rmc.edu
Amy E. Shell-Gellasch, U. S. Military Academy aa7423@usma.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Brought to book: The curious story of Guglielmo Libri.
Adrian Rice*, Randolph-Macon College
(979-01-15) -
9:30 a.m.
200 Years of West Point Mathematics: Profiles of Mathematical Soldiers and Trailblazers.
Chris Arney*, College of Saint Rose
(979-01-12) -
10:00 a.m.
A Medieval Islamic Perspective on Indian Mathematics.
Kim Plofker*, Brown University
(979-01-213) -
10:30 a.m.
Analysis, Synthesis, and Trigonometry: From Pure Geometry to the Exact Sciences in Greece and Medieval Islam.
Glen R Van Brummelen*, Bennington College
(979-01-109)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Operators on Noncompact Manifolds, I
Room 170, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Maxim Braverman, Northeastern University maxim@neu.edu
Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Mikhail A. Shubin, Northeastern University shubin@neu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Many-body scattering and symmetric spaces.
Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
Andras Vasy*, MIT
(979-35-76) -
9:40 a.m.
Heat Trace and Spectral Asymptotics for Singular Schrodinger Operators.
Robert C McOwen*, Northeastern University
(979-35-131) -
10:20 a.m.
On the absence of positive eigenvalues of Schr\"{o}dinger operators.
Alexandru D Ionescu*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(979-42-134)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I
Room 346, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Sean T. Cleary, City College, CUNY cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Murray Elder, Tufts University melder@math.tamu.edu
Jennifer Taback, University of Albany jtaback@math.albany.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Birth, death and the braid group.
Matthew G Brin*, Binghamton University
(979-20-137) -
9:30 a.m.
Finiteness properties of the braided Thompson group.
M. Brin, Binghamton University
J. Meier*, Lafayette College
(979-20-67) -
10:00 a.m.
Controlled topology and group theory.
Ross Geoghegan*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
(979-57-167) -
10:30 a.m.
Progress on the $K(\pi,1)$-conjecture for Artin groups.
Ruth M Charney*, Ohio State University
(979-20-56)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
Session for Contributed Papers, I
Room 342, Curry Student Center
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9:00 a.m.
More on Randomness and Pseudo-random Numbers: An Historical Review.
G. Arthur Mihram*, Princeton, NJ
Danielle Mihram, U. of Southern California
(979-01-20) -
9:15 a.m.
On Critical Trees for L(2,1)-labelings.
Denise Sakai Troxell*, Babson College
(979-05-46) -
9:30 a.m.
Criteria for Irrationality of Euler's Constant.
Jonathan Sondow*, New York, NY
(979-11-16) -
9:45 a.m.
Towards Characterizing Morphisms of High Dimensional Hypersurfaces.
David C Sheppard*, MIT
(979-14-241)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Complexity, irrationality, and model theory.
Ballroom, Curry Student Center
Lou P. van den Dries*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(979-03-04) -
Saturday October 5, 2002, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Mathematical modelling and experiments on water waves.
Ballroom, Curry Student Center
Diane Henderson*, Pennsylvania State University
Joseph L Hammack, Pennsylvania State University
(979-76-01) -
Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, II
Room 150, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
Christopher T. Woodward, Rutgers University ctw@math.rutgers.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Geometric proofs of Horn and Saturation conjectures.
Prakash Belkale*, University of North Carolina
(979-14-102) -
3:00 p.m.
A Vansihing and a Non-Vanshing Criterion for Schubert Calculus on $G/B$.
Kevin Purbhoo*, U.C. Berkeley
(979-00-224) -
3:30 p.m.
Divided differences and spaces of subwords.
Catalin Zara*, Yale University
(979-05-214) -
4:00 p.m.
Schubert Calculus over Free Skew-fields.
Vladimir Retakh*, Rutgers University
(979-16-138) -
4:30 p.m.
Degenerating Schubert varieties to unions of toric varieties associated to rc-graphs.
Mikhail Kogan*, Northeastern University
Ezra Miller, MSRI
(979-14-187) -
5:00 p.m.
Positivity of quiver cycles via deformation.
Allen Knutson, UC Berkeley
Ezra Miller*, MSRI
Mark Shimozono, Virginia Tech
(979-14-233)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, II
Room 119, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell vidhu_prasad@uml.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Bounded orbit injections and flow equivalence for minimal $Z^d$-actions.
Nicholas S Ormes*, University of Denver
Kathleen Madden, Drew University
(979-37-120) -
3:00 p.m.
The complexity of self affine tiling dynamical systems.
E. Arthur Robinson, Jr.*, The George Washington University
(979-37-60) -
3:30 p.m.
The square of a map, symbolic dynamics, and the Conley index.
Jim Wiseman*, Swarthmore College
(979-37-173) -
4:00 p.m.
Bounded homeomorphisms of the open annulus.
David S. Richeson*, Dickinson College
(979-58-50) -
4:30 p.m.
Non-conventional ergodic averages and nilmanifolds.
Bryna Kra*, Pennsylvania State University
Bernard Host, University of Marne La Vallee
(979-37-17)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, II
Room 130, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern University terng@neu.edu
Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame xliu3@nd.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Isoparametric hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures.
Thomas E. Cecil, College of the Holy Cross
Quo-Shin Chi, Washington University
Gary R. Jensen*, Washington University
(979-53-118) -
3:00 p.m.
Isoparametric hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures by Thomas E. Cecil, Quo-Shin Chi and Gary R. Jensen.
Thomas E Cecil, College of the Holy Cross
Quo-Shin Chi*, Washington University
Gary R Jensen, Washington University
(979-53-136) -
3:30 p.m.
Mean curvature flow of symplectic surfaces in Kaehler-Einstein surfaces.
Jingyi Chen*, University of British Columbia
(979-53-212) -
4:00 p.m.
Timelike Isothermic surfaces in $\Bbb R^n_j$.
Martin A. Magid*, Wellesley College
(979-53-61) -
4:30 p.m.
Discussion. -
5:00 p.m.
Discussion.
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, II
Room 230, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Matthew A. Papanikolas, Brown University map@math.brown.edu
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst siman@math.umass.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Surfaces in $P^3$ over finite fields.
J. Felipe Voloch*, Dept. Math., Univ. Texas
(979-11-26) -
3:00 p.m.
An elementary proof that abc implies Faltings' Theorem.
Thomas J Tucker*, CUNY Graduate Center
Andrew Granville, University of Montreal
(979-11-199) -
3:30 p.m.
Multizeta values for function fields.
Dinesh S. Thakur*, University of Arizona, Tucson
(979-11-99) -
4:00 p.m.
Modular Form Congruences and Selmer Groups.
William J McGraw*, University of Wisconsin
Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin
(979-11-37) -
4:30 p.m.
Counting Fontaine-Mazur-like function fields.
Joshua Brandon Holden*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Jeffrey D. Achter, Columbia University
(979-11-127) -
5:00 p.m.
Class Groups of Global Function Fields.
Allison M. Pacelli*, Brown University
(979-11-146)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Special Session on Quivers and Their Generalizations, II
Room 173, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University
Gordana G. Todorov, Northeastern University
Jerzy M. Weyman, Northeastern University weyman@neu.edu
Andrei V. Zelevinsky, Northeastern University andrei@neu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Orthogonal and Symplectic Analogues of Determinental Ideals.
Stephen Tyler Lovett*, Northeastern University
(979-14-191) -
3:10 p.m.
Semi-invariants for quivers.
Harm Derksen, University of Michigan
Jerzy Weyman*, Northeastern University
(979-13-220) -
3:45 p.m.
Degeneracy loci formulae for quivers.
Richard Rimanyi*, Ohio State University
(979-14-89) -
4:20 p.m.
Auslander-Reiten components for finite-dimension algebras of strongly unbounded representation type.
Raymundo Bautista*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
(979-16-190) -
4:55 p.m.
Discussion.
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in the Orbit Method for Real and p-adic Groups, II
Room 344, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Donald R. King, Northeastern University donking@neu.edu
Alfred G. Noel, University of Massachusetts, Boston alfred.noel@umb.edu
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2:30 p.m.
An order-reversing duality map for conjugacy classes in Lusztig's canonical quotient.
Pramod N Achar*, University of Chicago
(979-22-238) -
3:00 p.m.
Ideals in the nilradical of a Borel subalgebra.
Eric N Sommers*, UMass--Amherst
(979-17-232) -
3:30 p.m.
Break. -
4:00 p.m.
Dixmier algebras quantizing classical complex nilpotent orbits.
Ranee K Brylinski*, Penn State University
(979-22-101) -
4:30 p.m.
The closure ordering of nilpotent orbits of the complex symmetric pair $(SO_{p+q},SO_p\times SO_q)$.
Dragomir Z. Djokovic*, University of Waterloo
Michael Litvinov, University of Waterloo
(979-22-133) -
5:00 p.m.
Jordan algebras and spherical low-rank representations.
Alexander Dvorsky*, University of Miami
Siddhartha Sahi, Rutgers University
(979-22-64)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Hilbert Schemes, II
Room 330, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Mark De Cataldo, SUNY at Stony Brook mde@math.sunysb.edu
Anthony A. Iarrobino, Northeastern University a.iarrobino@neu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces: an informal survey.
Mark Andrea A de Cataldo*, SUNY at Stony Brook
(979-14-39) -
3:30 p.m.
The Geometry of Crepant Resolutions of Calabi-Yau Orbifolds.
Anda Degeratu*, Duke University
(979-53-194) -
4:10 p.m.
Orbifold cohomology as periodic cyclic homology.
Vladimir Baranovsky*, California Institute of Technology
(979-14-24) -
4:50 p.m.
A Mirror Orbifold Product.
Andrei H. C\u ald\u araru*, University of Pennsylvania
(979-14-128)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, II
Room 70, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
Mary Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@cs.uml.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Introduction to bidirectional channels.
Charles A Bennett, IBM Research
Aram W Harrow, MIT
Debbie W Leung, IBM Research
John A Smolin*, IBM Research
(979-81-221) -
3:00 p.m.
Classical communication with bidirectional channels.
Charles H Bennett, IBM
Aram W Harrow*, MIT
Debbie W Leung, IBM
John A Smolin, IBM
(979-81-211) -
3:30 p.m.
Capacities of quantum bidirectional channels.
Charles H Bennett, IBM
Aram W Harrow, MIT and IBM
Debbie W Leung*, IBM and MSRI
John A Smolin, IBM
(979-81-182) -
4:00 p.m.
Entanglement capacity of the Ising and anisotropic Heisenberg interactions.
Andrew M Childs*, MIT Center for Theoretical Physics
(979-81-103) -
4:30 p.m.
Practical High-Speed Quantum Cryptography.
Gerald N Gilbert*, MITRE
(979-81-216)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on The Mathematics of Water Waves, II
Room 140, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Diane Henderson, Pennsylvania State University dmh@math.psu.edu
Gene Wayne, Boston University cew@math.bu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Stability and instability of periodic plane waves in deep water.
Harvey Segur*, University of Colorado
Diane M Henderson, Pennsylvania State University
Katherine Socha, Michigan State University
(979-76-184) -
3:00 p.m.
Instability of Bounded Solutions of the 2-D Cubic Nolinear Schr\"odinger Equation.
John Carter*, Seattle University
(979-35-186) -
3:30 p.m.
Nonlocal perturbations and the stability of stationary solutions of the NLS equation.
Bernard Deconinck*, Colorado State University
J Nathan Kutz, University of Washington
(979-35-78) -
4:00 p.m.
Blow-up solutions of the vector nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation.
James Coleman, University of Toronto
Catherine Sulem*, University of Toronto
(979-35-171) -
4:30 p.m.
Fifth Order Perturbation Solution for Gravity-Capillary Standing Waves in Fluid of Finite Depth.
Sergey Sekerzh-Zenkovich*, Universidad de Guadalajara
(979-76-59)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on The History of Mathematics, II
Room 333, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Adrian C. Rice, Randolph-Macon College arice4@rmc.edu
Amy E. Shell-Gellasch, U. S. Military Academy aa7423@usma.edu
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2:30 p.m.
The Nodding Sphere and the Bird's Beak: a Vignette from the Euler-d'Alembert Correspondence.
Robert E Bradley*, Adelphi University
(979-01-218) -
3:00 p.m.
Some connections within Euler's early mathematics.
C Edward Sandifer*, Western Connecticut State U
(979-01-106) -
3:30 p.m.
Leonhard Euler, Frederick II and the scientific imperative of the Berlin Academy.
John D. Glaus*, The Euler Society
(979-01-25) -
4:00 p.m.
Bad Logic, Bad Mathematics: Milton's Justification of the Ways of Number to Man.
Thomas Drucker*, University of Wisconsin--Whitewater
(979-01-21) -
4:30 p.m.
Mathematics in the thought of Nicholas Cusanus.
Hardy Grant*, York University, Toronto
(979-01-105)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Convex Geometry, II
Room 50, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Daniel_Klain@uml.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Problems in Convex Geometry Related to Microlocal Analysis.
Eric L. Grinberg*, Temple University
Eric Todd Quinto, Tufts University
(979-52-152) -
3:00 p.m.
Pure and Applied aspects of Limited Data Tomography.
Eric Todd Quinto*, Tufts University
(979-92-52) -
3:30 p.m.
An iterative algorithm for finding $x\in C\subseteq R^N$ with $Ax\in Q\subseteq R^M$, where $C$ and $Q$ are closed, convex and $A$ is linear.
Charles L Byrne*, University of Massachsuetts Lowell
(979-52-93) -
4:00 p.m.
Point $X$-rays of convex bodies in non-Euclidean spaces.
Paolo Dulio, Politecnico di Milano
Carla Peri*, Università Cattolica
(979-52-140) -
4:30 p.m.
Two problems on affine diameters of convex bodies.
Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
(979-52-44) -
5:00 p.m.
Unitarily invariant valuations and complex integral geometry.
Semyon Alesker*, Tel Aviv University & University of Chicago
(979-52-88)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
Room 346, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Sean T. Cleary, City College, CUNY cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Murray Elder, Tufts University melder@math.tamu.edu
Jennifer Taback, University of Albany jtaback@math.albany.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Free decompositions of graphs of free groups.
Guo-An Diao, Rutgers University-Newark
Mark Feighn*, Rutgers University-Newark
(979-20-62) -
3:00 p.m.
Minimal almost convexity.
Murray Elder, Tufts University
Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
(979-20-53) -
3:30 p.m.
Embedding wreath-like products in finitely presented groups.
Gilbert Baumslag*, City College of CUNY
(979-20-114) -
4:00 p.m.
Approximating word problems of groups.
Robert H Gilman*, Stevens Institute of Technology
(979-20-147) -
4:30 p.m.
Train track quasigeodesics in mapping class groups.
Lee Mosher*, Rutgers University, Newark
(979-20-51) -
5:00 p.m.
Graph homology and Outer space.
Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University
Jim Conant, Cornell University
(979-20-141)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers, II
Room 342, Curry Student Center
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2:30 p.m.
Pure subgroups of locally compact abelian groups.
Peter Loth*, Sacred Heart University
(979-22-55) -
2:45 p.m.
On Compact Lattices.
Carmen D Vlad*, Pace University,New York
(979-28-72) -
3:00 p.m.
Generation and Solution of Equalized terms power differential equations.
Ali A. Salim*, Amman - Jordan
(979-34-28) -
3:15 p.m.
Rank and Orbit in R Sequences.
Andrew B Perry*, Springfield College
(979-46-188) -
3:30 p.m.
The Dependence of Deformation of the Energy-Weighted Sum Rules for the Magnetic Dipole Transitions.
Mehmet Guner*, Sakarya University
Ali Ekber Kuliev, Sakarya University
(979-81-22)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Operators on Noncompact Manifolds, II
Room 170, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Maxim Braverman, Northeastern University maxim@neu.edu
Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Mikhail A. Shubin, Northeastern University shubin@neu.edu
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2:40 p.m.
Index theory on foliated spaces and the gap labeling conjecture for quasicrystals.
Jerry Kaminker*, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
(979-58-108) -
3:20 p.m.
From surgery to analysis.
John Roe*, Penn State University
(979-58-164) -
4:00 p.m.
Amenable approximations of spectral density function.
J\'ozef Dodziuk*, Ph.D. Program in Mathematics, Graduate Center, CUNY
Varghese Mathai, University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia
(979-58-150) -
4:40 p.m.
Quantum Unique Ergodicity.
Harold G Donnelly*, Purdue University
(979-58-33)
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2:40 p.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:45 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic and Analytic Geometry, II
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University gaff@neu.edu
David B. Massey, Northeastern University dmassey@neu.edu
Caroline Grant Melles, U. S. Naval Academy cgg@usna.edu
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2:45 p.m.
Topological structure of complex hypersurfaces of dimension 2.
Dung Trang Le*, Universite de Provence
(979-14-125) -
3:35 p.m.
The Denef-Loeser series for toric surface singularities.
Monique H Lejeune-Jalabert*, CNRS LAMA Univ. Versailles St Quentin
Ana J Reguera, Dpto. Algebra y Geometria Univ. Valladolid
(979-14-27) -
4:15 p.m.
On local uniformization in arbitrary characteristic.
Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann*, University of Saskatchewan
(979-14-32)
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2:45 p.m.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 5:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Solving universal equations in Gromov-Witten invariants.
Ballroom, Curry Student Center
Xiaobo Liu*, University of Notre Dame
(979-53-03)