AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:40
2004 Spring Southeastern Section Meeting
Tallahassee, FL, March 12-13, 2004
Meeting #994
Associate secretaries: John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu
Saturday March 13, 2004
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Weichelt Lounge, Rovetta Business Building -
Saturday March 13, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Weichelt Lounge, Rovetta Business Building -
Saturday March 13, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Syzygies and Hilbert Functions, III
Room 108, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Irena Peeva, Cornell University ivp1@cornell.edu
Christopher A. Francisco, Cornell University chris@math.cornell.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Gorenstein projective dimesion, Tate and Vogel cohomology for complexes.
Oana Veliche*, Purdue University
(994-18-96) -
8:30 a.m.
Classes of Gorenstein rings defined via vanishing cohomology.
David A. Jorgensen*, University of Texas at Arlington
Liana M. Sega, Michigan State University
(994-13-110) -
9:00 a.m.
The set of semidualizing complexes is a metric space.
Sean Sather-Wagstaff*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Anders Frankild, University of Copenhagen
(994-13-40) -
9:30 a.m.
Sally modules of m-primary ideals in local rings.
Alberto Corso*, University of Kentucky
(994-13-141) -
10:00 a.m.
A bound on the first Hilbert coefficient.
Claudia Polini*, University of Notre Dame
(994-13-106) -
10:30 a.m.
Rees algebras of the modules of cycles in a Koszul complex.
Jerzy M Weyman*, Northeastern University
(994-13-111)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Knot Theory and Applications, III
Room 202, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte ydiao@uncc.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Solving Tangle Equations with KnotPlot.
Isabel K Darcy*, University of Iowa
Robert G Scharein, Simon Fraser University
Stephen D Levene, University of Texas at Dallas
(994-92-193) -
8:30 a.m.
A comparison between the scaling of the average crossing number ${\rm ACN}$ of equilateral random polygons with the corresponding ${\rm ACN}$ scaling observed in native proteins.
Akos Dobay*, Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis, University of Lausanne
Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina
Kenneth Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Andrzej Stasiak, Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis, University of Lausanne
(994-65-85) -
9:00 a.m.
Connectivity and shape of spaces of knots.
Alessandro Flammini, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
Andrzej Stasiak*, University of Lausanne
(994-54-46) -
9:30 a.m.
Unknotting by Type II Topoisomerases.
Jennifer K Mann*, Florida State University
Richard W Deibler, Harvard Medical School
De Witt L Sumners, Florida State University
E. Lynn Zechiedrich, Baylor College of Medicine
(994-92-187) -
10:00 a.m.
Colorability and $n$-string Tangles.
Junalyn P. Navarra-Madsen*, UT-Dallas
Isabel K. Darcy, University of Iowa
(994-92-37) -
10:30 a.m.
Generating Large Random Knot Projections.
Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Uta Ziegler, Western Kentucky University
(994-55-162)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Turbulence (dedicated to the memory of Olga A. Ladyzhenskaya), II
Room 208, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Xiaoming Wang, Florida State University and Iowa State University xiawang@iastate.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Optical turbulence in shear flows of nematic liquid crystal polymers.
Qi Wang*, Florida State University
(994-76-137) -
8:30 a.m.
On Viscoelastic Fluids.
Chun Liu*, PSU
(994-35-69) -
9:00 a.m.
Homogenized Transport by a Spatiotemporal Mean Flow with Small-Scale Periodic Fluctuations.
Grigorios A. Pavliotis, University of Warwick
Peter R Kramer*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(994-76-128) -
9:30 a.m.
Statistically Relevant Conserved Quantities in Systems with Conservation Laws.
Rafail V. Abramov*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences/Center for Atmospheric Ocean Science, New York University
Andrew J. Majda, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences/Center for Atmospheric Ocean Science, New York University
(994-35-32) -
10:00 a.m.
Resonances, Renormalization Groups, and Wave Turbulence.
David Cai*, Courant Institute
(994-35-199) -
10:30 a.m.
Bifurcation and Stability of Rayleigh-Benard Convection.
Tian Ma, Indiana University
Shouhong Wang*, Indiana University
(994-35-132)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of Mathematics to Problems in Biology, I
Room 102, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Richard Bertram, Florida State University bertram@math.fsu.edu
Jack Quine, Florida State University
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8:30 a.m.
Mathematical Formalism of Pulse Sequences in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
P. Srinivasan*, Florida State University
J. R. Quine, Florida State University
Zhehong Gan, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
(994-92-179) -
9:00 a.m.
Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins usingDiscrete Frenet Frames and Solid-State NMR restraints.
Achuthan Srisairam*, FSU
Jack Quine, FSU
(994-92-121) -
9:30 a.m.
Graphical Models and Independent Components - A Unifying Paradigm for Model-Free Functional MRI.
Anke Meyer-Baese*, FSU
(994-62-196) -
10:00 a.m.
Applications of the Poisson-Boltzmann Equation in Molecular Biophysics.
Marcia O Fenley*, Florida State University
Alexander H Boschitsch, Continuum Dynamics, Inc.
(994-92-197) -
10:30 a.m.
Membrane Protein Refinement Techniques Using Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Methods.
Thomas M Asbury*, Florida State University
(994-92-77)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology in Honor of John Bryant, III
Room 204, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Washington Mio, Florida State University mio@math.fsu.edu
Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University (SUNY) erik@math.binghamton.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Smoothing loop spaces.
Erik K. Pedersen*, Binghamton University
Tilman Bauer, University of Münster
N. Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins University
D. Notbohm, Leicester University
(994-57-75) -
9:30 a.m.
Manifolds with nonstable fundamental groups at infinity.
Craig R Guilbault*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Frederick C Tinsley, The Colorado College
(994-57-156) -
10:00 a.m.
Weighted $L^2$-cohomology of Coxeter groups.
M W Davis, The Ohio State University
J Dymara, Wroclaw University
T Januszkiewicz, The Ohio State University
B Okun*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(994-55-170) -
10:30 a.m.
Some examples of free actions of products of Spheres.
Ian Hambleton*, McMaster University
(994-57-171)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 8:45 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Topology, III
Room 205, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University aluffi@math.fsu.edu
Ettore Aldrovandi, Florida State University ealdrov@math.fsu.edu
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8:45 a.m.
On the growth of hyperbolic Coxeter groups.
Ruth Kellerhals*, University of Fribourg
(994-22-68) -
9:30 a.m.
On groups generated by two positive multi-twists.
Chris Leininger*, Columbia University
(994-51-12) -
10:15 a.m.
Presentation of orbifolds and equivariant algebraic topology.
David S Metzler*, University of Florida
Andre Henriques, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(994-55-127)
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8:45 a.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Financial Mathematics, III
Room 103, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Alec N. Kercheval, Florida State University kercheva@math.fsu.edu
Warren D. Nichols, Florida State University nichols@math.fsu.edu
Craig A. Nolder, Florida State University nolder@math.fsu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Multiscale Stochastic Volatility Models.
Jean-Pierre M Fouque*, North Carolina State University
(994-60-08) -
9:30 a.m.
Mathematical Models for European Options with Dividends and Stochastic Volatility.
Osvaldo D. Mendez*, University of Texas El Paso
(994-91-64) -
10:00 a.m.
The Market Price of Credit Risk.
Kay Giesecke*, Cornell University
Lisa Goldberg, Barra, Inc.
(994-90-55) -
10:30 a.m.
Extreme events in financial markets: jumps and crashes.
Maria Cristina Mariani*, New Mexico State University
(994-90-58)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Results in 3-Manifolds and Related Topics, III
Room 203, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Wolfgang H. Heil, Florida State University heil@math.fsu.edu
Sergio R. Fenley, Florida State University fenley@math.fsu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Compression branched surfaces and tight laminations.
Tao Li*, Oklahoma State University
(994-57-120) -
9:30 a.m.
Seifert surfaces with different depths.
Mark Brittenham*, University of Nebraska
(994-57-101) -
10:00 a.m.
Nonexistence of foliations.
Sergio Fenley, Florida State University
Rachel Roberts*, Washington University in St Louis
John Shareshian, Washington University in St Louis
Melanie Stein, Trinity College
(994-57-178) -
10:30 a.m.
Uniform 1 Cochains and Genuine Laminations.
Baris Coskunuzer*, Princeton University
(994-57-207)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Robert Gilmer and Joe Mott: Forty Years of Commutative Ring Theory at Florida State University, III
Room 206, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
William J. Heinzer, Purdue University heinzer@math.purdue.edu
James W. Brewer, Florida Atlantic University brewer@fau.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The $t\#$-property for integral domains.
Stefania Gabelli, University of Rome III
Evan Houston*, UNC Charlotte
Thomas G Lucas, UNC Charlotte
(994-13-114) -
9:30 a.m.
Prufer Conditions on Rings.
Sarah Glaz*, University of Connecticut
(994-13-129) -
10:00 a.m.
Prufer Domains.
K Alan Loper*, Ohio State University - Newark
(994-13-142) -
10:30 a.m.
Prime ideals in ultraproducts of commutative rings.
Bruce M Olberding*, New Mexico State University
Jay Shapiro, George Mason University
(994-13-151)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, III
Room 207, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Daniel M. Oberlin, Florida State University oberlin@math.fsu.edu
Laura de Carli, Florida International University decarlil@fiu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Spaces Related to the Dirichlet Space.
Richard Rochberg*, Washington University
(994-46-173) -
9:30 a.m.
Moser's inequality on the ball $B^n$ for functions with mean value zero.
Mark Leckband*, Florida International University
(994-46-185) -
10:00 a.m.
On G-Convergence of the Beltrami Operators.
Tadeusz Iwaniec*, Syracuse University
(994-35-146) -
10:30 a.m.
$(p,p)$-mapping properties for oscillaory integrals.
G. Sampson*, Auburn University
(994-42-03)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Invited Address
Markov decision processes and a potential application to biological sequence alignment.
Room 101, Rovetta Business Building
Fern Y. Hunt*, National Institute of Standards
(994-60-05) -
Saturday March 13, 2004, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
On the homeomorphism problem.
Room 101, Rovetta Business Building
William H. Jaco*, Oklahoma State University
(994-57-04) -
Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Syzygies and Hilbert Functions, IV
Room 108, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Irena Peeva, Cornell University ivp1@cornell.edu
Christopher A. Francisco, Cornell University chris@math.cornell.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Curves defined by certain monomial ideals.
Uwe Nagel*, University of Kentucky
Juan C Migliore, University of Notre Dame
(994-14-116) -
3:00 p.m.
Powers of Complete Intersections and Fat Points in Special Position.
Adam Van Tuyl*, Lakehead University
Elena Guardo, University of Catania
(994-13-52) -
3:30 p.m.
Subsets of Complete Intersections in $\mathbb P^n$.
Susan Marie Cooper*, Queen's University
(994-13-108) -
4:00 p.m.
Approximate Liftings in Commutative Algebra and a Theorem of Grothendieck.
Phillip A Griffith*, University of Illinois
(994-13-45) -
4:30 p.m.
Asymptotic behaviour of the length of local cohomology.
S. Dale Cutkosky, University of Missouri
Huy Tai Ha*, University of Missouri
Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri
Emanoil Theodorescu, University of Missouri
(994-14-42) -
5:00 p.m.
Bounding the relation-type of parameter ideals.
Laura Ghezzi*, University of Missouri-Columbia
(994-13-29) -
5:30 p.m.
Ideals of Linear Type and c-sequences.
Hamid Kulosman*, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
(994-13-93)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Financial Mathematics, IV
Room 103, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Alec N. Kercheval, Florida State University kercheva@math.fsu.edu
Warren D. Nichols, Florida State University nichols@math.fsu.edu
Craig A. Nolder, Florida State University nolder@math.fsu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
An Agent Market Model Using Evolutionary Game Theory.
Benoit S Montin*, Florida State University
Craig A Nolder, Florida State University
(994-91-41) -
3:00 p.m.
Completeness of Security Markets and Backward Stochastic Differential Equations with Unbounded Coefficients.
Jiongmin Yong*, University of Central Florida
(994-91-168) -
3:30 p.m.
Smoothing Defined Benefit Pension Plan Contributions.
Steve Paris*, Florida State University
(994-91-175)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of Mathematics to Problems in Biology, II
Room 102, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Richard Bertram, Florida State University bertram@math.fsu.edu
Jack Quine, Florida State University
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2:30 p.m.
Modeling mixed microbial growth: connecting theory and experiments.
S S Pilyugin*, University of Florida
G T Reeves, Princeton University
A Narang, University of Florida
(994-92-97) -
3:00 p.m.
Competition and Coexistence of Strains: The Impact of Vaccination.
Maia Martcheva*, University of Florida
Mimmo Iannelli, University of Trento
Xue-Zhi Li, Xinyang Teachers College
(994-92-89) -
3:30 p.m.
Parameter Study of a Markov Decision Modelfor Protein Sequence Alignment.
Fern Hunt*, NIST
(994-92-203) -
4:00 p.m.
Monte Carlo Methods for Calculating Some Physical Properties of a Large Molecule.
Michael Mascagni*, Florida State University
Nikolai Simonov, Florida State University
(994-65-204) -
4:30 p.m.
Rhythmic Hormone Secretion in Rats: Computational model of the hypothalamic mechanism controlling Prolactin secretion.
Marcel Egli*, Florida State University
Richard Bertram, Florida State University
Michael T. Sellix, Florida State University
Marc E. Freeman, Florida State University
(994-92-70) -
5:00 p.m.
Modeling the Electrical Activity of Pancreatic Islets.
Richard Bertram*, Florida State University
(994-92-48)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Knot Theory and Applications, IV
Room 202, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte ydiao@uncc.edu
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2:30 p.m.
The tight Borromean rings.
John M Sulivan*, TU Berlin / U Illinois
(994-53-105) -
3:00 p.m.
Braiding Operators are Universal Quantum Gates.
Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(994-57-92) -
3:30 p.m.
From the Gehring Link Problem to Gehring Cloth (and Beyond).
Rob Kusner*, MSRI
(994-53-87) -
4:00 p.m.
A Khovanov type homology theory for graphs.
Yongwu Rong*, The George Washington University
Laure Helme-Guizon, The George Washington University
(994-05-100) -
4:30 p.m.
Total curvature and packing of knots.
Jonathan Simon*, University of Iowa
Gregory Buck, St. Anselm College
(994-57-115) -
5:00 p.m.
Computations in knot theory.
Morwen Thistlethwaite*, University of Tennessee
(994-57-169) -
5:30 p.m.
Geometry, Topology and the Entanglement Phase Transition.
Greg Buck*, Saint Anselm College
Jonathan Simon, University of Iowa
(994-82-202)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Results in 3-Manifolds and Related Topics, IV
Room 203, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Wolfgang H. Heil, Florida State University heil@math.fsu.edu
Sergio R. Fenley, Florida State University fenley@math.fsu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Width and Depth for Heegaard splittings.
John Hempel*, Rice University
(994-57-183) -
3:00 p.m.
Relative Heegaard Genus of Haken 3-Manifolds.
Jennifer C Schultens*, Univ Cal Davis
(994-57-139) -
3:30 p.m.
Blow-ups of ideal triangulations of $3$--manifolds.
William Jaco*, Oklahoma State University
J Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
(994-57-88) -
4:00 p.m.
Discretized configuration spaces.
Aaron D Abrams*, University of Georgia
(994-57-180)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Robert Gilmer and Joe Mott: Forty Years of Commutative Ring Theory at Florida State University, IV
Room 206, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
William J. Heinzer, Purdue University heinzer@math.purdue.edu
James W. Brewer, Florida Atlantic University brewer@fau.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Indecomposable modules of large rank over double points.
Wolfgang Hassler, Karl-Franzens Universitaet Graz
Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
(994-13-157) -
3:00 p.m.
SFT-property and the ring D((X)).
Byung Gyun Kang, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Elaoud Salma*, Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedias of Sfax
(994-13-163) -
3:30 p.m.
Finitely Generated Divisibility Groups.
Yves Lequain*, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA)
(994-13-176) -
4:00 p.m.
The monoid of fractional ideals of a one-dimensional local domain.
David C, Lantz*, Colgate University
William E. Heinzer, Purdue University
(994-13-192) -
4:30 p.m.
The Strong Finite Type Property.
Jim Coykendall*, North Dakota State University
(994-13-195)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Topology, IV
Room 205, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University aluffi@math.fsu.edu
Ettore Aldrovandi, Florida State University ealdrov@math.fsu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
q-Analogs of Multiple Zeta Functions and Multiple Polylogarithms.
Jianqiang Zhao*, Eckerd College
(994-11-21) -
3:15 p.m.
Formality of Complex Hypersurface Complements.
Daniel Matei*, University of Tokyo, Japan
(994-55-16) -
4:00 p.m.
The dimension of the Hilbert scheme of special threefolds.
Gian Mario Besana*, DePaul University
Maria Lucia Fania, Universita' degli Studi di L'Aquila
(994-14-25)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology in Honor of John Bryant, IV
Room 204, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Washington Mio, Florida State University mio@math.fsu.edu
Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University (SUNY) erik@math.binghamton.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Problems and progress in homology manifolds.
Frank S. Quinn*, Virginia Tech
(994-57-74) -
3:30 p.m.
Obstructions to transversality for homology manifolds.
Heather M Johnston*, Vassar College
(994-57-161) -
4:00 p.m.
Uncountably many inequivalent Lipschitz homogeneous Cantor sets.
Du\v{s}an Repov\v{s}*, University of Ljubljana
(994-57-91) -
4:30 p.m.
Elimination of singularities of smooth mappings of 4-manifolds into 3-manifolds.
Rustam R Sadykov*, University of Florida
(994-58-130) -
5:00 p.m.
Homeomorphism groups of manifolds and Erd\H os space.
Jan J Dijkstra*, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jan van Mill, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
(994-57-13)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, IV
Room 207, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Daniel M. Oberlin, Florida State University oberlin@math.fsu.edu
Laura de Carli, Florida International University decarlil@fiu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Distance set problem and weighted Fourier extension estimates.
M Burak Erdogan*, UC Berkeley
(994-42-131) -
3:00 p.m.
Diophantine equations, distance sets and incidence theorems.
Alex Iosevich*, University of Missouri
(994-42-65) -
3:30 p.m.
Sobolev norm estimates for functions with Fourier transforms vanishing on families of spheres.
Oleg Kovrizhkin*, FSU
(994-42-159) -
4:00 p.m.
Level Set Operators vs. Oscillatory Integral Operators.
Svetlana Roudenko*, Duke University
Andrew Comech, Duke University
(994-42-160) -
4:30 p.m.
Decay Estimates For Oscillatory Integrals With Polynomial Phase in terms of $p^{(n-3)}$ and $p^{(n-2)}$ or in terms of $p^{(n-2)}$ and $p^{(n-1)}$.
Brian H Felkel*, Appalachian State University
(994-42-18)
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2:30 p.m.