AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Saturday, May 6, 2006 00:24:07
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
Sunday April 30, 2006
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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
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4:00 p.m.
Arithmetic progressions of zeros of the Riemann zeta function.
Machiel van Frankenhuijsen*, Utah Valley State College
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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
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5:30 p.m.
Minkowski sums of Cantor-type sets.
Kazimierz Nikodem*, Dept. of Math., University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland.
(1018-52-19)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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3:00 p.m.
Zeroes of random analytic functions.
Manjunath Krishnapur*, Department of Statistics, U C Berkeley
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3:30 p.m.
Large deviations for analytic functions with diffusing coefficients.
J. Ben Hough*, U.C. Berkeley
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4:10 p.m.
Statistical physics, computer simulation and probability.
Raissa M D'Souza*, University of California, Davis
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5:10 p.m.
Corner percolation and related models on planar lattices.
G\'abor Pete*, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
(1018-60-259)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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
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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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3:00 p.m.