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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

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Sunday October 27, 2002

• Sunday October 27, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Math Office, Room 233, John Widtsoe Building
• Sunday October 27, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, III
  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
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Some doubly exponential sums over primes.
    John B Friedlander*, University of Toronto
    (981-11-102)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Gaps in the Fourier expansions of modular forms.
    Emre Alkan*, University of Wisconsin
    (981-11-43)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Primes and powers of a fixed integer.
    Peter D.T.A. Elliott*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (981-11-24)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On polynomials with coefficients +1 or -1.
    Kwok-kwong Stephen Choi*, Simon Fraser University
    (981-11-39)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Automorphic Boundary Distributions, Voronoi Summation, and L-functions on GL(n).
    Stephen David Miller*, Rutgers University
    Wilfried Schmid, Harvard University
    (981-11-13)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Complex arithmetic dimensions of fractal strings and membranes.
    Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California,Riverside
    (981-11-22)
• Sunday October 27, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory of Semisimple Lie Groups, III
  Room 121, Leroy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Dragan Milicic, University of Utah milicic@math.utah.edu
  Peter Trapa, University of Utah ptrapa@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Hilbert Series for Unitary Highest Weight Representations.
    Thomas J Enright*, UCSD
    (981-22-36)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the automorphism group of free nilpotent groups and Kazhdan property $T$.
    Martin D Kassabov*, Yale University
    (981-22-17)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Geometric approach to Whittaker modules.
    Denis Lukic*, University of Utah
    (981-22-95)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dirac cohomology and $\mathfrak u$-cohomology.
    Jing-Song Huang, HKUST, Hong Kong
    Pavle Pandzic*, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    David Renard, University of Poitiers, France
    (981-22-100)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The cubic Dirac operator on homogeneous spaces.
    Roger Zierau*, Oklahoma State University
    (981-22-85)
• Sunday October 27, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Solutions of Modeling Problems, I
  Room 333, John Widtsoe Building
  Organizers:
  Sun Chow, Brigham Young University schow@math.byu.edu
  Joseph V. Koebbe, Utah State University koebbe@math.usu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Finite Element Approximations of a Glaciology Problem.
    Shue-Sum Chow*, Brigham Young University
    (981-65-106)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Elliptic Grid Generation with Control of the Coordinate Line Distribution for Multiply Connected Regions.
    Vianey R Villamizar*, Brigham Young University
    Otilio Rojas, Universidad Central de Venezuela
    (981-65-105)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Solitary Wave Interactions of the Euler-Poisson Equations.
    David Sattinger*, Utah State University
    David Nicholls, Notre Dame University
    Mariana Haragus, Univesite de Bordeaux
    (981-35-93)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Numerical Simulation of Two-Species Biofilms.
    Benito M Chen*, University of Wyoming
    Hristo Kojouharov, University of Texas at Arlington
    (981-65-79)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Modeling Biofilm Growth in a Porous Medium.
    Kenneth L. Bowers*, Montana State University
    (981-76-101)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A numerical approach for coupling independently modeled substructures.
    Padmanabhan Seshaiyer*, Texas Tech University
    (981-65-86)
• Sunday October 27, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Faculty Lounge, Room 228, John Widtsoe Building
• Sunday October 27, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Topology, III
  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
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Ending laminations and the classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Jeffrey F. Brock*, University of Chicago
    Richard D. Canary, University of Michigan
    Yair N. Minsky, SUNY Stony Brook
    (981-51-99)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Geometric inflexibility of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Kenneth Bromberg*, Caltech
    Jeff Brock, University of Chicago
    (981-51-65)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Small principal curvature surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Christopher J Leininger*, Columbia University
    (981-57-42)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Small 3-manifolds of large genus.
    Ian Agol*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (981-57-67)
• Sunday October 27, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, III
  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
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On a Liouville-type comparison principle for solutions of quasilinear elliptic inequalities.
    Vasyl V. Kurta*, Mathematical Reviews
    (981-35-63)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Variational inequalities in Orlicz-Sobolev spaces.
    Matthew B Rudd*, University of Utah
    (981-47-32)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Symmetry breaking of extremal functions for weighted Sobolev inequalities.
    Zhi-Qiang Wang*, Utah State University
    (981-35-33)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic Behavior of the Potential and Existence of a periodic Solution for a Second Order Differential Equation.
    Alfonso Castro*, University of Texas at San Antonio
    (981-35-109)
• Sunday October 27, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Algebraic Geometry, III
  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
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Toward Arakelov-Parshin rigidity.
    Sandor J Kovacs*, University of Washington
    (981-14-59)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Flops of G-Hilb as moduli of representations of the McKay quiver.
    Alastair Craw*, University of Utah
    (981-14-41)
• Sunday October 27, 2002, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  The Wave Equation and Harmonic Analysis.
  Room 335, John Widtsoe Building
  Hart F Smith*, University of Washington, Seattle
  (981-35-26)
• Sunday October 27, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The Stability and Dynamics of Localized Patterns for a Reaction-Diffusion System.
  Room 335, John Widtsoe Building
  Michael Ward*, University of British Columbia
  (981-35-44)
• Sunday October 27, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, IV
  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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic Large Sieve.
    J. Brian Conrey*, American Institute of Mathematics
    Henryk Iwaniec, Rutgers University
    (981-11-74)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Poincare Series and Kloosterman Sums.
    Wladimir de Azevedo Pribitkin*, Haverford College
    (981-11-27)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Galois representations and arithmetic cohohomology.
    Darrin M Doud*, Brigham Young University
    (981-11-90)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Exponential sums over primes and the Waring-Goldbach problem.
    Angel V. Kumchev*, University of Toronto
    (981-11-14)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Exponential Sums With Real Zeros and Fourier Transforms With Real Zeros.
    David A Cardon*, Brigham Young University
    (981-42-55)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Integers with dense divisors.
    Andreas Weingartner*, Southern Utah University
    (981-11-45)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    On the Weighted Hilbert Inequality.
    Xian-Jin Li*, Brigham Young University
    (981-11-61)
• Sunday October 27, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory of Semisimple Lie Groups, IV
  Room 121, Leroy Cowles Building
  Organizers:
  Dragan Milicic, University of Utah milicic@math.utah.edu
  Peter Trapa, University of Utah ptrapa@math.utah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 27, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Solutions of Modeling Problems, II
  Room 333, John Widtsoe Building
  Organizers:
  Sun Chow, Brigham Young University schow@math.byu.edu
  Joseph V. Koebbe, Utah State University koebbe@math.usu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mathematical and Computational Methodology for Predicting the Emergence of Insect Pests.
    James A Powell, Utah State University
    Jeff T Leek*, Utah State University
    (981-92-76)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Modeling Cell-Cell interactions and motion with discrete viscoelastic ellipsoids.
    John C. Dallon*, Brigham Young University
    (981-92-77)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Wavelet Characterization of Homogenization in Elliptic Problems.
    Laura Watkins*, Utah State University
    Joe Koebbe, Utah State University
    (981-65-71)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Wavelet "Spectral" Method for Approximate Solutions of Elliptic Problems.
    Joe Koebbe*, Utah State University
    (981-65-72)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Numerical Scheme for the Mullins-Sekerka Evolution in Three Space Dimensions.
    Peter W Bates, Michigan State University, East Lansing
    Sarah M Brown*, Brigham Young University
    (981-35-104)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the Approximation of Minimal Norm Solutions of Systems of Linear Equalities.
    Said Bahi*, Southern Utah University
    (981-90-52)

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