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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

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 Gin�*, 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*, Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al
  (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.
  M�nica 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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AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program

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

Saturday April 2, 2005

Sunday April 3, 2005

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