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2002 Fall Central Section Meeting
Madison, WI, October 12-13, 2002
Meeting #980

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

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Sunday October 13, 2002

• Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Van Vleck Hall
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Group Cohomology and Homotopy Theory, III
  Room B235, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin-Madison adem@math.wisc.edu
  Jesper Grodal, Institute for Advanced Study jg@ias.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    HKR Theorem for Smooth $S$-algebras.
    Randy McCarthy, University of Illinois
    Vahagn Minasian*, University of Illinois
    (980-55-35)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A cohomological approach to automorphism group rings.
    John R. Martino, Western Michigan University
    Stewart B. Priddy*, Northwestern University
    (980-20-93)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Module Structure of Rings and Cohomology of Groups.
    Dikran B. Karagueuzian*, SUNY Binghamton
    (980-20-228)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The p-chain spectral sequence.
    James F. Davis*, Indiana University
    Wolfgang Lueck, University of Muenster
    (980-55-33)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Localizations of Groups.
    Mark Feshbach*, University of Minnesota
    Bernard Badzioch, Univeristy of Minnesota
    (980-55-181)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Steenrod operations on $H^*(Map_.(X, S^n))$ for surfaces $X$.
    Craig C Westerland*, University of Michigan
    (980-55-61)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Minimal Atomic Complexes.
    A. J. Baker, Glasgow University
    J. P. May*, The University of Chicago
    (980-55-255)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Ring Theory and Related Topics, III
  Room B105, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Don Passman, University of Wisconsin-Madison passman@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Row and column finite matrices.
    Victor P. Camillo*, University of Iowa
    J. J. Simon, University of Murcia
    F. J. Costa-Cano, University of Murcia
    (980-16-39)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Classical Simple Lie Superalgebras, Clifford Algebras and Induced Modules.
    Ian M. Musson*, UW-Milwaukee
    (980-16-111)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Euler classes of crystallographic groups and Hopf algebras.
    Martin Lorenz*, Temple University
    (980-16-23)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Noetherianity of the Space of Irreducible Representations.
    Edward S Letzter*, Temple University
    (980-16-119)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hochschild cohomology and representations of crossed products.
    Sarah Witherspoon*, Amherst College
    (980-16-180)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The correspondence between groups and their restricted Lie algebras for some classes of groups.
    A I Lichtman*, University of Wisconsin - Parkside
    (980-20-291)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On centralizers in the quantum plane algebra.
    Leonid Makar-Limanov*, Wayne State University
    (980-16-63)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room B227, Van Vleck Hall
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room B113, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin-Madison ono@math.wisc.edu
  Tonghai Yang, University of Wisconsin-Madison thyang@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Vanishing of $L$-functions and ranks of Selmer groups.
    Chris Skinner*, University of Michigan
    (980-11-317)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cubic structures and lattices of cusp forms.
    Ted Chinburg, University of Pennsylvania
    Georgios Pappas*, Michigan State University
    Martin Taylor, UMIST
    (980-11-237)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Central Values for Twisted $L$-Functions.
    Hui Xue*, Dept. of Math, Columbia University
    (980-11-123)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On certain unitary group Shimura varieties.
    Elena Mantovan*, Miller Institute, UC Berkeley
    (980-11-145)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rational points on Drinfeld modular curves.
    Imin Chen*, Simon Fraser University
    (980-11-238)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Arithmetic of anticyclotomic $L$-functions and theta functions.
    Tobias Finis*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (980-11-303)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables, III
  Room B317, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Pat Ahern, University of Wisconsin-Madison ahern@math.wisc.edu
  Xianghong Gong, University of Wisconsin-Madison gong@math.wisc.edu
  Alex Nagel, University of Wisconsin-Madison nagel@math.wisc.edu
  Jean-Pierre Rosay, University of Wisconsin-Madison jrosay@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Rational Proper Mappings between Balls.
    John P. D'Angelo*, University of Illinois, Urbana
    (980-32-15)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sampling and Interpolation on Riemann Surfaces.
    Dror Varolin*, University of Illinois
    (980-32-316)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Analyticity of CR mappings.
    Sergey I. Pinchuk*, Indiana University
    (980-32-76)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, III
  Room B341, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Alex Ionescu, University of Wisconsin-Madison ionescu@math.wisc.edu
  Andreas Seeger, University of Wisconsin-Madison seeger@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Unique continuation for non-linear dispersive equations.
    Carlos E. Kenig*, University of Chicago
    (980-35-120)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Geometric inequalities on hyperbolic space and SL(2,R).
    William Beckner*, University of Texas at Austin
    (980-58-84)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the distribution of lattice points on spheres and k-spheres.
    Akos Magyar*, University of Georgia
    (980-42-297)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Distribution of lattice points in random ellipsoids.
    Steve Hofmann, University of Missouri
    Alex Iosevich*, University of Missouri
    (980-11-190)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Dispersive estimates for principally normal pseudodifferential operators.
    Daniel Tataru*, UC Berkeley
    (980-35-80)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Geometry, III
  Room B309, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Sigurd Angenent, University of Wisconsin-Madison angenent@math.wisc.edu
  Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin-Madison feldman@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stable 3d vortex solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau system.
    Alberto Montero, Indiana University
    Peter J Sternberg*, Indiana University
    William Ziemer, Indiana University
    (980-35-172)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Counterexamples for Local Isometric Embedding.
    Nikolai Nadirashvili, University of Chicago
    Yu Yuan*, University of Washington
    (980-53-168)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On singularities of the Kaehler-Ricci flow.
    Huai-Dong Cao*, IPAM and TAMU
    (980-53-116)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    An example of neck pinching for the Ricci flow on $S^n$.
    Sigurd Angenent, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Dan F Knopf*, University of Iowa
    (980-53-301)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Differential Equations, III
  Room B305, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Gloria Mari Beffa, University of Wisconsin-Madison maribeff@math.wisc.edu
  Peter Olver, University of Minnesota olver@ima.umn.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On pseudo-potentials, nonlocal symmetries and integrability of some shallow water equations.
    Enrique G. Reyes*, University of Oklahoma
    (980-35-247)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Orbit reduction and Gauge Theory.
    Vladimir Itskov*, Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Mathematik
    (980-53-222)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Equivariant Isometric Immersion of Riemannian Manifolds with Symmetries.
    Daniel Grossman*, University of Chicago
    (980-53-314)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Hyperbolic Differential Equations and Kinetic Theory, III
  Room B325, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Shi Jin, University of Wisconsin-Madison jin@math.wisc.edu
  Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin-Madison slemrod@math.wisc.edu
  Athanassios Tzavaras, University of Wisconsin-Madison tzavaras@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A hydrodynamic theory for mixtures of polymer-liquid crystal polymer system.
    Qi Wang*, Florida State University
    (980-35-142)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An Eulerian Method for Multiphase Computations of the Schr\"odinger Equation.
    Shi Jin, UW-Madison
    Xiantao Li*, Princeton University
    (980-65-193)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Kinetic Decomposition of Approximate Solutions to Conservation Laws.
    Seok Hwang*, University of Southern California
    (980-35-60)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Lie Algebras and Related Topics, III
  Room B129, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin-Madison benkart@math.wisc.edu
  Arun Ram, University of Wisconsin-Madison ram@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Twisted quantum toroidal algebras.
    Yun Gao*, York University
    Naihuan Jing, North Carolina State University
    (980-17-208)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Hecke theoretic shadow of tensoring the crystal of the basic representation with a level $1$ perfect crystal.
    Monica J Vazirani*, Caltech
    (980-05-264)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Virtual Kleber algorithm.
    Masato Okado, Osaka University
    Anne Schilling*, UC Davis
    Mark Shimozono, Virginia Tech
    (980-05-234)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, III
  Room B215, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Sergey Bolotin, University of Wisconsin-Madison bolotin@math.wisc.edu
  Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison rabinowi@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Isolating Blocks for the Three-Body Problem.
    Richard B. Moeckel*, University of Minnesota
    (980-70-69)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some variational aspects of the Newtonian N-body problem.
    Kuo-Chang Chen*, University of Arizona
    (980-37-67)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Zero entropy, nonintegrable geodesic flows and a non-commutative rotation vector.
    Leo T Butler*, Northwestern University
    (980-37-48)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Forcing in parabolic flows via braids.
    Robert Ghrist*, University of Illinois, Urbana
    Robert Vandervorst, VU Amsterdam
    (980-37-68)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Bifurcations and stability analysis of a three-dimensional non-autonomous model of molecular systems.
    Ufuk Taneri*, Department of Mathematics, Eastern Mediterranean University
    (980-37-309)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Biological Computation and Learning in Intelligent Systems, III
  Room B329, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN amari@brain.riken.go.jp
  Amir Assadi, University of Wisconsin-Madison assadi@math.wisc.edu
  Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology tp@ai.mit.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Singularities in the geometry of statistical inference.
    Kenji Fukumizu*, Institute of Statistical Mathematics
    (980-62-179)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Algebraic Geometry of Neural Network Learning.
    Sumio Watanabe*, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    (980-68-99)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Physiological evidence of 1st order phase transitions by mesoscopic populations in neocortex.
    Walter J Freeman*, University of California at Berkeley
    (980-92-185)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Analysis and modeling of sensory systems with Rate Distortion Theory.
    Alexander G Dimitrov*, Montana State University
    (980-92-288)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorics and Special Functions, III
  Room B321, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard Askey, University of Wisconsin-Madison askey@math.wisc.edu
  Paul Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin-Madison terwilli@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Sign Variations on the Macdonald Identities.
    David M Bressoud*, Macalester College
    (980-05-53)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    New Ramanujan-Kolberg Type Partition Identities.
    Heekyoung Hahn*, UIUC
    Heng Huat Chan, National University of Singapore
    Richard P Lewis, University of Sussex
    Siew Lian Tan, Singapore
    (980-11-175)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Asymptotics of Krawtchouk polynomials and the covering radius of linear codes.
    A. Ashikhmin, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
    A. Barg*, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
    (980-94-260)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Determinants of Period Matrices and Applications to Multidimensional Beta Integrals.
    Qifu Zheng*, The College of New Jersey
    (980-33-129)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some derivative identities and applications.
    Warren P Johnson*, Bates College
    (980-05-100)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Generalized Frobenius partitions with $k$ colors and Generalized Frobenius partitions with $k$ repetitions.
    Ae Ja Yee*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (980-05-281)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Characters and Representations of Finite Groups, III
  Room B119, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Martin Isaacs, University of Wisconsin, Madison isaacs@math.wisc.edu
  Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@mcs.kent.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Applications of algebraic group methods to finite p-groups.
    George Glauberman*, University of Chicago
    (980-20-18)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Recent Progress on the k(GV) Problem.
    David H. Gluck*, Wayne State University
    Kay Magaard, Wayne State University
    (980-20-70)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Product of characters and derived length.
    Edith Adan-Bante*, UIUC
    (980-20-57)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the number of conjugacy classes of zeros of characters.
    Alexander Moret\'o, Mathematics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
    Josu Sangroniz*, Departamento de Matem\'aticas, Universidad del Pa\'\i s Vasco, Bilbao, Spain
    (980-20-133)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the Existence and Uniqueness of Thompson's Sporadic Simple Group.
    Michael Weller*, Institute for Experimental Mathematics, University of Essen, Germany
    (980-20-114)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Dimensions of G-sets, sharp characters and the Burnside ring.
    Kenneth W Johnson*, Penn State University, Abington College
    Eirini Poimenidou, New College, Sarasota
    (980-20-210)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, III
  Room B219, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
  Peter Orlik, University of Wisconsin-Madison orlik@math.wisc.edu
  Anne Shepler, University of California Santa Cruz ashepler@math.ucsc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On braid groups, free groups, and the loop space of the $2$-sphere.
    Frederick R. Cohen*, University of Rochester
    Jie Wu, National University of Singapore
    (980-55-184)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discrete models for algebraic invariants of spaces of polynomials.
    Dmitry N Kozlov*, U. Bern / KTH Stockholm
    (980-57-106)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Chen Lie algebras and combinatorics of arrangements.
    Stefan Papadima, Institute of Mathematics, Romanian Academy
    Alexander I Suciu*, Northeastern University
    (980-20-170)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Reflection Groups, Mysterious Numerology, and the Coinvariant Algebra.
    Anne V Shepler*, University of North Texas
    (980-20-294)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Discriminantal arrangements, critical points, and resonant local systems.
    Daniel C. Cohen*, Louisiana State University
    Alexander Varchenko, University of North Carolina
    (980-32-307)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability, III
  Room B313, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  David Griffeath, University of Wisconsin-Madison griffeat@math.wisc.edu
  Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison seppalai@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Refinement of Wigner semicircle law in a neighborhood of the spectrum edge for random symmetric matrices with distribution of matrix elements decaying polynomially at infinity.
    Anastasia A Ruzmaikina*, Purdue University
    (980-60-83)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Fluid Limit of an Overloaded Processor Sharing Queue.
    Amber L. Puha*, Cal State San Marcos
    Alexander L. Stolyar, Bell Laboratories
    Ruth J. Williams, UCSD
    (980-60-146)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Lie Groups and Their Representations, III
  Room B131, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  R. Michael Howe, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire hower@uwec.edu
  Gail D. Ratcliff, East Carolina University ratcliffg@mail.ecu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Orbit duality for flag manifolds.
    John D Lorch*, Ball State University
    (980-22-43)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Flag domains, cycle spaces, and the Akhiezer-Gindikin domain.
    Ralph J Bremigan*, Ball State University
    (980-22-42)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Noncrystallographic Springer correspondences.
    C. Kriloff*, Idaho State University
    A. Ram, University of Wisconsin
    (980-20-251)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Centralizer Algebras.
    Cheryl Grood*, Swarthmore College
    (980-16-96)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Effectiveness Questions in Model Theory, III
  Room B203, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles McCoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison mccoy@math.wisc.edu
  Reed Solomon, University of Wisconsin-Madison rsolomon@math.wisc.edu
  Patrick Speissegger, University of Wisconsin-Madison speisseg@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Extracting syntactic proofs from model-theoretic arguments.
    Jeremy Avigad*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (980-03-157)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A positive perspective on computable analysis.
    Joseph S. Miller*, Indiana University
    (980-03-295)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A model completeness result arising from recursive model theory.
    Michael C. Laskowski*, University of Maryland
    (980-03-271)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On decidable prime models.
    Jessica Millar Young*, Harvard
    (980-03-280)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
  Special Presentation: Part I
  TA development using case studies: A workshop for faculty.
  Room B211, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Diane Herrmann, University of Chicago
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Optimal Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, III
  Room B337, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Jason H. Cantarella, University of Georgia cantarel@math.uga.edu
  John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Urbana jms@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Honeycomb Conjecture And Its Generalizations.
    Thomas C. Hales*, University of Pittsburgh
    (980-51-319)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Deformations of Minimal Surfaces in Euclidean Space.
    Matthias Weber*, Indiana University
    (980-53-74)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Unstable periodic discrete minimal surfaces.
    Konrad Polthier*, Technical University Berlin
    (980-53-221)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Bifurcation Analysis for Constant Mean Curvature Spanners of Annular Type.
    Henry C Wente*, University of Toledo
    (980-49-203)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  General properties of solutions to second order elliptic and parabolic equations
  Room B102, Van Vleck Hall
  Mikhail Safonov*, University of Minnesota
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Optimal Geometry in Topology.
  Room B102, Van Vleck Hall
  John M Sullivan*, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
  (980-53-194)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, IV
  Room B113, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin-Madison ono@math.wisc.edu
  Tonghai Yang, University of Wisconsin-Madison thyang@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Modular Form Congruences and Selmer Groups.
    William J McGraw*, University of Wisconsin
    Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin
    (980-11-47)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Explicit Structures of Siegel Modular Forms and Differential Operators.
    Tomoyoshi Ibukiyama*, Osaka University
    (980-11-135)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Optimal elliptic curves and their $j-$invariants.
    Mihran Papikian*, University of Michigan
    (980-11-250)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables, IV
  Room B317, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Pat Ahern, University of Wisconsin-Madison ahern@math.wisc.edu
  Xianghong Gong, University of Wisconsin-Madison gong@math.wisc.edu
  Alex Nagel, University of Wisconsin-Madison nagel@math.wisc.edu
  Jean-Pierre Rosay, University of Wisconsin-Madison jrosay@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rational Approximation on the Unit Sphere in ${\bf C}^2$.
    John T Anderson*, College of the Holy Cross
    Alexander J Izzo, Bowling Green State University
    John Wermer, Brown University
    (980-32-22)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Interpolating between a theorem of \v Cirka and a theorem of Axler and Shields.
    Alexander J. Izzo*, Bowling Green State University
    (980-30-24)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Holomorphic Line Bundles on the Loop Space of the Riemann Sphere.
    Ning Zhang*, Purdue University
    (980-58-59)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Plurisubharmonic Lyapunov functions.
    Malgorzata S. Stawiska*, Purdue University
    (980-32-292)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Practical tests for $H^\infty$ optima.
    J William Helton, University of California San Diego
    Marshall A Whittlesey*, California State University San Marcos
    (980-32-254)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The existence of universal inner functions on the unit ball of $C^n$.
    Paul M. Gauthier*, Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
    Jie Xiao, Concordia University
    (980-32-07)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, IV
  Room B341, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Alex Ionescu, University of Wisconsin-Madison ionescu@math.wisc.edu
  Andreas Seeger, University of Wisconsin-Madison seeger@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bellman functions, self-improvement of quadratic forms, and asymptotic estimates of the Ahlfors-Beurling transform in $L^p$, $p\rightarrow\infty$.
    Alexander Volberg*, Michigan State University
    (980-42-143)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some minimum problems for hyperbolic metrics.
    Albert II Baernstein*, Washington University
    A. Eremenko, Purdue University
    A. Fryntov, Ottawa, Ontario
    A. Solynin, Steklov Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia
    (980-30-163)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Differential Equations, IV
  Room B305, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Gloria Mari Beffa, University of Wisconsin-Madison maribeff@math.wisc.edu
  Peter Olver, University of Minnesota olver@ima.umn.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Symmetry reductions via moving frame method.
    Irina A Kogan*, Yale University
    (980-53-202)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Moving frames for pseudo-groups.
    Peter J. Olver*, University of Minnesota
    (980-22-72)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of Groups on Lorentz Manifolds.
    Scot R Adams*, University of Minnesota
    (980-37-78)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Variational Principles For The Canonical Connection On A Lie Group.
    Ryad A Ghanam*, University of Wisconsin-Rock County
    (980-53-282)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Effectiveness Questions in Model Theory, IV
  Room B203, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles McCoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison mccoy@math.wisc.edu
  Reed Solomon, University of Wisconsin-Madison rsolomon@math.wisc.edu
  Patrick Speissegger, University of Wisconsin-Madison speisseg@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Complicated relations on computable structures.
    S. S. Goncharov, Novosibirsk State University
    V. S. Harizanov, George Washington University
    J. F. Knight*, University of Notre Dame
    R. A. Shore, Cornell University
    (980-03-183)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic theories of differential fields.
    Zo\'e M Chatzidakis*, CNRS - Universite Paris 7
    (980-03-278)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Hyperbolic Differential Equations and Kinetic Theory, IV
  Room B325, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Shi Jin, University of Wisconsin-Madison jin@math.wisc.edu
  Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin-Madison slemrod@math.wisc.edu
  Athanassios Tzavaras, University of Wisconsin-Madison tzavaras@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Time reversal of classical waves in random media.
    Lenya Ryzhik*, University of Chicago
    Guillaume Bal, Columbia University
    (980-35-54)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Scaling laws for viscous fingering of miscible fluids.
    Govind Menon*, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
    Felix Otto, University of Bonn
    (980-35-06)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Piecewise Self-similar Solutions and a Numerical Scheme for Scalar Conservation Laws.
    Yong Jung Kim*, Kyunghee University (Korea)
    (980-35-197)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    $L^1$ stability of kinetic equations with collision terms.
    Seung-Yeal Ha*, Department of Mathematics/University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (980-35-97)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Ring Theory and Related Topics, IV
  Room B105, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Don Passman, University of Wisconsin-Madison passman@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lattice Invariants and Noether's problem.
    Esther Beneish*, Central Michigan University
    (980-16-151)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Frobenius kernels and their quantum analogs.
    Stefan Catoiu*, DePaul University
    (980-16-144)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Spectra of quantized hyperalgebras at roots of 1.
    William Chin*, DePaul University
    Leonid Krop, DePaul University
    (980-16-169)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Representations of Drinfeld doubles.
    Declan P Quinn*, Syracuse University
    Sebastian M Burciu, Syracuse University
    (980-16-159)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the Coradical Filtration of Pointed Coalgebras.
    Darren B Parker*,
    (980-16-11)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Lie Algebras and Related Topics, IV
  Room B129, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin-Madison benkart@math.wisc.edu
  Arun Ram, University of Wisconsin-Madison ram@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Positivity of quiver cycles via deformation.
    Allen Knutson, UC Berkeley
    Ezra Miller, MSRI, University of Minnesota
    Mark Shimozono*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    (980-14-239)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A modified signed Brauer algebra as centralizer algebra of the unitary group.
    Alberto Elduque*, University of Zaragoza
    (980-17-134)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Cohomology for Symmetric Groups - Preliminary Report.
    David J Hemmer*, University of Georgia
    (980-20-177)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability, IV
  Room B313, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  David Griffeath, University of Wisconsin-Madison griffeat@math.wisc.edu
  Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison seppalai@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Continuous Processes Have Gaussian Short Term Behavior.
    Masanori Hino, Kyoto University
    Jose Ramirez*, Cornell University
    (980-60-153)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A martingale proof of Dobrushin's theorem for non-homogeneous Markov chains.
    Sunder Sethuraman*, Iowa State University
    S.R.S. Varadhan, Courant Institute
    (980-60-214)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Remarks on the homogenization of stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
    Elena Kosygina*, Baruch College - CUNY
    Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, University of California, Berkeley
    (980-60-174)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Biological Computation and Learning in Intelligent Systems, IV
  Room B329, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN amari@brain.riken.go.jp
  Amir Assadi, University of Wisconsin-Madison assadi@math.wisc.edu
  Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology tp@ai.mit.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Synchrony, spike-timing-dependent plasticity and olfactory learning.
    Christiane Linster*, Cornell University
    Thomas A. Cleland, Cornell University
    (980-92-275)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Riemannian Geometry in Psychological Models of Representation: An Infinite-Dimensional Riemannian Face Space.
    James T. Townsend, Indiana University
    Bruce Solomon, Indiana University
    Jesse Spencer-Smith*, Beckman Institute
    (980-53-229)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Neuronal Dynamics and Sparse Coding In The Cortex.
    Amir H Assadi*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (980-92-186)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorics and Special Functions, IV
  Room B321, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard Askey, University of Wisconsin-Madison askey@math.wisc.edu
  Paul Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin-Madison terwilli@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sieved q-binomial coefficients.
    Dennis Stanton*, University of Minnesota
    Dennis White, University of Minnesota
    (980-05-223)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quantum supergroup and q-polynomials.
    Yi Ming Zou*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (980-22-71)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Pseudo primitive idempotents and almost 2-homogeneous bipartite distance-regular graphs.
    Michael S Lang*, University of Wisconsin -- La Crosse
    (980-05-298)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Elliptic hypergeometric series on root systems.
    Hjalmar Rosengren*, Chalmers University
    (980-33-268)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Askey-Wilson type functions, with bound states.
    Luc N. Haine*, University of Louvain
    Plamen I. Iliev, University of California at Berkeley
    (980-33-115)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The $q$-Difference Operator and the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities.
    George E. Andrews*, Penn State University
    (980-05-178)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Characters and Representations of Finite Groups, IV
  Room B119, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Martin Isaacs, University of Wisconsin, Madison isaacs@math.wisc.edu
  Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@mcs.kent.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Divisibility and character degrees of solvable groups.
    Alex Moreto, Universidad del Pais Vasco
    Thomas R Wolf*, Ohio University
    (980-20-289)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Non-divisibility among character degrees.
    Mark L Lewis, Kent State University
    Alexander Moreto*, University of Wisonsin, Madison
    (980-20-158)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Bounding graph diameters of solvable groups.
    John K. McVey*, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
    (980-20-51)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Solvable Groups Satisfying The Two-Prime Hypothesis.
    James E. Hamblin*, Shippensburg University
    (980-20-136)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Derived length and character degrees of some $p$--groups.
    Thomas Michael Keller*, Southwest Texas State University
    Dustin Ragan, Trinity University
    Geoffrey T. Tims, Drake University
    (980-20-86)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A family of polynomials related to generic degrees.
    Dean Alvis*, Indiana University South Bend
    (980-20-132)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Optimal Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, IV
  Room B337, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Jason H. Cantarella, University of Georgia cantarel@math.uga.edu
  John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Urbana jms@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Lie Groups and Their Representations, IV
  Room B131, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  R. Michael Howe, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire hower@uwec.edu
  Gail D. Ratcliff, East Carolina University ratcliffg@mail.ecu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Supercuspidal Representations of the the two-fold cover of SL(2) over a 2-adic field.
    David Manderscheid*, University of Iowa
    (980-22-79)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Langlands classification for non-connected groups and applications.
    Chris S. Jantzen*, East Carolina University
    (980-22-218)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A brief introduction to modular representation theory of algebraic groups.
    Christopher P Bendel*, University of Wisconsin-Stout
    (980-20-38)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Representations of D1.
    Manouchehr Misaghian*, JCSU
    (980-22-105)
• Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Presentation, Part II
  TA development using case studies: A workshop for faculty.
  Room B211, Van Vleck Hall
  Organizers:
  Diane Herrmann, University of Chicago

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