AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:41

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

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.
    Martín Lopez Morales*, Monterrey Institute of Technology
    (996-40-08)