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2004 Fall Central Section Meeting
Evanston, IL, October 23-24, 2004
Meeting #1001

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

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Saturday October 23, 2004

• Saturday October 23, 2004, 7:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room L 150, Technological Institute
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 7:15 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Technological Institute
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Solving Polynomial Systems, I
  Room G 43, Donald P. Jacobs Center
  Organizers:
  Anton Leykin, University of Illinois at Chicago leykin@math.uic.edu
  Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago jan@math.uic.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Homotopies to Compute Intersections of Solution Components of Polynomial Systems.
    Andrew J Sommese*, University of Notre Dame
    (1001-65-91)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Solving Polynomial Systems by Intersecting Subsystems Using Diagonal Homotopies.
    Andrew J Sommese, University of Notre Dame
    Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Charles W Wampler*, General Motors R&D Center
    (1001-65-104)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Advantages of Parsing Polynomials into Straight-line Programs.
    Daniel J Bates*, University of Notre Dame
    (1001-68-243)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Is the attained solution isolated?
    Tien-Yien Li*, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, E.Lansing,MI
    (1001-65-201)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Newton's Method with Deflation for Isolated Singularities of Polynomial Systems.
    Anton Leykin, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Ailing Zhao*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1001-65-235)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Determination of the dimension of a variety and some applications.
    Wenyuan Wu*, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario
    Greg Reid, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario
    (1001-14-94)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Iterated Function Systems and Analysis on Fractals, I
  Room L 160, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Ka-Sing Lau, Chinese University of Hong Kong kslau@math.cuhk.edu.hk
  Stephen S.-T. Yau, University of Illinois at Chicago yau@uic.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Orthogonal families of exponentials.
    Steen Pedersen*, Wright State University
    (1001-28-361)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Variable coefficient Iterated Function Systems associated with multiresolution analysis.
    Palle E. T. Jorgensen*, University of Iowa
    (1001-46-05)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Refinable functions with arbitrary dilations.
    Yang Wang*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    De-jun Feng, Tsinghua University
    (1001-28-07)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The 3x+1 Semigroup.
    David Applegate, At&T Labs-Research
    Jeffrey C Lagarias*, University of Michigan
    (1001-11-352)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the Connectedness and Disklikeness of Self-affine Tiles.
    Ka-Sing Lau*, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    King Shun Leung, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Inst.of Education
    (1001-26-54)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, I
  Room L R2, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago bona@math.uic.edu
  Shuming Sun, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University sun@math.vt.edu
  Bingyu Zhang, University of Cincinnati bzhang@math.uc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Collapse dynamics in Yang-Mills, nonlinear Schroedinger and Keller-Segel equations.
    I M Sigal*, University of Notre Dame and University of Toronto
    (1001-35-368)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Eventual Periodicity for dispersive wave equations in a quarter plane.
    Jiahong Wu*, Oklahoma State University
    (1001-35-152)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Comparison of Quarter-plane and Two-point Boundary Value Problems: The BBM-equation.
    Hongqiu Chen*, Univerity of Memphis and University of Illinois at Chicago
    Jerry L Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Shuming Sun, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Bingyu Zhang, University of Cincinnati
    (1001-35-327)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Beyond -3/4 for the Korteweg-de Vries Equation.
    Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Shuming Sun, Virginia Tech
    Bing-Yu Zhang*, University of Cincinnati
    (1001-35-158)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The initial-boundary value problem for the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation.
    Justin Holmer*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1001-35-309)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Spectra of Positive and Negative Energies in the Linearized NLS Problem.
    Vitali G Vougalter*, University of Notre Dame Department of Mathematics
    (1001-35-408)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Robotics, I
  Room A 110, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Robert W. Ghrist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ghrist@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Mathematical and Computational Models in Robotics and Structural Biology.
    Gregory S. Chirikjian*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1001-43-128)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Regulation of Walking Speed in Bipedal Locomotion.
    Mark W Spong*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1001-93-52)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Topological Localization and Mapping in the Horizontal Plane via Successive Visual Registration.
    Daniel Koditschek*, University of Michigan
    Gabriel Lopes, University of Michigan
    (1001-93-374)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Computer Vision Challenges: 3D Photography and Object Recognition.
    Jean A Ponce*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1001-68-290)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Representations and Deformations, I
  Room LG 52, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Stephen R. Doty, Loyola University of Chicago doty@math.luc.edu
  Anthony Giaquinto, Loyola University of Chicago tonyg@math.luc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Endo-trivial modules for finite groups of Lie type (joint work with J. Carlson and D. Nakano).
    Nadia Paola Mazza*, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
    (1001-20-89)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ideal Structure of Iterated Smash Tensor Power of the Restricted Enveloping Algebra of $sl_2$.
    Stefan Catoiu*, DePaul University
    (1001-16-386)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Algebras related to branching rules.
    Jeb F. Willenbring*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
    (1001-22-272)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    FCR factors of Enveloping algebras.
    Ian M Musson*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Jeb F. Willenbring, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-
    (1001-16-389)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Fixed Subrings of Noetherian Graded Regular Rings.
    Ellen E. Kirkman*, Wake Forest University
    James J. Kuzmanovich, Wake Forest University
    (1001-16-262)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, I
  Auditorium, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Judith Baxter, University of Illinois at Chicago baxter@uic.edu
  Richard Cohn, University of Chicago r-cohn@uchicago.edu
  Robert Peck, Louisiana State University rpeck@lsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Musical Properties of Quasi-Periodic Sequences.
    Norman A Carey*, Eastman School of Music
    David L Clampitt, Yale University
    (1001-11-178)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some remarks about well-formedness.
    Domenico Vicinanza*, Musica Inaudita - DMI - University of Salerno
    Vittorio Cafagna, Musica Inaudita - DMI - University of Salerno
    (1001-20-206)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rubber Band Geometry: navigating within and between microtonal universes.
    Stephen G. Soderberg*, Library of Congress
    (1001-51-355)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras at the Crossroads of Algebra, Category Theory, and Topology, I
  Room G 45, Donald P. Jacobs Center
  Organizers:
  Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago kauffman@uic.edu
  David E. Radford, University of Illinois at Chicago radford@uic.edu
  Fernando J. O. Souza, University of Iowa fernando-souza@uiowa.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Groups of grouplikes of a semisimple Hopf algebra and its dual.
    Yevgenia Kashina*, DePaul University
    (1001-16-399)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Application of the Fadeev-Reshetikhin-Taxhtajan construction to produce new finite-dimensional quasitriangular Hopf algebras which are not equivalent via cocycle twisting.
    Jacob Towber*, Mathematics Department, De Paul Univrsity, Chicago, Illinois
    (1001-08-342)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Differential Algebra Structures on Families of Trees.
    Robert L. Grossman, Uinv. of Illinois at Chicago
    Richard G. Larson*, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
    (1001-16-274)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A note on anti-Yetter-Drinfeld modules.
    Mihai D Staic*, SUNY at Buffalo
    (1001-16-222)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Yetter-Drinfeld modules, flatness, and Hopf-cyclic cohomology.
    Masoud Khalkhali*, Mathematics Department, University of Western Ontario, London ON, Canada
    (1001-18-237)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Some results on co-Frobenius Hopf algebras.
    Margaret Beattie*, Mount Allison University
    (1001-16-348)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Combinatorics, I
  Room G 36, Donald P. Jacobs Center
  Organizers:
  Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois at Chicago mubayi@math.uic.edu
  Yi Zhao, University of Illinois at Chicago zhao@math.uic.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    It's raining hyperedges: Online intersecting hypergraphs beyond the threshold.
    Ryan Martin*, Iowa State University
    Tom Bohman, Carnegie Mellon University
    Alan Frieze, Carnegie Mellon University
    Miklos Ruszinko, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    Cliff Smyth, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1001-05-29)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Ramsey number for hypergraph cycles I.
    P Haxell*, University of Waterloo
    T. Luczak, Adam Mickiewicz University
    Y. Peng, Indiana State University
    V. Rodl, Emory University
    A. Rucinski, Adam Mickiewicz University
    M. Simonovits, Renyi Institute of Mathematics
    J. Skokan, Universidade de Sao Paulo
    (1001-05-323)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ramsey number of hypergraph cycles II.
    Jozef Skokan*, Universidade de Sao Paulo
    (1001-05-184)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Co-degree Density of hypergraphs.
    Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Yi Zhao*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1001-05-192)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Extremal problems on packing of $d$-degenerate graphs.
    Bela Bollob\' as, University of Memphis
    Alexandr Kostochka*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Kittikorn Nakprasit, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1001-05-18)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Maximum $K_{r+1}$-free graphs which are not $r$-partite.
    Mihyun Kang, Humbodlt University, Berlin
    Oleg Pikhurko*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1001-05-137)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Fluid Dynamics, Diffusion and Reaction, I
  Room M 177, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Peter S. Constantin, University of Chicago const@cs.uchicago.edu
  Leonid V. Ryzhik, University of Chicago ryzhik@math.uchicago.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On Reaction-Convection in Incompressible 3D-Fluid: a Homogenization Problem.
    Mark Freidlin*, University of Maryland
    (1001-35-174)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Effects of heat loss and differential diffusion on the propagation of a premixed flame opposed to or assisted by a imposed flow.
    Moshe Matalon*, Northwestern University
    (1001-35-175)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Homogenization in stationary ergodic media.
    P. Souganidis*, University of Texas
    (1001-35-305)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Computability Theory and Applications, I
  Room G 03, Donald P. Jacobs Center
  Organizers:
  Robert I. Soare, University of Chicago soare@math.uchicago.edu
  Denis R. Hirschfeldt, University of Chicago drh@math.uchicago.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Degrees of nontrivial self-embeddings of computable linear orderings.
    Rodney G. Downey, Victoria University of Wellington
    Carl Jockusch*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Joseph S. Miller, Victoria University of Wellington
    (1001-03-44)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computable structures of high rank.
    W. Calvert, University of Notre Dame
    S. S. Goncharov, Sobolev Institute/Novosibirsk State University
    J. F. Knight*, University of Notre Dame
    O. Kudinov, Sobolev Institute/Novosibirsk State University
    A. S. Morozov, Sobolev Institute/Novosibirsk State University
    V. Puzarenko, Sobolev Institute/Novosibirsk State University
    (1001-03-69)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Index sets of dense Boolean algebras.
    Barbara F. Csima*, Cornell University
    Antonio Montalban, Cornell University
    Richard A. Shore, Cornell University
    (1001-03-170)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ramsey Degrees.
    Joseph R Mileti*, University of Chicago
    (1001-03-161)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Undecidability in the Enumeration Degrees.
    Thomas F. Kent*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1001-03-199)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Description and Comparison of Computable Structures.
    Wesley Calvert*, University of Notre Dame
    Valentina Harizanov, George Washington University
    Julia F. Knight, University of Notre Dame
    Sara Miller, University of Notre Dame
    (1001-03-82)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry, I
  Room MG 28, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Anders Ingemar Linner, Northern Illinois University linner@math.northwestern.edu
  Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Skew loops and hyperboloids.
    Bruce Solomon*, Indiana University
    (1001-53-313)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Magnetic systems with the same geodesics.
    Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
    Vladimir Matveev, Universitaet Freiburg
    (1001-53-338)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Closed, Knotted and Symmetric Solutions of the Vortex Filament Equation.
    Thomas A. Ivey*, College of Charleston
    Annalisa M. Calini, College of Charleston
    (1001-53-107)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Elastic energy and variable length.
    Anders Linner*, Northern Illinois University/Northwestern
    (1001-58-418)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Problems of Differential Operators, I
  Room M 128, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Qingkai Kong, Northern Illinois University kong@math.niu.edu
  Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
  Anton Zettl, Northern Illinois University zettl@math.niu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sturm-Liouville Problems: A Survey.
    Anton Zettl*, Northern Illinois University
    (1001-34-244)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Comparison of eigenvalue problems due to Krein, Feller and Atkinson.
    Hans W Volkmer*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1001-47-216)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, I
  Room G 44, Donald P. Jacobs Center
  Organizers:
  Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota ezra@math.umn.edu
  Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University sottile@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Monodromy and Galois groups of Schubert problems.
    Ravi Vakil*, Stanford
    (1001-14-141)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mondrian tableaux and Littlewood-Richardson rules.
    Izzet Coskun*, M.I.T.
    (1001-14-106)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Gr\"obner geometry of Schubert and Grothendieck transition formulae.
    Alexander Yong*, UC Berkeley
    Allen Knutson, UC Berkeley
    (1001-14-256)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Kogan's and Buch's problems via transition.
    Allen Knutson*, UC Berkeley
    Alexander Yong, UC Berkeley
    (1001-05-344)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Horn's Problem, Honeycombs and Vinnikov Curves.
    David E Speyer*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1001-22-425)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory of Reductive Groups, I
  Room LG 66, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey D. Adler, University of Akron adler@uakron.edu
  Ju-Lee Kim, University of Illinois at Chicago julee@math.uic.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Representations of $p$-adic $GL_2(D)$.
    A. Raghuram*, University of Iowa
    (1001-22-168)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The spherical unitary dual for split p-adic exceptional groups.
    Dan M. Ciubotaru*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1001-22-301)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Tempered spectrum for special unitary groups.
    David Goldberg*, Purdue University
    (1001-22-294)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Decomposition of Restrictions of Principal Series Representations of $p$-adic $GL(3)$ to a Maximal Compact Subgroup.
    Peter S. Campbell, University of Ottawa
    Monica Nevins*, University of Ottawa
    (1001-20-289)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the Steinberg representation of a $p$-adic group.
    Peter S Campbell*, University of Ottawa
    (1001-20-288)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology and Kleinian Groups, I
  Room LG 76, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Ian Agol, University of Illinois at Chicago agol@math.uic.edu
  John Holt, University of Illinois at Chicago jholt@math.uic.edu
  Saul Schleimer, University of Illinois at Chicago saul@math.uic.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Minimal Triangulations of Closed Orientable Reducible 3-Manifolds.
    Alexander Charles Barchechat*, Tulane University
    (1001-57-88)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Eigenvalue fields of arithmetic Kleinian groups.
    Emily Hamilton*, Emory University
    Alan W Reid, University of Texas at Austin
    (1001-57-363)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The density conjecture for manifolds with bounded geometry.
    Kenneth Bromberg*, University of Utah
    Juan Souto, Bonn
    (1001-57-405)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The mapping class group action on quasi-Fuchsian space.
    Juan Souto, CNRS
    Peter Storm*, Stanford University
    (1001-53-291)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Surface groups are frequently faithful.
    Jason DeBlois, University of Texas at Austin
    Richard P Kent*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1001-57-131)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Special Functions, Orthogonal Polynomials, and their Applications, I
  Room L 158, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  George Gasper, Northwestern University george@math.northwestern.edu
  Ahmed I. Zayed, DePaul University azayed@math.depaul.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Orthogonal polynomials and coefficients of modular forms.
    Sharon Frechette, College of Holy Cross
    Ken Ono*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    Matthew Papanikolas, Texas A&M University
    (1001-11-166)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A new formula for 9 squares and Humbert's class number formulas.
    Stephen C. Milne*, The Ohio State University
    (1001-11-412)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generalized Lambert series identities.
    Song Heng Chan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1001-11-341)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The compact representation of a Leonard pair.
    Paul M Terwilliger*, Math Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1001-33-227)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Orthogonal Polynomials in Two Discrete Variables Related to the Quantum Group $U_q(so(5))$.
    Alexander Rozenblyum*, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
    (1001-33-43)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Codes and Applications, I
  Room G 42, Donald P. Jacobs Center
  Organizers:
  William C. Huffman, Loyola University of Chicago wch@math.luc.edu
  Vera S. Pless, University of Illinois at Chicago pless@math.uic.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Explicit Goppa code construction on fibre products of Kummer Covers.
    Hiren Maharaj*, Clemson University
    (1001-14-25)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Enumeration of ${\rm AGL}(\frac m3,\,{\Bbb F}_{p^3})$-Invariant Extended Cyclic Codes.
    Xiang-dong Hou*, University of South Florida
    (1001-05-103)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Highly symmetric weight functions on matrix rings.
    Jay A. Wood*, Western Michigan University
    (1001-94-373)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    MacWilliams duality for cosets over rings.
    Iwan Duursma*, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1001-11-404)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, I
  Room L R3, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University gqchen@math.northwestern.edu
  Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison feldman@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Shock and boudary layers for Boltzmann equation.
    Tai-Ping Liu*, Stanford University
    (1001-35-203)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Uniqueness of weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations of multidimensional, compressible flow.
    David Hoff*, Indiana University
    (1001-35-113)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nonlinear hyperbolic surface waves.
    John K Hunter*, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Davis
    (1001-35-400)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Two-dimensional regular shock reflection for the pressure gradient system of conservation laws.
    Yuxi Zheng*, Penn State University
    (1001-35-234)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Stability Issues in Fluid Dynamics, I
  Room L R4, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Susan J. Friedlander, University of Illinois at Chicago susan@math.uic.edu
  Roman Shvydkoy, University of Illinois at Chicago shvydkoy@math.uic.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    The effect of gravity modulation on the onset of filtrational convection.
    Natalya Popova*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1001-76-326)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generic hydrodynamic instability via contact homology.
    Robert Ghrist*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Mathematics
    John Etnyre, Univeristy of Pennsylvania, Mathematics
    (1001-37-395)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Fractal patterns formed by growth of radial viscous fingers.
    Harry L. Swinney*, University of Texas at Austin
    O. Praud, University of Texas at Austin
    E. Sharon, University of Texas at Austin
    (1001-76-293)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Faraday wave pattern selection via multi-frequency forcing.
    Mary Silber*, Applied Mathematics Dept., Northwestern University
    Jeff Porter, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds
    Chad M. Topaz, Dept. of Mathematics, UCLA
    (1001-76-245)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Motives, I
  Room L 211, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Eric M. Friedlander, Northwestern University eric@math.northwestern.edu
  Alexander Goncharov, Brown University sasha@math.brown.edu
  Mikhail Kapranov, Yale University mikhail.kapranov@yale.edu
  Yuri Manin, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics manin@mpim-bonn.mpg.de
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    On some parity questions about pure and mixed motives.
    Yves Andre*, Ecole Normale Superieure
    (1001-14-159)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Motivic decomposition of projective homogeneous varieties and the method of Bialynicki-Birula.
    Patrick Brosnan*, UCLA
    (1001-14-123)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Index Theory, Morse Theory, and the Witten Deformation Method, I
  Room L 221, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Igor Prokhorenkov, Texas Christian University i.prokhorenkov@tcu.edu
  Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University k.richardson@tcu.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Kirwan-Novikov inequalities on a manifold with boundary.
    Maxim Braverman*, Northeastern University
    (1001-58-345)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Topology of Quasiperiodic Functions on the Plane.
    Sergey P Novikov*, IPST and Math Department, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1001-37-381)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Presentation, Part I
  TA Development using case studies: A workshop for faculty
  Room L 170, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Diane Herrmann, University of Chicago
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Topology: Interactions with Representation Theory and Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room LG 68, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Paul G. Goerss, Northwestern University pgoerss@math.northwestern.edu
  Jesper Kragh Grodal, University of Chicago jg@math.uchicago.edu
  Brooke E. Shipley, University of Illinois at Chicago bshipley@math.uic.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dyer-Lashof algebras for Morava E-theory.
    Charles W Rezk*, Assistant Professor/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1001-55-306)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Jacobians of complex curves with boundary.
    T. Fiore, University of Michigan
    I. Kriz*, University of Michigan
    (1001-55-351)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Aspects of the Langlands Program, I
  Room L 251, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Edward Frenkel, University of California Berkeley frenkel@math.berkeley.edu
  Dennis Gaitsgory, University of Chicago gaitsgde@math.uchicago.edu
  Mark Goresky, Institute for Advanced Study goresky@ias.edu
  Kari Vilonen, Northwestern University vilonen@math.northwestern.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Introduction to the Geometric Langlands Correspondence.
    Edward Frenkel*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1001-14-254)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Fractional dimensions in geometry and algebra.
  Auditorium, Technological Institute
  Yuri Manin*, Northwestern University
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  Special Presentation, Part II
  TA Development using case studies: A workshop for faculty
  Room L 170, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Diane Herrmann, University of Chicago
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The geometry and topology of reconfiguration.
  Auditorium, Technological Institute
  Robert Ghrist*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Mathematics
  (1001-68-396)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry, II
  Room MG 28, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Anders Ingemar Linner, Northern Illinois University linner@math.northwestern.edu
  Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Positive harmonic function on open manifolds with non-positive curvature.
    Jianguo Cao*, University of Notre Dame,
    Huijun Fan, Peking University
    Francois Leddreppier, Univeristy of Notre Dame
    (1001-58-220)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    K-Surfaces (smooth and discrete) of non-finite type.
    Ivan Charles Sterling*, St Mary's College of Maryland
    (1001-53-265)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Soliton surfaces in the mechanical equilibrium of closed membranes.
    Brian Smyth*, University of Notre Dame
    (1001-53-271)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Spectral properties of the Fourier-Mukai transform.
    James F. Glazebrook*, Eastern Illinois University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Marcos Jardim, IMECC-UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
    Franz W. Kamber, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1001-58-15)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Dupin hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures.
    Thomas E Cecil, College of the Holy Cross
    Quo-Shin Chi, Washington University
    Gary R Jensen*, Washington University
    (1001-53-238)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Stability Issues in Fluid Dynamics, II
  Room L R4, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Susan J. Friedlander, University of Illinois at Chicago susan@math.uic.edu
  Roman Shvydkoy, University of Illinois at Chicago shvydkoy@math.uic.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Regularity of Variational Weak Solutions of the Euler Equations.
    Alexander Shnirelman*, Concordia University, Montreal
    (1001-35-424)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Are viscoelastic flows under control or out of control?
    Michael Renardy*, Virginia Tech
    (1001-76-10)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Tiger fountain problem.
    Carmen Chicone*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1001-76-139)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Break
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Viscous and Viscoelastic Potential Flow.
    Daniel D. Joseph*, University of Minnesota
    (1001-35-242)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    PROST: a Parabolic Reconstruction Of Surface Tension for the volume-of-fluid method.
    Yuriko Renardy*, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
    (1001-76-17)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Iterated Function Systems and Analysis on Fractals, II
  Room L 160, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Ka-Sing Lau, Chinese University of Hong Kong kslau@math.cuhk.edu.hk
  Stephen S.-T. Yau, University of Illinois at Chicago yau@uic.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some good news about those gaps in the spectrum of the Laplacian on certain fractals.
    Robert S. Strichartz*, Math Dept, Cornell Univ,
    (1001-28-42)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Self-similar Dirichlet forms on p.c.f. fractals.
    B. M. Hambly, University of Oxford
    V. Metz