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2005 Spring Western Section Meeting
Santa Barbara, CA, April 16-17, 2005
Meeting #1007

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

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Saturday April 16, 2005

• Saturday April 16, 2005, 7:15 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Foyer, Girvetz Hall
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 7:15 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Foyer, Girvetz Hall
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Curvature in Group Theory and Combinatorics, I
  Room 2119, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Laura M. Anderson, State University of New York at Binghamton laura@math.binghamton.edu
  Noel Patrick Brady, University of Oklahoma nbrady@math.ou.edu
  Robin Forman, Rice University forman@math.rice.edu
  Jonathan P. McCammond, University of California Santa Barbara jon.mccammond@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Nested set complexes and spaces of trees.
    Eva-Maria E. Feichtner*, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
    (1007-51-215)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Bergman Complex of a Matroid.
    Caroline Klivans*, University of Chicago
    (1007-05-221)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    CAT(0) Cubical Complexes in Group Theory.
    Michah Sageev*, Technion
    (1007-20-217)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Action of Thompson's Group on a CAT(0) Boundary.
    Daniel S Farley*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1007-20-208)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discrete Morse Theory and Hom complexes.
    Dmitry N Kozlov*, ETH-Zurich
    (1007-05-216)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discrete Morse theory and graph braid groups.
    Lucas Sabalka*, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1007-20-157)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, I
  Room 2120, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander Yong, University of California Berkeley ayong@math.berkeley.edu
  Allen Knutson, University of California Berkeley allenk@math.berkeley.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Polyhedral geometry in the McKay correspondence.
    Diane Maclagan*, Rutgers University
    (1007-14-197)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stanley's convolution and Koszul duality for dual affine toric varieties.
    Tom Braden*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Valery Lunts, Indiana University
    (1007-14-149)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ehrhart polynomials and stringy Betti numbers.
    Mircea Mustata, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    Sam Payne*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1007-14-228)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for hypertoric varieties.
    Ben T Webster*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1007-14-199)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Syzygies, multigraded regularity and toric varieties.
    Milena Hering*, University of Michigan
    Hal Schenck, Texas A&M University
    Greg Smith, Queens University, Ontario
    (1007-14-163)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Cohomology of rational forms on toric varieties.
    Anvar Mavlyutov*, Oklahoma State University
    (1007-14-203)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Automorphisms of Surfaces, I
  Room 1116, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Anthony Weaver, Bronx Community College of the City University of New York aweaver436@aol.com
  Peter Turbek, Purdue University Calumet turbek@calumet.purdue.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Automorphism groups of compact Riemann surfaces.
    Gareth A. Jones*, University of Southampton
    (1007-20-182)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hyperelliptic Handlebodies.
    Jane Gilman*, Rutgers-Newark
    Linda Keen, Lehman College, CUNY
    (1007-20-92)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Trigonal Riemann surfaces with non-unique morphisms.
    Milagros Izquierdo*, Link\"opings Universitet, Link\"oping, Sweden
    Antonio Costa, UNED, Madrid, Spain
    Daniel Ying, Link\"opings Universitet
    (1007-20-102)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hyperelliptic curves with reduced automorphism group $A_5$.
    Tony Shaska*, University of Idaho
    David Sevilla, Dpt. of Math., Stat. and Comput., University of Cantabria
    (1007-14-108)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Ramified normal coverings of hyperelliptic Klein surfaces.
    Emilio Bujalance, Department of Pure Mathematics, UNED, Spain
    Francisco-Javier Cirre*, Department of Pure Mathematics, UNED, Spain
    Jose-Manuel Gamboa, Department of Algebra, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
    (1007-14-138)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Three Dimensions, I
  Room 1115, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Daryl Cooper, University of California Santa Barbara cooper@math.ucsb.edu
  David Darren Long, University of California Santa Barbara long@math.ucsb.edu
  Martin G. Scharlemann, University of California Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Finiteness of $3$-manifolds via non-zero degree mappings.
    J. Hyam Rubinstein*, Currently visiting UCDavis. Davis, Calfiornia 95616
    Michel Boileau, Toulouse University
    Shicheng Wang, Beijing University
    (1007-57-67)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of foliations.
    Sergio R Fenley*, Florida State University
    (1007-57-85)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Heegaard splittings and virtual fibers.
    Joseph Maher*, California Institute of Technology
    (1007-57-63)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Does a random 3-manifold fiber over the circle?
    Nathan M Dunfield*, Caltech
    Dylan P. Thurston, Harvard
    (1007-57-95)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Thin position of knots and 3-manifolds.
    Jennifer C Schultens*, University of California at Davis
    Hugh Howards, Wake Forest University
    (1007-57-100)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Physics, I
  Room 1112, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Xianzhe Dai, University of California Santa Barbara dai@math.ucsb.edu
  Zhiqin Lu, University of California Irvine zlu@math.uci.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Ideal boundary conditions, intersection cohomology and Leray spectral sequences.
    Eugenie Hunsicker*, Lawrence University
    (1007-58-69)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Constructing solutions to the Einstein constraint equations.
    Daniel Pollack*, University of Washington
    (1007-83-135)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Boundary Effects in Static Vacuum Initial Data Sets.
    Pengzi Miao*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1007-83-97)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symmetries of the m-hypergeometric function.
    Oleg A. Gleizer*, Los Angeles, California
    (1007-33-25)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Ricci Flow/Riemannian Geometry, I
  Room 1119, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Guofang Wei, University of California Santa Barbara wei@math.ucsb.edu
  Rugang Ye, University of California Santa Barbara yer@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On modified Ricci flow and modified Calabi flow.
    Zhuang-dan Daniel Guan*, University of California at Riverside
    (1007-35-84)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Linear and dynamical stability of Ricci flat metrics.
    Natasa Sesum*, Courant Institute
    (1007-53-91)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Wasserstein space and Ricci flow.
    John Lott*, University of Michigan
    (1007-58-105)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, I
  Room 2123, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Adebisi Agboola, University of California Santa Barbara agboola@math.ucsb.edu
  Cristian Dumitru Popescu, University of California San Diego cpopescu@math.ucsd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Equivariant Tamagawa Number Conjecture for Elliptic Curves.
    Tejaswi Navilarekallu*, California Institute of Technology
    (1007-11-246)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Equivariant Tamagawa Number Conjecture for Abelian Extensions of Imaginary Quadratic Fields.
    Jennifer Michelle Johnson*, California Institute of Technology
    (1007-11-240)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Tamagawa Number Conjecture for modular forms.
    Matthew T Gealy*, California Institute of Technology
    (1007-11-158)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Variations on a Theme of Stark.
    Stefan Erickson*, University of California, San Diego
    (1007-11-120)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer for elliptic curves with complex multiplication by a nonmaximal order.
    Jason A. Colwell*, University of California, San Diego
    (1007-11-82)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience, I
  Room 2115, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Eugene M. Izhikevich, The Neurosciences Institute Eugene.Izhikevich@nsi.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Epineuronal Memory.
    Frank Hoppensteadt*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
    (1007-92-31)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Delays and noise in neural control.
    John G Milton*, The Claremont Colleges
    (1007-92-35)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Presynaptic switching: the dynamical neuromodulator-controlled synapse.
    Gabriele Scheler*, ISLE
    (1007-92-44)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Role of network dynamics in shaping spike timing reliability.
    Maxim Bazhenov*, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
    Nikolai Rulkov, Institite for Nonlinear Science, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
    (1007-92-40)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Combinatorial Number Theory, I
  Room 2127, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Mei-Chu Chang, University of California Riverside mcc@math.ucr.edu
  Van Ha Vu, University of California San Diego vanvu@ucsd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Weighted Version of the Erd\"{o}s-Ginzburg-Ziv Theorem.
    David Joseph Grynkiewicz*, Caltech
    (1007-05-19)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Representation functions of additive bases.
    Melvyn B. Nathanson*, City University of New York (Lehman College and the Graduate Center)
    (1007-11-75)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymmetric Representation Functions That are Always Even.
    Kevin O'Bryant*, University of California, San Diego
    Joshua N. Cooper, Courant Institute of Mathematics, NYU
    Dennis Eichhorn, California State University, East Bay
    (1007-05-214)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry and Algebra, I
  Room 2129, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California Santa Barbara goodearl@math.ucsb.edu
  J. T. Stafford, University of Michigan jts@umich.edu
  J. J. Zhang, University of Washington zhang@math.washington.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    noncommutative geometry and quiver algebras.
    William Crawley-Boevey, University of Leeds
    Pavel Etingof, MIT
    Victor Ginzburg*, University of Chicago
    (1007-16-115)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rational Cherednik algebras and Hilbert schemes of points.
    I. Gordon, Glasgow University
    J. T. Stafford*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1007-16-160)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Deformed wreath products of preprojective algebras and their reflection functors.
    Wee Liang Gan*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1007-16-66)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Shift Operators and Quasi-Invariants for Complex Reflection Groups.
    Yuri Berest*, Cornell University
    Oleg Chalykh, University of Leeds
    (1007-16-200)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Brauer groups and resolutions of V/G (joint work with T. Petrov).
    Vladimir Baranovsky*, UC Irvine
    Tihomir Petrov, UC Irvine
    (1007-18-103)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory of Algebras (in Honor of Claus Michael Ringel), I
  Room 2128, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University a.martsinkovsky@neu.edu
  Dan Zacharia, Syracuse University zacharia@syr.edu
  Birge K. Huisgen-Zimmermann, University of California Santa Barbara birge@math.ucsb.edu
  Edward L. Green, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University green@math.vt.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hochschild cohomology of algebras with homological ideals.
    J. A. de la Pe\~na*, Instituto de Matem\'aticas, UNAM
    Ch. Xi, Dept. of Mathematics, Beijing Normal University
    (1007-18-193)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Diagram cohomology and deformations.
    Anthony Giaquinto*, Loyola University Chicago
    (1007-16-202)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Derived discrete artin algebras and generic complexes.
    Raymundo Bautista*, Instituto de Matematicas (Morelia) Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    (1007-16-133)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Algebras with smallest resolutions of simple modules.
    Mark Kleiner*, Syracuse University
    Shashidhar Jagadeeshan, Centre for Learning, Bangalore, India
    (1007-16-201)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Graded and Koszul Categories.
    Roberto Martinez-Villa*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM, Unidad Morlia,
    Oeyvind Solberg, Trondheim University
    (1007-16-125)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
  Room 2108, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University San Bernardino mcmurran@math.csusb.edu
  James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gerbert, Pythagoras, and the Chromatic Scale.
    M. Elizabeth Mayfield*, Hood College
    (1007-01-59)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Foundations of Statistics in American Textbooks: Probability and Pedagogy in Historical Context.
    Patti W Hunter*, Westmont College
    (1007-01-145)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    James Joseph Sylvester: A Jewish Mathematician in Victorian England.
    Karen V. H. Parshall*, University of Virginia
    (1007-01-72)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Complexity of Computation and Algorithms, I
  Room 2116, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Complexity, Provability and Incompleteness.
    Cristian S. Calude*, University of Auckland
    (1007-03-23)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Ockham, Complexity, and Truth.
    Kevin T. Kelly*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1007-68-141)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Advances in advancing interfaces: New techniques for propagating fronts in wave propagation and materials sciences.
  Room 1004, Girvetz Hall
  James Sethian*, University of California Berkeley
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Set addition and set multiplication.
  Room 1004, Girvetz Hall
  Mei-Chu Chang*, University of California, Riverside
  (1007-05-118)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Complexity of Computation and Algorithms, II
  Room 2116, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Complexity of information extraction in logical semantics.
    Jaakko Hintikka*, Boston University
    (1007-03-62)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Average-Case Complexity Bounds for Continuous Global Optimization.
    James M. Calvin*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1007-68-36)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Multivariate Linear Problems with Finite-Order Weights.
    Grzegorz W Wasilkowski*, Department of Computer Sience, University of Kentucky
    (1007-65-56)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    More General Machine Learners Yield More Complex or Information-Poor Learned Programs.
    John Case*, CIS Dept., Univ.~of Delaware, Newark, DE
    Keh-Jian Chen, Inst.~of Info.~Science, Academica Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
    Sanjay Jain, SOC, National University of Singapore, ROS
    Wolfgang Merkle, Math.~Institut, Universitaet Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
    James Royer, Dept.~of E. E. \& CS, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
    (1007-03-15)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Circuit Principles and Weak Pigeonhole Variants.
    Christopher J Pollett*, San Jose State University
    Norman Danner, Wesleyan University
    (1007-68-26)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Curvature in Group Theory and Combinatorics, II
  Room 2119, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Laura M. Anderson, State University of New York at Binghamton laura@math.binghamton.edu
  Noel Patrick Brady, University of Oklahoma nbrady@math.ou.edu
  Robin Forman, Rice University forman@math.rice.edu
  Jonathan P. McCammond, University of California Santa Barbara jon.mccammond@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Injections of Artin groups.
    Robert W Bell*, University of Utah
    Dan Margalit, University of Utah
    (1007-20-198)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the homotopy classification of aspherical groups.
    Jens Harlander*, Western Kentucky University
    Jacqueline Jensen, Sam Houston State University
    (1007-57-241)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Rigid Combinatorial Sphere Theorem.
    Aaron D. Trout*, Rice University Department of Mathematics
    (1007-52-194)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Dehn surgery theorem for relatively hyperbolic groups.
    Daniel P Groves*, California Institute of Technology
    Jason F. Manning, California Institute of Technology
    (1007-20-175)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The intersection form and geodesic currents on free groups.
    Ilya Kapovich*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1007-20-162)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Symmetric join functor.
    Igor Mineyev*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1007-20-205)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Function Theory, I
  Room 2112, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Mihai Putinar, University of California Santa Barbara mputinar@math.ucsb.edu
  Stephan R. Garcia, University of California Santa Barbara garcias@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Finite mappings of essentially finite CR manifolds.
    Peter Ebenfelt*, University of California at San Diego
    Linda Rothschild, University of California at San Diego
    (1007-32-191)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Finite jet determination of biholomorphisms.
    Gabriela Putinar*, UC Santa Barbara
    (1007-32-251)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Riemann zeta function associated to a sub-Laplacian.
    Song-Ying Li*, University of California at Irvine
    (1007-32-144)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Properties of extremal functions and applications.
    Marshall A Whittlesey*, California State University San Marcos
    (1007-32-150)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The numerical range of a nilpotent n-tuple of operators.
    Linda J Patton*, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
    Mihai Putinar, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1007-47-187)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, II
  Room 2123, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Adebisi Agboola, University of California Santa Barbara agboola@math.ucsb.edu
  Cristian Dumitru Popescu, University of California San Diego cpopescu@math.ucsd.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the mu-part of the anticyclotomic main conjecture for elliptic curves.
    Robert Pollack*, Boston University
    (1007-11-167)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Parity Conjecture of Elliptic Curves and Algebraic Functional Equations at Primes with Supersingular Reduction.
    B.D. (Byoung-du) Kim*, Stanford University
    (1007-11-28)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Closed geodesics on modular curves, and the rank 0 Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture over real quadratic fields.
    Alexandru A. Popa*, Princeton University
    (1007-11-142)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Moduli spaces of p-divisible groups.
    Elena Mantovan*, UC Berkeley
    (1007-11-128)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Minimal Degree Liftings of Hyperelliptic Curves in Characteristic 2.
    Luis Finotti*, Ohio State University
    (1007-11-98)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Symmetric Powers of families of $L$-functions.
    C. Douglas Haessig*, University of California, Irvine
    (1007-11-18)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, II
  Room 2120, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander Yong, University of California Berkeley ayong@math.berkeley.edu
  Allen Knutson, University of California Berkeley allenk@math.berkeley.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Almost-commuting variety, D-modules, and Cherednik Algebras.
    Wee Liang Gan, MIT
    Victor Ginzburg*, University of Chicago
    (1007-14-114)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tropical Compactifications.
    Jenia Tevelev*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1007-14-107)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mirkovic-Vilonen cycles and polytopes.
    Joel Kamnitzer*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1007-14-89)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Generalized double affine Hecke algebras of rank 1 and quantized Del Pezzo surfaces.
    Pavel Etingof, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Alexei Oblomkov*, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Eric Rains, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
    (1007-16-206)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Horn systems and binomial ideals.
    Laura Felicia Matusevich*, University of Pennsylvania
    Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    (1007-14-181)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On Demazure modules of affine SL(n).
    Peter Magyar*, Michigan State University
    (1007-05-244)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience, II
  Room 2115, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Eugene M. Izhikevich, The Neurosciences Institute Eugene.Izhikevich@nsi.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Simple Model of Spiking Neurons.
    Eugene M Izhikevich*, The Neurosciences Institute
    (1007-92-37)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cortical Neuronal Attractor Network Modules are the Information Processing Units of Human Cognition.
    Robert Hecht-Nielsen*, Computational Neurobiology UCSD
    (1007-92-16)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
  Room 2108, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University San Bernardino mcmurran@math.csusb.edu
  James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mathematics at West Point in the Mid Twentieth Century.
    V. Frederick Rickey*, United States Military Academy
    (1007-01-140)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Thomas Harriot's communication of mathematics via symbols, tables, and page layout.
    Janet L. Beery*, University of Redlands
    (1007-01-121)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The National Academy of Sciences Unfit for `Linear Associative Algebra'?
    Deborah A. Kent*, University of Virginia
    (1007-01-172)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Development of the Tree Method in Logic from 1934 to 1968.
    Francine F. Abeles*, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Kean University
    (1007-01-77)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Contributions by Women to Nineteenth Century American Mathematical Journals.
    James J Tattersall*, Providence College
    Shawnee L McMurran, California State University, San Bernardino
    (1007-01-165)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Combinatorial Number Theory, II
  Room 2127, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Mei-Chu Chang, University of California Riverside mcc@math.ucr.edu
  Van Ha Vu, University of California San Diego vanvu@ucsd.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Long range inverse techniques.
    Van Vu*, University of California at San Diego
    (1007-05-49)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Sets with Few Three-term Arithmetic Progressions Contain Long Arithmetic Progressions.
    Ernest S Croot*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1007-11-237)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    An information theoretic approach to hypergraph regularity.
    Terence C Tao*, UCLA
    (1007-05-94)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Automorphisms of Surfaces, II
  Room 1116, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Anthony Weaver, Bronx Community College of the City University of New York aweaver436@aol.com
  Peter Turbek, Purdue University Calumet turbek@calumet.purdue.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Real Belyi Theory and dessins d'enfants on Klein surfaces,.
    David Singerman*, University of Southampton
    Bernhard Koeck, University of Southampton
    (1007-30-80)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Alternating groups as $M$*-groups.
    Ernesto Martinez*, Dpto. de Matematicas Fundamentales. Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia
    Jose Javier Etayo, Dpto. de Algebra, Universidad Complutense
    (1007-20-139)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Genus parameters and sizings of finite groups.
    Thomas W. Tucker*, Colgate University
    (1007-20-146)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Exceptional points in the elliptic-hyperelliptic locus.
    Anthony Weaver*, Bronx Community College of the City University of New York
    (1007-14-164)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Enumeration of the Equisymmetric Strata of the Moduli Space of Surfaces of Low Genus.
    Sean A Broughton*, Rose-Hulman Instititue of Technology
    (1007-14-184)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry and Algebra, II
  Room 2129, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California Santa Barbara goodearl@math.ucsb.edu
  J. T. Stafford, University of Michigan jts@umich.edu
  J. J. Zhang, University of Washington zhang@math.washington.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hilbert Schemes, Perverse Bundles and D-Bundles.
    David Ben-Zvi*, U. Texas Austin
    Thomas Nevins, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Victor Ginzburg, U. Chicago
    (1007-14-159)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Chern classes of singular varieties.
    Thomas Nevins*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1007-14-127)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The action of the general linear group on the universal division algebra.
    Zinovy Reichstein, University of British Columbia
    Nikolaus Vonessen*, University of Montana
    (1007-16-147)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Cohen-Macaulay property of multiplicative invariants.
    Martin Lorenz*, Temple University
    (1007-16-124)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Categories, Monoids and Geometry.
    Gary Brookfield*, CalStateLA
    (1007-16-173)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Duality for finite Hopf algebras explained by corings.
    Stefaan Caenepeel, Free University Brussels (VUB)
    Declan Quinn, Syracuse University
    Serban Raianu*, California State University Dominguez Hills
    (1007-16-104)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Three Dimensions, II
  Room 1115, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Daryl Cooper, University of California Santa Barbara cooper@math.ucsb.edu
  David Darren Long, University of California Santa Barbara long@math.ucsb.edu
  Martin G. Scharlemann, University of California Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Surgery formulas for Heegaard Floer homology and applications.
    Peter S Ozsvath*, UC Berkeley
    (1007-57-168)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Deforming closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Daryl Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara
    D. Darren Long, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Morwen Thistlethwaite*, University of Tennessee
    (1007-57-71)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Arithmetic knots in integral homology 3-spheres.
    Mark D. Baker*, Universite Rennes 1
    Alan W. Reid, University of Texas
    (1007-57-219)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    All roots of unity are detected by the A-polynomial.
    Eric B. Chesebro*, University of Texas - Austin
    (1007-57-96)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Slender Knots.
    Abigail Thompson*, UC Davis
    Martin Scharlemann, UCSB
    (1007-57-156)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory of Algebras (in Honor of Claus Michael Ringel), II
  Room 2128, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University a.martsinkovsky@neu.edu
  Dan Zacharia, Syracuse University zacharia@syr.edu
  Birge K. Huisgen-Zimmermann, University of California Santa Barbara birge@math.ucsb.edu
  Edward L. Green, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University green@math.vt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Set-theoretic methods in tilting theory.
    Paul C. Eklof*, University of California, Irvine
    (1007-16-130)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On tame cluster algebras.
    Thomas Br\"ustle*, Bishop's and Université de Sherbrooke
    (1007-16-179)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    One parameter families of modules for tame algebras.
    Rita Zuazua*, IMATE-Morelia
    (1007-16-222)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Extension of an algebra by a representation-finite algebra and the extension form.
    J. A. de la Pe\~na, Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM
    B, Tom\'e*, Depto. de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM
    (1007-16-192)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A note on stable equivalences of Morita type.
    Alex S Dugas*, UC Berkeley
    Roberto Martinez Villa, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM, Unidad Morelia
    (1007-16-227)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Tilting objects in abelian categories and quasitilted rings.
    Riccardo Colpi, Università di Padova
    Kent R Fuller*, University of Iowa
    (1007-16-183)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Physics, II
  Room 1112, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Xianzhe Dai, University of California Santa Barbara dai@math.ucsb.edu
  Zhiqin Lu, University of California Irvine zlu@math.uci.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Elliptic operators on locally symmetric spaces.
    Rafe Mazzeo*, Stanford University
    (1007-58-112)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    New K\"ahler-Einstein metrics on almost homogeneous manifolds, Calabi flows and extremal solitons.
    Zhuang-dan Daniel Guan*, University of California at Riverside
    (1007-53-83)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Conformal gap theorems and finiteness theorems.
    Alice Chang, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
    Jie Qing*, Department of Mathematics, UCSC
    Paul Yang, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
    (1007-53-195)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Ricci Flow/Riemannian Geometry, II
  Room 1119, Girvetz Hall
  Organizers:
  Guofang Wei, University of California Santa Barbara wei@math.ucsb.edu
  Rugang Ye, University of California Santa Barbara yer@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A parabolic relative volume comparison theorem.
    Lei Ni*, UCSD
    (1007-58-93)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Positivity of Ricci curvature under the K\"ahler--Ricci flow.
    Dan F Knopf*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1007-53-52)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Ricci flow on homogeneous 4-manifolds.
    James Isenberg, Univ of Oregon
    Martin Jackson, University of Puget Sound
    Peng Lu*, Univ of Oregon
    (1007-53-54)
• Saturday April 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 2124, Girvetz Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Cantor Limit Set of a Topological Transformation Group on $S^1$.
    Ke-ying Guan*, Science College, Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R.China
    Zuming Chen, Science College, Beijing Univ. of Aero.& Astro.
    (1007-52-99)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The smooth irreducible representations of U(2).
    Manouchehr Misaghian*, Department of Mathematics, Johnson C. Smith University
    (1007-11-106)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Self-Conjugate $t-$Core Partitions and $p-$Blocks of $A_{n}$.
    John Baldwin, Columbia University
    Melissa Depwig, Sonoma State University
    Ben Ford, Sonoma State University
    Abe Kunin, MIT
    Lawrence Sze*, California Polytechnic State University
    (1007-05-247)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Sums of Powers of Arithmetic Progressions.
    Hung-ping Tsao*, Novato, California
    (1007-11-61)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Weakly periodic-like rings and commutativity.
    Adil Yaqub*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1007-16-60)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Approximate Solutions to Some Inverse Problems.
    Rod Freed*, California State University at Dominguez Hills
    (1007-47-236)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Another solution of the Gaussian white noise driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck equation.
    Byung Soo Moon*, Utah State University
    (1007-65-151)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Reduction of Media-interactive Flow Equations of Burgers Type to Driven Diffusion Equations.
    Roy B. Leipnik*, University of California at Santa Barbara
    (1007-76-73)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Complexity of grammars with prohibition.
    Mark Burgin*, UCLA
    (1007-03-55)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The $2$-Dog Group.
    Richard P. Kubelka*, San Jose State University
    (1007-20-87)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Equivalent Endomorphism Rings arising from Morita Contexts.
    Pham Ngoc Anh, Alfred Renyi Mathematical Institute
    Michael F Siddoway*, Colorado College
    (1007-13-113)

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