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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

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 Math�matiques. Universit� 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*, Universit� 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*, Universit� 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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AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

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

Sunday November 7, 2004

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