AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:31
2001 Fall Western Section Meeting
Irvine, CA, November 10-11, 2001
Meeting #972
Associate secretaries: Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu
Sunday November 11, 2001
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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
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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8:30 a.m.
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:35 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:40 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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.
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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.
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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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3:00 p.m.