AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:42
2002 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Montreal, Quebec Canada, May 3-5, 2002
Meeting #976
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Friday May 3, 2002
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Friday May 3, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Room B-2-01--11, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant -
Friday May 3, 2002, 8:20 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Special Session on Potential Theory, I
Room B-3290, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Paul M. Gauthier, Universit\'e de Montr\'eal gauthier@dms.umontreal.ca
K. Gowri Sankaran, McGill University gowri@scylla.math.mcgill.ca
David H. Singman, George Mason University dsingman@osf1.gmu.edu
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8:20 a.m.
Dirac operators for conformally flat cylinders and the torus.
John Ryan*, University of Arkansas
R S Krausshar, Ghent University
(976-30-77) -
9:00 a.m.
On the relations between the potential theories for the Laplace and the Helmholtz equations, and hypercomplex analysis.
Michael Shapiro*, (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, MÉXICO)
(976-31-65) -
9:40 a.m.
The Hilbert Transform of Almost Periodic functions and Distributions.
Jagdish N. Pandey*, carleton
(976-31-186) -
10:20 a.m.
Optimal Limit Theorems and Zero-Set Mappings.
Peter A. Loeb*, University of Illinois, Urbana
Heinrich von Weizsaecker, Universitat Kaiserslautern
(976-31-99) -
11:00 a.m.
Tangent sets in B-spaces and variational inequalities.
Murali Rao*, Univesity of Florida
Jan Sokolowski, Institut Elie Cartan,
(976-31-196)
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8:20 a.m.
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Friday May 3, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Hopf Algebras, I
Room B-3245, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A\&M University maguiar@math.tamu.edu
Fran\c{c}ois Bergeron, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \'a Montr\'eal bergeron@lacim.uqam.ca
Christophe Reutenauer, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \'a Montr\'eal christo@math.uqam.ca
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9:00 a.m.
The incidence Hopf algebra of noncrossing partition lattices.
William R. Schmitt*, The George Washington University
(976-05-193) -
9:30 a.m.
Associahedra and cyclohedra as equivariant fiber polytopes.
Vic Reiner*, Univ. of Minnesota
(976-05-31) -
10:00 a.m.
Hit and non-hit classes in $H*(BO(3), {\mathbb F}_2)$.
Ali S. Janfada*, Urmia University
(976-55-15) -
10:30 a.m.
Homology of Newtonian Coalgebras.
Margaret A. Readdy*, University of Kentucky
Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky
(976-05-121) -
11:00 a.m.
Inequalities for Polytopes.
Richard Ehrenborg*, University of Kentucky
(976-05-134) -
11:30 a.m.
Free Level Algebras -- Application to Algebraic Topology.
Muriel Livernet*, Paris 13
David Chataur, CRM Barcelone
(976-17-117)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday May 3, 2002, 12:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Room B-2-01--11, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant -
Friday May 3, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, I
Room B-3240, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Olga G. Kharlampovich, McGill University olga@scylla.math.mcgill.ca
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexei@att.net
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Daniel Wise, McGill University wise@math.mcgill.ca
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1:00 p.m.
Most recent results on finite basis problem.
C. K. Gupta*, University of Manitoba
Alexei N. Krasilnikov, University of Brasilia
(976-20-189) -
1:30 p.m.
Solvable $R^*$ Groups.
Patrizia Longobardi, Universita Degli Studi di Salerno
Mercede Maj, Universita Degli Studi di Salerno
Akbar Rhemtulla*, University of Alberta
(976-20-92) -
2:00 p.m.
Shift automorphisms of finite order.
Edward C Turner*, SUNY Albany
(976-20-101) -
2:30 p.m.
A survey of discriminating and squarelike groups.
Anthony M. Gaglione*, U.S. Naval Academy
Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University
Alexei G. Myasnikov, City College of New York
Dennis Spellman, Temple University
(976-20-45) -
3:00 p.m.
Some Further Questions on Discriminating Groups.
Gilbert Baumslag, City University of New York
Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University
Anthony Gaglione, United States Naval Academy
Dennis Spellman, Temple University
(976-20-180) -
3:30 p.m.
The irreducible degree $n$ complex representations of the braid group on $n$ strings for $n = 5,6,7,8$.
Edward Formanek*, Penn State University
Woo Lee, Kwanju University
Inna Sysoeva, Penn State University
Monica Vazirani, University of California, Berkeley
(976-20-70) -
4:00 p.m.
Thompson's group F is not almost convex.
Jennifer Taback*, University at Albany
Sean Cleary, City University of New York
(976-20-75) -
4:30 p.m.
Isolated Flats: a gallery.
G. Christopher Hruska*, Cornell University
(976-20-194)
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1:00 p.m.
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Friday May 3, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Potential Theory, II
Room B-3290, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Paul M. Gauthier, Universit\'e de Montr\'eal gauthier@dms.umontreal.ca
K. Gowri Sankaran, McGill University gowri@scylla.math.mcgill.ca
David H. Singman, George Mason University dsingman@osf1.gmu.edu
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1:00 p.m.
Countability via capacity.
N Levenberg, University of Auckland
T J Ransford*, Laval University
J Rostand, Ottawa, Canada
Z Slodkowski, University of Illinois at Chicago
(976-31-52) -
1:40 p.m.
Asymptotic Maximum Principle (AMP).
Boris Korenblum*, University at Albany, State University of New York
(976-31-67) -
2:20 p.m.
Distribution of nodes on algebraic curves in ${\bf C}^N$.
Thomas Bloom, University of Toronto
Norman Levenberg*, Syracuse/Auckland Univ.
(976-31-109) -
3:00 p.m.
Break. -
3:30 p.m.
Hilbert transform of $Lip(\alpha,\beta_1,\cdots,\beta_n)$ functions.
Javad Mashreghi*, Laval University
(976-30-78) -
4:10 p.m.
On a class of functional equations involving analytic functions.
Richard Fournier*, Dawson College and University of Montreal
(976-30-26)
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1:00 p.m.
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Friday May 3, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Function Spaces in Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, I
Room B-4240, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Galia D. Dafni, Concordia University gdafni@mathstat.concordia.ca
Jie Xiao, Concordia University jxiao@mathstat.concordia.ca
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1:00 p.m.
The Uncertainty Principle for certain densities.
Oleg Kovrijkine*, MIT
(976-42-29) -
1:30 p.m.
On Two Families of Schur-Concave Symmetric Polynomials.
Ivo Klemes*, McGill University
(976-41-38) -
2:00 p.m.
Directional maximal operators.
Kathryn E. Hare*, University of Waterloo
(976-42-53) -
2:30 p.m.
Solutions to some singular integro-differential equations and PDEs in the space of almost periodic distributions.
J. N. Pandey*, Carleton University
(976-43-37) -
3:00 p.m.
Normal Functions That Avoid Other Functions.
Peter Lappan*, Michigan State University
(976-30-41) -
3:30 p.m.
Wavelet Bases for Numerical Solutions to the Dirichlet Problems.
Rong-Qing Jia*, University of Alberta
(976-41-110) -
4:00 p.m.
A characterization of some singular integral operators on the Heisenberg group.
Andrea J. Fraser*, Dalhousie University
(976-43-155)
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1:00 p.m.
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Friday May 3, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Curvature and Topology, I
Room B-3335, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Regina Rotman, Courant Institute, New York University rotman@math1.cims.nyu.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Kristopher R. Tapp, SUNY at Stony Brook ktapp@math.sunysb.edu
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1:00 p.m.
Metrics without Morse Index Bounds.
Tobias H. Colding, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Nancy Hingston*, College of New Jersey
(976-49-138) -
1:45 p.m.
Volume, diameter and short geodesics.
St\'ephane Sabourau*, Institut Fourier
(976-53-86) -
2:30 p.m.
Estimates for the length of a shortest closed geodesic.
Alexander Nabutovsky, University of Toronto
Regina Rotman*, Courant Institute of Math. Sci.
(976-53-73) -
3:15 p.m.
Discussion. -
3:25 p.m.
The minimal mass of a stationary 1-cycle and the length of a shortest closed geodesic.
Alexander Nabutovsky*, University of Toronto
Regina Rotman, Courant Institute of Math. Sci.
(976-53-54) -
4:10 p.m.
The null splitting theorem with applications to asymptotically flat and asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes.
Gregory J Galloway*, University of Miami
(976-53-148)
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1:00 p.m.
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Friday May 3, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Shape Theory in Dynamics, I
Room B-3295, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Alex Clark, University of North Texas alexc@unt.edu
Krystyna M. Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperkm@auburn.edu
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1:00 p.m.
Function spaces and shape theories.
Jerzy Dydak*, University of Tennessee
(976-55-64) -
1:50 p.m.
The geometric structure of typical boundaries of manifolds.
William L. G. Bloch*, Wheaton College
(976-57-169) -
2:20 p.m.
Selection theorems and dimension.
Vesko Valov*, Nipissing University
(976-54-137) -
2:50 p.m.
Generalized Henon difference equations with delay.
Judy A Kennedy*, University of Delaware
James A Yorke, University of Maryland
(976-54-136) -
3:20 p.m.
Expansive homeomorphisms of plane continua.
John C Mayer*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(976-54-187) -
3:50 p.m.
Disk Global Cross Sections to Nonsingular Flows.
Bill Basener*, Rochester Institute of Technology
(976-37-56) -
4:20 p.m.
Embedding solenoids in euclidean space.
Robbert Fokkink*, Delft University
Alex Clark, University of North Texas
(976-54-144)
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1:00 p.m.
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Friday May 3, 2002, 1:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Hopf Algebras, II
Room B-3245, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A\&M University maguiar@math.tamu.edu
Fran\c{c}ois Bergeron, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \'a Montr\'eal bergeron@lacim.uqam.ca
Christophe Reutenauer, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \'a Montr\'eal christo@math.uqam.ca
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1:30 p.m.
Hopf algebras on trees.
Ralf Holtkamp*, University of Bochum, Germany
(976-16-108) -
2:00 p.m.
Hopf algebras of planar rooted trees.
Loic Foissy*, university of Reims, France
(976-16-129) -
2:30 p.m.
The Hopf algebra of tree expanded series.
Alessandra Frabetti*, Institut Girard Desargues, Univ. Lyon 1
(976-16-24) -
3:00 p.m.
Pruning Kreimer's Trees.
Michael E Hoffman*, U. S. Naval Academy
(976-05-22) -
3:30 p.m.
Some Hopf algebras of trees.
Pepijn P.I. van der Laan*, Mathematisch Instituut, Universiteit Utrecht
(976-16-17)
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1:30 p.m.
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Friday May 3, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I
Room B-3280, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Irena Peeva, Cornell University irena@math.cornell.edu
Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri-Columbia hema@math.missouri.edu
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2:00 p.m.
On the canonical maps of surfaces of general type.
Bangere P Purnaprajna*, University of Kansas
Francisco J Gallego, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
(976-14-124) -
2:30 p.m.
Gr\"obner bases of hierarchical models.
Serkan Hosten*, San Francisco State University
Seth Sullivant, San Francisco State University
(976-13-183) -
3:00 p.m.
Linkage classes and tight closure.
Adela Vraciu*, University of Kansas
(976-13-176) -
3:30 p.m.
Truncated Rees algebras and arithmetic Macaulayfication of schemes.
Tai Huy Ha*, University of Missouri
(976-14-68) -
4:00 p.m.
Bernstein-Sato polynomials and cohomology of Milnor fibers of generic arrangements.
Uli Walther*, Purdue University
(976-14-200) -
4:30 p.m.
Hilbert Polynomials and Chern Polynomials over Projective $n$-spaces.
C-Y. Jean Chan*, Purdue University
(976-13-123)
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2:00 p.m.
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Friday May 3, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, I
Room B-3285, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Dmitry Jakobson, McGill University jakobson@math.mcgill.ca
Yiannis Petridis, McGill University and Centre de Recherches Math\'ematiques petridis@math.mcgill.ca
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2:30 p.m.
Nonnegativity of central values of automorphic L-functions on $PGL(2)$.
Kamal Khuri-Makdisi*, American University of Beirut
(976-11-147) -
3:00 p.m.
On the Weil representation of the theta group.
Francesco Mezzadri*, American Institute of Mathematics
(976-20-115) -
3:30 p.m.
$L^4$ norms of automorphic forms.
Florin Spinu*, Princeton University
(976-11-157) -
4:00 p.m.
Second order modular forms.
Nikolaos Diamantis*, Columbia University
(976-11-205)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday May 3, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Asymptotics for Random Matrix Models and Their Applications, I
Room B-4245, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Nicholas M. Ercolani, University of Arizona ercolani@math.arizona.edu
Kenneth T.-R. McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Arizona mcl@amath.unc.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Concentration of Permanent Estimators for Certain Large Matrices.
Shmuel Friedland, University of Illinois at Chicago
Brian Rider*, Duke University
Ofer Zeitouni, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
(976-60-122) -
4:00 p.m.
Density of states for random band matrices.
Margherita Disertori*, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ)
Haru Pinson, University of Arizona
Thomas Spencer, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ)
(976-82-131)
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3:00 p.m.
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Friday May 3, 2002, 5:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Invited Address
Wave equations in Kerr geometry.
Room B-2285, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Niky Kamran*, McGill University
(976-35-02)
Saturday May 4, 2002
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Room B-2-01--11, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant -
Saturday May 4, 2002, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Room B-2-01--11, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant -
Saturday May 4, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Shape Theory in Dynamics, II
Room B-3295, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Alex Clark, University of North Texas alexc@unt.edu
Krystyna M. Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperkm@auburn.edu
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8:00 a.m.
The Number of Fixed Points for Homeomorphisms of Generalized Knaster Continua.
James Keesling*, University of Florida
Vincent Ssembatya, Makerere University
(976-37-151) -
8:30 a.m.
Shape Theory in Dynamics.
Alex Clark*, University of North Texas
(976-37-191) -
9:00 a.m.
A Note on Fixed Point-free Volume-preserving Dynamical Systems.
Marcin Czeslaw Kulczycki*, Auburn University, Jagiellonian University
(976-37-175) -
9:30 a.m.
Measures and Milutin Mappings.
Sergei M Ageev, Univ of Saskatchewan
Edward D Tymchatyn*, Univ of Saskatchewan
(976-54-172) -
10:00 a.m.
Linking of Minimal Sets in Lorenz Systems.
Michael C Sullivan*, Southern Illinois University
Alex Clark, University of North Texas
(976-37-81)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Asymptotics for Random Matrix Models and Their Applications, II
Room B-4245, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Nicholas M. Ercolani, University of Arizona ercolani@math.arizona.edu
Kenneth T.-R. McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Arizona mcl@amath.unc.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Duality in 2-Matrix models.
John Harnad*, Concordia University and Centre de recherches mathématiques, Univ. de Montréal
Marco Bertola, Concordia University and Centre de recherches mathématiques, Univ. de Montréal
Bertrand Eynard, CRM, Univ. de Montréal and SPTH, CEA/Saclay
(976-35-105) -
9:00 a.m.
Double Scaling Limit in the Random Matrix Model: the Riemann-Hilbert Approach.
Pavel Bleher*, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
(976-60-49) -
10:00 a.m.
Genus zero large n asymptotics of bi-orthogonal polynomials involved in the random 2-matrix model.
B. Eynard*, CEA Saclay (France), CRM Montreal.
M. Bertola, CRM Montreal
J. Harnad, CRM, Montreal, University of Concordia, Montreal
(976-34-160)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, II
Room B-3240, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Olga G. Kharlampovich, McGill University olga@scylla.math.mcgill.ca
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexei@att.net
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Daniel Wise, McGill University wise@math.mcgill.ca
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8:30 a.m.
Algebraic properties of relatively hyperbolic groups.
Denis V Osin*, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
(976-20-113) -
9:00 a.m.
Congruence extension property and weird finitely presented groups.
A. Y. Ol'shanskii, Vanderbilt University, Moscow State University
Mark Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
(976-20-107) -
9:30 a.m.
The Andrews-Curtis Conjecture for word-pairs up to length 14.
Robert G. Burns*, York University
(976-20-145) -
10:00 a.m.
Lattice subgroups of Kac-Moody groups over finite fields.
Lisa Carbone*, Rutgers University
Howard Garland, Yale University
(976-20-153) -
10:30 a.m.
On the structure of the Neumann subgroups of the modular group $PSL(2,Z)$.
Alina Vdovina*, Binghamton University
(976-20-104)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Hopf Algebras, III
Room B-3245, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A\&M University maguiar@math.tamu.edu
Fran\c{c}ois Bergeron, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \'a Montr\'eal bergeron@lacim.uqam.ca
Christophe Reutenauer, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \'a Montr\'eal christo@math.uqam.ca
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8:30 a.m.
Multiplication Formulas for Grothendieck Polynomials and Pieri Operators.
Cristian P Lenart*, State University of New York at Albany
(976-05-16) -
9:00 a.m.
A universal property of the quasi-symmetric functions.
Nantel Bergeron*, York University
Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A & M
(976-05-141) -
9:30 a.m.
Plethystic methods in the theory of symmetric functions.
Adriano Garsia*, University of California, San Diego
(976-05-192) -
10:00 a.m.
The use of noncommutative Hopf algebras in representation theory of symmetric groups - an interim report.
Manfred Schocker*, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
(976-05-21) -
10:30 a.m.
A peak subalgebra of the symmetric group algebra.
Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A&M
Nantel Bergeron, York University
Kathryn Nyman*, Texas A&M
(976-05-204)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, II
Room B-3280, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Irena Peeva, Cornell University irena@math.cornell.edu
Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri-Columbia hema@math.missouri.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Homology of Koszul complexes.
A. Tchernev*, University at Albany, SUNY
J. Weyman, Northeastern University
(976-13-44) -
9:00 a.m.
Monomialization of strongly prepared morphisms from nonsingular n-folds to surfaces.
Steven D Cutkosky, University of Missouri - Columbia
Olga Kashcheyeva*, University of Missouri - Columbia
(976-14-71) -
9:30 a.m.
Koszul homology and integral closure of ideals.
Alberto Corso*, University of Kentucky
(976-13-208) -
10:00 a.m.
A conjecture on the core of an ideal.
Claudia Polini*, University of Notre Dame
(976-13-135) -
10:30 a.m.
Discussion.
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 8:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Curvature and Topology, II
Room B-3335, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Regina Rotman, Courant Institute, New York University rotman@math1.cims.nyu.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Kristopher R. Tapp, SUNY at Stony Brook ktapp@math.sunysb.edu
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8:40 a.m.
Homogeneous Einstein Manifolds.
William Dickinson, Grand Valley State University
Megan M Kerr*, Wellesley College
(976-53-164) -
9:25 a.m.
Conserved quantities of the cohomogeneity one Ricci-flat equations.
Andrew Dancer, Oxford University
McKenzie Y. Wang*, McMaster University
(976-53-87) -
10:10 a.m.
Manifolds of Nonnegative and Almost Nonnegative Curvature.
Wilderich Tuschmann*, MPI Leipzig
(976-53-83)
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8:40 a.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Potential Theory, III
Room B-3290, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Paul M. Gauthier, Universit\'e de Montr\'eal gauthier@dms.umontreal.ca
K. Gowri Sankaran, McGill University gowri@scylla.math.mcgill.ca
David H. Singman, George Mason University dsingman@osf1.gmu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Minimal fine limits on trees.
David H Singman*, George Mason University
Kohur GowriSankaran, McGill University
(976-31-165) -
9:40 a.m.
Trees as Brelot Spaces.
Ibtesam Bajunaid, George Mason University
Joel M Cohen, University of Maryland
Flavia Colonna*, George Mason University
David Singman, George Mason University
(976-31-120) -
10:20 a.m.
Non-Tanagential limits of Quasi-bounded n-harmonic functions on Polydisc.
Kohur GowriSankaran*, McGill University
David Singman, George Mason Univ
(976-31-76)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Function Spaces in Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, II
Room B-4240, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Galia D. Dafni, Concordia University gdafni@mathstat.concordia.ca
Jie Xiao, Concordia University jxiao@mathstat.concordia.ca
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9:00 a.m.
An Atomic Decomposition Theorem for Distributions in Hardy-Sobolev Spaces and Applications.
Yong-Kum Cho*, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
(976-42-96) -
9:30 a.m.
The maximal quasiradial Bochner-Riesz operator and its weak type estimates on certain Hardy spaces.
Yong-Cheol Kim*, Korea University
(976-42-97) -
10:00 a.m.
The Navier-Stokes exterior problem in the Lorentz spaces.
Masao Yamazaki*, Waseda University
(976-35-43) -
10:30 a.m.
Schroedinger-Sobolev spaces and applications to geometric PDE's.
Atanas G. Stefanov*, University of Massachusetts
(976-35-154)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, II
Room B-3285, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Dmitry Jakobson, McGill University jakobson@math.mcgill.ca
Yiannis Petridis, McGill University and Centre de Recherches Math\'ematiques petridis@math.mcgill.ca
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9:00 a.m.
Integral moments of the Riemann zeta function.
J B Conrey, American Institute of Mathematics
D W Farmer, American Institute of Mathematics
J P Keating, University of Bristol
M O Rubinstein, American Institute of Mathematics
N C Snaith*, American Institute of Mathematics
(976-11-125) -
9:30 a.m.
High moments of L-functions.
Jeffrey M VanderKam*, Center for Communications Research
(976-11-118) -
10:00 a.m.
Pair Correlation Conjecture for Artin L-functions.
Ram Murty*, Queen's University
(976-11-167)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
Session for Contributed Papers, I
Room B-4250, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
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9:00 a.m.
Multivariate Montgomery Identities and Ostrowski Inequalities.
George A Anastassiou*, University of Memphis
(976-26-23) -
9:15 a.m.
$L_1$ Compactness of bounded $BV$ Sets.
Isidore Fleischer*, Centre de recherches math\'ematiques
(976-26-126) -
9:30 a.m.
Related Topics on the Support of Measures.
Carmen Vlad*, Pace University,New York
(976-28-59) -
9:45 a.m.
On a hybrid algorithm for solving convex programming problems.
Yixun Shi*, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
(976-65-28)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
A Riemann-Hilbert Approach for the Asymptotics of Matrix Integrals and Map Enumeration.
Room B-2285, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Nicholas M. Ercolani*, University of Arizona
(976-30-04) -
Saturday May 4, 2002, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Algebraic K-theory and traces.
Room B-2285, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Lars Hesselholt*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
Saturday May 4, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, III
Room B-3240, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Olga G. Kharlampovich, McGill University olga@scylla.math.mcgill.ca
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexei@att.net
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Daniel Wise, McGill University wise@math.mcgill.ca
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2:30 p.m.
Nonpositive curvature and small cancellation groups, I.
Noel Brady*, University of Oklahoma
Jon McCammond, Texas A&M University
(976-20-171) -
3:00 p.m.
Nonpositive curvature and small cancellation groups, II.
Jon McCammond*, Texas A&M University
Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
(976-20-173) -
3:30 p.m.
Generic-case complexity, decision problems in group theory and random walks.
Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois
Alexei Myasnikov, City College of New York
Paul Schupp*, University of Illniois
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College of New York
(976-20-102) -
4:00 p.m.
Weakly finitely presented infinite periodic groups.
Sergei V Ivanov*, University of Illinois
(976-20-168) -
4:30 p.m.
Residual finiteness of ascending HNN extensions of polycyclic groups.
Tim Hsu*, San Jos\'{e} State University
Daniel T Wise, McGill University
(976-20-61) -
5:00 p.m.
On the conjugacy separability of Seifert 3-manifold groups.
Francis C. Y. Tang*, University of Waterloo
(976-20-58) -
5:30 p.m.
Residual finiteness of outer automorphism groups of certain Fuchsian groups.
R.B.J.T. Allenby, University of Leeds
Goansu Kim*, Yeungnam University
C.Y. Tang, University of Waterloo
(976-20-85) -
6:00 p.m.
Even Rigidity in Coxeter Groups.
Patrick Bahls*, Vanderbilt University
(976-20-203)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Potential Theory, IV
Room B-3290, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Paul M. Gauthier, Universit\'e de Montr\'eal gauthier@dms.umontreal.ca
K. Gowri Sankaran, McGill University gowri@scylla.math.mcgill.ca
David H. Singman, George Mason University dsingman@osf1.gmu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Application of the Henstock-Kurzweil integral to the half plane Dirichlet problem.
Erik Talvila*, University of Alberta
(976-31-50) -
3:10 p.m.
On the uniqueness and geometry of solutions to free boundary problems.
David E. Tepper*, Baruch College, CUNY
(976-31-60) -
3:50 p.m.
Asymptotic and boundary properties of harmonic and subharmonic functions associated with the stationary Schr\"{o}dinger operator.
Alexander I Kheyfits*, BCC/CUNY
(976-31-27) -
4:30 p.m.
A Bicomplex Riemann Zeta Function.
Dominic Rochon*, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
(976-32-114) -
5:10 p.m.
Transfinite Interpolation by Blending Functions, Best One-Sided $L^1$-Approximation, and Cubature Formulae.
Dimiter Dryanov*, University of Montreal and University of Sofia
Werner Haussmann, University of Duisburg
Petar Petrov, University of Sofia
(976-41-140)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Hopf Algebras, IV
Room B-3245, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A\&M University maguiar@math.tamu.edu
Fran\c{c}ois Bergeron, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \'a Montr\'eal bergeron@lacim.uqam.ca
Christophe Reutenauer, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \'a Montr\'eal christo@math.uqam.ca
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2:30 p.m.
A Hopf Algebra of Labelled Partially Ordered Sets.
Claudia Malvenuto*, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"
(976-05-39) -
3:00 p.m.
P-partitions and descent algebras of type B.
Ira M Gessel*, Brandeis University
(976-05-179) -
3:30 p.m.
Structure of the Malvenuto-Reutenauer Hopf algebra of permutations.
Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A&M University
Frank Sottile*, University of Massachusetts
(976-05-174) -
4:10 p.m.
The Hopf algebra of signed permutations.
Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A\&M University
Swapneel Mahajan*, Cornell University
(976-16-190) -
4:40 p.m.
A family of modules on the algebra of noncommutative symmetric functions.
Daniel Krob*, CNRS
Jean Yves Thibon, Universite de Marne la Vallee
Florent Hivert, Universite de Marne la Vallee
(976-05-98)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Shape Theory in Dynamics, III
Room B-3295, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Alex Clark, University of North Texas alexc@unt.edu
Krystyna M. Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperkm@auburn.edu
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2:30 p.m.
On finite-dimensional maps II.
H. Murat Tuncali*, Nipissing University
Vesko Valov, Nipissing University
(976-54-72) -
3:00 p.m.
Computing homology of spaces and maps.
Tomasz Kaczynski*, Université de Sherbrooke
(976-55-127) -
3:30 p.m.
Volume preserving flows on sets of trivial shape.
Krystyna M Kuperberg*, Auburn University
(976-58-201) -
4:00 p.m.
Finer Geometric Rigidity of Limit Sets of Conformal Iterated Function Systems.
Mariusz Urbanski*, University of North Texas
(976-37-112) -
4:30 p.m.
Polygonal Approximations of Flows.
Konstantin Mischaikow*, Georgia Tech
(976-37-143)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, III
Room B-3280, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Irena Peeva, Cornell University irena@math.cornell.edu
Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri-Columbia hema@math.missouri.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Cellular Resolutions.
Ekkehard Batzies, Universitaet Marburg
Volkmar Welker*, Universitaet Marburg
(976-13-130) -
3:00 p.m.
The Lex-plus-powers Conjecture.
Christopher A. Francisco*, Cornell University
(976-13-111) -
3:30 p.m.
Local cohomology of Stanley-Reisner rings with supports in monomial ideals.
Victor S. Reiner*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Volkmar Welker, Philipps-Universitaat Marburg, Germany
Kohji Yanagawa, Osaka University, Japan
(976-13-47) -
4:00 p.m.
Generalized $k$-configurations.
Sindi Sabourin*, Queen's University
(976-13-149) -
4:30 p.m.
Intersection Multiplicity on Complete Intersections in Characteristic $p(>0)$.
Sankar P. Dutta*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(976-13-80) -
5:00 p.m.
Koszul modules.
J Herzog, Universit\"at-GHS Essen
S Iyengar*, University of Missouri-Columbia
(976-13-185) -
5:30 p.m.
Cohomology and regularity on a toric variety.
Gregory G Smith*, Barnard College
(976-14-188)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 2:40 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Function Spaces in Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, III
Room B-4240, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Galia D. Dafni, Concordia University gdafni@mathstat.concordia.ca
Jie Xiao, Concordia University jxiao@mathstat.concordia.ca
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2:40 p.m.
Self Improving Properties on Interpolation Scales: Invertibility, Reverse Holder and Epsilon Commutators.
Mario Milman*, Florida Atlantic University
(976-46-62) -
3:10 p.m.
S'-convolvability with the Poisson kernel in the Euclidean case and the product domain case.
Josefina Alvarez*, New Mexico State University
Martha Guzman-Partida, Universidad de Sonora
Urszula Skornik, Warsaw University of Agriculture
(976-42-48) -
3:40 p.m.
Bounded mean oscillation on the bidisk and operator-valued BMO.
Cora Sadosky*, Howard University
(976-42-32) -
4:10 p.m.
Toeplitz Operators with BMO Symbols.
Nina Zorboska*, University of Manitoba
(976-47-163) -
4:40 p.m.
On several classes of bilinear pseudodifferential operators.
Arpad Benyi, University of Kansas
Rodolfo H Torres*, University of Kansas
(976-42-139) -
5:10 p.m.
Localization Operators on ${\rm{SU}}(1,1)$.
M. W. Wong*, York University
(976-47-88)
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2:40 p.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 2:45 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Curvature and Topology, III
Room B-3335, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Regina Rotman, Courant Institute, New York University rotman@math1.cims.nyu.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Kristopher R. Tapp, SUNY at Stony Brook ktapp@math.sunysb.edu
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2:45 p.m.
A connectedness principle in the geometry of positive curvature.
Fuquan Fang, NanKai Institute of Mathematics
Sergio Mondonca, Instituto de Matem\'atica
Xiaochun Rong*, Rutgers University and Beijing Normal University
(976-53-25) -
3:30 p.m.
Symmetries of Eschenburg and Bazaikin spaces.
Karsten Grove, University of Maryland, College Park
Krishnan Shankar*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Wolfgang Ziller, University of Pennsylvania
(976-53-116) -
4:15 p.m.
Discussion. -
4:35 p.m.
Conditions for nonnegative and positive curvature on bundles.
Kristopher R. Tapp*, SUNY Stony Brook
(976-53-51) -
5:20 p.m.
Inverse Compariosn Geometry.
Frederick H Wilhelm*, Univ Calf., Riverside
Peter Petersen, UCLA
(976-53-55)
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2:45 p.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, III
Room B-3285, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Dmitry Jakobson, McGill University jakobson@math.mcgill.ca
Yiannis Petridis, McGill University and Centre de Recherches Math\'ematiques petridis@math.mcgill.ca
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3:00 p.m.
Analysis of the horizontal Laplacian for the Hopf fibration.
Robert O. Bauer*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(976-58-90) -
3:30 p.m.
A Poisson formula for conic manifolds.
Jared Wunsch*, SUNY at Stony Brook
(976-35-103) -
4:00 p.m.
Random Construction of Riemann Surfaces.
Robert Brooks, Technion
Eran Makover*, Connecticut College
(976-53-119) -
4:45 p.m.
Rankin Triple Products and Quantum Chaos.
Thomas C. Watson*, UCLA
(976-11-178) -
5:15 p.m.
Asymptotoics of Whitaker functions and an application of Weyl's law.
Jonathan M Huntley*, Baruch Colege, CUNY
Nam Jong Moh, Queensborough Community College (CUNY)
David E Tepper, Baruch College, CUNY
(976-11-30)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Asymptotics for Random Matrix Models and Their Applications, III
Room B-4245, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Nicholas M. Ercolani, University of Arizona ercolani@math.arizona.edu
Kenneth T.-R. McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Arizona mcl@amath.unc.edu
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3:00 p.m.
A complete asymptotic expansion for the partition function of random matrix theory via Riemann-Hilbert techniques.
N. Ercolani, University of Arizona
Ken T-R McLaughlin*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(976-81-202) -
4:00 p.m.
Stokes Matrices and Riemann-Hilbert Problem for two-matrix models.
Marco Bertola*, CRM, Univesite' de Montreal and Concordia University
Bertrand Eynard, C.R.M. and CEA, Saclay (France)
John Harnad, CRM and Concordia University
(976-34-158)
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3:00 p.m.
Sunday May 5, 2002
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Sunday May 5, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room B-3280, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Irena Peeva, Cornell University irena@math.cornell.edu
Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri-Columbia hema@math.missouri.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Linear algebra algorithms for divisors on an algebraic curve.
Kamal Khuri-Makdisi*, American University of Beirut
(976-14-146) -
8:30 a.m.
Reverse Search Techniques for Large Monomial and Toric Ideal Computations.
Amelia Taylor*, Rutgers University
Dave Bayer, Barnard College
(976-13-182) -
9:00 a.m.
Rings of countable Cohen-Macaulay representation type.
Craig Huneke, University of Kansas
Graham Leuschke*, University of Kansas
(976-13-161) -
9:30 a.m.
The depth of blow-up rings of ideals.
Laura Ghezzi*, University of Missouri-Columbia
(976-13-128) -
10:00 a.m.
Remarks on localization of test ideals.
Ian M Aberbach*, University of Missouri
(976-13-159) -
10:30 a.m.
On cancellation of reflexive modules over polynomial rings.
Mohan Kumar Neithalath*, Washington University
(976-13-166)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday May 5, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Asymptotics for Random Matrix Models and Their Applications, IV
Room B-4245, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Nicholas M. Ercolani, University of Arizona ercolani@math.arizona.edu
Kenneth T.-R. McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Arizona mcl@amath.unc.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Universality for eigenvalues spacings near the edge of the spectrum for modified Jacobi unitary ensembles.
Arno B.J. Kuijlaars*, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Maarten Vanlessen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
(976-15-132) -
9:00 a.m.
Asymptotics for Discrete Orthogonal Polynomials with General Weights.
Jinho Baik, Princeton University
Thomas Kriecherbauer, LMU Munich
Kenneth T.-R. McLaughlin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Peter D Miller*, University of Michigan
(976-41-207) -
10:00 a.m.
Riemann-Hilbert problem connected with semi-classical limit of the focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation with certain initial conditions.
Alexander Tovbis*, Duke University
Stephanos Venakides, Duke University
Xin Zhou, Duke University
(976-35-33)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday May 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, IV
Room B-3240, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Olga G. Kharlampovich, McGill University olga@scylla.math.mcgill.ca
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexei@att.net
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Daniel Wise, McGill University wise@math.mcgill.ca
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8:30 a.m.
Ultimate quotients of trees and their diameters.
Dennis Clark*, Harvard University
Lisa Carbone, Rutgers University
(976-20-152) -
9:00 a.m.
Graphs of free groups.
Mark Feighn*, Rutgers University-Newark
Guo-An Diao, Rutgers University-Newark
(976-20-57) -
9:30 a.m.
The Automorphism Graph of $F_2$ and Whitehead's Algorithm.
Bilal Khan*, City University of New York
(976-20-184) -
10:00 a.m.
Infinite words and length functions on groups.
Alexei G Miasnikov, City University of New York
Vladimir N Remeslennikov, Omsk Branch of Math Institute SB RAS
Denis E Serbin*, Grad. Ctr. City University of New York
(976-20-95) -
10:30 a.m.
Beyond the combination theorem.
Peter Brinkmann*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(976-20-177)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday May 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Hopf Algebras, V
Room B-3245, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A\&M University maguiar@math.tamu.edu
Fran\c{c}ois Bergeron, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \'a Montr\'eal bergeron@lacim.uqam.ca
Christophe Reutenauer, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \'a Montr\'eal christo@math.uqam.ca
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9:00 a.m.
Hopf algebras of dimension 14.
Margaret Beattie*, Mount Allison University
Sorin Dascalescu, University of Bucharest
(976-16-19) -
9:30 a.m.
A Hopf-algebraic structure for generalized transition polynomials.
Joanna Ellis-Monaghan*, University of Vermont
Irasema Sarmiento, University of Vermont
(976-05-198) -
10:00 a.m.
Quantum groups and Markov traces on Hecke algebras.
Rosa C Orellana*, Dartmouth College
(976-05-170) -
10:30 a.m.
Bialgebras of recursive sequences and combinatorial identities.
Carl A. Futia, Morton Grove, IL
Eric F. M\"uller, Universit\"at M\"unchen
Earl J. Taft*, Rutgers University
(976-05-18)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday May 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Function Spaces in Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, IV
Room B-4240, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Galia D. Dafni, Concordia University gdafni@mathstat.concordia.ca
Jie Xiao, Concordia University jxiao@mathstat.concordia.ca
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9:00 a.m.
Duality Theory of Besov Spaces with Matrix Weights.
Svetlana Roudenko*, Michigan State University
(976-42-89) -
9:30 a.m.
Sharp bounds for the weighted square function.
Janine Wittwer*, Williams College
(976-42-100) -
10:00 a.m.
Inequalities for gradients on non-smooth domains.
Caroline Sweezy, New Mexico State University
Michael Wilson*, University of Vermont
(976-42-93) -
10:30 a.m.
On the H\"older regularity of conformal maps.
Dorina Mitrea, University of Missouri
Irina Mitrea*, Cornell University
(976-35-142)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday May 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, IV
Room B-3285, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Dmitry Jakobson, McGill University jakobson@math.mcgill.ca
Yiannis Petridis, McGill University and Centre de Recherches Math\'ematiques petridis@math.mcgill.ca
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9:00 a.m.
Non-holomorphic Poincare series constructed from derivatives and antiderivatives of cuspforms.
Gautam Chinta, Brown
Cormac O'Sullivan*, CUNY
(976-11-150) -
9:30 a.m.
Twists of Maass forms: a subconvex estimate for $L$-functions.
Gergely Harcos*, Princeton University
(976-11-195) -
10:30 a.m.
Tate-Shafarevich Groups of Quadratic Twists of an Elliptic Curve.
Eduardo Duenez*, Johns Hopkins University
(976-11-94)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday May 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
Session for Contributed Papers, II
Room B-4250, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
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9:00 a.m.
Linearly Constrained Optimal Location.
Salem Ahmad Sahab*, King AbdulAziz University
(976-41-20) -
9:15 a.m.
Bounds on Indices of R Sequences.
Andrew B. Perry*, Springfield College
(976-46-181) -
9:30 a.m.
On some new Euler difference sequence spaces.
Harun Polat*, Inonu University, Turkey
(976-46-42) -
9:45 a.m.
On behaviour of operators satisfying some growth conditions and applications.
D Drissi*, Kuwait University
(976-47-40) -
10:00 a.m.
Superminimal Fibres in an Almost Contact Metric Submersion.
Bill Watson*, St. John's University
T. Tshikuna-Matamba, Institut Superior Pedagogique
(976-53-156) -
10:15 a.m.
A Higher Dimensional Generalization of Bailey Lemma and Rogers-Ramanujan Identities.
Hasan Coskun*, Texas A&M University
(976-33-35)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday May 5, 2002, 9:25 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Curvature and Topology, IV
Room B-3335, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Regina Rotman, Courant Institute, New York University rotman@math1.cims.nyu.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Kristopher R. Tapp, SUNY at Stony Brook ktapp@math.sunysb.edu
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8:40 a.m.
Discussion. -
9:25 a.m.
Ricci degeneracy in nonpositively curved manifolds.
Fangyang Zheng*, Ohio State University
(976-53-74) -
10:10 a.m.
Universal Covers for Hausdorff Limits of Noncompact Spaces.
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, City University of New York
Guofang Wei*, UC Santa Barbara
(976-53-66)
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8:40 a.m.
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Sunday May 5, 2002, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Geometric mechanisms for diffusion in mechanical systems.
Room B-2285, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Rafael De La Llave*, University of Texas at Austin
(976-35-01) -
Sunday May 5, 2002, 12:10 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Special Session on Function Spaces in Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, V
Room B-4240, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Galia D. Dafni, Concordia University gdafni@mathstat.concordia.ca
Jie Xiao, Concordia University jxiao@mathstat.concordia.ca
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12:10 p.m.
Regularity of degenerate prescribed Gaussian curvature in two dimensions.
Eric T. Sawyer*, McMaster University
Richard L. Wheeden, Rutgers University
(976-35-206) -
12:40 p.m.
On harmonic normal and $Q_{h,p}^{\#}$ functions.
Rauno Aulaskari*, University of Joensuu
Peter Lappan, Michigan State University
Ruhan Zhao, University of Virginia
(976-30-36)
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12:10 p.m.
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Sunday May 5, 2002, 1:30 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Special Session on Curvature and Topology, V
Room B-3335, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Regina Rotman, Courant Institute, New York University rotman@math1.cims.nyu.edu
Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY sormanic@member.ams.org
Kristopher R. Tapp, SUNY at Stony Brook ktapp@math.sunysb.edu
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1:30 p.m.
Einstein Compactifications of Hyperbolic Manifolds.
Gordon Craig*, SUNY Stony Brook
(976-53-91) -
2:15 p.m.
Classifying families of seven manifolds.
Christine M Escher*, Oregon State University
(976-55-133) -
3:00 p.m.
Discussion. -
3:15 p.m.
Covering Spaces and Their Limits.
Christina Sormani*, Lehman College, CUNY
Guofang Wei, U.C.S.B.
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4:00 p.m.
The Angle Defect for Arbitrary Simplicial Complexes.
Ethan D. Bloch*, Bard College
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4:45 p.m.
Maxwell-Dirac Equations in 4-dimensional Minkowski Space.
Maria Psarelli*, Bronx Community College-CUNY
(976-35-197)
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1:30 p.m.