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2005 Fall Central Section Meeting
Lincoln, NE, October 21-23, 2005
Meeting #1011

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

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Saturday October 22, 2005

• Saturday October 22, 2005, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 13B, Avery Hall
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 13B, Avery Hall
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Matrix Theory, II
  Room 19, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University lhogben@iastate.edu
  Bryan L. Shader, University of Wyoming bshader@uwyo.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Minimal Rank Problem and Forbidden Subgraphs.
    Wayne Barrett*, Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University
    Jason Grout, Brigham Young University
    Don March, University of Florida
    Hein van der Holst, Eindhoven University of Technology
    Raphael Loewy, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
    (1011-15-202)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Minimal Rank Problem Over Finite Fields and Projective Geometries.
    Jason Grout*, Brigham Young University
    Wayne Barrett, Brigham Young University
    Don March, University of Florida
    (1011-15-203)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Minimum Rank Problem and zero patterns.
    Francesco Barioli*, University of Tennessee Chattanooga
    (1011-15-296)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Minimum Positive Semi-definite Rank of a Graph.
    Sivaram K. Narayan*, Central Michigan University
    (1011-15-133)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Minimum Rank and Maximum Eigenvalue Multiplicity of Symmetric Tree Sign Patterns.
    Luz M. DeAlba*, Drake University
    Timothy L. Hardy, Chadron State College
    Irvin R. Hentzel, Iowa State University
    Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University
    Amy Wagsness, Iowa State University
    (1011-15-117)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Sign patterns that almost require a unique rank.
    Zhongshan Li*, Georgia State University
    Marina Arav, Georgia State University
    Yubin Gao, North University of China
    Frank Hall, Georgia State University
    Selcuk Koyuncu, Georgia State University
    (1011-15-175)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the Exponents of Oscillatory Matrices.
    Shaun M Fallat*, University of Regina
    (1011-15-103)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Control of Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 120, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  George Avalos, University of Nebraska-Lincoln gavalos@math.unl.edu
  Petronela Radu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln pradu@math.unl.edu
  Mohammad A. Rammaha, University of Nebraska-Lincoln rammaha@math.unl.edu
  Richard L. Rebarber, University of Nebraska-Lincoln rrebarbe@math.unl.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Derivation and Interpretation of Kinetic Boundary Conditions for the Heat and Wave Equations.
    Gisele Ruiz Goldstein*, University of Memphis
    (1011-35-371)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the almost periodic solutions to semilinear differential equations in Banach spaces.
    Lan Thanh Nguyen*, Western Kentucky University
    (1011-34-225)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The asymptotic behavior of energy for wave equations with nonlinear dissipative terms in $R^n$.
    Grozdena Todorova, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
    Borislav Yordanov*, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
    (1011-35-115)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Frequency-domain stability of well-posed systems.
    Yuri Latushkin*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1011-93-60)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Instability for the Klein-Gordon-Zakharov system.
    Grozdena Todorova*, University of Tennessee
    (1011-35-365)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the Dirichlet problem for higher order elliptic operators in two dimensions.
    Irina Mitrea*, University of Virginia
    (1011-35-186)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Modeling Hybrid Parameter Multiple Body Systems with Application to Biomechanics.
    Lawrence Schovanec*, Department of Matheamtics & Statistics, Texas Tech University
    Alan Barhorst, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University
    (1011-74-266)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Calculus of Variations, II
  Room 203, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Mikil Foss, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mfoss@math.unl.edu
  Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University giovanni@andrew.cmu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    $A$-quasiconvexity.
    Pedro M Santos*, Instituto Superior Técnico
    (1011-49-270)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On G-Compactness of Beltrami operators.
    Tadeusz Iwaniec*, Syracuse University
    (1011-35-348)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Inversion of deformations.
    Jan Mal\'y*, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
    Stanislav Hencl, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
    Pekka Koskela, University of Jyv\"asky'\"a, Finland
    (1011-49-240)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Newton's problem of minimal resistence.
    Marino Belloni*, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Parma, Italy
    (1011-49-105)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Gauss Green theorem for a bounded vector field whose divergence is a measure.
    William P Ziemer*, Indiana Univesity (Bloomington)
    (1011-28-116)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Implicit partial differential equations.
    P. Marcellini*, Università di Firenze
    (1011-49-379)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Action Minimization and Sharp Interface Limits.
    Maria G. Reznikoff*, Princeton University
    (1011-49-38)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Universal Algebra and Order, II
  Room 108, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan D. Farley, Harvard University lattice@math.harvard.edu
  John William Snow, Sam Houston State University jsnow@shsu.edu
  Japheth L. M. Wood, Chatham College jwood@chatham.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Greedy Algebras.
    Theodore A. Rice*, Iowa State University
    (1011-08-183)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The poset structure of a sum of Priestley spaces.
    R. N. Ball*, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
    A. Pultr, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
    J. Sichler, University of Manitoba, Winnepeg, Canada
    (1011-06-323)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Approximate satisfaction of identities (continued).
    Walter Taylor*, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
    (1011-08-316)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lattices of Compatible Topologies for Topological Models.
    Matt Insall*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Missouri - Rolla
    (1011-06-66)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Countable Almost Rigid Heyting Algebras.
    M. E. Adams*, State University of New York at New Paltz
    Ale\v{s} Pultr, Charles University
    (1011-06-35)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Finite Mal'tsev Algebras.
    Keith Kearnes, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Agnes Szendrei*, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1011-08-278)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The existence of a near-unanimity term in a finite algebra is decidable.
    Mikl\'os Mar\'oti*, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Hungary
    (1011-08-134)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Association Schemes and Related Topics, I
  Room 119, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Sung Yell Song, Iowa State university sysong@iastate.edu
  Paul M. Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin terwilli@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Distance-regular graphs and the quantum affine algebra $U_q(\widehat{sl}_2)$.
    Paul M Terwilliger*, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin
    (1011-05-140)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The subconstituent algebra of a bipartite distance-regular graph; thin modules with endpoint two.
    Mark S MacLean*, Seattle University
    Paul M Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin
    (1011-05-138)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On bipartite $Q$-polynomial distance-regular graphs.
    Stefko Miklavic*, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Education, University of Primorska
    (1011-05-155)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Pseudo Idempotents and Bipartite Q-Polynomial Distance-Regular Graphs.
    Michael S. Lang*, Bradley University
    (1011-05-368)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Permutation representations, characters and set partitions.
    Jonathan D.H. Smith*, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University
    (1011-05-172)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Type-II Matrices.
    Ada Chan, York University
    Chris Godsil*, University of Waterloo
    (1011-05-248)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamic Equations on Time Scales, II
  Room 110, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Lynn H. Erbe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln lerbe@math.unl.edu
  Allan C. Peterson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln apeterso@math.unl.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic Equivalence Of Dynamic Systems.
    Billur Kaymakcalan*, Georgia Southern University
    Agacik Zafer, Middle East Technical University
    (1011-34-301)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Optimal interval lengths for nonlocal boundary value problems associated with third order Lipschitz equations.
    Stephen Clark*, University of Missouri-Rolla
    Johnny Henderson, Baylor University
    (1011-34-151)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Impulsive Functional Dynamic Equations on Time Scales.
    Mouffak Benchohra, Universite de Sidi Bel Abbes
    Johnny Henderson*, Baylor University
    Sotiris K. Ntouyas, University of Ioannina
    Abdelghani Ouahab, Universite de Sidi Bel Abbes
    (1011-39-36)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Continue Discussion about Practical Higher Order Derivative Approximations on Time Scales.
    Qin Sheng*, Baylor University
    (1011-34-55)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Positive Solutions for a Nonlinear Functional Dynamic Equation on a Time Scale.
    Eric R Kaufmann, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    Youssef Naim Raffoul*, University of Dayton
    (1011-39-62)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Absolute Stability of Nonlinear Discrete Systems.
    Rigoberto Medina*, Departamento de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad de Los Lagos. Osorno, Chile
    Michael Gil', Department of Mathematics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
    (1011-39-57)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic Stability for Second Order Dynamic Equations on Time Scale.
    Gro Hovhannisyan*, Kent State University, Stark Campus
    (1011-34-13)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Ecology, II
  Room 103, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  David Logan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln dlogan@math.unl.edu
  William Robert Wolesensky, College of St. Mary wwolesensky@CSM.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Geometric Singular Perturbation Analysis of a Model for Infectious Diseases.
    Michael Y Li*, University of Alberta
    Weishi Liu, University of Kansas
    (1011-34-396)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Marine Phage Ecology.
    Joseph M Mahaffy*, San Diego State University
    (1011-92-347)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Stoichiometric Discrete Predator-Prey Model: Chaos and Its Implications.
    Meng Fan, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Northeast Normal University
    Irakli Loladze, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Yang Kuang*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University
    James J Elser, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
    (1011-92-70)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Population dynamics in systems with unidirectional flow.
    Roger M. Nisbet*, University of California, Santa Barbara.
    (1011-92-191)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Modeling the energy-mortality tradeoffs of invertebrate decorating behavior.
    Sarah K Berke, Department of Biological Sciences, Univ. of S. Carolina
    Matthew Miller*, Department of Mathematics, Univ. of S. Carolina
    Sarah A Woodin, Department of Biological Sciences, Univ. of S. Carolina
    (1011-92-306)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Plant competition for sunlight.
    Andrew L. Nevai*, The Ohio State University
    Richard R. Vance, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1011-92-385)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory of Noetherian Rings, I
  Room 112, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Roger A. Wiegand, University of Nebraska-Lincoln rwiegand@math.unl.edu
  Sylvia Margaret Wiegand, University of Nebraska-Lincoln swiegand@math.unl.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Direct-sum decompositions over one-dimensional reduced local rings.
    Alberto Facchini, Università di Padova
    Wolfgang Hassler, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
    Lee Klingler*, Florida Atlantic University
    Roger Wiegand, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (1011-13-163)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Failure of Krull-Schmidt for Two-dimensional Local Domains.
    Nicholas R Baeth*, Central Missouri State University
    (1011-13-33)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Decomposition of modules over one-dimensional Noetherian rings.
    Meral Arnavut*, SUNY Fredona, Department of Mathematical Sciences
    Melissa Luckas, University of Nebrska-Lincoln
    Sylvia Wiegand, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1011-13-261)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Indecomposable modules of large multiplicity over local rings.
    W. Hassler, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
    R. Karr*, Wilkes Honors College FAU
    L. Klingler, Florida Atlantic University
    R. Wiegand, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1011-13-227)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Decomposition of modules over one-dimensional Noetherian rings II.
    Meral Arnavut, SUNY Fredonia
    Melissa Luckas*, University of Nebraska Lincoln
    Sylvia Wiegand, University of Nebraska Lincoln
    (1011-13-308)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Direct-sum cancellation for modules over real quadratic orders.
    Wolfgang Hassler*, University of Graz, Austria
    (1011-13-90)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 106, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Lars Winther Christensen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln winther@math.unl.edu
  Srikanth B. Iyengar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln iyengar@math.unl.edu
  Sean M. Sather-Wagstaff, California State University, Dominguez Hills swagstaff@math.unl.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Tangent algebras.
    Aron Simis, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
    Bernd Ulrich*, Purdue University
    Wolmer V. Vasconcelos, Rutgers University
    (1011-13-176)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Class of coherent regular rings.
    Christel - Rotthaus*, Michigan State University
    Liana M Sega, University of Missouri at Kansas City
    (1011-13-215)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Questions on Noetherian rings of mixed characteristic.
    Paul C Roberts*, University of Utah
    (1011-13-228)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Education of Teachers, III
  Room 119, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  W. James Lewis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln jlewis@math.unl.edu
  Cheryl Lynn Olsen, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania clolse@ship.edu
  Ira J. Papick, University of Missouri-Columbia papicki@missouri.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Distance Education Course in Experimentation, Conjecture and Reasoning for Middle-School Teachers.
    Steven R Dunbar*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Heidi Feller, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1011-97-282)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Preparation and Support of Mathematics Teachers: the role of an A\&S Math Department.
    Paul M Eakin*, University of Kentucky
    (1011-97-249)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Calculus for middle school teachers.
    Dorina Mitrea*, University of Missouri
    (1011-97-226)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Elementary and Middle School Teachers as Mathematicians: Training K-8 Mathematics Teacher Leaders.
    Kenneth I. Gross*, University of Vermont and Lesley University
    (1011-97-188)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Impact of KTEM on Preservice Elementary Teachers' Beliefs on Learning and Teaching Whole Number Operations.
    Hortensia Soto-Johnson*, University of Northern Colorado
    Michele Iiams, University of North Dakota
    Todd Oberg, Illinois College
    Barbara Boschmans, Plymouth State University
    April Hoffmeister, University of Memphis
    (1011-97-287)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on K-Theory and Algebraic Cycles, II
  Room 109, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Christian Haesemeyer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign chh@math.uiuc.edu
  Gregory Grant Piepmeyer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln gpiepmey@math.unl.edu
  Mark Edward Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mwalker@math.unl.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Karoubi's Construction for Motivic Cohomology Operations.
    Zhaohu Nie*, Texas A&M University
    (1011-14-108)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mixed Tate Motives.
    Madhav V Nori*, The University of Chicago
    (1011-19-100)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Lefschetz (1,1)-theorem for proper seminormal complex varieties.
    Andreas Rosenschon*, University at Buffalo, SUNY
    (1011-14-317)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Applications of homotopy theory to algebraic geometry.
    Marc Levine*, Northeastern University
    (1011-14-237)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis of Partial Differential and Integral Equations, II
  Room 232, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Congming Li, University of Colorado Congming.Li@colorado.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Locating the peaks of least-energy solutions to a quasilinear elliptic Neumann problem.
    Yi Li, University of Iowa
    Chun-Shan Zhao*, University of Iowa
    (1011-35-387)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The symmetry of the solutions to the intergral equations related with weighted Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality.
    Chao Jin*, Ph.D student, Dept. of Applied Math, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Congming Li, Professor, Dept. of Applie math, university of colorado at boulder
    (1011-45-233)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Asymptotics of Solutions to Some Integral Equations.
    Jisun Lim*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Congming Li, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Chao Jin, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1011-45-77)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Global existence and a priori estimates of Gierer-Meinhardt system.
    Huiqiang Jiang*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    Wei-Ming Ni, School Of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1011-35-86)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Layer potentials on spaces with vanishing mean oscillations.
    Dorina Mitrea*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1011-35-34)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Mathematical models for the propagation of electromagnetic waves in generally nonlinear magnetized and polarized media.
    Frank Jochmann*, TU-Berlin, Institut fur Mathematik
    (1011-35-50)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Research, II
  Room 115, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard L. Rebarber, University of Nebraska-Lincoln rrebarbe@math.unl.edu
  Gordon S. Woodward, University of Nebraska-Lincoln gwoodwar@math.unl.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Theorems on Non-negative Primitive Matrices.
    Derek Boeckner*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1011-15-359)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Robustness and Transients Applied to Harvesting Peregrine Falcon Populations, Preliminary report.
    Alyson Deines*, Kansas State University
    Ellen Peterson*, Wittenberg University
    Richard Ryan*, University of Rhode Island
    (1011-92-298)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cheetah Conservation - A New Approach.
    Amy Keighley*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Joan Lubben, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1011-92-307)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Evolution of Cooperation in Finite, Growing Populations.
    Allison Bishop*, Princeton University
    (1011-91-328)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Henstock-Kurzweil Delta Integral on Unbounded Time Scales.
    Stephen Avsec*, Princeton University
    Brittany Bannish, Mt. Holyoke College
    Brian Johnson*, North Dakota State University
    Scott Meckler, SUNY at Geneseo
    (1011-39-304)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Optimization algorithms in portfolio management with non-linear constraints.
    Bill Bade*, St. Mary's University of Minnesota
    (1011-90-325)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 111, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Brian Harbourne, University of Nebraska-Lincoln bharbour@math.unl.edu
  Bangere P. Purnaprajna, University of Kansas purna@math.ku.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Syzygies, multigraded regularity and toric varieties.
    Milena Hering*, University of Michigan
    Hal Schenck, Texas A&M University
    Greg Smith, Queens University, Ontario
    (1011-14-07)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Birational Equivalence, Linear Systems, and Desingularization.
    Yasuyuki Kachi*, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas
    (1011-14-42)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Geometry of the Weak Lefschetz Property.
    Juan C. Migliore*, University of Notre Dame
    (1011-14-112)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The equations of curves on a quadric.
    Roberta Di Gennaro, Universita degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"
    Uwe Nagel*, University of Kentucky
    (1011-14-279)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On threefolds without nonconstant regular functions.
    Jing Zhang*, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
    (1011-14-149)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Stable bundles on Calabi-Yau manifolds and Donaldson-Thomas invariants.
    Zhenbo Qin*, University of Missouri at Columbia
    Wei-Ping Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    (1011-14-54)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Scattering and Spectral Problems in Geometry, II
  Room 205, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter A. Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu
  Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan uribe@umich.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Sharp upper bounds on the number of scattering poles.
    Plamen Stefanov*, Purdue University
    (1011-35-94)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The resonance counting function for Schr\"odinger operators in odd dimensions.
    T. Christiansen*, University of Missouri
    P. D. Hislop, University of Kentucky
    (1011-35-67)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Semiclassical Scattering Amplitude at a Maximum Point of the Potential.
    Ivana Alexandrova*, University of Toronto
    Jean-Francois Bony, Universite Bordeaux
    Thierry Ramond, Universite Paris-Sud
    (1011-35-194)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Inverse spectral results on even dimensional tori.
    Carolyn S Gordon*, Dartmouth College
    Pierre Guerini, Institut f\"ur Mathematik, Universit\"at Z\"urich-Irchel\
    Thomas Kappeler, Institut f\"ur Mathematik, Universit\"at Z\"urich-Irchel\
    David L Webb, Dartmouth College
    (1011-58-367)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Compactness of Isospectral Potentials.
    Harold G Donnelly*, Purdue University
    (1011-58-20)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Maximal $L^{\infty}$-bounds for modes and quasimodes of the Laplacian.
    John A Toth*, McGill University
    (1011-35-101)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Operator Algebras, II
  Room 118, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Allan P. Donsig, University of Nebraska-Lincoln adonsig@math.unl.edu
  David R. Pitts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln dpitts@math.unl.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Representations of Product Systems over Semigroups and Dilations of Commuting CP maps.
    Baruch Solel*, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
    (1011-46-51)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Non-outer conjugate actions on a free product factor.
    Maria Grazia Viola*, Department of Mathematics, Queen's University
    Kenneth Dykema, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
    (1011-46-345)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Paving Small Matrices.
    Gary Weiss, University of Cincinnati
    Vrej Zarikian*, United States Naval Academy
    (1011-47-271)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    $C^{*}$-Algebras associated with Mauldin-Williams Graphs.
    Marius V Ionescu*, Deparmtent of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
    (1011-47-113)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Algebraic Solution of the Lifting Problem for Commuting Subnormals.
    Raul E Curto*, The University of Iowa
    (1011-47-99)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Classifying the Stable Ideals of a Nest Algebra.
    John Lindsay Orr*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1011-47-250)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Group Theory and Semigroup Theory, II
  Room 107, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Susan M. Hermiller, University of Nebraska-Lincoln smh@math.unl.edu
  John C. Meakin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln jmeakin@math.unl.edu
  Zoran Sunik, Texas A&M University sunik@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Algebraic characterizations of one-way functions.
    Jean-Camille Birget*, Rutgers University, Camden Campus
    (1011-20-48)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Reidemeister number as a quasi-isometry invariant for the solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups.
    Jennifer Taback*, Bowdoin College
    Peter Wong, Bates College
    (1011-20-45)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Distortion of surface groups in free-by-cyclic groups.
    Noel Brady*, University of Oklahoma
    Josh Barnard, University of Oklahoma
    (1011-20-356)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Curvature properties of limit groups.
    Emina Alibegovic*, University of Michigan
    (1011-20-326)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Biautomaticity and CAT(0) piecewise Euclidean 2-complexes.
    Rena Hull*, UC Santa Barbara
    (1011-20-170)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Groups acting on CAT(0) spaces of the form $X\times\mathbb R$.
    Kim Ruane*, Tufts University
    (1011-20-330)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Randomness in Computation, III
  Room 347, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  John M. Hitchcock, University of Wyoming jhitchco@cs.uwyo.edu
  Aduri Pavan, Iowa State University pavan@cs.iastate.edu
  Vinodchandran Variyam, University of Nebraska-Lincoln vinod@cse.unl.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Connections Between Kolmogorov and Computational Complexity.
    Lance Fortnow*, University of Chicago
    (1011-68-98)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The list-decoding radius for Reed-Solomon codes.
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
    Swastik Kopparty, MIT
    Jaikumar Radhakrishnan*, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and Tata Institute, Mumbai
    (1011-68-255)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Directed Planar Reachability Problem.
    Eric Allender, Rutgers University
    Samir Datta, Chennai Mathematical Institute
    Sambuddha Roy*, Rutgers University
    (1011-68-239)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Hierarchies for Smoothed Probabilistic Classes.
    Rahul Santhanam*, Simon Fraser University
    (1011-68-388)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, II
  Room 102, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrew J. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln jradclif@math.unl.edu
  Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo, Valparaiso University zsuzsanna.szaniszlo@valpo.edu
  Jonathan Cutler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln jcutler@math.unl.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Highly connected multicoloured subgraphs of multicoloured graphs.
    Henry Liu, The University of Memphis
    Robert Morris*, The University of Memphis
    Noah Prince, The University of Memphis
    (1011-05-107)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On list-coloring outerplanar graphs.
    M. O. Albertson, Smith College
    J. P. Hutchinson*, Macalester College
    R Ramamurthi, California State University San Marcos
    (1011-05-174)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Improved bounds for the two person guessing secrets game.
    Boris Bukh, Princeton University
    Anant P Godbole*, East Tennessee State University
    Eden Hochbaum, Harvard University
    (1011-05-78)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On a conjecture of Berge and Simonovits about hypergraph products.
    Dhruv Mubayi*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Vojtech Rodl, Emory University
    (1011-05-158)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Near-perfect pseudoharmonious matchings randomly labeled planar point sets.
    Jozsef Balogh*, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Boris Pittel, The Ohio State University
    Gelasio Salazar, University of San Luis, Mexico
    (1011-05-81)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Differential Equations, II
  Room 204, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeanne Nielsen Clelland, University of Colorado Jeanne.Clelland@Colorado.EDU
  Irina A. Kogan, North Carolina State University iakogan@ncsu.edu
  Zhijun Qiao, University of Texas-Pan American qiao@utpa.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    An Integrable Reduction in Coassociative Geometry.
    Daniel Fox*, University of California, Irvine
    (1011-53-220)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Special Lagrangians in the Deformed and Resolved Conifolds.
    Marianty Ionel*, The University of Toledo
    (1011-53-224)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Geodesics of Sub-Riemannian Engel Manifolds.
    Christopher G Moseley*, US Miltary Academy, West Point, NY
    (1011-53-187)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Geometry of sub-Finsler Engel manifolds.
    Jeanne N. Clelland*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Christopher G. Moseley, U.S. Military Academy
    George R. Wilkens, University of Hawaii
    (1011-53-218)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    An Inverse Problem from Sub-Riemannian Geometry.
    Thomas A. Ivey*, College of Charleston
    (1011-53-73)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Engineering Aspects of Coding Theory, II
  Room 121, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Lance Perez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln lperez@unl.edu
  Judy Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln jwalker@math.unl.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Nested Interpolation for Reduced Complexity Soft Decoding of Reed Solomon Codes.
    Ralf Koetter*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    (1011-94-382)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Multivariate Interpolation Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes And Decoding Beyond the Guruswami-Sudan Radius.
    Farzad Parvaresh*, University of California, San Diego
    Alexander Vardy, University of California, San Diego
    (1011-14-205)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On linear programming bounds for codes.
    Alexander Barg*, University of Maryland
    (1011-94-212)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An Explicit Construction of Universally Decodable Matrices.
    Pascal O Vontobel*, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Ashwin Ganesan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1011-94-135)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Sequences in chemistry and physics.
    Jonathan I Hall*, Michigan State University
    (1011-94-303)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Billiards in polygons: Connections of geometry and complex analysis to dynamical systems.
  Room 115, Burnett Hall
  Howard A. Masur*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1011-37-06)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Some mathematical manifestations of the quantum-classical relationship.
  Room 115, Burnett Hall
  Alejandro Uribe*, University of MIchigan
  (1011-00-44)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Matrix Theory, III
  Room 19, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University lhogben@iastate.edu
  Bryan L. Shader, University of Wyoming bshader@uwyo.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    An Interlacing Result on Normalized Laplacians.
    Guantao Chen, Georgia State University
    George Davis, Georgia State University
    Frank Hall*, Georgia State University
    Zhongshan Li, Georgia State University
    Kinnari Patel, Emory University
    Michael Stewart, Georgia State University
    (1011-15-49)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some remarks on uni-spectral graphs.
    Wasin So*, San Jose State University
    (1011-15-19)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Corona of two Graphs.
    Sasmita Barik, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
    Sukanta Pati, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
    Bhaba Kumar Sarma*, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
    (1011-05-52)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Perfect matchings, eigenvalues and expansion.
    Sebastian M Cioab\u{a}*, Queen's University at Kingston
    (1011-05-156)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Differential Equations, III
  Room 204, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeanne Nielsen Clelland, University of Colorado Jeanne.Clelland@Colorado.EDU
  Irina A. Kogan, North Carolina State University iakogan@ncsu.edu
  Zhijun Qiao, University of Texas-Pan American qiao@utpa.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Singular Normal Forms for Symplectic Monge-Ampere PDE in the Plane.
    Jeanne Clelland, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Marek Kossowski, University of South Carolina
    George R Wilkens*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    (1011-58-295)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Rigidity of submanifolds in homogeneous spaces.
    Sung Ho Wang*, Kias
    (1011-53-84)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On B\"acklund Transformations Using Two Pseudo-Potentials.
    Hongyou Wu*, Northern Illinois University
    (1011-35-171)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Hamiltonian Structures of Constrained Flows.
    Wen-Xiu Ma*, University of South Florida
    (1011-37-201)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory of Noetherian Rings, II
  Room 112, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Roger A. Wiegand, University of Nebraska-Lincoln rwiegand@math.unl.edu
  Sylvia Margaret Wiegand, University of Nebraska-Lincoln swiegand@math.unl.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Generalizations of Koszul algebras.
    Edward L Green*, Virginia Tech
    (1011-16-236)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Approximately Simultaneously Diagonalizable Matrices.
    C I Vinsonhaler*, University of Connecticut
    (1011-16-206)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Classifying finite dimensional representations with squarefree tops.
    Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann*, University of California at Santa Barbara
    (1011-16-216)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Multi-isomorphism for quotient divisible groups; connections with representations of rings.
    Bill Wickless*, University of Connecticut
    (1011-20-53)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Control of Partial Differential Equations, III
  Room 120, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  George Avalos, University of Nebraska-Lincoln gavalos@math.unl.edu
  Petronela Radu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln pradu@math.unl.edu
  Mohammad A. Rammaha, University of Nebraska-Lincoln rammaha@math.unl.edu
  Richard L. Rebarber, University of Nebraska-Lincoln rrebarbe@math.unl.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Linear and Nonlinear Controllability of Viscoelastic Shear Flows.
    Michael Renardy*, Virginia Tech
    (1011-76-58)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Posteriori Error Analysis For Mathematical Idealizations And Numerical Approximations.
    Weimin Han*, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
    (1011-65-119)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Models for Material Damage.
    Meir Shillor*, Oakland University
    (1011-74-197)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Semigroup theory for Yeow`s equations of free liquid films.
    Thomas Hagen*, The University of Memphis
    (1011-35-61)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
  Room 106, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Lars Winther Christensen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln winther@math.unl.edu
  Srikanth B. Iyengar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln iyengar@math.unl.edu
  Sean M. Sather-Wagstaff, California State University, Dominguez Hills swagstaff@math.unl.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Encoding injective resolutions.
    Ezra Miller*, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    (1011-13-281)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Duality and stability.
    Alex Martsinkovsky*, Northeastern University
    Idun Reiten, NTNU (Trondheim)
    (1011-16-209)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Education of Teachers, III
  Room 119, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  W. James Lewis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln jlewis@math.unl.edu
  Cheryl Lynn Olsen, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania clolse@ship.edu
  Ira J. Papick, University of Missouri-Columbia papicki@missouri.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Course in Number Theory and Cryptology for Middle Level Teachers.
    Kristin Pfabe*, Department of Mathematics, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln NE
    Michelle Reeb Homp, Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1011-97-334)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Geometry for Middle School Mathematics Teachers.
    John K. Beem*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1011-97-199)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    In Polya's words: "The student shall have a reasonable share of the work".
    Kristin L. Umland*, University of New Mexico
    (1011-97-294)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Mathematical Education of Teachers: The Small College Plan.
    Robert E Glasgow*, Southwest Baptist University
    (1011-97-342)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on K-Theory and Algebraic Cycles, III
  Room 109, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Christian Haesemeyer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign chh@math.uiuc.edu
  Gregory Grant Piepmeyer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln gpiepmey@math.unl.edu
  Mark Edward Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mwalker@math.unl.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Triangular Witt groups of punctured vector bundles.
    Seva Joukhovitski*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1011-19-181)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Bivariant Theory for Quasi-Projective Schemes.
    Mona Mocanasu*, Northwestern University
    (1011-19-211)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Non-abelian localization in equivariant $K$-theory.
    Dan Edidin*, University of Missouri
    (1011-19-180)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Calculus of Variations, III
  Room 203, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Mikil Foss, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mfoss@math.unl.edu
  Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University giovanni@andrew.cmu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rate-Independent Evolution Problems in Elasto-Plasticity: a Variational Approach.
    Gianni Dal Maso*, SISSA
    (1011-49-297)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A variational approach to quasi-static evolution for a class of dissipative materials.
    Gilles A. Francfort*, L.P.M.T.M., Université Paris-Nord
    (1011-74-111)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quasistatic evolution of steps along a phase boundary.
    Anna Vainchtein*, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
    (1011-49-234)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic stability of solitary waves in models of water wave dynamics.
    Robert L Pego*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1011-35-339)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis of Partial Differential and Integral Equations, III
  Room 232, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Congming Li, University of Colorado Congming.Li@colorado.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Topologically driven local minimizers of the Oseen-Frank energy.
    Peter J Sternberg*, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University
    Jacob Rubinstein, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University
    Yun-hui Kim, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University
    (1011-49-95)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Nonlinear Instability for the Navier-Stokes Equations.
    Susan Friedlander*, University of Illinois-Chicago
    (1011-76-75)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Free Boundary Euler Equations with Surface Tension.
    Daniel Coutand, UC Davis
    Steve Shkoller*, Dept. of Math, University of California at Davis
    (1011-35-373)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some special boundary value problems for complex Monge-Amp\`ere equations.
    Bo Guan*, Ohio State University
    (1011-35-290)
• Saturday October 22, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.