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2004 Fall Western Section Meeting
Albuquerque, NM, October 16-17, 2004
Meeting #1000

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

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Saturday October 16, 2004

• Saturday October 16, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Atrium, Dane Smith Hall
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Atrium, Dane Smith Hall
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Regularity in PDEs and Harmonic Analysis, I
  Room 325, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Marianne Korten, Kansas State University marianne@math.ksu.edu
  Charles Nelson Moore, Kansas State University cnmoore@math.ksu.edu
  Maria C. Pereyra, University of New Mexico crisp@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Boundedness of bilinear pseudodifferential operators on Lebesgue and Sobolev spaces.
    \'Arp\'ad B\'enyi*, University of Massachusetts
    Andrea Nahmod, University of Massachusetts
    Rodolfo H. Torres, University of Kansas
    (1000-42-78)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Limiting weak-type behavior of maximal functions on singular measures.
    Prabhu Janakiraman*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (1000-42-130)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    "Reconstruction of convex bodies of revolution from the areas of their Shadows".
    Dmitry Ryabogin*, Kansas State University
    (1000-52-120)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Local Hardy spaces and nonhomogeneous div-curl lemmas.
    Galia D. Dafni*, Concordia University
    (1000-42-62)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Weighted inequalities for gradients on non-smooth domains.
    Caroline Sweezy*, Department of Mathemaitcal Sciences, New Mexico State University
    J. Michael Wilson, Department of Mathematics. University of Vermont
    (1000-35-47)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Carleson measures and elliptic operators.
    Steven C. Hofmann*, University of Missouri
    (1000-42-151)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Braids and Knots, I
  Room 127, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Theodore Stanford, New Mexico State University stanford@nmsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Self-Linking Invariant of Virtual Knots.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1000-57-191)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Khovanov Homology and Skein Modules.
    Adam S. Sikora*, SUNY Buffalo
    Marta M. Asaeda, University of Iowa
    Jozef H. Przytycki, GWU
    (1000-57-187)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Kauffman-Harary Conjecture for Montesinos links and closed 3-braids.
    Jozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
    Marta M Asaeda, University of Iowa
    Adam S Sikora, SUNY at Buffalo
    (1000-57-97)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Topology of knot spaces.
    Ryan D Budney*, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon
    (1000-57-126)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Spanning trees and Khovanov homology.
    Abhijit Champanerkar, University of South Alabama
    Ilya Kofman*, Barnard College, Columbia University
    Oleg Viro, Uppsala University
    (1000-57-171)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mahler measure of Jones Polynomials under twisting.
    Abhijit Champanerkar*, University of South Alabama
    Ilya Kofman, Barnard College, Columbia University
    (1000-57-165)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Geometric Methods in Learning Theory, I
  Room 228, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Vladimir Koltchinskii, University of New Mexico vlad@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    An empirical central limit theorem for pre-Gaussian classes of functions.
    Shahar Mendelson, Australian National University
    Joel Zinn*, TX
    (1000-60-114)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Vapnik-Chervonenkis combinatorics of real-valued classes of functions: entropy and empirical processes.
    Roman Vershynin*, University of California, Davis
    (1000-60-82)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Free energy in the generalized Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model.
    Dmitry Panchenko*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1000-60-57)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics for Secondary Teachers: Curriculum and Assessment, I
  Room 333, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Adriana Aceves, University of New Mexico aceves@math.unm.edu
  Kristin Umland, University of New Mexico umland@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Content Is Important, But ...
    Timothy J Middleton*, University of New Mexico and Bosque School
    (1000-97-183)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mathematics for Secondary School Teachers: Basics, Connections, and Extensions.
    Ralph J. Bremigan*, Ball State University
    Elizabeth George Bremigan, Ball State University
    John D. Lorch, Ball State University
    (1000-97-21)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables and CR Geometry, I
  Room 327, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Ebenfelt, University of California San Diego pebenfel@ucsd.edu
  Marshall A. Whittlesey, California State University, San Marcos mwhittle@csusm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A new compactness property in the theory of the $\overline{\partial}$-Neumann problem.
    Emil J. Straube*, Texas A&M University
    (1000-32-93)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Algebraic aspects of solutions of the Dirichlet problem.
    Peter Ebenfelt, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    Dmitry Khavinson*, University of Arkansas
    Harold S. Shapiro, Royal Institute of Technology
    (1000-35-26)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Invariant CR Mappings.
    John P. D'Angelo*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1000-32-54)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics: The Mathematics of Derivative Securities, I
  Room 224, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria Cristina Mariani, New Mexico State University mmariani@nmsu.edu
  Osvaldo Mendez, University of Texas at El Paso mendez@math.utep.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The method of upper and lower solutions for a generalized Black and Scholes equation.
    Pablo Amster*, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    (1000-35-27)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Extending the Universality of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton Model.
    Dwight Grant, University of New Mexico
    Gautam Vora*, University of New Mexico
    (1000-91-115)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Conjugate Duality in Pricing, Hedging, and Portfolio Optimization.
    Jeremy Staum*, Northwestern University
    (1000-90-101)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Categories and Operads in Topology, Geometry, Physics and Other Applications, I
  Room 128, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hanna Ewa Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory hanna_m@lanl.gov
  Robert Michal Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory rmo@lanl.gov
  Zbigniew Oziewicz, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Categorification of the Kauffman bracket skein module of $F\times I$.
    Jozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
    Marta M Asaeda, University of Iowa
    Adam S Sikora, SUNY at Buffalo
    (1000-57-48)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics of the Turaev-Viro invariant of 3-manifolds.
    Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University / National Science Foundation
    (1000-57-156)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Frobenius operad.
    Zbigniew Oziewicz*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Cuautitlan
    (1000-18-169)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Causal sites as a foundation for quantum gravity.
    Louis Crane*, Mathematics Department, Kansas State University
    Dan Christensen, Mathematics Department, University of western Ontario
    (1000-83-37)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Is there a relationship between geometry of complex networks and the 1/f noise?
    Robert M. Owczarek*, Jemez Springs, NM
    (1000-52-137)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Geometry, I
  Room 326, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Ivan G. Avramidi, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology iavramid@nmt.edu
  Thomas Patrick Branson, University of Iowa thomas-branson@uiowa.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Robin Boundary Condition: A Technique and Spectral Consequences.
    Stephen A. Fulling*, Texas A&M University
    (1000-35-49)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Segal-Bargmann transform for noncompact symmetric spaces.
    Brian C. Hall, Notre Dame University
    Jeffrey J. Mitchell*, Robert Morris University
    (1000-53-119)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the renormalized volume of conformally compact Einstein manifolds.
    Alice Chang, Princeton University
    Jie Qing*, UC Santa Cruz
    Paul Yang, Princeton University
    (1000-53-161)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Scaling and asymptotics of heat operators: A spectral duality.
    Palle E. T. Jorgensen*, University of Iowa
    (1000-46-05)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Multiscale Methods and Sampling in Time-Frequency Analysis, I
  Room 229, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey Andrew Hogan, University of Arkansas jeffh@uark.edu
  Joseph D. Lakey, New Mexico State University jlakey@nmsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Analysis of Blockwise Shrinkage Wavelet Estimates via Lower Bounds.
    Sam Efromovich*, University of New Mexico
    (1000-62-219)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Matrix theory for the polyphase-with-advance representation of multirate filter banks.
    Christopher M. Brislawn*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Brendt Wohlberg, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1000-94-17)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Optimality on compact sets of filter banks.
    Michelle D Quirk*, Los Alamos National Laboratories
    (1000-41-150)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Wavelet examples built from redundant filter systems.
    Kathy D. Merrill*, Colorado College
    (1000-42-134)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Construction of scaling functions in GMRA for wavelet sets.
    John J Benedetto, University of Maryland at College Park
    Juan R Romero*, Department of Mathematics at College Park
    (1000-43-23)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Applied to Materials Science, I
  Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Patricia Bauman, Purdue University bauman@math.purdue.edu
  Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Convergence Analysis of a Space-Time Discontinuous Galerkin method for Scalar Conservation Laws.
    Yangsuk Ko*, California State University at Bakersfield
    Robert Haber, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1000-35-58)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Singular limits in the Liouville type equations.
    Michal Kowalczyk*, Kent State University
    (1000-35-139)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Long-time Limit For The Ginzburg-Landau System With Pinning.
    Jianzhong Sun*, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
    Patricia Bauman, Purdue University
    (1000-35-43)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Scattering in Ginzburg-Landau equations.
    Stephen J Gustafson*, University of British Columbia
    Kenji Nakanishi, Nagoya University
    Tai-Peng Tsai, University of British Columbia
    (1000-35-208)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Geometry in Carnot-Caratheodory Spaces, I
  Room 329, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Luca Capogna, University of Arkansas capogna@lagrange.uark.edu
  Robert Smits, New Mexico State University rsmits@nmsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Comparison theorems for Hausdorff dimension in the Heisenberg group.
    Zoltan M. Balogh, University of Berne
    Jeremy T. Tyson*, University of Illinois
    (1000-28-113)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Regular submanifolds of the Heisenberg group.
    Bruno Franchi*, Dept. Mathematics, University of Bologna (Italy)
    Raul Serapioni, Dept. Mathematics, University of Trento (Italy)
    Francesco Serra Cassano, Dept. Mathematics, University of Trento (Italy)
    (1000-22-131)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Blow-up and coarea formula in Heisenberg groups.
    Valentino Magnani*, University of Pisa
    (1000-28-110)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $C^{1,1}$ Hypersurfaces of the Heisenberg Group are $N$-Rectifiable.
    Daniel R Cole*, Dartmouth College
    (1000-53-103)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Random Matrix Theory and Growth Processes, I
  Room 328, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Craig A. Tracy, University of California Davis tracy@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Continuum Limits of Toda Lattices associated to a Random Matrix Partition Function.
    Nicholas M. Ercolani*, University of Arizona
    Kenneth T.-R. McLaughlin, University of Arizona
    Virgil Pierce, University of Arizona
    (1000-05-45)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics of block Toeplitz determinants and the classical dimer model.
    Estelle L Basor*, California Polytechnic State University
    (1000-82-136)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 136, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hirotachi Abo, Colorado State University abo@math.colostate.edu
  Chris Peterson, Colorado State University peterson@math.colostate.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Relations in Tautological Rings by Localization.
    Fumitoshi Sato*, University of Utah
    (1000-14-84)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the base locus of the generalized theta divisor.
    Daniele Arcara*, University of Utah
    (1000-14-40)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Grothendieck-Lefschetz theorem for normal projective varieties.
    Ravindra V Girivaru*, Washington University at St. Louis
    Srinivas Vasudevan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
    (1000-14-38)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Smoothing a singular variety using toroidal embeddings.
    Wenxiang Wang*, California State University at San Bernardino
    (1000-14-12)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, I
  Room 129, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexandru Buium, University of New Mexico buium@math.unm.edu
  Michael J. Nakamaye, University of New Mexico nakamaye@math.unm.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fractals related to K3 surfaces.
    Arthur Baragar*, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    (1000-14-22)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Arithmetic jet bundles.
    Paul Vojta*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1000-14-174)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions in Riemannian Geometry, I
  Room 324, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles P. Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
  Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    3-Sasakian spaces and positive sectional curvature.
    Wolfgang Ziller*, University of Pennsylvania
    Karsten Grove, University of Maryland
    Burkhard Wilking, University of Muenster
    (1000-53-186)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The topology of Eschenburg spaces and 3-Sasakian manifolds.
    Christine Escher*, Oregon State University
    Wolfgang Ziller, University of Pennsylvania
    (1000-53-135)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Superpotentials and the Cohomogeneity One Einstein Equations.
    Andrew Dancer, Oxford University
    McKenzie Y Wang*, McMaster University
    (1000-53-71)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    CAT(0) cube complexes for non-discrete reflection groups.
    Krishnan Shankar*, University of Oklahoma, Norman
    (1000-20-74)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Methods in Turbulence, I
  Room 226, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Monika Nitsche, University of New Mexico nitsche@math.unm.edu
  Vachtang Poutkaradze, University of New Mexico putkarad@math.unm.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Effects of surface tension on immiscible Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence.
    Misha Chertkov*, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1000-76-195)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cascade time-scales for energy and helicity in isotropic homogeneous turbulence.
    Susan Kurien*, Mathematical modeling and analysis group, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque,NM
    Takeshi Matsumoto, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
    (1000-76-205)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Intersecting Schubert Varieties.
  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
  Sara C. Billey*, University of Washington
  Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
  (1000-05-160)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Knots modulo braids.
  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
  Theodore Stanford*, New Mexico State University
  (1000-57-222)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Multiscale Methods and Sampling in Time-Frequency Analysis, II
  Room 229, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey Andrew Hogan, University of Arkansas jeffh@uark.edu
  Joseph D. Lakey, New Mexico State University jlakey@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Composition calculus for fourier integral operators with fold and blowdown singularities.
    Raluca Felea*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1000-42-28)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dyadic models for the equations of fluid motion.
    Natasa Pavlovic*, Princeton University
    (1000-35-133)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Sharp Growth Estimates for Several $T(b)$ Theorems.
    Stephanie Anne Molnar*, UCLA
    (1000-43-184)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Non-Uniform Sampling Schemes in Rectangular and Radial Domains.
    Stephen Casey*, American University
    (1000-42-107)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Periodic Slepian Wavelets.
    Xiaoping Shen*, Department of Mathematics, Ohio University
    (1000-42-83)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An implementable frame-based algorithm for the irregular sampling of bandlimited data.
    Jeffrey Hogan*, University of Arkansas
    Joseph Lakey, New Mexico State University
    (1000-42-172)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Applied to Materials Science, II
  Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Patricia Bauman, Purdue University bauman@math.purdue.edu
  Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of solitons in nonlinear Schroedinger equations with external potentials.
    I. M. Sigal*, University of Notre Dame, University of Toronto
    (1000-35-94)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stability of Pinned Fundamental Vortices.
    Fridolin S.T. Ting*, Lakehead University
    (1000-35-86)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stable vortex Solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau Energy.
    Alberto Montero*, McMaster University
    (1000-35-153)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Vortices and pinning effects for the Ginzburg--Landau model in multiply connected domains.
    Stan Alama, McMaster University
    Lia Bronsard*, McMaster University
    (1000-35-210)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Regularity in PDEs and Harmonic Analysis, II
  Room 325, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Marianne Korten, Kansas State University marianne@math.ksu.edu
  Charles Nelson Moore, Kansas State University cnmoore@math.ksu.edu
  Maria C. Pereyra, University of New Mexico crisp@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Norm estimates for inverses of singular integrals in two dimensions.
    Irina Mitrea*, University of Virginia
    (1000-45-152)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Variational inequalities and free bo