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2005 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Newark, DE, April 2-3, 2005
Meeting #1005

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

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Saturday April 2, 2005

• Saturday April 2, 2005, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Purnell Hall
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Lobby, Purnell Hall
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Thin Fluid Flows
  Room 206, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard J. Braun, University of Delaware braun@math.udel.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The coarsening dynamics of dewetting fluid films.
    Witelski P Thomas*, Duke University
    (1005-76-54)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Thin liquid films with contact lines: instabilities, coalescence and rupture.
    Lou Kondic*, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
    (1005-76-88)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Thermocapillary control of rupture in viscous fluid sheets.
    Burt S Tilley*, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    Mark Bowen, University of Nottingham
    (1005-76-133)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mathematical problems in electrified falling film problems.
    D T Papageorgiou*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    D Tseluiko, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1005-76-50)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Effects of Non-Newtonian Properties on Tear Film Drainage.
    R. J. Braun*, University of Delaware
    L. P. Cook, Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware
    (1005-76-150)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Subgrid scale stabilization of evolutionary diffusive transport problems.
    Noel F Heitmann*, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
    (1005-65-12)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, I
  Room 120, Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Xiuxiong Chen, University of Wisconsin, Madison xxchen@math.wisc.edu
  Pengfei Guan, McMaster University
  Zhiqin Lu, University of California Irvine zlu@math.uci.edu
  Jeff A. Viaclovsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Superpotentials and the cohomogeneity one Einstein equations.
    Andrew Dancer, Oxford University
    McKenzie Yuen-Kong Wang*, McMaster University
    (1005-53-74)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Heat Flow of Biharmonic Map in Four Dimension.
    Lamm Tobias, Universitat Freiburg
    Changyou Wang*, University of Kentucky
    (1005-58-91)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rigidity and non-rigidity results on the sphere.
    Fengbo Hang*, Michigan State University
    Xiaodong Wang, Michigan State University
    (1005-53-75)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the convergence and singularities of the J-flow with applications to the Mabuchi energy.
    Ben Weinkove*, Harvard University
    Jian Song, Johns Hopkins University
    (1005-53-42)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Szeg\"o kernel of an orbifold circle bundle.
    Jian Song*, The Johns Hopkins University
    (1005-53-15)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory (in Honor of Donald M. Davis's and Martin Bendersky's 60th Birthdays), I
  Room 114, Purnell Hall
  Organizers:
  Kenneth G. Monks, University of Scranton monks@scranton.edu
  W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University wsw@math.jhu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Higher chromatic generalizations of elliptic cohomology.
    Douglas C Ravenel*, University of Rochester
    (1005-55-178)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A curious filtration of spectra arising from Segal's machine.
    Gregory Arone, University of Virginia
    Kathryn Lesh*, Union College
    (1005-55-145)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial Topology.
    John McCleary*, Vassar College
    (1005-55-172)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An operadic approach to internal structures in homotopical algebra.
    Simona Paoli*, SUNY at Buffalo
    Steve Lack, University of Western Sydney
    (1005-55-81)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mod p Homology Rings of H-spaces.
    James P Lin*, University of California at San Diego
    (1005-55-144)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Telescopic functors: a crash course.
    Nicholas J. Kuhn*, University of Virginia
    (1005-55-99)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Asymptotic Behavior of Evolution Equations, I
  Room 005, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  Gaston M. N'Guerekata, Morgan State University gnguerek@morgan.edu
  Nguyen Van Minh, University of West Georgia vnguyen@westga.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic Model of a Adaptive Visco-elastic Rod.
    Xuming Xie*, Morgan State University
    Robert Gilbert, University of Delaware
    (1005-35-10)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic analysis of coupled singularly perturbed abstract evolution equations in Banach spaces.
    Dialla Konate*, Virginia Tech and Winston-Salem State University
    (1005-34-114)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Long time behavior of flow in magnetic field within the Earth.
    Shuhong He, Yunnan University, PR China
    Ping Wang*, Penn State University
    (1005-35-05)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    p-Almost Automorphic Solutions to a class of semilinear Differential Equations.
    Toka Diagana*, Howard University
    (1005-34-20)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Almost Automorphic Solutions of Evolution Equations I.
    Gaston M. Nguerekata*, Morgan State University
    Van Minh Nguyen, University of West Georgia
    (1005-47-106)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Designs, Codes, and Geometries, I
  Room 118, Purnell Hall
  Organizers:
  James A. Davis, University of Richmond
  Keith E. Mellinger, University of Mary Washington
  Qing Xiang, University of Delaware xiang@math.udel.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Some new algebraic approaches to nets and planes.
    G Eric Moorhouse*, University of Wyoming
    (1005-51-27)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Desarguesian nets without ovals.
    David A. Drake*, University of Florida
    (1005-51-125)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    MDS Codes, Combinatorics and the Embedding Problem.
    Tim L Alderson*, University of New Brunswick, Saint John
    (1005-05-93)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    LDPC Codes from Geometries.
    Jon-Lark Kim*, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
    Leo Storme, Ghent University, Belgium
    (1005-94-157)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The p-rank of the symplectic generalized quadrangles.
    David B Chandler, Academia Sinica, Taipei
    Peter K Sin*, University of Florida
    Qing Xiang, University of Delaware
    (1005-05-130)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the intersection sizes of Hermitian unitals with other unitals in $\mathrm{PG}(2,q^2)$, and of Hermitian varieties with certain other sets in $\mathrm{PG}(n,q^2)$.
    David B. Chandler*, Academia Sinica
    (1005-05-95)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Integral and Operator Equations, I
  Room 100, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles W. Groetsch, University of Cincinnati
  M. Zuhair Nashed, University of Central Florida znashed@mail.ucf.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Finite-time Conversion for Gas-Solid Reactions.
    Ivar Stakgold*, University of Delaware
    (1005-35-121)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Helmholtz/Weyl decomposition theorem in energy space with applications.
    Richard J. Weinacht*, University of Delaware
    (1005-35-160)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Wellposedness and uniform decay rates for finite energy solutions of nonlinear Shrodinger equation.
    Irena Lasiecka*, University of Virginia
    Roberto Triggiani, University of Virginia
    (1005-35-192)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Distributional solutions of integral equations.
    Ricardo Estrada*, Louisiana State University
    (1005-45-195)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Convergence in Distribution of Regularization Methods for the Stable Solution of Linear Ill-Posed Operator Equations.
    Heinz W Engl*, Kepler Univ.Linz /Austrian Academy of Sciences
    Andreas Hofinger, Radon Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences
    Stefan Kindermann, UCLA
    (1005-45-16)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Groups and Related Topics, I
  Room 130, Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander Lubotzky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem alexlub@math.huji.ac.il
  Andrei Rapinchuk, University of Virginia asr3x@weyl.math.virginia.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Finiteness properties of arithmetic groups over function fields.
    Kai-Uwe Bux, University of Virginia
    Kevin Wortman*, Cornell University
    (1005-20-37)
  • 9:05 a.m.
    A geometric proof that $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbf{Z}[t,t^{-1}])$ is not finitely presented.
    Kai-Uwe Bux*, University of Virginia
    Kevin Wortman, Cornell University
    (1005-20-40)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    {\it $p$-adic deformation of automorphic cohomology}.
    Avner Ash*, Boston College
    (1005-11-26)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Injectivity problems in non-abelian galois cohomology of algebraic groups.
    P B Barquero-Salavert*, The Graduate Center, CUNY
    (1005-20-53)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 8:55 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on High Dimensional Probability, I
  Room 115, Purnell Hall
  Organizers:
  Wenbo Li, University of Delaware wli@math.udel.edu
  Joel Zinn, Texas A\&M University jzinn@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 8:55 a.m.
    Opening tribute to James Kuelbs by {\bf Joel Zinn}, Texas A\&M University.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Location and scale functionals based on $t$ distributions.
    Richard M. Dudley*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1005-62-122)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Weak and strong limit theorems for estimators of the density of a function of several samples.
    Evarist Giné*, University of Connecticut
    David M. Mason, University of Delaware
    (1005-60-104)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some curious results on randomly weighted self-normalized sums.
    David M Mason*, University of Delaware
    (1005-60-151)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An empirical central limit theorem for pre-Gaussian classes of functions and a related concentration inequality.
    Shahar Mendelson, The Australian National University
    Joel Zinn*, Texas A&M University
    (1005-60-169)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic Paradigms in Combinatorics, I
  Room 116, Purnell Hall
  Organizers:
  Joshua N. Cooper, Courant Institute of Mathematics, NYU cooper@cims.nyu.edu
  Jozef Skokan, Universidade de Sao Paulo jozef@member.ams.org
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Thresholds for anti-Ramsey properties.
    Tom Bohman, Carengie Mellon University
    Alan Frieze, Carengie Mellon University
    Oleg Pikhurko, Carengie Mellon University
    Clifford Smyth*, Carengie Mellon University
    (1005-05-177)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Massive scale-free networks and infinite graphs.
    Anthony Bonato*, Wilfrid Laurier University
    (1005-05-71)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Phase Transitions in a random NK landscape Model and a random 3-SAT problem.
    Jeong H Kim*, Microsoft Research
    Sung-Soon Choi, Seoul National University
    Kyomin Jung, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1005-05-189)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Intersection patterns of geometric objects.
    Rados Radoicic*, Rutgers University
    (1005-05-173)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Singular Analysis and Spectral Theory of Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 006, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  Juan B. Gil, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona jgil@psu.edu
  Gerardo A. Mendoza, Temple University gmendoza@math.temple.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Support theorem for radiation fields on asymptotically Euclidean manifolds.
    Antonio C Sa Barreto*, Purdue University
    (1005-35-123)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Szeg\H{o} projections on cosphere bundles of asymptotically Euclidean manifolds.
    Grigore Raul Tataru*, Purdue University
    (1005-58-168)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Eta invariants for first order regular singular operators.
    Paul A Loya*, SUNY Binghamton
    Jinsung Park, Universitat Bonn
    (1005-58-127)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Welcoming remarks.
  Room 140, Smith Hall
  Foliation by holomorphic discs and its application in K\"ahler geometry.
  Room 140, Smith Hall
  Xiuxiong Chen*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (1005-53-02)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Special symplectic connections.
  Room 140, Smith Hall
  Lorenz Schwachhoefer*, University of Dortmund
  (1005-53-01)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Symmetry Methods for Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 205, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  Philip Broadbridge, University of Delaware pbroad@math.udel.edu
  Danny Arrigo, University of Central Arkansas darrigo@uca.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Comparison of Classical and Alternative Fluid Equations using Symmetry Methods.
    William F Ames*, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332
    (1005-35-78)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Exact solutions of semilinear wave equations in $n>1$ dimensions.
    Stephen C Anco*, Department of Mathematics, Brock University, Canada
    (1005-35-175)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rational solutions of the soliton equations.
    Peter A Clarkson*, Institute of Mathematics, Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Kent
    (1005-35-44)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    First order compatibility for reaction-diffusion equations.
    Danny Arrigo*, University of Central Arkansas
    (1005-35-52)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Use of classical and non-standard symmetries in fluid mechanics.
    Phil Broadbridge*, University of Delaware
    (1005-35-113)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Systematic construction of hidden nonlocal symmetries for the inhomogeneous nonlinear diffusion equation.
    Joel R. Moitsheki*, North West University, Mafikeng campus.
    (1005-35-211)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, II
  Room 120, Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Xiuxiong Chen, University of Wisconsin, Madison xxchen@math.wisc.edu
  Pengfei Guan, McMaster University
  Zhiqin Lu, University of California Irvine zlu@math.uci.edu
  Jeff A. Viaclovsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hamiltonian 2-forms in K\"ahler Geometry.
    Vestislav D. Apostolov*, University of Quebec in Montreal
    David Calderbank, University of Edinburgh
    Paul Gauduchon, Ecole Polytechnique, France
    Christina T{\o}nnesen-Friedman, Union College
    (1005-53-90)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Extremal K\"ahler metrics with hamiltonian $2$-forms.
    Vestislav Apostolov, UQAM, Montr\'eal
    David M. J. Calderbank, University of Edinburgh
    Paul Gauduchon, \'Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
    Christina W T{\o}nnesen-Friedman*, Union College
    (1005-53-49)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quaternionic contact geometry in dimension 7.
    David Duchemin*, Université du Québec à Montréal
    (1005-53-131)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Heat Trace Asymptotics for Generalized Heat Kernels.
    Martin Ngu Ndumu*, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
    (1005-58-09)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Sobolev Estimates for the Complex Monge-Ampere Operator on Complex Manifolds.
    Patrick W. Darko*, University of Delaware
    (1005-32-08)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Integral and Operator Equations, II
  Room 100, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles W. Groetsch, University of Cincinnati
  M. Zuhair Nashed, University of Central Florida znashed@mail.ucf.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Boundary Integral Equations Recast as Pseudodifferential Equations.
    George C Hsiao*, University of Delaware
    Wolfgang L Wendland, University of Stuttgart
    (1005-45-186)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mathematical Models for Large Space Systems.
    Terry L Herdman*, Virginia Tech
    (1005-46-182)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Approximating Dynamical Systems for Design, Control and Optimization of Infinite Diumensional Systems.
    John A. Burns*, Virginia Tech
    (1005-93-179)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Solving Variational Inequalities in Banach Spaces by Using the Generalized Projection and the Metric Projection Operators.
    Jinlu Li*, Shawnee State University
    (1005-47-199)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A nonlinear integral equation for modeling ion channel distributions in olfactory cilia.
    Charles W. Groetsch*, University of Cincinnati
    Donald A. French, University of Cincinnati
    (1005-45-208)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic Paradigms in Combinatorics, II
  Room 116, Purnell Hall
  Organizers:
  Joshua N. Cooper, Courant Institute of Mathematics, NYU cooper@cims.nyu.edu
  Jozef Skokan, Universidade de Sao Paulo jozef@member.ams.org
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Regular Subgraphs of Random Graphs.
    Jacques A Verstraete*, University of Waterloo
    Jeong Han Kim, Microsoft Research
    Bela Bollobas, University of Memphis / University of Cambridge
    (1005-05-163)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A hierarchy of randomness for graphs.
    Vera T. Sos*, Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary
    Miklos Simonovits, Renyi Insttitute, Budapest,Hungary
    (1005-05-203)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Klee-Minty edge chain moves with constant speed.
    Jozsef Balogh*, The Ohio State University
    Robin Pemantle, University of Pennsylvania
    (1005-05-198)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The 3-colored Ramsey Number of Odd Cycles.
    Yoshiharu Kohayakawa, Universidade de Sao Paulo
    Miklos Simonovits, Renyi Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    Jozef Skokan*, Universidade de Sao Paulo
    (1005-05-191)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Latin squares with forbidden entries.
    Jonathan D Cutler*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Lars-Daniel Ohman, Umea University
    (1005-05-204)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory (in Honor of Donald M. Davis's and Martin Bendersky's 60th Birthdays), II
  Room 114, Purnell Hall
  Organizers:
  Kenneth G. Monks, University of Scranton monks@scranton.edu
  W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University wsw@math.jhu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The construction of $v_2^{32}$ periodic maps.
    Mark Mahowald*, Northwestern University
    (1005-55-170)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fundamental groups of compact Hausdorff spaces.
    Yuli B. Rudyak*, University of Florida
    (1005-55-43)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Revisiting an example of Frank and Kahn.
    Joseph Roitberg*, Hunter College, CUNY
    Yael Roitberg, New York Institute of Technology
    (1005-55-55)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On work of Martin Bendersky and Donald Davis.
    Tony Bahri*, Rider University
    (1005-55-84)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Don Davis' contribution to homotopy theory.
    Martin Bendersky*, Hunter College
    (1005-55-64)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The mathematical work of Martin Bendersky.
    Donald M Davis*, Lehigh University
    (1005-55-46)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Singular Analysis and Spectral Theory of Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 006, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  Juan B. Gil, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona jgil@psu.edu
  Gerardo A. Mendoza, Temple University gmendoza@math.temple.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Uniqueness and counter examples to uniqueness for the Lp oblique derivative problem.
    Gregory C Verchota*, Syracuse University
    (1005-35-70)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mixed Boundary Value Problems on Polygons.
    Irina Mitrea*, University of Virginia
    (1005-45-165)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Regularity Estimates for the Biharmonic Problem.
    Constantin Bacuta*, University of Delaware
    James H. Bramble, Texas A&M University
    Joseph E. Pasciak, Texas A&M University
    (1005-35-137)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Well posedness and regularity for the Laplace equation on polyhedral domains.
    Victor Nistor*, Pennsylvania State University
    Costel Bacuta, University of Delaware
    Ludmil Zikatanov, Pennsylvania State Univ.
    (1005-35-61)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Asymptotic Behavior of Evolution Equations, II
  Room 005, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  Gaston M. N'Guerekata, Morgan State University gnguerek@morgan.edu
  Nguyen Van Minh, University of West Georgia vnguyen@westga.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Almost Automorphic Solutions of Evolution Equations II.
    Van Minh Nguyen*, University of West Georgia
    Gaston M. Nguerekata, Morgan State University
    (1005-47-107)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A discrete approach of the property of exponential stability for strongly continuous semigroups.
    Ciprian Ion Preda*, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
    (1005-37-193)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Existence of solutions for ODEs in Banach spaces with discontinuous nonlinearities.
    Thomas I. Seidman*, UMBC[University of Maryland Baltimore County]
    (1005-34-21)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Designs, Codes, and Geometries, II
  Room 118, Purnell Hall
  Organizers:
  James A. Davis, University of Richmond
  Keith E. Mellinger, University of Mary Washington
  Qing Xiang, University of Delaware xiang@math.udel.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Old and new applications of Lacunary Polynomials and R\'edei Polynomials in Finite Geometry.
    Aart Blokhuis*, Technical University Eindhoven
    (1005-05-129)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Groups generated by affine perspectivities.
    Chat Yin Ho*, U. of Florida
    (1005-51-86)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Information sets for generalized Reed-Muller codes and some bases of minimum-weight vectors.
    J. D. Key*, Clemson University
    T. P. McDonough, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
    V. C. Mavron, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
    (1005-05-22)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Partitions of difference sets and code synchronization.
    Vladimir D. Tonchev*, Michigan Technological University
    (1005-05-32)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Semiregular difference sets in nonabelian groups.
    Ken W Smith*, Central Michigan University
    (1005-05-154)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    More Difference Sets in ${\rm GF}(2^m)$.
    J. F. Dillon*, National Security Agency
    (1005-05-187)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on High Dimensional Probability, II
  Room 115, Purnell Hall
  Organizers:
  Wenbo Li, University of Delaware wli@math.udel.edu
  Joel Zinn, Texas A\&M University jzinn@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Local Moduli of Continuity of Local Times under Minimal Smoothing Conditions.
    Michael B Marcus*, City College and CUNY Graduate Center
    (1005-60-139)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Moment asymptotics related to permulation groups.
    Xia Chen*, University of Tennessee
    (1005-60-201)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Small deviations of Brownian sheet and beyond.
    Fred Torcaso*, Johns Hopkins University
    James A. Fill, Johns Hopkins University
    (1005-60-68)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Riesz product and small ball probabilities for the Slepian Gaussian Fields.
    Fuchang Gao*, University of Idaho
    Wenbo Li, University of Delaware
    (1005-60-89)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Sectorial Local-nondeterminism for the Brownian Sheet and Applications.
    Yimin Xiao*, Michigan State University
    (1005-60-103)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    General results on two-sided LIL behavior.
    Uwe P Einmahl*, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
    (1005-60-58)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Frontiers on Complex Fluid Flows: Analytic and Computational Methods, I
  Room 206, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  L. Pamela Cook, University of Delaware cook@math.udel.edu
  Louis F. Rossi, University of Delaware rossi@math.udel.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Development and implementation of VOF-PROST for 3D viscoelastic liquid-liquid simulations.
    Yuriko Renardy*, Virginia Tech
    (1005-76-65)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Flow Instabilities near Polymer Gels: Linear and Nonlinear Behavior.
    Satish Kumar*, University of Minnesota
    (1005-76-124)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dilute worm-like micellar solutions: Model and numerics in Taylor-Couette flow.
    Louis F Rossi*, University of Delaware
    L Pamela Cook, University of Delaware
    (1005-76-85)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    High-Order Fully Discretized Method for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations.
    Daniel X Guo*, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
    (1005-65-13)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Impact of a solid into a viscoelastic micellar fluid.
    Andrew Belmonte*, Penn State University
    J. R. Gladden, Penn State University
    Benjamin Akers, Penn State University
    (1005-76-210)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Biology
  Room 204, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  David A. Edwards, University of Delaware edwards@math.udel.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Effect of Flow Penetration in the BIAcore.
    David A Edwards*, University of Delaware
    (1005-92-19)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Bifurcations of Relaxation Oscillations near Folded Saddles.
    Kathleen A Hoffman*, UMBC
    (1005-37-159)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Asymptotics for Certain Biochemical Surface-Volume Reactions.
    Christopher S. Raymond*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1005-41-108)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Stationary states and traveling waves of excitation in neural field theory models.
    Jonathan Bell*, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
    (1005-92-77)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Modeling of immunocolloid labeling and steric hindrance effects.
    Paul A Milewski*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1005-92-207)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Groups and Related Topics, II
  Room 130, Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander Lubotzky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem alexlub@math.huji.ac.il
  Andrei Rapinchuk, University of Virginia asr3x@weyl.math.virginia.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lattices, Buildings and Kac-Moody Groups.
    Lisa Carbone*, Rutgers University
    (1005-20-79)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Arithmeticity of rank-1 lattices with dense commensurators in positive characteristic.
    Lucy Lifschitz*, University of Oklahoma
    (1005-20-45)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Zariski-dense subgroups of semisimple Lie groups and Number theory.
    Gopal Prasad*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    (1005-22-31)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A question of Siegel.
    Herbert Abels*, Universitaet Bielefeld, Germany
    (1005-22-76)
  • 5:20 p.m.
    Some arithmetic groups that cannot act on the line.
    Lucy Lifschitz, University of Oklahoma
    Dave Witte Morris*, University of Lethbridge
    (1005-20-56)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 004, Kirkbride Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Minimal Distinct Distance Trees.
    William Calhoun, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
    Kevin Ferland, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
    Lisa Lister, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
    John Polhill*, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
    (1005-05-102)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Notes on compactness of lattices.
    Carmen Vlad*, Pace University
    (1005-28-92)
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Undergraduate and Graduate Student Poster Session
  Room 201, Smith Hall
• Saturday April 2, 2005, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  University of Delaware Reception
  Multipurpose Room, Trabant University Center

Sunday April 3, 2005

• Sunday April 3, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Purnell Hall
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Symmetry Methods for Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 205, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  Philip Broadbridge, University of Delaware pbroad@math.udel.edu
  Danny Arrigo, University of Central Arkansas darrigo@uca.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Application of symmetry analysis to a PDE arising in the car windshield design.
    Nicoleta Virginia Bila*, Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM)
    (1005-35-206)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Local and Nonlocal Symmetries for Nonlinear Telegraph Equations.
    George W Bluman*, University of British Columbia
    Temuerchaolu, Inner Mongolia Polytechnic University, Hohut, PR China 010062
    (1005-35-135)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Conservation Laws for Nonlinear Telegraph Equations.
    George W Bluman*, University of British Columbia
    Temuerchaolu, Inner Mongolia Polytechnic University, Hohut, PR China 010062
    (1005-35-136)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Moving frames and integrating $SL(2)$ invariant ordinary differential equations.
    Elizabeth L Mansfield*, University of Kent, United Kingdom
    (1005-34-148)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Type II hidden symmetries of some partial differential equations.
    Barbara Abraham-Shrauner*, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
    (1005-35-48)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Canonical Transformations and Hamiltonian Evolutionary Systems.
    Samer S Ashhab*, University of New Orleans
    (1005-35-115)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, III
  Room 120, Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Xiuxiong Chen, University of Wisconsin, Madison xxchen@math.wisc.edu
  Pengfei Guan, McMaster University
  Zhiqin Lu, University of California Irvine zlu@math.uci.edu
  Jeff A. Viaclovsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Degeneration of Kahler-Einstein metrics.
    Wei-Dong Ruan*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1005-53-110)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A multi-particle Moser-Trudinger Inequality.
    Hao Fang*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (1005-53-80)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Variations of Hodge structure and Frobenius manifolds.
    Gregory James Pearlstein*, Institute for Advanced Study
    Javier Fernandez,, Instituto Balseiro
    (1005-14-82)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Elliptic genus on non-spin manifolds with cirle actions.
    Haydee Herrera*, Rutgers University
    Rafael Herrera, Princeton University
    (1005-53-101)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory (in Honor of Donald M. Davis's and Martin Bendersky's 60th Birthdays), III
  Room 114, Purnell Hall
  Organizers:
  Kenneth G. Monks, University of Scranton monks@scranton.edu
  W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University wsw@math.jhu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Hochschild cohomology and Quillen cohomology.
    Haynes Miller*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1005-55-62)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Renormalization, Bonsai and Homological Algebra.
    Jungyoon Byun*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1005-81-63)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Block Bundle Obstruction to Kervaire Invariant One.
    Duane Randall*, Loyola University New Orleans
    (1005-55-14)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Brown-Peterson cohomology of B$(\mathbb{Z}_{2^e}\times \mathbb{Z}_{2^e})$ and the motion planning problem for lens spaces.
    Jesus Gonzalez*, CINVESTAV. Mexico
    (1005-55-142)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The immersion problem for $2^r$-torsion lens spaces.
    Thomas A. Shimkus*, University of Scranton
    (1005-55-146)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The 2-primary $v_1$-periodic homotopy groups of $SU(n)$ revisited.
    Donald M Davis, Lehigh University
    Katarzyna Potocka*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
    (1005-55-35)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Designs, Codes, and Geometries, III
  Room 118, Purnell Hall
  Organizers:
  James A. Davis, University of Richmond
  Keith E. Mellinger, University of Mary Washington
  Qing Xiang, University of Delaware xiang@math.udel.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Complex lines, difference sets and distance-regular graphs.
    Chris Godsil*, University of Waterloo
    (1005-05-132)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Symmetric Bush-type Hadamard matrices of order $4m^4$ exist for all odd $m$.
    M. E. Muzychuk*, Dept. of Comp. Science, Netanya Academic College, Israel
    Qing Xiang, University of Delaware
    (1005-05-29)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generalized Conference Matrices of Index One.
    Yury J Ionin*, Central Michigan University
    (1005-05-119)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    New Hadamard Matrices of Order $4p^2$ obtained from Jacobi Sums of Order 16.
    Ka Hin Leung*, National University of Singapore
    Siu Lun Ma, National University of Singapore
    Bernhard Schmidt, Universitat Augsburg
    (1005-05-116)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Designs in codes.
    Gary McGuire, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
    Harold N Ward*, University of Virginia
    (1005-94-109)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rooted Forest Set Systems and Steiner Designs.
    Dijen K Ray-Chaudhuri, The Ohio State University
    Niranjan Balachandran*, The Ohio State University
    (1005-05-162)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Frontiers on Complex Fluid Flows: Analytic and Computational Methods, II
  Room 206, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  L. Pamela Cook, University of Delaware cook@math.udel.edu
  Louis F. Rossi, University of Delaware rossi@math.udel.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A spatially nonlocal model for polymer desorption.
    David A Edwards*, University of Delaware
    (1005-35-66)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Evolution Equation for Viscoelastic Filaments.
    M C Sostarecz*, University of Delaware
    A Belmonte, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1005-76-164)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Analytical results for thermoelastic instability.
    R Sureshkumar*, Washington University
    (1005-76-51)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Non-isothermal viscoelastic parallel-plate flow.
    David O Olagunju*, University of Delaware
    (1005-76-96)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Direct Numerical Simulations of Viscoelastic Turbulent Channel Flows.
    Antony N Beris*, University of Delaware
    Kostas D Housiadas, University of Delaware
    (1005-76-105)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Lobby, Purnell Hall
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 8:10 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Groups and Related Topics, III
  Room 130, Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander Lubotzky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem alexlub@math.huji.ac.il
  Andrei Rapinchuk, University of Virginia asr3x@weyl.math.virginia.edu
  

  • 8:40 a.m.
    On centrality of the congruence kernel (joint work with Gopal Prasad).
    Andrei S. Rapinchuk*, University of Virginia
    (1005-20-23)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    The Auslander conjecture and dynamics of affine transformations.
    Gregory Soifer*, Yale University
    (1005-22-47)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Non-finitely generated groups between $SL_2(R)$ and $SL_2(K)$.
    Peter Abramenko*, University of Virginia
    (1005-20-126)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    Bounded generation of $S$-arithmetic subgroups of isotropic orthogonal groups over number fields.
    Igor V. Erovenko*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Andrei S. Rapinchuk, University of Virginia
    (1005-20-25)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Methods in Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, I
  Room 004, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  Fioralba Cakoni, University of Delaware cakoni@math.udel.edu
  Peter B. Monk, University of Delaware monk@udel.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Electromagnetic Propagation in Periodic Dielectric Media.
    Gregory A Kriegsmann*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1005-78-158)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Existence of Guided Modes on Periodic Slabs.
    Darko Volkov*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Stephen Shipman, Louisiana State University
    (1005-78-141)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Asymptotics and Numerics of Pulse Propagation in Dielectrics Exhibiting fractional Relaxation.
    Peter G. Petropoulos*, NJIT
    (1005-78-87)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Finite Element Analysis for the 3-D Maxwell's Equations in Dispersive Media.
    Jichun Li*, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    (1005-65-73)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the solution of the time-domain integral equations of electromagnetics using bandlimited signal representations.
    Daniel S. Weile*, University of Delaware
    Raymond A. Wildman, University of Delaware
    Greeshma Pisharody, University of Delaware
    Anuraag Mohan, Unversity of Delaware
    (1005-78-94)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Integral and Operator Equations, III
  Room 100, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles W. Groetsch, University of Cincinnati
  M. Zuhair Nashed, University of Central Florida znashed@mail.ucf.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fast Wavelet Methods of Solving Operator Equations.
    Yuesheng Xu*, Syracuse University
    (1005-41-174)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Statiscal treatment of noisy data in maximum entropy regularization of Fredhold integral equations of the first kind.
    Paul Eggermont*, University of Delaware
    (1005-45-205)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Integral Equations with Multi-valued Kernels.
    Thomas S. Angell*, University of Delaware
    (1005-45-209)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Boundary Integral Equations for Conformal Mappings for Interior and Exterior Domains.
    M. Zuhair Nashed*, University of Central Florida
    (1005-45-190)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic Paradigms in Combinatorics, III
  Room 116, Purnell Hall
  Organizers:
  Joshua N. Cooper, Courant Institute of Mathematics, NYU cooper@cims.nyu.edu
  Jozef Skokan, Universidade de Sao Paulo jozef@member.ams.org
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Connectivity of random geometric graphs.
    Paul Balister, University of Memphis
    B\'ela Bollob\'as, University of Memphis
    Amites Sarkar*, University of Memphis
    Mark Walters, University of Cambridge
    (1005-05-111)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Counting Connected Graphs with Erdos Magic.
    Joel H. Spencer*, Courant Institute
    (1005-05-69)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the Diameter of Random Geometric Graphs.
    Robert Ellis, Texas A&M University
    Jeremy Martin, University of Minnesota
    Catherine Yan*, Texas A&M University
    (1005-05-134)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Permutation Regularity Lemma.
    Joshua N. Cooper*, Courant Institute, NYU
    (1005-05-184)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Singular Analysis and Spectral Theory of Partial Differential Equations, III
  Room 006, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  Juan B. Gil, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona jgil@psu.edu
  Gerardo A. Mendoza, Temple University gmendoza@math.temple.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Resolvents of elliptic cone operators.
    Juan B. Gil, Penn State University, Altoona
    Thomas Krainer*, University of Potsdam, Germany
    Gerardo A. Mendoza, Temple University, Philadelphia
    (1005-58-118)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Zeta regularized determinants for conic manifolds.
    Paul Loya, SUNY Binghamton
    Patrick McDonald*, New College of Florida
    Jinsung Park, Universitat Bonn
    (1005-58-147)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Functional determinants of Laplace like operators.
    Klaus Kirsten*, Baylor University
    (1005-58-183)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Calderon projector for the Hessian of the perturbed Chern-Simons function on a 3-manifold with boundary.
    Matthias Lesch*, Universitaet zu Koeln
    (1005-58-128)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on High Dimensional Probability, III
  Room 115, Purnell Hall
  Organizers:
  Wenbo Li, University of Delaware wli@math.udel.edu
  Joel Zinn, Texas A\&M University jzinn@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gaussian limits for random geometric structures.
    Joseph E. Yukich*, Lehigh University
    (1005-60-59)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some stochastic properties of random overpartitions.
    P. Hitczenko*, Drexel University
    (1005-60-112)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Large deviations of M--estimators.
    Miguel A Arcones*, Binghamton University
    (1005-62-18)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some Gaussian Inequalities and Conjectures.
    Wenbo Li*, University of Delaware
    (1005-60-185)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Counting primes, groups, and manifolds.
  Room 140, Smith Hall
  Alexander Lubotzky*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  (1005-20-03)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Analysis, approximations, and algorithms.
  Room 140, Smith Hall
  Anna C. Gilbert*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory (in Honor of Donald M. Davis's and Martin Bendersky's 60th Birthdays), IV
  Room 114, Purnell Hall
  Organizers:
  Kenneth G. Monks, University of Scranton monks@scranton.edu
  W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University wsw@math.jhu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Shuffle relations on the Cohen groups.
    Jie Wu*, National University of Singapore
    (1005-55-60)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Experiments with simplicial groups.
    F. R. Cohen*, Univesity of Rochester
    J. Wu, National University of Singapore
    (1005-55-167)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cells models for operads and actions on the Hochschild complex.
    Ralph M Kaufmann*, University of Connecticut
    (1005-55-98)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Matrons and $A_{\infty}$-Bialgebras.
    Samson Saneblidze, A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute
    Ronald Umble*, Millersville University
    (1005-55-72)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Applications of the Homotopy Groups of Toric Spaces.
    David T. Allen*, Cuny Gradute Center/Iona College
    (1005-55-149)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Singular Analysis and Spectral Theory of Partial Differential Equations, IV
  Room 006, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  Juan B. Gil, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona jgil@psu.edu
  Gerardo A. Mendoza, Temple University gmendoza@math.temple.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Recent progress in the study of Navier-Stokes equations in rough domains.
    Marius S Mitrea*, University of Missouri
    (1005-35-194)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Solvability for a class of semilinear elliptic Fuchsian PDEs.
    Ingo Witt*, Imperial College London
    (1005-35-152)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Methods in Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, II
  Room 004, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  Fioralba Cakoni, University of Delaware cakoni@math.udel.edu
  Peter B. Monk, University of Delaware monk@udel.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    hp--Version of an Overlapping Solution Technique for Two Dimensional Electromagnetic Scattering.
    Joseph F Coyle*, Monmouth University
    (1005-65-171)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Eddy currents induced in a nonlinearly ferromagnetic conductor.
    Thomas I. Seidman*, UMBC [University of Maryland Baltimore County]
    (1005-35-176)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An Adaptive Algebraic Multigrid Algorithm for Micromagnetism.
    Sun Jiguang*, University of Delaware
    (1005-65-202)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    UWB SAR imaging with back projection algorithm along the nonlinear moving path.
    Fengshan Liu, Applied Mathematics Research Center, Delaware State University
    Guoping Zhang*, Applied Mathematics Research Center, Delaware State University
    Yi Ling, Applied Mathematics Research Center, Delaware State University
    Xiquan Shi, Applied Mathematics Research Center, Delaware State University
    Xiang-Gen Xia, Applied Mathematics Research Center, Delaware State University
    Lam Nguyen, U.S. Army Research Laboratory at Adelphi
    David Wong, U.S. Army Research Laboratory at Adelphi
    (1005-65-120)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A New Generation of Nonconvex Projection Algorithms for Phase Contrast Tomography.
    D. Russell Luke*, University of Delaware
    (1005-78-28)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Designs, Codes, and Geometries, IV
  Room 118, Purnell Hall
  Organizers:
  James A. Davis, University of Richmond
  Keith E. Mellinger, University of Mary Washington
  Qing Xiang, University of Delaware xiang@math.udel.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A New Approach to Kerdock and Preparata Codes.
    A R Calderbank*, Department of Mathematics and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
    (1005-05-153)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Linear Block Codes.
    Keqin Feng*, Tsinghua University
    (1005-94-138)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Asymptotic Number of Inequivalent Binary Self-Dual Codes.
    Xiang-dong Hou*, University of South Florida
    (1005-05-36)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Classification of Optimal Linear Codes.
    Anton Betten*, Colorado State University
    (1005-05-34)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the non-existence of certain Optimal Codes over $F_8$.
    Chris M Jones*, St. Mary's College of California
    (1005-94-67)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A scheme-theoretical characterization of Moore geometries.
    Paul-Hermann Zieschang*, University of Texas at Brownsville
    (1005-05-33)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Siamese Combinatorial Objects: From 15 and 40 Points toward a More General Picture.
    Mikhail Klin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    Sven Reichard, Freie Waldorfschule Greifswald
    Andrew Woldar*, Villanova University
    (1005-05-100)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Frontiers on Complex Fluid Flows: Analytic and Computational Methods, III
  Room 206, Kirkbride Hall
  Organizers:
  L. Pamela Cook, University of Delaware cook@math.udel.edu
  Louis F. Rossi, University of Delaware rossi@math.udel.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Exact solution for the extensional flow of a viscoelastic filament.
    Linda B Smolka*, Bucknell University
    Andrew Belmonte, Pennsylvania State Univeristy
    Diane Henderson, Pennsylvania State Univeristy
    Thomas Witelski, Duke University
    (1005-76-143)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Rheology of emulsion of viscous drops at finite Reynolds number.
    Kausik Sarkar*, Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
    Xiaoyi Li, Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
    (1005-76-161)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Drag Reduction and Micro-PIV Measurements of the Flow Past Ultrahydrophobic Surfaces.
    Jia Ou, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts
    Jonathan P. Rothstein*, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts
    (1005-76-181)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Iterated stretching and multiple beads-on-a-string phenomena in dilute solutions of flexible macromolecules.
    Mónica Oliveira, Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory
    Gareth McKinley*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1005-76-200)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Breakup asymptotics of viscoelastic jets.
    Michael Renardy*, Virginia Tech
    (1005-76-97)
• Sunday April 3, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Groups and Related Topics, IV
  Room 130, Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander Lubotzky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem alexlub@math.huji.ac.il
  Andrei Rapinchuk, University of Virginia asr3x@weyl.math.virginia.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A nonsolvable factor of the multiplicative group of a quaternion algebra.
    Louis H. Rowen*, Bar-Ilan University
    (1005-20-140)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Finite Galois stable groups of matrices.
    Marcin Mazur*, Binghamton University
    (1005-11-41)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Minimum co-volume of lattices in a classical Chevalley group over ${\mathbb F}_q((1/t))$.
    Alireza Salehi Golsefidy*, Yale University
    (1005-22-24)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Finite presentation of $SL_1(D)$.
    Mikhail V Ershov*, Yale University
    (1005-20-38)
  • 5:20 p.m.
    New Examples of Groups with Property Tau.
    Martin Kassabov*, Cornell University
    Nikolay Nikolov, University of Oxford
    (1005-20-57)

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