AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
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
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.
(976-53-162) -
4:00 p.m.
The Angle Defect for Arbitrary Simplicial Complexes.
Ethan D. Bloch*, Bard College
(976-57-82) -
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.