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2006 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Durham, NH, April 22-23, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1017

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 22, 2006

Saturday April 22, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Lobby, Murkland Hall

Saturday April 22, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Room G02, Murkland Hall

Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, I
Room 115, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Charles D. Frohman, University of Iowa
Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University rgelca@gmail.com
- 8:00 a.m.
  Combinatorial patterns in Khovanov type graph homology.
  Jozef H Przytycki*, GWU
  Milena D Pabiniak, GWU
  Radmila Sazdanovic, GWU
  (1017-57-222)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Behavior of knot invariants under genus~$2$ mutation.
  Nathan M. Dunfield, California Institute of Technology
  Stavros Garoufalidis, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Alexander Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
  Morwen Thislethwaite, The University of Tennessee
  (1017-57-220)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Khovanov Homology and The Geometry of Alternating Knots.
  Robert G. Todd*, Universtiy of Iowa
  (1017-00-81)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discovering torsion in chromatic graph homology.
  Radmila Sazdanovic*, George Washington University
  Milena D. Pabiniak, GWU
  Jozef H. Przytycki, GWU
  (1017-57-34)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Introduction to Quandle Algebras.
  J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
  (1017-55-113)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Reidemeister torsion of a 3-dimensional homology sphere at the trivial representation.
  Charles D. Frohman, The University of Iowa
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
  (1017-57-148)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions, I
Room 201, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Rita A. Hibschweiler, University of New Hampshire rah2@cisunix.unh.edu
Thomas H. MacGregor, SUNY Albany and Bowdoin College
- 8:00 a.m.
  Pluripolarity of manifolds of Gevrey class and asymptotics of $n$-width.
  Oleg Eroshkin*, University of New Hampshire
  (1017-32-20)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On a question of Korevaar and Br\'ezis concerning a class of square summable sequences.
  Richard Fournier*, Universit� de Montr�al
  (1017-30-95)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Composition operators on $\mu$-Bloch spaces.
  Huaihui Chen, Nanjing Normal University
  Paul M Gauthier*, Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
  (1017-30-117)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Algebraic aspects of the Dirirchlet problem.
  Steven R. Bell, Purdue University
  Peter Ebenfelt, University of California San Diego at La Jolla
  Dima Khavinson*, University of Arkansas and National Science Foundation
  Harold S. Shapiro, Royal Institute of Technology
  (1017-31-12)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Interpolation of Bergman-type spaces and applications.
  Marc R Lengfield*, Western Kentucky University
  (1017-47-22)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Fractional Cauchy Transforms and Compositions, Preliminary Report.
  Thomas H. Mac Gregor*, Bowdoin College/SUNY at Albany
  (1017-30-38)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
Special Session on Banach Lattices, Regular Operators, and Applications, I
Room G01, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
A. K. Kitover, Community College of Philadelphia
M. Orhon, University of New Hampshire
A. W. Wickstead, Queen's University of Belfast a.wickstead@queens-belfast.ac.uk
- 8:00 a.m.
  When do the regular operators between two Banach lattices form a lattice?
  Anthony W Wickstead*, Queens University Belfast
  (1017-47-144)
- 8:55 a.m.
  The de Schipper formula and squares of Banach lattices.
  Gerard J Buskes*, University of Mississippi
  (1017-46-109)
- 9:50 a.m.
  Martingales in Banach Lattices.
  Vladimir Troitsky*, University of Alberta
  (1017-46-164)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Galois Theory in Arithmetic and Geometry, I
Room 202, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Florian Pop, University of Pennsylvania pop@math.upenn.edu
David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania harbater@math.upenn.edu
Rachel J. Pries, Colorado State University pries@math.colostate.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Galois groups of unramified extensions.
  Romyar T Sharifi*, McMaster University
  (1017-11-167)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Realizing Groups with Minimal Ramification.
  Nigel Boston*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (1017-11-150)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Mild pro-$p$ groups and $p$-extensions with restricted ramification.
  Michael R. Bush*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  John Labute, McGill University, Canada
  (1017-11-112)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Open conditions for infinite multiplicity eigenvalues on elliptic curves.
  Bo-Hae Im*, University of Utah
  Michael Larsen, Indiana University
  (1017-11-105)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A finiteness conjecture for abelian varieties over number fields.
  Christopher Rasmussen*, Rice University
  (1017-14-138)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Obstructions to deformations of complexes.
  Frauke M. Bleher*, University of Iowa
  Ted Chinburg, University of Pennsylvania
  Luc Illusie, Universit\'{e} Paris-Sud
  (1017-11-137)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Algebras and Applications, I
Room G18, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Alexander A. Katz, St. John's University katza@stjohns.edu
Genady Y. Grabarnik, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center genady@us.ibm.com
- 8:30 a.m.
  Flows of weighs of real type III factors.
  Shukhrat M. Usmanov*, Department of Mathematics, North Dakota State University
  (1017-46-129)
- 9:25 a.m.
  On the Hahn-Banach Theorem.
  Lawrence Narici*, St. John's University, NY
  (1017-46-149)
- 10:20 a.m.
  On real Hilbert modules over real C*- and real locally C*-algebras.
  Alexander A Katz, St. John's University, NY
  Roman Kushnir*, St. John's University, NY
  (1017-46-162)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Galois Module Theory, I
Room 204, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Timothy Kohl, Boston University tkohl@it.bu.edu
Robert G. Underwood, Auburn University Montgomery runderwo@mail.aum.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Counting Hopf-Galois structures on field extensions.
  Nigel P. Byott*, University of Exeter, UK
  (1017-16-50)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Groups of Order 4p, Twisted Wreath Products and Hopf-Galois Theory.
  Timothy Kohl*, Boston University
  (1017-16-51)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Counting Hopf Galois structures on Galois extensions of fields.
  Lindsay N. Childs*, University at Albany
  (1017-12-39)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Groups, I
Room 104, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
George J. McNinch, Tufts University george.mcninch@tufts.edu
Eric Sommers, University of Massachusetts-Amherst esommers@math.umass.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Tilting modules for semisimple groups in characteristic $p$.
  James E. Humphreys*, U. Massachusetts, Amherst
  (1017-20-86)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On special pieces, unipotent classes, and complex reflection groups.
  Pramod N Achar*, Louisiana State University
  (1017-20-190)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Alvis-Curtis duality for admissible complexes.
  J. Matthew Douglass*, University of North Texas
  (1017-20-185)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Bruhat-Tits Buildings of Rank Three.
  Richard M Weiss*, Tufts University
  (1017-20-25)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Semi-infinite moment graphs.
  Jared Anderson, New York, NY
  Tom Braden*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Mikhail Kogan, New York, NY
  Robert MacPherson, IAS, Princeton, NJ
  (1017-14-186)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry and Modular Forms, I
Room 102, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Paul E. Gunnells, University of Massachusetts, Amherst gunnells@math.umass.edu
Farshid Hajir, University of Massachusetts, Amherst hajir@math.umass.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Congruences of modular forms and vertex algebras.
  Antun Milas*, University at Albany (SUNY)
  (1017-11-108)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Independence of Heeger Points.
  Joseph H Silverman*, Brown University
  Michael Rosen, Brown University
  (1017-11-23)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Divisibility properties of the torsion subgroup of two-dimensional abelian varieties.
  J Cullinan*, Colby College
  (1017-11-154)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Trivial bounds and elliptic curves of maximal rank.
  Alvaro Lozano-Robledo*, Cornell University
  (1017-11-91)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Ranks of elliptic curves over towers of Kummer extensions.
  Henri Darmon*, McGill University
  (1017-11-30)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, I
Room 118, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Weimin Chen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst wchen@math.umass.edu
Michael G. Sullivan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sullivan@math.umass.edu
Hao Wu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst wu@math.umass.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the Morse Index of a Functional Arising in Contact Geometry.
  Abbas Bahri, Rutgers University, Math dept
  Yongzhong Xu*, Courant Institute, NYU
  (1017-53-191)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Existence of Engel structures.
  Thomas Vogel*, University of Pennsylvania/Institute for Advanced Study
  (1017-57-93)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Tight Beltrami fields with symmetry.
  Rafal Komendarczyk*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1017-51-114)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Reduction and duality in generalized geometry.
  Shengda Hu*, Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
  (1017-53-160)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Right veering diffeomorphisms of surfaces with boundary and.
  Ko Honda, University of Southern California
  William H. Kazez, University of Georgia
  Gordana Matic*, University of Georgia
  (1017-57-226)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements and Configuration Spaces, I
Room 203, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Graham C. Denham, University of Western Ontario gdenham@uwo.ca
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University a.suciu@neu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Critical loci of products of integral powers of linear forms.
  Michael J Falk*, Northern Arizona University
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University
  Graham Denham, University of Western Ontario
  Alexander N. Varchenko, University of North Carolina
  (1017-14-179)
- 9:40 a.m.
  On nets and orthogonal Latin squares.
  Corey Dunn, Graduate Teaching Fellow/University of Oregon
  Matt S Miller, Graduate Teaching Fellow/University of Oregon
  Max D Wakefield*, Graduate Teaching Fellow/University of Oregon
  Sebastian Zwicknagl, Graduate Teaching Fellow/University of Oregon
  (1017-52-208)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Right-angled mock reflection groups.
  Richard Scott*, Santa Clara University
  (1017-57-202)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Challenges in Physical and Engineering Sciences, I
Room 116, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Marianna A. Shubov, University of New Hampshire marianna.shubov@euclid.unh.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Construction and Analysis of Perturbation and Methods for `Truly Nonlinear' Oscillatory Systems.
  Ronald E. Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University
  (1017-41-56)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Applications of the Directional Wavelet and Ridgelet Transforms in Texture Identification.
  Ahmed I. Zayed*, DePaul University
  Lucia Dettori, School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems, DePaul University
  (1017-42-134)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Mathematical Modeling of Cellular Signaling: Lipid Signaling Kinetics.
  Hannah L. Callender, Vanderbilt University
  Mary Ann Horn*, Vanderbilt University
  (1017-92-145)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On equations of fluid suspensions.
  Victor Shubov*, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  (1017-76-199)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete and Convex Geometry, I
Room G04, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts (Lowell)
Barry R. Monson, University of New Brunswick
Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Radon, cosine, and sine transforms on the hyperbolic space.
  Boris Rubin*, Louisiana State University
  (1017-42-64)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Continuity of intrinsic volumes with respect to the $L_1$ metric.
  Rick Vitale*, University of Connecticut
  (1017-52-102)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Isothetic parallelotopes and the binary intersection property.
  Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
  (1017-52-33)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Composite Cosine Transforms on Stiefel Manifolds.
  Elena Ournycheva*, Kent State University
  Boris Rubin, Louisiana State University
  (1017-42-103)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Group Theory and Topology, I
Room G17, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Kim Ruane, Tufts University kim.ruane@tufts.edu
Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College jtaback@bowdoin.edu
Peter N. Wong, Bates College pwong@bates.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On Trivalent Directed Graphs and Conjugacy Classes of Thompson's Group $F$.
  Francesco Matucci*, Cornell University
  James M. Belk, Texas A&M University
  (1017-20-170)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Wreath products in a group of homeomorphisms.
  Collin Bleak*, Binghamton University
  (1017-20-49)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Thompson's group $F(p+1)$ is not minimally almost convex.
  Claire W Wladis*, City University of New York
  (1017-20-104)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Ruinous Subsets of Richard Thompson's Group F.
  John Donnelly*, Mount Union College
  (1017-20-41)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
On the dynamics of binary fluid mixtures.
Room 115, Murkland Hall
Konstantina Trivisa*, University of Maryland, College Park
(1017-35-01)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Algebraic theory of tensor categories.
Room 115, Murkland Hall
Dmitri Nikshych*, University of New Hampshire
(1017-18-02)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Arrangements and Configuration Spaces, II
Room 203, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Graham C. Denham, University of Western Ontario gdenham@uwo.ca
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University a.suciu@neu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Configuration spaces of algebraic varieties.
  Stefan Papadima*, Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow", Bucharest
  Barbu Berceanu, Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow", Bucharest
  Martin Markl, Mathematical Institute of the Academy, Prague
  (1017-55-131)
- 3:10 p.m.
  The projective invariants of ordered points on the line.
  Benjamin J Howard*, University of Maryland College Park
  John J Millson, University of Maryland College Park
  Andrew Snowden, Princeton University
  Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
  (1017-14-37)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Configurations of points in $R^3$.
  Richard Randell*, University of Iowa
  (1017-57-176)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Moduli spaces and Coxeter operads.
  Satyan L Devadoss*, Williams College
  (1017-55-155)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Topological Criteria for $k-$Formal Arrangements.
  Stefan O Tohaneanu*, Texas A&M University
  (1017-52-55)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, II
Room 115, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Charles D. Frohman, University of Iowa
Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University rgelca@gmail.com
- 2:30 p.m.
  Unitary Representations of the Braid Group.
  Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1017-57-153)
- 3:00 p.m.
  p-adic framed braids.
  Sofia Lambropoulou*, National Technical University of Athens
  Jesus Juyumaya, University of Valparaiso, Chile
  (1017-57-192)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Categorifying the Tutte polynomial and more.
  Yongwu Rong*, The George Washington University
  E Fanny Jasso-Hernandez, The George Washington University
  (1017-57-183)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Chromatic graph $A_3$ homology from geometric properties of graphs.
  Milena Dorota Pabiniak*, George Washington University, Washington DC
  Jozef H Przytycki, GWU
  Radmila Sazdanovic, GWU
  (1017-57-32)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On Kauffman bracket quantization.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  Nikolaos Apostolakis, CUNY New York
  (1017-57-158)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Torus knot complements: A natural series for the natural logarithm.
  Oliver T Dasbach*, Louisiana State University
  (1017-57-206)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Algebras and Applications, II
Room G18, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Alexander A. Katz, St. John's University katza@stjohns.edu
Genady Y. Grabarnik, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center genady@us.ibm.com
- 2:30 p.m.
  Representations of quantum algebras $U_q(so(3))$ and $U_q(so(4))$ and $q$-orthogonal polynomials.
  Alexander Rozenblyum*, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
  (1017-33-152)
- 3:25 p.m.
  Stochastic Banach Principle.
  Genady Ya Grabarnik*, IBM TJ Watson Research
  Larisa Shwartz, UNISA
  (1017-47-142)
- 4:20 p.m.
  Some remarks on stochastic convergence of the Bounded Besickovitch sequences in semifinite von Neumann algebras.
  Larisa Shwartz*, UNISA
  Genady Ya Grabarnik, IBM TJ Watson Research
  (1017-37-143)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Global Perspectives on the Geometry of Riemann Surfaces, I
Room G16, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Eran Makover, Central Connecticut State University makovere@ccsu.edu
Jeffrey K. McGowan, Central Connecticut State University mcgowan@ccsu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Geodesics on quilted flute surfaces.
  Perry Susskind*, Connecticut College
  Andy Haas, University of Connecticut
  (1017-30-140)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The distribution of geodesic excursions.
  Andy Haas*, University of Connecticut
  (1017-30-96)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Determinants of laplacians over Riemann surfaces in flat metrics with conical singularities.
  Dmitry Korotkin*, Concordia University
  (1017-53-88)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break.
- 4:30 p.m.
  How large can the first eigenvalue be on a surface of genus two?
  Dmitry Jakobson*, McGill University
  I Polterevich, University of Montreal
  M Levitin, Heriot-Watt University
  N Nadirashvili, University of Chicago
  N Nigam, McGill University
  (1017-58-66)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Fundamental tone, volume concentration and conformal degeneracy.
  Alexandre Girouard*, University of Montreal
  (1017-53-15)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Sharp upper bounds for the first eigenvalue on surfaces and mixed isospectrality.
  Iosif Polterovich*, University of Montreal
  (1017-58-61)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete and Convex Geometry, II
Room G04, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts (Lowell)
Barry R. Monson, University of New Brunswick
Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Gray graph as a medial layer graph of a polytope.
  Monson, University of New Brunswick
  Pisanski, University of Ljubljana
  Schulte, Northeastern University
  Weiss*, York University
  (1017-52-126)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Abstract Archimedean Polyhedra - Preliminary Report.
  Gordon I Williams*, Ursinus College
  Michael Hartley, School of CS & IT, University of Nottingham (Malaysia Campus)
  (1017-52-107)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On fully-transitive maps.
  Isabel A Hubard*, York University
  (1017-52-127)
- 4:00 p.m.
  CPR-graphs and regular polytopes.
  Daniel Pellicer-Covarrubias*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City
  (1017-52-205)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Statistical Estimation of Topological and Integral-Geometric Invariants of Non-Convex Bodies in 3D: Mathematical Challenges.
  Konstantin Rybnikov*, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
  (1017-52-228)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions, II
Room 201, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Rita A. Hibschweiler, University of New Hampshire rah2@cisunix.unh.edu
Thomas H. MacGregor, SUNY Albany and Bowdoin College
- 2:30 p.m.
  Continuous functions in star-invariant subspaces.
  Alec L Matheson*, Lamar University
  (1017-30-201)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Hardy space of a slit disk.
  William T Ross*, University of Richmond
  (1017-47-116)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Nevanlinna functions in hyperconvex domains.
  Michael I Stessin*, SUNY at Albany
  (1017-47-97)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Taylor coefficients of functions in Fock spaces.
  James Tung*, Michigan State University
  (1017-30-79)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Approximation In Weighted Hardy Spaces.
  Changzhong Zhu*, Univ. of Montreal
  (1017-41-213)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On invertibility of analytic mappings.
  Joseph A. Cima*, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.
  Warren Wogen, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
  (1017-46-13)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Banach Lattices, Regular Operators, and Applications, II
Room G01, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
A. K. Kitover, Community College of Philadelphia
M. Orhon, University of New Hampshire
A. W. Wickstead, Queen's University of Belfast a.wickstead@queens-belfast.ac.uk
- 2:30 p.m.
  Products of weak log convex operators are weak log convex.
  Anton R. Schep*, Univ. of SC
  (1017-46-169)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Injective Hulls of Commutative C*-algebras Revisited.
  Don W. Hadwin*, University of New Hampshire
  Vern Paulsen, University of Houston
  (1017-47-221)
- 3:50 p.m.
  A Spectrum Theorem for Some Perturbed Linear Operators.
  Jiu Ding*, The University of Southern Mississippi
  Aihui Zhou, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing
  (1017-47-80)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Extreme Points of Stochastic Operators.
  Don Hadwin, University of New Hampshire
  Eric Nordgren*, University of New Hampshire
  Heydar Radjavi, University of Waterloo
  (1017-47-219)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Conjugations of a transitive operator by special matrices.
  Gleb Sirotkin*, Northern Illinois University
  (1017-47-197)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Galois Module Theory, II
Room 204, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Timothy Kohl, Boston University tkohl@it.bu.edu
Robert G. Underwood, Auburn University Montgomery runderwo@mail.aum.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Leopoldt and Hilbert-Speiser fields of given type.
  James E Carter*, College of Charleston
  (1017-11-177)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Calculation of Hopf Orders via Breuil Modules.
  Alan Koch*, Agnes Scott College
  (1017-13-98)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Realizable Hopf orders in $KC_{p^3}$.
  Robert G Underwood*, Auburn University Montgomery
  (1017-13-74)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Elementary abelian extensions of local fields.
  Griff Elder*, Virginia Tech
  (1017-11-120)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Groups, II
Room 104, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
George J. McNinch, Tufts University george.mcninch@tufts.edu
Eric Sommers, University of Massachusetts-Amherst esommers@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Cluster-tilted algebras.
  Ralf Schiffler*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  (1017-16-59)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Continuous Hecke algebras.
  Pavel Etingof, MIT
  Wee Liang Gan*, MIT
  Victor Ginzburg, University of Chicago
  (1017-20-92)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Poisson homogeneous spaces.
  Sam Evens*, University of Notre Dame
  (1017-22-135)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A t-structure on coherent sheaves on cotangent bundle of a flag variety.
  Ivan Mirkovic*, U. of Masachusetts, Amherst
  (1017-14-224)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the purity of Springer fibres.
  G. Lusztig*, MIT
  (1017-22-53)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry and Modular Forms, II
Room 102, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Paul E. Gunnells, University of Massachusetts, Amherst gunnells@math.umass.edu
Farshid Hajir, University of Massachusetts, Amherst hajir@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Shintani zeta-functions and Gross-Stark units for totally real fields.
  Samit Dasgupta*, Harvard University
  (1017-11-132)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Weil group of a two-dimensional local field.
  Karen Acquista*, Boston University
  (1017-11-73)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dedekind sums for higher-order Eisenstein series.
  Jay Jorgenson*, CCNY and Graduate Center
  Cormac O' Sullivan, Bronx Community College
  (1017-11-75)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On zeros of Eisenstein series for genus zero Fuchsian groups.
  Heekyoung Hahn*, University of Rochester
  (1017-11-125)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A relative trace formula and period integrals.
  Kimball Martin*, Columbia University
  (1017-11-168)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Maximal unramified $3$-extensions and $SL_2({\mathbb{Z}}_3)$.
  Michael R. Bush*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Laurent Bartholdi, L'Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne
  (1017-11-111)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, II
Room 118, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Weimin Chen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst wchen@math.umass.edu
Michael G. Sullivan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sullivan@math.umass.edu
Hao Wu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst wu@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Duality for Legendrian Contact Homology.
  Joshua M Sabloff*, Haverford College
  (1017-57-174)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Legendrian Torus Links.
  Jennifer Dalton, Bryn Mawr College
  John Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Lisa Traynor*, Bryn Mawr College
  (1017-53-198)
- 3:30 p.m.
  "Relative Framing of Transverse Knots".
  Vladimir V Chernov*, Dartmouth College
  (1017-57-07)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Genera of links in homology spheres.
  Yi Ni*, Princeton University
  (1017-57-67)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Smooth knot concordance invariants.
  Matthew Hedden*, MIT/Princeton
  (1017-51-26)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Transversal knots and Khovanov-Rozansky cohomology.
  Hao Wu*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (1017-57-211)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Galois Theory in Arithmetic and Geometry, II
Room 202, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Florian Pop, University of Pennsylvania pop@math.upenn.edu
David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania harbater@math.upenn.edu
Rachel J. Pries, Colorado State University pries@math.colostate.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Families of abelian varieties: rigidity and isogenies.
  Yuri G Zarhin*, Pennsylvania State University
  (1017-14-99)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Galois theory for elliptic subfields of a genus 2 function field.
  Ernst Kani*, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
  (1017-11-207)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The 2-ranks of elementary abelian 2-covers of the projective line.
  Darren B Glass*, Gettysburg College
  (1017-11-118)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Group representations on some Riemann-Roch spaces of Hurwitz curves.
  David Joyner, United States Naval Academy
  Amy Ksir*, United States Naval Academy
  Roger Vogeler, Ohio State University
  (1017-14-200)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Riemann Roch theorems for the Weil etale topology.
  Ted Chinburg*, University of Pennsylvania
  Stephen Lichtenbaum, Brown University
  Georgios Pappas, Michigan State University
  Martin Taylor, University of Manchester
  (1017-11-136)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Determining the Zeta Function of Gauss' Curve.
  Jeremy Muskat*, Colorado State University
  (1017-11-182)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Simultaneous surface resolution in quadratic and biquadratic Galois extensions.
  Shreeram S Abhyankar*, Purdue University
  (1017-12-47)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Group Theory and Topology, II
Room G17, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Kim Ruane, Tufts University kim.ruane@tufts.edu
Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College jtaback@bowdoin.edu
Peter N. Wong, Bates College pwong@bates.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Fundamental groups in fixed point theory.
  Peter N Wong*, Bates College
  (1017-55-65)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Conjugacy separability for virtual surface groups and Seifert fibred 3-manifolds.
  Armando Martino*, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
  (1017-20-45)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Twisted classes for some torsion free groups.
  Daciberg Lima Gon\c calves*, IME-Universidade de Sao Paulo
  Peter Wong, Bates College-Lewiston-Maine
  Felshtyn, Boise State University
  (1017-20-35)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Twisted Burnside-Frobenius theory for infinite groups.
  Alexander Fel'shtyn*, Boise State University and University of Szczecin
  Evgenij Troitsky, Moscow State University Moscow State University
  (1017-20-60)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The universal functorial equivariant Lefschetz invariant.
  Julia Weber*, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
  (1017-55-54)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Computation of Reidemeister classes by nilpotentization.
  P. Christopher Staecker*, Mesiah College
  (1017-20-180)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers
Room 116, Murkland Hall
- 3:00 p.m.
  Fixing \& Teaching the Decimal Number System to Obviate Millennium Confusion.
  Pal S. Asija*, Shelton, CT
  (1017-11-29)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Superquadratic functions in several variables.
  Shoshana Abramovich*, University of Haifa, Israel
  Senka Banic, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Split, Croatia
  Marko Matic, University of Split, Croatia
  (1017-26-43)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Topological Aspects of Products of Measures.
  Carmen Vlad*, Pace University - New York
  (1017-28-58)
- 3:45 p.m.
  On Fractional Fourier transform of tempered distributions.
  Bharat N. Bhosale*, University of Mumbai.
  (1017-35-08)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Shape Evolution of the Metatarsal Length Pattern from Nonhuman Primates to Modern Humans.
  Philip H. Demp*, Temple University
  (1017-92-24)

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2006 Spring Eastern Section Meeting Durham, NH, April 22-23, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday) Meeting #1017

Saturday April 22, 2006

2006 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Durham, NH, April 22-23, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1017