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2005 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Bowling Green, KY, March 18-19, 2005
Meeting #1004

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

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Saturday March 19, 2005

• Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Mass Media and Technology Hall
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, III
  Room 236, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael C. Axtell, Wabash College axtellm@wabash.edu
  Joe Alyn Stickles, Jr., University of Evansville js298@evansville.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Prime ideals of injective dimension one.
    Bruce Olberding*, New Mexico State University
    (1004-13-64)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The prime spectrum of a ring of integer-valued rational functions.
    K. Alan Loper*, Ohio State University - Newark
    (1004-13-187)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generating sets for ideals of a pullback.
    Jeanam Park*, Department of Mathematics, Inha University
    (1004-13-106)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Factoring ideals in Pr\"ufer domains.
    Marco Fontana, University of Rome III
    Evan Houston*, UNC Charlotte
    Thomas G Lucas, UNC Charlotte
    (1004-13-191)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    VSFT Domains, a preliminary report.
    Tridib Dutta*, North Dakota State University
    (1004-13-210)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Descent of Minimal Overrings of Integrally Closed Domains to Fixed Rings.
    David E Dobbs, Univfersity of Tennessee , Knoxville
    Jay Shapiro*, George Mason University
    (1004-13-85)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications, III
  Room 121, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky shenz@ms.uky.edu
  Changyou Wang, University of Kentucky cywang@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Recent Results in L-infinity Variational Problems.
    Robert R Jensen*, Loyola University Chicago
    (1004-35-164)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A new approach to some nonlinear geometric equations in dimension two.
    Fengbo Hang*, Michigan State University
    Xiaodong Wang, Michigan State University
    (1004-35-92)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some regularity properties of convex functions in Carnot groups.
    Luca Capogna*, University of Arkansas
    (1004-35-170)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An example in 2-D nonlinear elasticity.
    Xiaodong Yan*, Michigan State University
    Jonathan Bevan, Oxford University
    (1004-35-91)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the uniqueness and regularity of discontinuous solution of Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
    Bo Su*, Iowa State University
    (1004-35-212)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Isospectral membranes: a connection between shape and density.
    Maeve L McCarthy*, Murray State University
    (1004-35-254)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Analysis, Approximation, and Computational Complexity: Interdisciplinary Aspects, I
  Room 314, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  David Benko, Western Kentucky University benko@math.tamu.edu
  Steven B. Damelin, Georgia Southern University damelin@georgiasouthern.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Integral and Positivity Preserving Approximations of Functions with Application to Markov Operators.
    Jiu Ding*, Univ of Southern Mississippi
    Noah Rhee, Univ of Missouri at Kansas City
    (1004-65-07)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Matrix analysis of the small-world properties of a ring network.
    Minerva Catral, Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut
    Michael Neumann, Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut
    Jianhong Xu*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of West Florida
    (1004-15-12)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A finite element method for the solution of an electromagnetic scattering problem.
    Aihua W Wood*, Air Force Institute of Technology
    Junqi Huang, Air Force Institue of Technology
    (1004-65-18)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Applications of Approximation in Hilbert Spaces.
    Scott N. Kersey*, Georgia Southern University
    (1004-41-20)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Separation of minimal $s$-energy points on the sphere.
    P. D. Dragnev*, Indiana-Purdue University
    E. B. Saff, Vanderbilt University
    (1004-31-261)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Efficiency of Smolyak's Algorithms for Sobolev Spaces.
    Fengbo Hang, Michigan State University
    Youming Li*, Georgia Southern University
    (1004-41-189)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, III
  Room 228, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  Mustafa Atici, Western Kentucky University mustafa.atici@wku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Convexity-Related Independence in Multipartite Tournaments.
    Darren B. Parker*, University of Dayton
    Randy F. Westhoff, Bemidji State University
    Marty J. Wolf, Bemidji State University
    (1004-05-136)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some Structural Properties of Visibility Graphs.
    J Michael McGrew*, Ball State University
    Jay S Bagga, Ball State University
    John W Emert, Ball State University
    Frank W Owens, Ball State University
    (1004-05-235)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lower Bounds on the Cheeger Constant and Integrity of Highly Connected Graphs.
    Jason Rosenhouse*, James Madison University
    Dominic Lanphier, Western Kentucky University
    (1004-05-228)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Induced Turan problem for graphs with bounded degree.
    Myung S. Chung, National Institute of Health
    Tao Jiang*, Miami University
    Douglas B. West, University of Illinois-Urbana
    (1004-05-134)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On $k$-{\em additive spanners} or {\em $k$-detour subgraphs}.
    Peter Hamburger*, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)
    Nana Arizumi, University of Illinois, Urbana
    Alexandr Kostochka, University of Illinois, Urbana
    (1004-05-66)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Spanning Eulerian Subgraphs in claw-free graphs.
    Zhi-Hong Chen*, Butler University, Indianpolis, IN 46208
    Hong-Jian Lai, Department of Math, West Virginia University, Morgantown, VW
    Weiqi Luo, JiNan University, GuangZhou, P.R. China
    (1004-05-41)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knot Theory and Its Applications, III
  Room 107, Academic Complex
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina Charlotte ydiao@uncc.edu
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Packing, curvature, and tangling of filaments (III).
    Jonathan K. Simon*, University of Iowa
    Gregory Buck, St. Anselm College
    (1004-57-118)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Classification of Tangle Solutions for a Generic Integrase, A Protein that Changes DNA Topology.
    Dorothy Buck*, Imperial College London & UCDavis
    Cynthia Verjovsky Marcotte, St Edwards University
    (1004-57-237)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Solving tangle equations with KnotPlot.
    Isabel K. Darcy*, University of Iowa
    Stephen D. Levene, UT Dallas
    Robert G. Scharein, Vancouver, B. C., Canada
    (1004-92-186)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    DNA Knotting \& Unknotting.
    Jennifer K. Mann*, Mathematics, Florida State University and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine
    Richard W. Deibler, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine
    De Witt L. Sumners, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
    E. Lynn Zechiedrich, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine
    (1004-92-184)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Chirality of DNA Knots and Protein-DNA Complexes Determined by Atomic-force Microscopy and Surface Reconstructions.
    Stephen D Levene*, University of Texas at Dallas
    Travis Thompson, University of Texas at Dallas
    Nicola E Dundas, University of Texas at Dallas
    Isabel K Darcy, University of Iowa
    (1004-52-133)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Modeling DNA Unknotting by TypeII Topoisomerases.
    Mariel Vazquez*, Mathematics Department, U.C. Berkeley
    (1004-92-119)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in the Study of Wavelets and Multiwavelets, II
  Room 322, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  Douglas P. Hardin, Vanderbilt University doug.hardin@vanderbilt.edu
  Bruce Kessler, Western Kentucky University bruce.kessler@wku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Several Multiwavelet Bases Centered on Nonuniform Knot Sequences.
    Derek Bruff*, Harvard University
    (1004-42-265)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Low-pass filters and representations of the Baumslag Solitar group.
    Dorin Ervin Dutkay*, Rutgers University
    (1004-43-35)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On localized frames.
    Fumiko Futamura*, Vanderbilt University
    (1004-42-267)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tight Wavelet Frame Construction over Bounded Domains.
    Ming-Jun Lai, University of Georgia
    Kyunglim Nam*, University of Georgia
    (1004-42-116)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Causal Equivalence of Frames.
    Troy Henderson*, Texas A&M University
    David R Larson, Texas A&M University
    (1004-43-203)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Construction of Orthogonal Framelets.
    Eric Weber*, Iowa State University
    (1004-42-165)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Semigroups of Operators and Applications, III
  Room 118B, Academic Complex
  Organizers:
  Khristo Boyadzhiev, Ohio Northern University k-boyadzhiev@onu.edu
  Lan Nguyen, Western Kentucky University lan.nguyen@wku.edu
  Quoc-Phong Vu, Ohio University qvu@math.ohiou.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Admissible subspaces and almost periodicity of solutions of degenerate equations.
    Quoc-Phong Vu*, Ohio University
    (1004-34-253)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    R-bounded semigroups on $L_1$ and $C(K)$ spaces.
    Mark Hoffmann, University of South Carolina
    Nigel Kalton, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Tamara Kucherenko*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1004-46-263)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sharp uniform decay rates at the L2-level of the Schrodinger equation with non-linear boundary dissipation.
    Irena Lasiecka, Mathematics Department, University of Virginia
    Roberto Triggiani*, Mathematics Department, University of Virginia
    (1004-35-139)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Existence and Uniqueness of Almost Automorphic Solutions to a Class of Semilinear Differential Equations.
    Toka Diagana*, Department of Mathematics, Howard University
    (1004-34-22)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Transmutations for Strings.
    Kim Tuan Vu*, University of West Georgia
    Amin Boumenir, University of West Georgia
    (1004-34-126)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology, Convergence, and Order (in Honor of Darrell Kent), III
  Room 106, Academic Complex
  Organizers:
  Gary Richardson, University of Central Florida garyr@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
  Thomas A. Richmond, Western Kentucky University tom.richmond@wku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Fuzzy Convergence.
    Gary D. Richardson*, University of Central Florida
    (1004-54-84)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fuzzy Natural Function Spaces.
    Gerhard Preuss*, Freie Universitaet Berlin, I. Mathematisches Institut
    (1004-54-24)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Partial metrics and metrics with a viewpoint.
    Homeira Pajoohesh*, CEOL and BCRI, University College Cork
    (1004-54-229)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On a paper not published by D. C. Kent.
    Ralph Kopperman*, The City College of New York
    (1004-54-230)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Topological Approach to Shape Classification.
    Anne Collins*, Centre College
    Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University
    Afra Zomorodian, Stanford University
    Leo Guibas, Stanford University
    (1004-55-262)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Compact spaces with and without semilattice structures.
    Minakshisundaram Rajagopalan*, Tennessee State University ; Nashville (Tn) 37209
    (1004-54-98)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on L-Functions, III
  Room 344, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  Heather Russell, Western Kentucky University Heather.Russell@wku.edu
  Nilabh Sanat, Western Kentucky University Nilabh.Sanat@wku.edu
  Dominic Lanphier, Western Kentucky University Dominic.Lanphier@wku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the Modularity of Wildly Ramified Galois Representations.
    Edray Herber Goins*, Purdue University
    (1004-11-144)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Anticyclotomic Iwasawa invariants of elliptic curves.
    Robert Pollack, Boston University
    Tom Weston*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1004-11-138)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The cuspidal structure of certain ternary theta functions.
    Jonathan Hanke*, Duke University
    (1004-11-274)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Zeta functions and theta lifts.
    Ze-Li Dou*, Texas Christian University
    (1004-11-169)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Siegel-Weil formula, L-functions, and arithmeticity of cuspforms on Hermitian orthogonal groups.
    Cetin Urtis*, University of Arizona
    (1004-11-215)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Liftings from $\widetilde{SL_(2)}$ to $Spin(1,4)$.
    Ameya Pitale*, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
    (1004-11-188)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Lobby, Mass Media and Technology Hall
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Related Topics, III
  Room 249, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  David E. Radford, University of Illinois at Chicago radford@uic.edu
  Bettina Richmond, Western Kentucky University bettina.richmond@wku.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Multiplier Hopf algebras with integrals.
    Alfons Van Daele*, University of Leuven, Belgium
    (1004-16-54)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Oriented Quantum Algebras Derived from Yetter--Drinfel'd Modules.
    David E. Radford*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1004-16-248)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Picard-Vessiot extensions of artinian simple module algebras.
    Akira Masuoka*, Institute of Mathematics, University of Tsukuba
    (1004-16-45)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension $2^n$ and their groups of grouplikes.
    Yevgenia Kashina*, DePaul University
    (1004-16-258)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Cauchy's theorem for Hopf algebras.
    Yorck Sommerh\"auser*, Universit\"at M\"unchen
    (1004-16-256)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics, III
  Room 118, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert J. McCann, University of Toronto mccann@math.toronto.edu
  Daniel P. Spirn, University of Minnesota spirn@math.umn.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Vortex Sheets in 3D fluids.
    David M Ambrose*, Courant Institute
    (1004-76-77)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sharp nonlinear stability criterion for Relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system.
    Zhiwu Lin*, Courant Institute, New York University
    (1004-35-233)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Emergence of Large Scale Structure Under Small Scale Random Bombardments.
    Xiaoming Wang*, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
    Andrew J. Majda, Courant Institute, New York University
    (1004-35-238)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the Solutions to the Normal Form of the Navier-Stokes Equations.
    Ciprian Foias, Texas A&M University
    Luan Hoang*, Texas A&M University
    Eric Olson, University of Nevada
    Mohammed Ziane, University of Southern California
    (1004-35-21)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Pinning and De-Pinning Phenomena in Materials Phase Boundary Motions.
    Nicolas Dirr, Max-Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany
    Nung Kwan Yip*, Purdue University
    (1004-35-156)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology and Group Theory, III
  Room 118A, Academic Complex
  Organizers:
  Jens E. Harlander, Western Kentucky University jens.harlander@wku.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    First and second order isoperimetric exponents of groups.
    Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
    Martin Bridson, Imperial College London
    Max Forester*, University of Oklahoma
    Krishnan Shankar, University of Oklahoma
    (1004-20-65)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Topological complexity and motion planning in certain real Grassmannains.
    Tan Zhang*, Murray State University
    Kelly J Pearson, Murray State University
    (1004-55-113)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The dimension of the colohomogy groups of the Orlik-Solomon Algebras.
    Kelly Jeanne Pearson*, Murray State University
    Tan Zhang, Murray State University
    (1004-05-86)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    JSJ Decompositions of Coxeter Groups.
    Michael L. Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
    Steven Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
    (1004-20-132)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the Isomorphism Problem for Finitely Generated Coxeter Groups. I, Basic Matching.
    John Ratcliffe*, Vanderbilt University
    Michael Mihalik, Vanderbilt University
    Steven Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
    (1004-20-153)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Noncommutative Algebra, III
  Room 250, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  Ellen E. Kirkman, Wake Forest University kirkman@wfu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On a question of Happel.
    Ragnar Buchweitz, University of Toronto
    Edward L. Green*, Virginia Tech
    Dag Madsen, NTNU
    Oeyvind Solberg, NTNU
    (1004-16-96)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fixed Rings of Artin-Schelter Regular Algebras.
    Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University
    James Kuzmanovich*, Wake Forest University
    (1004-16-227)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An Equivalence of Categories for Deformations of Type A Kleinian Singularities.
    Ian M. Musson*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1004-16-152)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Non-commutative covers of weighted projective varieties.
    S Paul Smith*, University of Washington
    (1004-16-88)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamic Equations on Time Scales and Applications, II
  Room 227, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  Ferhan M. Atici, Western Kentucky University ferhan.atici@wku.edu
  Daniel C. Biles, Western Kentucky University daniel.biles@wku.edu
  Bill\v ur Kaymak\c calan, Georgia Southern University billur@georgiasouthern.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Henstock--Kurzweil Delta Integral.
    Allan C. Peterson*, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
    Bevan B. Thompson, University of Queensland
    (1004-39-62)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An Operational Calculus for Discrete Time Scales.
    John Davis, Baylor University
    Billy Jackson*, Baylor University
    (1004-39-195)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A continuing approach of the diamond-$\alpha$ dynamic derivatives.
    Qin Sheng*, University of Dayton
    (1004-39-57)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Higher Order Self Adjoint Problems on Time Scales.
    Jo Hoffacker*, Clemson University
    Doug Anderson, Concordia College
    (1004-34-141)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory, I
  Room 257, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  Markus Hunziker, Baylor University marcus_hunziker@baylor.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Differential Systems of Type (1,1) on Symmetric Spaces.
    Chal Benson, East Carolina University
    Dariusz Buraczewski, University of Wroclaw
    Ewa Damek, University of Wroclaw
    Gail Ratcliff*, East Carolina University
    (1004-22-120)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Differential Operators, Lie Symmetries and Representations of $SL(2,\mathbf{R})\times O(n)$.
    Ronald J. Stanke*, Baylor University
    Mark R. Sepanski, Baylor University
    (1004-22-243)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Invariant Tensor Product and Parabolic Induction.
    Hongyu He*, Atlanta, GA 30303
    (1004-22-78)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Small Unitary Representations and Decay of Matrix Coefficients.
    Hadi Salmasian*, PhD Candidate, Yale University, Department of Mathematics
    (1004-22-14)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 203, Academic Complex
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Shields-Harary Numbers of a Tree.
    S H Holliday*, University of Tennessee at Martin
    John Holliday, University of Tennessee at Martin
    P D Johnson, Auburn University
    (1004-05-193)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    On proofs of certain combinatorial identities.
    George Grossman*, Central Michigan University
    Akalu Tefera, Grand Valley State University
    Aklilu Zeleke, Alma College
    (1004-05-55)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Upper Bound for Brun's Constant.
    Andy D Martin*, Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky
    (1004-11-123)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Preserving Properties in a Ring Extension.
    Jason P Huffman*, Georgia College & State University
    (1004-16-206)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Path-Connected Group Extensions.
    Laurie A. Edler*, Georgia College & State University
    Victor Schneider, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
    (1004-22-204)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Results of Blow-up of Solutions of Degenerate Parabolic Problems.
    W. Y. Chan*, Southeast Missouri State University, M0 63701
    (1004-35-67)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  On some connections between finite groups and Hopf algebras.
  Auditorium, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  M. Susan Montgomery*, University of Southern California
  (1004-16-01)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Optimal convergence rates for the fastest conservative nonlinear diffusions.
  Auditorium, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Robert J. McCann*, University of Toronto
  (1004-35-17)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Related Topics, IV
  Room 249, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  David E. Radford, University of Illinois at Chicago radford@uic.edu
  Bettina Richmond, Western Kentucky University bettina.richmond@wku.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Varieties for modules of noncocommutative Hopf algebras.
    Julia Pevtsova, University of Oregon
    Sarah Witherspoon*, Texas A&M University
    (1004-16-242)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fully bounded noetherian rings and Frobenius extensions.
    Stefaan Caenepeel*, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    Thomas Gu\'ed\'enon, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    (1004-16-168)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rank 1 Hopf Algebras and Their Doubles.
    Leonid Krop*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, DePaul University
    David E Radford, Department of Mathematics, statistics and Computer Science, University Of Illinois at Chicago
    (1004-16-52)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Hopf algebras of dimension $2p$.
    Siu-Hung Ng*, Iowa State University
    (1004-16-197)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Applications of graphical calculi to Hopf superalgebras.
    Fernando J. O. Souza*, University of Iowa
    (1004-16-271)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, IV
  Room 236, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael C. Axtell, Wabash College axtellm@wabash.edu
  Joe Alyn Stickles, Jr., University of Evansville js298@evansville.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A general theory of factorization, I.
    Andrea M. Frazier*, University of Iowa
    D. D. Anderson, University of Iowa
    (1004-13-72)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A general theory of factorization, II.
    D. D. Anderson*, University of Iowa
    Andrea M. Frazier, University of Iowa
    (1004-13-73)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Almost splitting sets in integral domains.
    David F. Anderson*, University of Tennessee
    Gyu Whan Chang, University of Incheon
    (1004-13-97)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Realizing sets of prime divisors.
    Steve McAdam*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1004-13-08)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics, IV
  Room 118, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert J. McCann, University of Toronto mccann@math.toronto.edu
  Daniel P. Spirn, University of Minnesota spirn@math.umn.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Universality in Burgers turbulence.
    Govind Menon*, Brown University
    (1004-35-80)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Coarsening in a thin-film equation: A rigorous upper bound on coarsening rate.
    Felix Otto, Bonn University
    Tobias Rump, Bonn University
    Dejan Slepcev*, UCLA
    (1004-35-201)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Existence of Weak Solutions of a Polymer Crystal Growth Model.
    Bo Su*, Iowa State University
    (1004-35-82)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary in a subelliptic obstacle problem.
    Arshak Petrosyan*, Purdue University
    (1004-35-216)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On a Characterization of Some Flow-invariant Sets.
    Elena Constantin*, Ohio University
    (1004-34-61)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Dynamics of a critical-case generalized thin film equation.
    Thomas P Witelski*, Dept of Math, Duke University
    (1004-35-36)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology and Group Theory, IV
  Room 118A, Academic Complex
  Organizers:
  Jens E. Harlander, Western Kentucky University jens.harlander@wku.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Local homotopy properties of boundaries of CAT(0) complexes.
    Nikolay Brodskiy*, The University of Tennessee
    (1004-57-200)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the growth of iterated monodromy groups.
    Kai-Uwe Bux*, University of Virginia
    Rodrigo Perez, Cornell University
    (1004-20-199)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Separable Subsets of Gferf Nngatively Curved Groups.
    Ashot Minasyan*, Vanderbilt University
    (1004-20-180)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On one question about torsion-free groups with file bases.
    Alexey Muranov*, Vanderbilt University
    (1004-20-40)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Groups with small Dehn functions.
    Alexander Yurievich Olshanskii*, Vanderbilt University, Moscow State University
    Mark Valentinovich Sapir, Vanderbilt University
    (1004-20-214)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Analysis, Approximation, and Computational Complexity: Interdisciplinary Aspects, II
  Room 314, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  David Benko, Western Kentucky University benko@math.tamu.edu
  Steven B. Damelin, Georgia Southern University damelin@georgiasouthern.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Multivariate $C^1$ Piecewise Quadratic Interpolation Schemes.
    Andrew J Worsey*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Tanya Sorokina, University of Georgia
    (1004-65-150)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The support of the logarithmic equilibrium measure on revolutionary sets.
    D. P. Hardin*, TN
    E. B. Saff, TN
    H. Stahl, TN
    (1004-31-247)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Approximation methods and stability of singular integral equations for Freud exponential weights on the line.
    Steven B Damelin*, Georgia Southern University
    Kai Diethelm, University of Braunshweig
    (1004-45-103)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Unbounded extremal measures.
    David Benko*, Western Kentucky University
    (1004-41-163)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamic Equations on Time Scales and Applications, III
  Room 227, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  Ferhan M. Atici, Western Kentucky University ferhan.atici@wku.edu
  Daniel C. Biles, Western Kentucky University daniel.biles@wku.edu
  Bill\v ur Kaymak\c calan, Georgia Southern University billur@georgiasouthern.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Langenhop's Inequality and Applications for Dynamic Equations.
    Billur Kaymakcalan*, Georgia Southern University
    Agacik Zafer, Middle East Technical University
    (1004-39-183)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stability In Neutral Nonlinear Dynamic Equations on a Time Scale With Functional Delay.
    Eric R Kaufmann, University of Arkansa at Little Rock
    Youssef Naim Raffoul*, University of Dayton
    (1004-34-43)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic Stability for Second-Order Differential Equations.
    Gro Hovhannisyan*, Kent State University, Stark campus
    (1004-34-244)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Knot Theory and Its Applications, IV
  Room 107, Academic Complex
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina Charlotte ydiao@uncc.edu
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tensegrities, constrained optimization, and the theory of numerical knot-tightening.
    Jason H Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Eric Rawdon, Duquesne University
    Michael Piatek, Duquesne University
    (1004-52-192)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Essential arcs of knots.
    John M Sullivan*, U Illinois Urbana / TU Berlin
    (1004-57-104)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Distortion of a Knotted Curve.
    Elizabeth Denne*, Harvard University
    John M Sullivan, Technische Universitat, Berlin
    (1004-57-59)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Distortion in $S^3$.
    Elizabeth Denne, Harvard University
    Robert B Kusner*, University Massachusetts at Amerst
    (1004-57-185)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory, II
  Room 257, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  Markus Hunziker, Baylor University hunziker@math.uga.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Small semisimple subalgebras of semisimple Lie algebras.
    Jeb F. Willenbring*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
    Gregg Zuckerman, Yale University
    (1004-17-81)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Relative Extremal Projectors.
    Mark R Sepanski*, Baylor University
    Charles C Conley, University of North Texas
    (1004-17-114)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On rank-two complex reflection groups.
    Pramod N Achar*, Louisiana State University
    Anne-Marie Aubert, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu
    (1004-20-108)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some invariant polynomials of a matrix argument.
    Chal Benson*, East Carolina University
    R. Michael Howe, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Gail Ratcliff, East Carolina University
    (1004-20-48)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Multiplication of polynomials on Hermitian symmetric spaces and Littlewood-Richardson coefficients.
    William Graham*, University of Georgia
    Markus Hunziker, Baylor University
    (1004-22-194)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology, Convergence, and Order (in Honor of Darrell Kent), IV
  Room 106, Academic Complex
  Organizers:
  Gary Richardson, University of Central Florida garyr@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
  Thomas A. Richmond, Western Kentucky University tom.richmond@wku.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Extension of measures: a topological approach.
    Roman Fric*, Mathematical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
    (1004-54-157)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Extensions and ultrafilters.
    Ellen E Reed*, Trinity School at Greenlawn
    (1004-54-74)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hyper-real maps and nearly realcompact spaces.
    John J. Schommer*, University of Tennessee at Martin
    Biswajit Mitra, University of Calcutta
    (1004-54-101)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    $T_i$-ordered Reflections.
    Hans-Peter A. Kunzi, University of Cape Town
    Tom Richmond*, Western Kentucky University
    (1004-54-31)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Continued Radicals.
    Jamie Johnson*, Western Kentucky University
    (1004-40-147)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On $\gamma$-semi-open sets.
    Asli Guldurdek*, Western Kentucky University
    Oya Ozbakir, Ege University
    (1004-54-272)
• Saturday March 19, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on L-Functions, IV
  Room 344, Mass Media and Technology Hall
  Organizers:
  Heather Russell, Western Kentucky University Heather.Russell@wku.edu
  Nilabh Sanat, Western Kentucky University Nilabh.Sanat@wku.edu
  Dominic Lanphier, Western Kentucky University Dominic.Lanphier@wku.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Subconvexity for L-functions.
    Akshay Venkatesh*, Clay Mathematics Institute
    (1004-11-122)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Local Newforms for ${\rm GSp}(4)$.
    Brooks Roberts, University of Idaho
    Ralf Schmidt*, University of Oklahoma
    (1004-11-76)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Global newforms for GSp(4).
    Brooks Roberts*, University of Idaho
    Ralf Schmidt, University of Oklahoma
    (1004-11-60)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Evaluations of a Class of Double $L$-values.
    David Terhune*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1004-11-16)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    p-divisibility of Bernoulli numbers and diophantine equations.
    Sankar Sitaraman*, Howard University, Washington DC
    (1004-11-79)

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