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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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Sunday October 23, 2005

• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Calculus of Variations, IV
  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.
    Global Lipschitz regularity of minimizers for asymptotically convex integrals.
    Mikil Foss*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1011-49-320)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Variational multiscale problems and applications to thin films.
    Margarida N Ba\'ia*, Instituto Superior T\'ecnico
    (1011-49-273)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A model for the epitaxial growth of an elastic thin film on a lattice-mismatched substrate.
    Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University
    Nicola Fusco, University of Naples
    Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University
    Massimiliano Morini*, International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste
    (1011-49-232)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Periodic phase separation: the periodic Cahn-Hilliard and isoperimetric problems.
    Peter J Sternberg*, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University
    Rustum Choksi, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
    (1011-49-97)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Vortices in 2D Bose-Einstein condensates.
    Radu Ignat, Laboratoire J.L. Lions, University Paris 6
    Vincent Millot*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1011-35-167)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lagrangian cartesian currrents and weak continuity of the determinant of the Hessian.
    Robert L Jerrard*, University of Toronto
    (1011-58-258)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A two-dimensional compressible membrane theory as a Gamma-limit of three-dimensional incompressible elasticity.
    Georg K Dolzmann*, Mathematics Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
    (1011-49-322)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Universal Algebra and Order, IV
  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.
    Almost Distributive Sublattices and Congruence Heredity.
    John W Snow*, Sam Houston State University
    (1011-06-32)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    When voter preferences are partially ordered.
    Michael Ackerman, Bellarmine University
    Sul-Young Choi, LeMoyne College
    Peter Coughlin, University of Maryland
    Eric Gottlieb, Rhodes College
    Japheth Wood*, Chatham College
    (1011-06-263)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tensor Products of Semilattices, Semimodularity and Supersolvability (A Problem of E. T. Schmidt from 1974 and Some Conjectures of Quackenbush from 1985).
    Jonathan David Farley*, Center for International Security, Stanford University
    (1011-06-299)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nondualizability of finite algebras with a semilattice operation.
    David M. Clark, SUNY at New Paltz
    Brian A. Davey, La Trobe University
    Jane G. Pitkethly, La Trobe University
    Ross Willard*, University of Waterloo
    (1011-06-394)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Association Schemes and Related Topics, III
  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.
    On Euclidean designs.
    Etsuko Bannai*, Faculty of Mathematics, Graduate school, Kyushu University
    (1011-05-118)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Gelfand-Tzetlin bases and association schemes.
    Kenneth W Johnson*, Penn Sate University, Abington College
    (1011-05-256)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homogeneous P-polynomial Integral Table Algebras.
    Harvey I. Blau, Northern Illinois University
    Robert J. Hein*, Northern Illinois University
    (1011-13-145)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Polygonal Designs: Existence and Construction.
    Gargi Bhattacharyya*, Dept. of math. at Iowa State University
    John Hegeman, Stanford University
    Jeff Langford, Drake University
    Joohyung Kim, Iowa State University
    Sung Y. Song, Iowa State University
    (1011-05-314)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A new method of finding fusion schemes.
    Jianmin Ma*, Oxford College of Emory University
    (1011-05-208)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Duality of Bose-Mesner algebras.
    Brian W Curtin*, University of South Florida
    (1011-05-141)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Some remarks on imprimitive cometric (Q-polynomial) association schemes.
    William J. Martin*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, WPI
    Jason S. Williford, Department of Mathematical Sciences, WPI
    (1011-05-376)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamic Equations on Time Scales, IV
  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.
    Delay Dynamic Equations with Stability.
    Robert J. Krueger*, Concordia University, St. Paul
    Douglas R. Anderson, Concordia College
    Allan C. Peterson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1011-39-96)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Linear Fractional Difference Equations.
    Paul W Eloe*, University of Dayton
    Ferhan Atici, Western Kentucky University
    (1011-39-29)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Oscillation and nonoscillation of forced second order dynamic equations.
    Martin Bohner*, University of Missouri-Rolla
    Christopher C Tisdell, University of New South Wales
    (1011-39-264)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Regularly and Strongly Decaying Solutions of Quasilinear Dynamic Equations.
    Elvan Akin-Bohner*, University of Missouri-Rolla
    (1011-34-354)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Oscillation for odd-order neutral $\Delta$-differential delay equations on a time scale.
    Ronald M Mathsen*, North Dakota State University
    (1011-34-14)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Detection of the connecting orbits using the boundary map in Conley index theory.
    Catalin Georgescu*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of South Dakota
    (1011-37-21)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Periodicity and Stability in Neutral Nonlinear Dynamic Equations with Functional Delay on a Time Scale.
    Eric R Kaufmann*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    Youssef N Raffoul, University of Dayton
    (1011-34-157)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Ecology, IV
  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.
    Map reduction for bifurcations en a route to bursting activity in neuron models.
    Andrey Shilnikov*, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, GSU
    Paul Channel, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, GSU
    Genndady Cymbalyuk, Dept Physics and Astronomy, GSU
    (1011-37-217)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Front Solutions to Spatially Discrete Nerve Axon Models.
    Christopher Erhart Elmer*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1011-39-231)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The evolution of dispersal in patchy environments.
    Steve Kirkland, University of Regina
    Chi-Kwong Li, The College of William and Mary
    Sebastian Schreiber*, The College of William and Mary
    (1011-92-321)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic Analysis of the Spruce Budworm Model.
    Glenn Ledder*, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1011-92-319)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Bistable Waves in Discrete Media.
    Erik S Van Vleck*, Department of Mathematics/University of Kansas
    (1011-35-390)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Poisson-Nernst-Planck systems for narrow tubular-like membrane channels.
    Weishi Liu*, University of Kansas
    Bixiang Wang, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
    (1011-37-393)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Matrix Theory, IV
  Room 19, Avery Hall
  Organizers:
  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University lhogben@iastate.edu
  Bryan L. Shader, University of Wyoming bshader@uwyo.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Matrix Completion Problems.
    Leslie Hogben*, Iowa State University
    (1011-15-47)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some results on the matrix completion problem for various classes of $P_{0,1}$-matrices.
    Amy Wangsness*, Fitchburg State College
    (1011-15-161)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Totally Nonnegative Completion Problem.
    Brenda K. Kroschel*, Univ. of St. Thomas
    Charles R. Johnson, College of William and Mary
    Emily B. Dryden, McGill University
    (1011-15-262)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some recent matrix results in mathematical biology.
    Chi-Kwong Li*, College of William and Mary
    (1011-15-43)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Linear maps transforming the higher numerical ranges.
    Chi Kwong Li, College of William and Mary
    Yiu Tung Poon*, Iowa State University
    Nung Sing Sze, The University of Hong Kong
    (1011-15-189)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Some Results on Structured M-matrices.
    J. Ding*, Department of Mathematics, The University of Southern Mississippi
    Wallace C. Pye, Department of Mathematics, The University of Southern Mississippi
    (1011-15-30)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Control of Partial Differential Equations, IV
  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
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Elliptic sine-Gordon equation.
    Zhonghai Ding*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    (1011-35-64)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stochastic Equations with a Fractional Brownian Motion.
    Tyrone E. Duncan*, University of Kansas
    (1011-60-166)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hadamard Wellposedness for a Class of Nonlinear Shallow Shell Problems.
    Catherine Lebiedzik*, Wayne State University
    (1011-35-392)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Vlasov-Poisson System with Infinite Mass and Energy.
    Stephen D Pankavich*, Indiana University
    (1011-35-374)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Solvability of the Possio integral equation.
    Peter L Polyakov*, University of Wyoming
    (1011-45-184)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Stochastic Differential Equations in a Hilbert Space Induced from a Fractional Brownian Motion.
    Bozenna J. Pasik-Duncan*, University of Kansas
    (1011-60-384)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
  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.
    Vanishing of Ext and Tor over certain local rings.
    David A. Jorgensen*, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1011-13-272)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Strict Map of Modules and Intersection Multiplicity.
    Sankar P Dutta*, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1011-13-56)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Square-zero matrices over commutative local rings.
    Luchezar L. Avramov*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, Universty of Toronto
    Srikanth Iyengar, University of Nebraska
    Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
    (1011-13-259)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on K-Theory and Algebraic Cycles
  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.
    Two Extended Forms of the Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch Formula.
    C-Y. Jean Chan*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Arkansas
    (1011-13-284)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Comparing cycles in positive and mixed characteristic.
    Paul C Roberts*, University of Utah
    (1011-13-229)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Projective modules over smooth real affine varieties.
    S. M. Bhatwadekar, School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
    Mrinal K. Das*, University of Kansas
    Satya Mandal, University of Kansas
    (1011-13-247)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Cyclic homology, $cdh$-cohomology and negative $K$-theory.
    G Corti\~nas, Universidad de Valladolid
    C Haesemeyer, University of Illinois
    M Schlichting, Louisiana State University
    C Weibel*, Rutgers University
    (1011-19-63)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis of Partial Differential and Integral Equations, IV
  Room 232, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Congming Li, University of Colorado Congming.Li@colorado.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A parabolic equation with coefficients in a new Kato type class.
    Qi S. Zhang*, Math. Dept. University of California Riverside
    (1011-35-293)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Isolated Singularities of Nonlinear Elliptic Inequalities.
    Steven D. Taliaferro*, Texas A&M University
    (1011-35-72)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ramified transportation and the formation of tree leaves.
    Qinglan Xia*, University of California at Davis
    (1011-49-318)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Global Well-Posedness of Some PDEs of Fluid Type.
    Tom Hou, CalTech
    Congming Li*, Applied Math, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
    (1011-35-69)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Vorticity and Regularity of Viscous 3D Incompressible Flows.
    Ning Ju*, Oklahoma State University
    (1011-35-18)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Stability of Traveling wave solutions of Nonlinear Reaction Diffusion Equations.
    Xiao-Jie Hou, The University of Cincinnati
    Yi Li*, University of Iowa
    (1011-35-386)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Research, IV
  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.
    Sampled-Data Stabilization of a Beam Equation.
    Jonas Azzam, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Jesse Windle*, University of Texas-Austin
    (1011-93-309)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Alexander Quandle Identification.
    Gabriel Murillo*, University of California, Riverside
    Sam Nelson, University of California, Riverside
    Anthony Thompson, University of California, Riverside
    (1011-55-341)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Twist Number for Graphs.
    Thomas Albertson*, California State University, Long Beach
    (1011-05-312)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Genetic Algorithm For the Minimum Tollbooth Problem.
    Corby Harwood*, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA
    (1011-90-335)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Virtually cyclic subgroups of three-dimensional crystallographic groups.
    Andrew Gainer*, Mercer University, Macon, GA
    Lisa Lackney, University of Akron
    Katelyn Parker, Wellesley College
    (1011-20-332)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Pebbling Number for Graphs.
    Joyce Charlesworth, Warren-Wilson College
    Theang Ho*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Brian Keinath, Central Michigan University
    David Lin, Princeton University
    (1011-05-338)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, IV
  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.
    Set theoretic complete intersection of ideals in a regular affine algebra.
    Ze Min Zeng*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1011-13-185)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generators for vector bundles.
    Mohan Kumar Neithalath, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis MO
    A. P. Rao, University of Missouri -St. Louis
    Ravindra V Girivaru*, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis MO
    (1011-14-221)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Jacobian Conjecture as a Problem in Combinatorics.
    David L Wright*, Washington University
    (1011-14-196)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Minimal Separators of fat points in $\mathbb{P}^n$.
    Elena Guardo*, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica - Catania - Italy
    Lucia Marino, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica - Catania - Italy
    (1011-14-265)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Green-Griffiths-Kobayashi conjectures on algebraic degeneracy.
    Karen Anne Chandler*, University of Missouri - St. Louis
    Pit-Mann Wong, University of Notre Dame
    (1011-13-364)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Scattering and Spectral Problems in Geometry, IV
  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.
    Determinant of Laplacian associated to a Kleinian group.
    Andrew McIntyre*, Centre de recherches math\'ematiques
    (1011-58-350)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Linearized boundary distance rigidity problem and Dirichlet-to-Neumann map.
    Vladimir A. Sharafutdinov*, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
    (1011-58-139)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Operator Algebras, IV
  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.
    A Contractive MASA Bimodule Projection Whose Range Is Not a Sub-TRO.
    Vern Ival Paulsen*, Mathematics Department, University of Houston
    (1011-47-267)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Operator Quantum Error Correction.
    David W Kribs*, Institute for Quantum Computing and University of Guelph
    (1011-81-121)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An additive formula for invariant subspaces and their complements.
    Xiang Fang*, Kansas State University
    (1011-47-154)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Covariant Poisson structures on complex Grassmannians.
    A. Sheu*, University of Kansas
    N. Ciccoli, Universit/'a di Perugia
    (1011-53-313)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    ${Z}^{2}$-actions and semicrossed products.
    Justin R. Peters*, Iowa State University
    (1011-47-65)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Fock space techniques in tensor algebras of directed graphs.
    Alvaro Arias*, University of Denver
    (1011-46-120)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Group Theory and Semigroup Theory, IV
  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.
    What properties do groups of random knots have?
    Paul Schupp*, University of Illinois
    Kari Barkley, Lafayette College
    (1011-20-274)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ends for Monoids and Semigroups.
    Vesna Kilibarda*, Indiana University Northwest
    David A. Jackson, Saint Louis University
    (1011-20-27)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A criterion for property FA$_n$.
    Angela K. Barnhill*, The Ohio State University
    (1011-20-331)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Artin groups in a continuous context.
    Jon McCammond*, UC Santa Barbara
    (1011-20-169)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rewriting systems and orderings on Artin monoids.
    Patrick Bahls*, The University of North Carolina, Asheville
    Tyler Smith, Vanderbilt University
    (1011-20-246)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Minimal Splittings of Coxeter Groups.
    Michael L Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
    Steve Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
    (1011-20-285)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
  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.
    Multidecomposition of the Complete Graph with Various Leaves.
    Atif Abueida*, University of Dayton
    (1011-05-305)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ranks of Complements of Graphs.
    Gayla S Domke*, Purdue University North Central
    George J Davis, Georgia State University
    Charles R Garner, Rockdale County High School
    (1011-05-351)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial structures with regular (full) automorphism group.
    Robert Jajcay*, Indiana State University
    (1011-05-358)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hamilton paths in cubic Cayley graphs.
    Henry H Glover*, Ohio State University
    Dragan Maru\v si\v c, IMFM, University of Ljubljana
    (1011-05-190)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Local $3$-colorings of complete graphs.
    Steven Klee, Valparaiso University
    Daniel Menna, Valparaiso University
    Amy Palash, Valparaiso University
    Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo*, Valparaiso University
    William Young, Valparaiso University
    (1011-05-242)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Differential Equations, IV
  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.
    Moving Frames for Lie Pseudo-groups.
    Peter J. Olver*, University of Minnesota
    (1011-58-31)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Variational Calculus in Moving Frames.
    Irina A Kogan*, North Carolina State University
    Ian Anderson, Utah State University
    (1011-53-71)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Shallow water equation on a symplectic submanifold and solutions.
    Zhijun George Qiao*, University of Texas - Pan American
    (1011-35-85)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Geometric Invariant Theory on Killing Tensors.
    Roman Smirnov*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University
    (1011-53-343)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Representations of low-dimensional Lie algebras.
    Ryad A Ghanam*, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
    (1011-53-214)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory of Noetherian Rings, III
  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
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mixed Polynomial/Power Series Rings and Relations among their Spectra.
    William Heinzer*, Purdue University
    Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
    Sylvia Wiegand, University of Nebraska
    (1011-13-68)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Generic Rings for Local Cohomology.
    Raymond C Heitmann*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1011-13-276)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The core of ideals in arbitrary characteristic.
    Louiza Fouli*, Purdue University
    (1011-13-257)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Integrally closed overrings of two-dimensional Noetherian domains.
    Bruce Olberding*, New Mexico State University
    (1011-13-223)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Rings cofinite in their Henselization.
    Peter Vamos*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Exeter, UK
    (1011-13-311)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Engineering Aspects of Coding Theory, IV
  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.
    Duality Theory for Space-Time Codes over Finite Fields.
    David Grant*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Mahesh K Varanasi, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1011-94-291)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    McEliece Theorems for Cyclic Codes over Galois Rings.
    Daniel J. Katz*, Princeton University, Department of Mathematics
    (1011-05-253)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    s-Extremal Additive GF(4) Codes.
    Jon-Lark Kim*, University of Louisville
    Judy Walker, University of Nebraska -- Lincoln
    (1011-94-289)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Self-Dual Codes over $Z_8$ and $Z_9$.
    Steven Dougherty, University of Scranton
    Aaron Gulliver*, University of Victoria
    (1011-94-144)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Invariant-based Face Recognition.
    Nigel Boston*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1011-22-283)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  LDPC codes and their pseudocodewords.
  Room 115, Burnett Hall
  Judy L. Walker*, University of Nebraska
  (1011-94-315)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Control of Partial Differential Equations, V
  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
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A discontinuous solution for the time-dependent compressible Navier-Stokes system in a bounded domain.
    Minsu Song*, Department of Mathematics,Pohang University of Science and Technology,Korea
    (1011-35-28)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Computation of controllable pairs in discretizations of the Schroedinger equation.
    Katherine A. Kime*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney NE 68849
    (1011-93-162)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some controllability results for parabolic equations by means of multiplicative and nonnegative additive controls of local support.
    Alexander Y Khapalov*, Washington State University
    Luis Alberto Fernandez, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
    (1011-93-324)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Calculus of Variations, V
  Room 203, Burnett Hall
  Organizers:
  Mikil Foss, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mfoss@math.unl.edu
  Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University giovanni@andrew.cmu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The structure of spaces of maps into homogeneous spaces.
    Dave Auckly*, Kansas State University
    Lev Kapitanski, University of Miami
    (1011-58-24)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homogeneous spaces and Faddeev-Skyrme model.
    Sergiy V. Koshkin*, Kansas State University
    (1011-58-275)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamic Equations on Time Scales, I
  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
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Positive solutions of the nonlinear semipositone Sturm-Liouville problem on time scales.
    Nickolai Kosmatov*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    (1011-34-362)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discrete Solutions of Basic Diffusion Equations.
    Andreas Dr. Ruffing, Technical University Munich, Germany
    Maria Meiler*, Technical University Munich, Germany
    (1011-00-346)
• Sunday October 23, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Group Theory and Semigroup Theory, V
  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
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Embeddings of right-angled Artin groups into graph braid groups.
    Lucas A Sabalka*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1011-20-125)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Simultaneous Conjugacy Problem for Thompson's Group $F$ is Solvable.
    Francesco Matucci*, Cornell University
    Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
    (1011-20-128)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Homotopy Classification of 1-Relator Groups.
    Jens Harlander*, Western Kentucky University
    Jaqueline A Jensen, Sam Houston State University
    (1011-20-383)

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