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2002 Central Section Meeting
Ann Arbor, MI, March 1-3, 2002
Meeting #974

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

Saturday March 2, 2002

Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Atrium, East Hall

Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Room 1372, East Hall

Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology in Dimension Three, II
Room 224, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Charles Frohman, University of Iowa frohman@math.uiowa.edu
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University kania@math.boisestate.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Presentations od Skein Algebras.
  Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, George Washington University
  Jozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
  (974-57-104)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Weyl quantization and the quantum group quantization of the moduli space of flat $SU(2)$-connections on the torus are the same.
  Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
  Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan
  (974-57-76)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The braid theoretical approach to skein modules of 3-manifolds.
  Sofia Lambropoulou*, National Technical University of Athens
  (974-57-101)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Hochschild homology of a Heegaard splitting.
  Michael S McLendon*, University of Iowa
  (974-57-245)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Alexander-Conway polynomial of links, spanning trees and Milnor invariants.
  Arkady Vaintrob*, University of Oregon
  (974-57-160)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Skein and String Homology.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  (974-57-113)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Topics in Geometric Function Theory, II
Room 229, Dennison Building
Organizers:
David A. Herron, University of Cincinnati david.herron@math.uc.edu
Nageswari Shanmugalingam, University of Texas nageswari@math.utexas.edu
Jeremy T. Tyson, SUNY at Stony Brook tyson@math.sunysb.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Doyle's Criterion of Type and a Counterexample to Nevanlinna's Conjecture.
  Sergei Merenkov*, Purdue University
  (974-30-147)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Meromorphic functions of the form $f(z) = \sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n/(z - z_n)$.
  John F Rossi*, Virginia Tech
  James K Langley, University of Nottingham
  (974-30-18)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Schwarz lemmas for bounded univalent functions.
  Eric D Schippers*, University of Michigan
  (974-30-08)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Backward-iteration sequences with bounded hyperbolic steps for analytic self-maps of the disk.
  Pietro Poggi-Corradini*, Kansas State University and University of Michigan
  (974-30-23)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Boundary curves and analytic continuation.
  Robert P Kaufman*, University of Illinois
  (974-30-81)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The Inner Radius and Sequences of Domains (Preliminary Report).
  Leila Miller-Van Wieren*, University of Texas
  (974-30-219)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
Room 205, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Florian Enescu, University of Utah enescu@math.utah.edu.
Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
Karen E. Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor kesmith@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Generalizing $k$-configurations and Macaulay's O-sequences.
  Sindi Sabourin*, Queen's University
  (974-13-207)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Hilbert coefficients of normal ideals.
  Claudia Polini*, University of Notre Dame
  Alberto Corso, University of Kentucky
  Maria Evelina Rossi, University of Genova
  (974-13-181)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of systems of linear ideals and modules.
  Harm Derksen, University of Michigan
  Jessica Sidman*, University of Michigan
  (974-13-67)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Associated primes of the Mayr-Meyer ideals.
  Irena Swanson*, New Mexico State University
  (974-13-106)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A power series problem motivativated by lifting higher derivations.
  William N Traves*, U.S. Naval Academy
  (974-13-16)
- 11:00 a.m.
  A linear function for stability of asymptotic primes.
  Daniel Katz*, University of Kansas
  Eric West, Benedictine College
  (974-13-155)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Hyperbolic Manifolds and Discrete Groups, II
Room 245, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Richard D. Canary, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor canary@math.lsa.umich.edu
Alan W. Reid, University of Texas, Austin areid@math.utexas.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Equivalent curves in surfaces.
  Christopher J Leininger*, University of Texas at Austin
  (974-57-247)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Tameness persists in strong limits of type-preserving sequences of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Richard A Evans*, Rice University
  (974-57-234)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cone-manifolds, drilling, and Ahlfors' conjecture.
  Jeffrey Brock*, University of Chicago
  Kenneth Bromberg, Caltech
  Richard Evans, Rice University
  Juan Souto, Universitat Bonn
  (974-51-187)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the density of geometrically finite Kleinian groups.
  Jeff Brock, University of Chicago
  Kenneth Bromberg*, California Institute of Technology
  (974-57-186)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Orbifold Theorem.
  Daryl Cooper*, UCSB
  Craig D Hodgson, Melbourne
  Steve P Kerckhoff, Stanford
  (974-57-35)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The shape of hyperbolic Dehn surgery space.
  Craig Hodgson, University of Melbourne
  Steve Kerckhoff*, Stanford University
  (974-53-89)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, II
Room 213, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Patricia Hersh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor plhersh@math.lsa.umich.edu
Brian D. Taylor, Wayne State University bdt@math.wayne.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Combinatorics of Resonances.
  Dmitry N Kozlov*, University of Washington
  (974-05-77)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Analogues of the Lie character for $GL_n(q)$.
  John Shareshian*, Washington University, St. Louis
  (974-05-193)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Polygraph arrangements.
  Axel Hultman*, KTH, Stockholm
  (974-05-38)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Permutation Enumeration by Pairs of Congruence Classes of Major Index.
  Sheila Sundaram*, Danbury, CT
  (974-05-107)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Contractible and sphere-homotopic independence complexes.
  Gabor Hetyei*, UNC Charlotte
  Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky
  (974-05-29)
- 11:00 a.m.
  A random walk on zero-one contingency tables.
  Diane Maclagan*, Stanford University
  (974-05-125)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Biological Applications of Dynamical Systems, II
Room 1060, East Hall
Organizers:
J. M. Cushing, University of Arizona cushing@math.arizona.edu
Shandelle M. Henson, Andrews University henson@andrews.edu
Anna M. Spagnuolo, Oakland University spagnuol@oakland.ed
- 8:30 a.m.
  Schistosomiasis Models for Interacting Human Groups.
  Cheng-che Li, Purdue University
  Zhilan Feng, Purdue University
  Fabio Augusto Milner*, Purdue University
  (974-92-59)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Contact with Adhesion and Wear in Bone-Implants.
  Meir Shillor*, Oakland University
  (974-74-152)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Modelling granuloma formation after {\em Mycobacterium tuberculosis} infection: phagocytosis and intracellular bacteria replication.
  David Gammack*, University of Michigan
  Charlie Doering, University of Michigan
  Denise Kirschner, University of Michigan
  (974-92-215)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Mathematical modeling of the intravenous glucose tolerance test by a delay differential equations system.
  Simeone Marino*, University of Michigan Medical School
  (974-34-110)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Recent studies of an inverse source problem in human brain imaging.
  Gang Bao*, Michigan State University
  (974-35-87)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Turing patterns in Lengyel-Epstein reaction-diffusion systems.
  Moxun Tang*, Michigan State University
  Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota
  J Jang, Hankuk University, South Korea
  (974-92-117)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, I
Room 232, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Lizhen Ji, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor lji@math.lsa.umich.edu
Krishnan Shankar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor shankar@math.lsa.umich.edu
Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor spatzier@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The rigidity of higher dimensional graph-manifolds.
  Jianguo Cao*, University of Notre Dame
  (974-53-212)
- 9:15 a.m.
  Unreduced weighted $L_2$ cohomology of strictly negatively quarter pinched manifolds of finite volume.
  Stephen S Bullock*, University of Michigan
  (974-53-153)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Finsler Metrics of Constant Flag Curvature.
  Zhongmin Shen*, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis
  (974-53-225)
- 10:45 a.m.
  The $\pi_1$ of manifolds with integrable geodesic flows.
  Leo T Butler*, Northwestern University
  (974-53-134)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 1360, East Hall
Organizers:
Qing Han, University of Notre Dame qhan@nd.edu
Lihe Wang, University of Iowa lwang@math.uiowa.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Structural analysis and boundary layer separations of 2D incompressible flows.
  Shouhong Wang*, Indiana University
  (974-76-140)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Multidimensional Transonic Shocks and Free Boundary Problems.
  Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
  Mikhail Feldman*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (974-35-131)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Phase Transition in Nonlinear elasticity with viscosity and heat-conductivity.
  Tao Luo*, University of Michigan
  (974-35-259)
- 10:00 a.m.
  New well-posedness results for the Camassa-Holm equation.
  Gerard Misiolek*, University of Notre Dame
  (974-35-199)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Boundary Value Problems in Morrey Spaces for Elliptic Systems on Lipschitz Domains.
  Zhongwei Shen*, University of Kentucky
  (974-35-50)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Wigner Measure and the Semiclassical Limit of Schr\"odinger-Poisson Equations.
  Ping Zhang*, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
  (974-35-258)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Mapping Class Groups and Geometric Theory of Teichmuller Spaces, II
Room 237, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Benson Farb, University of Chicago farb@math.uchicago.edu
Nikolai Ivanov, Michigan State University ivanov@math.msu.edu
Howard Masur, University of Illinois, Chicago masur@math.uic.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the linearity problem for mapping class groups.
  Hessam Hamidi-Tehrani*, B.C.C. of the City University of New York
  Tara E. Brendle, Columbia University
  (974-57-73)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Relations in the Torelli Group.
  Tara E. Brendle*, Columbia University
  (974-57-82)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The second homology groups of mapping class groups of orientable surfaces.
  Mustafa Korkmaz*, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
  Andras I Stipsicz, Princeton Univ. - ELTE TTK, Budapest, Hungary
  (974-57-53)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Bounded cohomology of subgroups of mapping class groups.
  Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
  Koji Fujiwara*, Tohoku University
  (974-20-75)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Presentations for the mapping class groups of surfaces and handlebodies.
  Susumu Hirose*, Michigan State University / Saga University
  (974-57-91)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Discussion

Saturday March 2, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Session for Contributed Papers
Room 257, Dennison Building
- 8:45 a.m.
  Nonstandard Finite Difference Schemes for Nonlinear PDE's: Theory and Applications.
  Ronald E Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University
  (974-65-13)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A generalization of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for surfaces.
  Marius Overholt*, University of Tromsoe
  (974-53-74)
- 9:15 a.m.
  Concentration of area in half-planes (preliminary report).
  Roger W. Barnard, Texas Tech University
  Alexander Yu. Solynin, Texas Tech University
  Clint Richardson*, Texas Tech University
  (974-30-108)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the Zeros of Sequences of Polynomials.
  Gerard L. Ornas*, Texas Tech University
  (974-30-241)
- 9:45 a.m.
  Redefining "Multiplicity of Infection" for Phage Therapy: a simple mathematical model.
  Alex Kasman*, College of Charleston
  Laura Kasman, Medical University of South Carolina
  (974-92-27)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Coupled Boundary Value Perturbations for Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equation with Large Viscosity Gradients.
  Gregory Gillette*, The Pennsylania State University
  (974-34-83)
- 10:15 a.m.
  A new method of analysis of associative algebras.
  Vladimir Dergachev*, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  (974-16-142)
- 10:45 a.m.
  Test Of Divisibility of the number 7.
  Ranjit Eswaran*, University Of Minnesota
  (974-00-05)
- 11:15 a.m.
  Incompressible surface in a knot complement.
  Jinha Jun*, Seoul National University
  (974-57-148)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, II
Room 221, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Robert Bruner, Wayne State University rrb@math.wayne.edu
Igor Kriz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ikriz@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  A chain model for the framed little 2-disks operad.
  James E. McClure*, Purdue University
  Jeffrey H. Smith, Purdue University
  (974-55-46)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Derived Koszul duality for $C_k$-algebras.
  Po Hu*, University of Chicago
  (974-55-64)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Cochains and Homotopy Type.
  Michael A. Mandell*, University of Chicago
  (974-55-115)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The analytic circle-equivariant sigma orientation.
  Matthew Ando*, Univ. of Illinois--Urbana
  (974-55-112)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Discussion

Saturday March 2, 2002, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Modeling in Financial Mathematics, I
Room 1068, East Hall
Organizers:
Ronnie Sircar, Princeton University sircar@princeton.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Stochastic Volatility Asymptotics.
  Jean-Pierre Fouque*, North Carolina State University
  (974-60-188)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Analysis of Dependent Defaults via Intensity BasedApproach, with Applications to Valuation of BasketCredit Derivatives.
  Tomasz R Bielecki*, Northeastern Illinois University
  Marek Rutkowski, Warsaw Institute of Technology
  (974-60-197)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Optimal Bankruptcy Time and Consumption/Investment Policies on an Infinite Horizon with a Continuous Debt Repayment until Bankruptcy.
  Monique Jeanblanc, Universite d'Evry
  Peter Lakner*, New York University
  (974-60-99)
- 11:00 a.m.
  A new algorithm for hedging large portfolios of derivative securities.
  Stathis Tompaidis*, University of Texas at Austin
  (974-91-252)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Integrable Systems and Poisson Geometry, II
Room 1084, East Hall
Organizers:
Anthony Bloch, University of Michigan abloch@math.lsa.umich.edu
Philip Foth, University of Arizona foth@math.arizona.edu
Michael Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame Gekhtman.1@nd.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:00 a.m.
  Biorthogonal Polynomials, Random Multimatrix Models and the Full Kostant-Toda Lattice.
  Nicholas M Ercolani*, University of Arizona
  Kenneth T.- R. McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & University of Arizona
  (974-33-192)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Qualitative Behavior of some non-Abelian Toda Equations.
  Melinda Koelling*, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute
  Anthony Bloch, University of Michigan
  Michael Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame
  (974-34-235)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Moment maps and reductive symmetric pairs.
  Reyer Sjamaar*, Cornell University
  Yi Lin, Cornell University
  (974-58-200)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Moduli Spaces, II
Room 216, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Angela Gibney, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor agibney@math.lsa.umich.edu
Gavril Farkas, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor gfarkas@math.lsa.umich.edu
Thomas Nevins, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor nevins@math.lsa.umich.edu
Gilberto Bini, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor gbini@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Vanishing Theorems for the Moduli Space of Curves.
  Ravi Vakil*, Stanford
  Tom Graber, Harvard
  (974-14-185)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Invited Address
Hyperbolic manifolds, discrete groups and quadratic forms.
Room 1324, East Hall
Alan W Reid*, University of Texas at Austin
(974-57-161)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
Pricing and risk management in incomplete markets.
Room 1324, East Hall
Thaleia Zariphopoulou*, University of Texas, Austin

Saturday March 2, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Hyperbolic Manifolds and Discrete Groups, III
Room 245, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Richard D. Canary, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor canary@math.lsa.umich.edu
Alan W. Reid, University of Texas, Austin areid@math.utexas.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The classification of Kleinian surface groups.
  Yair N Minsky*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (974-57-165)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Constructing manifolds which bound geometrically.
  Darren Long*, UC Santa Barbara
  Alan W Reid, UT Austin
  (974-57-164)
- 4:00 p.m.
  real and complex hyperbolic manifolds.
  Rich Schwartz*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (974-51-201)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Bending bounds for Quasifuchsian groups.
  Bridgeman J Martin*, Boston College
  (974-51-137)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Generalized bending laminations for hyperbolic $n$-manifolds.
  Kevin P Scannell*, Saint Louis University
  (974-57-158)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Bounded geometry for Teichm\"uller geodesics.
  Kasra Rafi*, UC Santa Barbara
  (974-51-224)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology in Dimension Three, III
Room 224, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Charles Frohman, University of Iowa frohman@math.uiowa.edu
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University kania@math.boisestate.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A sum formula for the Casson invariant via configuration spaces.
  Christine Lescop*, Institut Fourier, CNRS, Grenoble, France
  (974-57-238)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Integrality for TQFTs.
  Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
  (974-57-132)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Finite length TQFT, symplectic invariant theory and the Casson invaraint.
  Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
  (974-57-178)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Combinatorial Construct of Modular Functors.
  Zhenghan Wang*, Indiana University
  (974-57-102)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topics in Geometric Function Theory, III
Room 229, Dennison Building
Organizers:
David A. Herron, University of Cincinnati david.herron@math.uc.edu
Nageswari Shanmugalingam, University of Texas nageswari@math.utexas.edu
Jeremy T. Tyson, SUNY at Stony Brook tyson@math.sunysb.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Mobius invariant metric II.
  David Herron, University of Cincinnati
  William Ma*, Pennsylvania College of Technology
  David Minda, University of Cincinnati
  (974-30-34)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The M\"obius modulus of ring domains in $\overline{\Bbb R}^n$.
  Zair S Ibragimov*, University of Michigan
  (974-30-172)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Asymptotically Symmetric Embeddings and Symmetric Quasicircles.
  Shanshuang Yang*, Emory University
  (974-30-40)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Reflections on reflections in quasidisks.
  Frederick W Gehring, University of Michigan
  Kari Hag*, University of Michigan
  (974-30-249)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Integrable Systems and Poisson Geometry, III
Room 1084, East Hall
Organizers:
Anthony Bloch, University of Michigan abloch@math.lsa.umich.edu
Philip Foth, University of Arizona foth@math.arizona.edu
Michael Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame Gekhtman.1@nd.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Integrable systems of conservation laws and projective theory of congruences.
  S I Agafonov*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
  E V Ferapontov, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
  (974-35-39)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Topology of the real part of hyperelliptic Jacobian associated with the periodic Toda lattice.
  Yuji Kodama*, Ohio State University
  (974-51-175)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Symplectic leaves in triangular Poisson Lie groups.
  Milen Yakimov*, Cornell University
  Tim Hodges, University of Cincinnati
  (974-53-246)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Integrable Spin Calogero-Moser Systems.
  Luen-Chau Li*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  Ping Xu, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  (974-58-169)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
Room 205, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Florian Enescu, University of Utah enescu@math.utah.edu.
Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
Karen E. Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor kesmith@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Big Cohen-Macaulay algebras in dimension three via Heitmann's theorem.
  Melvin Hochster*, University of Michigan
  (974-13-96)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Almost Mathematics and the Homological Conjectures.
  Paul C Roberts*, University of Utah
  (974-13-72)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The $F$-signature of a ring of characteristic $p$.
  Craig Huneke, University of Kansas
  Graham J Leuschke*, University of Kansas
  (974-13-22)
- 4:30 p.m.
  $F$-signatures of local rings.
  Ian M Aberbach*, University of Missouri
  Graham Leuschke, University of Kansas
  (974-13-55)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, III
Room 221, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Robert Bruner, Wayne State University rrb@math.wayne.edu
Igor Kriz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ikriz@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the S--dual of a circle.
  Nicholas J. Kuhn*, University of Virginia
  (974-55-116)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Dold-Kan equivalence, simplicial rings and DGAs.
  Brooke E Shipley*, Purdue University
  (974-18-118)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Topological equivalences of DGAs.
  Daniel Dugger*, Purdue University
  (974-55-195)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The classification of $p$-compact groups for $p$ odd.
  Kasper K. S. Andersen, CRM, Barcelona
  Jesper Grodal*, University of Chicago
  Jesper M. Moller, University of Copenhagen
  Antonio Viruel, University of Malaga
  (974-55-180)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Moduli Spaces, III
Room 216, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Angela Gibney, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor agibney@math.lsa.umich.edu
Gavril Farkas, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor gfarkas@math.lsa.umich.edu
Thomas Nevins, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor nevins@math.lsa.umich.edu
Gilberto Bini, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor gbini@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The rational cohomology of the moduli space of principally polarized abelian 3-folds.
  Richard M Hain*, Duke University
  (974-14-60)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion

Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, III
Room 213, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Patricia Hersh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor plhersh@math.lsa.umich.edu
Brian D. Taylor, Wayne State University bdt@math.wayne.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A weighted enumeration of maximal chains in the Bruhat order.
  John R Stembridge*, University of Michigan
  (974-05-28)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Skew Schubert Polynomials.
  Cristian Lenart, SUNY Albany
  Frank Sottile*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  (974-05-45)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Properties of the Betti numbers of Schubert varieties.
  Gregory S. Warrington*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  (974-05-130)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Subword complexes in Coxeter groups.
  Allen Knutson, UC Berkeley
  Ezra Miller*, M.I.T.
  (974-05-88)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, II
Room 232, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Lizhen Ji, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor lji@math.lsa.umich.edu
Krishnan Shankar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor shankar@math.lsa.umich.edu
Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor spatzier@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Rigidity of quasiconformal structures on the boundary of negatively curved manifolds.
  Chris Connell*, University of Chicago
  (974-53-217)
- 3:45 p.m.
  On Ricci Rank for Nonpositively Curved Manifolds.
  Fangyang Zheng*, Ohio State University
  (974-53-51)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discussion

Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, III
Room 1360, East Hall
Organizers:
Qing Han, University of Notre Dame qhan@nd.edu
Lihe Wang, University of Iowa lwang@math.uiowa.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Convex functions on the Heisenberg and Carnot groups.
  Guozhen Lu*, Wayne State University
  Juan J. Manfredi, University of Pittsburgh
  Bianca Stroffolini, Universita Degli Studi Di Napoli Federico
  (974-35-206)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Static Spherically Symmetric Solutions of Einstein SU(2) Yang Mills Equations.
  Alexander N Linden*, Indiana University
  (974-83-243)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Multiple Scale Models in Complex fluids.
  Chun Liu*, Dept of Math, Penn Stae University
  (974-35-205)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Quasiconvexity and restricted lower semicontinuity in the calculus of variations.
  Baisheng Yan*, Michigan State University
  (974-35-93)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mapping Class Groups and Geometric Theory of Teichmuller Spaces, III
Room 237, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Benson Farb, University of Chicago farb@math.uchicago.edu
Nikolai Ivanov, Michigan State University ivanov@math.msu.edu
Howard Masur, University of Illinois, Chicago masur@math.uic.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Geometry of the Weil-Petersson completion of Teichm\"{u}ller space.
  Scott A. Wolpert*, University of Maryland
  (974-30-220)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Classification of Weil-Petersson Isometries.
  Georgios D. Daskalopoulos, Brown University
  Richard A. Wentworth*, Johns Hopkins University
  (974-58-69)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Moduli Spaces of Harmonic and Minimal Mappings of Surfaces.
  Michael Wolf*, Rice University
  (974-58-122)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Divergent trajectories on noncompact spaces - rates and applications.
  Barak Weiss*, Ben-Gurion University
  (974-37-228)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Modeling in Financial Mathematics, II
Room 1068, East Hall
Organizers:
Ronnie Sircar, Princeton University sircar@princeton.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Optimal execution with nonlinear cost functions and trading-enhanced risk.
  Robert F Almgren*, University of Toronto
  (974-49-135)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Option pricing with stochastic volatility.
  Knut Solna*, University of California at Irvine
  (974-60-145)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the Convergence from Discrete to Continuous Time in an Optimal Stopping Problem.
  Paul Dupuis, Brown University
  Hui Wang*, Brown University
  (974-60-204)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Financial price fluctuations in a stock market model with many interacting agents.
  Ulrich Horst*, Princeton University
  (974-60-133)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 5:10 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Invited Address
Combinatorial models and algebraic questions in the theory of computing.
Room 1324, East Hall
Laszlo Babai*, University of Chicago

Saturday March 2, 2002, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Reception (Sponsored by the Department of Mathematics)
Atrium, East Hall

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AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

2002 Central Section Meeting Ann Arbor, MI, March 1-3, 2002 Meeting #974

Saturday March 2, 2002

2002 Central Section Meeting
Ann Arbor, MI, March 1-3, 2002
Meeting #974