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2006 Spring Western Section Meeting
San Francisco, CA, April 29-30, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1018

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

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Saturday April 29, 2006

• Saturday April 29, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 331, Thornton Hall
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 331, Thornton Hall
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hilbert Functions and Resolutions, I
  Room 111, Business
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Richert, California Polytechnic State University brichert@calpoly.edu
  Sean Sather-Wagstaff, California State University, Dominguez Hills ssather@csudh.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Prime-torsion in local cohomology.
    Anurag K. Singh*, University of Utah
    (1018-13-131)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Frobenius test exponents for parameter ideals in generalized Cohen-Macaulay local rings.
    C. Huneke, University of Kansas, USA
    M. Katzman, Sheffield University, UK
    R. Y. Sharp, Sheffield University, UK
    Y. Yao*, University of Michigan, USA
    (1018-13-37)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Weak embedding theorems and tight closure.
    Melvin Hochster*, Mathematics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    Yongwei Yao, Mathematics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    (1018-13-248)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On certain big rings in mixed characteristic.
    Kazuma Shimomoto*, University of Utah
    (1018-13-73)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hilbert-Kunz functions of normal local rings.
    Moira A. McDermott*, Gustavus Adolphus College
    (1018-13-243)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Upper bound on asymptotic length of homology and Intersection Multiplicity.
    Jinjia Li*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1018-13-174)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Arithmetic Geometry, I
  Room 104, Business
  Organizers:
  Kenneth A. Ribet, University of California Berkeley ribet@math.berkeley.edu
  Kristin Estrella Lauter, Microsoft Corporation klauter@microsoft.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Yet more nontrivial elements in Shafarevich-Tate groups of Fermat curves.
    Ben Levitt, University of Arizona
    William McCallum*, University of Arizona
    (1018-11-239)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Vanishing of Some Cohomology Groups and Bounds for Shafarevich-Tate Groups of Elliptic Curves.
    Byungchul Cha*, Hendrix College
    (1018-11-187)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Shintani zeta-functions and Gross-Stark units for totally real fields.
    Samit Dasgupta*, Harvard University
    (1018-11-49)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Heegner Points on $X_0(p^n)$.
    Ken McMurdy*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (1018-11-264)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Number Theoretic Aspects of Space-Time Codes.
    David R Grant*, University of Colorado at Boulder and MSRI
    Mahesh K Varanasi, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1018-94-208)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    SAGE -- Software for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation.
    William Arthur Stein*, University of Washington
    (1018-11-77)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications, I
  Room 432, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Steve Shkoller, University of California Davis shkoller@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Pointwise Carleman Estimates, Global Uniqueness, Observability, and Stabilization for Schr\"odinger Equations on Riemannian Manifolds at the $H^1(\Omega)$-Level.
    Roberto Triggiani, University of Virginia, Department of Mathematics
    Xiangjin XU*, University of Virginia, Department of Mathematics
    (1018-49-162)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the integral systems related to Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality.
    Fengbo Hang*, Princeton University
    (1018-45-124)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Complete hypersurfaces of constant curvature in hyperbolic space with prescribed boundary at infinity.
    Bo Guan*, Ohio State University
    (1018-53-250)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Biharmonic Map Flows of Small Data in Dimension Eight.
    Changyou Wang*, University of Kentucky
    (1018-35-237)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ramified mass transportation and its applications.
    Qinglan Xia*, UC Davis
    (1018-49-265)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Elliptic Methods in Geometry, I
  Room 120, Business
  Organizers:
  C. Robin Graham, University of Washington robin@math.washington.edu
  Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University mazzeo@riley.stanford.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Extremal metrics on blow ups of Kaehler manifolds.
    Frank Pacard*, Université Paris 12, France
    (1018-53-85)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of singular solutions to the prescribed scalar curvature problem.
    Simon A Brendle*, Stanford University
    (1018-35-121)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Yamabe problem of higher order.
    Jie Qing*, UC Santa Cruz
    David Raske, UC Riverside
    (1018-53-201)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Fractal Geometry: Connections to Dynamics, Geometric Measure Theory, Mathematical Physics and Number Theory, I
  Room 325, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Michel L. Lapidus, University of California Riverside lapidus@math.ucr.edu
  Erin P. Pearse, University of California Riverside epearse@math.ucr.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley State College vanframa@uvsc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On planar self-similar sets with a dense set of rotations.
    Kemal Ilgar Eroglu*, University of Washington
    (1018-28-20)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Sums of two-dimensional spectral triples.
    Cristina Ivan*, University of Hannover
    (1018-46-89)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Trace on Fractal Graphs and the Ihara Zeta Function.
    Daniele Guido, Dip. Matematica, Univ. Roma 'Tor Vergata', Roma, Italy
    Tommaso Isola*, Dip. Matematica, Univ. Roma 'Tor Vergata', Roma, Italy
    Michel L. Lapidus, Dept. Mathematics, Univ. California, Riverside, USA
    (1018-46-186)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Complex Fractal Dimensions and Zeta Functions: Shape and Sound of Fractal Strings.
    Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California, Riverside
    (1018-28-104)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Tube formulas and complex dimensions of self-similar tilings.
    Erin P. J. Pearse*, U.C., Riverside
    Michel L. Lapidus, U.C., Riverside
    (1018-37-35)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Multifractal Strings and Zeta Functions.
    John A. Rock*, University of California, Riverside
    Michel L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    Jacques Levy-Vehel, INRIA Rocquencourt
    (1018-00-76)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Statistical Physics, I
  Room 329, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
  Noam Berger, California Institute of Technology and University of California Los Angeles berger@its.caltech.edu
  Balint Virag, University of Toronto balint@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The loop-erased random walk and the uniform spanning tree on the four-dimensional discrete torus.
    Jason R. Schweinsberg*, University of California at San Diego
    (1018-60-63)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Commutation of SLEs.
    Julien Dubedat*, Courant Institute
    (1018-60-167)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Universality Result for Critical 2D Percolation.
    Helen K. Lei*, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
    L. Chayes, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
    (1018-60-166)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Neighboring clusters in Bernoulli percolation.
    Adam Timar*, Indiana University/TU Graz
    (1018-60-86)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Homological and K-theoretical Trends in Algebraic Combinatorics, I
  Room 108, Business
  Organizers:
  Joseph Gubeladze, San Francisco State University soso@math.sfsu.edu
  Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University serkan@math.sfsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Equivariant K-theory of affine flag manifolds and affine Grothendieck polynomials.
    Masaki Kashiwara, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University
    Mark Shimozono*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    (1018-19-91)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stable Grothendieck polynomials and the Hecke insertion algorithm.
    Anders Buch, Rutgers University
    Andrew Kresch, University of Warwick
    Mark Shimozono, Virginia Tech
    Harry Tamvakis, Brandeis University
    Alexander Yong*, University of Minnesota, the Fields Institute, and the University of Toronto (dept. of statistics)
    (1018-05-41)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Towards Schubert calculus in quantum $K$-theory.
    Cristian P. Lenart*, State University of New York at Albany
    Toshiaki Maeno, Kyoto University
    (1018-05-161)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On conjugacy classes of nilpotent matrices.
    Sara Faridi*, Dalhousie University
    Riccardo Biagioli, University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
    Mercedes Helena Rosas, University of Sevilla, Spain
    (1018-13-158)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Topological Interpretation of Combinatorics in the Tautological ring of $\mathcal{\overline{M}}_{g,n}$.
    Alex James Bene*, University of Southern California
    (1018-54-221)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Differential equations, polynomials and $M$-connected regions of $\mathbb{N}^n$.
    Laura Felicia Matusevich*, Texas A&M University
    (1018-05-93)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Liapunov Exponents and Nonuniform Hyperbolicity, I
  Room 429, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Anton Gorodetski, California Institute of Technology asgor@caltech.edu Caltech
  Vadim Kaloshin, California Institute of Technology kaloshin@its.caltech.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Strange Attractor for Periodically Forced Evolutionary Partial Differential Equations.
    Qiudong Wang*, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
    Kening Lu, Department of Mathematics, BYU
    Lai-Sang Young, Courant Institute, NYU
    (1018-37-96)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homoclinic classes, periodic points, and Lyapunov exponents.
    Lorenzo J. D\'iaz*, Departamento de Matem\'atica, PUC-Rio
    (1018-37-39)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Existence of ergodic chaotic attractors for some multidimensional maps and applications.
    Ilie Ugarcovici*, Rice University
    Howard Weiss, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1018-37-199)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    How often surface diffeomorphisms have infinitely many sinks and hyperbolicity of periodic points near a homoclinic tangency.
    Vadim Kaloshin*, Caltech
    Anton Gorodetski, Caltech
    (1018-37-245)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Q-series and Partitions, I
  Room 110, Business
  Organizers:
  Neville Robbins, San Francisco State University robbins@math.sfsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Convolution Congruences for the Partition Function.
    Sharon Anne Garthwaite*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1018-11-141)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The distribution of powers of the partition function modulo $\ell^j$.
    Timothy P. Kilbourn*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (1018-11-59)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Congruences for modular forms of weights two and four.
    Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois
    (1018-11-246)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Indivisibility of p(n) mod 3 in arithmetic progressions.
    Matthew G. Boylan*, University of South Carolina
    (1018-11-232)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Fine Dream.
    George E. Andrews*, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1018-33-11)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Lie Algebras and Applications, I
  Room 106, Business
  Organizers:
  Dimitar Grantcharov, San Jose State University grantcharov@math.sjsu.edu
  Vera Serganova, University of California Berkeley serganova@math.berkeley.edu
  Arturo Pianzola, University of Alberta a.pianzola@ualberta.ca
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Lie superalgebras and finite groups: Geometry and Cohomology.
    Brian Boe, University of Georgia
    Jonathan Kujawa, University of Georgia
    Daniel K Nakano*, University of Georgia
    (1018-17-69)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Vacuum modules over affine Lie superalgebras.
    Maria Gorelik*, Weizmann Institute of Science
    (1018-17-178)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Realizations of 4-point Lie algebras.
    Ben L Cox*, University of Charleston
    (1018-17-196)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Rational conformal field theory, Lie algebras, and linear differential equations.
    Geoffrey Mason*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (1018-17-140)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Galois algebras and Gelfand-Tsetlin representations.
    Vyacheslav Futorny*, University of Sao Paulo
    (1018-17-157)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Superconformal algebras and some related topics.
    Elena Poletaeva*, University of California at Riverside
    (1018-17-269)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Dynamics and Ergodic Theory, I
  Room 211, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University cheung@math.sfsu.edu
  Arek Goetz, San Francisco State University goetz@sfsu.edu
  Slobodan Simic, San Jose State University simic@math.sjsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Density of accessibility for partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms with one dimensional center.
    Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
    Anna Talitskaya, Northwestern University
    Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
    Jana Rodriguez Hertz, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
    Raul Ures, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
    (1018-37-40)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Topology of Hyperbolic Attractors on Compact Surfaces.
    Todd Fisher*, University of Maryland
    (1018-37-103)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Infinitely many syzygies, redux.
    Richard Montgomery*, University of California Santa Cruz
    (1018-37-32)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On 3-manifolds that support partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms.
    Kamlesh Parwani*, University of Houston
    (1018-37-118)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, I
  Room 116, Business
  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.
    Cartwright and Littlewood on Van der Pol's Equation.
    Shawnee McMurran*, California State University, San Bernardino
    James Tattersall, Providence College
    (1018-01-235)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Legacy of Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871).
    Adrian Rice*, Randolph-Macon College
    (1018-01-108)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic.
    Reviel Netz*, Stanford
    (1018-01-238)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Hex, Random Turn Games, and the Infinity Laplacian.
  Room 101, Science
  Yuval Peres*, University of California, Berkeley
  Oded Schramm, Microsoft Research
  Scott Sheffield, Courant Institute, NYU
  David Wilson, Microsoft Research
  (1018-35-206)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Ambient metrics, jet isomorphism and parabolic invariant theory in conformal geometry.
  Room 101, Science
  C. Robin Graham*, University of Washington
  (1018-53-148)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative Aspects of Polytopes, I
  Room 107, Business
  Organizers:
  Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University fardila@alum.mit.edu
  Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University beck@math.sfsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some Special Nonsimplicial Polytopes.
    Margaret M Bayer*, University of Kansas
    T Bisztriczky, The University of Calgary
    (1018-52-210)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Ehrhart polynomials of lattice-face polytopes.
    Fu Liu*, M.I.T.
    (1018-05-42)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Periods of Ehrhart quasi-polynomials.
    Kevin Woods*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1018-05-230)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Tropical polytopes.
    Mike Develin*, American Institute of Mathematics
    Josephine Yu, UC-Berkeley
    (1018-05-106)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Newton polytopes of A-discriminants.
    Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Eva Maria Feichtner*, University of Stuttgart
    Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley
    (1018-14-192)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Dynamics and Ergodic Theory, II
  Room 211, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University cheung@math.sfsu.edu
  Arek Goetz, San Francisco State University goetz@sfsu.edu
  Slobodan Simic, San Jose State University simic@math.sjsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    What can a flow say about the asymptotic or large scale structure of a manifold?
    Sergio Fenley*, Florida State University
    (1018-37-119)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Central Limit Theorem for the Teichmueller Flow on the Moduli Space of Abelian Differentials.
    Alexander I Bufetov*, University of Chicago
    (1018-37-127)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Unipotent flows on moduli space in genus two.
    Kariane Calta*, Cornell University
    (1018-37-183)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Veech surfaces and Rosen fractions.
    Pierre Arnoux, Institute de Mathematique de Luminy
    Thomas A. Schmidt*, Oregon State University
    (1018-37-163)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Shadowing in piecewise isometries.
    Arek Goetz, San Francisco State University
    Anthony Quas*, University of Victoria
    (1018-37-274)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Hilbert Functions and Resolutions, II
  Room 111, Business
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Richert, California Polytechnic State University brichert@calpoly.edu
  Sean Sather-Wagstaff, California State University, Dominguez Hills ssather@csudh.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Lex-Plus-Powers Conjecture for Points.
    Susan Marie Cooper*, Syracuse University
    (1018-13-109)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Compression.
    Jeffrey A Mermin*, Cornell University
    (1018-13-209)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hilbert functions, resolutions and matroids for fat points supported at 8 or fewer points of the plane.
    Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1018-13-92)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Classifying ACM sets of points in multiprojective spaces.
    Adam Van Tuyl*, Lakehead University
    Elena Guardo, University of Catania
    (1018-13-100)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Hilbert Functions of Subspace Arrangements.
    Harm Derksen*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1018-13-224)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Arithmetic Geometry, II
  Room 104, Business
  Organizers:
  Kenneth A. Ribet, University of California Berkeley ribet@math.berkeley.edu
  Kristin Estrella Lauter, Microsoft Corporation klauter@microsoft.com
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A basic intersection problem on Hilbert modular surface.
    Tonghai Yang*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    (1018-11-87)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Examples of automorphic forms on the unitary group in three variables.
    Lassina Dembele*, Dept of Mathematics and Statisitics, University of Calgary
    (1018-11-173)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rational torsion of elliptic curves and the cuspidal subgroup.
    Amod Agashe*, Florida State University
    (1018-11-98)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Hilbert modular forms, intersection homology and base change.
    Jayce R Getz*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    Mark Goresky, Institute for Advanced Study
    (1018-11-38)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Traces of singular moduli on Hilbert modular surfaces.
    Ken Ono*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    Kathrin Bringmann, University of Wisconsin
    Jeremy Rouse, University of Wisconsin
    (1018-11-53)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications, II
  Room 432, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Steve Shkoller, University of California Davis shkoller@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Homogenization of free boundary velocities.
    Inwon Kim*, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
    (1018-35-228)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Navier-Stokes equations interacting with a nonlinear elastic shell.
    Ching-hsiao Cheng*, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis
    Daniel Coutand, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis
    Steve Shkoller, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis
    (1018-76-175)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Analysis of fluid-solid moving interface problems.
    Daniel Coutand*, UC Davis
    Steve Shkoller, UC Davis
    (1018-35-253)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A class of Free Boundary Problems and Maximal Regularity for a Class of Singular Parabolic Abstract Cauchy Problems.
    Patrick Q Guidotti*, University of California Irvine
    (1018-35-15)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, II
  Room 116, Business
  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.
    Euler's {\sl Introductio} of 1748.
    V. Frederick Rickey*, West Point
    (1018-01-231)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    What exactly is "doing math"?
    Keith Devlin*, Stanford University
    (1018-00-255)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    One hundred years of Voronoi summation.
    Jennifer E Beineke*, Western New England College
    (1018-01-145)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Indian Contributions to \textit{The Educational Times} 1876-1918.
    J J Tattersall*, Providence College
    Shawnee L McMurran, California State University San Bernardino
    (1018-01-50)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Elliptic Methods in Geometry, II
  Room 120, Business
  Organizers:
  C. Robin Graham, University of Washington robin@math.washington.edu
  Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University mazzeo@riley.stanford.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Scattering theory on symmetric spaces and N-body scattering.
    Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
    Andras Vasy*, Stanford University and MIT
    (1018-35-84)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $G_2$ and Rolling.
    Richard Montgomery*, UCSC
    (1018-58-65)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    H\"older Compactification for some manifolds with pinched negative curvature near infinity.
    Eric Bahuaud*, University of Washington
    (1018-53-150)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Fractal Geometry: Connections to Dynamics, Geometric Measure Theory, Mathematical Physics and Number Theory, II
  Room 325, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Michel L. Lapidus, University of California Riverside lapidus@math.ucr.edu
  Erin P. Pearse, University of California Riverside epearse@math.ucr.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley State College vanframa@uvsc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Curvature measures and fractals.
    Steffen Winter*, Universität Jena, Germany
    (1018-51-26)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mean curvatures of random self-similar sets.
    Martina Z\"ahle*, Mathematical Institute, University of Jena (Germany)
    (1018-28-27)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Self-Affine Tiles and Basic Digit Sets.
    Yang Wang*, Georgia Institute of Mathematics
    (1018-28-81)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Characteristic Polynomials and Self-Affine Tiles.
    Xing-Gang He, Dept of Math., Central China Normal University
    Ka-Sing Lau*, Dept of Math., The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    (1018-26-99)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Metric geometry of hyperspaces.
    Leonid V. Kovalev, Texas A&M University
    Jeremy T. Tyson*, University of Illinois
    (1018-28-107)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Statistical Physics, II
  Room 329, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
  Noam Berger, California Institute of Technology and University of California Los Angeles berger@its.caltech.edu
  Balint Virag, University of Toronto balint@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Variational Bounds for the Random Energy Model.
    Cristian Giardina, EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
    Shannon L. Starr*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1018-82-80)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Almost-sure invariance principles for random walk in random environment.
    Firas Rassoul-Agha*, University of Utah
    Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1018-60-226)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Fluctuations around characteristics for some interacting particle systems.
    M\'arton Bal\'azs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Firas Rassoul-Agha, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University
    Timo Sepp\"al\"ainen*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1018-60-75)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Homological and K-theoretical Trends in Algebraic Combinatorics, II
  Room 108, Business
  Organizers:
  Joseph Gubeladze, San Francisco State University soso@math.sfsu.edu
  Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University serkan@math.sfsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Kempf collapsing and quiver loci.
    Allen Knutson*, UCSD
    Mark Shimozono, Virginia Tech
    (1018-05-213)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Homological Algebra Methods in Graph Theory.
    Yongwu Rong*, National Science Foundation
    (1018-05-139)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Virtual crystal structure on rigged configurations.
    Anne Schilling*, UC Davis
    (1018-05-177)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Finer rook equivalence and cohomology of Ding's Schubert varieties.
    Mike Develin, American Institute of Mathematics
    Jeremy L Martin*, University of Kansas
    Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota
    (1018-05-156)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    K-theoretic factor sequences.
    Anders S. Buch*, Rutgers University
    Andrew Kresch, University of Warwick
    Mark Shimozono, Virginia Tech
    Harry Tamvakis, Brandeis University
    Alex Yong, University of Minnesota
    (1018-14-257)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Liapunov Exponents and Nonuniform Hyperbolicity, II
  Room 429, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Anton Gorodetski, California Institute of Technology asgor@caltech.edu Caltech
  Vadim Kaloshin, California Institute of Technology kaloshin@its.caltech.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quasiperiodic operators with analytic potential at low coupling: sharp non-perturbative results.
    Artur Avila, Paris VI, France
    Svetlana Jitomirskaya*, UCI
    (1018-37-207)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Resonances and creation of gaps in the spectrum of quasi- periodic Schrodinger equation.
    Michael Goldstein*, University of Toronto
    (1018-35-111)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Positivity of the Lyapunov exponent for the multi-frequency model with generic smooth potential.
    Silvius Klein*, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study
    (1018-81-172)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Q-series and Partitions, II
  Room 110, Business
  Organizers:
  Neville Robbins, San Francisco State University robbins@math.sfsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ramanujan's modular equations and partition congruences.
    Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1018-11-126)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Series and polynomial representations for weighted Rogers-Ramanujan partitions and products modulo 6.
    Krishnaswami Alladi*, University of Florida
    (1018-11-102)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    New identities for 7-cores with prescribed BG-rank.
    Hamza Yesilyurt*, University of Florida
    (1018-11-152)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The BG-rank of a partition and its applications.
    Alexander Berkovich*, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida
    (1018-05-159)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On Sloane's Generalization of Non-Squashing Stacks of Boxes.
    James A. Sellers*, Penn State University
    (1018-05-61)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Lie Algebras and Applications, II
  Room 106, Business
  Organizers:
  Dimitar Grantcharov, San Jose State University grantcharov@math.sjsu.edu
  Vera Serganova, University of California Berkeley serganova@math.berkeley.edu
  Arturo Pianzola, University of Alberta a.pianzola@ualberta.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rationality of vertex operator algebras.
    Chongying Dong*, University of California
    Cuipo Jiang, Shanghai Jiaotong University
    (1018-17-117)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Graded level zero integrable representations of affine Lie algebras.
    Vyjayanthi Chari, University of California Riverside
    Jacob Greenstein*, University of California Riverside
    (1018-17-204)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Extended affine Lie algebras.
    Erhard Neher*, University of Ottawa
    (1018-17-144)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Extended Affine Lie Algebras of Rank 1.
    Bruce Allison*, University of Alberta
    (1018-17-200)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Modules for Extended Affine Lie Algebras.
    Yuly Billig, Carleton University
    Michael K Lau*, University of Ottawa
    (1018-17-181)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, I
  Room 113, Business
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Relationships of powered sums of an arithmetic progression among different powers.
    Hung-ping Tsao*, Novato, CA
    (1018-11-134)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Some subalgebras of indefinite type Kac-Moody algebras.
    Sandeep Bhargava*, York University
    Ziting Zeng, York University
    (1018-17-137)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Simplifiable polynomials over finite rings of integers.
    Florian Enescu*, Georgia State University
    Priyank Kalla, University of Utah
    M Brandon Meredith, Georgia State University
    (1018-13-169)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Generalized Cartier-Milnor-Moore theorem.
    Vladislav K. Kharchenko*, UNAM, Mexico
    (1018-17-14)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A 2-chain can interlock with a $k$-chain.
    Julie Glass, California State University, East Bay
    Bin Lu, California State University Sacramento
    Joseph O'Rourke, Smith College
    J Kathy Zhong*, California State University Sacramento
    (1018-51-25)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Programming in Hilbert's Complete Perfect Logic.
    James Kuodo Huang*, California Information Technology
    (1018-68-272)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Ulam stability of mixed type functional equations.
    John M. S. Rassias*, National and Capodistrian University of Athens,Athens,Greece
    Matina(Stamatiki) J. Rassias, University of Strathclyde,Glasgow,UK
    (1018-39-09)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Boundary slope diameter and crossing number of 2-bridge knots.
    Thomas W Mattman*, California State University, Chico
    Gabriel Maybrun, California State Universtiy, Chico
    Kristin Robinson, Stanford University
    (1018-57-62)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Fragment Consistency on Functorial Models.
    Cyrus F Nourani*, USA Affiliation Academia California and http://beam.to/af2im
    (1018-18-90)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Convolution Products of Harmonic Mappings in the Plane and Hypergeometric Functions.
    Om P Ahuja*, Kent State University
    (1018-30-58)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Statistical Nonstationary Jacobi Iteration.
    Jun Srisutapan, Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol
    Sirikul Bunditsaovapak*, Dept. of Math. & Comp. Science, Faculty of Science, KMITL
    (1018-65-262)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Current state of mathematics education in India.
    P Bhattacharyya*, Chennai,India
    (1018-00-10)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The Effect of Surface Tension on the Swell Ratio of Viscoelastic Fluid.
    Sirikul Bunditsaovapak, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, King Mongkut's Institute of Tech. Ladkrabang, Thailand
    Saitharn Thenissara*, Rajamangala University of Technology Isan Nakornratchasima
    (1018-65-256)
• Saturday April 29, 2006, 8:00 p.m.-8:50 p.m.
  Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics
  The nature of roughness in mathematics, science, and art.
  Jack Adams Hall, Cesar Chavez Student Center
  Benoit B. Mandelbrot*, Yale University

Sunday April 30, 2006

• Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 331, Thornton Hall
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative Aspects of Polytopes, II
  Room 107, Business
  Organizers:
  Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University fardila@alum.mit.edu
  Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University beck@math.sfsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Minkowski Sums of Simplices - Preliminary Report.
    Geir Agnarsson, Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
    Walter Morris*, Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
    (1018-05-233)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Permutohedra reshaped.
    Alexander Postnikov*, MIT
    (1018-05-45)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Realizations of the associahedron and cyclohedron.
    Christophe Hohlweg, The Fields Institute
    Carsten E. M. C. Lange*, University of Washington
    (1018-05-198)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Title: Integer linear programming using differentiable Dedekind sums from analytic number theory.
    Sinai Robins*, Temple University
    Helaman Ferguson, Center for Communications Research
    (1018-52-143)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fundamental holes and saturation points of a commutative semigroup and their applications to contingency tables.
    Akimichi Takemura, University of Tokyo
    Ruriko Yoshida*, Duke University
    (1018-05-46)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A canonical form for polytopes and its algorithmic consequences.
    Jesus A. De Loera*, University of California, Davis
    Shmuel Onn, Technion- Haifa
    (1018-52-57)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hilbert Functions and Resolutions, III
  Room 111, Business
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Richert, California Polytechnic State University brichert@calpoly.edu
  Sean Sather-Wagstaff, California State University, Dominguez Hills ssather@csudh.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Whiskers and sequencially Cohen-Macaulay graphs.
    H. Tai Ha*, Tulane University
    C. Francisco, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1018-13-33)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Reconstruction of Hilbert function and Betti numbers of a graph.
    K. Dalili*, Dalhousie University
    S. Faridi, Dalhousie University
    W. Traves, United States Naval Academy
    (1018-13-214)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bounds on Betti numbers and criteria for the Gorenstein property.
    David A. Jorgensen*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Graham J. Leuschke, Syracuse University
    (1018-13-197)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Non-commutative desingularization of the generic determinant.
    Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, University of Toronto
    Graham J Leuschke*, Syracuse University
    Michel Van den Bergh, Free University of Brussels
    (1018-13-193)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Normality of Rees Algebras.
    Mark R. Johnson, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
    Susan E. Morey*, Texas State University, San Marcos
    (1018-13-180)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Normalization of monomial ideals and Hilbert functions.
    Rafael H. Villarreal*, CINVESTAV-IPN
    (1018-13-22)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Arithmetic Geometry, III
  Room 104, Business
  Organizers:
  Kenneth A. Ribet, University of California Berkeley ribet@math.berkeley.edu
  Kristin Estrella Lauter, Microsoft Corporation klauter@microsoft.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computing zeta functions of surfaces using $p$-adic cohomology.
    Kiran S. Kedlaya*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Timothy G. Abbott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    David Roe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1018-11-74)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Divisibility of function field class numbers.
    Jeffrey D Achter*, Colorado State University
    (1018-11-247)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Frobenius fields for Drinfeld modules of rank 2.
    Alina Cojucaru*, Princeton University
    (1018-11-270)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some applications of the graph of supersingular elliptic curves.
    Denis Charles*, Microsoft Research
    Eyal Goren, McGill University
    Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research
    (1018-11-189)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Jacobians in isogeny classes of supersingular surfaces over finite fields.
    Everett W Howe*, Center for Communications Research, La Jolla
    Enric Nart, Universitat Aut\`onoma de Barcelona
    Christophe Ritzenthaler, Institut de Math\'ematiques de Luminy
    (1018-11-132)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Constructing elliptic curves in almost polynomial time.
    Peter Stevenhagen*, UC San Diego/Universiteit Leiden
    Reinier Br\"oker, Universiteit Leiden
    (1018-14-176)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Gr\"obner Bases, I
  Room 108, Business
  Organizers:
  Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley bernd@math.berkeley.edu
  Alexander Yong, University of Minnesota and Fields Institute ayong@fields.utoronto.ca
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Gr\"obner degenerations of subvarieties: subschemes vs. branchvarieties.
    Valery Alexeev, University of Georgia
    Allen Knutson*, UCSD
    (1018-13-212)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Gr\"obner bases arising in the McKay correspondence.
    Diane Maclagan*, Rutgers University
    (1018-14-147)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Free resolutions from quivers of sections.
    Gregory G Smith*, Queen's University
    Alastair Craw, Stony Brook University
    (1018-14-225)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Hilbert scheme of 2-regular schemes.
    David Eisenbud, MSRI and UC Berkeley
    Sorin Popescu*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (1018-13-254)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Every codimension two normal toric ideal has a Cohen-Macaulay initial ideal.
    Serkan Hosten*, San Francisco State University
    Pierre Dueck, UC Davis
    (1018-13-242)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Detecting total dual integrality and perfect graphs.
    Edwin O'Shea*, University of Washington
    Andr{\' a}s Seb{\" o}, Laboratoire Leibniz, IMAG, C.N.R.S., France
    (1018-05-160)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Elliptic Methods in Geometry, III
  Room 120, Business
  Organizers:
  C. Robin Graham, University of Washington robin@math.washington.edu
  Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University mazzeo@riley.stanford.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Index theory of conformally compact metrics.
    Pierre Albin*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1018-53-155)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Symmetries of Compact Null Surfaces and Event Horizons in Solutions of Einstein's Equations.
    James Isenberg*, Department of Mathematics and Institute for Theoretical Science, University of Oregon
    Vincent Moncrief, Department of Physics, Yale University
    (1018-83-88)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Einstein-scalar field constraint equations on compact manifolds.
    Daniel Pollack*, University of Washingon
    Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, University of Paris
    James Isenberg, University of Oregon
    (1018-83-122)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Fractal Geometry: Connections to Dynamics, Geometric Measure Theory, Mathematical Physics and Number Theory, III
  Room 325, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Michel L. Lapidus, University of California Riverside lapidus@math.ucr.edu
  Erin P. Pearse, University of California Riverside epearse@math.ucr.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley State College vanframa@uvsc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Survey of Results Involving Vertex Replacement Rules.
    Michelle Previte*, Penn State Erie
    (1018-51-18)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Semilinear PDE on Regions with Fractal Boundary and Semilinear PdE on Graphs; Automated Branch Following and Symmetry.
    John M Neuberger*, Northern Arizona University
    Nandor Sieben, NAU
    James W Swift, NAU
    (1018-35-240)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Harmonic coordinates on fractals with finitely ramified cell structure.
    Alexander Teplyaev*, University of Connecticut
    (1018-28-154)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Localization on Snowflake Domains.
    Britta Daudert*, UC Riverside
    (1018-65-110)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hausdorff and Packing Dimension Results for Random Fields.
    Yimin Xiao*, Michigan State University
    (1018-60-29)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Parabolic Harnack Inequality for jump processes on fractal spaces.
    M. T. Barlow*, University of British Columbia
    R. F. Bass, University of Connecticut
    T. Kumagai, RIMS, Kyoto University
    (1018-60-47)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Statistical Physics, III
  Room 329, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
  Noam Berger, California Institute of Technology and University of California Los Angeles berger@its.caltech.edu
  Balint Virag, University of Toronto balint@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    What slows mixing on (random) graphs.
    Elchanan Mossel*, Statistcs, U.C. Berkeley
    Dror Weitz, DIMACS
    Nick Wormald, Waterloo
    (1018-60-219)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Solution-space Geometry of Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems.
    Dimitris Achlioptas*, Department of Computer Science, University of California Santa Cruz
    Federico Ricci-Tersenghi, Department of Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza
    (1018-60-215)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Localization of favorite points for diffusion in random environment.
    Dimitris Cheliotis*, University of Toronto
    (1018-60-223)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Liapunov Exponents and Nonuniform Hyperbolicity, III
  Room 429, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Anton Gorodetski, California Institute of Technology asgor@caltech.edu Caltech
  Vadim Kaloshin, California Institute of Technology kaloshin@its.caltech.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Stable transitivity of non-compact extensions.
    Viorel Nitica*, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
    Andrew Torok, University of Houston
    Ian Melbourne, University of Surrey, UK
    (1018-37-244)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Analytic reparametrization of semialgebraic sets and local entropy bounds.
    Y. Yomdin*, The Weizmann Institute of Science
    (1018-37-136)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nonremovable zero Lyapunov exponents.
    Anton Gorodetski*, Caltech
    Yulij Ilyashenko, Cornell University, Moscow State University, Independent Moscow University
    Victor Kleptsyn, Moscow State University, ENS Lyon, Independent Moscow University
    Maxim Nalsky, Moscow State University
    (1018-37-252)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Whitney regularity for solutions to the coboundary equation on Cantor sets.
    Andrew Torok*, University of Houston
    Matthew Nicol, University of Houston
    (1018-37-202)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Q-series and Partitions, III
  Room 110, Business
  Organizers:
  Neville Robbins, San Francisco State University robbins@math.sfsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Explicit Ramanujan-Type Partition Congruences for Primes $>$ 31.
    Samuel S Lachterman*, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
    Brendan Younger, Univ. of Texas
    (1018-11-130)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Koike's Identities between Thompson Series and Rogers-Ramanujan Functions.
    Holly M Swisher*, Ohio State University
    Kathrin Bringmann, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1018-11-114)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Mock Theta functions and a Conjecture of Dragonette and Andrews.
    Kathrin Bringmann*, university of Wisconsin
    (1018-11-116)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mock theta functions.
    Ken Ono*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    Kathrin Bringmann, University of Wisconsin
    (1018-11-54)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Lie Algebras and Applications, III
  Room 106, Business
  Organizers:
  Dimitar Grantcharov, San Jose State University grantcharov@math.sjsu.edu
  Vera Serganova, University of California Berkeley serganova@math.berkeley.edu
  Arturo Pianzola, University of Alberta a.pianzola@ualberta.ca
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Versal Deformations and Moduli Spaces of Lie Algebras.
    Michael R Penkava*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Alice Fialowski, E\"otv\"os Lor\'and University
    (1018-17-43)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Root Multiplicities of the Indefinite Kac-Moody Algebras $HC_n^{(1)}$.
    Vicky Williams Klima*, Appalachian State University
    Kailash C. Misra, North Carolina State University
    (1018-17-182)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Kostant modules in blocks of category ${\mathcal O}_{S}$.
    Brian D. Boe*, University of Georgia
    Markus Hunziker, Baylor University
    (1018-17-94)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Norton algebras attached to Weyl group quotients.
    Fernando Levstein*, FaMAF, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
    Carolina Maldonado, FaMAF, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
    Daniel Penazzi, FaMAF, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
    (1018-17-101)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Schur-Weyl duality for higher levels.
    Jonathan Brundan*, University of Oregon
    Alexander Kleshchev, University of Oregon
    (1018-20-44)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 331, Thornton Hall
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:15 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, II
  Room 113, Business
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The matrix analogs of Firey's Extension of Minkowski inequality and of Firey's Extension of Brunn-Minkowski inequality.
    Poramate Pranayanuntana*, Dept. of Control Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
    John Gordon, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, USA 11364
    (1018-52-263)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Mathematical, Physical, and Biological Fractal Sphere-packings.
    Benjamin Wells*, University of San Francisco
    (1018-51-23)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Population Dynamics of Developmental Disorders Due to an Environmental Neurotoxicant.
    Thomas J Emerson*, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    (1018-92-195)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    A Modified Jacobi Iteration Method for Linear System.
    Joshua Z. Du*, Kennesaw State University
    (1018-15-123)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Periodic and Quasiperiodic Orbits of a Fractal Billiard.
    Robert G. Niemeyer*, University of California, Riverside
    (1018-37-194)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Moment Estimates and Almost Sure Asymptotic Estimates for the Solution of the Stochastic Differential Delay Equations.
    Matina John Rassias*, University of Strathclyde, UK
    Xuerong Mao, University of Strathclyde, UK
    (1018-60-21)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Analysis of Solutions to a Coupled Ginzburg-Landau System for Superconductors of Layered Structure.
    Yangsuk Ko*, California Sate University at Bakersfield
    Patricia Bauman, Purdue University
    (1018-35-24)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Diagonalizing Similarity Transformations for Variable-Coefficient Differential Operators.
    James V Lambers*, Stanford University
    Patrick Guidotti, University of California, Irvine
    (1018-35-170)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Two-level atoms: A normal form approach.
    Raghu Gompa*, Jackson State University
    (1018-81-28)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Cooperative Binding Enzyme/Substrate Systems; Chaos/Catastrophe Analysis, Existence of Bifurcation Fold Catastrophe. Applied to Hemoglobin/Oxygen Neuroreceptors/Neurotransmitter and Microtubulin/Taxol
    David Lee Blackman*, Retired UC Berkeley
    (1018-92-36)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Mathematical Foundations of Game Theory and the Social Sciences.
    Jonathan Barzilai*, Dalhousie University
    (1018-90-68)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Gauss-Legendre Quadrature Formula in Runge-Kutta Method with Modified Model of Newton Cooling Law.
    Maitree Podisuk*, KMITL, Bangkok Thailand
    Sirirat Khuntidilokwongsa, KMUTT, Bangkok Thailand
    Witchasya Rattanametawee, MU, Mahasarakham Thailand
    (1018-65-16)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications, III
  Room 432, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Steve Shkoller, University of California Davis shkoller@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Structures of Local Minimizers of a One-Dimensional Higher Order Variational Problem.
    Aaron Nung Kwan Yip*, Purdue University
    (1018-35-218)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Building solutions to nonlinear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations.
    Adam M Oberman*, Simon Fraser University
    (1018-35-72)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Maximal smoothness for solutions to equilibrium equations from 2D nonlinear elasticity.
    Xiaodong Yan*, Michigan State University
    (1018-35-79)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generic Properties of Closed Minimal Surfaces in Compact Riemannian Manifolds.
    John D Moore*, University of California Santa Barbara
    (1018-53-128)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Dynamics and Ergodic Theory, III
  Room 211, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University cheung@math.sfsu.edu
  Arek Goetz, San Francisco State University goetz@sfsu.edu
  Slobodan Simic, San Jose State University simic@math.sjsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Markov minimal sets of foliations.
    Steve Hurder*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1018-37-222)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The convergence of the transfer operator for parabolic maps.
    Nicolai T A Haydn*, University of Sourthern California
    (1018-37-164)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic cones of the leaves of a foliated space.
    Alberto Candel*, California State University at Northridge
    Jesus Alvarez Lopez, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
    (1018-37-66)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Security and complexity.
    Eugene Gutkin*, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
    (1018-37-184)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, III
  Room 116, Business
  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.
    Historiography of the philosophy of mathematics in the late twentieth century.
    Thomas Drucker*, Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin--Whitewater
    (1018-01-51)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Greek mathematics and Greek skepticism.
    Hardy Grant*, York University, Toronto
    (1018-01-56)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Suan Shu Shu, A Book on Numbers and Computations: Problems in Collating, Interpreting and Translating the Most Ancient Yet-Known Chinese Mathematical Text.
    Joseph W. Dauben*, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
    (1018-01-48)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Nonlocal instabilities in the planar three body problem.
  Room 101, Science
  Vadim Kaloshin*, Caltech and PSU
  Timothy Nguyen, Caltech
  Dmitry Pavlov, Caltech
  (1018-37-260)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Mean-Field Approach to the Problem of Phase Transitions in Physically Realistic Systems.
  Room 101, Science
  L. Chayes*, UCLA Department of Mathematics
  (1018-82-135)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Hilbert Functions and Resolutions, IV
  Room 111, Business
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Richert, California Polytechnic State University brichert@calpoly.edu
  Sean Sather-Wagstaff, California State University, Dominguez Hills ssather@csudh.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Regularity of Powers of an Ideal.
    David Eisenbud*, MSRI and UC Berkeley
    (1018-13-216)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Growth of powers of ideals.
    Catalin Ciuperca*, North Dakota State University
    Florian Enescu, Georgia State University
    Sandra Spiroff, University of Utah
    (1018-13-190)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Buchsbaum-Rim multiplicity in terms of Hilbert-Samuel multiplicities.
    C-Y. Jean Chan*, University of Arkansas
    Jung-Chen Liu, National Taiwan Normal University
    Bernd Ulrich, Purdue University
    (1018-13-241)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    C-Strict Resolutions.
    Diana White*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (1018-13-236)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Cohomology over Fiber Products of Local Rings.
    W. Frank Moore*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1018-13-203)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Explicit generalized Pieri maps and their inverses.
    Carrie E. Finch*, University of South Carolina
    (1018-13-142)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Almost regular sequences.
    Florian Enescu*, Georgia State University
    (1018-13-168)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Arithmetic Geometry, IV
  Room 104, Business
  Organizers:
  Kenneth A. Ribet, University of California Berkeley ribet@math.berkeley.edu
  Kristin Estrella Lauter, Microsoft Corporation klauter@microsoft.com
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The p-torsion of curves in characteristic p.
    Rachel Pries*, Colorado State University
    (1018-11-146)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Local Galois theory in dimension two.
    Katherine F. Stevenson*, California State University, Northridge
    David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania
    (1018-14-55)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Solvability of small curves of genus 2.
    Nils Bruin*, Simon Fraser University
    Michael Stoll, International University Bremen
    (1018-11-120)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Gonality of modular curves in characteristic p.
    Bjorn Poonen*, University of California at Berkeley
    (1018-14-165)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Reflection principles and l-parts of class groups.
    Jordan S Ellenberg*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Akshay Venkatesh, New York University
    (1018-11-71)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Modular curves and semistable abelian varieties over~$\bf Q$.
    Rene Schoof*, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" / MSRI
    (1018-11-125)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications, IV
  Room 432, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Steve Shkoller, University of California Davis shkoller@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Global Well-Posedness of Partial Differential Equations of Fluid Type.
    Congming Li*, Applied Math, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder
    Thomas Y Hou, Calif. Int. of Tech, CAM
    (1018-35-249)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Variational systems of nonlinear wave equations.
    John K Hunter*, University of California at Davis
    (1018-35-82)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Feature-preserving higher-order geometric evolution problems in image processing.
    Marc Droske*, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
    Andrea Bertozzi, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1018-53-78)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Level Set Dynamics and the Non-blowup of the 2D Quasi-geostrophic Equation.
    Xinwei Yu*, University of California, Los Angeles
    Thomas Y Hou, California Institute of Technology
    Ruo Li, California Institute of Technology, Peking University
    Jian Deng, Fudan University
    (1018-35-70)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Gr\"obner Bases, II
  Room 108, Business
  Organizers:
  Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley bernd@math.berkeley.edu
  Alexander Yong, University of Minnesota and Fields Institute ayong@fields.utoronto.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Secant varieties of rational homogeneous varieties.
    Joseph M Landsberg*, Texas A&M University
    (1018-14-185)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Local Neighborhoods of Schubert Varieties.
    Alexander Woo*, University of California at Davis
    Alexander Yong, University of Minnesota, Fields Institute
    (1018-14-266)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Tropical Implicitization.
    Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley
    Jenia Tevelev, UT Austin
    Josephine Yu*, UC Berkeley
    (1018-14-234)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some progress on the Lex-Plus-Power conjecture.
    Giulio Caviglia*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1018-13-267)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Fibers of a Rational Map.
    David Eisenbud*, MSRI and UC Berkeley
    (1018-14-217)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Computing characteristic cycles of local cohomology modules.
    Anton Leykin*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Josep \`Alvarez Montaner, Universitat Polit\`ecnica de Catalunya
    (1018-14-151)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Elliptic Methods in Geometry, IV
  Room 120, Business
  Organizers:
  C. Robin Graham, University of Washington robin@math.washington.edu
  Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University mazzeo@riley.stanford.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Critical elliptic regularity from Littlewood-Paley theory.
    D Labutin*, University of California Santa Barbara
    (1018-58-188)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hitchin-Thorpe inequality for noncompact Einstein 4-manifolds.
    Xianzhe Dai*, UCSB
    Guofang Wei, UCSB
    (1018-53-105)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Dehn Filling and Asymptotically Hyperbolic Einstein manifolds.
    Gordon Craig*, Bishop's University
    (1018-53-34)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Fractal Geometry: Connections to Dynamics, Geometric Measure Theory, Mathematical Physics and Number Theory, IV
  Room 325, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Michel L. Lapidus, University of California Riverside lapidus@math.ucr.edu
  Erin P. Pearse, University of California Riverside epearse@math.ucr.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley State College vanframa@uvsc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Multifractals and negative dimensions.
    Benoit Mandelbrot*, Yale University
    (1018-28-273)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Chromatic number of a graph on the integers via a Cantor set construction.
    Yuval Peres*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1018-28-205)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Arithmetic progressions of zeros of the Riemann zeta function.
    Machiel van Frankenhuijsen*, Utah Valley State College
    (1018-11-31)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Multifractal Analysis of Functions Arising in Number Theory.
    St\'ephane Jaffard*, University Paris 12
    (1018-26-67)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Fractal Supersymmetric Model for the Riemann zeta zeros.
    Carlos E Castro*, Center for Theoretical Studies of Physical Systems
    (1018-11-83)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Minkowski sums of Cantor-type sets.
    Kazimierz Nikodem*, Dept. of Math., University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland.
    (1018-52-19)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Statistical Physics, IV
  Room 329, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
  Noam Berger, California Institute of Technology and University of California Los Angeles berger@its.caltech.edu
  Balint Virag, University of Toronto balint@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Zeroes of random analytic functions.
    Manjunath Krishnapur*, Department of Statistics, U C Berkeley
    (1018-60-149)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Large deviations for analytic functions with diffusing coefficients.
    J. Ben Hough*, U.C. Berkeley
    (1018-60-211)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Statistical physics, computer simulation and probability.
    Raissa M D'Souza*, University of California, Davis
    (1018-82-171)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Corner percolation and related models on planar lattices.
    G\'abor Pete*, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
    (1018-60-259)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Liapunov Exponents and Nonuniform Hyperbolicity, IV
  Room 429, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Anton Gorodetski, California Institute of Technology asgor@caltech.edu Caltech
  Vadim Kaloshin, California Institute of Technology kaloshin@its.caltech.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dominated Schr"odinger Cocycles.
    David Damanik*, California Institute of Technology
    (1018-37-64)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Grand ensembles of random systems and randelette expansions.
    Victor Chulaevsky*, Universite de Reims
    (1018-37-113)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Mixing for flows and diffeomorphisms.
    Michael J Field*, University of Houston
    I S Melbourne, University of Surrey
    A Torok, University of Houston
    (1018-37-115)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Generic diffeos have no ACIM.
    Jairo Bochi*, UFRGS - Porto Alegre
    (1018-37-229)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Q-series and Partitions, IV
  Room 110, Business
  Organizers:
  Neville Robbins, San Francisco State University robbins@math.sfsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Elliptic enumeration of nonintersecting lattice paths.
    Michael J Schlosser*, Faculty of Mathematics/University of Vienna
    (1018-05-133)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Elementary divisors of Cartan matrices for symmetric groups.
    Hiro-Fumi Yamada*, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis
    (1018-05-60)
• Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Lie Algebras and Applications, IV
  Room 106, Business
  Organizers:
  Dimitar Grantcharov, San Jose State University grantcharov@math.sjsu.edu
  Vera Serganova, University of California Berkeley serganova@math.berkeley.edu
  Arturo Pianzola, University of Alberta a.pianzola@ualberta.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On Cylindric partitions.
    Nicolai Reshetikhin*, UC Berkeley
    (1018-05-227)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Regular Kac-Moody superalgebras.
    Crystal Hoyt*, University of California, Berkeley
    Vera Serganova, University of California, Berkeley
    (1018-17-129)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The graded Lie superalgebra structure on the Hochschild cohomology of truncated polynomial algebras.
    Joerg Feldvoss*, University of South Alabama
    Thorsten Holm, University of Leeds
    (1018-17-179)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Borel-Weil-Bott theorem for diagonal direct limits of algebraic groups.
    Ivan Dimitrov*, Queen's University
    Ivan Penkov, International University Bremen
    (1018-17-220)

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