AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:31
2003 Spring Western Section Meeting
San Francisco, CA, May 3-4, 2003
Meeting #987
Associate secretaries: Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Saturday May 3, 2003
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Main Lobby (3rd Floor), Thornton Hall -
Saturday May 3, 2003, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Room 331, Thornton Hall -
Saturday May 3, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Efficient Arrangements of Convex Bodies, I
Room 211, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Dan P. Ismailescu, Hofstra University ismailes@CIMS.nyu.edu
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperwl@auburn.edu
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8:00 a.m.
The cardinality of a finite saturated packing of convex bodies in $E^d$.
Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
(987-52-45) -
8:30 a.m.
Lattice packings with a gap are not completely saturated.
Greg Kuperberg, UC-Davis
Krystyna Kuperberg*, Auburn University
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University
(987-52-86) -
9:00 a.m.
On an area inequality related to Tarski's plank problem.
Andras Bezdek*, Auburn University, AL
(987-52-159) -
9:30 a.m.
Cyclic polytopes,hyperplanes and codes.
T Bisztriczky*, U. of Calgary
K. Boroczky, Jr., Renyi Institute
D S Gunderson, U. of Manitoba
(987-52-49) -
10:00 a.m.
Isohedral multiple tilings of the sphere and isohedral polyhedra related to them.
Branko Grünbaum*, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
(987-52-34)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Numerical Methods, Calculations and Simulations in Knot Theory and Its Applications, I
Room 327, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Jorge Alberto Calvo, North Dakota State University jorge_calvo@ndsu.nodak.ed
Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Eric J. Rawdon, Duquesne University rawdon@mathcs.duq.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Numerical simulations of random knotting using the FVM method.
Rob Scharein*, Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics
Greg Buck, St. Anselm College
(987-55-193) -
8:30 a.m.
Thermodynamics and Topology of Disordered Knots: Correlations in Trivial Lattice Knot Diagrams.
Sergei Nechaev*, LPTMS (Orsay, France)
(987-62-98) -
9:00 a.m.
Scaling behavior of the average crossing number in equilateral random knots.
Akos Dobay, University of Lausanne
Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Andrzej Stasiak*, University of Lausanne
(987-54-142) -
9:30 a.m.
Scaling Behavior of Closed and Open Random Knots.
Akos Dobay*, University of Lausanne
Dubochet Jacques, University of Lausanne
Kenneth C. Millett, University of California, Santa Barbara
Pierre-Edouard Sottas, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Andrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne
(987-65-140) -
10:00 a.m.
Topological entropic force associated with the topological swelling of random knots and links.
Tetsuo Deguchi*, Dept. of Physics, Ochanomizu University
(987-82-105) -
10:30 a.m.
An Exploration of the Local Structure of Knot Space.
Kenneth C. Millett*, University of California,Santa Barbara
(987-57-201)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on PDEs and Applications in Geometry, I
Room 325, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Qi S. Zhang, University of California Riverside qizhang@math.ucr.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Existence and Nonexistence Results on Nonlinear Equations.
Mingxin Wang*, Southeast University
(987-35-204) -
9:00 a.m.
$L^p_\delta$ spaces, heat semigroups and applications to nonlinear parabolic and elliptic problems.
Philippe P Souplet*, Univ. de Picardie and Univ. de Versailles, France
(987-35-179) -
10:00 a.m.
The Convergent Rate for Solutions of Dirichlet Problems of Quasilinear Equations.
Zhiren Jin*, Wichita State University
Kirk Lancaster, Wichita State University
(987-35-36)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
Room 429, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Raymond C. Heitmann, University of Texas at Austin heitmann@math.utexas.edu
Irena Swanson, New Mexico State University iswanson@nmsu.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Annihilators of local cohomology in characteristic zero.
Paul C. Roberts*, University of Utah
(987-13-108) -
8:30 a.m.
Characterization of Completions of Excellent Domains of Characteristic Zero.
S. Loepp*, Williams College
(987-13-38) -
9:00 a.m.
The plus closure of an ideal under degree three extensions.
Leslie Hayes*, Saint Joseph's University
(987-13-181) -
9:30 a.m.
Associated primes of local cohomology modules and Frobenius powers of ideals.
Anurag K Singh*, Georgia Institute of Technology
Irena Swanson, New Mexico State University
(987-13-111) -
10:00 a.m.
An inquality involving colengths of tight closure of parameter ideals.
Catalin Ciuperca*, University of California, Riverside
Florian Enescu, University of Utah
(987-13-131) -
10:30 a.m.
Splitting in module-finite extension rings and the vanishing conjecture for maps of Tor.
Nandini Ranganathan*, Reed College
(987-13-202)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Gromov-Witten Theory of Spin Curves and Orbifolds, I
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young University jarvis@math.byu.edu
Takashi Kimura, Boston University kimura@math.bu.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@darkwing.uoregon.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Gerbe and twisted orbifold quantum cohomology.
Yongbin Ruan*, Wisconsin/HKUST
(987-53-104) -
9:00 a.m.
Inertia Orbifolds, Configuration Spaces and the Ghost Loop Space.
Ernesto Lupercio*, University of Wisconsin
Bernardo Uribe, Max Planck Institute
(987-55-171) -
9:30 a.m.
Gerbes over orbifolds and their TQFTs.
Bernardo Uribe*, Max Planck Institut fuer Mathematik
(987-55-61) -
10:00 a.m.
From moduli space of curves to Gromov-Witten invariants.
Xiaobo Liu*, University of Notre Dame
(987-53-78)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Q-Series and Partitions, I
Room 210, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Neville Robbins, San Francisco State University robbins@math.sfsu.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Divisibility properties of p-regular partition functions.
David K Penniston*, Furman University
(987-11-152) -
9:00 a.m.
Gordon's Theorem For Overpartitions.
Jeremy Lovejoy*, CNRS, Universite Bordeaux I, and University of Wisconsin
(987-11-85) -
9:30 a.m.
Arithmetic properties of the partition function.
Matthew G. Boylan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(987-11-82) -
10:00 a.m.
Congruence properties of the partition function $p(n)$.
Ken Ono*, University of Wisconsin
Jan Bruinier, University of Cologne
(987-11-52)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 432, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University serkan@math.sfsu.edu
Ezra Miller, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute emiller@msri.org
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8:30 a.m.
Ideals with a power equal to a power of the maximal ideal.
David Eisenbud*, MSRI / UC Berkeley
Craig Huneke, U of Kansas
Bernd Ulrich, Purdue U
(987-13-77) -
9:00 a.m.
Minimal Primes of Adjacent Minor Ideals.
Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University
Seth Sullivant*, University of California, Berkeley
(987-05-135) -
9:30 a.m.
Complexity in Commutative Algebra.
Amelia Taylor*, Rutgers University
Dave Bayer, Barnard College
Wolmer Vasconcelos, Rutgers University
(987-13-143) -
10:00 a.m.
Beyond Tutte-Grothendieck: A new recursion for matroids and shifted complexes.
Art Duval*, University of Texas at El Paso
(987-05-125) -
10:30 a.m.
Lexicographic Shifting.
Rekha R Thomas*, University of Washington
E Babson, University of Washington
I Novik, University of Washington
(987-13-147)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Beyond Classical Boundaries of Computability, I
Room 329, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Mark Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
Peter Wegner, Brown University pw@cs.brown.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Supertask computation with infinite time Turing machines.
Joel David Hamkins*, Georgia State University
(987-03-09) -
9:00 a.m.
Computation in Pitowsky and Malament-Hogarth Spacetimes.
Oron Shagrir*, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
(987-68-20) -
9:30 a.m.
Quantum Mechanical Principles and Computation.
Tien D Kieu*, Swinburne University of Technology
(987-81-10) -
10:00 a.m.
Hypercomputation by Definition.
Benjamin Wells*, University of San Francisco
(987-03-14) -
10:30 a.m.
Determinacy, Arithmetical quasi-inductive definitions, and Infinite Time Turing Machine Computations.
Philip David Welch*, University of Bristol
(987-03-141)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The History of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Mathematics, I
Room 425, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Shawnee McMurran, California State University, San Bernardino mcmurran@math.csusb.edu
James A. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The evolutionary origins of mathematics ability.
Keith J Devlin*, Stanford University
(987-01-186) -
9:30 a.m.
Ruth Moufang and the foundations of geometry.
John Colin Stillwell*, University of San Francisco
(987-01-28) -
10:00 a.m.
The Angle of Parallelism in the Development of Linear Elasticity.
John Sarli*, CSU San Bernardino
(987-51-35) -
10:30 a.m.
The Erdos-Szekeres Theorem.
Ronald Graham*, UCSD
(987-05-59)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Quantum Computation, I
Room 428, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Alexei Kitaev, California Institute of Technology kitaev@cs.caltech.edu
Samuel J. Lomonaco, University of Maryland, Baltimore County lomonaco@umbc.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Nonabelian phases in electronic and bosonic Hubbard models.
Michael Freedman*, Microsoft Research
(987-81-203) -
10:00 a.m.
A subexponential time algorithm for the dihedral hidden subgroup problem.
Greg Kuperberg*, UC Davis
(987-68-130)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Qualitative Properties and Applications of Functional Equations, I
Room 326, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Theodore A. Burton, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale taburton@olypen.com
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9:00 a.m.
Multiple Solutions for Impulsive Functional Differential Equations.
Mouffak Benchohra, Universite de Sidi Bel Abbes
Johnny Henderson*, Baylor University
Sotiris K. Ntouyas, University of Ioannina
A. Ouahabi, Universite de Sidi Bel Abbes
(987-34-17) -
9:30 a.m.
Massera's Theorem for Almost Periodic Solutions and Almost Automorphic Solutions of Functional Differential Equations.
Satoru Murakami*, Department of Applied Mathematics/ Okayama University of Science
(987-34-53) -
10:00 a.m.
Instability for Dynamical Systems with Applications to Functional Differential Equations and Difference Equations.
John R. Haddock*, University of Memphis
(987-34-124) -
10:30 a.m.
Periodic Solutions of Evolution Equations.
James H Liu*, James Madison University
(987-34-22)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Arithmetic over Finite Fields, I
Room 409, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Bjorn Poonen, University of California Berkeley poonen@math.berkeley.edu
Joe P. Buhler, Reed College jpb@reed.edu
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9:30 a.m.
On Effective Hilbert Irreducibility Theorems.
Shuhong Gao*, Clemson University
(987-11-67) -
10:30 a.m.
Counting symmetric, diagonalizable matricies of small size over finite fields.
Christopher L Phan*, Lewis & Clark College
Harvey J Schmidt, Lewis & Clark College
(987-15-21)
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9:30 a.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Presentation: Part I
TA development using case studies: A workshop for faculty.
Room 434, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Diane Herrmann, University of Chicago -
Saturday May 3, 2003, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Higher spin curves and Gromov-Witten theory.
Room 201, Science Building
Arkady Vaintrob*, University of Oregon
(987-14-170) -
Saturday May 3, 2003, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
Topological quantum computation and quantum media.
Room 201, Science Building
Alexei Kitaev*, Caltech
(987-81-177) -
Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on The History of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Mathematics, II
Room 425, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Shawnee McMurran, California State University, San Bernardino mcmurran@math.csusb.edu
James A. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Riemann's Explicit Formula.
Jeffrey Stopple*, UC Santa Barbara
(987-11-42) -
3:30 p.m.
Moments of the Riemann zeta function: from Ingham, Hardy and Littlewood to today.
Jennifer E Beineke*, Western New England College
(987-01-146) -
4:00 p.m.
Mathematical Questions and Their Solutions from The Educational Times.
James J Tattersall*, Providence College
Shawnee L McMurran, California State University San Bernardino
(987-01-65)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Q-Series and Partitions, II
Room 210, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Neville Robbins, San Francisco State University robbins@math.sfsu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
A new formula for 9 squares.
Stephen C Milne*, The Ohio State University
(987-11-96) -
3:30 p.m.
Gollnitz-Gordon partitions with weights and parity conditions.
Krishnaswami Alladi*, University of Florida
Alexander Berkovich, University of Florida
(987-11-56) -
4:00 p.m.
Statistics on Schr\"oder paths and Symmetric Functions.
E. S. Egge, Gettysburg College
J. Haglund*, University of Pennsylvania
K. Killpatrick, Pepperdine University
D. Kremer, Gettysburg College
(987-05-74) -
4:30 p.m.
Identities for the total number of parts in all partitions of an integer.
Neville Robbins*, San Francisco State University
Arnold Knopfmacher, University of the Witwatersrand
(987-11-50) -
5:00 p.m.
A classical treatment of the divisibility properties of $p(n)$.
Dennis A Eichhorn*, University of Arizona
(987-11-136)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 432, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University serkan@math.sfsu.edu
Ezra Miller, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute emiller@msri.org
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3:00 p.m.
Smooth toric varieties and quadratic embeddings.
Joseph Gubeladze*, San Francisco State University and Georgian Academy of Sciences
Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University
(987-13-117) -
3:30 p.m.
Delta Normal Configurations.
Edwin Michael O'Shea*, University of Washington
(987-13-195) -
4:00 p.m.
Combinatorial Structure of Injective Resolutions over Semigroup Rings.
David F Helm*, UC Berkeley
(987-13-165) -
4:30 p.m.
Multiplier ideals on toric varieties.
Howard M Thompson*, University of Michigan
(987-14-81) -
5:00 p.m.
The $K$-theory of the flag variety and the Fomin-Kirillov quadratic algebra.
Cristian P. Lenart*, State University of New York at Albany
(987-05-172) -
5:30 p.m.
On a Pieri-Chevalley type formula for $K(G/B)$.
Peter Littelmann*, Wuppertal/MSRI
(987-14-184)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Quantum Computation, II
Room 428, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Alexei Kitaev, California Institute of Technology kitaev@cs.caltech.edu
Samuel J. Lomonaco, University of Maryland, Baltimore County lomonaco@umbc.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Quantum Entanglement and Topological Entanglement.
Louis H Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
Samuel J. Lomonaco, University of Maryland Baltimore County
(987-81-174) -
4:00 p.m.
Quantum computations using anyons from finite groups.
Carlos Mochon*, Caltech
(987-68-109) -
5:00 p.m.
Quantum Invariants of 3-Manifolds and Quantum Computation.
Sergey Bravyi*, Institute for Quantum Information, Caltech
Alexei Kitaev, Institute for Quantum Information, Caltech
(987-00-167)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Beyond Classical Boundaries of Computability, II
Room 329, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Mark Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
Peter Wegner, Brown University pw@cs.brown.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Turing's Life and Ideas.
Peter Wegner*, Brown University
(987-68-11) -
3:30 p.m.
SuperTuring Models of Computation.
Dina Goldin*, University of Connecticut
(987-68-12) -
4:00 p.m.
Natural Computation and Non-Turing Models of Computation.
Bruce J. MacLennan*, Department of Computer Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(987-68-18) -
4:30 p.m.
New Kind of Computer Science.
Eugene Eberbach*, University of Massachusetts
(987-68-13) -
5:00 p.m.
Continuous-space model of computation.
Damien Woods*, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Thomas J Naughton, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
J Paul Gibson, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
(987-68-30) -
5:30 p.m.
Round Table
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Qualitative Properties and Applications of Functional Equations, II
Room 326, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Theodore A. Burton, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale taburton@olypen.com
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3:00 p.m.
Second Order Functional Equations of Neutral Type.
Constantin C. Corduneanu*, University of Texas,Arlington
(987-34-145) -
3:30 p.m.
Existence results for second order functional differential equations with causal operators.
Mehran Mahdavi*, Bowie State University
(987-34-116) -
4:00 p.m.
Generalized Quasilinearization Method Versus Newton's Method.
Aghalaya S Vatsala*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
(987-34-69) -
4:30 p.m.
Recent Results Related to Blow-up and Quenching Problems.
C M Kirk*, California Polytechnic State University; San Luis Obispo, CA
(987-45-134) -
5:00 p.m.
Inequalities and Stability of Solutions of a Linear Scalar Functional Differential Equation.
Tingxiu Wang*, Oakton Community College
(987-34-64) -
5:30 p.m.
Integrodifferential Equations and Equations of Viscoelasticity.
Min He*, Kent State University Trumbull Campus
(987-35-102)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Arithmetic over Finite Fields, II
Room 409, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Bjorn Poonen, University of California Berkeley poonen@math.berkeley.edu
Joe P. Buhler, Reed College jpb@reed.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Tate duality and the discrete logarithm problem.
Ming-Deh Huang*, University of Southern California
(987-11-72) -
4:00 p.m.
On some subgroups of the multiplicative group of finite rings.
J Felipe Voloch*, University of Texas at Austin
(987-11-27) -
5:00 p.m.
Sharper ABC-based bounds for congruent polynomials.
Daniel J. Bernstein*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(987-12-33)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Efficient Arrangements of Convex Bodies, II
Room 211, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Dan P. Ismailescu, Hofstra University ismailes@CIMS.nyu.edu
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperwl@auburn.edu
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3:00 p.m.
The symmetry of densest packings.
Charles Radin*, University of Texas at Austin
(987-52-39) -
4:00 p.m.
Regular Production Systems and Aperiodicity in the Hyperbolic Plane.
Chaim Goodman-Strauss*, Univ Arkansas
(987-52-40) -
4:30 p.m.
Infinite packings of hyperbolic space through ergodic theory.
Lewis P Bowen*, University of California, Davis
(987-52-73) -
5:00 p.m.
On the Kneser-Poulsen Conjecture in Euclidean and spherical spaces.
Robert Connelly*, Cornell University
Károly Bezdek, Eötvös University
(987-52-114)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Numerical Methods, Calculations and Simulations in Knot Theory and Its Applications, II
Room 327, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Jorge Alberto Calvo, North Dakota State University jorge_calvo@ndsu.nodak.ed
Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
Eric J. Rawdon, Duquesne University rawdon@mathcs.duq.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Some conjectures on the enumeration of alternating links and tangles.
Paul G Zinn-Justin*, LPTMS, Universite Paris-sud
(987-05-70) -
3:30 p.m.
The Y-energy of knots.
Jun O'Hara*, Tokyo Metropolitan University
(987-53-178) -
4:00 p.m.
Quadrisecants of 3-superbridge knots.
Gyo Taek Jin*, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Miyoung Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
(987-57-175) -
4:30 p.m.
Ordered groups, topology and computation.
Dale Rolfsen*, University of British Columbia
(987-06-75) -
5:00 p.m.
Meridians of Hyperbolic Knots.
Colin C Adams*, Williams College
(987-57-138) -
5:30 p.m.
Flat Knotted Bands.
Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(987-57-79)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on PDEs and Applications in Geometry, II
Room 325, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Qi S. Zhang, University of California Riverside qizhang@math.ucr.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Three dimensional geometry and the Einstein constraint equations.
Richard M Schoen*, Stanford University
(987-53-144) -
4:00 p.m.
Certain collapsing sequences of solutions to Ricci flow.
Bennett Chow*, UCSD
David Glickenstein, UCSD
Peng Lu, University of Oregon
(987-53-155) -
5:00 p.m.
Sub-Riemannian calculus on hypersurfaces in Carnot groups and geometric estimates of Ahlfors type.
Nicola Garofalo*, Purdue University
(987-35-196)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
Room 429, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Raymond C. Heitmann, University of Texas at Austin heitmann@math.utexas.edu
Irena Swanson, New Mexico State University iswanson@nmsu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Multiplicities of graded sequences of ideals.
Mircea I Mustata*, Clay Mathematics Institute
(987-13-92) -
3:30 p.m.
Effective Uniform Artin Rees Theorems.
L Ein, UIC
R. Lazarsfeld, U Michigan, Ann Arbor
K E Smith*, U Michigan, Ann Arbor
D Varolin, U Illinois, Urbana
(987-14-90) -
4:00 p.m.
Multiplicity of the special fiber of blowups.
Claudia Polini*, University of Notre Dame
(987-13-153) -
4:30 p.m.
On a Certain Variety of Determinantal-Like Ideals.
Jennifer C. McLoud-Mann*, University of Texas at Tyler
(987-13-115) -
5:00 p.m.
Evolutions and monomial ideals.
Reinhold Huebl*, Universitaet Regensburg
(987-13-55) -
5:30 p.m.
Weak Subintegral Closure of Ideals: Local Characterization and Connections with Reductions.
Marie A Vitulli*, University of Oregon
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University
(987-13-187)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Gromov-Witten Theory of Spin Curves and Orbifolds, II
Room 335, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young University jarvis@math.byu.edu
Takashi Kimura, Boston University kimura@math.bu.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@darkwing.uoregon.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Orbifold Gromov-Witten theory.
Tom Graber*, UC Berkeley
(987-14-163) -
4:00 p.m.
The stringy Chow rings of $M_2$ and $\overline M_2$.
Dan Abramovich*, Boston University / Brown University
James Spencer, Boston University
(987-14-151) -
4:30 p.m.
The Global Mackay-Ruan Correspondence via Motivic Integration.
Mainak Poddar*, Michigan State University
(987-14-189) -
5:00 p.m.
New cohomological field theories arising from quasi-homogeneous polynomials.
Huijun Fan, Max-Planck Institut fuer Math.
Tyler J Jarvis*, Brigham Young University
Yong-Bin Ruan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
(987-14-160) -
5:30 p.m.
Pointed admissible G-covers, equivariant topological field theories and analogies with the moduli space of higher spin curves.
Takashi Kimura*, Institute for Advanced Study
(987-14-192)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Special Presentation: Part I
TA development using case studies: A workshop for faculty.
Room 434, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Diane Herrmann, University of Chicago -
Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers
Room 106, Business Building
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3:15 p.m.
Multiplication of Hypernumbers and Extrafunctions.
Mark Burgin*, UCLA
(987-46-46) -
3:30 p.m.
Autonomous DNA Computing model for logial and arithmetic operations.
Ponnammal Natarajan*, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai(India)
Anbarasu Sivalingam, Anna University, Chennai (India)
(987-68-123) -
3:45 p.m.
Maximizing Confidence That a Vector Valued Diffusion Process Will Hit a Target.
Rod A Freed*, California State University
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4:30 p.m.
Exceptional surgery and boundary slopes.
Masaharu Ishikawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Thomas W Mattman*, Cal. State Univ., Chico
Koya Shimokawa, Saitama University
(987-57-91) -
4:45 p.m.
Intrinsically Linked Graphs and Kuratowski Minors.
Thomas R Fleming*, UC San Diego
(987-57-89) -
5:00 p.m.
Some applications of the Frobenius-Perron theorem to dynamical systems in geometry.
Jiu Ding*, University of Southern Mississippi
(987-15-97) -
5:15 p.m.
Best Possible Hadamard Inqualities for Midpoint estimates.
A. M. Fink*, Iowa state University
Zsolt Pales, University of Debrecen
(987-26-24) -
5:30 p.m.
Generalized Shifts On Cartesian Products Of Sequence Spaces lp.
Sundaresan Kondagunta*, Cleveland State University
(987-46-119)
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3:15 p.m.