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2004 Spring Western Section Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, April 3-4, 2004
Meeting #996

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday April 3, 2004

Saturday April 3, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Foyer, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities

Saturday April 3, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Room 106, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities

Saturday April 3, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Contact and Symplectic Geometry, I
Room 110, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Dragomir Dragnev, University of Southern California dragnev@math.usc.edu
Ko Honda, University of Southern California khonda@math.usc.edu
Sang Seon Kim, University of Southern California kimss@math.usc.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Higher Whitehead products in the symplectomorphism groups.
  Olguta Buse*, Michigan State University
  (996-53-157)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Toric symplectic structures that vanish on circles.
  Margaret Symington*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (996-53-119)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Invariants of real symplectic 4-manifolds and lower bounds in real enumerative geometry.
  Jean-Yves Welschinger*, \'Ecole normale sup\'erieure de Lyon
  (996-53-60)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Holomorphic open book decompositions and the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three.
  Casim Abbas*, Michigan State University
  (996-53-88)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Legendrian regular fibres in Small Seifert Spaces.
  Hao Wu*, MIT
  (996-57-46)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Degeneration of the Moduli Space of J-Holomorphic Discs and Legendrian Contact Homology.
  Ke Zhu*, Stanford University
  (996-53-48)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Fluid Problems and Related Questions, I
Room 208, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Maria Schonbek, University of California Santa Cruz schonbek@math.ucsc.edu
Yuxi Zheng, Pennsylvania State University yzheng@math.psu.edu.
- 8:00 a.m.
  Shock Wave Cosmology Inside a White Hole.
  John Blake Temple*, University of California, Davis
  (996-83-189)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Critical Thresholds and Spectral Dynamics in Some Fluid Equations.
  Hailiang Liu*, Iowa State University
  (996-35-58)
- 9:00 a.m.
  "On the inviscid limit for 2D incompressible flow with Navier friction condition".
  Milton C. Lopes Filho, IMECC - UNICAMP
  Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes*, IMECC - UNICAMP
  Gabriela V. Planas, ICMC - USP Sao Carlos
  (996-76-126)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Enstrophy dissipation in 2D turbulence.
  Milton C Lopes Filho, IMECC-UNICAMP
  Anna L Mazzucato*, Penn State University
  Helena J Nussenzveig Lopes, IMECC-UNICAMP
  (996-76-120)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Conditions for the Local Boundedness of Solutions to the Navier-Stokes System in Three Dimensions.
  Mike O'Leary*, Towson University
  (996-76-87)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Stability and regularity of suitably weak solutions of n-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes and MHD equations.
  Linghai John Zhang*, Lehigh University
  (996-35-14)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Smooth Ergodic Theory and Related Topics, I
Room 116, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California nhaydn@postal.usc.edu
Huyi Hu, Michigan State University hu@math.psu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Liv\v{s}ic Regularity for Markov Towers.
  Henk Bruin, Surrey University
  Mark Holland, Surrey University
  Matthew Nicol*, University of Houston
  (996-37-106)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Extending Weak Convergence Results to Infinite Time.
  Cymra Haskell*, University of Southern California
  Matthew Nicol, University of Houston
  Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College
  (996-37-155)
- 9:00 a.m.
  An infinite time functional central limit theorem for compact group extensions of hyperbolic systems.
  Cymra Haskell, University of Southern California
  Matthew Nicol, University of Houston
  Ami E. Radunskaya*, Pomona College
  (996-37-154)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Statistical Limit Theorems for Suspension Flows.
  Ian Melbourne, University of Surrey, UK
  Andrew Torok*, University of Houston
  (996-37-152)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Stability of rapid mixing for hyperbolic flows.
  M J Field*, University of Houston
  I Melbourne, University of Surrey
  A Torok, University of Houston
  (996-37-75)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A fascinating dynamics of a piecewise attractor with four atoms.
  Arek Goetz*, San Francisco State University
  (996-37-77)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamic Equations on Time Scales: Theory and Applications, I
Room 214, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
John M. Davis, Baylor University John_M_Davis@baylor.edu
Johnny Henderson, Baylor University Johnny_Henderson@Baylor.edu
Qin Sheng, University of Dayton Qin.Sheng@notes.udayton.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Existence of Solutions to Second-Order BVPs on Time Scales.
  Lynn Erbe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Allan C Peterson*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Chris C Tisdell, University of New South Wales
  (996-39-79)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Oscillation of Second Order Delay Dynamic Equations.
  Martin J Bohner*, University of Missouri-Rolla
  (996-39-134)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Measure Chain Cantilever Beam Problem.
  Douglas R Anderson*, Concordia College
  Joan Hoffacker, University of Georgia
  (996-34-45)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Solution Matching for Dynamic Equations.
  Basant K Karna*, Baylor University, Waco, TX
  (996-34-84)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Stability and Instability for Dynamic Equations on Time Scales.
  Jo Hoffacker*, University of Georgia
  Chris Tisdell, University of New South Wales
  (996-34-59)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Periodic Linear Systems and Floquet Decomposition on Time Scales.
  Jeffrey J. DaCunha*, Baylor University
  John M. Davis, Baylor University
  (996-39-86)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, I
Room 212, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California kukavica@math.usc.edu
Qi S. Zhang, University of California Riverside qizhang@math.ucr.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Travelling Fronts in Reactive Boussinesq Systems.
  Lenya Ryzhik*, University of Chicago
  (996-35-109)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Fourth order nonlinear PDEs in image processing.
  Andrea L. Bertozzi*, UCLA and Duke University
  John B. Greer, UCLA
  (996-35-43)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dispersive and $L^p$-Smoothing Estimates for the Linear Schr\"odinger Equation.
  Michael Goldberg*, Caltech
  (996-42-167)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Financial Mathematics, I
Room 213, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Jaksa Cvitanic, University of Southern California cvitanic@math.usc.edu
Janfeng Zhang, University of Southern California jfzhang@math.umn.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  A Riemann approach to financial calculus.
  P Muldowney*, University of Ulster
  (996-60-93)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the pricing of defaultable bonds and derivatives.
  George C Papanicolaou*, Stanford University
  (996-60-201)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Fast Swaption Pricing under LIBOR Market Model with Stochastic Volatility.
  Lixin Wu*, Claremont Graduate University
  Fan Zhang, Claremont Graduate University
  (996-60-115)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Robust Replication of Volatility Derivatives.
  Roger Lee*, Stanford University
  (996-90-203)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in the Mathematical Analysis of Geophysical and Hydrodynamical Models, I
Room 215, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Mohammed Ziane, University of Southern California ziane@math.usc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Dynamic bifurcation in geophysical fluid dynamics.
  Tian Ma, Indiana University & Sichuan University
  Shouhong Wang*, Indiana University
  (996-35-169)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Prediction and Measurement of Turbulent Wakes in a Stratified Fluid.
  Geoffrey R Spedding*, University of Southern California
  (996-76-183)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Maximum Principle and The Global Attractor for the 2D Dissipative Quasi-Geostrophic Equation.
  Ning Ju*, Oklahoma State University
  (996-35-170)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Leray-alpha model and boundary-layer turbulence.
  Alexey Cheskidov*, Indiana University
  (996-76-181)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Variational analysis of vortex containment radius.
  Chjan C Lim*, RPI
  (996-76-81)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear and Harmonic Analysis, I
Room 210, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Rowan Killip, University of California Los Angeles killip@math.ucla.edu
Christoph Martin Thiele, thiele@math.ucla.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Resonances for semiclassical Schr\"odinger operators in dimension two.
  Michael Hitrik*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (996-35-174)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quasi-periodic solutions for nonlinear random Schroedinger equation.
  Wei-Min Wang*, CNRS, Universite Paris Sud
  (996-42-158)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The structure of the modified spectral shift function and perturbation determinant associated with the Schrodinger operators with square integrable potentials.
  Alexei Rybkin*, Univ of Alaska Fairbanks
  (996-47-190)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Higher Order Sum Rules for Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle.
  Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
  Andrej Zlatos*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  (996-33-96)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 119, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Lance W. Small, University of California San Diego lwsmall@ucsd.edu
Paul Smith, University of Washington smith@math.washington.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Cohomology of non-commutative $\mathbb{P}^{1}$-bundles.
  Adam Nyman*, University of Montana, Missoula
  (996-14-113)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Unramified Brauer groups of finite simple groups of Lie type $A_{\ell}$.
  Fedor A Bogomolov, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  Tihomir A Petrov*, University of California, Irvine
  (996-14-108)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Intersection Theory for Quantum Ruled Surfaces.
  Izuru Mori*, University of Toledo
  S. Paul Smith, University of Washington
  (996-14-67)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Presenting q-Schur Algebras.
  Anthony Giaquinto*, Loyola University Chicago
  (996-16-151)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Complex and Hyperbolic Geometry, I
Room 114, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California fbonahon@math.usc.edu
Dragomir Saric, University of Southern California saric@math.usc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Quasiconformal homogeneity of hyperbolic manifolds.
  Petra Bonfert-Taylo, Wesleyan University
  Richard D Canary*, University of Michigan
  Gaven Martin, University of Auckland
  Edward C Taylor, Wesleyan University
  (996-57-193)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Universal Simultaneous Bending.
  Reza Chamanara*, Indiana University
  (996-51-85)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The topology of the space of punctured torus groups.
  Kenneth Bromberg*, University of Utah
  (996-57-153)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The topology of the space of punctured torus groups.
  John Holt*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Juan Souto, Universitat Bonn
  (996-57-91)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry and K-Theory, I
Room 112, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Thomas Geisser, University of Southern California geisser@usc.edu
Wayne Raskind, University of Southern California raskind@usc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Discussion.

Saturday April 3, 2004, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Applications of Bilinear Maps to Cryptography.
Room 101, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Dan Boneh*, Stanford University
(996-68-80)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
Some basic questions in nonlinear Fourier analysis.
Room 101, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Christoph Thiele*, UCLA
(996-42-30)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear and Harmonic Analysis, II
Room 210, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Rowan Killip, University of California Los Angeles killip@math.ucla.edu
Christopher Thiele, University of California Los Angeles thiele@math.ucla.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Discrete Skew-Symmetric Orthogonal Polynomials and Random Partitions.
  E Strahov*, Caltech
  A Borodin, Caltech
  (996-60-175)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Matrix Models for Circular Ensembles.
  Rowan Killip, UCLA
  Irina Nenciu*, Caltech
  (996-43-168)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Paraproducts on the bi-disc.
  Camil Muscalu*, Cornell University
  (996-42-82)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A renormalized Riesz potential at critical exponent.
  Mihai Putinar*, University of California at Santa Barbara
  (996-44-57)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Noncommutative Bowen-Ruelle theorem, two weight Hilbert transform, and pressure of polynomial maps.
  Alexander Volberg*, Michigan State Univ.
  Peter Yuditskii, Univ. of Linz
  (996-42-184)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Modern Problems of Integration: Theory and Applications, I
Room 108, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Mark Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Functional Integration without Integration.
  Louis Hirsch Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (996-28-11)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Aspects of nonabsolute integration.
  M. M. Rao*, University of California, Riverside
  (996-28-13)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The distributional Denjoy integral.
  Erik Talvila*, University College of the Fraser Valley
  (996-26-24)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A Hilbert Space Structure for the Class of KH-Integrable Functions.
  Tepper L. Gill*, Howard University
  V Steadman, University of the District of Columbia
  W. W. Zachary, Howard University
  (996-28-52)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A General Definition of the Feynman Integral.
  Tepper L. Gill*, Howard University
  W. W. Zachary, Howard University
  (996-28-53)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Computations for nonsquare constants of Orlicz function spaces with Orlicz norm.
  Z. D. Ren*, UC Riverside
  (996-46-23)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 119, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Lance W. Small, University of California San Diego lwsmall@ucsd.edu
Paul Smith, University of Washington smith@math.washington.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Spectra of Quantized Hyperalgebras.
  William Chin*, DePaul University
  Leonid Krop, DePaul University
  (996-16-124)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Weak Chow groups of noncommutative spaces.
  Christopher J Pappacena*, Greenbelt, MD
  (996-14-137)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Endomorphism rings of finite global dimension.
  Graham J Leuschke*, University of Toronto
  (996-13-148)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Left ideals and derivations in semiprime rings.
  Charles P Lanski*, University of Southern California
  (996-16-73)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Projectively Simple Rings.
  Z. Reichstein, University of British Columbia
  D. Rogalski, MIT
  J. J. Zhang*, University of Washington
  (996-16-89)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Contact and Symplectic Geometry, II
Room 110, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Dragomir Dragnev, University of Southern California dragnev@math.usc.edu
Ko Honda, University of Southern California khonda@math.usc.edu
Sang Seon Kim, University of Southern California kimss@math.usc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Lagrangian collapse and degeneration of holomorphic curves.
  Brett D Parker*, Stanford
  (996-53-98)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Towards the Genus-One GW-Invariants of a Quintic Threefold.
  Jun Li, Stanford
  Aleksey Zinger*, Stanford
  (996-51-101)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Legendrian submanifolds in $R^{2n+1}$.
  Tobias Ekholm, Uppsala University
  John Etnyre, University of Pennsylvania
  Michael G Sullivan*, MSRI/University of Massachusetts
  (996-53-131)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Pinwheels and bypasses.
  Ko Honda, University of Southern California
  William H Kazez, University of Georgia
  Gordana Mati\'c*, University of Georgia
  (996-57-195)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Special Session on Fluid Problems and Related Questions, II
Room 208, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Maria Schonbek, University of California Santa Cruz schonbek@math.ucsc.edu
Yuxi Zheng, Pennsylvania State University yzheng@math.psu.edu.
- 3:00 p.m.
  Global existence in 3d isotropic and incompressible elastodynamics via the incompressible limit.
  Thomas C Sideris*, Uinversity of California, Santa Barbara
  Becca Thomases, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  (996-35-19)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Scattering for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation.
  Tai-Peng Tsai*, University of British Columbia
  (996-35-196)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Kinetic limit for coagulating Brownian particles.
  Fraydoun Rezakhanlou*, UC Berkeley
  Alan Hammond, UC Berkeley
  (996-35-47)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A New Large Total Variation Stability Result for the Quadratic Nonlinear System Associated with the Compressible Euler Equations by Eigenvalue Methods.
  Thaddeus J Edens*, University of California, Davis
  (996-35-173)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Modeling and Simulations of Ferrofluids.
  Carlos Garcia-Cervera*, UCSB
  (996-76-160)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Shock-Waves, Black Holes, and the Einstein equations.
  Jeffrey M. Groah*, CSU Monterey Bay
  (996-76-61)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Clustering Techniques For Particle Methods And Problems Related To Fluid Structures.
  Bharat Khushalani*, University of Southern California
  (996-76-25)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Financial Mathematics, II
Room 213, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Jaksa Cvitanic, University of Southern California cvitanic@math.usc.edu
Janfeng Zhang, University of Southern California jfzhang@math.umn.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Pricing Take or Pay Swing Options.
  Sheldon M Ross*, UC Berkeley
  (996-90-97)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Debt Policy, Corporate Taxes, and Discount Rates.
  Mark Grinblatt, UCLA
  Jun Liu*, UCLA
  (996-90-44)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On Optimal Investment in the Long Run: Rank Dependent Expected Utility as a ``Bridge'' between the Maximum-Expected-Log and Maximum- Expected-Utility Criteria.
  Vladimir I Rotar*, San Diego State University
  (996-90-40)
- 5:30 p.m.
  MLE of Parameters in the Drifted Brownian Motion and Its Error.
  Weian Zheng*, UC Irvine
  Lemee Nakamura, UC Irvine
  (996-60-95)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Smooth Ergodic Theory and Related Topics, II
Room 116, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California nhaydn@postal.usc.edu
Huyi Hu, Michigan State University hu@math.psu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Foliations: harmonic measures, von Neumann algebras and resilient leaves.
  Alberto Candel*, CSUN
  (996-37-199)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Counterexamples that show that n-dimensional hyperbolic space does not retain rigidity in the Finsler category.
  Florence Newberger*, California State University, Long Beach
  (996-37-149)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Partially hyperbolic dynamical systems and subriemannian geometry.
  Slobodan N Simi\'c*, University of California, Berkeley
  (996-37-140)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Rigidity of the measurable structure for algebraic actions of higher rank abelian groups.
  Boris Kalinin*, University of South Alabama
  Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan
  (996-37-127)
- 5:00 p.m.
  ``On Newhouse phenomenon (of infinitely many coexisting sinks)'' (joint w A. Gorodetsky).
  Vadim Y Kaloshin*, Caltech
  (996-37-178)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Minimizing methods for the N-body problem without equal-mass constraint.
  Kuo-Chang Chen*, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
  (996-37-185)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Dynamic Equations on Time Scales: Theory and Applications, II
Room 214, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
John M. Davis, Baylor University John_M_Davis@baylor.edu
Johnny Henderson, Baylor University Johnny_Henderson@Baylor.edu
Qin Sheng, University of Dayton Qin.Sheng@notes.udayton.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Applications of Time Scales to Real Time Communication Networks.
  Ian A Gravagne*, Baylor University
  John M Davis, Baylor University
  Jeffrey Dacunha, Baylor University
  Bob Marks, Baylor University
  (996-93-62)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Time Scale Nonregressivity in Switched Linear Circuits.
  Robert Jackson Marks*, Baylor University
  Ian Gravagne, Baylor University
  John M Davis, Baylor University
  Jeffrey J DaCunha, Baylor University
  (996-37-129)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Biological applications of dynamic equations on a time scale.
  Diana M Thomas*, Montclair State University
  (996-92-55)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Data Combination in Phylogenetics: Optimal Strategies in the Face of Poor Input.
  Sudhindra R Gadagkar*, University of Dayton
  (996-92-114)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Applications of Time Scales to Numerical Analysis.
  Bree Ettinger*, University of Georgia
  (996-65-72)
- 5:30 p.m.
  An Exploration of Combined Dynamic Derivatives on Time Scales for Computational Applications.
  Qin Sheng*, University of Dayton
  Mai Fadag, University of Dayton
  (996-34-41)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Complex and Hyperbolic Geometry, II
Room 114, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California fbonahon@math.usc.edu
Dragomir Saric, University of Southern California saric@math.usc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Deformations and Self-Maps of the Universal Hyperbolic Solenoid.
  Dragomir Saric*, University of Southern California
  (996-30-192)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Arc Complexes.
  Robert C. Penner*, Univ.Southern Calif.
  (996-57-34)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Schwarz's lemma and Teichm\"uller contraction for generalized Teichm\"uller spaces.
  Sudeb Mitra*, Queens College, CUNY
  (996-32-146)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Triangulations of mapping tori over the punctured torus.
  Francois Gueritaud*, ENS Paris, USC Los Angeles
  (996-51-83)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Counting in Kleinian groups with torsion.
  William Abikoff*, University of Connecticut at Storrs
  William J. Harvey, Kings College, London
  (996-57-186)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Moduli spaces of Kleinian groups.
  Peter A Storm*, University of Chicago
  (996-57-65)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry and K-Theory, II
Room 112, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Thomas Geisser, University of Southern California geisser@usc.edu
Wayne Raskind, University of Southern California raskind@usc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Discussion.

Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in the Mathematical Analysis of Geophysical and Hydrodynamical Models, II
Room 215, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Mohammed Ziane, University of Southern California ziane@math.usc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Mathematical Analysis of Certain Geophysical Models.
  Edriss S. Titi*, University of Califoria - Irvine & Weizmann Institute of Science
  (996-86-50)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Decomposing weather patterns: recent progress.
  Paul K. Newton*, University of Southern California
  (996-76-90)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Numerical Simulations of Rotating Turbulence Using Truncated Navier-Stokes Equations.
  J A Domaradzki*, University of Southern California
  X Yang, University of Southern California
  (996-76-123)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Dependence of turbulence and the global attractor on the forcing in the 2D Navier-Stokes equation.
  R. Dascaliuc, Texas A&M
  C. Foias, Texas A&M
  M. S. Jolly*, Indiana University
  (996-76-198)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Regularity and Dissipativity in Gevrey Classes for Solutions of a Smoluchowski Equation.
  Jesenko Vukadinovic*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (996-35-163)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 212, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California kukavica@math.usc.edu
Qi S. Zhang, University of California Riverside qizhang@math.ucr.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On Schroedinger systems.
  Wilhelm Schlag*, Caltech
  (996-35-161)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the helicity in 3D-periodic Navier-Stokes equations.
  Luan Thach Hoang*, Texas A&M University
  Ciprian Foias, Texas A&M University and Indiana University
  Basil Nicolaenko, Arizona State University
  (996-35-22)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Quenching of flames by large amplitude fluid advection.
  Alexander Kiselev, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  Andrej Zlatos*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  (996-35-128)

Saturday April 3, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers
Room 118, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
- 3:00 p.m.
  A short proof of a theorem of Eilenberg and Moore.
  Maria S. Voloshina*, California State University, Fresno
  (996-55-32)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Complementary Topologies and Their Relation to Non-Archimedean Topologies.
  Rahim G Karimpour*, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
  (996-54-107)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Topologizing the Space of All Generalized Riemann Integrable Functions.
  J Alan Alewine*, McKendree College
  (996-28-150)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Topological Spaces of Extended Hypernumbers.
  Mark Burgin*, UCLA
  (996-54-162)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Finite-Monotonicity of Dirichlet-Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the Sierpinski Gasket.
  M Ureyen, Anadolu University
  B Demir, Anadolu University
  V Dzhafarov, Anadolu University
  S Kocak*, Anadolu University
  (996-31-09)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Derivation of Rotational Frequencies for Relative Equilibrium Configurations of the N-vortex Problem.
  Bharat Khushalani*, University of Southern California
  (996-37-28)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Three dimensional, time dependent, Navier-Stokes PDE, a formal analytical solution.
  Leonard D'Attorre*, Dana Point, California
  (996-35-117)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Solutions to Well-Known PDEs When Coefficients Are Unknown.
  Senem Alkan*, Universita' Bocconi
  Rod Freed, California State University
  (996-35-171)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Power Numbers.
  Avery S. Zoch*, equationgallery.com
  (996-05-06)

Sunday April 4, 2004

Sunday April 4, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Foyer, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities

Sunday April 4, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 p.m.
Special Session on Contact and Symplectic Geometry, III
Room 110, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Dragomir Dragnev, University of Southern California dragnev@math.usc.edu
Ko Honda, University of Southern California khonda@math.usc.edu
Sang Seon Kim, University of Southern California kimss@math.usc.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The failure of the parametric h-principle for maps with prescribed Jacobian.
  Joseph L Coffey*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  (996-53-188)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Lagrangian intersections and the Serre spectral sequence.
  Jean-Francois Barraud, Universite de Lille 1
  Octav Cornea*, University of Montreal
  (996-53-132)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Branching Floer homology: the definition.
  Viktor Ginzburg, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Basak Gurel*, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Ely Kerman, SUNY at Stony Brook
  (996-53-159)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Branching Floer homology and the Hofer-Zehnder capacity.
  Viktor L Ginzburg, UC Santa Cruz
  Basak Z Gurel, SUNY Stony Brook
  Ely Kerman*, SUNY Stony Brook
  (996-58-138)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Instanton Floer homology with Lagrangian boundary conditions.
  Katrin Wehrheim*, Princeton University
  (996-58-139)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion

Sunday April 4, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Fluid Problems and Related Questions, III
Room 208, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Maria Schonbek, University of California Santa Cruz schonbek@math.ucsc.edu
Yuxi Zheng, Pennsylvania State University yzheng@math.psu.edu.
- 8:30 a.m.
  Local estimates on two linear parabolic equations with singular coefficients.
  Qi S. Zhang*, Math. Department, University of California Riverside
  (996-35-71)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the existence of subsonic solutions for self-similar problems in 2-dimensional conservation laws.
  Eun Heui Kim*, California State University at Long Beach
  (996-35-69)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Critical dissipation and global regularity.
  Jiahong Wu*, Oklahoma State University
  (996-35-54)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Compressible Flows with Navier Boundary Conditions.
  David Hoff*, Indiana University
  (996-76-17)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Probability Methods Applied to the Navier-Stokes Equations.
  Enrique A Thomann*, Oregon State University
  (996-76-164)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Smooth Ergodic Theory and Related Topics, III
Room 116, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California nhaydn@postal.usc.edu
Huyi Hu, Michigan State University hu@math.psu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Asymptotic Behavior near Rays of Dynamic Equilibria in Homogenous Systems.
  Marek R Rychlik*, University of Arizona
  Weiye Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  (996-91-125)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Degenerate Homoclinic Intersections in ${\mathbb{R}}^n$.
  Victoria Rayskin*, UCLA
  (996-37-100)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Strange attractors in periodically kicked Chua's circuit.
  Qiudong Wang*, University of Arizona
  (996-37-141)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Return times of polynomials are meta-Fibonacci numbers.
  Nathaniel D Emerson*, CSU Channel Islands
  (996-37-133)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Random sources and sinks for stochastic dynamical systems.
  Peter H Baxendale*, University of Southern California
  (996-37-112)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Two Point Boundary Value Problems in Dynamical Systems.
  J JP Veerman*, Portland State University
  J A Bernhard, University of Puget Sound
  (996-37-105)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamic Equations on Time Scales: Theory and Applications, III
Room 214, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
John M. Davis, Baylor University John_M_Davis@baylor.edu
Johnny Henderson, Baylor University Johnny_Henderson@Baylor.edu
Qin Sheng, University of Dayton Qin.Sheng@notes.udayton.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Nonlinear Second Order Oscillation.
  Martin Bohner, University of Missouri-Rolla
  Lynn Erbe*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Allan C Peterson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (996-39-78)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On Solutions of Quasilinear Dynamic Equations.
  Elvan Akin-Bohner*, University of Missouri-Rolla
  (996-39-135)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Partial Dynamic Equations on Time Scles.
  B J Jackson*, University of Georgia
  (996-35-31)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Towards Schroedinger's Theory on Time Scales.
  Andreas Ludwig Ruffing*, Arizona State University
  (996-39-68)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Asymptotic solutions and error estimates for linear systems of difference and differential equations.
  Sigrun Bodine, University of Puget Sound
  D A Lutz*, San Diego State University
  (996-39-42)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Bocher's type theorems for dynamic equations on time scales.
  Vladimir Burd, Yaroslavl State University
  Alexei Bourd*, QUALCOMM Inc.
  (996-39-104)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Complex and Hyperbolic Geometry, III
Room 114, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California fbonahon@math.usc.edu
Dragomir Saric, University of Southern California saric@math.usc.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  3-manifolds, essential laminations and group actions.
  Sergio R Fenley*, Florida State University
  (996-57-63)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Analyticity of length functions of geodesic currents for convex co-compact Kleinian groups and the Weil-Peterson metric.
  Martin J Bridgeman*, Boston College
  Edward Taylor, Wesleyan University
  (996-51-121)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Quantum hyperbolic geometry.
  Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California
  Xiaobo Liu*, University of Southern California
  (996-57-118)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Barycentric extensions of monotone maps of the circle: a dynamical approach.
  William Abikoff, University of Connecticut
  Clifford J Earle*, Cornell University
  Sudeb Mitra, Queens College of CUNY
  (996-30-144)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Random holomorphic iterations and degenerate subdomains.
  Linda Keen, CUNY
  Nikola Lakic*, CUNY
  (996-30-180)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Distortion of the Exponent of Convergence in Space.
  Edward C Taylor*, Wesleyan University
  Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Wesleyan University
  Martin Bridgeman, Boston College
  (996-30-66)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, III
Room 212, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California kukavica@math.usc.edu
Qi S. Zhang, University of California Riverside qizhang@math.ucr.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The $L^p$ Boundedness of Riesz Transforms for Second Order Elliptic Operators.
  Zhongwei Shen*, University of Kentucky
  (996-35-76)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the motion of an elastic solid inside of an incompressible viscous fluid.
  Steve Shkoller*, UC Davis
  (996-35-202)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On depletion of the vortex-stretching term in the 3D Navier-Stokes equations.
  Zoran Grujic*, University of Virginia
  Anastasia Ruzmaikina, Purdue University
  (996-35-143)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Room 106, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities

Sunday April 4, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear and Harmonic Analysis, III
Room 210, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Rowan Killip, University of California Los Angeles killip@math.ucla.edu
Christopher Thiele, University of California Los Angeles thiele@math.ucla.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Uniform Convergence in the Multiplicative Ergodic Theorem and Cantor Spectrum.
  David Damanik*, California Institute of Technology
  Daniel Lenz, TU Chemnitz
  (996-37-37)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Anderson localization for the discrete one-dimensional quasi-periodic Schroedinger operator with potential defined by a Gevrey-class function.
  Silvius Klein*, UCLA
  (996-47-35)
- 9:30 a.m.
  PDE analog of the Szego case in the theory of polynomials orthogonal on the circle.
  Serguei Denissov*, Caltech
  (996-35-136)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Hilbert transform along a $C^{1+\epsilon}$ vector field.
  Michael Lacey, Georgia institute of Technology
  Xiaochun Li*, UCLA
  (996-42-172)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A random construction with applications to mixed norm inequalities.
  Michael Christ*, UC Berkeley
  Andreas Seeger, University of Wisconsin
  (996-42-187)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Modern Problems of Integration: Theory and Applications, II
Room 108, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Mark Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Stochastic integrals in topological vector spaces.
  R. Mikulevicius*, University of Southern California
  (996-60-103)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The $L^r$ Henstock-Kurzweil Integral.
  Paul M Musial*, Chicago State University
  Yoram Sagher, Florida Atlantic University
  (996-28-122)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Riemann approach to Feynman integrals.
  P Muldowney*, University of Ulster
  (996-28-94)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus for infinite intervals.
  Mark Burgin*, UCLA
  (996-28-51)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Local Maximal Function Simplifying Measure Differentiation.
  Peter A. Loeb*, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
  (996-28-33)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Financial Mathematics, III
Room 213, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Jaksa Cvitanic, University of Southern California cvitanic@math.usc.edu
Janfeng Zhang, University of Southern California jfzhang@math.umn.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Constructing the Portfolio Which Most Closely Matches the Investor's Desired Risk-Versus-Return Trade-Off Schedule.
  Rod Freed*, California State University at Dominguez Hills
  Senem Alkan, Universita' Bocconi
  (996-60-64)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Quasi-Monte Carlo Simulation for American Options.
  Russel Caflisch*, UCLA
  Suneal Chaudhary, UCLA
  (996-90-102)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Optimal portfolio allocation and consumption for mean-reverting returns and complete markets.
  Florence J. Lin*, University of Southern California
  (996-90-156)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Two-sided barrier problems with jump-diffusions.
  Alan L. Lewis*, Newport Beach, Ca
  (996-60-147)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 119, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Lance W. Small, University of California San Diego lwsmall@ucsd.edu
Paul Smith, University of Washington smith@math.washington.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Group actions on central simple algebras: A geometric approach.
  Zinovy Reichstein, University of British Columbia
  Nikolaus Vonessen*, University of Montana
  (996-16-27)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Orders on surfaces with numerically trivial canonical class.
  Daniel Chan, University of New South Wales
  Rajesh S. Kulkarni*, Michigan State University
  (996-16-200)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Lie Superalgebras, Clifford Algebras, Induced Modules and Nilpotent Orbits.
  Ian M. Musson*, UW-Milwaukee
  (996-16-70)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Fixed Subrings of Noetherian Graded Regular Rings.
  Ellen E Kirkman*, Wake Forest University
  James J Kuzmanovich, Wake Forest University
  (996-16-179)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry and K-Theory, III
Room 112, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Thomas Geisser, University of Southern California geisser@usc.edu
Wayne Raskind, University of Southern California raskind@usc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Discussion.

Sunday April 4, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in the Mathematical Analysis of Geophysical and Hydrodynamical Models, III
Room 215, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Mohammed Ziane, University of Southern California ziane@math.usc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Emergence of Large Scale Coherent Structure under Small Scale Bombardment.
  Andrew J Majda, New York University
  Xiaoming Wang*, Florida State University and Iowa State University
  (996-76-197)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the solutions of the 2D periodic Navier-Stokes equations with bounded Dirichlet quotients.
  Radu Dascaliuc*, Texas A&M University
  (996-35-145)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Mathematical Model For Recognition on Earthquake Warnings.
  Chuan-Gan Hu*, Nankai University
  (996-86-18)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Exponential attractors of the three dimensional Navier-Stokes-alpha equations for uniformly rotating geophysical flows.
  Bong-Sik Kim*, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
  Basil Nicolaenko, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University
  (996-76-92)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Presentation, Part I
TA development using case studies: A workshop for faculty
Room 118, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Solomon Friedberg, Boston College

Sunday April 4, 2004, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Fluid Equations and their asymptotic behavior.
Room 101, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Maria Elena Schonbek*, University of California Santa Cruz
(996-35-74)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 12:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
Special Presentation, Part II
TA development using case studies: A workshop for faculty
Room 118, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Solomon Friedberg, Boston College

Sunday April 4, 2004, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
Noncommutative algebraic geometry.
Room 101, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Paul Smith*, University of Washington
(996-00-03)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 119, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Lance W. Small, University of California San Diego lwsmall@ucsd.edu
Paul Smith, University of Washington smith@math.washington.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Simplicity of noncommutative Dedekind domains.
  K R Goodearl*, University of California at Santa Barbara
  J T Stafford, University of Michigan
  (996-16-116)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Classifying finite dimensional representations with squarefree tops.
  Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann*, University of California at Santa Barbara
  (996-16-111)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Symplectic reflection algebras.
  Iain Gordon*, University of Glasgow (visiting UCSB)
  (996-16-56)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Fluid Problems and Related Questions, IV
Room 208, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Maria Schonbek, University of California Santa Cruz schonbek@math.ucsc.edu
Yuxi Zheng, Pennsylvania State University yzheng@math.psu.edu.
- 3:00 p.m.
  2-D Navier-Stokes Equations with Rough Initial Data.
  Matania Ben-Artzi*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  (996-76-130)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Constructing regular self-similar solutions to the 3D NSE originating at singular and arbitrary large initial data.
  Zoran Grujic*, University of Virginia
  (996-35-142)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Steady Weak Shock Mach Reflection.
  John K Hunter*, University of California at Davis
  Allen M Tesdall, University of California at Davis
  (996-76-166)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Nonlinear stability of a quasi-geostrophic model of zonal jets.
  Mohammed B Ziane*, University of Southern California
  Edriss Titi, University of California, Irvine
  Lee Panetta, Texas A&M University
  (996-35-182)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Length of vorticity nodal sets for solutions of the 2D Navier-Stokes equations.
  Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
  (996-35-176)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Global Regularity for Certain Analytic Turbulence Models.
  Edriss S. Titi*, University of California - Irvine & Weizmann Institute of Science
  (996-76-49)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Smooth Ergodic Theory and Related Topics, IV
Room 116, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California nhaydn@postal.usc.edu
Huyi Hu, Michigan State University hu@math.psu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the Universality of Bosco's Rule.
  Kellie Michele Evans*, California State University, Northridge
  (996-37-165)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Complex dynamics in learning.
  Thomas J. Taylor*, Arizona State University
  (996-37-205)

Sunday April 4, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, IV
Room 212, Mark Taper Hall of Humanities
Organizers:
Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California kukavica@math.usc.edu
Qi S. Zhang, University of California Riverside qizhang@math.ucr.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Nonlinear Schrodinger regimes for nonlinear Maxwell equations in periodic media.
  Anatoli Babine*, University of California, Irvine
  (996-35-177)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the Solvability for Parabolic Equations with one Space Variable.
  Mart�n Lopez Morales*, Monterrey Institute of Technology
  (996-40-08)