AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:28
2001 Spring Western Section Meeting
Las Vegas, NV, April 21-22, 2001
Meeting #965
Associate secretaries: Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu
Sunday April 22, 2001
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Sunday April 22, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Meetings Registration
First Floor Foyer, Classroom Building Complex A -
Sunday April 22, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Computational Group Theory, II
Room 225, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Eric M. Freden, Southern Utah University freden@suu.edu
Eric L. Swenson, Brigham Young University eric@math.byu.edu
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8:00 a.m.
On the profinite topology on Coxeter groups.
Rita Gitik*, IHES
(965-20-215) -
8:30 a.m.
On the rigidity of hyperbolic Coxeter groups.
John G. Ratcliffe*, Vanderbilt University
Steven T. Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
(965-20-50) -
9:00 a.m.
Classification of Maximal FA-Subgroups of Coxeter Groups.
Michael L Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
(965-20-105) -
9:30 a.m.
Symmetries of Surfaces.
Anthony Weaver*, City University of New York (Bronx Community College)
(965-20-44) -
10:00 a.m.
CAT$(0)$ groups with well-defined boundaries.
Christopher Hruska*, Cornell University
(965-20-57) -
10:30 a.m.
Topology at infinity for CAT(0) complexes.
John Meier*, Lafayette College
(965-20-201)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 22, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Graphs and Digraphs, III
Room 214, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Michael Jacobson, University of Louisville mikej@louisville.edu
K. Brooks Reid, California State University, San Marcos breid@coyote.csusm.edu
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8:00 a.m.
On Probe-Clone Bipartite Interval Graphs.
David E Brown, University of Colorado-Denver
J. Richard Lundgren*, University of Colorado-Denver
Carrie A Miller, University of Colorado-Denver
(965-05-26) -
8:30 a.m.
A survey of sphere-of-attraction graphs.
Fred R McMorris*, Illinois Institute of Technology
(965-05-92) -
9:00 a.m.
A new lower bound for the size of edge chromatic critical graphs.
Yue Zhao*, Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida
(965-05-22) -
9:30 a.m.
The chromatic neighborhood sequence of a graph.
Andre Kundgen*, CSU San Marcos
Mike Molloy, University of Toronto
(965-05-155) -
10:00 a.m.
Hall's Condition and List Mutli-colorings.
Evan B Wantland*, UM-Missoula/UM-Western
Peter D Johnson, Jr., Auburn University
(965-05-216) -
10:30 a.m.
Cayley maps.
Michelle Schultz*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
(965-05-161)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 22, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Physical Knotting and Unknotting, III
Room 215, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Jorge Alberto Calvo, North Dakota State University jorge_calvo@ndsu.nodak.edu
Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Eric J. Rawdon, Chatham College rawdon@chatham.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Untangling some spheres in $R^4$ by energy minimizing flow.
Dennis M Roseman*, University of Iowa
(965-58-200) -
8:30 a.m.
The Second Hull of a Knotted Curve.
John M Sullivan*, Univ of Illinois
Jason Cantarella, Univ of Georgia
Rob Kusner, UMass/Amherst
Greg Kuperberg, UC Davis
(965-51-49) -
9:00 a.m.
Energy of knots and the infinitesimal cross-ratio.
Jun O'Hara*, Dept. of Maht., Tokyo Metropolitan University
(965-57-137) -
9:30 a.m.
Most knot energies are minimized by circles.
Aaron Abrams, University of Georgia
Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
Joe Fu, University of Georgia
Mohammad Ghomi, University of South Carolina
Ralph Howard, University of South Carolina
(965-53-181) -
10:00 a.m.
On ropelength, thickness and conformal moduli of knots and links.
Robert B Kusner*, University of Massachusetts
(965-57-90) -
10:30 a.m.
Characterizing Polygons with a Small Number of Edges in $ \mathbb{R}^3 $.
Jorge Alberto Calvo*, North Dakota State University
(965-57-140)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 22, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Set Theory, III
Room 221, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Douglas Burke, University of Nevada, Las Vegas dburke@nevada.edu
Derrick Dubose, University of Nevada, Las Vegas dubose@nevada.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Perfectly meager and universally null sets.
Tomek Bartoszynski*, Boise State University
(965-03-145) -
8:30 a.m.
Consistently, every sup-measurable function is measurable.
Andrzej Ros{\l}anowski*, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Saharon Shelah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
(965-03-116) -
9:00 a.m.
Partition theorems for some nearly adequate sets.
Andreas R Blass*, University of Michigan
(965-03-139) -
9:30 a.m.
Playing with partitions.
Jean A Larson*, University of Florida
(965-03-124) -
10:00 a.m.
Selection principles in separable metric spaces.
Liljana Babinkostova, University of St. Cyril and Methodius
Marion Scheepers*, Boise State University
(965-03-172) -
10:30 a.m.
Canonical Approximations using Elementary Submodels.
Adrienne M Stanley*, University of Northern Iowa
Todd Eisworth, University of Northern Iowa
Doug Mupasiri, University of Northern Iowa
(965-54-179)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 22, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topology of Links, III
Room 212, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Jeff Johannes, University of Nevada, Las Vegas johannes@member.ams.org
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Torsion in Knot Concordance.
Charles Livingston, Indiana University
Swatee Naik*, University of Nevada, Reno
(965-57-198) -
8:30 a.m.
Classification of non-simple 2 generator knots, links, and 3-manifolds.
Steven A Bleiler*, Portland State University
David Bachmann, University of Illinois-Chicago
Amelia Jones, Salt Lake City, Utah
(965-57-152) -
9:00 a.m.
Non-integral exceptional Dehn surgeries.
Cameron McA. Gordon*, University of Texas at Austin
John E. Luecke, University of Texas at Austin
(965-57-185) -
9:30 a.m.
Polynomial splitting of Casson-Gordon invariants.
Se-Goo Kim*, Indiana University
(965-57-115) -
10:00 a.m.
Whitney disks in 3-dimensional knot theory.
Rob R Schneiderman*, UC Berkeley
(965-57-109) -
10:30 a.m.
Shadow world evaluation of the Yang-Mills measure.
Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
(965-57-164)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 22, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
First Floor Foyer, Classroom Building Complex A -
Sunday April 22, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Analysis and Applications of Nonlinear PDEs, III
Room 213, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
David G. Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas costa@nevada.edu
Zhonghai Ding, University of Nevada, Las Vegas dingz@nevada.edu
Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas tehranih@nevada.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Computation and visualization of multiple solutions of Lane-Emden type semilinear elliptic equations in 3D by the finite element method.
Goong Chen*, Texas A\&M University
Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota
Alain Perronnet, Universite de Pierre et Marie Curie
Jianxin Zhou, Texas A\&M University
(965-35-11) -
9:05 a.m.
Sharp layer solutions of semilinear elliptic equations.
Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
(965-35-127) -
9:40 a.m.
A local min-orthogonal method for finding multiple saddle points and its application to sublinear elliptic PDE.
Jianxin Zhou*, Texas A\&M University
(965-35-69) -
10:15 a.m.
Some inequalities related to isoperimetric inequalities with partial free boundary.
Meijun Zhu*, University of Oklahoma
(965-35-48)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 22, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Waves in Heterogeneous Media, III
Room 219, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Randall J. LeVeque, University of Washington rjl@amath.washington.edu
Knut Solna, University of California Irvine ksolna@math.uci.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Multiscale Computational Methods for Flow and Transport in Strongly Heterogeneous Porous Media.
Thomas Y Hou*, Caltech
(965-65-81) -
9:05 a.m.
Three Point Finite Difference Schemes, Pade, and the Spectral Galerkin Method.
Vladimir Druskin, Schlumberger-Doll Research
Shari Moskow*, University of Florida
(965-65-221) -
9:40 a.m.
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10:00 a.m.
Inversion of seismic data using a scattering angle transform.
Christiaan C Stolk*, Rice University
(965-35-191) -
10:25 a.m.
Finite Volume Methods for Elasto-Plastic Waves in Heterogeneous Media.
Tiernan R Fogarty*, Applied Math Department, University of Washington
(965-65-163)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 22, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
Room 216, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University, San Bernadino mcmurran@math.csusb.edu
Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College arice4@rmc.edu
James Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Mina Rees's Influence on Graduate Education.
Amy E Shell*, United States Military Academy
(965-01-06) -
9:30 a.m.
Lewis Carroll's "Game" of Voting.
Francine F Abeles*, Kean University
(965-91-09) -
10:00 a.m.
Paul Dirac and the Applications of Beautiful Mathematics.
Shawnee L McMurran*, California State University San Bernardino
(965-01-154) -
10:30 a.m.
French Contributions to the {\it Educational Times}.
James J Tattersall*, Providence College
Shawnee L McMurran, California State University San Bernardino
(965-01-37)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 22, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory with a Geometric Flavor, III
Room 210, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@nevada.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Badly approximable pairs and Hausdorff dimension.
Andrew D Pollington*, BYU
Sanju Velani, QMC, London
(965-11-218) -
9:30 a.m.
Explicit special complex multiplication points in fundamental domains of Shimura curves.
Montserrat Alsina*, Grad Center (CUNY) - Univ. Pol. Catalunya (Spain)
Pilar Bayer, Univ. Barcelona (Spain)
(965-11-71) -
10:00 a.m.
Chabauty techniques over number fields.
Joseph L Wetherell*, UC Berkeley
(965-11-210) -
10:30 a.m.
Elliptic curves over function fields with large Mordell-Weil rank.
Douglas Ulmer*, University of Arizona
(965-11-131)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 22, 2001, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Invited Address
Regularity of Interfaces in Degenerate Diffusion.
Auditorium A-108, Classroom Building Complex A
Panagiota Daskalopoulos*, University of California, Irvine
(965-35-165) -
Sunday April 22, 2001, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Lie superalgebras: representations and geometry.
Auditorium A-108, Classroom Building Complex A
Vera Serganova*, uc berkeley
(965-22-202) -
Sunday April 22, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Computational Group Theory, III
Room 225, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Eric M. Freden, Southern Utah University freden@suu.edu
Eric L. Swenson, Brigham Young University eric@math.byu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Test sets and automorphism class representatives in finitely generated abelian groups.
Edward C Turner*, University at Albany
(965-20-34) -
3:30 p.m.
Stable Exponents.
Gregory R Conner*, Brigham Young University
Michel Coornaert, Institut de Recherche Math\'ematique Avanc\'ee, Universit\'e Louis Pasteur
(965-20-84) -
4:00 p.m.
Uniform Exponential Growth and GL_2.
Roger C Alperin*, San Jose State University
(965-20-126)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday April 22, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Physical Knotting and Unknotting, IV
Room 215, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Jorge Alberto Calvo, North Dakota State University jorge_calvo@ndsu.nodak.edu
Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Eric J. Rawdon, Chatham College rawdon@chatham.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Calculating in the space of knots or links.
Richard Randell*, University of Iowa
(965-57-135) -
3:30 p.m.
Investigations of Polygonal Knot Space and Ideal Physical Knot Configurations.
Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(965-57-203) -
4:00 p.m.
A spectrum for natural knotting?
Gregory R Buck*, Saint Anselm College
Robert G Scharein, University of British Columbia
(965-82-166) -
4:30 p.m.
Hyperbolic reflections of polygonal knots.
Richard Randell, University of Iowa
Jonathan Simon*, University of Iowa
Joshua Tokle, University of Iowa
(965-57-186) -
5:00 p.m.
Inscribing Smooth Knots in Polygonal Knots to Determine Minimal Ropelength.
Eric J Rawdon*, Chatham College
(965-57-159)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday April 22, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Set Theory, IV
Room 221, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Douglas Burke, University of Nevada, Las Vegas dburke@nevada.edu
Derrick Dubose, University of Nevada, Las Vegas dubose@nevada.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Cocovering and factoring.
MC (Mack) Stanley*, San Jose State
(965-03-162) -
3:30 p.m.
Elementary embeddings $j:V\to V$ with Choice.
Paul J Corazza*, Boise State University
(965-03-95) -
4:00 p.m.
Axioms which imply GCH.
Jan Mycielski*, University of Colorado, Boulder
(965-03-103) -
4:30 p.m.
On the strength of an $\omega_1$-dense ideal and the Continuum Hypothesis.
Richard O Ketchersid*, UCLA
(965-03-146) -
5:00 p.m.
A Paradoxical Rearrangement of the Cube.
John C Simms*, Marquette University
(965-03-224)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday April 22, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topology of Links, IV
Room 212, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Jeff Johannes, University of Nevada, Las Vegas johannes@member.ams.org
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Grope Cobordism of Classical Knots.
Jim Conant*, Cornell University
Peter Teichner, University of California, San Diego
(965-57-43) -
3:30 p.m.
Seifert Surfaces and Milnor's Invariants.
Blake Mellor*, Honors College, Florida Atlantic University
Paul Melvin, Bryn Mawr College
(965-57-63) -
4:00 p.m.
On $n$-equivalence and knot genus.
Effie Kalfagianni*, MSU
(965-57-206) -
4:30 p.m.
Symplectic form on $t$-colorings of tangles.
Jozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
(965-57-204)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday April 22, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Analysis and Applications of Nonlinear PDEs, IV
Room 213, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
David G. Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas costa@nevada.edu
Zhonghai Ding, University of Nevada, Las Vegas dingz@nevada.edu
Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas tehranih@nevada.edu
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3:00 p.m.
A Sign-Changing Solution for a Superlinear Dirichlet Problem, II.
John M. Neuberger*, Northern Arizona University
Alfonso Castro, University of Texas, San Antonio
Pavel Dr\'abek, University of West Bohemia
(965-35-111) -
3:35 p.m.
Characterizing the Second Eigenvalue for a Class of Nonhomogeneous Quasilinear Problems.
Stephen B Robinson*, Wake Forest University
(965-35-133) -
4:10 p.m.
The Dirichlet Problem for Harmonic Maps from the Disk into the 2-Sphere with Symmetric Boundary Conditions.
Michael A Brilleslyper*, U.S. Air Force Academy
(965-58-36)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday April 22, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Waves in Heterogeneous Media, IV
Room 219, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Randall J. LeVeque, University of Washington rjl@amath.washington.edu
Knut Solna, University of California Irvine ksolna@math.uci.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Derivation of transport for Schr\"odinger equations in the high frequency regime with fast oscillatory time-dependent potential.
Guillaume Bal*, University of Chicago
George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
Leonid Ryzhik, University of Chicago
(965-35-193) -
3:35 p.m.
Polarization Phenomena in Heterogeneous Media.
Arnold D Kim*, Stanford University
Miguel Moscoso, Stanford University
(965-78-19) -
4:10 p.m.
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4:30 p.m.
Embedded Finite Difference Methods for Wave Problems in Complex Geometries and Heterogeneous Media.
Jan S Hesthaven*, Brown University
(965-65-79) -
5:05 p.m.
Solving boundary-value problems for systems of hyperbolic conservation laws with rapidly varying coefficients.
Darryl H Yong*, Harvey Mudd College
(965-35-114)
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3:00 p.m.