AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:43

---

Program  |  Deadlines  |  Registration/Housing/Etc.  |  Inquiries:  meet@ams.org

---

2004 Fall Southeastern Section Meeting
Nashville, TN, October 16-17, 2004
Meeting #999

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

---

Saturday October 16, 2004

• Saturday October 16, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Wilson
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Lobby, Wilson
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory and Matroid Theory, I
  Room 103, Calhoun
  Organizers:
  Mark N. Ellingham, Vanderbilt University mne@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Michael D. Plummer, Vanderbilt University michael.d.plummer@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Finding a monochromatic subgraph or a rainbow path.
    Andras Gyarfas, Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    Jeno Lehel*, The University of Memphis
    Richard H. Schelp, The University of Memphis
    (999-05-204)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Mono-multi bipartite Ramsey numbers, designs, and matrices.
    Paul N. Balister*, University of Memphis, TN
    Andr\'as Gy\'arf\'as, Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    Jen\H o Lehel, University of Memphis, TN
    Richard H. Schelp, University of Memphis, TN
    (999-05-216)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic solution of the Erd\H os-T. S\'os conjecture.
    Mik\'os Ajtai, IBM Almaden Research Center
    J\'anos Koml\'os, Rutgers University
    Mikl\'os Simonovits*, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    Endre Szemer\'edi, Rutgers University
    (999-05-284)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An Interlacing Result on Normalized Laplacians.
    Guantao Chen*, Georgia State University
    George Davis, Georgia State University
    Frank Hall, Georgia State University
    Kinnari Patel, Georgia State University
    Michael Steward, Georgia State University
    (999-15-31)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Additive spanners in hypercubes.
    Nana Arizumi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Peter Hamburger, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
    Alexandr Kostochka*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (999-05-43)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the edge reconstruction conjecture.
    Yue Nick Zhao*, University of Central Florida
    (999-05-134)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Wavelets, Frames, and Sampling, I
  Room 325, Furman
  Organizers:
  Akram Aldroubi, Vanderbilt University
  Douglas P. Hardin, Vanderbilt University doug.hardin@vanderbilt.edu
  Qiyu Sun, University of Central Florida qsun@mail.ucf.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Sigma-Delta quantization and finite frames.
    John J. Benedetto*, University of Maryland at College Park
    Alex Powell, Princeton University
    Ozgur Yilmaz, University of British Columbia
    (999-42-18)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Sampling Solutions of Integral and Operator Equations of the First Kind.
    M Zuhair Nashed*, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816
    (999-45-217)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Frames and Data Security.
    Eric S Weber*, Iowa State University
    (999-42-189)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Adaptive Learning of Functions.
    Peter G. Binev*, University of South Carolina
    (999-65-265)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Frames and Sampling Expansions in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert and Banach Spaces.
    Deguang Han*, University of Central Florida
    (999-42-49)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Average sampling in shift-invariant spaces.
    Qiyu Sun*, University of Central Florida
    (999-42-96)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory, I
  Room 109, Furman
  Organizers:
  Ralph N. McKenzie, Vanderbilt University mckenzie@math.vanderbilt.edu
  George F. McNulty, University of South Carolina mcnulty@math.sc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Approximate identical satisfaction of equations.
    Walter Taylor*, University of Colorado
    (999-08-23)
  • 8:50 a.m.
    The Constraint Satisfaction Problem and Universal Algebra.
    Matt Valeriote*, McMaster University
    (999-08-88)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    The Finite Algebra Membership Problem.
    George F McNulty*, University of South Carolina
    (999-08-45)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Minimal Varieties of Involutive Residuated Lattices.
    Constantine Tsinakis*, Vanderbilt University
    (999-06-118)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Non-associative residuated lattices.
    Nikolaos Galatos*, Vanderbilt University
    (999-06-108)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topological Aspects of Group Theory, I
  Room 103, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Michael L. Mihalik, Vanderbilt University mihalik@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Mark V. Sapir, Vanderbilt University msapir@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The contributions of Jean-Pierre Serre to the development of algebraic topology.
    Peter J. Hilton*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
    (999-55-34)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dehn functions of finitely presented groups.
    Noel Brady*, University of Oklahoma
    Martin R Bridson, Imperial College London
    (999-20-260)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The CAT(0) Boundary of Truncated Hyperbolic Space.
    Kim E. Ruane*, Tufts University
    (999-20-255)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Presentations of automata groups and subgroups in direct products.
    Rostislav I Grigorchuk*, Texas A&M University
    (999-20-243)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Z-compactifications and Generalized Group Boundaries.
    Craig R Guilbault*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (999-57-211)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    When are geodesic languages for groups star-free?
    Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
    Derek F. Holt, University of Warwick
    Sarah Rees, University of Newcastle
    (999-20-172)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Theory on Function Spaces, I
  Room 112, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Dechao Zheng, Vanderbilt University dechao.zheng@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The C*-algebra of a linear-fractional composition operator.
    Thomas Kriete*, University of Virginia
    Barbara MacCluer, University of Virginia
    Jennifer Moorhouse, Colgate University
    (999-47-151)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Weighted composition operators between different weighted Bergman spaces and different Hardy spaces.
    Ruhan Zhao*, University of Toledo
    Zeljko Cuckovic, University of Toledo
    (999-47-154)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Composition operators on small holomorphic Sobolev spaces.
    Boo Rim Choe*, Korea University
    Hyungwoon Koo, Korea University
    Wayne Smith, University of Hawaii
    (999-47-99)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Extensions of the Koplienko-Neidhardt trace formulae.
    Vladimir Peller*, Michigan State University
    (999-47-11)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Spectral analysis of operators of finite type.
    Daoxing Xia*, Vanderbilt University
    (999-47-08)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Backward shift invariant subspaces in the bidisc.
    Keiji Izuchi*, Niigata University, Japan
    (999-47-225)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 121, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Juan C. Migliore, University of Notre Dame migliore.1@nd.edu
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky uwenagel@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Consecutive Genera for Irreducible ACM Space Curves.
    Anthony A. Iarrobino, Jr.*, Northeastern University
    (999-14-84)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Curves on double surfaces.
    Scott Nollet*, Texas Christian University
    (999-14-174)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Finding Information on Resolutions of Fat Points in ${\bf P}^n$.
    Stephanie Fitchett*, Florida Atlantic University
    Brian Harbourne, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Sandeep Holay, Southeast Community College
    (999-14-173)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Resolutions of ideals of fat points with support in a hyperplane.
    Giuliana Fatabbi, Universit\`a di Perugia
    Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Anna Lorenzini, Universit\`a di Perugia
    (999-13-114)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Multigraded regularity and fat points.
    Adam Van Tuyl*, Lakehead University
    Jessica Sidman, Mount Holyoke College
    (999-13-208)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Conjectures on ideals and singularities.
    Karen A. Chandler*, University of Notre Dame
    (999-14-251)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems, I
  Room 209, Furman
  Organizers:
  Maeve L. McCarthy, Murray State University maeve.mccarthy@murraystate.edu
  Rudi Weikard, University of Alabama at Birmingham rudi@math.uab.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A generalized Borg-Marchenko theorem with continuous spectrum.
    Tuncay Aktosun*, Mississippi State University
    (999-34-261)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Application of the Riccati equation to inverse Sturm-Liouville problems.
    Daphne J. Gilbert*, Dublin Institute of Technology
    (999-34-246)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Inverse Spectral Problems in Rectangular Domains.
    Gregory Eskin, UCLA
    James V Ralston*, UCLA
    (999-35-201)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Borg-Levinson Problem.
    Marco Marletta*, Cardiff University
    Rudi Weikard, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (999-34-78)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Spectral Transform for the Matrix Hill's Equation.
    Robert Carlson*, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
    (999-34-76)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Determining the Potential in the Schroedinger Equation by the Boundary Control Method.
    Sergei Avdonin, University of Alaska
    Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee
    Vladimir Protopopescu*, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    (999-35-63)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Hyperbolic Manifolds, I
  Room 122, Wilson
  Organizers:
  John G. Ratcliffe, Vanderbilt University ratclifj@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Steven T. Tschantz, Vanderbilt University tschantz@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Representations of the quantum Teichm\"uller space.
    Xiaobo Liu*, University of Southern California
    (999-57-163)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Thick surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Joseph D Masters*, SUNY Buffalo
    (999-57-257)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Geometric tameness in three-manifolds with word-hyperbolic fundamental group.
    Joshua B Barnard*, University of Oklahoma
    (999-57-212)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Incompressible surfaces and spunnormal form.
    Genevieve S Walsh*, University of Texas at Austin
    (999-57-213)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:20 a.m.-10:10 a.m.
  Special Session on Index Theory and the Topology of Manifolds, I
  Room 113, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University bruce.hughes@vanderbilt.edu
  Guoliang Yu, Vanderbilt University gyu@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Deformations and the Baum-Connes assembly map for complex semisimple Lie groups.
    Nigel Higson*, Penn State University
    (999-19-68)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Mod $p$ Higson Conjecture.
    Alexander Dranishnikov*, University of Florida
    (999-55-94)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    A Hurewicz-type theorem for asymptotic dimension.
    G. C. Bell*, Penn State University
    A. N. Dranishnikov, University of Florida
    (999-20-75)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Biomathematics, I
  Room 311, Furman
  Organizers:
  Laurent Pujo-Menjouet, Vanderbilt University laurent.q.pujo-menjouet@vanderbilt.edu
  Glenn F. Webb, Vanderbilt University glenn.f.webb@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Modeling transcriptional feedback loops: The role of Gro/TLE1 in Hes1 oscillations.
    Samuel Bernard, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin
    Branka \v{C}ajavec, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin
    Laurent Pujo-Menjouet*, Vanderbilt University
    Hanspeter Herzel, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin
    Michael C. Mackey, Department of Physiology, McGill University
    (999-92-36)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Review of Mathematical Modeling in Cellular Signaling.
    Hannah Callender, Vanderbilt University
    Mary Ann Horn*, Vanderbilt University
    (999-92-196)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Distribution of the Number of Clonogenic Tumor Cells Surviving Fractionated Radiation.
    Leonid G. Hanin*, Idaho State University/University of Rochester
    (999-92-53)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Modeling of Mesodermal Cellular Movements in Zebrafish Embryo.
    Colette Jeanne Calmelet*, Tennessee State University/ Vanderbilt University
    (999-92-86)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Mathematical Study of the Hematopoiesis Process with Applications to Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia.
    Mostafa Adimy, University of Pau, Pau, France
    Fabien Crauste, University of Pau, Pau, France
    Shigui Ruan*, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA
    (999-92-207)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Semigroup Theory, I
  Room 217, Furman
  Organizers:
  Matthew I. Gould, Vanderbilt University matthew.gould@vanderbilt.edu
  Karen Ann Linton, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona kalinton@csupomona.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The variety generated by the five-element Brandt Semigroup.
    Edmond W. H. Lee*, Simon Fraser University
    (999-16-107)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Endomorphism monoids of pseudocomplemented semilattices.
    M. E. Adams*, State University of New York at New Paltz
    J\"{u}rg Schmid, University of Bern
    (999-20-113)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ideal extension and retraction properties in semigroups.
    Karen D. Aucoin*, McNeese State University
    (999-20-116)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Ideal extensions of locally inverse semigroups.
    Francis J. Pastijn*, Marquette University
    (999-20-65)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Local and Homological Algebra, I
  Room 115, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Florian Enescu, Georgia State University fenescu@mathstat.gsu.edu
  Adela N. Vraciu, University of South Carolina vraciu@math.sc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bounded Ext and Gorenstein dimension.
    Oana Veliche*, University of Utah
    (999-13-281)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tate-Vogel cohomology algebras over some Gorenstein local rings.
    Luchezar L. Avramov*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Oana Veliche, University of Utah
    (999-13-274)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Extensions of Modules.
    Janet Striuli*, University of Kansas
    (999-13-186)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Resolutions of Universal rings.
    Andrew R. Kustin*, University of South Carolina
    Jerzy M. Weyman, Northeastern University
    (999-13-240)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Extremal Algebras.
    L. L. Avramov, University of Nebraska
    S. Iyengar, University of Nebraska
    C Miller*, Syracuse University
    (999-13-175)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:50 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Von Neumann Algebras and Noncommutative Ergodic Theory, I
  Room 126, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Dietmar Bisch, Vanderbilt University bisch@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Sorin T. Popa, University of California Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:50 a.m.
    A Kurosh type theorem for type II$_1$ factors.
    Narutaka Ozawa*, University of Tokyo / UCLA
    (999-46-30)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    On the distribution of some sequences related to Farey fractions.
    Florin Boca*, University of Illinois
    Alexandru Zaharescu, University of Illinois
    (999-37-98)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Non-commutative, analytic version of Hilbert's 17-th problem in type II$_1$ von Neumann algebras.
    Florin Radulescu*, University of Iowa
    (999-46-171)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, I
  Room 132, Furman
  Organizers:
  Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University simonett@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Renormalization And Scaling In Interface Problems.
    Gunduz Caginalp*, University of Pittsburgh
    (999-35-61)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Coarsening Dynamics for the Convective Cahn-Hilliard Equation.
    Stephen J Watson*, ESAM, Northwestern University
    (999-35-263)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Triple junctions on the plane.
    Nicholas D. Alikakos*, University of North Texas
    (999-35-275)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Quasi-stationary optical solitons with power law nonlinearity.
    Anjan Biswas*, Tennessee State University
    (999-78-130)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Welcoming remarks.
  Room 103, Wilson
  Deformation, rigidity, and the classification of II$_1$ factors.
  Room 103, Wilson
  Sorin T. Popa*, University of California Los Angeles
  (999-46-03)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Holomorphic disks and low-dimensional topology.
  Room 103, Wilson
  Peter S. Ozsvath*, Columbia University
  (999-57-05)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Hyperbolic Manifolds, II
  Room 122, Wilson
  Organizers:
  John G. Ratcliffe, Vanderbilt University ratclifj@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Steven T. Tschantz, Vanderbilt University tschantz@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Totally Geodesic Surfaces in Hyperbolic Knot and Link Complements.
    Colin C Adams*, Williams College
    Hanna Bennett, University of Chicago
    Christopher Davis, MIT
    Michael Jennings, Cornell Univiersity
    Jennifer Novak, Stanford University
    Nicholas Perry, Newton, MA
    Eric Schoenfeld, Stanford University
    (999-57-148)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Cusp Shapes of Hyperbolic Knot Complements and Dehn Filling.
    Jessica S. Purcell*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (999-57-168)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    A birationality result for character varieties.
    Stephan Tillmann*, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal
    Benjamin Klaff, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal
    (999-57-184)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Small covers of regular right-angled hyperbolic polytopes.
    Anne Garrison, Seattle, Washington
    Richard Scott*, Santa Clara University
    (999-57-231)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, II
  Room 132, Furman
  Organizers:
  Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University simonett@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Selfsimilar Blowup of Unstable Thin-film Equations.
    Mary C Pugh*, University of Toronto
    Dejan Slepcev, University of California Los Angeles
    (999-35-180)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Blow-up dynamics of long-wave unstable thin-film equations.
    Dejan Slepcev*, University of California Los Angeles
    (999-35-219)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The zero surface tension limit of 2D water waves.
    David M. Ambrose*, Courant Institute
    Nader Masmoudi, Courant Institute
    (999-76-143)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An Analytical Approach to the Ekman Boundary Layer Problem.
    Y. Giga, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
    K. Inui, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
    A. Mahalov, Arizona State University, Phoenix
    S. Matsui, Hokkaido Information University, Sapporo
    J. Saal*, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
    (999-35-205)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A solution for the flow field within a torus.
    T. S. Morton*, Greenville, SC
    (999-76-21)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Mechanics of Forced Elongation.
    Thomas C. Hagen*, The University of Memphis
    (999-35-124)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Biomathematics, II
  Room 311, Furman
  Organizers:
  Laurent Pujo-Menjouet, Vanderbilt University laurent.q.pujo-menjouet@vanderbilt.edu
  Glenn F. Webb, Vanderbilt University glenn.f.webb@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A Mathematical Analysis of Prion Proliferation.
    Meredith L. Greer*, Bates College
    Laurent Pujo-Menjouet, Vanderbilt University
    Glenn Webb, Vanderbilt University
    (999-92-244)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Mathematical Model Describing the Spread of Panleucopenia Virus Within Feline Populations.
    W. Fitzgibbon*, University of Houston
    M Langlais, Victor Segalen Bordeuax 2
    J Morgan, University of Houston
    (999-92-40)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Modeling spatio-temporal dynamics in ecology and epidemiology.
    Jianhong Wu*, York University, Toronto, Canada
    (999-92-250)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Optimal Control of Immunotherapy.
    K. Renee Fister*, Murray State University
    Thalya Burden, University of Kentucky
    Jon Ernstberger, North Carolina State University
    Jennifer Hughes, Murray State University
    (999-34-19)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Semigroup Theory, II
  Room 217, Furman
  Organizers:
  Matthew I. Gould, Vanderbilt University matthew.gould@vanderbilt.edu
  Karen Ann Linton, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona kalinton@csupomona.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Flatness Properties of $S$-posets.
    Sydney D Bulman-Fleming*, Wilfrid Laurier University
    (999-20-58)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Commutative coextensions.
    Pierre A. Grillet*, Tulane University
    (999-20-128)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Ranks of Semigroups of Order-Preserving and Orientation-Preserving Transformations.
    Inessa Levi*, Western Illinois University
    (999-20-60)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $\mathcal{P}\!\mathcal{A}$-isomorphisms of orthodox semigroups.
    Simon M. Goberstein*, California State University, Chico
    (999-20-139)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Residuation on the bicyclic semigroup.
    Robert B McFadden*, University of Louisville
    (999-08-119)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory and Matroid Theory, II
  Room 103, Calhoun
  Organizers:
  Mark N. Ellingham, Vanderbilt University mne@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Michael D. Plummer, Vanderbilt University michael.d.plummer@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Listening for Perfect Matchings in Bipartite Graphs.
    Andre E Kezdy*, University of Louisville
    (999-05-153)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On a conjecture of Haggkvist on completing latin squares.
    Tristan Denley*, MS
    Jaromy Kuhl, MS
    (999-05-245)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The size of edge chromatic critical graphs with maximum degree six.
    Rong Luo*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Yue Zhao, University of Central Florida
    (999-05-123)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Pfaffian labellings and signs of edge colorings.
    Serguei Norine*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (999-05-203)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Edge coloring of graphs with small maximum degrees.
    Xuechao xl Li*, Division of Academic Enhancement, University of Georgia
    (999-05-102)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Potentially $K_s^t$ - graphic degree sequences.
    Michael Ferrara, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
    Ronald Gould*, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
    John Schmitt, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
    (999-05-152)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Von Neumann Algebras and Noncommutative Ergodic Theory, II
  Room 126, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Dietmar Bisch, Vanderbilt University bisch@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Sorin T. Popa, University of California Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    New examples of group pairs with Kazhdan's Relative Property (T).
    Talia Fernos*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (999-20-156)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Cohomology of Actions of groups by Bernouilli shifts.
    Sorin Popa, UCLA
    Roman Sasyk*, Purdue University
    (999-46-149)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    A 1-cohomology characterization of property (T) in von Neumann algebras.
    Jesse Peterson*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (999-47-131)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Geodesic flows and symmetric joins of metric spaces.
    Igor Mineyev*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (999-20-122)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Wavelets, Frames, and Sampling, II
  Room 325, Furman
  Organizers:
  Akram Aldroubi, Vanderbilt University
  Douglas P. Hardin, Vanderbilt University doug.hardin@vanderbilt.edu
  Qiyu Sun, University of Central Florida qsun@mail.ucf.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Operator-Valued Frame Theory.
    David R. Larson*, Texas A&M University
    (999-47-59)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Wavelet bases on Julia sets.
    Palle Jorgensen*, University of Iowa
    (999-47-14)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Kadison-Singer Problem and Hilbert space frame theory.
    Peter G. Casazza*, University of Missouri
    (999-46-44)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Density, Overcompleteness, and Localization of Frames.
    Radu Balan, Siemens Research Corporation
    Peter G. Casazza, University of Missouri
    Christopher Heil*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Zeph Landau, City College of New York
    (999-42-16)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Multidimensional Riesz Wavelets Derived from Refinable Function Vectors.
    Bin Han*, University of Alberta
    (999-42-69)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Conversion between analog and digital domains revisited.
    Bernhard G Bodmann, University of Houston
    David K Hoffman, Iowa State University
    Donald J Kouri, Universiy of Houston
    Manos Papadakis*, University of Houston
    (999-41-221)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Index Theory and the Topology of Manifolds, II
  Room 113, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University bruce.hughes@vanderbilt.edu
  Guoliang Yu, Vanderbilt University gyu@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Smoothing Loop Spaces.
    Tilman Bauer, Münster University
    Nitoo Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins University
    Dietrich Notbohm, University of Leicester, England
    Erik K Pedersen*, Binghamton University
    (999-57-70)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Rigidity of arithemtic manifolds.
    Stanley S Chang*, Wellesley College
    Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago
    (999-53-32)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    K-theory of groups and algebra of associated group rings.
    Boris Goldfarb*, SUNY at Albany
    (999-57-170)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The coarse Baum-Connes conjecture and subspaces.
    Nick Wright*, University of Southampton
    (999-19-144)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Uniform embeddings and the Novikov conjecture.
    Gennadi Kasparov*, Vanderbilt University
    Guoliang Yu, Vanderbilt University
    (999-19-13)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory, II
  Room 109, Furman
  Organizers:
  Ralph N. McKenzie, Vanderbilt University mckenzie@math.vanderbilt.edu
  George F. McNulty, University of South Carolina mcnulty@math.sc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homomorphic images of subdirectly irreducible algebras.
    Jaroslav Jezek*, Charles University, Czech Republic
    (999-08-100)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Relations on Algebras.
    John W Snow*, Sam Houston State University
    (999-08-192)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the structure of generalized basic logic algebras.
    Peter Jipsen*, Chapman University
    Franco Montagna, University of Siena
    (999-06-162)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Canonical extensions of partially ordered algebras.
    Mai Gehrke*, New Mexico State University/Copenhagen University
    (999-06-290)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Concepts in universal algebra on propositional logic.
    Chihiro Oshima*, Texas A&M International University
    (999-03-239)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Stream ciphers and clones.
    Clifford H Bergman*, Iowa State University
    (999-08-55)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topological Aspects of Group Theory, II
  Room 103, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Michael L. Mihalik, Vanderbilt University mihalik@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Mark V. Sapir, Vanderbilt University msapir@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Braiding Matching Complexes and Houghton Groups.
    Kai-Uwe Bux*, University of Virginia
    (999-20-177)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Kernels of homomorphisms from right angled Artin groups onto free groups.
    Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
    Jon McCammond, University of California at Santa Barbara
    John Meier*, Lafayette College
    (999-20-167)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Limit groups are CAT(0).
    Emina Alibegovic, University of Michigan
    Mladen Bestvina*, University of Utah
    (999-57-132)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Translation equivalence in free groups.
    Ilya Kapovich*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Gilbert Levitt, Universite de Caen
    Paul Schupp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Vladimir Shpilrain, City College of the City University of New York
    (999-20-117)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Growth of Free Group Outer Automorphisms and their Inverses, and Parageometric Outer Automorphisms.
    Lee Mosher*, Rutgers University
    Michael Handel, Rutgers University
    (999-20-288)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Homology stability for outer automorphism groups of free groups.
    Allen Hatcher, Cornell University
    Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University
    (999-20-95)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Local and Homological Algebra, II
  Room 115, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Florian Enescu, Georgia State University fenescu@mathstat.gsu.edu
  Adela N. Vraciu, University of South Carolina vraciu@math.sc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Phantom depth and stable phantom exactness.
    Neil M Epstein*, University of Kansas
    (999-13-215)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The existence of the F-signature in certain cases.
    Ian M Aberbach*, University of Missouri
    (999-13-140)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the upper semi-continuity of Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity.
    Kazuma Shimomoto*, University of Utah
    Florian Enescu, Georgia State University
    (999-13-160)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Failure of injectivity for maps of Grothendieck groups from a local ring to its completion.
    Melvin Hochster*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (999-13-269)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Tight closure in coordinate rings of elliptic curves.
    Geoffrey D Dietz*, University of Michigan
    (999-13-127)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The F-signature of an affine semigroup ring.
    Anurag K Singh*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (999-13-141)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Theory on Function Spaces, II
  Room 112, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Dechao Zheng, Vanderbilt University dechao.zheng@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Hankel operators with bounded symbol.
    Patrick R. Ahern*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    E. H. Youssfi, CMI Universite de Provence
    (999-47-249)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bounded Toeplitz Products on Weighted Bergman Spaces.
    Karel Stroethoff*, University of Montana
    Dechao Zheng, Vanderbilt University
    (999-47-258)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Area Operators on Bergman spaces.
    Zhijian Wu*, The University of Alabama
    (999-47-227)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hyponormality, $k$-hyponormality, and subnormality for Toeplitz operators.
    Raul E Curto*, The University of Iowa
    (999-47-179)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quasinormality and Tuples of Toeplitz Operators.
    Jim Gleason*, University of Tennessee
    (999-47-79)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Commutative $C^*$-algebras of Toeplitz operators on the Bergman space.
    Nikolai Vasilevski*, CINVESTAV, Mexico City
    (999-47-28)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, II
  Room 121, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Juan C. Migliore, University of Notre Dame migliore.1@nd.edu
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky uwenagel@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Gorenstein liaison of algebraic varieties.
    Robin Hartshorne*, University of California, Berkeley
    (999-14-72)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Betti Numbers and Degree Bounds For Some Linked Zero-schemes.
    Leah H. Gold*, Texas A&M University
    Hal Schenck, Texas A&M University
    Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (999-13-157)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Bounds on the multiplicity of an ideal.
    Christopher A. Francisco*, University of Missouri
    (999-13-74)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Special resolutions and the Eisenbud-Green-Harris conjecture.
    Ben Richert*, California Polytechnic State University
    (999-13-267)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Lexifying Ideals.
    Jeff Mermin*, Cornell University
    Irena Peeva, Cornell University
    (999-13-161)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems, II
  Room 209, Furman
  Organizers:
  Maeve L. McCarthy, Murray State University maeve.mccarthy@murraystate.edu
  Rudi Weikard, University of Alabama at Birmingham rudi@math.uab.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Continuity of a scattering transform for a first-order system.
    Russell M Brown*, University of Kentucky
    (999-35-164)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Geometry of Optimal Windows.
    Almut Burchard, University of Virginia
    Jochen Denzler*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (999-35-125)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An inverse problem for the free boundary model of ductal carcinoma in situ.
    Yongzhi Steve Xu*, University of Louisville
    (999-35-120)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On a non-selfadjoint eigenvalue problem arising in fiber optics.
    Martin Klaus*, Virginia Tech
    (999-34-147)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Boundary Determination from Overposed Boundary Data in Parabolic Problems.
    Lester Caudill*, University of Richmond
    Kurt Bryan, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (999-35-104)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    An iterative stabilization method.
    Charles W. Groetsch*, University of Cincinnati
    (999-65-29)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 127, Wilson
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Representations and Estimates to Csiszar's f-Divergence.
    George A Anastassiou*, University of Memphis
    (999-41-09)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the global convergence analysis of a class of penalty function methods for general nonlinear programs.
    Anhua Lin*, Middle Tennessee State University
    (999-90-111)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Global Weak Hyperbolic Harmonic Maps into Euclidean Spheres.
    Carlos J Almada*, Columbus State University
    (999-35-166)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some new existence and nonexistence results for positive solutions of third order nonlinear boundary value problems.
    John R. Graef*, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    Bo Yang, Kennesaw State University
    (999-34-194)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    A class of integrable dynamical systems and their connection to one-dimensional inverse system.
    Yilian Zhang*, University of South Carolina Aiken
    Adrian I Nachman, University of Toronto
    (999-37-236)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Explicit expressions of the generalized inverses and condensed Cramer rules.
    Jun Ji*, Kennesaw State University
    (999-15-223)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A Sequence of Orthogonal Polynomials and Its Application.
    Maitree Podisuk*, Faculty of Science KMITL
    (999-65-169)

Sunday October 17, 2004

• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Wilson
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Application, III
  Room 132, Furman
  Organizers:
  Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University simonett@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Degenerate Parabolic Functional Differential Equation with Hysteresis.
    J Ildefonso Diaz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
    Georg Hetzer*, Auburn University
    Lourdes Tello, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
    (999-35-129)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Strong solutions to diffusive coagulation-fragmentation equations.
    Herbert Amann, University of Zurich
    Christoph Walker*, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
    (999-35-150)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Symmetry properties of positive solutions of parabolic equations on $R^N$.
    Peter Polacik*, University of Minnesota
    (999-35-158)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Dirichlet problem for Hessian and curvature equations.
    Bo Guan*, Ohio State University and University of Tennessee
    (999-35-226)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Travelling wave solutions of nonlinear dispersive wave equations.
    Hongqiu Chen*, University of Memphis and University of Illinois at Chicago
    (999-35-181)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory and Matroid Theory, III
  Room 103, Calhoun
  Organizers:
  Mark N. Ellingham, Vanderbilt University mne@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Michael D. Plummer, Vanderbilt University michael.d.plummer@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On Some Properties of Alphabet Overlap Graphs.
    Anant Godbole, East Tennessee State University
    Debra Knisley*, East Tennessee State University
    Rick Norwood, East Tennessee State University
    (999-05-195)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Largest Circuits in Matroids.
    Nolan McMurray, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
    Talmage J Reid*, The University of Mississippi
    Wei Bing, The University of Mississippi
    Bryan Williams, The University of Mississippi
    Haidong Wu, The University of Mississippi
    (999-05-198)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Non-separating cocircuits in binary matroids.
    Haidong Wu*, University of Mississippi
    (999-05-218)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some impediments to extending the four-color theorem.
    Neil Robertson*, The Ohio State University
    (999-05-273)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An Extremal Function for $K_{10}$ minors.
    Zixia Song*, Ohio State University
    (999-05-197)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Bonds in graphs.
    Xujin Chen, University of Hong Kong
    Xingxing Yu*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Wenan Zang, University of Hong Kong
    (999-05-238)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Wavelets, Frames, and Sampling, III
  Room 325, Furman
  Organizers:
  Akram Aldroubi, Vanderbilt University
  Douglas P. Hardin, Vanderbilt University doug.hardin@vanderbilt.edu
  Qiyu Sun, University of Central Florida qsun@mail.ucf.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    An inhomogeneous uncertainty principle for digital low-pass filters.
    Bernhard G. Bodmann*, University of Houston
    David K Hoffman, Dept. of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ameslab
    Donald J Kouri, Depts of Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, University of Houston
    Manos Papadakis, University of Houston
    Qiyu Sun, University of Central Florida
    (999-42-220)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Semi-orthogonal wavelets for elliptical problems with non-uniform partitions.
    David W Roach*, Murray State University
    (999-41-271)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Balanced Scaling Vectors Using Fractal Functions.
    Bruce Kessler*, Western Kentucky University
    Matt Dawson, Western Kentucky University
    Justin Grieves, Western Kentucky University
    (999-41-248)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Wavelets on Nonuniform Knot Sequences.
    Derek Bruff*, Harvard University
    (999-43-266)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Constructing wavelets on nonuniform meshes using refinable macroelements.
    Douglas P Hardin*, Vanderbilt University
    (999-41-241)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Finite tight frames.
    Dejun Feng, Qsinghua University
    Long Wang*, Southern Polytechnic State University
    Yang Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (999-42-291)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory, III
  Room 109, Furman
  Organizers:
  Ralph N. McKenzie, Vanderbilt University mckenzie@math.vanderbilt.edu
  George F. McNulty, University of South Carolina mcnulty@math.sc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Automatic Proofs and Countermodels With Application to Short Single Axioms.
    William McCune*, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
    (999-03-247)
  • 8:50 a.m.
    Some problems in varieties generated by finite algebras.
    Kirby A. Baker*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (999-08-165)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    On a question of G. McNulty.
    Ross Willard*, University of Waterloo
    (999-08-182)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Finite axiomatizability for quasivarieties.
    Miklos Maroti*, Vanderbilt University
    (999-08-228)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Finitely Based Varieties of Directed Graph Algebras.
    Brian L Walter*, The Evergreen State College
    (999-08-52)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topological Aspects of Group Theory, III
  Room 103, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Michael L. Mihalik, Vanderbilt University mihalik@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Mark V. Sapir, Vanderbilt University msapir@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On Singer Conjecture for Coxeter groups.
    Boris Okun*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (999-57-66)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Are the Thompson Groups the Most Complex Subgroups of the Piecewise Linear Homeomorphisms of the Unit Interval?
    Matthew G. Brin*, Binghamton University, NY
    (999-20-67)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Properly $3$-realizable groups.
    Francisco F. Lasheras*, University of Seville, Spain
    (999-55-12)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    More on simplicial nonpositive curvature.
    Tadeusz Januszkiewicz*, Ohio State University
    Jacek Swiatkowski, Ohio State University
    (999-20-287)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Regular neighbourhoods in group theory.
    Gadde Swarup*, University of Melbourne
    Peter Scott, University of Melbourne
    (999-20-289)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Local and Homological Algebra, III
  Room 115, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Florian Enescu, Georgia State University fenescu@mathstat.gsu.edu
  Adela N. Vraciu, University of South Carolina vraciu@math.sc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Hilbert Polynomials Associated to Tor and Ext for Powers of Ideals.
    Daniel L. Katz, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
    Emanoil Theodorescu*, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
    (999-13-232)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Homology multipliers and the relation type of parameter ideals.
    Laura Ghezzi*, Florida International University, Miami FL
    (999-13-48)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Open loci of graded modules.
    Liana M Sega*, Michigan State University
    Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
    (999-13-199)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Constructing modules with prescribed intersection properties.
    Greg Piepmeyer, University of Nebraska
    Paul C Roberts*, University of Utah
    (999-13-142)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Integral closedness of almost complete intersection ideals.
    Catalin Ciuperca*, University of Missouri--Columbia
    (999-13-176)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Growth of Ideals.
    Sandra M. Spiroff*, University of Utah
    Florian Enescu, Georgia State University
    Catalin Ciuperca, University of Missouri
    (999-13-210)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Theory on Function Spaces, III
  Room 112, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Dechao Zheng, Vanderbilt University dechao.zheng@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Interpolation sequences for Besov spaces of the complex ball.
    Richard Rochberg*, Washington University
    Nicola Arcozzi, University of Bologna
    Eric Sawyer, McMaster University
    (999-46-188)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Corona Solutions on the Polydisk in $C^n$ belonging to the Orlicz-type Space $\exp(L^{\frac 1{2n-1}})$.
    Tavan T. Trent*, University of Alabama
    (999-32-209)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Maximality theorems for Frechet algebras.
    Zeljko Cuckovic*, University of Toledo, Ohio
    N. V. Rao, University of Toledo, Ohio
    (999-30-103)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Invariant subspaces for the backward shift on Hilbert spaces of analytic functions with regular norm.
    A. Aleman, University of Lund
    S. Richter*, University of Tennessee
    C. Sundberg, University of Tennessee
    (999-47-237)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Value Distributions of Interpolating Blaschke Products.
    Pamela Gorkin*, Bucknell University
    Raymond Mortini, University of Metz
    (999-46-145)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Interpolation without separation in Bergman spaces.
    Daniel H. Luecking*, University of Arkansas
    (999-30-20)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, III
  Room 121, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Juan C. Migliore, University of Notre Dame migliore.1@nd.edu
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky uwenagel@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic behaviour of arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay blow-ups.
    H. Tai Ha*, Tulane University
    (999-13-138)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Graded algebras of surface singularities.
    Steven Dale Cutkosky*, University of Missouri
    (999-14-252)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Factorization of Matrices and Birational Maps.
    Steven Dale Cutkosky, University of Missouri
    Hema Srinivasan*, University of Missouri
    (999-15-256)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Primes associated to the integral closure of torsion-free symmetric powers of a module.
    Glenn Rice*, University of Kansas
    Daniel Katz, University of Kansas
    (999-13-155)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Green's Hyperplane Restriction Theorem and the Eakin-Sathaye Theorem.
    Giulio Caviglia*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
    (999-13-268)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Prolongation of additive invariants and the conjecture of McClintock.
    Joseph P Brennan*, North Dakota State University
    Robert M Fossum, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois
    (999-13-264)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems, III
  Room 209, Furman
  Organizers:
  Maeve L. McCarthy, Murray State University maeve.mccarthy@murraystate.edu
  Rudi Weikard, University of Alabama at Birmingham rudi@math.uab.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Failure of uniqueness in the inverse conductivity problem.
    Allan Greenleaf*, University of Rochester
    Matti Lassas, Helsinki University of Technology
    Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington
    (999-35-137)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stable determination of generic simple metrics from the hyperbolic DN map.
    Plamen Stefanov*, Purdue University
    Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington
    (999-53-73)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Borg Problem on Trees.
    B M Brown*, Cardiff University School of Computer Science
    R Weikard, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (999-34-112)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonuniqueness in the parameter identification for anisotropic elastodynamics.
    Anna L Mazzucato*, Penn State University
    Lizabeth V Rachele, RPI
    (999-53-57)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Inverse Problems for Anisotropic Elastic Media.
    Lizabeth V Rachele*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    (999-35-24)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The representation of the Dirichlet to Neumann map.
    Amin Boumenir*, State University of West Georgia
    (999-35-15)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Lobby, Wilson
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Hyperbolic Manifolds, III
  Room 122, Wilson
  Organizers:
  John G. Ratcliffe, Vanderbilt University ratclifj@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Steven T. Tschantz, Vanderbilt University tschantz@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Hyperbolic volume and mod 2 homology, Part I.
    Marc Culler, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Peter B. Shalen*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (999-57-270)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hyperbolic volume and mod 2 homology, Part II.
    Marc Culler*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Peter B. Shalen, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (999-57-272)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Subgroup separability of free products with amalgamation of hyperbolic $3$-manifold groups.
    Emily Hamilton*, Emory University
    (999-57-200)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Covers of arithmetic 3-orbifolds with positive first betti number.
    Alan W Reid*, U. T. Austin
    (999-57-185)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Index Theory and the Topology of Manifolds, III
  Room 113, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University bruce.hughes@vanderbilt.edu
  Guoliang Yu, Vanderbilt University gyu@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Analytic properties of groups acting on CAT(0) cube complexes.
    Erik Guentner*, University of Hawaii, Manoa
    Nigel Higson, Pennsylvania State University
    (999-46-276)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Algebraic $K$- and $L$-theory of Word Hyperbolic Groups.
    David Rosenthal*, St. John's University
    Dirk Schuetz, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Muenster
    (999-20-77)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Large scale geometry of S-arithmetic groups and the integral Novikov conjectures.
    Lizhen Ji*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (999-22-83)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Family Version of Surgery Theory.
    Bruce Williams*, U. of Notre Dame
    (999-57-202)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Biomathematics, III
  Room 311, Furman
  Organizers:
  Laurent Pujo-Menjouet, Vanderbilt University laurent.q.pujo-menjouet@vanderbilt.edu
  Glenn F. Webb, Vanderbilt University glenn.f.webb@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stability of $n$-Dimensional Patterns in a Generalized Turing System: Implications for Pattern Formation in Vertebrate Limb Development.
    Tilmann Glimm*, Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga
    (999-92-214)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Traveling waves for a biological reaction-diffusion system.
    Wenzhang Huang*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (999-35-54)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Formation of Tree Leaves.
    Qinglan Xia*, University of Texas at Austin
    (999-92-26)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Introduction to an Optimal Control and its application to a Fishery Model.
    Hem Raj Joshi*, Xavier University
    Suzanne Lenhart, University OF Tennessee
    Mike Neubert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
    (999-49-110)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A state space model for HIV pathogenesis invloving plasma and lymph nodes.
    W. Y. Tan*, University of Memphis
    P. Zhang, University of Memphis
    X. Xiong, Department of Biostatistics, St Jude Childrens Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
    (999-62-38)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Semigroup Theory, III
  Room 217, Furman
  Organizers:
  Matthew I. Gould, Vanderbilt University matthew.gould@vanderbilt.edu
  Karen Ann Linton, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona kalinton@csupomona.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Maximal inverse semigroups of transformations.
    Boyko G. Gyurov*, University of Arkansas
    Boris M. Schein, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
    (999-20-87)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Totally Ordered $E$-unitary Inverse Semigroups.
    Gracinda M. S. Gomes, Centro de \'{A}lgebra da Universidade de Lisboa (CAUL)
    Donald B. McAlister*, Northern Illinois University and CAUL
    (999-20-62)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Representation Theory of Finite Semigroups and Formal Language Theory.
    Jorge Almeida, University of Porto
    Stuart W. Margolis*, Bar-Ilan University
    Benjamin Steinberg, Carleton University
    Mikhail V. Volkov, University of the Urals
    (999-20-47)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    The free idempotent-generated semigroup on a biordered set.
    Stuart Margolis, Bar Ilan University
    John C Meakin*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (999-20-97)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 9:10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Von Neumann Algebras and Noncommutative Ergodic Theory, III
  Room 126, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Dietmar Bisch, Vanderbilt University bisch@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Sorin T. Popa, University of California Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 9:10 a.m.
    Estimates for non-microstates free entorpy dimension.
    Dimitri Shlyakhtenko*, UCLA
    (999-46-115)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A rigidity result for irrational rotation $HT$ factors.
    Remus Nicoara*, Vanderbilt University
    Sorin Popa, University of California Los Angeles
    Roman Sasyk, Purdue University
    (999-46-33)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the topology of the Kasparov groups and its applications.
    Marius Dadarlat*, Purdue University
    (999-46-64)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Artin groups, mapping class groups and automorphism groups.
  Room 103, Wilson
  Ruth M. Charney*, Brandeis University
  (999-20-01)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Inverse problems for Sturm-Liouville equations.
  Room 103, Wilson
  Rudi Weikard*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (999-34-04)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Hyperbolic Manifolds, IV
  Room 122, Wilson
  Organizers:
  John G. Ratcliffe, Vanderbilt University ratclifj@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Steven T. Tschantz, Vanderbilt University tschantz@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Classification of negatively pinched manifolds with amenable fundamental groups.
    Igor Belegradek*, Georgia Tech
    Vitali Kapovitch, Universität Münster
    (999-53-82)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Hyperbolic structure on some complements of tori and Klein bottles in the 4-sphere.
    Dubravko Ivan\v si\' c*, Murray State University
    John G. Ratcliffe, Vanderbilt University
    Steven T. Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
    (999-57-105)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Some examples of aspherical 4-manifolds that are homology 4-spheres.
    John G. Ratcliffe*, Vanderbilt University
    Steven T. Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
    (999-57-206)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Smallest Hyperbolic 6-Manifolds.
    Brent Everitt, University of York
    John Ratcliffe, Vanderbilt University
    Steven Tschantz*, Vanderbilt University
    (999-57-191)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Biomathematics, IV
  Room 311, Furman
  Organizers:
  Laurent Pujo-Menjouet, Vanderbilt University laurent.q.pujo-menjouet@vanderbilt.edu
  Glenn F. Webb, Vanderbilt University glenn.f.webb@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    HIV and Culture.
    Keith E Howard*, Kenyon College
    (999-34-17)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The model for strep throat infection.
    Yan Zhao*, Vanderbilt University
    (999-15-41)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Transmission Dynamics of Antibiotic Resistance in Hospitals.
    Erika M. D'Agata, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Infectious Diseases
    Mary Ann Horn, Vanderbilt University
    Glenn F. Webb*, Vanderbilt University
    (999-92-91)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The solution differential systems with delay and with commutative matrixes.
    Iryna Uleychuk*, Ukranian Academy Ecology Technologes
    (999-34-183)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Semigroup Theory, IV
  Room 217, Furman
  Organizers:
  Matthew I. Gould, Vanderbilt University matthew.gould@vanderbilt.edu
  Karen Ann Linton, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona kalinton@csupomona.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic growth of free spectra of finite semigroups.
    Steven Seif*, University of Louisville
    (999-20-229)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A finitely generated variety of semigroups whose finite membership problem is NP-hard.
    Ralph N McKenzie*, Vanderbilt University
    Michael Jackson, La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia)
    (999-08-90)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Permutative semigroups whose congruences form a chain.
    Peter R. Jones*, Marquette University
    Attila Nagy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
    (999-20-80)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Faithful Functors and Ample Semigroups.
    Victoria Gould, University of York
    Mark Kambites*, Carleton University
    (999-20-133)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Extensions of endomorphisms of free groups to their pro-finite completions.
    Mark Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
    (999-20-56)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory and Matroid Theory, IV
  Room 103, Calhoun
  Organizers:
  Mark N. Ellingham, Vanderbilt University mne@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Michael D. Plummer, Vanderbilt University michael.d.plummer@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A Game of Edge Removal on Graphs.
    Bert L. Hartnell*, Saint Mary's University
    Doug F. Rall, Furman University
    (999-05-109)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On 4- and 5- Connected Well-Covered Triangulations.
    Arthur S Finbow*, Saint Mary's University
    B Hartnell, Saint Mary's University
    R Nowakowski, Dalhousie University
    M D Plummer, Vanderbilt University
    (999-05-262)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Colored domination and colored independence in graphs.
    Peter John Slater*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (999-05-187)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An Old Decomposition Problem.
    Guantao Chen, Georgia State University
    Richard H. Schelp*, University of Memphis
    (999-05-126)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Hamiltonicity of generalized prisms.
    Roman \v{C}ada, University of West Bohemia, and ITI, Charles University, Czech Republic
    Evelyne Flandrin*, LRI, Universit\'{e} Paris-Sud, France
    Hao Li, LRI, Universit\'{e} Paris-Sud, France
    (999-05-242)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Hamiltonian Graphs and Linear Forests.
    Guantao Chen, Georgia State University
    Ralph Faudree*, University of Memphis
    Ronald Gould, Emory University
    Michael Jacobson, University of Colorado at Denver
    Linda Lesniak, Drew University
    Florian Pfender, Emory University
    (999-05-253)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Von Neumann Algebras and Noncommutative Ergodic Theory, IV
  Room 126, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Dietmar Bisch, Vanderbilt University bisch@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Sorin T. Popa, University of California Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Orbit equivalence Rigidity.
    Nicolas Monod*, University of Chicago
    (999-37-193)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Intermediate Subfactors.
    Dietmar Bisch*, Vanderbilt University
    (999-46-159)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    The Pukanszky invariant and group von Neumann algebras.
    Allan M Sinclair, Univ. of Edinburgh
    Roger R Smith*, Texas A\&M University
    (999-46-89)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Index Theory and the Topology of Manifolds, IV
  Room 113, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University bruce.hughes@vanderbilt.edu
  Guoliang Yu, Vanderbilt University gyu@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Topological invariants of 3-manifolds arising in the K-theory of AF C*-algebras.
    Igor Nikolaev*, Calgary
    (999-19-71)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Group actions on aspherical manifolds.
    Shmuel Weinberger*, University of Chicago
    (999-57-146)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    A Complete Obstruction to the Existence of Nonvanishing Vector Fields on Almost-Complex, Closed Orbifolds.
    Christopher W. Seaton*, Rhodes College
    (999-57-121)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg Conjecture for cocompact Fuchsian groups.
    James F. Davis*, Indiana University
    Kimberly Pearson, Valparaiso University
    (999-53-277)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory, IV
  Room 109, Furman
  Organizers:
  Ralph N. McKenzie, Vanderbilt University mckenzie@math.vanderbilt.edu
  George F. McNulty, University of South Carolina mcnulty@math.sc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Complex Algebras of Subalgebras.
    Kira Adaricheva*, Harold Washington College, Chicago, Illinois
    Agata Pilitowska, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
    (999-08-135)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sectionally complemented lattices and congruence restrictions.
    G. Gr\"atzer*, University of Manitoba
    H. Lakser, University of Manitoba
    (999-06-92)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Open Questions Related to the Problem of Birkhoff and Maltsev.
    M. E. Adams, State University of New York at New Paltz
    K. V. Adaricheva, Harold Washington College at Chicago
    W. Dziobiak*, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
    A. V. Kravchenko, Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of RAS
    (999-06-178)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Join prime elements in join semidistributive lattices.
    J. B. Nation*, University of Hawaii
    (999-06-224)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Simple Boolean algebras with operators.
    Steven R. Givant*, Mills College
    (999-08-42)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Minimal Albebras in Semi-distributive Varieties.
    Ju Wang*, GuangXi Normal University
    (999-08-283)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topological Aspects of Group Theory, IV
  Room 103, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Michael L. Mihalik, Vanderbilt University mihalik@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Mark V. Sapir, Vanderbilt University msapir@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discrete Morse Theory and Graph Braid Groups.
    Daniel S Farley*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Lucas Sabalka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (999-20-230)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The homology of Richard Thompson's group $F$.
    Kenneth S. Brown*, Cornell University
    (999-20-106)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quasiconvex subgroups of right-angled Coxeter groups.
    Patrick Bahls*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (999-20-51)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Algebras derived from dimension theory.
    Jerzy None Dydak*, University of Tennessee
    (999-55-85)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Graph representatives and free group endomorphisms.
    Michael R Kelly*, Loyola University - New Orleans
    (999-55-286)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Local and Homological Algebra, IV
  Room 115, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Florian Enescu, Georgia State University fenescu@mathstat.gsu.edu
  Adela N. Vraciu, University of South Carolina vraciu@math.sc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Semidualizing modules.
    Sean M. Sather-Wagstaff*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (999-13-136)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Betti numbers of multigraded modules.
    H. Charalambous, University at Albany, SUNY
    A. Tchernev*, University at Albany, SUNY
    (999-13-25)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Submodules and Quotients of Cofinite Modules.
    Janet Cowden Vassilev*, University of Arkansas
    (999-13-50)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The colengh and multiplicity of an $\mathfrak m$-primary ideal.
    C-Y. Jean Chan*, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
    Jung-Chen Liu, National Taiwan Normal University
    Bernd Ulrich, Purdue University
    (999-13-222)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Theory on Function Spaces, IV
  Room 112, Wilson
  Organizers:
  Dechao Zheng, Vanderbilt University dechao.zheng@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    C*-Algebras and Function Algebras on the Unit Disk.
    Ronald G. Douglas*, Texas A\&M University
    (999-47-190)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fredholm theory for an n-tuple of commuting operators.
    Xiang Fang*, University of Alabama
    (999-47-10)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Defect operators of analytic Hilbert modules.
    Kunyu Guo*, Fudan University
    (999-47-46)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Toepltz algebras on reproducing $C[z_1,\cdots,z_d]$-modules and its automorphism group.
    Xu Xian Min*, Jiaxing University
    Hu Jun Yun, Jiaxing University
    Sun Shun Hua, Jiaxing University
    Guo Yu Kun, Fudan University
    (999-47-285)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Generalization of Kantrovich Inequality to two Operators.
    Morteza Seddighin*, Indiana University East
    (999-47-35)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion.

Inquiries:  meet@ams.org

---