AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:45
2002 Fall Western Section Meeting
Salt Lake City, UT, October 26-27, 2002
Meeting #981
Associate secretaries: Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Saturday October 26, 2002
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Saturday October 26, 2002, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Math Office, Room 233, John Widtsoe Building -
Saturday October 26, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, I
Room 219, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Roger Baker, Brigham Young University baker@math.byu.edu
Xian-Jin Li, Brigham Young University xianjin@math.byu.edu
Andrew D. Pollington, Brigham Young University andy@math.byu.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Estimates for the number of algebraic numbers of fixed degree and bounded height.
Jeffrey D. Vaaler*, University of Texas at Austin
(981-11-29) -
8:30 a.m.
Evidence for a Spectral Interpretation of the Zeros of $L$-functions from One-Parameter Families of Elliptic Curves.
Steven J Miller*, Princeton University
(981-11-23) -
9:00 a.m.
The pair correlation function of $n^2 \alpha$ modulo one and an equidistribution problem in hyperbolic geometry.
Andreas Strombergsson*, Princeton University
(981-11-89) -
9:30 a.m.
The Integer Chebyshev Problem.
Peter B Borwein*, Mathematics Department, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
(981-11-31) -
10:00 a.m.
Counting automorphic forms associated to Galois representations.
Akshay Venkatesh*, MIT
(981-11-70) -
10:30 a.m.
On Ternary Quadratic Forms.
W Duke*, UCLA
(981-11-35)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 26, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Representation Theory of Semisimple Lie Groups, I
Room 121, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Dragan Milicic, University of Utah milicic@math.utah.edu
Peter Trapa, University of Utah ptrapa@math.utah.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Annihilators and associated varieties of Harish-Chandra modules over classical Lie algebras.
William M. McGovern*, University of Washington
(981-22-06) -
9:00 a.m.
On the Howe correspondence for symplectic-orthogonal dual pairs.
Annegret Paul*, Western Michigan University
(981-22-28) -
9:30 a.m.
Unipotent supports for character sheaves.
Pramod N. Achar*, University of Chicago
Anne-Marie Aubert, École Normale Supérieur
(981-20-91) -
10:00 a.m.
Holomorphic continuation of generalized Jacquet integrals for degenerate principal series.
Nolan R. Wallach*, University of California, San Diego
(981-22-56)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 26, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Faculty Lounge, Room 228, John Widtsoe Building -
Saturday October 26, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Topology, I
Room 215, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah bestvina@math.utah.edu
Michael Kapovich, University of Utah kapovich@math.utah.edu
Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Utah gmikhalk@math.utah.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Surface subgroups of Coxeter groups.
Cameron McA Gordon*, University of Texas at Austin
Darren D Long, UC Santa Barbara
Alan W Reid, University of Texas at Austin
(981-20-83) -
9:30 a.m.
Bounded cochains on 3-manifolds.
D Calegari*, California Institute of Technology
(981-57-62) -
10:30 a.m.
Compactifications of leaves and foliations.
Alberto Candel*, CSUN
(981-58-69)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 26, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Area-Minimization and Minimal Surfaces, I
Room 222, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University mdorff@math.byu.edu
Denise Halverson, Brigham Young University deniseh@math.byu.edu
Gary R. Lowler, Brigham Young University lawlor@mathed.byu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Shortest networks for regular $n$-gons on a 480 degree cone.
Gary R Lawlor*, Brigham Young University
Joseph Rabinoff, Harvard University
Mark Burkhardt, Williams College
Neil Hoffman, Williams College
Aaron Magid, Williams College
(981-49-103) -
10:00 a.m.
Area-minimizing minimal graphs over nonconvex domains.
Denise M Halverson*, Brigham Young University
Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University
Gary Lawlor, Brigham Young University
(981-49-58) -
10:30 a.m.
A least-area division of Gauss space into three equal pieces.
Joseph A Corneli*, University of Texas--Austin
(981-51-80)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 26, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, I
Room 225, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
David A. Hartenstine, University of Utah hartenst@math.utah.edu
Jon T. Jacobsen, Harvey Mudd College jacobsen@hmc.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The Monge-Ampere Equation in Domains that are not Strictly Convex.
David A Hartenstine*, University of Utah
(981-35-88) -
9:30 a.m.
A priori estimates for a parabolic Monge-Amp\`ere equation from evolution of surfaces.
Qingbo Huang*, Wright State University
Guozhen Lu, Wayne State University
(981-35-50) -
10:00 a.m.
$W^(2,p)$ estimates for the Linearized Monge Ampere equation.
Federico Tournier*, Purdue University
Cristian Gutierrez, Temple University
(981-35-73) -
10:30 a.m.
Numerical Investigations of Monge-Ampere Type Equations.
John M. Neuberger*, Northern Arizona University
(981-35-94)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 26, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Trends in Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 323, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Aaron J. Bertram, University of Utah bertram@math.utah.edu
Christopher Derek Hacon, University of California Riverside hacon@math.ucr.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Group-Cohomological field theories.
Tyler Jarvis*, Brigham Young University
(981-14-53) -
10:00 a.m.
A geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule.
Ravi Vakil*, Stanford University
(981-14-37)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 26, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Time Series, Heavy Tails, and Applications, I
Room 308, John Widtsoe Building
Organizers:
Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah davar@math.utah.edu
Piotr Kokozska, Utah State University piotr@math.usu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Limits of On/Off Hierarchical Product Models for Data Transmission.
Sidney Resnick*, Cornell University
Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University
(981-60-15) -
9:30 a.m.
Subsampling heavy-tailed models.
Piotr S Kokoszka*, Utah State University
(981-62-09) -
10:00 a.m.
River flow time series with heavy tails.
Mark M Meerschaert*, University of Nevada
Paul L Anderson, Albion College
(981-62-16) -
10:30 a.m.
Long Memory Models in Atomic Timekeeping.
Lara S Schmidt*, U. S. Naval Observatory
David Crosby, American University
I-Lok Chang, American University
(981-62-19)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 26, 2002, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Comparing Symplectic and Contact Topologies
Room 335, John Widtsoe Building
Yakov Eliashberg*, Stanford University -
Saturday October 26, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
Partially hyperbolic dynamics on 3-manifolds
Room 335, John Widtsoe Building
Amie Wilkinson*, Northwestern University -
Saturday October 26, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Area-Minimization and Minimal Surfaces, II
Room 222, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University mdorff@math.byu.edu
Denise Halverson, Brigham Young University deniseh@math.byu.edu
Gary R. Lowler, Brigham Young University lawlor@mathed.byu.edu
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Saturday October 26, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, II
Room 219, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Roger Baker, Brigham Young University baker@math.byu.edu
Xian-Jin Li, Brigham Young University xianjin@math.byu.edu
Andrew D. Pollington, Brigham Young University andy@math.byu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Elements of class groups of imaginary quadratic fields and Shafarevich-Tate groups of elliptic curves.
Antal Balog, Math. Institute of Hungarian Acad. Sci.
Ken Ono*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
(981-11-25) -
3:30 p.m.
Weierstrass points on modular curves.
Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(981-11-49) -
4:00 p.m.
A generalization of Vinogradov's mean value theorem.
Scott T Parsell*, Penn State University
(981-11-97) -
4:30 p.m.
Second order modular forms and GL(2) converse theorems.
David W Farmer*, American Institute of Mathematics
(981-11-51) -
5:00 p.m.
Nearly multiplicative powers of $\eta$.
Adrian D Stanger*, Brigham Young University
(981-11-38) -
5:30 p.m.
The frequency of vanishings of quadratic twists of modular form L-functions.
Michael Rubinstein*, American Institute of Mathematics
Brian Conrey, American Institute of Mathematics
Jonathan Keating, University of Bristol
Nina Snaith, University of Bristol
(981-11-54) -
6:00 p.m.
Correlations of Short Divisor Sums and Small Gaps Between Primes.
Daniel A Goldston*, San Jose State University
(981-11-84) -
6:30 p.m.
Siegel Modular Forms, Theta Series, and Hecke Operators.
Lynne Walling*, University of Colorado
(981-11-110)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 26, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 225, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
David A. Hartenstine, University of Utah hartenst@math.utah.edu
Jon T. Jacobsen, Harvey Mudd College jacobsen@hmc.edu
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3:00 p.m.
On a critical perturbation of a Neumann elliptic problem with limiting Sobolev exponent.
David G Costa*, University of Nevada - Las Vegas
(981-35-108) -
3:30 p.m.
A Multiplicity Result for the Jumping Nonlinearity Problem.
Hossein T Tehrani*, UNLV
(981-35-87) -
4:00 p.m.
An Existence Result on Positive Solutions for a Class of Semilinear Elliptic Systems.
Dang Hai, Mississippi State University
Ratnasingham Shivaji*, Mississippi State University
(981-35-81) -
4:30 p.m.
Diffusive logistic equation with constant yield harvesting.
Junping Shi*, Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary
(981-35-96) -
5:00 p.m.
Uniqueness of positive solutions for a class of semilinear elliptic systems.
Hai Dang*, Mississippi State University
(981-35-66)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 26, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Representation Theory of Semisimple Lie Groups, II
Room 121, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Dragan Milicic, University of Utah milicic@math.utah.edu
Peter Trapa, University of Utah ptrapa@math.utah.edu
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3:00 p.m.
The associated cycle of a unipotent representation.
Dan Barbasch*, Cornell university
(981-22-78) -
4:00 p.m.
Another look at the Littlewood restriction formula.
Jeb F. Willenbring*, Yale University
(981-22-07) -
5:00 p.m.
A Reduction Program for Semisimple Groups.
Arthur Lim*, University of Minnesota
(981-22-21) -
5:30 p.m.
A Localization Argument for Characters of Reductive Lie Groups: An Introduction and Examples.
Matvei Libine*, University of Massachusetts
(981-22-20)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 26, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Trends in Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 323, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Aaron J. Bertram, University of Utah bertram@math.utah.edu
Christopher Derek Hacon, University of California Riverside hacon@math.ucr.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Local Gromov-Witten theory of curves in Calabi-Yau 3-folds and Topological Quantum Field Theory.
Jim Bryan*, University of British Columbia
(981-14-40) -
4:00 p.m.
Semisimple Frobenius manifolds and Witten's conjecture on spin curves and Gelfand-Dickey hierarchies.
YP Lee*, University of Utah
(981-14-60) -
5:00 p.m.
Quantum Chow rings of Deligne-Mumford stacks.
Tom Graber*, UC Berkeley
(981-14-82)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 26, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Topology, II
Room 215, Leroy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah bestvina@math.utah.edu
Michael Kapovich, University of Utah kapovich@math.utah.edu
Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Utah gmikhalk@math.utah.edu
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3:00 p.m.
An invariant of tangle cobordisms.
Mikhail Khovanov*, University of California, Davis
(981-57-18) -
4:00 p.m.
Higher-Order Alexander Modules with Applications to the Thurston Norm and Symplectic 4-manifolds.
Shelly Harvey*, University of California, San Diego
(981-57-64) -
4:30 p.m.
Cube complexes for groups and manifolds.
Jon McCammond*, UC Santa Barbara
Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
(981-20-68) -
5:00 p.m.
The \emph{loop shortening property} and almost convexity.
Murray J Elder*, Tufts University
(981-20-30)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 26, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Time Series, Heavy Tails, and Applications, II
Room 308, John Widtsoe Building
Organizers:
Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah davar@math.utah.edu
Piotr Kokozska, Utah State University piotr@math.usu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
The efficiency of the estimators of the parameters in GARCH processes.
Lajos Horvath*, The University of Utah
(981-62-12) -
3:30 p.m.
Storage processes with a self-similar and infinitely divisible input.
Patrik Albin, Chalmers University of Technology
Gennady Samorodnitsky*, Cornell University
(981-60-11)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 26, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers
Room 218, Leroy Cowles Building
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3:00 p.m.
Multipliers of Sequence Spaces, III.
George U Brauer*, University of Minnesota
(981-40-10) -
3:15 p.m.
Optimal Control of a Functional of a Diffusion Process.
Rod A Freed*, California State University at Dominguez Hills
(981-60-107) -
3:30 p.m.
The Boundary of Weighted Analytic Centers for Linear Matrix Inequalities.
Shafiu Jibrin*, Northern Arizona University
James Swift, Northern Arizona University
(981-90-08) -
3:45 p.m.
Quasi-conformal Rigidity of Negatively Curved Three Manifolds.
Yong Hou*, University of Iowa
(981-51-98)
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3:00 p.m.