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2004 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA, November 6-7, 2004
Meeting #1002

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

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Saturday November 6, 2004

• Saturday November 6, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit Book Sale
  Room 1175, Benedum Hall
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 1175, Benedum Hall
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Modularity of Galois Representations and Serre's Conjecture, I
  Room 521, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark E. T. Dickinson, University of Pittsburgh dickinsm@pitt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    An introduction to Serre's conjecture.
    Robert J Pollack*, Boston University
    (1002-11-46)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The nonexistence of certain Galois representations with small ramification.
    Sharon Brueggeman*, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    (1002-11-29)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A generalization of Serre's conjecture to GL(3).
    Avner Ash*, Boston College
    (1002-11-32)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on PDE-Based Methods in Imaging and Vision, I
  Room 520, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Stacey E. Levine, Duquesne University sel@mathcs.duq.edu
  Yunmei Chen, University of Florida yun@math.ufl.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Numerical Scheme for Target Recognition.
    Mohsen Razzaghi*, Mississippi State University
    (1002-41-40)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Loss and Recovery of Fine Structures in PDE-based Image Denoising.
    Seongjai Kim*, University of Kentucky
    (1002-65-159)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Theories and applications of minimizing nonstandard growth functionals.
    Yunmei Chen*, University of Florida
    Stacey Levine, Duquesne University
    Murali Rao, University of Florida
    Jon Stanich, Duquesne University
    (1002-35-202)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Image denoising using mean curvature information.
    Wei Zhu*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY
    Tony Chan, University of California Los Angeles
    Selim Esedoglu, University of California Los Angeles
    (1002-35-136)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fourth order diffusions for image processing.
    John B Greer*, Courant Institute
    (1002-35-112)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Decomposition of images into cartoon and texture using the total variation and div(BMO).
    Luminita Aura Vese, UCLA
    Triet Le*, UCLA
    (1002-49-141)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, I
  Room 1022, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  James F. Lawrence, George Mason University lawrence@gmu.edu
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Reconstruction of polytopes as Eulerian posets.
    Margaret M. Bayer*, University of Kansas
    (1002-52-21)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Simplicial Neighbourly 5-Polytopes with Nine Vertices.
    Wendy A Finbow-Singh*, Acadia University
    (1002-52-31)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some Construction Techniques for Convex Polytopes.
    Carl W. Lee*, University of Kentucky
    Matt Menzel, Marietta College
    Laura Schmidt, University of Wisconsin-Stout
    (1002-52-103)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Generalization of the Holt-Klee Theorem.
    Walter D Morris*, George Mason University
    Bernd Gaertner, Inst. Theor. CS, ETH Zurich
    Leo Ruest, Inst. Theor. CS, ETH Zurich
    (1002-52-78)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Orienting the Rigidity Matroid.
    Ileana Streinu*, Smith College
    (1002-52-240)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Multiplication in the Polytope Groups.
    Jim Lawrence*, George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030
    (1002-52-171)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The History of Mathematics, I
  Room 426, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University bradley@adelphi.edu
  Lawrence A. D'Antonio, Ramapo College of New Jersey ldant@ramapo.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Graphs and Equations: an 18th Century Paridigm Shift.
    Robert E. Bradley*, Adelphi University
    (1002-01-105)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The gap in Lambert's proof (1767) that pi is irrational.
    Christopher Baltus*, SUNY College at Oswego
    (1002-01-153)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mathematics the World Forgot: Euler's Work on the Elastic Curve.
    Lawrence D'Antonio*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
    (1002-01-91)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lagrange's Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.
    Jeff A Suzuki*, Bard College
    (1002-01-53)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    What's in the Library? (1730-1790).
    Paul C. Pasles*, Villanova University
    (1002-01-118)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Thomas Clausen: Factoring Fermat numbers and Generating Graeco-Latin squares.
    Lee J. Stemkoski*, Dartmouth College
    (1002-01-194)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Applications, I
  Room 420, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Xinfu Chen, University of Pittsburgh xinfu@pitt.edu
  Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh dwang@math.pitt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 8:30 a.m.
    An alternative approach to $W^{2,p}$ estimates of the heat equation in a domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{n}$.
    Gavin J Waters*, University of Delaware
    (1002-35-211)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    BV instability for Godunov and Lax-Friedrich schemes.
    Helge Kristian Jenssen*, North Carolina State University
    (1002-35-65)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Semi-cooperative Strategies for Differential Games.
    Alberto Bressan, Penn State University
    Wen Shen*, Math Dept., Penn State University, PA, USA
    (1002-35-210)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Burgers-type equations with vanishing hyper-viscosity.
    Eitan Tadmor*, University of Maryland. College Park
    (1002-35-18)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Global solutions to the Camassa-Holm equations.
    Alberto Bressan*, Penn State University
    (1002-35-106)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Multivariate Hypergeometric Functions: Combinatorial and Algebro-Geometric Aspects, I
  Room 1020, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Eduardo Cattani, University of Massachusetts, Amherst cattani@math.umass.edu
  Alicia M. Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires alidick@dm.uba.ar
  Laura Felicia Matusevich, Harvard University laura@math.harvard.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Micro-support of solution sheaves of D-Modules.
    Teresa Monteiro Fernandes*, CAUL and Universidade de Lisboa
    (1002-58-149)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On computing the characteristic cycles of localizations.
    Josep \`Alvarez Montaner, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    Anton Leykin*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1002-14-90)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Elliptic Generalizations and Applications of Certain Important Summation and Transformation Identities for Multiple Hypergeometric Series.
    Hasan Coskun*, Texas A&M University-Commerce
    (1002-33-68)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Closed form summation of $C$-finite sequences.
    Curtis Greene, Haverford College
    Herbert S. Wilf*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1002-05-69)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    New Lambert series formulas for 12 and 20 squares, and multiple basic hypergeometric series.
    Stephen C. Milne*, The Ohio State University
    (1002-11-235)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations in Subelliptic Structures, I
  Room 424, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Cristian E. Gut\'ierrez, Temple University gutierrez@euclid.math.temple.edu
  Guozhen Lu, Wayne State University gzlu@math.wayne.edu
  Juan J. Manfredi, University of Pittsburgh manfredi@pitt.edu
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    On Monge-Ampere type equations in the Heisenberg group.
    Cristian E Gutierrez*, Temple University
    (1002-35-195)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Comparsison Principle for Viscosity Solutions to Some Fully Nonlinear Subelliptic Equations on Carnot Groups.
    ChangYou Wang*, University of Kentucky
    (1002-35-94)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fefferman -- Poincare inequality and regularity for quasilinear subelliptic equations.
    Giuseppe Di Fazio*, University of Catania - Italy
    Pietro Zamboni, University of Catania - Italy
    (1002-35-38)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Convex functions on Carnot groups.
    Petri Juutinen, University of Jyv\"askyl\"a
    Guozhen Lu, Wayne State University
    Juan Manfredi, University of Pittsburgh
    Bianca Stroffolini*, University of Naples
    (1002-35-87)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Properties of Cones in Riemannian Spaces.
    Thomas J. Bieske*, University of South Florida
    (1002-35-128)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Trends in Operator Theory and Banach Spaces, I
  Room 423, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Christopher J. Lennard, University of Pittsburgh lennard@pitt.edu
  Thomas A. Metzger, University of Pittsburgh metzger@pitt.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    New fixed point free nonexpansive maps on weakly compact, convex subsets of $L^1[0,1]$.
    P. N. Dowling, Miami University, Oxford, OH
    C. J. Lennard, University of Pittsburgh
    B. Turett*, Oakland University
    (1002-46-146)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    New Criteria of Carleson Type Measures.
    Ruhan Zhao*, University of Toledo
    (1002-47-126)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Type and order convexity of Marcinkiewicz and Lorentz spaces and applications.
    Nigel J Kalton, University of Missouri Columbia
    Anna H Kami\'nska*, The University of Memphis
    (1002-46-142)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Carleson embeddings with closed range.
    Alec L Matheson*, Lamar University
    (1002-30-137)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Busemann-Petty problem for arbitrary measures.
    Artem Zvavitch*, Kent State University
    (1002-52-116)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Biology, I
  Room 820, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan E. Rubin, University of Pittsburgh rubin@math.pitt.edu
  Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh bard@math.pitt.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Equilibrium states of chemical reaction networks.
    David Swigon*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1002-37-219)
  • 8:55 a.m.
    Pattern Formation in Small Arrays of Locally Coupled Oscillators.
    Rebecca Ellison, Penn State Erie
    Virginia Gardner, Penn State Erie
    Joel Lepak, Penn State Erie
    Meghan O'Malley, Penn State Erie
    Joseph Paullet*, Penn State Erie
    Joseph Previte, Penn State Erie
    Beth Ann Reid, Penn State Erie
    Katy Vizzard, Penn State Erie
    (1002-92-61)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Chaos and Self-Oscillatory Regimes in Ecological System of two Competing Prey and One Predator.
    Tolibjon E. Buriyev*, Samarkand State University
    Vafokul Ergashevich Ergashev, Samarkand State University
    (1002-34-24)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    A Reduced Model of the Immune Response to Endotoxin and Trauma with a Geometric Approach.
    Judy Day*, University of Pittsburgh
    Jonathan Rubin, University of Pittsburgh
    Claudio Lagoa, University of Pittsburgh
    Yoram Vodovotz, University of Pittsburgh
    Gilles Clermont, University of Pittsburgh
    Carson C. Chow, Laboratory for Biological Modeling, NIDDK, NIH
    (1002-37-247)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Palindromes in random letter generation.
    Anant P. Godbole*, East Tennessee State University
    (1002-60-30)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, I
  Room 823, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Marta M. Asaeda, University of Maryland asaeda@math.uiowa.edu
  Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
  Adam S. Sikora, SUNY at Buffalo asikora@buffalo.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Comparing Hopf-algebraic invariants of three-manifolds.
    Fernando J. O. Souza*, University of Iowa
    Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
    David E. Radford, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1002-57-239)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The representation of the Mapping Class Group induced by the TQFT(s) of the LMO and the universal quantum invariant of 3-manifolds.
    Dorin Cheptea*, SUNY at Buffalo
    (1002-57-230)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Integral Lattices in TQFT.
    Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
    Gregor Masbaum, Institue de Mathematiques de Jussieu, Universite Paris 7
    (1002-57-176)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Eigenvalue varieties of 2-bridge links.
    Jim Hoste*, Pitzer College
    Patrick D. Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University
    (1002-57-173)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Multiscale Algorithms in Computational Fluid Dynamics, I
  Room 522, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  William J. Layton, University of Pittsburgh wjl@pitt.edu
  Anastasios Liakos, U.S. Naval Academy liakos@usna.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Adaptive mortar upscaling for flow in porous media.
    Ivan Yotov*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1002-65-157)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Induced Pressure Regularization and Eddy Viscosity for Equilibrium Navier-Stokes Equations.
    Leo G Rebholz*, University of PIttsburgh
    (1002-76-150)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Subgrid Stabilization of Evolutionary Convection-Diffusion Equations: Analysis and Experimental Results of a Finite Difference Scheme.
    Noel F Heitmann*, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
    (1002-76-242)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Computational Methods for Feedback Control of Distributed Parameter Systems.
    Lizette Zietsman*, George Mason University
    Jeff T Borggaard, Virginia Tech
    John A Burns, Virginia Tech
    (1002-65-233)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Sensitivity Analysis for Large Eddy Simulation Modeling.
    Jeff Borggaard*, Virginia Tech
    Traian Iliescu, Virginia Tech
    Alexey Miroshnikov, Virginia Tech
    (1002-76-229)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knots and Macromolecules, I
  Room 722, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
  Eric J. Rawdon, Duquesne University rawdon@mathcs.duq.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Linear random knots and their scaling behaviour.
    Akos Dobay*, University of Lausanne, Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis
    Kenneth Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
    Jacques Dubochet, University of Lausanne, Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis
    Andrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne, Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis
    (1002-92-196)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Counting almost unknotted embeddings.
    De Witt Sumners, Florida State University
    Stu Whittington*, University of Toronto
    (1002-57-67)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Probability distribution of distance between two given nodes of a random knot.
    Tetsuo Deguchi*, Department of Physics, Ochanomizu University
    (1002-82-120)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Topological Properties of Polymer Chains: The Influence of Model.
    Alex Vologodskii*, New York University
    (1002-82-132)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the analogy between trivial knots and self-avoiding walks.
    Nathan T. Moore, Physics Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
    Rhonald C. Lua, Physics Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
    Alexander Y. Grosberg*, Physics Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
    (1002-82-169)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Finance, I
  Room 1220, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  David Saunders, University of Pittsburgh saunders@math.pitt.edu
  John Chadam, University of Pittsburgh chadam@pitt.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Pricing Default Correlation Products within a structural framework.
    Marcos Escobar, University of Toronto
    Luis A Seco*, University of Toronto
    (1002-60-237)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Valuation of Basket Default Swaps.
    Ian Iscoe, Algorithmics Inc.
    Alexander Kreinin*, Algorithmics Inc.
    (1002-60-101)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On a Representation for a Class of Self-financing Portfolios of Securities which Contain Equities Driven by Certain Geometric L\'evy Processes.
    Vladimir Vinogradov*, Ohio University
    (1002-60-96)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Geometric analysis on a class of degenerate elliptic operators.
  Auditorium, Benedum Hall
  Der-Chen Chang*, Georgetown University
  (1002-35-01)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Ending laminations, tame ends, and the classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Auditorium, Benedum Hall
  Jeffrey F. Brock*, Brown University
  (1002-57-03)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Trends in Operator Theory and Banach Spaces, II
  Room 423, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Christopher J. Lennard, University of Pittsburgh lennard@pitt.edu
  Thomas A. Metzger, University of Pittsburgh metzger@pitt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On convergence to the Denjoy-Wolff point.
    Paul S. Bourdon*, Washington and Lee University
    Valentin Matache, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    Joel H. Shapiro, Michigan State University
    (1002-30-74)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Vector spaces contained in the zero set of a polynomial.
    Richard M Aron*, Kent State University
    (1002-46-201)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Characterization of Hardy/Bergmann Spaces on finitely connected domain that support compact composition operators.
    Abebaw Tadesse*, University Of Pittsburgh
    (1002-47-25)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Convergence of a greedy algorithm in Bergman spaces.
    Stephen J. Dilworth*, University of South Carolina
    Denka Kutzarova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Karen Shuman, Grinnell College
    (1002-46-212)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Linear-fractional composition operators.
    Barbara D MacCluer*, University of Virginia
    (1002-47-71)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Schur multiplier projections on the von~Neumann-Schatten classes.
    Ian Doust*, University of New South Wales
    T A Gillespie, University of Edinburgh
    (1002-47-37)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Finance, II
  Room 1220, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  David Saunders, University of Pittsburgh saunders@math.pitt.edu
  John Chadam, University of Pittsburgh chadam@pitt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Interest Rate Explosions in HJM Bond Models.
    Victor W. Goodman*, Indiana University
    (1002-60-225)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Inverse of First-Crossing Boundary Problem.
    Lan Cheng*, University of Pittsburgh
    Xinfu Chen, University of Pittsburgh
    John Chadam, University of Pittsburgh
    David Saunders, University of Pittsburgh
    (1002-35-207)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Games with Exhaustible Resources.
    Chris Harris, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge
    Sam Howison, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University
    Ronnie Sircar*, Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Princeton University
    (1002-91-224)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the two-times differentiability of the value functions in the problem of optimal investment in incomplete markets.
    Dmitry Kramkov*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1002-60-83)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Risk-Tolerance Wealth Processes and Sensitivity Analysis of Utility Based Prices.
    Dmitry Kramkov, Carnegie Mellon University
    Mihai Sirbu*, Columbia University
    (1002-90-123)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations in Subelliptic Structures, II
  Room 424, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Cristian E. Gut\'ierrez, Temple University gutierrez@euclid.math.temple.edu
  Guozhen Lu, Wayne State University gzlu@math.wayne.edu
  Juan J. Manfredi, University of Pittsburgh manfredi@pitt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mean curvature flow in the Heisenberg group.
    Luca Capogna*, University of Arkansas
    Mario Bonk, University of Michigan
    (1002-35-135)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Minimal and constant mean curvature surfaces in Carnot groups.
    Scott D. Pauls*, Dartmouth College
    (1002-53-145)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    One side Liouville-type theorems for some classes of Hormander operators.
    Ermanno Lanconelli*, Universita' di Bologna
    (1002-35-191)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Regularity of Some Convex Functions in Carnot Groups.
    Xiaoping Yang*, School of Sciences, Nanjing University of Science & Technology
    (1002-35-119)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A CR Poincare inequality on the sphere in complex space.
    Lijing Sun*, Wayne State University
    (1002-35-113)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Biology, II
  Room 820, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan E. Rubin, University of Pittsburgh rubin@math.pitt.edu
  Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh bard@math.pitt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Giant Squids and Hidden Canards.
    Martin Wechselberger*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University
    (1002-92-163)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    A Neuronal Circuit Implementing the Logic of Learning Behavior in Limax.
    Pranay Goel*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    Alan Gelperin, Monell Chemical Senses Center
    (1002-92-218)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Model of electrically induced phosphenes.
    Jonathan D Drover*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1002-92-155)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Thalamicortical cell relay fidelity with various pattern of internal pallidum input.
    Yixin Guo*, MBI, The Ohio State University
    Jonathan Rubin, University of Pittsburgh
    David Terman, The Ohio State University
    (1002-92-222)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Frequency Separation in Neuronal Systems.
    Alla Borisyuk, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    Janet A. Best*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    David H. Terman, Mathematical Biosciences Institute and Ohio State University
    (1002-92-214)
  • 5:05 p.m.
    A Computational Study of the Role of Potassium Diffusion in the Generation and Propagation of Zero Ca2+ Non-Synaptic Sustained Epileptiform Activity.
    Eun-Hyoung Park*, Neural Engineering Center, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
    Dominique M. Durand, Neural Engineering Center, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
    (1002-92-170)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Modularity of Galois Representations and Serre's Conjecture, II
  Room 521, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark E. T. Dickinson, University of Pittsburgh dickinsm@pitt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dual Selmer Groups and the number of congruent eigenforms.
    R Ramakrishna*, Cornell University
    (1002-11-47)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Three-dimensional Galois representations and a generalization of Serre's conjecture.
    Darrin M Doud*, Brigham Young University
    (1002-11-39)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Modular representations on some Riemann-Roch spaces of some modular curves.
    David Joyner*, U.S. Naval Academy
    Amy Ksir, U.S. Naval Academy
    (1002-14-245)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on PDE-Based Methods in Imaging and Vision, II
  Room 520, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Stacey E. Levine, Duquesne University sel@mathcs.duq.edu
  Yunmei Chen, University of Florida yun@math.ufl.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Threshold dynamics for the piecewise Mumford-Shah Functional.
    Richard Tsai*, University of Texas at Austin
    Selim Esedoglu, UCLA
    (1002-65-111)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Computational Conformal Geometry and Its Applications.
    Xianfeng Gu*, Computer Science, Stony Brook University
    (1002-68-199)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A new approach for 3D segmentation of cellular tomograms obtained using three-dimensional electron microscopy.
    Alberto Bartesaghi*, University of Minnesota
    Guillermo Sapiro, University of Minnesota
    Stanton Lee, National Institutes of Health
    Jon Lefman, National Institutes of Health
    Sharon Wahl, National Institutes of Health
    Sriram Subramaniam, National Institutes of Health
    Jan Orenstein, George Washington University
    (1002-35-122)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Maximum Likelihood Ultrasound Image Segmentation with Level Sets.
    Hemant D Tagare*, Yale University
    Zhong Tao, Yale University
    (1002-35-13)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Image-based Elastic Registration for Patient-Specific Finite Element Model Generation.
    Omar Ghattas*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Larisa Goldmints, RPI
    Branislav Jaramaz, Western Pennsylvania Hospital/CMU
    (1002-49-139)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Application of local times of Markov processes to visual contours.
    Jonas August*, Healthcare Robotics Center, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1002-35-236)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, II
  Room 823, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Marta M. Asaeda, University of Maryland asaeda@math.uiowa.edu
  Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
  Adam S. Sikora, SUNY at Buffalo asikora@buffalo.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rasmussen invariant, Slice-Bennequin Inequality, and sliceness of knots.
    Alexander N. Shumakovitch*, Dartmouth College
    (1002-57-232)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Khovanov-Jacobsson number of a large class of knotted surfaces is trivial.
    J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
    (1002-57-243)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Computing Khovanov-Homology.
    Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    (1002-57-183)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Homology theory for graphs: From a graph, we produce a chain complex whose graded Euler Characteristic is the chromatic polynomial of the graph.
    Laure Helme-Guizon*, George Washington University
    Yongwu Rong, George Washington University
    (1002-05-234)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Properties of the Khovanov type homology theory for graphs.
    Yongwu Rong*, The George Washington University
    Laure Helme-Guizon, The George Washington University
    Jozef Przytycki, The George Washington University
    (1002-57-186)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion on Khovanov Homolgy.
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, II
  Room 1022, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  James F. Lawrence, George Mason University lawrence@gmu.edu
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some new results on geometric graphs.
    Horst Martini*, University of Technology Chemnitz
    (1002-52-16)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Helly-type theorems for intersections of starshaped sets.
    Marilyn Breen*, University of Oklahoma
    (1002-52-49)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Large transversals to small families of unit disks.
    T. Bisztriczky*, University of Calgary
    F. Fodor, University of Szeged
    D. Oliveros, University of Calgary
    (1002-52-11)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On distinct distances from a vertex of a convex polygon.
    Adrian Dumitrescu*, Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1002-52-77)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Dense Planar Set From Iterated Line Intersections.
    Dan Ismailescu*, Hofstra University
    (1002-05-172)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Sylvester-Gallai Theorems for Complex Numbers and Quaternions.
    Noam Elkies, Harvard University
    Lou M Pretorius, University of Pretoria
    Konrad J Swanepoel*, University of South Africa
    (1002-52-52)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on The History of Mathematics, II
  Room 426, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University bradley@adelphi.edu
  Lawrence A. D'Antonio, Ramapo College of New Jersey ldant@ramapo.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Purpose through Publication: Catalysts for Research by Junior Mathematicians in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
    Sloan Evans Despeaux*, Western Carolina University
    (1002-01-164)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some Questions about the History of the Equivalence Problem.
    Paul R Wolfson*, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
    (1002-01-162)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An Episode in the Early Development of Automated Deduction. Lewis Carroll's Symbolic Logic.
    Francine F. Abeles*, Kean University
    (1002-01-19)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Maturity of Mathematical Logic.
    Thomas Drucker*, University of Wisconsin--Whitewater
    (1002-01-26)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Social Role of Temperance Arithmetic.
    Antonella Cupillari*, Penn State Erie-The Behrend College
    Jessica Pflueger, Pittsburgh, PA
    (1002-01-27)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    What Teachers Taught and How: The Potential and the Pitfalls of the Study of the History of Mathematics Teaching.
    Eisso J. Atzema*, University of Maine
    (1002-01-166)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    What Can We Learn From the History of Enrollments.
    Walter Meyer*, Adelphi University
    (1002-01-63)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Applications, II
  Room 420, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Xinfu Chen, University of Pittsburgh xinfu@pitt.edu
  Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh dwang@math.pitt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    High energy tails for energy dissipative Boltzmann equations.
    Irene M. Gamba*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1002-35-246)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Numerical methods for multiscale kinetic equations.
    Shi Jin*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1002-35-127)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Isentropic Gas Dynamics with Arbitrary BV Data.
    Robin Young*, U Mass, Amherst
    (1002-35-188)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discontinuous Solutions for Some Hyperbolic Systems with Relaxation.
    Tao Luo*, Georgetown University
    (1002-35-80)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Wave breaking in a class of nonlocal dispersive wave equations.
    Hailiang Liu*, Iowa State University
    (1002-35-175)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Multiscale Algorithms in Computational Fluid Dynamics, II
  Room 522, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  William J. Layton, University of Pittsburgh wjl@pitt.edu
  Anastasios Liakos, U.S. Naval Academy liakos@usna.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A New Strategy for Turbulence Simulation.
    Peyman Givi*, University of Pittsburgh
    Reza M.H. Sheikhi, University of Pittsburgh
    Tom G Drozda, University of Pittsburgh
    Server Levent Yilmaz, University of Pittsburgh
    (1002-76-181)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The approximate deconvolution method for the large eddy simulation of turbulent flows in a bounded domain.
    Argus Adrian Dunca*, Univ of Michigan at Ann Arbor
    (1002-76-156)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Multiscale Algorithms and Models for Turbulent Flows.
    William J. Layton*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1002-76-88)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Boundary Conditions for Large Eddy Simulation of Transitional Turbulent Flows.
    Traian Iliescu*, Virginia Tech
    Jeff Borggaard, Virginia Tech
    Alexey Miroshnikov, Virginia Tech
    Grant Boquet, Virginia Tech
    (1002-76-130)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Slip with friction boundary condition for the Navier-Stokes equations -- numerical studies for time dependent laminar flows.
    Anastasios Liakos*, U.S. Naval Academy
    John Volker, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
    (1002-65-152)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Knots and Macromolecules, II
  Room 722, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
  Eric J. Rawdon, Duquesne University rawdon@mathcs.duq.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Identifying Those Links in Solid Tori Which are Braids Made of Braids.
    J. R. Bozeman*, Lyndon State College
    (1002-57-45)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Local versus global structure in knot space.
    Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1002-57-117)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $C^2$ Smooth Knots of Constant Curvature.
    Jenelle Marie McAtee*, University of Iowa
    (1002-54-98)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Braid Index, Genus and Crossing Number of Links.
    Yuanan Diao*, UNC Charlotte
    Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University
    Morwen Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee
    (1002-57-64)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Geometry and physics of proteins.
    Jayanth R Banavar*, Penn State
    Amos Maritan, University of Padova
    (1002-82-89)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Polynomials, I
  Room 523, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  E. Glen Whitehead, Jr., University of Pittsburgh egw1@pitt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    An Introduction to Graph Polynomials.
    Earl Glen Whitehead*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1002-05-99)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Totally Matchable Graphs.
    Kimberly J Burch*, Montclair State University
    Earl Glen Whitehead, Jr., University of Pittsburgh
    (1002-05-86)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A brute-force method for studying chromatic equivalence of homeomorphic graphs.
    Ronald C. Read*, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo
    (1002-05-14)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A categorification for the chromatic polynomial.
    Yongwu Rong*, The George Washington University
    Laure Helme-Guizon, The George Washington University
    (1002-05-187)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Computation of Tutte Polynomials.
    Gary Haggard*, Bucknell University
    Gordon Royle, University of Western Australia
    (1002-05-15)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A characteristic polynomial for chordal graphs and rooted graphs.
    Elizabeth W. McMahon*, Lafayette College
    Beth Shimkus, Lehigh University
    Jessica Wolfson, Lafayette College
    (1002-05-161)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Multivariate Hypergeometric Functions: Combinatorial and Algebro-Geometric Aspects, II
  Room 1020, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Eduardo Cattani, University of Massachusetts, Amherst cattani@math.umass.edu
  Alicia M. Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires alidick@dm.uba.ar
  Laura Felicia Matusevich, Harvard University laura@math.harvard.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ranks of $A$-hypergeometric systems.
    Laura Felicia Matusevich*, University of Pennsylvania
    Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota
    Uli Walther, Purdue University
    (1002-14-84)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Generalized A-hypergeometric systems and duality.
    Uli Walther*, Purdue University
    (1002-14-81)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The holonomic rank formula for $A$-hypergeometric system in the case where the rank of $A$ is three.
    Go Okuyama*, Hokkaido University
    (1002-14-75)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A differential operators approach to rank-jumps in hypergeometric systems.
    William N. Traves*, U.S. Naval Academy
    (1002-13-144)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Nonsolvability of Holonomic Systems of Equations by Quadratures.
    Askold Khovanskii*, University of Toronto, Independent University of Moscow and Institute for System Studies, Moscow
    (1002-35-131)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 920, Benedum Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Affine Cyclic Codes.
    Nuh Aydin*, Kenyon College
    (1002-05-138)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Letter Representations of Rectangular m x n x p Proper Arrays.
    Jocelyn Quaintance*, Kutztown University
    (1002-05-54)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Nilpotent N-Lie Algebras.
    Michael Peretzian Williams*, North Bethesda,MD
    (1002-17-108)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Notes on regularity and smoothness of outer measures.
    Carmen D Vlad*, Pace University, New York, NY.
    (1002-28-133)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Constraint-Preserving Boundary Conditions for Some Hyperbolic Systems of Differential Equations.
    Nicolae Tarfulea*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1002-35-35)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Generalizations of Kantrovich and Strang Inequalities.
    Morteza Seddighin*, Indiana University East
    (1002-47-34)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Development of The Phase Function Method for Systems of N Charged Particles.
    Lia Leon Chachanidze-Margolin*, University of Phoenix
    (1002-70-05)
• Saturday November 6, 2004, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  Department of Mathematics of the University of Pittsburgh Reception
  Ball Room, William Pitt Union

Sunday November 7, 2004

• Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 1175, Benedum Hall
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 1175, Benedum Hall
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Modularity of Galois Representations and Serre's Conjecture, III
  Room 521, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark E. T. Dickinson, University of Pittsburgh dickinsm@pitt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Eisenstein Deformation Rings.
    Francesco Calegari*, Harvard
    (1002-11-33)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Functoriality and Serre's Conjecture.
    David Pollack*, Wesleyan University
    (1002-11-43)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Weights of Galois representations associated to Hilbert modular forms.
    Michael M. Schein*, Harvard University
    (1002-11-28)
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on PDE-Based Methods in Imaging and Vision, III
  Room 520, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Stacey E. Levine, Duquesne University sel@mathcs.duq.edu
  Yunmei Chen, University of Florida yun@math.ufl.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Information Theoretic Mean.
    Murali Rao*, University Of Florida
    (1002-94-200)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear Energy Minimization in Signal/Image Analysis by Stochastic Differential Equations.
    Hamid Krim*, North Carolina State University
    Elena Zhizhina, Institute for Information and Transmission Problems
    (1002-62-58)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geometric Analysis of Statistical Manifolds with Applications to Object Recognition.
    Washington Mio*, Florida State University
    Dennis Badlyans, Florida State University
    (1002-68-205)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Existence and Local Uniqueness of Certain Optimal Correspondences between Plane Curves.
    David Groisser*, University of Florida
    (1002-49-134)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Error Analysis for Image Inpainting.
    Tony Chan, University of California, Los Angeles
    Sung Ha Kang*, University of Kentucky
    (1002-65-115)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Inpainting of BV Images in the Wavelets Domain.
    Jackie Jianhong Shen*, University of Minnesota
    Haomin Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Tony F. Chan, UCLA
    (1002-94-59)
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, III
  Room 823, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Marta M. Asaeda, University of Maryland asaeda@math.uiowa.edu
  Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
  Adam S. Sikora, SUNY at Buffalo asikora@buffalo.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Relative Framing of Transverse Knots.
    Vladimir V. Chernov*, Dartmouth College
    (1002-57-244)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Markov Traces on Framed Braids.
    Sofia Lambropoulou*, National Technical University of Athens
    Jesus Juyumaya, University of Valparaiso
    (1002-57-241)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Knot Polynomials vs. Hyperbolic Volume.
    Oliver T Dasbach*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    Xiao-Song Lin, University of California, Riverside
    (1002-57-174)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Anti-homotopy skein theory for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
    (1002-57-165)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Traces on the skein algebra of the torus.
    Michael McLendon*, Washington College
    (1002-55-125)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An Isomorphism Between Affine Birman-Murakami-Wenzl Algebras and Tangles in the Solid Torus.
    Frederick Goodman, University of Iowa
    Holly M Hauschild*, University of Iowa
    (1002-54-220)
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, III
  Room 1022, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  James F. Lawrence, George Mason University lawrence@gmu.edu
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the space of affine classes of convex bodies.
    Wlodzimierz Kuperberg*, Auburn University
    (1002-52-124)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Ball-Polytopes.
    Karoly Bezdek*, University of Calgary
    (1002-52-179)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Determining a convex body by minor subsets of the boundary.
    David G. Larman*, University College London,London,U.K.
    Grzegorz Sojka, Mathematics Institute, University of Warsaw
    (1002-52-51)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Lebesgue's universal cover problem.
    Peter Brass*, City College New York, CUNY
    (1002-52-104)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the number of mutually touching cylinders.
    Andras Bezdek*, Auburn University, AL and R\'enyi Inst. of Mathematics, Budapest, Hunagry
    (1002-52-184)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Covering with Fat Convex Discs.
    G\'abor Fejes T\'oth*, Alfr\'ed R\'enyi Mathematical Institute
    (1002-52-193)
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The History of Mathematics, III
  Room 426, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University bradley@adelphi.edu
  Lawrence A. D'Antonio, Ramapo College of New Jersey ldant@ramapo.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Numbers: Regular, irregular and prime. Some thoughts on the Old Babylonian sexagesimal system.
    Duncan J. Melville*, St. Lawrence University
    (1002-01-158)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    When did Trigonometry Begin?
    Glen R. Van Brummelen*, Bennington College
    (1002-01-76)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Changing Proofs for the Quadrature of the Parabola.
    Gordon A. Swain*, Ashland University
    (1002-01-22)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The development of the mathematical thought of the young Descartes.
    Michel Pierre Serfati*, Institut de Recherche sur l'Enseignement des Mathématiques. Université Paris VII. Denis Diderot.
    (1002-01-107)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    How the Cartesian Revolution renders Plato's hope for a mathematical basis for philosophy implausible.
    Samuel S Kutler*, St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland
    (1002-01-109)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Gertrude Blanch of the WPA.
    David Alan Grier*, George Washington University
    (1002-01-07)
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Applications, III
  Room 420, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Xinfu Chen, University of Pittsburgh xinfu@pitt.edu
  Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh dwang@math.pitt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Global Existence for 3D Incompressible Isotropic Elastodynamics via the Incompressible Limit.
    Thomas C Sideris, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Becca Thomases*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    (1002-35-82)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Viscoelastic Fluids.
    Chun Liu*, Penn State University
    (1002-35-129)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Another way to say subsolution: the maximum principle and sums of Green functions.
    Richard S. Laugesen*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Neil A. Watson, University of Canterbury
    (1002-35-92)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On a Multidimensional Model for the Dynamic Combustion of Compressible Reacting Flows.
    D. Donatelli, University of L'Aquila
    K. Trivisa*, University of Maryland at College Park
    (1002-35-60)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lotka-Volterra competition model with small or intermediate diffusion coeffcients.
    Yuan Lou*, The Ohio State University
    (1002-35-114)
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knots and Macromolecules, III
  Room 722, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
  Eric J. Rawdon, Duquesne University rawdon@mathcs.duq.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The shape of DNA bound by Mu transposase.
    Isabel K Darcy*, University of Iowa
    John Luecke, UT Austin
    Mariel Vazquez, UC Berkeley
    (1002-92-213)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Classification of Tangle Solutions for Integrases.
    Dorothy Buck*, UC Davis and Imperial College, UK
    Cynthia Verjovsky Marcotte, St Edwards University
    (1002-92-192)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Packing, curvature, and tangling of filaments.
    Jonathan K. Simon*, University of Iowa
    Gregory R. Buck, St. Anselm College
    (1002-53-216)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Periodic table of knots.
    Alessandro Flammini, School of Informatics, Indiana University
    Andrzej Stasiak*, Université de Lausanne
    (1002-54-143)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Tight knots and links: a universal energy spectrum for physical systems.
    Thomas W Kephart*, TN
    Roman V. Buniy, U. of Oregon
    (1002-70-178)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On pearl-number and ropelength of knots and links.
    Rob Kusner*, Center for Geometry, Analysis, Numerics and Graphics (GANG)
    W\"oden Kusner, Haverford College
    (1002-52-228)
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Multivariate Hypergeometric Functions: Combinatorial and Algebro-Geometric Aspects, III
  Room 1020, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Eduardo Cattani, University of Massachusetts, Amherst cattani@math.umass.edu
  Alicia M. Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires alidick@dm.uba.ar
  Laura Felicia Matusevich, Harvard University laura@math.harvard.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Algebraic functions as solutions of holonomic systems of partial differential equations.
    Alicia Dickenstein, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Laura Felicia Matusevich, Harvard University
    Timur Sadykov*, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
    (1002-14-62)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Planar configurations and gkz-rationality.
    Alicia Dickenstein*, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Eduardo Cattani, University of Massachusetts
    (1002-14-70)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Picard-Fuchs differential equation for the $A_n$ family of Calabi-Yau varieties.
    H A Verrill*, Louisiana State University
    (1002-14-48)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Integral sub-variations of Hodge structure and moduli of Calabi-Yau complete intersections.
    Charles Doran*, University of Washington
    John Morgan, Columbia University
    (1002-14-227)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hypergeometric series and discriminant amoebas.
    Mikael Passare*, Stockholm University, Sweden
    (1002-33-203)
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Trends in Operator Theory and Banach Spaces, III
  Room 423, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Christopher J. Lennard, University of Pittsburgh lennard@pitt.edu
  Thomas A. Metzger, University of Pittsburgh metzger@pitt.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Positive functionals on general Operator Algebras.
    Victor I Lomonosov*, Kent State University
    (1002-47-221)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sublgebras of Hardy spaces.
    Michael I Stessin*, SUNY at Albany
    (1002-30-72)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Banach lattices and tensor norms.
    Joe N. Diestel*, Kent State University
    (1002-46-08)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Convexity properties of $\psi$-direct sums of Banach spaces.
    Patrick Dowling*, Miami University
    (1002-46-121)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations in Subelliptic Structures, III
  Room 424, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Cristian E. Gut\'ierrez, Temple University gutierrez@euclid.math.temple.edu
  Guozhen Lu, Wayne State University gzlu@math.wayne.edu
  Juan J. Manfredi, University of Pittsburgh manfredi@pitt.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Apollonian metric of domains in Heisenberg group.
    Zair Ibragimov*, University of Cincinnati
    (1002-30-57)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A generalization of the Coifman Lions Meyer and Semmes theorem to mappings between manifolds.
    Piotr Haj\l{}asz*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1002-35-238)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sharp weighted Young's inequalities and Moser-Trudinger inequalities in groups of Heisenberg type.
    Jeremy T. Tyson*, University of Illinois
    (1002-43-215)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The horizontal Hessian matrix of the distance function in the Heisenberg group.
    Fausto Ferrari*, Università Piazza di Porta S. Donato and C.I.R.A.M.
    (1002-35-93)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    About a Liouville phenomenon for supersolutions of elliptic partial differential equations.
    Vasilii V. Kurta*, Mathematical Reviews, AMS
    (1002-35-147)
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Multiscale Algorithms in Computational Fluid Dynamics, III
  Room 522, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  William J. Layton, University of Pittsburgh wjl@pitt.edu
  Anastasios Liakos, U.S. Naval Academy liakos@usna.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Time Averaged Statistics and Navier-Stokes Equations.
    Carolina C Manica*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1002-65-140)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    FENE dumbbell model for complex fluids and its closure approximations.
    Qiang Du*, Penn State University
    Chun Liu, Penn State University
    Peng Yu, Penn State University
    (1002-65-95)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Local Dynamics of Navier-Stokes Equations in Exterior Domains.
    Giovanni P Galdi*, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    (1002-76-100)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mathematical Analysis of Orientation of Rigid Bodies Falling in Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids.
    Ashwin Vaidya*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1002-76-97)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Advances in MHD Flow Simulations.
    A. J. Meir*, Auburn University
    P. G. Schmidt, Mathematics and Statistics / Auburn University
    (1002-76-167)
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Polynomials, II
  Room 523, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  E. Glen Whitehead, Jr., University of Pittsburgh egw1@pitt.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Reconstructing (and not reconstructing) trees from probability data.
    David Eisenstat, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
    Gary Gordon*, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
    (1002-05-160)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the sandpile group of regular trees.
    Evelin Toumpakari*, University of Chicago
    (1002-05-41)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A strange tree--enumeration formula from electrical network theory.
    David G. Wagner*, University of Waterloo C&O Department
    (1002-05-23)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Monomial Bases for NBC Complexes.
    Jason I Brown, Dalhousie University
    Bruce E Sagan*, Michigan State University
    (1002-05-102)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Properties of the interlace polynomial.
    Joanna Anthony Ellis-Monaghan*, St. Michael's College
    Irasema Sarmiento, CINEVESTAV, Mexico
    (1002-05-85)
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 9:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
  Workshop
  T.A. development using case studies: A workshop for faculty.
  Room 525, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Solomon Friedberg, Boston University
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The boosting approach to machine learning.
  Auditorium, Benedum Hall
  Robert Schapire*, Princeton University
  (1002-68-04)
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Homogenization in asymmetrical random media: Recent results and challenges.
  Auditorium, Benedum Hall
  Ofer Zeitouni*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  (1002-60-02)
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Modularity of Galois Representations and Serre's Conjecture, IV
  Room 521, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark E. T. Dickinson, University of Pittsburgh dickinsm@pitt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    An algorithm for verifying Artin's conjecture.
    Andrew R Booker*, University of Michigan
    (1002-11-42)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture, Tamagawa Numbers, and Level Lowering.
    William A Stein*, Harvard University
    (1002-11-36)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Problem session.
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, IV
  Room 823, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Marta M. Asaeda, University of Maryland asaeda@math.uiowa.edu
  Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
  Adam S. Sikora, SUNY at Buffalo asikora@buffalo.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Alexander groups of long virtual knots.
    Daniel S. Silver, University of South Alabama
    Susan G Williams*, University of South Alabama
    (1002-57-204)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Knots and Lehmer's Question.
    Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
    Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
    (1002-57-209)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Presentations of groups of $n$-trivial knots.
    Ted Stanford*, New Mexico State University
    (1002-57-231)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the quantization of the moduli space of flat SU(2)-connections on the torus.
    Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
    (1002-57-79)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    String Link Invariants via Representation Theory.
    Craig Jackson, University of Chicago
    Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
    (1002-16-226)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, IV
  Room 1022, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  James F. Lawrence, George Mason University lawrence@gmu.edu
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tilings of the sphere with congruent spherical triangles.
    Robert J. MacG. Dawson*, Saint Mary's University
    (1002-52-154)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Antipodality in Hyperbolic Space.
    Karoly Bezdek, University of Calgary
    Marton Naszodi, University of Calgary
    Deborah Oliveros*, University of Calgary
    (1002-52-56)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An angle in Minkowski space.
    Boris V. Dekster*, Mount Allison University
    (1002-51-09)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the perimeter and area of the unit disc in Minkowski planes.
    Zokhrab Mustafaev*, Ithaca College
    (1002-52-10)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Pairs of Convex Bodies with Centrally Symmetric Intersections of Translates.
    Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
    (1002-52-197)
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Nonlinear Phenomena in Biology and Mechanics
  Room 720, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Anna Vainchtein, University of Pittsburgh aav4@pitt.edu
  William C. Troy, University of Pittsburgh troy@math.pitt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On long range electrical interactions in DNA elasticity.
    Bernard D Coleman*, Rutgers University, Department of Mechanics and Materials Science
    (1002-74-110)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Influence of intrinsic curvature and coupling on configurations of DNA minicircles.
    David Swigon*, University of Pittsburgh
    Wilma K Olson, Rutgers University
    Bernard D Coleman, Rutgers University
    (1002-74-217)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    A two dimensional neural model.
    William C Troy*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1002-92-189)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Modeling and Analysis of Two-Phase Equilibira of Bilayer Membranes.
    Tim Healey*, Theoretical & Applied Mechanics/Cornell University
    (1002-74-198)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Composites of Hyperelastic Materials with Prescribed Lavrentiev Gap Functions.
    Victor J. Mizel*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1002-35-223)
  • 5:05 p.m.
    Kinetics of lattice phase transitions.
    Anna Vainchtein*, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Mathematics
    Lev Truskinovsky, Ecole Polytechnique
    (1002-70-148)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday November 7, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Knots and Macromolecules, IV
  Room 722, Benedum Hall
  Organizers:
  Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
  Eric J. Rawdon, Duquesne University rawdon@mathcs.duq.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Numeric results on upper bounds of rope length.
    Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
    Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
    Uta Ziegler, Western Kentucky University
    (1002-57-206)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Numerics issues in ropelength minimization.
    Michael Piatek*, Duquesne University
    Eric Rawdon, Duquesne University
    Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia, Athens
    (1002-65-182)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    What do we know about kinked tubes? On shortest curves of constrained curvature.
    Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Joseph Fu, University of Georgia
    Robert Kusner, University of Massachusetts
    John Sullivan, Technische Univeristat Berlin
    Nancy Wrinkle, Northern Illinois University
    (1002-53-208)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Upper Bounds for the Minimum Ropelength of Knots.
    Justyna Baranska, Poznan Technical University
    Piotr Pieranski, Poznan Technical University
    Sylwester Przybyl, Poznan Technical University
    Eric J Rawdon*, Duquesne University
    (1002-57-180)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion.

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