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2004 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Lawrenceville, NJ, April 17-18, 2004
Meeting #997

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 17, 2004

Saturday April 17, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Calvalla Room, Bart Luedeke (Student) Center

Saturday April 17, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Calvalla Room, Bart Luedeke (Student) Center

Saturday April 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on CR Geometry and Singularities, I
Room 218, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Joseph J. Kohn, Princeton University kohn@math.princeton.edu
John P. D'Angelo, University of Illinois jpda@math.uiuc.edu
Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University
Andreea Nicoara, Harvard University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Special Toeplitz operators associated to the Bergman projection.
  Jeffery D McNeal*, Ohio State University
  (997-32-47)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Boundary properties of solutions of planar complex vector fields.
  Shif Berhanu*, Temple University
  Jorge Hounie, Federal University of Sao Carlos
  (997-35-14)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Subelliptic boundary value problems for the Spin-c Dirac operator.
  Charles L. Epstein*, University of PA
  (997-32-37)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Variational Methods in Classical Mechanics, I
Room 219, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
John N. Mather, Princeton University jnm@math.princeton.edu
Vadim Y. Kaloshin, Institute for Advanced Study kaloshin@caltech.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Minimizing methods for the N-body problem without equal-mass constraint.
  Kuo-Chang Chen*, University of Arizona
  (997-37-163)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Holomorphic Curves and Reeb Flows on Closed Three-manifolds.
  Helmut H Hofer*, Courant Institute
  (997-37-170)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Shadowing collision orbits of the 3 body problem.
  Sergey Bolotin*, Univeristy of Wisconsin - Madison
  (997-37-269)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 210, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Alberto Corso, University of Kentucky corso@ms.uky.edu
Claudia Polini, University of Notre Dame cpolini@nd.edu
Wolmer V. Vasconcelos, Rutgers University vasconce@math.rutgers.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Homological invariants of modules over local homomorphisms.
  Luchezar L. Avramov*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  Srikanth Iyengar, University of Missouri, Columbia
  Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
  (997-13-137)
- 8:30 a.m.
  b-generic modules.
  Hara Charalambous*, University at Albany, SUNY
  (997-13-200)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On Extensions of Modules.
  Janet Striuli*, University of Kansas
  (997-13-125)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The tracking number of an algebra.
  Kia Dalili*, Rutgers University
  (997-13-68)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The integral closure of monomial rings.
  Joseph P. Brennan*, North Dakota State University
  (997-13-191)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Normalization of modules.
  Jooyoun Hong*, Purdue University
  (997-13-215)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Protein Modelling, I
Room 102, Science and Technology Center
Organizers:
Ileana Streinu, Smith College streinu@cs.smith.edu
Jack Snoeyink, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill snoeyink@cs.unc.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Exploring Protein Flexibility through Bond Networks.
  Leslie A. Kuhn*, Michigan State University
  (997-92-263)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Network Rigidity at Finite Temperatures and Free Energy Landscapes.
  Donald J Jacobs*, California State University, Northridge
  (997-82-237)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Perspectives on Protein (un)Folding from Rigidity.
  A. J. Rader*, University of Pittsburgh
  (997-74-175)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Sampling Protein Conformations and Pathways by a Coarse Graining Algorithm.
  Ming Lei*, Brandeis University
  Maria I. Zavodszky, Michigan State University
  Leslie A. Kuhn, Michigan State University
  M. F. Thorpe, Arizona State University
  (997-92-213)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An Automated Protocol for Designing Functionally Orthogonal Protein Interfaces.
  Brian Kuhlman*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Deanne Sammond, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Ziad Eletr, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (997-92-245)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Disulfide connectivity prediction using secondary structure information.
  Fabrizio Ferre, Boston College
  Peter G Clote*, Boston College
  (997-92-244)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Surfaces and Elliptic Fibrations, I
Room 201, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University hoyt@rci.rutgers.edu
Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University jhs@math.brown.edu
Charles F. Schwartz, Rider University schwartz@rider.edu
- 8:20 a.m.
  Welcoming Remarks.
- 8:30 a.m.
  Sections of Yoshida Elliptic $K3$ Surfaces.
  William L Hoyt, Rutgers University
  Charles F Schwartz*, Rider University
  (997-14-149)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Exlicit stable models of elliptic surfaces.
  Gabriele La Nave*, Courant Institute
  (997-14-19)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Neron-Severi Group of Certain Algebraic Surfaces.
  Michael I Rosen*, Brown University
  (997-11-273)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Complex multiplication for elliptic curves associated with sections of certain elliptic surfaces.
  William L Hoyt*, Rutgers University
  Charles F Schwartz, Rider University
  (997-14-51)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Common divisors of elliptic divisibility sequences over function fields.
  Joseph H Silverman*, Brown University
  (997-11-18)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Analytic Convex Geometry, I
Room 302, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Alina Stancu, Polytechnic University astancu@poly.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Isomorphic version of the Busemann-Petty problem for Gaussian Measure.
  Artem Zvavitch*, University of Missouri-Columbia
  (997-52-44)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Convex bodies: metrics, intrinsic volumes, and Gaussian measure.
  Rick Vitale*, University of Connecticut
  (997-52-78)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Asymptotic mean values of Gaussian polytopes.
  Matthias Reitzner*, Univ. Techn. Vienna
  (997-60-218)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Moment-Entropy Inequalities.
  Erwin Lutwak, Polytechnic University
  Deane Yang*, Polytechnic University
  Gaoyong Zhang, Polytechnic University
  (997-52-29)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Pairs of Convex Bodies with Centrally Symmetric Intersections of Translates.
  Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
  (997-52-26)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Group Cohomology and Related Topics (in Honor of William Browder's 70th Birthday), I
Room 301, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin adem@math.wisc.edu
Jonathan Pakianathan, University of Rochester jonpak@math.rochester.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Quasi-commutative differential graded algebras and homotopy types.
  Max Karoubi*, University Paris 7
  (997-55-22)
- 9:00 a.m.
  All stably parallelizable compact manifolds are complete intersections of quadrics.
  Vinicio G\'omez Guti\'errez, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico
  Santiago Lopez de Medrano*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM, Mexico
  (997-57-176)
- 9:30 a.m.
  $p$-local finite groups and their extension theory.
  Jesper Grodal*, University of Chicago
  (997-55-165)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the IA-automorphisms of a free group.
  F. R. Cohen*, University of Rochester
  B. Farb, University of Chicago
  J. Pakianathan, University of Rochester
  (997-55-158)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Ring structures of Hochschild and orbifold cohomology.
  Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, University of Toronto
  Sarah Witherspoon*, MSRI and Texas A&M University
  (997-18-130)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Tomography and Integral Geometry, I
Room 208, Science and Technology Center
Organizers:
Andrew Markoe, Rider University markoe@rider.edu
Eric Todd Quinto, Tufts University todd.quinto@tufts.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Interpolation by average variational splines on weighted graphs.
  Isaac Pesenson*, Temple University
  (997-41-108)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Stability estimates for helical computed tomography.
  Alexander Katsevich*, University of Central Florida
  (997-44-171)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The circular Radon transform and thermo-acoustic tomography.
  Gaik Ambartsoumian, Texas A&M University
  Peter Kuchment*, Texas A&M University
  (997-44-219)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Radon transform on matrix spaces.
  Boris Rubin*, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  (997-44-23)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Internet tomography.
  Carlos A. Berenstein*, Univ. of Maryland
  Franklin Gavilanez, Univ. of Maryland
  (997-44-82)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Strings and Branes, I
Room 317, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Thomas P. Branson, University of Iowa branson@eva.math.uiowa.edu
S. James Gates, University of Maryland gatess@umd.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Invariants on symmetric superspaces.
  Yi Ming Zou*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (997-22-174)
- 9:10 a.m.
  Supersymmetry beyond Superspace.
  Gregory D. Landweber*, University of Oregon
  (997-17-100)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 10:30 a.m.
  Coadjoint orbits, spherical vectors and the wavefunction of the universe.
  Andrew Waldron*, UC Davis
  (997-81-96)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopical Physics, I
Room 303, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
James Stasheff, University of North Carolina jds@math.unc.edu
Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
Alexander A. Voronov, University of Minnesota voronov@math.umn.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Principles of Quantum Fields Theory.
  Jae-Suk Park*, Graduate Center of CUNY
  (997-81-162)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Quantum Deformation Theory.
  John Terilla*, Stony Brook University
  (997-81-207)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the Cyclic Deligne Conjecture.
  Thomas Tradler*, New York City College of Technology
  (997-16-159)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Theories, 2-categories, and conformal field theory.
  Po Hu*, Wayne State University
  (997-81-203)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Renormalization from the homotopy theoretical point of view.
  Dmitry E Tamarkin*, Northwestern University
  (997-81-154)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Convergence of Riemannian Manifolds, I
Room 321, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Christina Sormani, Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY) sormani@comet.lehman.cuny.edu
Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers State University
Guofang Wei, University of California Santa Barbara
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rough Isometries Between Non-Compact Riemannian Manifolds.
  Cristina Abreu Suzuki*, The Graduate Center, CUNY
  (997-53-57)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Convergence and the Covering Spectrum.
  Christina Sormani*, Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center
  Guofang Wei, U.C.S.B.
  (997-58-119)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Degeneration of Kahler-Einstein manifolds.
  Wei-Dong Ruan*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (997-53-126)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Theory of Initial- and Boundary-Value Problems for Some Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, I
Room 222, Science and Technology Center
Organizers:
Laihan Luo, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Robert.Luo@stockton.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Variational characterization and stability of $n$-soliton solutions to the KdV equation.
  John P Albert*, University of Oklahoma
  Jerry L Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Nghiem V Nguyen, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (997-35-234)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Initial-boundary-value problems for model equations for water waves.
  Jerry L Bona*, University of Ilinois at Chicago
  (997-35-147)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Boundary Smoothing Properties of the Korteweg-de Vries Equation in a Quarter Plane.
  S. M. Sun*, Virginia Tech
  (997-35-106)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Hamiltonian approximation of the Green-Naghdi (GN) equations.
  Yi Li*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  (997-35-267)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Analytic Number Theory, I
Room 201, Science and Technology Center
Organizers:
Stephen Miller, Rutgers University miller@math.rutgers.edu
Ramin Takloo-Bighash, Princeton University rtakloo@math.princeton.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Exponential Sum with Hecke Eigenvalues at shifted primes.
  Liangyi Zhao*, United States Military Academy
  (997-11-06)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The residue of Rankin-Selberg and multiplicity one.
  Farrell Brumley*, Princeton
  (997-11-256)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Low-lying zeros of families of elliptic curves.
  Matthew Young*, Rutgers
  (997-11-249)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Prime orders for the reductions of a CM elliptic curve.
  Alina Carmen Cojocaru*, Princeton University
  (997-11-40)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory (in Honor of William Browder's 70th Birthday), I
Room 304, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Martin Bendersky, Hunter College mbenders@math.hunter.cuny.edu
Donald Davis, Lehigh University dmd1@lehigh.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Higher Leibniz formulas for $S^1$ equivariant S-algebras.
  Robert R Bruner*, Wayne State University
  (997-55-24)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Multicategories in $K$-theory and stable homotopy.
  Anthony D Elmendorf*, Purdue University Calumet
  (997-55-17)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Stable model categories and a theorem of Pirashvili.
  Randall D Helmstutler*, University of Virginia
  (997-55-92)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Coxeter Complexes and Graph-Associahedra.
  Satyan L Devadoss*, Williams College
  (997-52-35)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Artin-Schreier curves and higher elliptic cohomology.
  Douglas C. Ravenel*, University of Rochester
  (997-55-276)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Mirror Symmetry, I
Room 203, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Ciprian Borcea, Rider University borcea@enigma.rider.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Integral Structures, Toric Geometry, and Homological Mirror Symmetry.
  Charles Doran*, Columbia University and University of Washington
  John Morgan, Columbia University
  (997-14-95)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Equivalences of derived categories and their mirror symmetric interpretation.
  R. Paul Horja*, University of Michigan
  Lev Borisov, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (997-14-204)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Generalized special Lagrangian torus fibrations for Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in toric varieties.
  Wei-Dong Ruan*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (997-53-127)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Surgery (in Honor of William Browder's 70th Birthday), I
Room 306, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Frank S. Quinn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University quinn@math.vt.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  L-theory of Free Products.
  Francis X Connolly, University of Notre Dame
  James F Davis*, Indiana University
  (997-57-257)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Four-dimensional graph-manifolds.
  Alexandra Mozgova*, University of Avignon
  (997-57-246)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Homotopy Intersection Theory.
  Bruce Williams*, U. of Notre Dame
  (997-57-226)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The very strong $C_\infty$ topology on $C_\infty(M,N)$ and $K$-equivariant maps.
  Soren Illman*, University of Helsinki
  (997-57-223)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 10:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Session for Contributed Papers
Room 318, Memorial Hall
- 10:00 a.m.
  Non-normality on Tests for Random Walk Models with t-Distributed Errors.
  Leslie Chandrakantha*, John Jay College/City University of New York
  (997-62-09)
- 10:15 a.m.
  A Closed Form Representation of the Macdonald Function of Arbitrary Order.
  Mohamed T Boudjelkha*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  (997-33-10)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Actions of k* on Nonsingular Affine Surfaces.
  Sandra M. Caravella*, Centenary College
  (997-14-142)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 11:10 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
Invited Address
Welcome and Opening Remarks by Rider University President Mordechai Rozanski.
Theater, Bart Luedeke (Student) Center
Poincar\'e duality, free loop space, and strings.
Theater, Bart Luedeke (Student) Center
Dennis P. Sullivan*, Graduate Center of CUNY and SUNY at Stony Brook
(997-22-02)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Affine isoperimetric inequalities.
Theater, Bart Luedeke (Student) Center
Gaoyong Zhang*, Polytechnic University
(997-52-04)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Special Session on CR Geometry and Singularities, II
Room 218, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Joseph J. Kohn, Princeton University kohn@math.princeton.edu
John P. D'Angelo, University of Illinois jpda@math.uiuc.edu
Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University
Andreea Nicoara, Harvard University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Spectral analysis of the d-bar-Neumann and Kohn Laplacians.
  Siqi Fu*, Rutgers University-Camden
  (997-32-138)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The d-bar Neumann problem, magnetic Schrodinger operators, and the Aharonov-Bohm phenomenon.
  Michael Christ*, University of California, Berkeley
  Siqi Fu, Rutgers University, Camden
  (997-32-199)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Geometric properties of mappings between CR manifolds.
  Linda Preiss Rothschild*, UCSD
  Peter Ebenfelt, UCSD
  (997-32-153)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Finite mappings of essentially finite CR manifolds.
  Peter Ebenfelt*, U California, San Diego
  Linda P. Rothschild, U California, San Diego
  (997-32-211)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
Special Session on Variational Methods in Classical Mechanics, II
Room 219, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
John N. Mather, Princeton University jnm@math.princeton.edu
Vadim Y. Kaloshin, Institute for Advanced Study kaloshin@caltech.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Plane-like critical points that are not minimizers in periodic variational problems.
  Rafael de la Llave*, Univ. of Texas, Austin
  (997-35-91)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Energy growth and boundedness in billiards with moving walls.
  Mark Levi*, Penn State University
  (997-37-268)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Convergence of Riemannian Manifolds, II
Room 321, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Christina Sormani, Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY) sormani@comet.lehman.cuny.edu
Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers State University
Guofang Wei, University of California Santa Barbara
- 2:30 p.m.
  Generalized cone constructions in Alexandrov, Riemannian and Lorentz spaces.
  Stephanie B Alexander*, UIUC
  Richard L Bishop, UIUC
  (997-53-132)
- 3:20 p.m.
  Lorentzian Gromov Hausdorff theory.
  Johan Noldus*, Universiteit Gent
  (997-51-45)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Approximation of the quantum Tori by finite quantum Tori for the quantum Gromov-Haussdorf distance.
  Frederic Latremoliere*, University of California, Berkeley
  (997-46-71)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion of Lorentzian Convergence

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Arithmetic of Lattices
Room 319, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
John H. Conway, Princeton University conway@math.princeton.edu
Derek A. Smith, Lafayette College smithder@lafayette.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Some Applications of Lattices to Group Theory, Number Theory, and Logic.
  J H Conway*, Princeton University
  (997-51-264)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Details of the cone of Minkowski-reduced quadratic forms in low numbers of variables.
  Hale F Trotter*, Princeton University
  (997-11-182)
- 3:30 p.m.
  From finite lattices to finite simple groups.
  Christopher S Simons*, Rowan University
  (997-06-65)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Arithmetic properties of lattices in rank 2 Kac-Moody groups over finite fields.
  Lisa Carbone*, Rutgers University
  (997-20-241)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Quaternions, octonions, and now 16-ons and $2^n$-ons -- new kinds of numbers.
  Warren D. Smith*, Stony Brook, NY
  (997-08-233)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Lattices and Quantum Logic.
  S Kochen*, Princeton University
  (997-51-265)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 210, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Alberto Corso, University of Kentucky corso@ms.uky.edu
Claudia Polini, University of Notre Dame cpolini@nd.edu
Wolmer V. Vasconcelos, Rutgers University vasconce@math.rutgers.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Pencils of forms and level Artinian algebras.
  Anthony Iarrobino*, Northeastern University
  (997-13-141)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the first infinitesimal neighborhood of a k-configuration.
  Anthony V. Geramita, Queen's University/University of Genova
  Juan C. Migliore*, University of Notre Dame
  Lousindi R. Sabourin, York University
  (997-13-66)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Maximal rank conjectures and algorithms for infinitesimal neighborhoods.
  Karen A. Chandler*, University of Notre Dame
  (997-14-232)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A normal form for space curves in a double plane.
  Nadia Chiarli, Politecnico di Torino
  Silvio Greco, Politecnico di Torino
  Uwe Nagel*, University of Kentucky
  (997-14-235)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The general plane section of a curve in $P^3$.
  Elisa Gorla*, University of Notre Dame
  (997-14-189)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Buchsbaum-Rim multiplicity formulas.
  C-Y. Jean Chan*, University of Arkansas
  Jung-Chen Liu, National Taiwan Normal University
  Bernd Ulrich, Purdue University
  (997-13-151)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Monomial ideals via square-free monomial ideals.
  Sara Faridi*, University of Quebec at Montreal
  (997-13-185)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Analytic Convex Geometry, II
Room 302, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Alina Stancu, Polytechnic University astancu@poly.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Comparison of volumes of convex bodies by means of "areas" of central sections.
  Alexander Koldobsky*, University of Missouri-Columbia
  (997-52-46)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Convex Bodies with proportional projection functions.
  Ralph Howard*, University of South Carolina
  Daniel Hug, Albert-Ludwigs-Universit\"at Freiburg
  (997-52-25)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Average directed projection and section functions.
  Paul Goodey*, University of Oklahoma
  Wolfgang Weil, Universit\"at Karlsruhe
  (997-52-157)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Transportation inequalities and convex geometry.
  Mark W Meckes*, Stanford University
  (997-52-180)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Inequalities for volumes of polar bodies.
  Stefano Campi*, University of Modena and Reggio E. - Italy
  Paolo Gronchi, Istituto Applicazioni del Calcolo - CNR
  (997-52-169)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Convexity and the Steiner formula.
  Daniel Hug, University of Freiburg
  Guenter Last, University of Karlsruhe
  Wolfgang Weil*, University of Karlsruhe
  (997-52-121)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Some new elements of the elliptic Brunn-Minkowski theory.
  Poramate Pranayanuntana*, Polytechnic University of New York
  (997-52-50)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Group Cohomology and Related Topics (in Honor of William Browder's 70th Birthday), II
Room 301, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin adem@math.wisc.edu
Jonathan Pakianathan, University of Rochester jonpak@math.rochester.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Coclass and cohomology.
  Jon F. Carlson*, University of Georgia
  (997-20-81)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Unstable Morita classes in the homology of $Out(F_n)$.
  Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University
  James Conant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (997-20-75)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Representation theory and the K-theory of fields.
  Gunnar Erik Carlsson*, Stanford University
  (997-55-102)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Holomorphic disks and low-dimensional topology.
  Peter S Ozsvath*, Columbia University/IAS
  (997-57-61)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Commutative algebra and the cohomology of groups.
  David J Benson*, University of Georgia
  (997-55-56)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Theory of Initial- and Boundary-Value Problems for Some Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 222, Science and Technology Center
Organizers:
Laihan Luo, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Robert.Luo@stockton.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Initial and Two-point Boundary Value Problem for the BBM-equation.
  Hongqiu Chen*, The University of Memphis
  (997-35-198)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some new results on the solution of Disspative 2D Quasi-Geostrophyc Equations.
  Ning Ju*, Oklahoma State University
  (997-35-13)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Location of the Blow-up Point of Degenerate Semilinear Parabolic Problems.
  Wai Yuen Chan*, Southeast Missouri State University
  (997-35-67)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Leading Order of Solutions of Initial-Value Problems for Some Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations with Dissipation.
  Laihan Luo*, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
  (997-35-173)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Analytic Number Theory, II
Room 201, Science and Technology Center
Organizers:
Stephen Miller, Rutgers University miller@math.rutgers.edu
Ramin Takloo-Bighash, Princeton University rtakloo@math.princeton.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The existence of Bessel functionals.
  Ramin Takloo-Bighash*, Princeton University
  (997-11-192)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Symmetry Type of the Maass Twist of the Symmetric Square Family.
  Eduardo Due\~nez*, The Johns Hopkins University
  Steven J. Miller, The Ohio State University
  (997-11-146)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Improved Weil and Tate pairings for elliptic and hyperelliptic curves.
  Kirsten Eisentraeger*, Institute for Advanced Study
  Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research
  Peter L Montgomery, Microsoft Research
  (997-11-113)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Counting 3-torsion in class groups and elliptic curves.
  A Venkatesh*, MIT
  (997-11-117)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Geodesic cycles on modular curves and special values of Rankin L-series.
  Alexandru Popa*, Princeton University
  (997-11-254)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The orthogonality of Hecke eigenvalues.
  Xiaoqing Li*, Rutgers University
  Henryk Iwaniec., Rutgers University
  (997-11-161)
- 5:15 p.m.
  Meromorphic continuation of Eisenstein series via the Selberg-Bernstein method.
  Feryal Alayont*, University of Arizona
  (997-11-12)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Tomography and Integral Geometry, II
Room 208, Science and Technology Center
Organizers:
Andrew Markoe, Rider University markoe@rider.edu
Eric Todd Quinto, Tufts University todd.quinto@tufts.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The ray transform and inverse problems for elastic media.
  Lizabeth V Rachele*, University at Albany, SUNY
  (997-35-145)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Radon transforms, the Heisenberg group, and discrete analogues.
  Elias M. Stein*, Princeton University
  (997-26-107)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Novikov's formula for the attenuated Radon transform --- a new approach.
  Jan Boman*, Stockholm University
  Jan-Olov Stromberg, KTH, Stockholm
  (997-44-110)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Theory of valuations and integral geometry.
  Semyon Alesker*, Tel Aviv University
  (997-52-59)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Reconstruction on spheres.
  Mark L. Agranovsky*, Bar-Ilan University
  (997-45-140)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory (in Honor of William Browder's 70th Birthday), II
Room 304, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Martin Bendersky, Hunter College mbenders@math.hunter.cuny.edu
Donald Davis, Lehigh University dmd1@lehigh.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A modular description of the $K(2)$-local sphere at the prime 3.
  Mark J Behrens*, MIT
  (997-55-87)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Representations of Spaces.
  Wojciech Chacholski*, Royal Institute of Technology
  J. Scherer, Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona
  (997-55-148)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Self-maps of loop spaces.
  F. R. Cohen*, University of Rochester
  (997-55-266)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Heinz Hopf in Princeton.
  John McCleary*, Vassar College
  (997-01-238)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Extending Browder's work on H-spaces.
  James P Lin*, University of California at San Diego
  (997-55-83)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A review of progress on the Kervaire Invariant problem after Browder's theorem.
  Mark Mahowald*, Northwestern University
  (997-55-76)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Mirror Symmetry, II
Room 203, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Ciprian Borcea, Rider University borcea@enigma.rider.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the moduli of certain Fano fourfolds.
  Walter L. Baily*, University of Chicago
  (997-14-152)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Crepant Resolutions of Calabi-Yau Orbifolds.
  Anda Degeratu*, MSRI/Duke University
  (997-53-210)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Orbifold Chow rings of toric Deligne-Mumford stacks.
  Lev Borisov, University of Wisconsin
  Linda Chen*, Columbia University
  Gregory Smith, Barnard College, Columbia University
  (997-14-194)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Hochschild homology of algebraic varieties and an extended TQFT.
  Andrei Caldararu*, University of Pennsylvania
  (997-14-202)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:00 p.m.
  Tangents to quadrics and nested Calabi-Yau varieties.
  Ciprian S. Borcea*, Rider University
  (997-14-150)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Protein Modelling, II
Room 102, Science and Technology Center
Organizers:
Ileana Streinu, Smith College streinu@cs.smith.edu
Jack Snoeyink, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill snoeyink@cs.unc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Are there Graphical Solutions to Protein structure Prediction Bottlenecks?
  John Moult*, CARB
  (997-92-217)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Extreme Elevation on a 2-Manifold.
  Pankaj K Agarwal*, Duke University
  (997-51-214)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Functional annotation by identification of protein local surface similarities: a novel tool for structural genomics.
  Fabrizio Ferre*, Boston College
  (997-92-242)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Algorithms for Curvature Quantification using Least Sum of Squares Fitting of Spheres.
  Michael A. Burr, Tufts University
  Alan C. Cheng, Pfizer Discovery Technology Center
  Ryan G. Coleman*, Tufts University/Pfizer DTC
  Diane L. Souvaine, Tufts University
  (997-68-129)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Computational Methods Towards Predicting Aspects of Protein Structure and Interactions.
  Mona Singh*, Princeton University
  (997-92-178)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Strings and Branes, II
Room 317, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Thomas P. Branson, University of Iowa branson@eva.math.uiowa.edu
S. James Gates, University of Maryland gatess@umd.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Conformally compact Einstein manifolds and renormalized volume.
  Alice Chang, Princeton University
  Jie Qing*, UC Santa Cruz
  Paul Yang, Princeton University
  (997-53-187)
- 3:05 p.m.
  Conformally invariant Maxwell type operators on forms and global conformal invariants.
  A Rod Gover*, University of Auckland
  (997-58-103)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Recent progress on the study of the BCOV torsion.
  Hao Fang*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (997-53-205)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Maxwell--Born--Infeld fields with point defects.
  Michael K.-H. Kiessling*, Rutgers University
  (997-83-243)
- 4:50 p.m.
  Morse Theory for the H-surface equation.
  Sagun Chanillo*, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ
  Andrea Malchiodi, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.
  (997-58-98)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopical Physics, II
Room 303, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
James Stasheff, University of North Carolina jds@math.unc.edu
Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
Alexander A. Voronov, University of Minnesota voronov@math.umn.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A canonical semi-classical star-product.
  Lucian Miti Ionescu*, Illinois State University
  (997-81-227)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Examples of finite dimensional $L_{\infty}$ algebras in gauge theory.
  Tom Lada, North Carolina State University
  Marilyn Daily*, North Carolina State University
  (997-18-186)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Examples of Miniversal Deformations of Infinity Algebras.
  Michael R Penkava*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  (997-18-271)
- 4:00 p.m.
  String topology for transversal families.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  (997-57-90)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Some examples of homotopy Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras.
  Fusun Akman*, Coastal Carolina University
  (997-18-225)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Surfaces and Elliptic Fibrations, II
Room 201, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
William L. Hoyt, Rutgers University hoyt@rci.rutgers.edu
Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University jhs@math.brown.edu
Charles F. Schwartz, Rider University schwartz@rider.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  F-theory/Heterotic duality for Lattice Polarized Elliptic K3 Surfaces with Section.
  Charles Doran*, Columbia University
  Adrian Clingher, Stanford University
  (997-14-167)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Mordell-Weil Ranks of Cyclic Covers of Rational Elliptic Surfaces.
  Lisa Fastenberg*, Pace University
  (997-11-188)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Selmer groups of elliptic curves over towers of function fields.
  Jordan S Ellenberg*, Princeton University
  (997-14-70)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Pullbacks and Drinfeld Modular Curves.
  Christopher J Hall*, Princeton University
  (997-11-128)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Integral points on elliptic curves and 3-torsion in class groups.
  Harald Andres Helfgott*, Yale
  (997-11-80)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Concert in Celebration of William Browder's 70th Birthday
All participants are invited to this free concert featuring performances by Risa Browder and John Moran. Banquet following for ticketholders.
Taplin Room, Fine Hall, Princeton University Campus

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2004 Spring Eastern Section Meeting Lawrenceville, NJ, April 17-18, 2004 Meeting #997

Saturday April 17, 2004

2004 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Lawrenceville, NJ, April 17-18, 2004
Meeting #997