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2002 Spring Western Section Meeting
Portland, OR, June 20-22, 2002
Meeting #978

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

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Friday June 21, 2002

• Friday June 21, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Atrium, Third Floor, Neuberger Hall
• Friday June 21, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sales
  Room 307, Neuberger Hall
• Friday June 21, 2002, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, I
  Room 385, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric Babson, University of Washington babson@math.washington.edu
  Rekha Thomas, University of Washington thomas@math.washington.edu
  Sergey Yuzvinsky, University of Oregon yuz@darkwing.uoregon.edu
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Vector configurations and toric varieties.
    Gregory G Smith*, Barnard College
    (978-14-117)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Combinatorics and Quotients of Toric Varieties.
    Yi Hu*, University of Arizona
    (978-05-106)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Cohomology of wonderful compactifications and intersection theory on toric varieties.
    Eva-Maria E. Feichtner*, ETH Zurich
    Sergey Yuzvinsky, University of Oregon
    (978-51-100)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    A simple formula for the Todd class of a toric variety (that sometimes works). Preliminary Report.
    Graham Denham, University of Western Ontario
    Hugh Thomas*, University of Western Ontario
    (978-14-53)
• Friday June 21, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Qualitative Properties and Applications of Functional Equations, II
  Room 388, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Theodore A. Burton, Southern Illinois University taburton@olypen.com
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Absolute Stability for Neutral Systems.
    C. Corduneanu*, Univ. of Texas,Arlington
    (978-34-16)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic behavior in some classes of functional differential equations.
    Mehran Mahdavi*, Bowie State University
    (978-45-69)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Quenching Problem for a Nonlinear Volterra Integral Equation.
    Colleen M. Kirk*, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
    Catherine A. Roberts, College of the Holy Cross
    (978-45-47)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The analysis of some characteristic equations arising in population and epidemic models.
    Fred Brauer*, University of British Columbia
    (978-92-50)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Questions/Conjectures.
• Friday June 21, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Biology, II
  Room 373, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard S. Gomulkiewicz, Washington State University gomulki@wsu.edu
  Sebastian Schreiber, Western Washington University sschreib@cc.wwu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Nonequilibiurm Thermodynamics of Living Biochemical Processes - Motor Proteins, GTPase Signaling, and Large-Scale Biochemical Networks.
    Hong Qian*, University of Washington
    (978-92-27)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ratchets, Power Strokes, and Molecular Motors.
    Hongyun Wang*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (978-35-99)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An integrative model of internal axoneme mechanics and external fluid dynamics in sperm motility.
    Robert Dillon*, Washington State University
    Lisa Fauci, Tulane University
    Charlotte Omoto, Washington State University
    (978-92-48)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Determining the mobility of actin proteins in the cell nucleus with a compartmental model.
    Gerda de Vries*, University of Alberta
    (978-92-105)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Friday June 21, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quantum Topology, I
  Room 381, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Douglas G. Bullock, Boise State University bullock@math.boisestate.edu
  Joanna M. Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University kania@math.boisestate.edu
  Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Generalized Casson Invariants and Gauge Theory.
    Christopher M. Herald*, University of Nevada, Reno
    (978-57-93)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cyclotomic Integer Expansion of the Fibonacci TQFT and Applications.
    Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
    (978-57-74)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantum Invariants away from roots of unity.
    Charles D Frohman*, University of Iowa
    Joanna M Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
    (978-57-49)
• Friday June 21, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA Session on Innovations in Teaching Undergraduates
  Room 364, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Monte Boisen, University of Idaho
• Friday June 21, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA Session on Undergraduate Research: Programs That Work
  Room 343, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel Kim, Southern Oregon University
• Friday June 21, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA Special Presentation
  Mathematically inspired, computer-generated poster art.
  Room 350, Neuberger Hall
  Presenters:
  Jeffrey Ely, Lewis \& Clark College
• Friday June 21, 2002, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  The MAA's role in the future of undergraduate mathematics.
  Room 338, Smith Memorial Center
  Tina H. Straley*, Mathematical Association of America
  (978-00-10)
• Friday June 21, 2002, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  Modular curves and their twisted analogues.
  Room 338, Smith Memorial Center
  Kenneth A. Ribet*, University of California Berkeley
  (978-11-02)
• Friday June 21, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Qualitative Properties and Applications of Functional Equations, III
  Room 388, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Theodore A. Burton, Southern Illinois University taburton@olypen.com
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Local Boundedness in Functional Differential Equations.
    Junji Kato*, Miyagi University
    (978-34-26)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Formulas of Liapunov Functions for Systems of Linear Partial Differential Equations.
    Bo Zhang*, Fayetteville State University
    (978-35-51)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Jensen's Inequality and Liapunov's Direct Method.
    Leigh C Becker*, Christian Brothers University
    Theodore A Burton, Southern Illinois University
    (978-34-31)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Regularity of weak solutions to Maxwell's equations and applications to microwave heating.
    Hong-Ming Yin*, Washington State University
    (978-35-24)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Questions/Conjectures.
• Friday June 21, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, II
  Room 385, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric Babson, University of Washington babson@math.washington.edu
  Rekha Thomas, University of Washington thomas@math.washington.edu
  Sergey Yuzvinsky, University of Oregon yuz@darkwing.uoregon.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On orbifold cohomology.
    Arkady Vaintrob*, University of Oregon
    (978-14-91)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Stable reductive varieties.
    Valery Alexeev*, University of Georgia
    (978-14-85)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Wonderful blowups associated to group actions.
    Lev A. Borisov, Columbia University
    Paul E. Gunnells*, University of Massachusetts
    (978-14-30)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Affine approach to quantum Schubert calculus.
    Alexander Postnikov*, M.I.T.
    (978-05-78)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    $X^2=0$ and upper triangular matrices.
    Brian David Rothbach*, U.C. Berkeley
    (978-05-115)
• Friday June 21, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on The Quintic Equation: Algebra and Geometry, I
  Room 343, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Jerry Shurman, Reed College jerry@reed.edu
  Scott Crass, California State University, Long Beach scrass@csulb.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Questions related to quintics.
    David S Dummit*, University of Vermont
    (978-12-37)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Generic Polynomials with Few Parameters.
    Joe P Buhler*, Reed College
    (978-11-92)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Folding Viete's Postulates.
    Roger C. Alperin*, San Jose State University
    (978-12-80)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Kiepert Algorithm for Solution of the General Quintic Equation: An Exercise in "Mathematical Archaeology".
    R. Bruce King*, University of Georgia
    (978-12-21)
• Friday June 21, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Biology, III
  Room 373, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard S. Gomulkiewicz, Washington State University gomulki@wsu.edu
  Sebastian Schreiber, Western Washington University sschreib@cc.wwu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Virus Dynamics: a global analysis.
    Hal L Smith*, Arizona State University
    Patrick Deleenheer, Arizona State University
    (978-92-34)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Disease induced oscillations between two competing species.
    P. van den Driessche, University of Victoria
    M.L. Zeeman*, University of Texas at San Antonio
    (978-92-82)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Likelihood, Simulation and Evaluation of a Class on Non-Neutral Models with Selection.
    Paul Joyce*, University of Utah
    (978-62-46)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stochastic Demography and Coalescent Theory.
    Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University
    Stephen Krone*, University of Idaho
    Martin Lascoux, Uppsala University
    Magnus Nordborg, University of Southern California
    (978-60-81)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Friday June 21, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Matroid Theory, II
  Room 387, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Jennifer M. McNulty, University of Montana mcnulty@selway.umt.edu
  Nancy Ann Neudauer, Pacific University nancy@pacificu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A Determinantal Identity for Oriented Matroids.
    Thomas H. Brylawski*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (978-05-108)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Max-Flow Min-Cut Duality for a Paint Shop Problem.
    Winfried Hochstaettler*, BT University, Cottbus
    Thomas Epping, BT University Cottbus
    Marco Luebbecke, TU Braunschweig
    (978-90-75)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Various Chromatic Numbers of a Matroid.
    Luis A Goddyn*, Simon Fraser University
    Laura Chavez-Lomeli, Simon Fraser Universtiy
    (978-05-121)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Broken circuit and independence complexes of matroids.
    Ed Swartz*, Cornell University
    (978-05-56)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Perfect Matroids.
    Allan D. Mills*, Tennessee Tech. University
    (978-05-54)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Greedoid Invariants.
    Chris A Clouse*, University of Montana
    (978-05-95)
• Friday June 21, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quantum Topology, II
  Room 381, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Douglas G. Bullock, Boise State University bullock@math.boisestate.edu
  Joanna M. Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University kania@math.boisestate.edu
  Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Symplectic Lie algebras, operads and graphs.
    James R Conant*, Cornell University
    Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
    (978-17-35)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Rational moves on links measured by Burnside type groups.
    Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, GWU
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
    (978-57-66)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Burnside group of a link as an obstructions to the Montesinos-Nakanishi 3-move conjecture.
    Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski*, George Washington University
    Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University
    (978-57-23)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Twist sequences and finite quotients of knot groups.
    Ted Stanford*, New Mexico State University
    (978-57-125)
• Friday June 21, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Association Schemes and Distance-Regular Graphs, II
  Room 341, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  John S. Caughman, Portland State University caughman@mth.pdx.edu
  Paul M. Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin terwilli@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the Covering Radius of Simplex Codes.
    Bharti Bhandari*, I. I. T. Kanpur
    (978-05-109)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    The Last Subconstituent of a Bipartite Q-polynomial Distance-regular Graph.
    John Caughman*, Portland State University
    (978-05-110)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Products of association schemes and their representations.
    Sejeong Bang, POSTECH, Korea
    Mitsugu Hirasaka, Busan National University, Korea
    Sung-Yell Song*, Iowa State University
    (978-05-64)
• Friday June 21, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematics Education Research
  Room 364, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Barbara E. Edwards, Oregon State University
  Sam Hall, Willamette University
• Friday June 21, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 350, Neuberger Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    An Extended Gap Theorem.
    Dennis H. Nemzer*, California State University, Stanislaus
    (978-42-07)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On the Covering Radius of Simplex Codes.
    M. C. Bhandari*, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,India
    C Durairajan, Govt. Arts College, Musri, T.Nadu, India.
    (978-94-14)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Picard's type theorem for one operator of generalised integrodifferentiation.
    Sergey N Kabanov*, Saratov State University, Russia
    (978-45-13)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Virtual Knots and Stable Handle Equivalence (Preliminary Report).
    Heather A. Dye*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (978-55-22)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cortical Orientation Response Fields Are Canonical Coordinates for Constancy Lie Transformation Groups.
    William C Hoffman*, Institute for Topological Psychology
    (978-92-28)
• Friday June 21, 2002, 7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
  MAA Banquet and Invited Address
  Innovative Experiments$\ldots$and how I survived them.
  Second Floor, Great China Seafood Restaurant
  Edward B. Burger*, Williams College
  (978-00-09)

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