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2003 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Baton Rouge, LA, March 14-16, 2003
Meeting #984

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

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Friday March 14, 2003

• Friday March 14, 2003, 12:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Outside Room 201, Tureaud Hall
• Friday March 14, 2003, 12:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 201, Tureaud Hall
• Friday March 14, 2003, 1:10 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Opening Remarks
  Dodson Auditorium, Dodson
  A new look at sums of squares, Jacobi elliptic functions, and Ramanujan's tau function.
  Dodson Auditorium, Dodson
  Stephen C. Milne*, The Ohio State University
  (984-11-05)
• Friday March 14, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Mathematics and Materials Science, I
  Room 221, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University lipton@math.lsu.edu
  Stephen Shipman, Louisiana State University shipman@math.lsu.edu
  Blaise Bourdin, Louisiana State University bourdin@math.lsu.edu
  Yuri Antipov, Louisiana State University antipov@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Perfectly plastic heterogeneous materials.
    Guillermo H Goldsztein*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (984-74-29)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    A radial biphasic model for local cell-matrix mechanics in articular cartilage.
    Mansoor A Haider*, Dept. of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
    (984-74-116)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    A $\delta$-function model of facets.
    Tinghui Xin, LSU
    Harris Wong*, LSU
    (984-34-162)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Micromechanics of Random Structure Composites.
    V A Buryachenko*, University of Dayton Research Institute
    (984-35-52)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Thermodynamic Framework for Coupling of Viscoplasticity and Viscodamage for Dynamic Localization Problems Using Gradient Theory.
    Rashid K. Abu Al-Rub*, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    George Z. Voyiadjis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
    (984-74-207)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A differential scheme for effective thermoelastic properties of multiphase composite materials.
    Vladimir Vinogradov*, University of Utah
    (984-74-262)
• Friday March 14, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Arrangements in Topology and Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 226, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
  Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University alexsuciu@neu.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Projective line complexes and resonance varieties.
    Michael J. Falk*, Northern Arizona University
    (984-51-199)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    Equivariant Euler characteristics of Milnor fibres of reflection arrangements.
    Graham Denham*, University of Western Ontario
    Nicole Lemire, University of Western Ontario
    (984-20-237)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Graded Hecke Algebras.
    Anne V Shepler*, University of North Texas
    Arun Ram, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (984-20-202)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Some combinatorics of Orlik-Solomon algebras.
    David Forge*, lri - orsay
    (984-05-217)
• Friday March 14, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, I
  Room 203, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  James B. Coykendall, North Dakota State University Jim.Coykendall@ndsu.nodak.edu
  Bernadette Mullins, Birmingham State College bmullins@panther.bsc.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Finite representation type and direct-sum cancellation.
    Ryan Karr*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (984-13-193)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    A Characterization of Valuation Domains via m-Canonical Ideals.
    Ayman R Badawi*, Birzeit University, West Bank
    (984-13-51)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Ratliff-Rush closure of $(x,y)$-primary ideals in $K[x,y]$.
    David C. Lantz*, Colgate University
    (984-13-180)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    The Mori property in rings with zero divisors, I.V.
    Thomas G Lucas*, University of North Carolina Charlotte
    (984-13-81)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    The half-factorial property and domains of the form A+XB[X].
    James Coykendall, North Dakota State University, Fargo
    Tiberiu Dumitrescu, Universitatea Bucuresti, Bucharest
    Muhammad Zafrullah*, Idaho State University, Pocatello
    (984-13-161)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Generalized Notions of Closure.
    Jim Coykendall, North Dakota State University
    Tridib Dutta*, North Dakota State University
    (984-13-42)
• Friday March 14, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Frames, Wavelets, and Tomography, I
  Room 211, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Gestur Olafsson, Louisiana State University olafsson@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Generalized Multiresolution Analyses, a New Look.
    Lawrence W. Baggett*, University of Colorado
    (984-43-85)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Wavelet representations and the Ruelle transfer operator.
    Dorine Ervin Dutkay*, The University of Iowa
    (984-43-127)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Non-separable Radial Frame Multiresolution Analysis in Multidimensions.
    M Papadakis*, University of Houston
    G Gogoshin, University of Houston
    I A Kakadiaris, Universiy of Houston
    D J Kouri, University of Houston
    D K Hoffman, University of Houston
    (984-42-76)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Affine Frames, GMRA's, and the Canonical Dual.
    Marcin Bownik*, University of Michigan
    Eric Weber, Univeristy Of Wyoming
    (984-42-152)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Multiscale Structures and Coxeter Groups.
    Peter R Massopust*, Varco Inc.
    (984-42-221)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Orthogonality relations for wavelets and for fractals.
    Palle E. T. Jorgensen*, University of Iowa
    (984-42-72)
• Friday March 14, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Graphs and Matroids, I
  Room 213, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Bogdan S. Oporowski, Louisiana State University bogdan@math.lsu.edu
  James G. Oxley, Louisiana State University oxley@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Matroid Minors.
    Geoff Whittle*, Victoria University of Wellington
    (984-05-122)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Extending the chromatic number to matrices, matroids and oriented matroids.
    Laura Chavez, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
    Luis A Goddyn*, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
    (984-05-196)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Distribution of contractible elements in 2-connected and 3-connected matroids.
    Haidong Wu*, University of Mississippi
    (984-05-204)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Some results on representability of matroids.
    Sandra R Kingan*, Penn State Harrisburg
    (984-05-220)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    An extremal result for a class of binary matroids.
    Hongxun Qin*, The Ohio State University
    Xiangqian Zhou, The Ohio State University
    (984-05-153)
• Friday March 14, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Induced Representations: Connections to Graphs, Number Theory, Geometry, I
  Room 215, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  J. William Hoffman, Louisiana State University hoffman@math.lsu.edu
  Robert V. Perlis, Louisiana State University perlis@math.lsu.edu
  Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University stoltz@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Ihara's Zeta Function: An Encounter Between Number Theory and Graph Theory.
    Audrey A. Terras*, U.C.S.D.
    (984-11-74)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    A Brief Survey of Zeta Functions in Knot Theory.
    Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
    (984-57-170)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Bartholdi zeta functions of graph coverings.
    Hirobumi Mizuno, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Meisei University, Japan
    Iwao Sato*, Oyama National College of Technology, Japan
    (984-11-226)
• Friday March 14, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, I
  Room 225, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Oliver T. Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten@math.lsu.edu
  Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University gilmer@math.lsu.edu
  Richard A. Litherland, Louisiana State University lither@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Kauffman bracket skein module of quaternionic space.
    John M Harris*, Louisiana State University
    (984-57-212)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Skein algebras modulo commutators.
    Michael McLendon*, Washington College
    (984-57-242)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The structure of the rational knot concordance group.
    Jae Choon Cha*, Indiana University
    (984-57-142)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Automorphisms of the Torelli Group in genus > 2.
    John D McCarthy, Michigan State University
    William R Vautaw*, Southeastern Louisiana University
    (984-57-90)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    the Yang-Mills Measure in the Kauffman Skein Module.
    Jianyuan K. Zhong*, Louisiana Tech University
    (984-57-177)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Invariants of Knots and Knotted Surfaces.
    J Scott Carter*, Univ. of South Alabama
    (984-55-179)
• Friday March 14, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, I
  Room 120, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Judith L. Baxter, University of Illinois at Chicago baxter@uic.edu
  Robert Peck, Louisiana State University rpeck@lsu.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Opening Remarks: Dean Ronald Ross, College of Music and Dramatic Arts, Lousiana State University
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Introduction to the Special Session: An Overview of Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis.
    Robert W. Peck*, Louisiana State University
    (984-00-110)
  • 2:50 p.m.
    The Impossible Coin Toss.
    Stephen Soderberg*, Library of Congress
    (984-20-63)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Dinner Tables, the Ising Model, and the Piano Keyboard.
    Jack M Douthett*, TVI Community College
    (984-06-13)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Minimal Description Length: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Music Model Building.
    Panayotis Mavromatis*, Eastman School of Music
    (984-60-261)
  • 4:35 p.m.
    Tessellating the Chromatic.
    Jonathan Wild*, Harvard University
    (984-00-190)
• Friday March 14, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis and Applications, I
  Room 220, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  H.-H. Kuo, Louisiana State University kuo@math.lsu.edu
  P. Sundar, Louisiana State University sundar@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Functionals of innovations for some random fields.
    Takeyuki Hida*, Meijo University
    (984-60-268)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Complex It\^{o} Formulas.
    Mylan Redfern*, University of Southern Mississippi
    (984-60-58)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    An infinite dimensional stochastic process and the Levy Laplacian acting on WND-valued functions.
    Kimiaki Saito*, Meijo University
    (984-60-269)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    A H\"{o}lder inequality for holomorphic functions.
    Aurel Iulian Stan*, University of Rochester
    (984-32-113)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Biorthogonal Decompositions of linear operators in non-Gaussian White Noise Analysis.
    Eugene Yablonsky*, Ohio State University
    (984-81-257)
• Friday March 14, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastics, Quantization, and Segal-Bargmann Analysis, I
  Room 228, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Bruce K. Driver, University of California San Diego driver@euclid.ucsd.edu
  Brian C. Hall, University of Notre Dame bhall@darwin.helios.nd.edu
  Jeffrey J. Mitchell, Baylor University Jeffrey_Mitchell@baylor.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Holomorphic Dirichlet forms on complex hyperbolic space.
    Leonard Gross*, Cornell University
    Zhongmin Qian, CNRS, Toulouse, France
    (984-58-103)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Strong Hypercontractivity in Holomorphic Clifford Algebras.
    Todd Kemp*, Cornell University
    (984-46-53)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Entropy inequalities on $S^n$.
    Eric A Carlen*, Ga Tech
    (984-46-230)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Relativistic "Segal-Bargmann" Representations.
    Gerald Kaiser*, Virginia Center for Signals and Waves
    (984-81-33)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    A semigroup-based modification of coherent states providing a pseudo-diagonal representation for operators in a deformed antinormal order.
    Bernhard G Bodmann*, Princeton University
    Jean-Pierre Gazeau, Universite Paris 7-Denis Diderot
    (984-81-48)
• Friday March 14, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Special Session on Q-Series in Number Theory and Combinatorics, I
  Room 210, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Mourad E. H. Ismail, University of South Florida ismail@math.usf.edu
  Stephen C. Milne, The Ohio State University milne@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    A quadruple product extension of Jacobi's triple product identity.
    Krishnaswami Alladi*, University of Florida
    Alexander Berkovich, University of Florida
    (984-11-86)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Combinatorial proof of Ramanujan's $_1 \psi_1$ summation.
    Ae Ja Yee*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (984-05-224)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    A characterization of the $q$-Racah polynomials.
    Paul M Terwilliger*, University of Wisconsin
    (984-33-249)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Generalization of a Theorem of Bochner.
    Mourad E.H. Ismail*, University of South Florida
    (984-33-267)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Ekhad-Zeilberger identities and their multisum analogs.
    Alexander Berkovich, University of Florida
    Frank G Garvan*, University of Florida
    (984-05-125)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Discussion
• Friday March 14, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, I
  Room 116, Tureaud Hall
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Game Coloring of Trees.
    Nassim Sohaee*, University of Texas at Arlington
    (984-05-108)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Commutative Periodic Semigroups with the Ideal Retraction Property.
    Karen D. Aucoin*, McNeese State University
    Jill A. Dumesnil, Stephen F. Austin University
    John A. Hildebrant, Louisiana State University
    (984-20-111)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Solving Differential Equations Using Special Functions.
    Gary Childs*, University of North Alabama
    (984-34-21)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Set theoretic proof for the Jordan curve theorem.
    Avery S Zoch*, Atlas Distributions
    (984-54-22)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Knots in the Cubic Lattice.
    Marta A Kobiela*, Texas A&M University
    (984-55-20)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Unique Prime Decompositions of Pairs of Solid Tori.
    James R. Bozeman*, Lyndon State College
    (984-57-200)
• Friday March 14, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Number Theory and K-Theory, I
  Room 206, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Jurgen Hurrelbrink, Louisiana State University jurgen@math.lsu.edu
  Jorge F. Morales, Louisiana State University morales@math.lsu.edu
  Robert Osburn, McMaster University osburnr@math.mcmaster.ca
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Euclidean Minima of Algebraic Number Fields.
    Eva Bayer Fluckiger*, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
    (984-11-197)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Genus formulae for higher \'etale $K$-theory groups.
    Abbas Movahhedi*, Universit\'e de Limoges
    (984-11-145)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    New Ramification Breaks and Local, Additive Galois Structure.
    Nigel P. Byott, University of Exeter
    G. Griffith Elder*, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    (984-11-252)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Partial Sums of Multiple Zeta Series.
    Jianqiang Zhao*, University of Pennsylvania
    (984-11-154)

Saturday March 15, 2003

• Saturday March 15, 2003, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Outside Room 201, Tureaud Hall
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 201, Tureaud Hall
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Mathematics and Materials Science, II
  Room 221, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University lipton@math.lsu.edu
  Stephen Shipman, Louisiana State University shipman@math.lsu.edu
  Blaise Bourdin, Louisiana State University bourdin@math.lsu.edu
  Yuri Antipov, Louisiana State University antipov@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Phase field method in Optimal Design.
    Blaise A Bourdin*, Louisiana State University
    Antonin Chambolle, Université Paris Dauphine
    (984-49-186)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Symmetries and bifurcations in min-max problem of robust optimal design.
    Elena Cherkaev*, University of Utah
    Andrej Cherkaev, University of Utah
    (984-49-206)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Microstructure Sensitive Design For Two Phase Structures Using Two Point Correlation Functions.
    Hamid Garmestani*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Hamid Garmestani, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Brent Adams, BYU
    (984-60-45)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Imaging in random media.
    Liliana Borcea*, Rice University
    George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
    Chrysoula Tsogka, CNRS Marseille
    (984-35-46)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An inverse problem for the stationary transport equation in the presence of a Riemannian metric.
    Stephen R McDowall*, Western Washington University
    (984-35-134)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Optimization of Resonances in Photonic Crystals. Preliminary Report.
    Stephen Shipman*, Louisiana State University
    Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University
    Stephanos Venakides, Duke University
    (984-49-139)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, II
  Room 203, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  James B. Coykendall, North Dakota State University Jim.Coykendall@ndsu.nodak.edu
  Bernadette Mullins, Birmingham State College bmullins@panther.bsc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Factorization Properties in Block Monoids Formed by All-Divisor Subsets of a Cyclic Group.
    William W Smith*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (984-13-60)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The class group of a monoid domain.
    David F Anderson*, Mathematics Department
    Gyu Whan Chang, Mathematics Department
    (984-13-109)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Full and Asymptotic Elasticity in Atomic Integral Domains and Monoids.
    Scott T. Chapman*, Trinity University
    (984-13-59)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Units, primes, and generalizations of factorial domains.
    P. Malcolmson, Wayne State University
    F. Okoh*, Wayne State University
    (984-13-17)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    When are associates unit multiples?
    Daniel D Anderson*, The University of Iowa
    (984-13-41)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    GCD-sets in integarl domains II.
    Jeanam Park*, Department of Mathematics, Inha University
    Gyuwhan Chang, Department of Mathematics, Incheon University
    (984-13-144)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Frames, Wavelets, and Tomography, II
  Room 211, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Gestur Olafsson, Louisiana State University olafsson@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A physical interpretation for finite tight frames.
    Peter G. Casazza*, University of Missouri
    M. Fickus, Cornell University
    Jelena Kovacevic, Bell Labs
    Manuel T. Leon, University of Missouri
    Janet Crandell Tremain, University of Missouri
    (984-15-32)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bracket Products for Weyl-Heisenberg (Gabor) Frames.
    Pete G Casazza, University of Missouri
    Mark C Lammers*, Western Washington University
    (984-46-258)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Wave packet densities.
    Wojciech Czaja, University of Maryland, College Park and University of Wroclaw
    Gitta Kutyniok, Universitat Paderborn
    Darrin Speegle*, Saint Louis University
    (984-42-191)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Connectivity for tight frame Gabor systems with rational lattices.
    Edward N. Wilson*, Washington University in St. Louis
    Demetrio Labate, Washington University in St. Louis
    (984-42-93)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Characterization of Functional Gabor Frame Multiplers.
    Deguang Han*, University of Central Florida
    (984-42-62)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A frame-Riesz basic sequence duality result for wavelet sets.
    Radu V Balan*, Siemens Corporate Research
    (984-40-25)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graphs and Matroids, II
  Room 213, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Bogdan S. Oporowski, Louisiana State University bogdan@math.lsu.edu
  James G. Oxley, Louisiana State University oxley@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Splitter theorems for 4-regular graphs.
    Guoli Ding, Louisiana State University
    Jinko Kanno*, Louisiana State University
    (984-05-69)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The class of binary matroids with no $M(K_{3,3})$-, $M(K_{5})$-, $M^{*}(K_{3,3})$-, or $M^{*}(M(K_{5})$-minors.
    Xiangqian Zhou*, Ohio State University
    Hongxun Qin, Ohio State University
    (984-05-141)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Flow and coloring duality of imbedded graphs and signed graphs.
    Daniel C Slilaty*, Wright State University
    (984-05-188)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Largest Circuits and Cocircuits in Graphs an Matroids.
    Nolan McMurray, The University of Mississippi
    Talmage J Reid*, The University of Mississippi
    Bing Wei, The University of Mississippi
    Haidong Wu, The University of Mississippi
    (984-05-133)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Circumference of 3-connected graphs.
    Xingxing Yu*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Guantao Chen, Georgia State University
    Laura Sheppardson, Georgia Tech
    Wenan Zang, University of Hong Kong
    (984-05-128)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $K_{3,k}$ Minors in Large $7$-Connected Graphs.
    Thomas Boehme, Technische Universitat, Ilmenau
    John Maharry*, The Ohio State University
    Bojan Mohar, University of Ljubljana
    (984-05-57)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Induced Representations: Connections to Graphs, Number Theory, Geometry, II
  Room 215, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  J. William Hoffman, Louisiana State University hoffman@math.lsu.edu
  Robert V. Perlis, Louisiana State University perlis@math.lsu.edu
  Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University stoltz@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Constructing Gassmann triples.
    Patricia Beaulieu*, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
    (984-20-239)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Beaulieu's construction over a field of arbitrary characteristic.
    Benjamin Thomas Webster*, University of California, Berkeley
    (984-20-259)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Siegel Poles of Covering Graph Zeta Functions.
    Harold M. Stark*, U.C.S.D.
    (984-11-73)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Zeta functions and Isospectrality of Regular Graphs.
    Robert Perlis*, Louisiana State University
    Aubi Mellein, Cal State San Marcos
    (984-53-236)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, II
  Room 225, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Oliver T. Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten@math.lsu.edu
  Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University gilmer@math.lsu.edu
  Richard A. Litherland, Louisiana State University lither@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Idempotents in the Temperley Lieb Algebra, Meanders and Their Generalizations.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (984-57-244)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Normal Surfaces and Quantum Invariants.
    Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    Joanna M Kania-Bartozysnka, Boise State University
    (984-57-83)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quantum invariants away from roots of unity.
    Charles D Frohman, University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
    (984-57-71)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Small 3-manifolds of large genus.
    Ian Agol*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (984-57-254)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Virtual Crossing Realization.
    Victor Samuel Nelson*, Whittier College
    (984-57-79)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Factorization of the multivariable Conway invariant via the Kontsevich integral.
    Gregor Masbaum, University of Paris 7
    Arkady Vaintrob*, University of Oregon
    (984-57-209)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, II
  Room 120, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Judith L. Baxter, University of Illinois at Chicago baxter@uic.edu
  Robert Peck, Louisiana State University rpeck@lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Mathematical Model for Tone Apperception.
    Thomas Noll*, Technical University of Berlin
    (984-22-218)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Structural and Transformational Properties of All-Interval Tetrachords.
    Adrian P Childs*, University of Georgia
    (984-00-205)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Continuous functions and musical spaces.
    Clifton D Callender*, Florida State University
    (984-00-260)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Number Theory and Music Theory: Recent Extensions in Music Theory of the Three Gap Theorem.
    David L. Clampitt*, Yale University
    (984-11-27)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    The Coherence Index in Well-Formed and Pair-Wise Well-Formed Scales.
    Norman A Carey*, Eastman School of Music
    (984-11-241)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis and Applications, II
  Room 220, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  H.-H. Kuo, Louisiana State University kuo@math.lsu.edu
  P. Sundar, Louisiana State University sundar@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Martingales from Fractional Brownian Motion.
    Tyrone E. Duncan*, University of Kansas
    (984-60-82)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Central Limit Theorem for Diffusion Processes in Discontinuous Drift with Small Pertabation.
    Tzuu-Shuh Chiang*, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica
    Shuenn-Jyi Sheu, Institute of Mathematics,Academia Sinica
    (984-60-96)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stochastic vorticity approach to fluid dynamics.
    Anna Amirdjanova*, University of Michigan
    (984-60-66)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Asymptotic Analysis, Stability, and Generalized Functions, I
  Room 103, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Ricardo Estrada, Louisiana State University restrada@math.lsu.edu
  Frank Neubrander, Louisiana State University neubrand@math.lsu.edu
  Gunter Lumer, University of Mons-Hainaut
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Implications of Spectral Asymptotics for Quantum Vacuum Energy.
    Stephen A. Fulling*, Texas A&M University
    (984-81-54)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Linear continuous extension operators for Gevrey classes on polysectors.
    Javier Sanz*, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
    (984-41-140)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Weighted norm bounds and distribution solutions to Schr\"odinger type equations.
    Peer C. Kunstmann*, Mathematisches Institut I, Universitaet Karlsruhe
    (984-47-146)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A generalization of the residue formula.
    Ricardo Estrada*, Louisiana State University
    (984-46-233)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Functional determinants by contour integration methods.
    Klaus Kirsten*, Baylor University
    Alan McKane, University of Manchester
    (984-58-159)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Perturbation theorems for $\alpha$-times integrated semigroups.
    Cornelia Kaiser*, University of South Carolina
    (984-47-129)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Q-Series in Number Theory and Combinatorics, II
  Room 210, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Mourad E. H. Ismail, University of South Florida ismail@math.usf.edu
  Stephen C. Milne, The Ohio State University milne@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Ramanujan and Cranks.
    Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (984-11-68)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Cranks and Dissections in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook.
    Bruce C Berndt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Heng Huat Chan, National University of Singapore
    Song Heng Chan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Wen-Chin Liaw, National Chung Cheng University
    (984-33-121)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Partition Identities and a Theorem of Zagier.
    Karl E Mahlburg*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Jayce Getz, Harvard University
    (984-11-184)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Combintorial Proof of a Partition Identity of Andrews and Stanley.
    Andrew V Sills*, Penn State University
    (984-05-102)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    New positivity preserving q-binomial transformations.
    Alexander Berkovich*, University of Florida
    Ole Warnaar, University of Melbourne
    (984-11-210)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastics, Quantization, and Segal-Bargmann Analysis, II
  Room 228, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Bruce K. Driver, University of California San Diego driver@euclid.ucsd.edu
  Brian C. Hall, University of Notre Dame bhall@darwin.helios.nd.edu
  Jeffrey J. Mitchell, Baylor University Jeffrey_Mitchell@baylor.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Heat Semigroup dominations for manifolds with boundary.
    Elton P Hsu*, Northwestern University
    (984-60-240)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discrete Loewner Evolution.
    Robert O Bauer*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (984-60-64)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Rotationary Picard Iteration for Flows Associated with Tangent Processes.
    Yaozhong Hu*, University of Kansas
    (984-60-120)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stochastic Averaging or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love PDE's.
    Richard B Sowers*, University of Illinois
    (984-60-126)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stochastic differential equations on noncommutative $L^2$-spaces.
    Maria Gordina*, University of Connecticut
    (984-60-181)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The Role of Mathematics Departments in Secondary Education, I
  Room 116, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  James J. Madden, Louisiana State University madden@math.lsu.edu
  Frank Neubrander, Louisiana State University neubrand@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Teachers' Mathematics and Mathematics Courses for High School Teachers.
    Zalman Usiskin*, The University of Chicago
    (984-97-183)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    PROMYS for TEACHERS: Bringing the Spirit of Exploration to the Classroom.
    Glenn H Stevens*, Boston University
    (984-97-243)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Advanced Mathematics Educational Support.
    Bill Hopkins*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (984-97-77)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Exploring Proportionality through Measurement and Geometry with Secondary Mathematics Education Majors.
    Maribeth E Olberding*, New Mexico State University
    (984-97-214)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Maple Computing in the Undergraduate Curriculum.
    Mylan Redfern*, University of Southern Mississippi
    (984-97-67)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 8:45 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Number Theory and K-Theory, II
  Room 206, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Jurgen Hurrelbrink, Louisiana State University jurgen@math.lsu.edu
  Jorge F. Morales, Louisiana State University morales@math.lsu.edu
  Robert Osburn, McMaster University osburnr@math.mcmaster.ca
  

  • 8:45 a.m.
    Exotic Steinberg Symbols on Number Fields.
    Kevin Hutchinson*, University College, Dublin
    (984-11-75)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A New Method for Computating Logarithmic Class Groups.
    Florence Soriano-Gafiuk*, Universit\'e de Metz
    (984-19-231)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    An Application of Algorithmic Methods from Number Theory to the Computation of Logarithmic Class Groups.
    Michael E Pohst*, Technische Universit\"at Berlin
    (984-11-223)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arrangements in Topology and Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 226, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
  Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University alexsuciu@neu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cell structures for arrangements.
    Richard Randell*, University of Iowa
    (984-57-225)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Completions of braid groups.
    Kevin P Knudson*, Mississippi State University
    (984-20-132)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Chow groups on complements of arrangements; a first step.
    Karl-Dieter S. Crisman*, University of Chicago
    (984-14-185)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Heat equations on loop groups.
  Dodson Auditorium, Dodson
  Bruce K. Driver*, University of California San Diego
  (984-60-02)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Evaluation representations, Drinfeld polynomials and Bethe's ansatz.
  Dodson Auditorium, Dodson
  Barry M. McCoy*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (984-82-04)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Number Theory and K-Theory, III
  Room 206, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Jurgen Hurrelbrink, Louisiana State University jurgen@math.lsu.edu
  Jorge F. Morales, Louisiana State University morales@math.lsu.edu
  Robert Osburn, McMaster University osburnr@math.mcmaster.ca
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Cyclic polynomials and the multiplication matrices of their roots.
    Francisco Thaine*, Concordia University
    (984-11-40)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On the $K$-theory of elliptic curves.
    Kevin P Knudson*, Mississippi State University
    (984-19-107)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Elements of Prime Power Order in $K_2 \Bbb Q$.
    Hourong Qin*, Nanjing, P. R. China
    Qunsheng Zhu, Nanjing, P.R.China
    (984-19-216)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Ambiguous ideal classes in metacyclic extensions.
    Franz Lemmermeyer*, CSU San Marcos, CA
    (984-11-168)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Mathematics and Materials Science, III
  Room 221, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University lipton@math.lsu.edu
  Stephen Shipman, Louisiana State University shipman@math.lsu.edu
  Blaise Bourdin, Louisiana State University bourdin@math.lsu.edu
  Yuri Antipov, Louisiana State University antipov@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A Direct Solution of an Integro-Differential Equation in Remote Sensing.
    Mohsen Razzaghi*, Mississippi State University
    Seth Oppenheimer, Mississippi State University
    (984-41-18)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Boundary Correctors for Periodic Media.
    S Moskow*, University of Florida
    M. Vogelius, Rutgers University
    E. Bonnetier, Institut d'Informatique et Mathematiques Appliquees de Grenoble
    (984-35-229)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Wave propagation in structures from bistable elements.
    Andrej Cherkaev*, University of Utah
    Elena Cherkaev, University of Utah
    Leonid I Slepyan, Tel Aviv University
    (984-74-194)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An adaptive method for coupled continuum-molecular simulation of crack propagation in solids.
    Sorin M Mitran*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (984-70-70)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Systems of functional-difference equations in electromagnetic scattering theory.
    Yuri A. Antipov*, Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University
    Vassili V. Silvestrov, Department of Mathematics, Chuvash State University
    (984-30-160)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Numerical Computation of Wave Propagation through Dynamic Materials.
    Suzanne L. Weekes*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
    (984-65-131)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Arrangements in Topology and Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 226, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
  Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University alexsuciu@neu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Seiberg-Witten invariants and surface singularities.
    Andras Nemethi*, Ohio State University
    (984-14-192)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Modular transformations of the elliptic hypergeometric functions, Macdonald polynomials, and the shift operator.
    Laura J. Stevens*, UNC Chapel Hill
    (984-33-251)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Mock reflection groups and blow-ups of real hyperplane arrangements.
    Michael Davis, The Ohio State University
    Tadeusz Januszkiewicz, Wroclaw University
    Richard A Scott*, Santa Clara University
    (984-57-155)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Associahedra in Tori and Projective Spaces.
    Satyan L Devadoss*, Williams College
    (984-14-49)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, III
  Room 203, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  James B. Coykendall, North Dakota State University Jim.Coykendall@ndsu.nodak.edu
  Bernadette Mullins, Birmingham State College bmullins@panther.bsc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Going-down Implies Generalized Going-down.
    David E. Dobbs, The University of Tennessee
    Andrew J. Hetzel*, The University of Tennessee
    (984-13-07)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On a field-theoretic invariant for extensions of commutative rings.
    David E. Dobbs*, University of Tennessee
    Bernadette Mullins, Birmingham-Southern College
    (984-13-01)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Absolutely integral ring homomorphisms.
    Gabriel Picavet*, University B. Pascal
    (984-13-97)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Generating ideals in pullbacks.
    Evan Houston*, UNC Charlotte
    (984-13-65)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Seminormal Cohen-Kaplansky domains and diophantine equations.
    Martine Picavet-L'Hermitte*, University B. Pascal
    Abdallah Badra, University B. Pascal
    (984-13-98)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Prime-Producing Polunomials II.
    Joe L. Mott*, Florida State University
    Kermit Rose, Florida State University
    (984-11-270)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Frames, Wavelets, and Tomography, III
  Room 211, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Gestur Olafsson, Louisiana State University olafsson@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Complex analysis in some tomographic problems.
    Peter Kuchment*, Texas A&M University
    Leonid Kunyansky, University of Arizona
    (984-44-138)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Physical wavelets and their extended-delta source distributions.
    Gerald Kaiser*, Virginia Center for Signals and Waves
    (984-78-34)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Wavelet analysis of soliton solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations.
    Andrei Ludu*, Northwestern State University
    (984-43-198)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Practical and mathematical problems in Limited Data Tomography.
    Eric Todd Quinto*, Tufts University
    (984-92-37)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Orthogonal Frames of Translates.
    Eric S Weber*, University of Wyoming
    (984-42-100)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Applications to a unified theory of reproducing systems.
    Guido Weiss*, Washington University, St. Louis
    (984-42-118)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Graphs and Matroids, III
  Room 213, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Bogdan S. Oporowski, Louisiana State University bogdan@math.lsu.edu
  James G. Oxley, Louisiana State University oxley@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Strong Perfect Graph Theorem.
    M. Chudnovsky, Princeton University
    N. Robertson, Ohio State University
    P. Seymour, Princeton University
    R. Thomas*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (984-05-123)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Forbidden Subgraphs and Bounds on the Size of a Maximum Matching.
    Michael D. Plummer*, Vanderbilt University
    Akira Saito, Nihon University
    (984-05-136)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cycle spectra in graphs.
    Tristan MJ Denley*, University of Mississippi
    (984-05-232)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Generating r-regular graphs.
    Guoli Ding*, LSU
    Peter Chen, LSU
    (984-05-114)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Constructing Trees in Graphs whose Complement has no $K_{2,s}$.
    Edward Dobson*, Mississippi State University
    (984-05-235)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Induced Representations: Connections to Graphs, Number Theory, Geometry, III
  Room 215, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  J. William Hoffman, Louisiana State University hoffman@math.lsu.edu
  Robert V. Perlis, Louisiana State University perlis@math.lsu.edu
  Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University stoltz@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Cohomological Mackey functors and applications.
    Robert Boltje*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (984-18-150)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Geometric zeta functions for p-adic groups.
    Anton H Deitmar*, University of EXETER
    (984-11-55)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Ramanujan hypergraphs.
    Wen-Ching Winnie Li*, Pennsylvania State University
    (984-22-149)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, III
  Room 225, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Oliver T. Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten@math.lsu.edu
  Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University gilmer@math.lsu.edu
  Richard A. Litherland, Louisiana State University lither@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the colored Jones polynomial of twist knots.
    Gregor Masbaum*, CNRS, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu
    (984-57-87)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Links with the same quantum invariants.
    Yongwu Rong*, George Washington University
    (984-57-189)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the bridge number of knot diagrams with minimal crossings.
    Jae-Wook Chung*, University of California, Riverside
    Xiao-Song Lin, University of California, Riverside
    (984-57-187)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Zeros of the Jones Polynomial.
    Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
    (984-57-169)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Generalized Blanchfield Linking Forms for Knots and 3-Manifolds.
    Connie Leidy*, Rice University
    (984-57-250)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Virtual Betti Numbers of 3-Manifolds.
    Tim D. Cochran*, Rice University
    Joseph Masters, Rice University
    (984-57-248)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Edge slopes for knots and links.
    William Jaco*, Oklahoma State University
    (984-57-271)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, III
  Room 120, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Judith L. Baxter, University of Illinois at Chicago baxter@uic.edu
  Robert Peck, Louisiana State University rpeck@lsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Principles for Reducing LPR Sentences to Canonical Form.
    Richard Cohn*, University of Chicago
    (984-43-112)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    An Algebraic Classification of Contextually Defined Musical Inversions.
    Jonathan H Kochavi*, SUNY Buffalo
    (984-20-84)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Uniform Triadic Transformations: A Wreath Product in Music Theory.
    Julian L Hook*, Penn State University
    (984-20-61)
  • 4:50 p.m.
    Notions of Equivalence and Similarity in Atonal Music Theory.
    Michael H. Buchler*, Florida State University
    (984-00-78)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis and Applications, III
  Room 220, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  H.-H. Kuo, Louisiana State University kuo@math.lsu.edu
  P. Sundar, Louisiana State University sundar@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Topics in classical Fourier Analysis.
    Mark A Pinsky*, Northwestern University
    (984-42-201)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quantum Decomposition and Spectral Analysis of Large Graphs.
    Nobuaki Obata*, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
    (984-60-215)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Splitting formula for the N-Schr\"odinger algebra and applications to Brownian motion on the Heisenberg group.
    Philip Feinsilver*, Southern Illinois University
    Gyula Pap, Lajos Kossuth University
    (984-60-228)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastics, Quantization, and Segal-Bargmann Analysis, III
  Room 228, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Bruce K. Driver, University of California San Diego driver@euclid.ucsd.edu
  Brian C. Hall, University of Notre Dame bhall@darwin.helios.nd.edu
  Jeffrey J. Mitchell, Baylor University Jeffrey_Mitchell@baylor.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Coherent states and bounded cohomology.
    Bent \O{}rsted*, IMADA, SDU, Denmark
    (984-22-80)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Segal-Bargmann transform for certain non-compact symmetric spaces.
    Brian C. Hall*, Notre Dame
    Jeffrey J. Mitchell, Baylor University
    (984-81-36)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Segal-Bargmann transform on a symmetric space of non-compact type.
    Matthew B. Stenzel*, Ohio State University, Newark
    (984-58-167)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Segal-Bargmann transform of smooth functions on a compact group.
    Brian C. Hall, University of Notre Dame
    Wicharn Lewkeeratiyutkul*, Chulalongkorn University
    (984-22-106)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Bargmann transform and regularization of the Kepler problem.
    Carlos Villegas-Blas*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    (984-81-92)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Asymptotic Analysis, Stability, and Generalized Functions, II
  Room 103, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Ricardo Estrada, Louisiana State University restrada@math.lsu.edu
  Frank Neubrander, Louisiana State University neubrand@math.lsu.edu
  Gunter Lumer, University of Mons-Hainaut
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    New interpretations of Boehmians.
    Jozef Burzyk, Technical University of Silesia
    Piotr Mikusinski*, University of Central Florida
    (984-44-47)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic Analysis and R-Boundedness.
    Lutz Weis*, Department of Mathematics, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
    (984-46-135)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Decovolution Problems and Number theory.
    Soon-Yeong Chung*, Professor/ Sogang University (Visiting Prof. of Un
    (984-42-130)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Infinite Infrared Regularization in Krein Spaces.
    Andreas U. Schmidt*, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universit\"at, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    (984-46-172)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the regularization of time-discretization methods for evolution equations.
    Frank Neubrander*, Louisiana State University
    (984-65-213)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Admissibility of function spaces with respect to equation $Bu'(t)=Au(t) +f(t)$.
    Lan Thanh Nguyen*, Western Kentucky University
    (984-34-19)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Q-Series in Number Theory and Combinatorics, III
  Room 210, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Mourad E. H. Ismail, University of South Florida ismail@math.usf.edu
  Stephen C. Milne, The Ohio State University milne@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A generalized polygamma function.
    Victor H Moll*, Tulane University
    Olivier Espinosa, Universidad Santa Maria
    (984-33-35)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Reduction formulas for Karlsson--Minton type hypergeometric functions.
    Hjalmar Rosengren*, Chalmers University, Sweden
    (984-33-147)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    New formulas for Ramanujan's tau function and other classical cusp forms.
    Stephen C Milne*, The Ohio State University
    (984-11-264)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Four Identities Related to Third Order Mock Theta Functions in the Lost Notebook.
    Hamza Yesilyurt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (984-33-06)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Certain Consequences of $BC_n$ Bailey Transform and Bailey Lemma.
    Hasan Coskun*, Texas A&M University
    (984-33-09)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on The Role of Mathematics Departments in Secondary Education, II
  Room 116, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  James J. Madden, Louisiana State University madden@math.lsu.edu
  Frank Neubrander, Louisiana State University neubrand@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Or Vice Versa: The Role of Secondary Mathematics Teacher Education in a Mathematics Department.
    Katherine Pedersen*, Southeastern Louisiana University
    (984-97-137)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Preparation and Professional Development of Secondary Education Teachers.
    Efraim P. Armendariz*, University of Texas at Austin
    (984-97-238)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Perceived Needs of Secondary Schools and Suggestions How to Meet Them.
    Bernd S. W. Schroeder*, Louisiana Tech University
    (984-97-50)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Secondary School Teacher Preparation and K-12 Outreach Programs at the Louisiana State University Department of Mathematics.
    James Madden*, Louisiana State University
    Frank Neubrander, Louisiana State University
    (984-97-265)
• Saturday March 15, 2003, 3:15 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, II
  Room 218, Tureaud Hall
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    "Follow The Valley Bottom" (FTVB). A faster special purpose algorithm minimizing generalized Rosenbrock - type functions.
    Constantia Lambrinos*, University of New Mexico
    (984-65-10)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    An Exact, Lightlike, Shock-Wave Solution of the Einstein Equations.
    Michael B. Scott*, Kansas State University
    (984-83-30)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    new methode for Measuring height of trees using geometry relationships.
    Ramzan Ali Khorrami*, Tehran University
    Manoochehr Namiranian,
    (984-90-38)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    An integer programming solution to the problem of optimally locating radioactive waste facilities.
    John Karlof*, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
    (984-90-195)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some further notes on group decision-making in animals.
    T Haller Jackson*, Shreveport, LA
    (984-92-234)

Sunday March 16, 2003

• Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Number Theory and K-Theory, IV
  Room 206, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Jurgen Hurrelbrink, Louisiana State University jurgen@math.lsu.edu
  Jorge F. Morales, Louisiana State University morales@math.lsu.edu
  Robert Osburn, McMaster University osburnr@math.mcmaster.ca
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Chinburg invariants and generalized quaternion groups.
    Jeff Hooper*, Acadia University
    (984-11-255)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On $k$-Conjugacy Classes of Maximal Tori in Semi-Simple Algebraic Groups.
    Uroyoan R Walker*, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
    (984-11-175)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Wild primes in Hilbert symbol equivalent number fields.
    Marius M Somodi*, University of Northern Iowa
    (984-11-16)
• Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-8:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Mathematics and Materials Science, IV
  Room 221, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University lipton@math.lsu.edu
  Stephen Shipman, Louisiana State University shipman@math.lsu.edu
  Blaise Bourdin, Louisiana State University bourdin@math.lsu.edu
  Yuri Antipov, Louisiana State University antipov@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Bounds on the distribution of extreme values for the stress in composite materials.
    Robert P Lipton*, Louisiana State University
    (984-35-178)
• Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, IV
  Room 203, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  James B. Coykendall, North Dakota State University Jim.Coykendall@ndsu.nodak.edu
  Bernadette Mullins, Birmingham State College bmullins@panther.bsc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Elasticities of Krull domains with divisor class group ${\mathbb Z}_{b}$.
    Karl Kattchee*, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
    (984-13-165)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the Boundary Map and Overrings.
    Jack L Maney*, North Dakota State University
    (984-13-91)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Arithmetic on Free Abelian Groups.
    Clifford Steven Queen*, Lehigh University
    (984-13-151)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Maximal prime divisors in arithmetical rings.
    Laszlo Fuchs, Tulane University
    William Heinzer, Purdue University
    Bruce Olberding*, New Mexico State University
    (984-13-119)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Rings between the Nagata ring and the Kronecker function ring of an integral domain.
    K Alan Loper*, Ohio State University - Newark
    Marco Fontana, University of Rome III
    (984-13-143)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Adjoint Groups of Jacobson Radical Rings.
    Henry E. Heatherly*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (984-16-26)
• Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Frames, Wavelets, and Tomography, IV
  Room 211, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Gestur Olafsson, Louisiana State University olafsson@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Operators associated to Generalized Filter Functions.
    Judith A. Packer*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (984-46-101)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Coaffine systems in $R^d$.
    Brody Dylan Johnson*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (984-42-256)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Localization of Stability, Frame and Sampling in Fourier Domain.
    Qiyu Sun*, University of Houston
    (984-42-94)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Generalization of Frame Potentials (Preliminary Work).
    John J Boncek*, University of Central Florida
    (984-43-222)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Ellipsoidal Tight Frames in Finite and Infinite Dimensional Hilbert Spaces.
    Keri Kornelson*, Texas A&M University
    Ken Dykema, Texas A&M University
    Dan Freeman, Guilford College
    David Larson, Texas A&M Texas A&M University
    Marc Ordower, Randolph Macon Woman's College
    Eric Weber, University of Wyoming
    (984-47-105)
• Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graphs and Matroids, IV
  Room 213, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Bogdan S. Oporowski, Louisiana State University bogdan@math.lsu.edu
  James G. Oxley, Louisiana State University oxley@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Disjoint paths in planar graphs.
    Laura Sheppardson*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Xingxing Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (984-05-182)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The existence of separating cycles in triangulations of the double torus.
    Mark N. Ellingham, Vanderbilt University
    Dana L. Jennings*, Vanderbilt University
    Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
    (984-05-24)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Subsets of the sphere that uniquely embed in the sphere.
    R. Bruce Richter*, University of Waterloo
    Carsten Thomassen, Technical University of Denmark
    (984-57-157)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Trades and flexible graph embeddings.
    Mark N. Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
    (984-05-158)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Book Embeddings.
    Robin Leigh Blankenship*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    Bogdan Oporowski, Louisiana State University
    (984-05-246)
• Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, IV
  Room 120, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Judith L. Baxter, University of Illinois at Chicago baxter@uic.edu
  Robert Peck, Louisiana State University rpeck@lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Music, Models, and the Relative Complexity of Analysis.
    Richard R. Randall*, University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music
    (984-00-227)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Chord Quality and General Harmony.
    Ian Quinn*, University of Chicago
    (984-00-208)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Numbers and the Western Tone-System: Beyond Psychoacoustics.
    Eytan Agmon*, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
    (984-00-43)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Some Recent Developments in Mathematics Applied to Music Theory.
    John Rahn*, University of Washington, Seattle
    (984-01-166)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Aspects of Saturation and Ordering in Twelve-Tone Music.
    Robert D Morris, Eastman School of Music
    Ciro G Scotto*, Eastman School of Music
    (984-20-174)
• Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Asymptotic Analysis, Stability, and Generalized Functions, III
  Room 103, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Ricardo Estrada, Louisiana State University restrada@math.lsu.edu
  Frank Neubrander, Louisiana State University neubrand@math.lsu.edu
  Gunter Lumer, University of Mons-Hainaut
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Rayleigh's instability of thin rods with strong circumferential surface energy anisotropy.
    Wanxi Kan, LSU
    Harris Wong*, LSU
    (984-35-163)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the convergence of von Neumann stable methods.
    Yu Zhuang*, Texas Tech University
    (984-46-39)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Analysis for the functions $f({\bf x})$, $\delta^{(n)}({\bf x})$, $1/r$, and $\psi({\bf x})=\int_{{\bf R}^3} \frac{{\phi({\bf y})}} { \vert {\bf x}-{\bf y}\vert} d{\bf y}$.
    Ram P Kanwal*, Pennsylvania State University
    (984-46-211)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Polynomial asymptotic stability of evolution equations.
    Andras Batkai, Eötvös Lorand University Budapest
    Klaus-Jochen Engel, University of L'Aquila
    Jan Prüss, University of Halle
    Roland Schnaubelt*, University of Halle
    (984-47-99)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Superstability: towards (full) depletion in finite or infinite time (or protection of resources).
    Guenter Lumer*, University of Mons-Hainaut
    (984-35-156)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Induced Representations: Connections to Graphs, Number Theory, Geometry, IV
  Room 215, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  J. William Hoffman, Louisiana State University hoffman@math.lsu.edu
  Robert V. Perlis, Louisiana State University perlis@math.lsu.edu
  Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University stoltz@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Mackey functors and Sunada's theorem.
    Benjamin Thomas Webster*, University of California, Berkeley
    (984-53-28)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Zeta functions of infinite graphs.
    Bryan F Clair*, Saint Louis University
    (984-11-164)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On arithmetically equivalent fields with distinct $p$-class numbers.
    Bart de Smit*, Universiteit Leiden
    (984-11-247)
• Sunday March 16, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Stability analysis, Paley-Wiener criteria, and related problems in materials science/ecology.
  Room 103, Tureaud Hall
  G\"unter Lumer*, University of Mons-Hainaut
  (984-35-03)
• Sunday March 16, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arrangements in Topology and Algebraic Geometry, IV
  Room 226, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
  Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University alexsuciu@neu.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Gauss-Manin connections for arrangements.
    Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University
    Peter Orlik*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (984-32-89)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Deformations of complexified real arrangements.
    Kwai-Man Fan*, National Chung Cheng University
    (984-14-115)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Optimal trajectories for robots in the plane.
    Aaron D Abrams*, University of Georgia
    (984-51-253)
• Sunday March 16, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, IV
  Room 225, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Oliver T. Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten@math.lsu.edu
  Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University gilmer@math.lsu.edu
  Richard A. Litherland, Louisiana State University lither@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Epimorphisms of Knot Groups.
    Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabma
    Wilbur Whitten, Forest, VA
    (984-57-95)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lifting representations of knot group commutator subgroups.
    Daniel Silver, University of South Alabama
    Susan Williams*, University of South Alabama
    (984-57-88)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    An algorithm to recognize Seifert fiber spaces.
    Tao Li*, Oklahoma State University
    (984-57-176)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Variety of groups of knots.
    Mieczyslaw Dabkowski, GWU
    Jozef H Przytycki*, GWU
    (984-57-266)
• Sunday March 16, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastics, Quantization, and Segal-Bargmann Analysis, IV
  Room 228, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  Bruce K. Driver, University of California San Diego driver@euclid.ucsd.edu
  Brian C. Hall, University of Notre Dame bhall@darwin.helios.nd.edu
  Jeffrey J. Mitchell, Baylor University Jeffrey_Mitchell@baylor.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    A discrete version of the Wigner-von Neumann potential.
    Stephen Bruce Sontz*, Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas, A.C. (CIMAT)
    Jaime Cruz Sampedro, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo
    (984-81-104)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Hodge theory with a heat kernel weight.
    Ed Bueler*, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
    (984-58-171)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Dirac Magnetic Charge Quantization Condition.
    Jeffrey J Mitchell, Baylor University
    Ambar N Sengupta*, Louisiana State University
    (984-81-31)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The Gross isometry for homogeneous vector bundles.
    Jeffrey J. Mitchell*, Baylor University
    Brian C. Hall, University of Notre Dame
    (984-58-117)
• Sunday March 16, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on The Role of Mathematics Departments in Secondary Education, III
  Room 116, Tureaud Hall
  Organizers:
  James J. Madden, Louisiana State University madden@math.lsu.edu
  Frank Neubrander, Louisiana State University neubrand@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    On a Master's program in Mathematics and Teaching at Texas A&M University.
    Thomas Schlumprecht*, Texas A&M University
    (984-97-56)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Outreach to High School Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, A Preliminary Report.
    Reid M Davis*, University of Tennessee
    (984-97-203)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Mathematics faculty assisting public schools in improving ACT mathematics scores.
    Frank C Serio*, Northwestern St Univ of La
    Stan Chadick, Northwestern St Univ of La
    (984-97-245)

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