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2005 Spring Central Section Meeting
Lubbock, TX, April 8-10, 2005
Meeting #1006

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

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Friday April 8, 2005

• Friday April 8, 2005, 12:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  First Floor Lobby, Mathematics and Statistics Building
• Friday April 8, 2005, 12:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 106, Mathematics and Statistics Building
• Friday April 8, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Extinction, Periodicity, and Chaos in Population and Epidemic Models, I
  Room 110, Mass Communications Building
  Organizers:
  Linda J. S. Allen, Texas Tech University lallen@math.ttu.edu
  Sophia Ruey-Jen Jang, University of Louisiana at Lafayette jang@louisiana.edu
  Lih-Ing W. Roeger, Texas Tech University lroeger@math.ttu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Chaos and Habitat Size.
    J. M. Cushing*, Department of Mathematics & Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona
    R. F. Costantino, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
    Robert A. Desharnais, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University Los Angeles
    Shandelle M. Henson, Department of Mathematics, Andrews University
    (1006-92-145)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Coexistence in a Ricker Competition Model.
    Shandelle M. Henson*, Andrews University
    J. M. Cushing, University of Arizona
    Chantel C. Blackburn, Andrews University
    (1006-92-174)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Periodicity and Global Asimptotic Behavior of Some Nonautonomous Discrete Population Models.
    V. L. Kocic*, Xavier University of Louisiana
    (1006-39-134)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Role of Coinfection in Multi-Disease Dynamics.
    Maia Martcheva*, University of Florida
    Sergei Pilyugin, University of Florida
    (1006-92-132)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Allee effects in a host-parasitoid model.
    Sophia R.-J. Jang*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1006-92-178)
• Friday April 8, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Future Directions in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory, I
  Room 108, Mass Communications Building
  Organizers:
  David Gilliam, Texas Tech University gilliam@math.ttu.edu
  W. P. Dayawansa, Texas Tech University wdayawansa@yahoo.com
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Observability of Complex Systems.
    Clyde F. Martin*, Texas Tech University
    (1006-93-34)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On Global Controllability of Planar Affine Nonlinear Systems.
    Yimin Sun, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Lei Guo*, Laboratory of Systems and Control, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science
    (1006-93-69)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On Agrachev's curvature of optimal control.
    Matthias Kawski*, Arizona State University
    (1006-93-66)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Global Output Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems: A Homogeneous Domination Approach.
    Chunjiang Qian*, University of Texas at San Antonio
    (1006-93-28)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic Input-Output Linearization via Observer.
    Feng Liu, Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Daizhan Cheng*, Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    (1006-93-62)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Projective Metric of Linear Systems.
    X Alex Wang*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University
    (1006-93-49)
• Friday April 8, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Statistical Image Processing and Analysis and Applications, I
  Room 012, Mathematics and Statistics Building
  Organizers:
  Victor Patrangenaru, Texas Tech University vpatrang@math.ttu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On improving input estimators with potential applications to Positron Emission Tomography.
    Ali Khoujmane*, Texas Tech University
    Frits Ruymgaart, Texas Tech University
    Victor Patrangenaru, Texas Tech University
    (1006-62-249)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Encoding an arbitrary collection of image edges.
    Gopal Lakhani*, Texas Tech University, Department of Computer Science
    (1006-94-223)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Analysis and Statistical Characterisation of Windstorm Damage using Aerial Images.
    Lakshminarasimhan V Sampath, Texas Tech University
    James Arn Womble*, Texas Tech University
    Brian S Nutter, Texas Tech University
    Kishor C Mehta, Texas Tech University
    (1006-65-253)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Using Markov Random Fields for Texture Based Radial Segmentation.
    Eric Sinzinger*, Texas Tech University
    (1006-62-236)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Inter-Channel Correlation Measurements for Estimation of Lost Wavelet Coefficients.
    Y Sriraja*, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Texas Tech University
    Sandip Krishnamurthy, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Texas Tech University
    Tanja Karp, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Texas Tech University
    (1006-94-179)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Simplified Enhanced LBG Algorithm.
    Jiangling Guo*, Computer Vision and Image Analysis Lab, Texas Tech University
    Sunanda Mitra, Computer Vision and Image Analysis Lab, Texas Tech University
    (1006-94-180)
• Friday April 8, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research (and Related Poster Session organized by Ali Khoujmane and Mara D. Neusel, Texas Tech), I
  Room 015, Mathematics and Statistics Building
  Organizers:
  Ali Khoujmane, Texas Tech University akhoujma@math.ttu.edu
  Edward W. Swim, Texas Tech University eswim@math.ttu.edu
  Edward J. Allen, Texas Tech University eallen@math.ttu.edu
  Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, Texas Tech University padhu@math.ttu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Consistency and stability of a nonconforming finite element method for fluid-structure interaction.
    Edward W Swim*, Texas Tech University
    Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, Texas Tech University
    (1006-65-235)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Improving Regression Function Estimators.
    Ali Khoujmane*, Texas Tech University
    (1006-62-12)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Polynomials that Arise in a Polya Urn Gambling Game.
    Bret M Hanlon*, Texas Tech University
    Clyde F Martin, Texas Tech University
    (1006-00-76)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stochastic LPA Models Compared.
    Kiyomi Kaskela*, Texas Tech University
    (1006-60-102)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mathematical Model of Visual Motion-Detection in Flies.
    Baili Chen*, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79401
    Clyde F. Martin, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79401
    (1006-34-144)
• Friday April 8, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Continua, I
  Room 110, Mathematics and Statistics Building
  Organizers:
  Wayne Lewis, Texas Tech University wlewis@math.ttu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A continuum $X$ whose hyperspace of subocntinua is not its continuous image.
    Alejandro Illanes*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    (1006-54-101)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Injectivity and Intrinsic Rotations.
    James T. Rogers, Jr.*, Tulane University
    (1006-54-64)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dendroids with only one bottleneck center.
    Van C Nall*, University of Richmond
    Jo Heath, Auburn University
    (1006-54-68)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the n-fold hyperspace suspensions of continua.
    Sergio Macias*, Institute of Mathematics, National University of Mexico
    (1006-54-71)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Properties of Buffers.
    Robbie Allen Beane*, University of Missouri, Rolla
    (1006-54-142)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quotients of Bing Spaces.
    Nicholas S Ormes*, University of Denver
    Richard N Ball, University of Denver
    James N Hagler, University of Denver
    (1006-54-239)
• Friday April 8, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, I
  Room 108, Mathematics and Statistics Building
  Organizers:
  Josef F. Dorfmeister, Munich University of Technology dorfm@mathematik.tu-muenchen.de
  Magdalena D. Toda, Texas Tech University mtoda@math.ttu.edu
  Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Surface Geometry and Algebraically Completely Integrable Systems.
    Franz Pedit*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    C Bohle, TU-Berlin
    K Leschke, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    U Pinkall, TU-Berlin
    (1006-53-109)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    K-Surfaces (smooth and discrete) of non-finite type.
    Ivan Charles Sterling*, St Mary's College of Maryland
    (1006-53-82)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Transformations of affine spheres.
    Erxiao Wang*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1006-53-152)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Willmore tori with non-trivial normal bundle.
    Katrin Leschke*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1006-53-212)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    $p$-harmonic functions and the minimal surface equation in a Riemannian manifold.
    Ye-Lin Ou*, The Univerity of Oklahoma
    (1006-53-15)
• Friday April 8, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Classical and Differential Galois Theory, I
  Room 114, Mathematics and Statistics Building
  Organizers:
  Lourdes Juan, Texas Tech University ljuan@koch.math.ttu.edu
  Arne Ledet, Texas Tech University aledet@math.ttu.edu
  Andy R. Magid, University of Oklahoma amagid@ou.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Iterated Picard--Vessiot extensions.
    Andy R Magid*, University of Oklahoma
    (1006-12-181)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Strongly normal extensions.
    Jerald J. Kovacic*, CCNY - The City College of the City University of New York
    (1006-12-103)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Non-integrability of some problems in Celestial Mechanics: a differential Galois approach.
    Juan J. Morales-Ruiz*, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, SPAIN
    (1006-70-169)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Classification of linear q-difference equations and Galois theory.
    Jean-Pierre Ramis*, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France and Institut Universitaire de France
    (1006-39-108)
• Friday April 8, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homological Algebra and Its Applications, I
  Room 112, Mathematics and Statistics Building
  Organizers:
  Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University alexmart@neu.edu
  Mara D. Neusel, Texas Tech University mneusel@math.ttu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Auslander's and Bass invariants related to some homological conjectures.
    Anne-Marie Simon*, Universit\'e libre de Bruxelles
    (1006-13-219)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stable cohomology for local rings.
    Oana Veliche*, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
    Luchezar L. Avramov, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (1006-13-243)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Gaps in Hochschild (co)homology imply smoothness for commutative algebras.
    Luchezar Avramov, University of Nebraska
    Srikanth Iyengar*, University of Nebraska
    (1006-13-162)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Regularity Condition $R_{\ell}$ of Serre for Affine Semigroup Rings.
    Marie A. Vitulli*, University of Oregon
    (1006-13-78)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cluster Categories.
    Gordana Todorov*, Northeastern University
    (1006-16-241)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Auslander-Buchsbaum - type formulas.
    Alex Martsinkovsky*, Northeastern University
    (1006-13-206)
• Friday April 8, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Complex Function Theory, I
  Room 011, Mathematics and Statistics Building
  Organizers:
  Brock Williams, Texas Tech University williams@math.ttu.edu
  Roger W. Barnard, Texas Tech University barnard@math.ttu.edu
  Kent Pearce, Texas Tech University pearce@math.ttu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Conformal field theory and the universal Teichmueller space.
    David Radnell, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
    Eric Schippers*, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Manitoba
    (1006-30-220)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Experiments in discrete conformal welding.
    Ken Stephenson*, University of Tennessee
    (1006-30-182)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discrete Complex Earthquakes.
    Eric M. Murphy*, Texas Tech University
    (1006-30-65)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Holomorphic extensions and theta functions on complex tori.
    Roman J. Dwilewicz*, University of Missouri
    (1006-30-199)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Smale's Mean Value Conjecture for Complex Polynomials.
    Jeremy T. Tyson*, University of Illinois
    (1006-30-237)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Growth properties of Painlev\'{e} transcendents.
    Aimo Hinkkanen*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1006-30-135)
• Friday April 8, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 109, Mathematics and Statistics Building
  Organizers:
  Brian Raines, Baylor University Brian_Raines@baylor.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Coding Expansive Automorphisms of Compact Groups.
    Alex Clark*, University of North Texas
    R J Fokkink, TU Delft
    (1006-37-208)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On equations of compound and simple limit cycles.
    Anatoly B. Korchagin*, Texas Tech University
    (1006-37-183)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Topologizing sets so that a given self map is continuous.
    C Good*, University of Birmingham, UK
    (1006-54-215)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Controlled Hahn-Mazurkiewicz Theorem and some new dimension functions of Peano continua.
    Taras Banakh, Nipissing University and Ivan Franko National U. of L'viv, Ukraine
    Murat Tuncali*, Nipissing University
    (1006-54-126)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Inverse Limits of Upper Semi-continuous Set Valued Functions.
    W. T. Ingram, Spring Branch, Texas
    William S. Mahavier*, Emory University
    (1006-54-110)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Two-pass Maps and Indecomposability of Inverse Limits of Graphs.
    W. T. Ingram*, University of Missouri - Rolla
    (1006-54-67)
• Friday April 8, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Theory and Application of Stochastic Differential Equations, I
  Room 121, Mass Communications Building
  Organizers:
  Edward J. Allen, Texas Tech University eallen@math.ttu.edu
  Armando Arciniega, University of Texas at San Antonio aarciniega@utsa.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Stability and convergence of large-scale stochastic hereditary systems under markovian structural perturbations.
    Gangaram S. Ladde*, The University of Texas at Arlington
    (1006-93-48)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Finite-Time stability.
    M Anabtawi*, American University of Sharjah
    S Sathananthan, Tennessee State University
    (1006-60-35)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Stochastic perturbation of dispersion-managed optical solitons.
    Anjan Biswas*, Tennessee State University
    (1006-78-39)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Measures Generated by Stochastic Differential Equations in Banach Space.
    Fariborz Asadian*, Fort Valley State University
    (1006-60-85)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Some Results about 2D Euler equation perturbed by noise.
    Hakima Bessaih*, University of Wyoming
    (1006-60-98)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A new analysis of the effects of the Asian Crisis of 1997 on Emergent markets.
    Y. Liu*, New Mexico State University
    M. C. Mariani, New Mexico State University
    (1006-91-59)
• Friday April 8, 2005, 2:20 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Real Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 010, Mathematics and Statistics Building
  Organizers:
  Anatoly Korchagin, Texas Tech University korchag@math.ttu.edu
  David Weinberg, Texas Tech University weinberg@math.ttu.edu
  

  • 2:20 p.m.
    Arf invariants of links and and real algebraic curves.
    Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
    (1006-57-52)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Real solutions to real sparse polynomial systems.
    Evgenia Soprunova*, University of Massachusetts
    Frank Sottile, Texas A&M
    (1006-14-210)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Singular Points of Real Quintic Curves.
    David A. Weinberg*, Texas Tech University
    Nicholas J. Willis, Texas Tech University
    (1006-14-136)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Singular Points of Real Sextic Curves.
    David A. Weinberg, Texas Tech University
    Nicholas J. Willis*, Texas Tech University
    (1006-14-138)
• Friday April 8, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Groups, Homogeneous Spaces, Rigidity, I
  Room 014, Mathematics and Statistics Building
  Organizers:
  Alex Gorodnik, University of Michigan,Ann Arbor gorodnik@umich.edu
  Hee Oh, California Institute of Technology heeoh@its.caltech.edu
  Nicolas Monod, University of Chicago monod@math.uchicago.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Metric classification of 3D Riemannian homogeneous spaces of positive Ricci curvature.
    Victor Patrangenaru*, Texas Tech University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    (1006-53-33)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cocycle Superrigidity through geometry.
    David Fisher, CUNY Lehman College
    Theron J Hitchman*, Rice University
    (1006-37-96)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Travelling Salesman Groups.
    Azer Akhmedov*, University of California Santa Barbara
    (1006-51-122)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Actions of Chevalley groups on hyperbolic spaces.
    Jason F Manning*, Caltech
    (1006-20-95)
• Friday April 8, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equation and Its Application in Biomedical Study, I
  Room 109, Mass Communications Building
  Organizers:
  Jay R. Walton, Texas A&M University jwalton@math.tamu.edu
  Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, Texas Tech University padhu@koch.math.ttu.edu
  Akif Ibragimov, Texas Tech University akifibragimov@yahoo.com
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the characterization of hyperelastic membranes in soft-tissue mechanics.
    Padmanabhan Seshaiyer*, TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
    (1006-35-240)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Biological Growth and Remodeling in Soft Tissue: Constrained Mixture Model with Constitutive Response in Smooth Muscle Dependent on the Population Number/Size.
    Dinara Khalmanova*, Pennsylvania State University
    Tsvetanka Sendova, Texas A&M University
    Jay R. Walton, Texas A&M University
    (1006-92-229)
• Friday April 8, 2005, 5:10 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Geometric splitting and superrigidity.
  Biology Lecture Hall 100, Biology Building
  Nicolas Monod*, University of Chicago
  (1006-51-265)
• Friday April 8, 2005, 6:15 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  Reception Hosted by the Department of Mathematics
  Club Level, Jones SBC Stadium

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