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2001 Fall Western Section Meeting
Irvine, CA, November 10-11, 2001
Meeting #972

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

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Saturday November 10, 2001

• Saturday November 10, 2001, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Rowland Hall
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 188, Rowland Hall
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Spaces, Operator Algebras, and Applications
  Room 118, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Marius Junge, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign junge@math.uiuc.edu
  Timur Oikhberg, University of Texas and University of California Irvine timur@mail.ma.utexas.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Ranking functions on operator spaces and completely rank-nonincreasing linear maps.
    David Larson*, Texas A&M University
    Donald Hadwin, University of New Hampshire
    (972-47-180)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Composition Operators on Uniform Algebras.
    Theodore W Gamelin*, UCLA
    (972-46-99)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A prime C*-algebra that is not primitive.
    Nik Weaver*, Washington University
    (972-46-45)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Geometric characterizations of some classes of operators in C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras.
    Charles A. Akemann*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Nik Weaver, Washington University
    (972-46-37)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Vector-valued noncommutative $L_p$ spaces and martigales.
    Marius Junge*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (972-46-182)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Indiscernible versus exchangeable sequences of non-commutating random variables.
    Haskell Rosenthal*, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
    (972-46-128)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Topology
  Room 114, Rowland Hall
  Organizers:
  Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago kauffman@uic.edu
  Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@research.circ.gwu.edu
  Fernando Souza, University of Waterloo fsouza@cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Computing Kauffman bracket skein modules.
    Doug Bullock*, Boise State University
    Walter LoFaro, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
    (972-57-156)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Hochshild homology of a Heegaard splitting.
    Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    Mike McLendon, The University of Iowa
    (972-57-12)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Limiting behavior of the Yang-Mills measure.
    Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
    (972-57-63)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Skein modules and the Berezin quantization of the moduli space of SU(2)-flat connections on the torus.
    Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
    Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan
    (972-57-75)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Skein Modules and String Topology.
    Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
    (972-57-83)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 8:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Metrics and Moduli Spaces
  Room 108, Rowland Hall
  Organizers:
  Steven Bradlow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign bradlow@uiuc.edu
  Claude LeBrun, State University of New York, Stony Brook claude@math.sunysb.edu
  Yat Sun Poon, University of California Riverside ypoon@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 8:40 a.m.
    Function Spaces of Kähler Metrics.
    Eugenio Calabi*, University of Pennsylvania (emer.)
    (972-53-129)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The uniqueness of Extremal Kaehler metrics.
    Xiuxiong Chen*, Princeton University
    (972-53-125)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Existence and Geodesic Stability.
    Zhuang-dan D Guan*, The University of California at Riverside
    (972-53-31)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On a class of extremal Kaehler metrics on toric varieties.
    Vestislav Apostolov*, UQAM, Montreal
    David Calderbank, Edinbourgh, Scotland
    Paul Gauduchon, CNRS, Palaiseau
    (972-53-91)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 8:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Random and Deterministic Schr\"odinger Operators
  Room 122, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Svetlana Jitomirskaya, University of California Irvine szhitomi@math.uci.edu
  Abel Klein, University of California Irvine aklein@math.uci.edu
  

  • 8:45 a.m.
    Nonperturbative localization for the quantum kicked rotor model.
    Jean Bourgain, IAS
    Svetlana Jitomirskaya*, UCI
    (972-81-140)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Transition from quenched to annealed asymptotics for the reaction-diffusion equation in random environment.
    Stanislav A Molchanov*, UNC, Charlotte
    (972-60-74)
  • 9:55 a.m.
    A Fluctuation Analysis of Localization in One Dimension.
    Michael Aizenman, Princeton University
    Alex Elgart, Princeton University
    Jeffrey H Schenker*, Princeton University
    (972-81-148)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    Sparse Potentials with Fractional Hausdorff Dimension.
    Andrej Zlatos*, Caltech
    (972-34-58)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Algebraic Varieties
  Room 210, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
  Organizers:
  Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
  Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Utah mikha@math.utah.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Monodromy representations and Szpiro type inequalities.
    Fedor A. Bogomolov*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    (972-00-198)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Topology of Stein Surfaces.
    Selman Akbulut*, MSU
    Burak Ozbagci, MSU
    (972-57-143)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Applications
  Room 120, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Edriss S. Titi, University of California Irvine etiti@math.uci.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On zero mass solutions of viscous conservation laws.
    Maria E Schonbek*, University of California Santa Cruz
    Grzegorz Karch, Uniwersytet Woclawy
    (972-76-44)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Number of Determining Modes in Numerical 2D Turbulence.
    Eric Olson*, University of Nevada, Reno
    Edriss Titi, University of California, Irvine
    (972-35-162)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Atomistic Theory of Elasticity for Epitaxial Thin Films.
    Russel E Caflisch*, UCLA
    Cameron Connell, UCLA
    (972-35-40)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A mathematical model of microbial growth.
    Don A Jones*, Arizona State University
    (972-35-42)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Groups and Covering Spaces in Algebraic Geometry
  Room 114, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Michael Fried, University of California Irvine mfried@math.uci.edu
  Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Identity representations in characteristic Frattini modules and their effect on the inverse Galois problem.
    Michael D Fried*, UC Irvine
    (972-20-98)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Davenport Polynomials over Finite Fields.
    Wayne E Aitken*, California State University, San Marcos
    Linda Holt, California State University, San Marcos
    Mike Fried, University of California Irvine
    (972-11-167)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Exceptional Covers of Curves.
    Robert M Guralnick*, University of Southern California
    (972-12-25)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Complex Analysis
  Room 124, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University huangx@math.rutgers.edu
  Song-Ying Li, University of California, Irvine sli@math.uci.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Compactness of the $\overline{\partial}$-Neumann problem and lowest eigenvalues of Schr\"{o}dinger operators.
    Siqi Fu, University of Wyoming
    Emil J Straube*, Texas A&M University
    (972-32-165)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Szego and Bergman projections for non-smooth planar domains.
    Loredana Lanzani*, University of Arkansas
    (972-30-164)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Analytic hypoellipticity in the sense of germs for an operator with Treves curves.
    Nicholas Hanges*, Lehman College/CUNY
    (972-35-59)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hearing a pseudoconvex domain.
    Siqi Fu*, University of Wyoming and Princeton University
    (972-32-184)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analyses and Partial Differential Equations
  Room 220, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
  Organizers:
  Gustavo Ponce, University of California Santa Barbara ponce@math.ucsb.edu
  Gigliola Staffilani, Stanford University gigliola@math.stanford.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A vortex degree estimate for the stationary Ginzburg-Landau equation.
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    (972-35-149)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Inverse Elasticity.
    James V Ralston*, University of California at Los Angeles
    Gregory Eskin, University of California at Los Angeles
    (972-35-94)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Long Time Existence for Nonlinear Wave Equations.
    Markus A Keel*, University of Minnesota
    Hart Smith, University of Washington
    Christopher D Sogge, Johns Hopkins
    (972-35-163)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems of Billiard Type
  Room 240, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
  Organizers:
  Marek Rychlik, University of Arizona rychlik@u.arizona.edu
  Andrew Torok, University of Houston torok@math.uh.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Ergodicity of Typical Hard Sphere Systems in 2D: Geometric Aspects.
    Nandor Simanyi*, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (972-37-104)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Periodic orbit theory analysis of simple variants of familiar two dimensional billiard systems.
    Richard W Robinett*, Penn State University
    (972-37-117)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    The measure of periodic points of billiards - a computational algebraic geometry approach.
    Marek R Rychlik*, University of Arizona
    (972-70-194)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Amoebas of algebraic varieties.
  Room 104, Rowland Hall
  Grigory Mikhalkin*, University of Utah
  (972-14-03)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Recent directions in automorphic forms and analytic number theory.
  Room 104, Rowland Hall
  William Duke*, University of California Los Angeles
  (972-11-04)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Topology
  Room 114, Rowland Hall
  Organizers:
  Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago kauffman@uic.edu
  Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@research.circ.gwu.edu
  Fernando Souza, University of Waterloo fsouza@cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Why Turaev-Viro Theory is not a Modular Functor and Why That's OK.
    Stephen French Sawin*, Fairfield University
    John W. Barrett, University of Nottingham
    (972-81-201)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Generalizations of the Kashaev conjecture.
    Hitoshi Murakami*, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    (972-57-49)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The integer valued SU(3) Casson invariant for Brieskorn spheres.
    Hans U Boden, McMaster University
    Paul Kirk, Indiana University
    Christopher M Herald*, University of Nevada, Reno
    (972-57-145)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Cut numbers of 3-manifolds.
    Adam S Sikora*, ISM/CRM
    (972-57-154)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Resolutions of p-Modular TQFT's and the Alexander Polynomial of 3-manifolds.
    Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
    (972-57-192)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Some structure theory for semisimple monoidal categories.
    Greg Kuperberg*, UC Davis
    (972-18-174)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Algebraic Varieties
  Room 210, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
  Organizers:
  Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
  Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Utah mikha@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Computing Amoebas.
    Bernd Sturmfels*, UC Berkeley
    Thorsten Theobald, Technical University Munich
    (972-14-21)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Link theoretic invariants of real algebraic curves.
    Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State university
    (972-57-101)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Lehmer's polynomial and isolated hypersurface singularities.
    Eriko Hironaka*, Florida State University
    (972-14-166)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Applications
  Room 120, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Edriss S. Titi, University of California Irvine etiti@math.uci.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Remarks on the primitive equations of the ocean.
    Mohammed B Ziane*, University of Southern California
    (972-35-171)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Structure of three-wave interactions and regularity of solutions of Euler equations for rapidly rotating fluids.
    Anatoli V Babin*, UC Irvine
    (972-76-73)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Global Well--posedness and Finite Dimensional Global Attractor for a 3--D Planetary Geostrophic Viscous Model.
    Chongsheng Cao*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Edriss S Titi, University of California, Irvine
    (972-35-61)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Global existence and non-existence theorems for nonlinear wave equations.
    Mohammad A Rammaha*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    David R Pitts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (972-35-39)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Finite dimensionality and regularity of attractors for 2-D semilinear wave equation with non-linear dissipation.
    Irena Lasiecka, University of Virginia
    Anastasia A Ruzmaikina*, University of Virginia
    (972-35-146)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Nevalinna-Pick Interpolation of Attractors.
    Ciprian Foias, Indiana Univ./ Texas A&M
    Michael S. Jolly*, Indiana University
    Wing-Suet Li, Georgia Tech/Virginia Tech
    (972-35-169)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Groups and Covering Spaces in Algebraic Geometry
  Room 114, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Michael Fried, University of California Irvine mfried@math.uci.edu
  Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sufficiency of Projective Polynomials.
    Shreeram S. Abhyankar*, Purdue University
    (972-14-20)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Abhyankar's Local Conjecture on Fundamental Groups.
    Stevenson F Katherine*, Cal. State Northridge
    David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania
    (972-14-102)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    break
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Rigidity, Reduction and Ramification.
    Irene Bouw, Max Planck Institute
    Rachel Pries*, Columbia University
    (972-14-65)
  • 5:20 p.m.
    Orthogonal deformations of Galois representations.
    Ted C Chinburg*, Univ. of Pennsylvania
    Frauke M Bleher, Univ. of Iowa
    (972-14-70)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Random and Deterministic Schr\"odinger Operators
  Room 122, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Svetlana Jitomirskaya, University of California Irvine szhitomi@math.uci.edu
  Abel Klein, University of California Irvine aklein@math.uci.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spectral and scattering theory of the surface Maryland model.
    Vojkan Jaksic*, McGill University
    Stanislav Molchanov, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
    (972-47-52)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    A characterization of the Anderson metal-insulator transport transition.
    Abel Klein*, University of California, Irvine
    François Germinet, Universite de Lille 1
    (972-81-108)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    A general contraction property in PSL(2,R) by T. Wolff.
    Carol A Shubin*, CSUN
    (972-81-112)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    A diamagnetic inequality for semigroup differences.
    Dirk Hundertmark*, Caltech
    Barry Simon, Caltech
    (972-46-168)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Absence of Exponential Localization for Multidimensional Lattice Hamiltonians With Fast Local Periodic Approximation.
    Alexander Y Gordon*, Charlotte, NC
    (972-47-187)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Metrics and Moduli Spaces
  Room 108, Rowland Hall
  Organizers:
  Steven Bradlow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign bradlow@uiuc.edu
  Claude LeBrun, State University of New York, Stony Brook claude@math.sunysb.edu
  Yat Sun Poon, University of California Riverside ypoon@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Gradient Estimate for the Ricci-K\"ahler Flow.
    Bennett Chow*, UCSD
    (972-58-16)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On complete K\"ahler-Ricci solitons of nonnegative curvatures.
    Huai-Dong Cao*, Texas A&M University
    (972-53-78)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On Einstein manifolds of non-negative sectional curvature.
    Jimmy Petean*, CIMAT
    Gabriel Paternain, CIMAT
    (972-53-138)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    break
  • 4:40 p.m.
    $\widehat A$-genus on non-spin manifolds and classification of positive quaternion-K\"ahler 12-manifolds.
    Rafael Herrera*, University of California, Riverside
    Haydee Herrera, Tufts University
    (972-53-34)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    SO(3) monopoles and spin polynomials.
    Paul Feehan, Rutgers
    Thomas G Leness*, Florida International University
    (972-58-29)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Complex Analysis
  Room 124, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University huangx@math.rutgers.edu
  Song-Ying Li, University of California, Irvine sli@math.uci.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mappings between holomorphically nondegenarate generic submanifolds in $C^n$.
    Salah Baouendi*, UCSD
    (972-32-181)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Schur class of the unit ball of $C^n$.
    Mihai Putinar*, University of California
    (972-47-51)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Algebraicity of real analytic hypersurfaces and blowing-down.
    Shanyu Ji*, Dept of Math, Univ. of Houston
    (972-32-53)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    break
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Constructing plurisubharmonic functions and harmonic (m,0) forms.
    Lei Ni*, Stanford University
    (972-53-76)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    A strong uniqueness theorem for planar vector fields.
    Shiferaw Berhanu, Temple University
    Jorge Hounie*, Universidade Federal de S\~ao Carlos
    (972-35-50)
  • 5:40 p.m.
    On the Oka principle in a Banach space.
    Imre Patyi*, UC Irvine
    (972-32-126)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analyses and Partial Differential Equations
  Room 220, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
  Organizers:
  Gustavo Ponce, University of California Santa Barbara ponce@math.ucsb.edu
  Gigliola Staffilani, Stanford University gigliola@math.stanford.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Mathematical Theory of Self-organized-critical Systems.
    Bjorn Birnir*, Dept. of Math. UCSB
    Jorge Hernandez, UCSB
    Raisa Feldman, Dept. of Statistics and Appl. Probab. UCSB
    Terrence Smith, Dept. of Geography, UCSB
    (972-35-144)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    The motion of the free surface of a liquid.
    Hans Lindblad*, UCSD
    (972-35-115)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    A cheap Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality for Navier-Stokes equations with hyper-dissipation.
    Nets H Katz, Washington University, St. Louis
    Natasa Pavlovic*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (972-35-57)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Spaces, Operator Algebras, and Applications
  Room 118, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Marius Junge, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign junge@math.uiuc.edu
  Timur Oikhberg, University of Texas and University of California Irvine timur@mail.ma.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Grothendieck's Theorem for Operator Spaces (joint work with Dimitri Shlyakhtenko).
    Gilles Pisier*, Texas A&M University
    (972-46-41)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Nonlinear heat kernel analysis on von Neumann algebras.
    Maria Gordina*, University of California at San Diego
    (972-60-27)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Functional Calculus for Completely Bounded $L^{\infty}$-bimodule Maps.
    Vern I Paulsen*, University of Houston
    Aristides Katavolos, University of Athens
    (972-46-155)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Strongly singular masas in type ${\mathrm{II}}_1$ factors.
    Allan M Sinclair, University of Edinburgh
    Roger R Smith*, Texas A&M University
    (972-46-118)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Ideals of operator algebras.
    David P Blecher*, University of Houston
    (972-46-122)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Operator Hilbert Spaces without the Operator Approximation Property.
    Alvaro Arias*, University of Denver
    (972-46-120)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-6:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems of Billiard Type
  Room 240, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
  Organizers:
  Marek Rychlik, University of Arizona rychlik@u.arizona.edu
  Andrew Torok, University of Houston torok@math.uh.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Central Limit Theorem for al large class of mixing maps.
    Nicolai T Haydn*, University of Southern California
    (972-37-151)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Absolutely Continuous Invariant Measures for Non-Uniformly Expanding Maps.
    Huyi Hu*, University of Southern California
    Sandro Vaienti, Centre de Physique Th\'eorique, CNRS
    (972-37-183)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Rotations by pi/7 and examples of rational piecewise rotations with an unbounded return time to one of the atoms.
    Arek Goetz*, San Francisco State University
    (972-37-105)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Chaos in Accelerated Billiards.
    Bruce N Miller*, Texas Christian University
    (972-37-173)
  • 5:20 p.m.
    Semi-dispersing billiards with a non-compact cusp.
    Marco Lenci*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (972-37-82)
  • 5:55 p.m.
    A convex generalized 3D stadium billiard.
    Gianluigi Del Magno*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (972-37-186)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic Geometry
  Room 230, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
  Organizers:
  Jonathan Weitsman, University of California, Santa Cruz weitsman@cats.ucsc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Calculating the Cohomology Ring of Symplectic Quotients.
    Rebecca F Goldin*, University of Maryland
    (972-51-157)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    The equivariant cohomology of the real loci of Hamiltonian symplectic manifolds.
    Tara S Holm*, MIT
    (972-53-123)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Non-degenerate abstract moment maps.
    Viktor L Ginzburg*, UC Santa Cruz
    (972-58-80)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Moment maps and reductive symmetric pairs.
    Reyer Sjamaar*, Cornell University
    Yi Lin, Cornell University
    (972-58-81)
• Saturday November 10, 2001, 4:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 101, Rowland Hall
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Approximating the Solution to the HJB PDE.
    Rod A Freed*, California State University at Dominguez Hills
    (972-35-14)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Quasi-stationary states of Indy500 model.
    Anastasia A Ruzmaikina*, University of Virginia
    Michael Aizenman, Princeton University
    Pierluigi Contucci, University of Bologna
    (972-60-71)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Viscous flow over a flat surface, an integral solution of the Navier-Stokes PDE.
    Leonard D'Attorre*, AMS
    (972-00-199)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Mathematics, Today and Tomorrow.
    Doc J. Castellano*, PhD co., Maphics Dept., Simi Valley, CA
    (972-00-124)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Measure Dependable Extrafunctions.
    Mark Burgin*, UCLA
    (972-26-09)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Generalized Solutions for the Cauchy Problem for Partial Differential Equations.
    Mark Burgin, UCLA
    James Ralston*, UCLA
    (972-35-05)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Intersection Homology theory via rectifiable currents.
    Qinglan Xia*, Rice University
    (972-49-133)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Static Coefficient and Unit Fields, Recent Ideas, Comments, and Outcomes.
    C.S. Felicitas*, CFCTE Foundation and Gottlieb Library
    (972-86-08)

Sunday November 11, 2001

• Sunday November 11, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Rowland Hall
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Spaces, Operator Algebras, and Applications
  Room 118, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Marius Junge, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign junge@math.uiuc.edu
  Timur Oikhberg, University of Texas and University of California Irvine timur@mail.ma.utexas.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Non-commutative Banach Principle and its applications.
    Semyon N Litvinov*, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton
    (972-46-137)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    $C^*$-convex sets in representable bimodules.
    Ciprian S Pop*, Texas A&M University
    (972-46-179)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Local properties of TRO's associated with their linking $C^*$-algebras.
    Manmohan Kaur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (972-46-130)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A holomorphic characterization of TRO's and C*-algebras.
    Matthew P Neal*, Denison University
    Bernie Russo, University of California, Irvine
    (972-46-22)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Algebraic Structures Determined by 3 by 3 Matrix Geometry.
    Martin E Walter*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (972-46-43)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Commutators of ideals and modules of II$_\infty$--factors.
    Ken Dykema*, Texas A&M University
    Nigel Kalton, Univeristy of Missouri
    (972-47-127)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 188, Rowland Hall
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Topology
  Room 114, Rowland Hall
  Organizers:
  Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago kauffman@uic.edu
  Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@research.circ.gwu.edu
  Fernando Souza, University of Waterloo fsouza@cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Algebraic versions of Markov's theorem in three-spaces.
    Sofia Lambropoulou*, National Technical University of Athens
    (972-57-153)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Diagrams of Divide Links.
    Sergei V Chmutov*, Ohio State University, Mansfield
    (972-57-15)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Homfly polynomials and quantum $sl(N)$ invariants of decorated Hopf links.
    Hugh R Morton*, University of Liverpool, UK
    Sascha G Lukac, University of Liverpool, UK
    (972-57-18)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantum Morphing and the Jones Polynomial.
    Oliver T Dasbach*, Oklahoma State University
    Xiao-Song Lin, UC Riverside
    (972-57-132)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Burau representation of string links and its applications.
    Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
    (972-57-116)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Groups and Covering Spaces in Algebraic Geometry
  Room 114, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Michael Fried, University of California Irvine mfried@math.uci.edu
  Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The number of conjugacy classes in the upper triangular group.
    John G Thompson*, University of Florida
    (972-20-161)
  • 9:10 a.m.
    Group representations and lattice minima.
    Pham Huu Tiep*, University of Florida
    (972-20-87)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    The Hurwitz space of genus 2 covers of an elliptic curve.
    Ernst Kani*, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada
    (972-14-195)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Automorphisms and elliptic subfields of genus 2 fields.
    Tony Shaska*, UC Irvine
    Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida
    (972-14-47)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Complex Analysis
  Room 124, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University huangx@math.rutgers.edu
  Song-Ying Li, University of California, Irvine sli@math.uci.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    discussion
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Equivalence of real submanifolds in complex space.
    Linda P Rothschild*, UCSD
    (972-32-172)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    CR embeddings into strictly pseudoconvex hypersurfaces.
    Peter F Ebenfelt*, University of California, San Diego
    (972-32-72)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Normalization of complex-valued planar vector fields which degenerate along a real curve.
    Paulo D Cordaro*, University of S.Paulo - Brazil
    Xianghong Gong, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (972-35-69)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A nonlinear Fourier transform.
    Camil Muscalu, UCLA
    Terence Tao, UCLA
    Christoph Thiele*, UCLA
    (972-42-176)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 8:35 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Random and Deterministic Schr\"odinger Operators
  Room 122, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Svetlana Jitomirskaya, University of California Irvine szhitomi@math.uci.edu
  Abel Klein, University of California Irvine aklein@math.uci.edu
  

  • 8:35 a.m.
    On Spectral Properties of Periodic Polyharmonic Matrix Operators.
    Yulia Karpeshina*, UAB
    (972-35-193)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Charge transport in the adiabatic limit -- proof of the Kubo formula for 2D Hall current.
    Alexander Elgart*, Princeton University
    Jeffrey H Schenker, Princeton University
    Michael Aizenman, Princeton University
    (972-81-139)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Scattering for one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operators with slowly decaying potentials.
    Michael Christ, University of California, Berkeley
    Alexander Kiselev*, University of Chicago
    (972-81-121)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    Localization and Delocalization for Random Polymer Chains.
    Svetlana Jitomirskaya, UC Irvine
    Hermann Schulz-Baldes, UC Irvine and TU Berlin
    Gunter Stolz*, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
    (972-82-38)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 8:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Metrics and Moduli Spaces
  Room 108, Rowland Hall
  Organizers:
  Steven Bradlow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign bradlow@uiuc.edu
  Claude LeBrun, State University of New York, Stony Brook claude@math.sunysb.edu
  Yat Sun Poon, University of California Riverside ypoon@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 8:40 a.m.
    Canonical metrics in Kahler geometry.
    Gang Tian*, M.I.T.
    (972-53-134)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    $K$ Energy and $K$ stability.
    Zhiqin Lu*, UC Irvine
    (972-53-30)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Direct images of stable triples.
    Donghoon Hyeon*, Rice University
    (972-14-79)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence, moduli, quivers and vortices.
    Luis Alvarez-Consul*, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Oscar Garcia-Prada, Departamento de Matematicas, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
    (972-58-135)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Algebraic Varieties
  Room 210, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
  Organizers:
  Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
  Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Utah mikha@math.utah.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On arrangements of a plane real quintic curve with respect to a pair of lines.
    Anatoly B. Korchagin*, Texas Tech University
    (972-14-10)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the Mapping Class Group of $S^3\times S^3$.
    Nikolai A Krylov*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (972-55-106)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Applications
  Room 120, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Edriss S. Titi, University of California Irvine etiti@math.uci.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Solitary pulses in optical fibers with dispersion management at second and third order.
    Jamison T Moeser, Brown University
    Ildar R Gabitov*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    C.K.R.T. Jones, Brown University
    (972-35-177)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Shedding and interaction of solitons in imperfect medium.
    Misha Chertkov*, LANL
    Ildar Gabitov, LANL
    Igor Kolokolov, Budker Institute, Russia
    Vladimir Lebedev, Landau Institute, Russia
    (972-82-119)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Inertial Manifolds and Gevrey Regularity for the Moore--Greitzer model of Turbo--Machine Engine.
    Yeojin Chung*, University of California, Irvine
    Edriss S Titi, University of California, Irvine
    (972-35-48)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Level-Set Method for Modeling Epitaxial Growth.
    Christian Ratsch*, UCLA
    Russel Caflisch, UCLA
    Myungjoo Kang, UCLA
    Max Petersen, UCLA and Georgia Tech
    Mark Gyure, HRL Laboratories
    Dimitri Vvedensky, Imperial College
    (972-35-36)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analyses and Partial Differential Equations
  Room 220, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
  Organizers:
  Gustavo Ponce, University of California Santa Barbara ponce@math.ucsb.edu
  Gigliola Staffilani, Stanford University gigliola@math.stanford.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A characterization of finite sets that tile the integers.
    Izabella Laba*, University of British COlumbia
    (972-11-185)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Besov-Morrey spaces and applications to PDE.
    Anna L Mazzucato*, Yale University and MSRI, Berkeley
    (972-35-141)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    On the initial value problem for the fully non-linear 1-D Schr\"odinger equation.
    Gustavo Ponce*, University of California-Santa Barbara
    Wee Keong Lim, University of California-Santa Barbara
    (972-35-32)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems of Billiard Type
  Room 240, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
  Organizers:
  Marek Rychlik, University of Arizona rychlik@u.arizona.edu
  Andrew Torok, University of Houston torok@math.uh.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Periodic billiard orbits in non-euclidean polygons.
    Eugene Gutkin*, Santa Monica, CA
    (972-37-55)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Mushrooms and Other Billiards With Divided Phase Space.
    Leonid A Bunimovich*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (972-37-64)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Statistics and ergodicity on a class of partially hyperbolic symmetric attractors.
    Michael Field*, University of Houston
    (972-58-131)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic Geometry
  Room 230, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
  Organizers:
  Jonathan Weitsman, University of California, Santa Cruz weitsman@cats.ucsc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Constrained quantization of the harmonic oscillator.
    Ranee Brylinski*, Penn State Univ
    (972-81-109)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cohomological induction and the quantization of noncompact coadjoint orbits Session Name: Special Session on Symplectic Geometry.
    Gregg J Zuckerman*, Mathematics Department, Yale University
    (972-22-86)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Dispersive Equations and Almost Conservation Laws.
  Room 104, Rowland Hall
  Gigliola Staffilani*, Brown University (Providence, RI) and Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
  (972-35-200)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The topology of Hamiltonian Loop Group spaces.
  Room 104, Rowland Hall
  Jonathan Weitsman*, University of California,Santa Cruz
  (972-00-202)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Topology
  Room 114, Rowland Hall
  Organizers:
  Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago kauffman@uic.edu
  Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@research.circ.gwu.edu
  Fernando Souza, University of Waterloo fsouza@cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Virtual Knots, Biquandles and Bioriented Quantum Algebras.
    Louis H Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (972-57-147)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Extensions and cocycle invariants from twisted cohomology theory of quandles.
    J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
    Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
    (972-57-96)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Untwisted $2$-cocycles and twisted $3$-cocycles.
    J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
    Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
    Marina A Nikiforou, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
    (972-55-77)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A move on diagrams that generates S-equivalence of knots.
    Swatee Naik*, University of Nevada, Reno and University of California, Irvine
    Theodore Stanford, New Mexico State University
    (972-57-190)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    3-manifold invariants and periodicity of homology spheres.
    Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana Stae University
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
    Jozef H Przytycki, George Washington
    (972-57-100)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Applications
  Room 120, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Edriss S. Titi, University of California Irvine etiti@math.uci.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Instabilities in fluid motion.
    Susan Friedlander*, U of Illinois-chicago
    (972-76-175)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Space analyticity for solutions of the 2D Navier-Stokes system.
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    (972-35-150)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    New scale of regularity spaces for the incompressible Euler equations.
    Eitan Tadmor*, UCLA
    (972-35-33)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Critical Thresholds vs. Finite Time Breakdown in Euler Dynamics.
    Hailiang Liu*, UCLA, Mathematics Department,
    Eitan Tadmor, UCLA
    (972-76-35)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Pseudospectral Method for the Solution of the Partial Differential Equations in an Inverse Scattering Problem.
    Mohsen Razzaghi*, Depattment of Mathematics and Statistics
    (972-35-67)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Groups and Covering Spaces in Algebraic Geometry
  Room 114, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Michael Fried, University of California Irvine mfried@math.uci.edu
  Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Basic algebras for sporadic simple groups in GAP.
    Klaus Lux*, University of Arizona
    T Hoffman, University of Arizona
    (972-20-159)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Maximal automorphism groups of curves of small genus.
    Kay Magaard, Wayne State University
    Sergey Shpectorov*, Bowling Green State University
    Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida
    (972-20-95)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    break
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Computing braid orbits with GAP.
    Kay Magaard*, Wayne State University
    Sergey Shpectorov, Bowling Green State University
    Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida
    (972-20-97)
  • 5:20 p.m.
    Families of covers of the sphere and their images in $M_g$.
    Helmut Voelklein*, University of Florida
    (972-14-46)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Random and Deterministic Schr\"odinger Operators
  Room 122, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Svetlana Jitomirskaya, University of California Irvine szhitomi@math.uci.edu
  Abel Klein, University of California Irvine aklein@math.uci.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spectral analysis of two-dimensional quasicrystal models.
    David Damanik*, California Institute of Technology
    (972-81-56)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the application of some M.G.Krein ideas to the spectral analysis of Schr\"odinger operators.
    Serguei Denissov*, California Institute of Technology, Moscow State University
    (972-34-28)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Three-Dimensional Thin-film Photonic Crystals.
    Alexander Figotin*, University of California at Irvine
    (972-78-142)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Nonlinear wavepacket interactions in periodic media.
    Anatoli V Babin*, UC Irvine
    (972-78-54)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Fractional Moment Methods for Finite Rank Perturbations.
    Robert J Sims*, University of California, Irvine
    Gunter Stolz, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Sergi Naboko, St. Petersburg, Russia
    (972-81-158)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Fractal Laplacians with singular continuous spectrum.
    Alexander Teplyaev*, UC Riverside
    (972-81-103)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Metrics and Moduli Spaces
  Room 108, Rowland Hall
  Organizers:
  Steven Bradlow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign bradlow@uiuc.edu
  Claude LeBrun, State University of New York, Stony Brook claude@math.sunysb.edu
  Yat Sun Poon, University of California Riverside ypoon@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Three remarks on the geometry of special Lagrangian $3$-cycles.
    Robert L Bryant*, Duke University
    (972-53-17)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    On Moduli Spaces of Sasakian Structures.
    Charles P Boyer*, University of New Mexico
    (972-53-85)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    break
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Deformations of Hypercomplex Structures associated to Heisenberg Groups.
    Gueo V Grantcharov*, University of Connecticut
    Henrik Pedersen, University of Southern Denmark
    Yat Sun Poon, University of California, Riverside
    (972-32-107)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality and Hitchin systems.
    Tamas Hausel*, Miller Institute, University of California, Berkeley
    (972-14-19)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Complex Analysis
  Room 124, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University huangx@math.rutgers.edu
  Song-Ying Li, University of California, Irvine sli@math.uci.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Convex mappings in several complex variables.
    Sheng Gong*, University of California, San Diego
    (972-32-196)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Bundle rigidtiy of tangent bundles over Kahler manifolds.
    Bun Wong*, UC Riverside
    Wing Sum Cheung, Univ. of Hong-Kong
    Stephen Yau, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
    (972-32-197)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Nonlinear Riemann-Hilbert problems on domains in several complex variables.
    Marshall A Whittlesey*, California State University, San Marcos
    (972-32-178)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Spaces, Operator Algebras, and Applications
  Room 118, Multipurpose Science and Technology
  Organizers:
  Marius Junge, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign junge@math.uiuc.edu
  Timur Oikhberg, University of Texas and University of California Irvine timur@mail.ma.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    One parameter semigroups of endomorphisms of $B(H)$ and of factors of type $II_1$.
    Alexis Alevras*, UCSB
    (972-46-113)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Smoothness and strict convexity in operator spaces.
    Edward G Effros*, UCLA
    (972-46-92)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Applications of free entropy to certain type $II_1$-subfactors.
    Marius B Stefan*, UCLA
    (972-46-189)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An alternative Daugavet Property.
    Miguel Martin*, Universidad de Granada, Spain
    (972-46-68)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The structure of Lie derivations on C*-algebras (Work in progress with Armando R. Villena).
    Martin Mathieu*, Queen's University Belfast
    (972-46-60)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Lacunary matrices.
    Asma Harcharras*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Stefan Neuwirth, Universit\'e de Franche-Comt\'e
    Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz, Warsaw University
    (972-47-114)
• Sunday November 11, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic Geometry
  Room 230, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg
  Organizers:
  Jonathan Weitsman, University of California, Santa Cruz weitsman@cats.ucsc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Projective flatness in geometric quantization and the Maslov index.
    Siye Wu*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (972-53-62)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Equivariant cohomology of Grassmannians via equivariant puzzles.
    Allen Knutson*, UC Berkeley
    Terence Tao, UCLA
    (972-05-93)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Dirac Operators on Homogeneous Loop Spaces.
    Gregory D Landweber*, University of Oregon
    (972-81-88)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Symplectic geometry and symplectic topology.
    Susan Tolman*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (972-51-191)

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