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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

Sunday March 3, 2002

Sunday March 3, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Invited Address
On the low dimensional Kakeya problem.
Room 1324, East Hall
Nets H. Katz*, Washington University

Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology in Dimension Three, IV
Room 224, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Charles Frohman, University of Iowa frohman@math.uiowa.edu
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University kania@math.boisestate.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the structure of Ohtsuki series of 3-manifolds.
  Ruth Lawrence*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  (974-57-31)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Jones polynomial and Temperley-Lieb representations of braid groups.
  Ilya S. Kofman*, Columbia University
  (974-57-198)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Approximating knot invariants by Vassiliev invariants.
  Ilya Kofman, Columbia University
  Yongwu Rong*, George Washington University
  (974-57-232)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Cyclotomic expansions of quantum invariants of 3-manifolds.
  Thang T Le*, SUNY Buffalo
  (974-57-141)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Some remarks on Property P.
  Oliver T Dasbach*, Oklahoma State University
  Tao Li, Oklahoma State University
  (974-57-97)
- 12:30 p.m.
  Hirasawa's Seifert surfaces for A'Campo's divide links.
  Sergei V Chmutov*, The Ohio State University at Mansfield
  (974-57-173)

Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topics in Geometric Function Theory, IV
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
- 10:00 a.m.
  Isoperimetric inequalities for polygons.
  Alexander Yu. Solynin*, Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St. Petersburg and Texas Tech University
  (974-30-230)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The exponent of convergence and a theorem of Astala.
  Petra Bonfert-Taylor*, Wesleyan University
  Edward C Taylor, Wesleyan University
  (974-30-80)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Circle Packings and Quasiconformal Maps.
  G Brock Williams*, Texas Tech University
  (974-30-171)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Aleksandrov Surfaces and Hyperbolicity.
  Byung-Geun Oh*, Purdue University
  (974-30-189)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Local Variations and Polarization Techniques.
  Roger W Barnard*, Texas Tech University
  Kent Pearce, Texas Tech University
  Alexander Yu. Solynin, Texas Tech University
  (974-30-92)
- 12:30 p.m.
  Discussion

Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Integrable Systems and Poisson Geometry, IV
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
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Degree of Approximation of Analytic Functions by Solitons.
  Peter D Miller*, University of Michigan
  (974-41-168)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Clifford algebras and the classical dynamical Yang-Baxter equation.
  Eckhard Meinrenken*, University of Toronto
  (974-53-256)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On variants of the Bruhat-Poisson structure.
  Sam Evens*, University of Notre Dame
  (974-53-218)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Discussion
- 12:00 p.m.
  Discussion

Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-1:20 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, IV
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
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the vanishing of local cohomology modules.
  Gennady Lyubeznik*, University of Minnesota
  (974-13-100)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Properties of the Frobenius endomorphism.
  Claudia Miller*, University of Toronto
  (974-13-253)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Core, adjoint and coefficient ideals (Preliminary report).
  Eero Hyry*, University of Helsinki
  Karen E Smith, University of Michigan
  (974-13-43)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Special tight closure and big ideals.
  Craig Huneke, University of Kansas
  Adela Vraciu*, University of Kansas
  (974-13-94)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Intersection homology D-modules and tight closure.
  Manuel Blickle*, Universit�t Essen, Germany
  (974-13-44)
- 12:30 p.m.
  Ramification of Valuations.
  S Dale Cutkosky*, University of Missouri
  Olivier Piltant, CMAT-Ecole Polytechnique
  (974-13-162)
- 1:00 p.m.
  Divisorial valuations of function fields with irrational volume.
  Alex Kuronya*, University of Michigan
  (974-14-239)

Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Special Session on Hyperbolic Manifolds and Discrete Groups, IV
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
- 10:00 a.m.
  A-polynomial and Bloch invariant.
  Walter D Neumann*, Barnard College, Columbia University
  (974-57-221)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Eigenvalue fields of hyperbolic manifolds.
  Emily Hamilton*, Emory University
  Alan W Reid, University of Texas at Austin
  (974-57-36)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Diophantine approximation in negatively curved manifolds.
  Sa'ar David Hersonsky*, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
  Frederic Paulin, ENS-PARIS
  (974-57-208)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Classification of non-free 2-parabolic generator Kleinian groups.
  Ian Agol*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (974-57-06)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Imbedding free actions on handlebodies in free actions on 3-manifolds.
  Darryl McCullough*, University of Oklahoma
  (974-57-30)
- 12:30 p.m.
  Laminations and groups of homeomorphisms of the circle.
  Danny Calegari, Harvard University
  Nathan M Dunfield*, Harvard University
  (974-57-33)

Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Special Session on Moduli Spaces, IV
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.
  A complex ball uniformization of the moduli space of cubic surfaces via periods of K3 surfaces.
  Igor Dolgachev*, University of Michigan
  (974-14-250)
- 11:30 a.m.
  The Chow ring of the moduli space of curves.
  Tom B Graber*, Harvard University
  (974-14-179)

Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, IV
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
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the dual canonical basis of $U_q(n)$.
  Bernard Leclerc*, Universite de Caen, France.
  (974-05-42)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Sperner's Lemma and Representation Theory.
  Peter M Magyar*, Michigan State University
  (974-05-105)
- 11:00 a.m.
  A Tensor Product Theorem for Perfect Crystals.
  Mark Shimozono*, Virginia Tech
  (974-05-261)
- 11:30 a.m.
  A short simplicial h-vector and the Upper Bound Theorem.
  Patricia L Hersh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Isabella Novik*, University of Washington
  (974-05-49)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Quasisymmetric functions and Eulerian enumeration.
  Louis J Billera, Cornell University
  Samuel K Hsiao*, Cornell University
  Stephanie van Willigenburg, Cornell University
  (974-05-37)
- 12:30 p.m.
  Inequalities for Polytopes.
  Richard Ehrenborg*, University of Kentucky
  (974-05-21)

Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, III
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
- 10:00 a.m.
  Vector bundles with infinitely many souls.
  Igor Belegradek*, Caltech
  (974-53-138)
- 10:45 a.m.
  Obstructions to nonnegative curvature and rational homotopy theory.
  Vitali Kapovitch*, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Igor Belegradek, Caltech
  (974-53-14)
- 11:30 a.m.
  The second twisted Betti number and the convergence of collapsing manifolds with bounded curvature and diameter.
  Fuquan Fang, NanKai Institute of Mathematics
  Xiaochun Rong*, Rutgers University and Beijing Normal University
  (974-53-68)

Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, IV
Room 1360, East Hall
Organizers:
Qing Han, University of Notre Dame qhan@nd.edu
Lihe Wang, University of Iowa lwang@math.uiowa.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Uniqueness in the inverse conductivity problem for conductivities with $3/2$ derivatives in $L^p$ for $p> 2n$.
  Russell M. Brown*, University of Kentucky
  Rodolfo H. Torres, University of Kansas
  (974-35-236)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Bernstein problem for special Lagrangian equations.
  Yu Yuan*, U. of Chicago and U. of Washington
  (974-35-119)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Analyticity of the Cauchy Problem for an integrable evolution equation.
  Alex A. Himonas*, University of Notre Dame
  (974-35-196)
- 11:30 a.m.
  The Global Dynamics of Isothermal Chemical Systems with Critical Nonlinearity.
  Yi Li*, University of Iowa
  Yuan-Wei Qi, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
  (974-35-260)

Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mapping Class Groups and Geometric Theory of Teichmuller Spaces, IV
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
- 10:00 a.m.
  Homology of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces with symplectic coefficients.
  Myint Zaw*, The Abdus Salam ICTP
  Carl Friedrich Boedigheimer, Universitat Bonn
  (974-57-190)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Stratification of the Moduli Space of Hyperelliptic Surfaces.
  Anthony Weaver*, City University of New York
  (974-51-56)
- 11:00 a.m.
  An illustration of the action of the Riemann surfaces on the free loop space of a manifold.
  Moira Chas*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Dennis Sullivan, SUNY at Stony Brook, CUNY
  (974-57-126)
- 11:30 a.m.
  The geometry of $\mathcal{M}_g$ and the normal function associated to $C-C^-$.
  Richard M Hain*, Duke University
  (974-14-61)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Lengths of Measured Laminations on Surfaces.
  Feng Luo*, Rutgers University
  (974-57-86)
- 12:30 p.m.
  Discussion

Sunday March 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Modeling in Financial Mathematics, III
Room 1068, East Hall
Organizers:
Ronnie Sircar, Princeton University sircar@princeton.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Option pricing in the presence of large agents.
  Mattias Jonsson*, University of Michigan
  Jussi Keppo, University of Michigan
  (974-60-174)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Are companies ready to hire?
  Xin Guo*, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
  (974-60-191)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Optimality in the Presence of Durable Good.
  Jussi S Keppo*, University of Michigan
  (974-91-182)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Stochastic Optimization Algorithms for Stock Liquidation.
  G. Yin*, Wayne State University
  Q. Zhang, University of Georgia
  R.H. Liu, University of Georgia
  (974-60-203)

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AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

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

Sunday March 3, 2002

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