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2005 Fall Western Section Meeting
Eugene, OR, November 11-13, 2005
Meeting #1012

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

Saturday November 12, 2005

Saturday November 12, 2005, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Room 240B, McKenzie Hall

Saturday November 12, 2005, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Room 240B, McKenzie Hall

Saturday November 12, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Wavelets, Frames, and Related Expansions, III
Room 129, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Marcin Bownik, University of Oregon mbownik@uoregon.edu
Darrin M. Speegle, St. Louis University speegled@slu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Causality and Frame Theory.
  Troy L. Henderson*, United States Military Academy - West Point
  David R. Larson, Texas A&M University
  (1012-46-185)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On some Fourier multipliers for modulation spaces.
  Kasso A Okoudjou*, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
  (1012-42-52)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Wavelets and Radon Transform.
  Gestur Olafsson*, Louisiana State University
  Boris Rubin, Louisiana State University
  Elena Ournycheva, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
  (1012-42-127)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Admissible Vectors for $F(n)\ltimes SO(n)$.
  Tom McNamara*, Saint Louis University
  (1012-43-170)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Characterization of MRA Riesz Wavelet Bases and Exponential Decay of Refinable Functions.
  Bin Han*, University of Alberta
  (1012-42-54)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A projective multiresolution analysis corresponding to the quincunx lattice.
  Judith A. Packer*, University of Colorado at Boulder
  (1012-46-108)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on New Directions in Spectral Theory and Geometric Analysis, I
Room 214, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Leon Friedlander, University of Arizona friedlan@math.arizona.edu
Patrick McDonald, New College of Florida ptm@virtu.sar.usf.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Determinants of zeroth order pseudodifferential operators.
  Victor W Guillemin*, M.I.T.
  Leonid Freidlander, University of Arizona
  (1012-58-154)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Exotic expansions and pathological properties of zeta-functions on conic manifolds.
  Paul Loya*, SUNY Binghamton
  Klaus Kirsten, Baylor University
  Jinsung Park, Korean Institute of Advanced Study
  (1012-58-56)
- 10:00 a.m.
  $\zeta$-regularized determinants on manifolds with conical singularities.
  Klaus Kirsten*, Baylor University
  Paul Loya, Binghamton University
  Jinsung Park, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
  (1012-58-110)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Resolutions, I
Room 301, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Christopher Alan Francisco, University of Missouri chrisf@math.missouri.edu
Irena Peeva, Cornell University ivp1@cornell.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Resolutions of De Concini-Procesi ideals indexed by hooks.
  Riccardo Biagioli, Lyon, France
  Sara Faridi*, Dalhousie University, Canada
  Mercedes Rosas, Seville, Spain
  (1012-13-149)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Homological properties of multigraded modules.
  Alexandre B. Tchernev*, University at Albany, SUNY
  (1012-13-169)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some monomial ideals associated to simplicial complexes.
  Mauricio F Velasco*, Cornell University
  (1012-13-182)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Bounds on Projective Dimension.
  Bahman Engheta*, University of California Riverside
  (1012-13-210)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Bigraded algebra and incomplete linear systems on $\mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1$.
  David A Cox, Amherst College
  Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  Hal Schenck*, Texas A&M University
  (1012-13-31)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Toward a numerical theory for the Betti numbers of ideals of fat points.
  A Gimigliano, Mathematics Department, University of Bologna
  B Harbourne*, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  M Ida, Mathematics Department, University of Bologna
  (1012-14-73)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra and Noncommutative Birational Geometry, I
Room 240A, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Arkady Dmitrievich Berenstein, University of Oregon arkadiy@math.uoregon.edu
Vladimir Retakh, Rutgers University vretakh@math.rutgers.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Restricted Kirillov Reshetikhin modules.
  Vyjayanthi Chari*, University of California, Riverside
  Adriano A. Moura, University of Campinas
  (1012-17-43)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Free Lie algebras and representations of current algebras.
  Vyjayanthi Chari, University of California Riverside
  Jacob Greenstein*, University of California Riverside
  (1012-17-86)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Crystal structure on rigged configurations.
  Anne Schilling*, UC Davis
  (1012-17-38)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion

Saturday November 12, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Representations of Groups and Algebras, I
Room 306, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Jonathan W. Brundan, University of Oregon brundan@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Alexander S. Kleshchev, University of Oregon klesh@math.uoregon.edu
Viktor Ostrik, University of Oregon vostrik@math.uoregon.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Algebras arising from quivers with loops.
  Yiqiang Li*, Kansas State Uinversity
  Zongzhu Lin, Kansas State University
  (1012-81-65)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Images of braid group representations factoring over BMW-algebras.
  Eric C. Rowell*, Indiana University
  Michael Larsen, Indiana University
  Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Research and Indiana University
  (1012-20-107)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Nilpotent Orbits, Symplectic and Orthogonal Representations of Quivers.
  Bangming Deng, Beijing Normal University
  Zongzhu Lin*, Kansas State University
  (1012-20-200)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Deformed Harish-Chandra homomorphism for the cyclic quiver.
  Alexei Oblomkov*, IAS
  (1012-20-168)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Orbifold Hecke algebras.
  Pavel I Etingof*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1012-16-15)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on K-Theory in M-Theory, I
Room 208, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Gregory D. Landweber, University of Oregon greg@math.uoregon.edu
Charles F. Doran, University of Washington doran@math.washington.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  An "Adinkrammatic" Perspective on Gauge Transformations.
  Michael Faux*, SUNY Oneonta
  (1012-81-194)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Shape of Things to Come: Structures Hidden within Shape Invariant Systems.
  Donald Spector*, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  (1012-81-180)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On Superspace Description of Representations of Supersymmetry.
  Tristan Hubsch*, Howard University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
  (1012-81-196)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics and Geometry, I
Room 229, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Sara C. Billey, University of Washington billey@math.washington.edu
Mark Haiman, University of California Berkeley mhaiman@math.berkeley.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Statistical mechanics, the commuting variety, and Springer theory for the Brauer algebra.
  Allen Knutson*, UCSD
  Paul Zinn-Justin, Universit� Paris-Sud, Orsay
  (1012-14-226)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Mirkovic-Vilonen Polytopes.
  Joel Kamnitzer*, American Institute of Mathematics / MIT
  (1012-05-78)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quantum cohomology of isotropic Grassmannians.
  Anders Skovsted Buch*, Rutgers University
  Andrew Kresch, University of Warwick
  Harry Tamvakis, Brandeis University
  (1012-14-142)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology of Moduli Spaces, I
Room 307, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Boris I. Botvinnik, University of Oregon botvinn@math.uoregon.edu
Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@diamond.boisestate.edu
Dev Sinha, University of Oregon dps@math.uoregon.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Stability of surface mapping spaces and the homology of mapping class groups.
  Ralph L Cohen*, Stanford University
  (1012-57-121)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Moduli spaces, Cells and Operadic Actions.
  Ralph M. Kaufmann*, University of Connecticut. Department of Mathematics.
  (1012-55-164)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Deformations of four dimensional Kahler manifolds.
  Nitu R Kitchloo*, University of California, San Diego
  (1012-53-115)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry Motivated by Physics, I
Room 102, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Alexander Polishchuk, University of Oregon apolish@math.uoregon.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@math.uoregon.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Donaldson-Thomas Invariants via Microlocal Geometry.
  Kai Behrend*, University of British Columbia
  (1012-14-178)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Moduli spaces of derived objects on a K3 surfaces.
  Aaron Bertram*, University of Utah
  (1012-14-122)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations with Applications, I
Room 240C, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Alexander Panchenko, Washington State University panchenko@math.wsu.edu
R. E. Showalter, Oregon State University show@math.oregonstate.edu
Hong-Ming Yin, Washington State University hyin@wsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Homogenization of flows with microstructure.
  Alexander Panchenko*, Washington State University
  (1012-35-102)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Inverse homogenization: Reconstruction of the microstructure of a heterogeneous medium.
  Elena Cherkaev*, University of Utah
  (1012-35-222)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Adaptive modeling and upscaling.
  Malgorzata Peszynska*, Oregon State University
  (1012-65-98)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An adjoint approach to parameter recovery in a quasilinear parabolic PDE.
  Roger Thelwell*, University of Washington
  (1012-35-111)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Stable configurations of nematic liquid crystals in rectangular cells with tangent boundary conditions.
  A Majumdar, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol
  CJ Newton, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol, UK
  JM Robbins, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol
  M Zyskin*, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol
  (1012-35-26)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 8:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Session for Contributed Papers
Room 122, McKenzie Hall
- 8:45 a.m.
  Construction of surface bundles with non-zero signature.
  Anar Akhmedov*, University of California, Irvine
  (1012-57-08)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Sums of powers of sequential numbers in terms of general Stirling's numbers.
  Hung-ping Tsao*, Novato, CA
  (1012-11-11)
- 9:15 a.m.
  Constellations of prime numbers.
  Fred B. Holt*, U Washington
  (1012-11-13)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Investigations in Nonabelian Difference Sets of Order 25.
  M. Strom Borman*, Reed College
  (1012-05-28)
- 9:45 a.m.
  Statistical differences between European and Japanese 2D digital art.
  Rusins Freivalds*, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
  Masahiro Miyakawa, Tsukuba College of Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
  Hisayuki Tatsumi, Tsukuba College of Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
  Solvita Zarina, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
  (1012-62-129)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Nondeterministic finite-state automata with a unary alphabet.
  Ansis Rosmanis*, Department of Computer Science, University of Latvia, Raina
  (1012-68-125)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Combinatorial block designs for Quantum Computing problems.
  Elina Kalnina*, University of Latvia
  (1012-05-161)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Free boundary problem for the barbotage with inert gases.
  Dan Gabriel Ghita*, National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
  Constantin Ghita, Valahia University of Targoviste
  (1012-35-20)
- 10:45 a.m.
  Topological Degree methods for nonlinear equations in Banach spaces.
  Cristinel Mortici*, Valahia University of Targoviste
  (1012-35-21)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, I
Room 221, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Wilhelm Schlag, California Institute of Technology schlag@caltech.edu
Hart F. Smith, University of Washington hart@math.washington.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Local Existence and Uniqueness of Schr\"odinger Maps.
  Helena C McGahagan*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1012-35-189)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Well-posedness of energy-critical NLS in higher dimensions.
  Monica Visan*, UCLA
  (1012-35-35)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Towards a maximal-in-time theory for the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation.
  James E. Colliander*, MSRI/Toronto
  (1012-35-145)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Regular Algebras and Noncommutative Projective Geometry, I
Room 125, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Brad Shelton, University of Oregon shelton@math.uoregon.edu
Michaela Vancliff, University of Texas at Arlington vancliff@math.uta.edu
James J. Zhang, University of Washington zhang@math.washington.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Subalgebras of dimension 3 elliptic regular algebras.
  Daniel S Rogalski*, University of California San Diego
  (1012-16-203)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Reflections of AS-Regular Algebras, II.
  Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University
  James Kuzmanovich*, Wake Forest University
  James Zhang, University of Washington
  (1012-16-204)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Generalized Laurent polynomial rings as quantum projective 3-spaces.
  Tom Cassidy*, Bucknell University
  Peter Goetz, Bucknell University
  Brad S. Shelton, University of Oregon
  (1012-16-209)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Fat Point Modules over a Family of Generalized Laurent Polynomial Rings.
  Peter D. Goetz*, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
  (1012-16-82)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Wave packets and wave equations.
Room 182, Lillis Hall
Hart F. Smith*, University of Washington
(1012-35-87)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
New combinatorial developments in the theory of Macdonald polynomials.
Room 182, Lillis Hall
Mark D Haiman*, University of California, Berkeley
(1012-05-51)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Wavelets, Frames, and Related Expansions, IV
Room 129, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Marcin Bownik, University of Oregon mbownik@uoregon.edu
Darrin M. Speegle, St. Louis University speegled@slu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Construction of Haar Wavelets in Higher Dimensions.
  Guido L. Weiss*, Washington University
  Ilya Krishtal, Washington University
  Benjamin Robinson, Washington University
  Edward N Wilson, Washington University
  (1012-33-89)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Frame-based nonuniform sampling of bandlimited signals.
  Jeffrey A Hogan*, University of Arkansas
  (1012-42-147)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Parseval Duals for Gabor Frames.
  Deguang Han*, Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida
  (1012-42-48)
- 4:30 p.m.
  $\mathrm{BZ^n\, Invariant\, Spaces}$.
  Edward N. Wilson*, Washington University in St. Louis
  Kanghui Guo, Southwest Missouri State University
  Demetrio Labate, North Carolina State University
  Wang Q Lim, Washington University in St. Louis
  Guido L. Weiss, Washington University in St. Louis
  (1012-42-134)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Homogeneous Approximation Property for Wavelet Frames.
  Christopher Heil*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Gitta Kutyniok, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
  (1012-42-137)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on New Directions in Spectral Theory and Geometric Analysis, II
Room 214, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Leon Friedlander, University of Arizona friedlan@math.arizona.edu
Patrick McDonald, New College of Florida ptm@virtu.sar.usf.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some problems of spectral theory arising in photonics and waveguide theory.
  Peter Kuchment*, Texas A&M University
  (1012-35-126)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Differential operators on graphs related to blood flow.
  Robert C Carlson*, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
  (1012-34-70)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Discrete Spectrum of Generalized Quantum Tubes.
  Zhiqin Lu, Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine
  Christopher Lin*, Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine
  (1012-53-32)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of Algebraic Topology, I
Room 106, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Daniel Dugger, University of Oregon ddugger@math.uoregon.edu
Hal Sadofsky, University of Oregon sadofsky@math.uoregon.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Calculus of functors and configuration spaces.
  Michael Ching*, Johns Hopkins University
  (1012-55-186)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Etale BP, with applications to quadratic forms.
  Daniel C Isaksen*, Wayne State University
  (1012-55-152)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Tangential thickness of homotopy lens spaces.
  Reinhard Schultz*, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of California,Riverside CA
  Slawomir Kwasik, Dept. of Mathematics, Tulane Univ. New Orleans LA
  (1012-57-160)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, II
Room 221, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Wilhelm Schlag, California Institute of Technology schlag@caltech.edu
Hart F. Smith, University of Washington hart@math.washington.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Global regularity for non-linear wave equations.
  Jacob K Sterbenz*, University of California, San Diego and MSRI
  (1012-35-183)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Reconstructing a magnetic field from boundary measurements.
  Mikko Salo*, University of Helsinki and University of Washington
  (1012-35-61)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Sharp well-posedness and ill-posedness results for a quadratic non-linear Schr\"odinger equation.
  Ioan Bejenaru*, UCLA/MSRI
  Terence Tao, UCLA
  (1012-35-90)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Timelike Minimal Hypersurfaces in Lorentzian Spacetimes.
  Paul T Allen*, University of Oregon
  Lars Andersson, AEI, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Golm, Germany
  James Isenberg, University of Oregon
  (1012-35-132)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Resolutions, II
Room 301, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Christopher Alan Francisco, University of Missouri chrisf@math.missouri.edu
Irena Peeva, Cornell University ivp1@cornell.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Convexity Conjecture.
  Ben Richert*, California Polytechnic State University
  (1012-13-206)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Ideals containing the squares of the variables.
  Jeffrey A Mermin*, Cornell University
  Irena Peeva, Cornell University
  Mike Stillman, Cornell University
  (1012-13-171)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Three theorems on Hilbert functions.
  Giulio Caviglia*, University of California at Berkeley
  (1012-13-225)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Hilbert Functions of Subsets of Complete Intersections.
  Susan Marie Cooper*, Syracuse University
  (1012-13-213)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Square-zero matrices over commutative local rings.
  L. L. Avramov, University of Nebraska
  Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, University of Toronto
  Srikanth Iyengar*, University of Nebraska
  Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
  (1012-13-175)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A Somewhat Different Perspective on the Ranks of Syzygies Having Finite Projective Dimension.
  Phillip A Griffith*, University of Illinois
  (1012-13-34)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Regular Algebras and Noncommutative Projective Geometry, II
Room 125, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Brad Shelton, University of Oregon shelton@math.uoregon.edu
Michaela Vancliff, University of Texas at Arlington vancliff@math.uta.edu
James J. Zhang, University of Washington zhang@math.washington.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Submodule Structures and Homological Dimensions.
  Kim Retert*, University of Dallas
  (1012-18-153)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Faithful Cyclic Modules for Enveloping Algebras and Sklyanin Algebras.
  Ian M Musson*, UW-Milwaukee
  (1012-16-208)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Co-point Modules over Koszul Algebras.
  Izuru Mori*, SUNY Brockport
  (1012-16-131)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Regular algebras of dimension 4.
  James J Zhang, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington
  Jun Zhang*, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington
  (1012-16-167)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:30 p.m.
  Discussion

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra and Noncommutative Birational Geometry, II
Room 240A, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Arkady Dmitrievich Berenstein, University of Oregon arkadiy@math.uoregon.edu
Vladimir Retakh, Rutgers University vretakh@math.rutgers.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Quantum groups and supersymmetry.
  Vera Serganova*, UC Berkeley
  Joseph Bernstein, Tel-Aviv University
  (1012-16-140)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The equitable presentation for the quantum group $U_q({\mathfrak{g}})$ associated with a symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebra $\mathfrak g$.
  Paul M Terwilliger*, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin
  (1012-16-45)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Noncommutative Flag Varieties and Yangians.
  Aaron Lauve*, LaCIM, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal
  (1012-17-67)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Commutative/noncommutative rank of linear matrices and subspaces of matrices of low rank.
  Christophe Reutenauer*, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal
  Marc Fortin, CEGEP de Lanaudi�re l'Assomption Qu�bec Canada
  (1012-15-59)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations with Applications, II
Room 240C, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Alexander Panchenko, Washington State University panchenko@math.wsu.edu
R. E. Showalter, Oregon State University show@math.oregonstate.edu
Hong-Ming Yin, Washington State University hyin@wsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A new proof of the intrinsic Harnack estimate for non-negative local solutions of the parabolic p-Laplacian equation.
  E. DiBenedetto*, Vanderbilt University
  Ugo Gianazza, University of Pavia
  Vincenzo Vespri, University of Florence Italy
  (1012-35-112)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Positive Solutions of p-Laplacian Systems.
  Haiyan Wang*, Arizona State University
  (1012-35-81)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Regularity of Solution for a p-curl System Arising from the supercondutor theory.
  Hong-Ming Yin*, Washington State University
  (1012-35-55)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Viscous conservation laws with slowly varying external forces.
  Maria Elena Schonbek*, University of California Santa Cruz
  (1012-35-139)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Navier-Stokes equations: short-time existence and stochastic representations of solutions.
  Mina E. Ossiander*, Oregon State University
  (1012-35-105)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Poroplastic filtration coupled to Stokes Flow.
  R. E. Showalter*, Oregon State University
  (1012-35-188)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Representations of Groups and Algebras, II
Room 306, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Jonathan W. Brundan, University of Oregon brundan@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Alexander S. Kleshchev, University of Oregon klesh@math.uoregon.edu
Viktor Ostrik, University of Oregon vostrik@math.uoregon.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Blocks in the category of level zero representations of classical and quantum affine algebras.
  Vyjayanthi Chari*, University of California, Riverside
  Adriano A. Moura, University of Campinas, Sao Paolo
  (1012-17-44)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Generalized double affine Hecke algebras of higher rank.
  Pavel Etingof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Wee Liang Gan*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Alexei Oblomkov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1012-20-80)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Braid group, quantum Heisenberg algebra and q,t-characters.
  Jacob Greenstein*, University of California Riverside
  David Hernandez, Ecole Normale Superieure
  (1012-17-91)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Generalized Schur Duality for Quantum Groups.
  Hans Wenzl*, University of California at San Diego
  (1012-16-215)
- 5:00 p.m.
  New fermionic formula for unrestricted Kostka polynomials.
  Lipika Deka, UC Davis
  Anne Schilling*, UC Davis
  (1012-05-39)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Modular embeddings of q-Schur algebras.
  Kevin McGerty*, University of Chicago
  (1012-16-216)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on K-Theory in M-Theory, II
Room 208, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Gregory D. Landweber, University of Oregon greg@math.uoregon.edu
Charles F. Doran, University of Washington doran@math.washington.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Black Holes and Topological Strings.
  Cumrun Vafa*, Physics Department, Harvard University
  (1012-83-75)
- 4:00 p.m.
  K-Theory, Torsion, and Integral Structures in Special Geometry.
  Jacques Distler*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1012-19-136)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The c-map in superspace.
  Martin Rocek*, CN Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University NY
  Cumrun Vafa, Department of Physics, Harvard University
  Stefan Vandoren, Department of Physics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  (1012-19-151)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics and Geometry, II
Room 229, McKenzie Hall
Organizers:
Sara C. Billey, University of Washington billey@math.washington.edu
Mark Haiman, University of California Berkeley mhaiman@math.berkeley.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Combinatorial Formula for the (type A) nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomial.
  J. Haglund*, Ohio State University
  M. Haiman, UC Berkeley
  N. Loehr, William and Mary
  (1012-05-133)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Cohen-Macaulayness of certain rings of invariants.
  V Lakshmibai*, Northeastern University
  P Shukla, Suffolk University
  (1012-14-99)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On Cachazo-Douglas-Seiberg-Witten conjecture for simple Lie algebras.
  Shrawan Kumar*, UNC at Chapel Hill
  (1012-22-100)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Duality of pipe dreams and antidiagonals.
  Ning Jia, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  Ezra Miller*, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  (1012-05-124)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Harmonic algebraic curves and noncrossing partitions.
  Jeremy L Martin*, University of Kansas
  David Savitt, University of Arizona
  Ted Singer, Scarsdale, NY
  (1012-14-69)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry Motivated by Physics, II
Room 102, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Alexander Polishchuk, University of Oregon apolish@math.uoregon.edu
Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon vaintrob@math.uoregon.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Cumrun Vafa. Joint talk with session on K-theory in M-theory, Room 208, Deady Hall, 3:00p.m.
- 4:00 p.m.
  G-stable maps and stringy cohomology.
  Tyler Jarvis*, Brigham Young Univ.
  Ralph Kaufmann, Univ. Connecticut
  Takashi Kimura, Boston Univ.
  (1012-14-177)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Stringy Orbifold Structures.
  Ralph M. Kaufmann*, University of Connecticut. Department of Mathematics.
  (1012-14-162)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Stringy algebraic structures on orbifolds.
  Takashi Kimura*, Boston University
  (1012-14-181)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Seidel's Mirror Map for Abelian Varieties.
  Eric Zaslow*, Northwestern University
  (1012-14-165)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:15 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers
Room 122, McKenzie Hall
- 3:15 p.m.
  A convolution argument.
  Corina D Constantinescu*, Oregon State University
  E. Thomann, Oregon State University
  (1012-41-220)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Analysis of properties of Finite State Linear Model.
  Dace Ruklisa*, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia
  (1012-68-195)
- 3:45 p.m.
  A modified SOR scheme for systems of linear equations.
  Livinus U Uko*, Department of Science and Mathematics, Johnson C. Smith University, 100 Beatties Ford Road, Charlotte NC 28216
  (1012-65-47)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A New Family of Curvature Homogeneous Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds.
  Corey M Dunn*, University of Oregon
  (1012-53-172)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Park and Skoug's formula for conditional Yeh-Wiener integrals with applications.
  Joo Sup Chang*, Hanyang University and University of California - Riverside
  (1012-60-30)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Kirkman type combinatorial designs.
  Rihards Opmanis*, University of Latvia
  (1012-05-198)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 4:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology of Moduli Spaces, II
Room 307, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Boris I. Botvinnik, University of Oregon botvinn@math.uoregon.edu
Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@diamond.boisestate.edu
Dev Sinha, University of Oregon dps@math.uoregon.edu
- 4:00 p.m.
  String Topology of Classifying Spaces.
  Kate Gruher*, Stanford University
  Paolo Salvatore, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata"
  (1012-55-155)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Orbit configuration spaces of lens spaces.
  Matthew Sean Miller*, University of Oregon
  (1012-55-114)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Point Configurations and Coxeter Operads.
  Satyan L Devadoss*, Williams College
  (1012-57-62)

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2005 Fall Western Section Meeting Eugene, OR, November 11-13, 2005 Meeting #1012

Saturday November 12, 2005

2005 Fall Western Section Meeting
Eugene, OR, November 11-13, 2005
Meeting #1012