AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

Current as of Saturday, March 24, 2007 00:22:09

2007 Spring Central Section Meeting
Oxford, OH, March 16-17, 2007 (Friday - Saturday)
Meeting #1025

Friday March 16, 2007

• Friday March 16, 2007, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 115, Bachelor Hall
• Friday March 16, 2007, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 118, Bachelor Hall
• Friday March 16, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Time Scales: Theory and Applications, I
  Room 226, Culler Hall
  Organizers:
  Ferhan M. Atici, Western Kentucky University ferhan.atici@wku.edu
  Paul W. Eloe, University of Dayton paul.eloe@notes.udayton.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Oscillation criteria for a forced second order dynamic equation.
    Allan C. Peterson*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 68588-0130
    Lynn Erbe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Samer Saker, Mansoura University
    (1025-39-39)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Singular Second Order Boundary Value Problems on Purely Discrete Time Scales.
    Curtis Kunkel*, Baylor University
    (1025-39-07)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Periodicity in a Neutral Nonlinear Functional Dynamical Equation on a Time Scale.
    Eric R Kaufmann*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    (1025-34-232)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Control Theory on Time Scales.
    B. Jackson*, Baylor University
    J. Davis, Baylor University
    I. Gravagne, Baylor University
    R. Marks, Baylor University
    A. Ramos, Baylor University
    (1025-34-114)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Optimization Theory and Applications, I
  Room 219, Bachelor Hall
  Organizers:
  Olga Brezhneva, Miami University brezhnoa@muohio.edu
  Doug E. Ward, Miami University wardde@muohio.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    An Introduction to Multiobjective Optimization And Its Application To Finite Games.
    Jonathan D Hauenstein*, University of Notre Dame
    (1025-49-109)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On an inclusion of Tanino in multiobjective optimization.
    Doug E. Ward*, Miami University
    (1025-49-196)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Variations on the Normal Boundary Intersection Method for Multiple-Objective Optimization.
    Casey D. Trail*, Miami University
    Olga A. Brezhneva, Miami Univeristy
    Amit Shukla, Miami University
    Mark A. Abramson, Air Force Institute of Technology
    (1025-49-123)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantitative Object Reconstruction using X-Ray Tomography and Mixed Variable Optimization.
    Mark A. Abramson*, Air Force Institute of Technology
    Thomas J. Asaki, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    John E. Dennis, Jr., Rice University
    Kevin R. O'Reilly, US Air Force
    Rachael L. Pingel, Brigham Young University
    (1025-49-272)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Optimization \& Systems Biology.
    Allen Holder*, Trinity University Mathematics
    (1025-90-65)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Convergence analysis of an exterior-point method.
    Igor Griva*, George Mason University
    Roman Polyak, George Mason University
    (1025-49-186)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Large Cardinals in Set Theory, I
  Room 228, Culler Hall
  Organizers:
  Paul B. Larson, Miami University larsonpb@muohio.edu
  Justin Tatch Moore, Boise State University justin@diamond.boisestate.edu
  Ernest Schimmerling, Carnegie Mellon University eschimme@andrew.cmu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Large Cardinals and Abelian Groups.
    Andreas R. Blass*, Mathematics Department, University of Michigan
    (1025-03-214)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Structure Results on Free Left Distributive Algebras.
    Sheila K Miller*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1025-03-246)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The interval topology on pseudotrees.
    Jennifer Anne Brown*, Kenyon College
    (1025-03-224)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The weak Freese-Nation property of complete Boolean algebras and large cardinals.
    Sakae Fuchino, Chubu University
    Stefan Geschke*, Boise State University
    Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Lajos Soukup, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics
    (1025-03-91)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Orthogonal MAD families.
    Bart Kastermans*, University of Wisconsin
    (1025-03-174)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Progress on Patterns of Resemblance.
    Timothy J Carlson*, The Ohio State University
    (1025-03-18)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Finite Geometry and Combinatorics, I
  Room 112, Bachelor Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark A. Miller, Marietta College millerr@marietta.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Determining p-colorability for knots.
    John Tynan*, Marietta College
    William Sears, Marietta College
    (1025-05-129)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Survey of the Cauchy-Davenport Theorem and the Erdos-Heilbronn Conjecture.
    Jeffrey Paul Wheeler*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Memphis
    (1025-05-64)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Regular excluded minors for the class of signed-graphic matroids.
    Daniel Slilaty*, Wright State University
    (1025-05-183)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A connection between topology, k-ellipses and the minimum weight triangulation problem.
    Cindy Traub*, St. Mary's College of Maryland
    (1025-05-188)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Generalized Quadrangles, Ovals, and Related Structures: Some of Stan's Favorite Things from the past40 years.
    Mark Miller*, Marietta College
    (1025-05-195)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, I
  Room 245, Bachelor Hall
  Organizers:
  Tao Jiang, Miami University jiangt@muohio.edu
  Zevi Miller, Miami University millerz@muohio.edu
  Dan Pritikin, Miami University pritikd@muohio.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Cyclic Arrangements of $k$-sets with Local Intersection Constraints. Preliminary Report.
    Tao Jiang, Miami University
    Manley Perkel*, Wright State University
    Dan Pritikin, Miami University
    (1025-05-179)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Edge-Bandwidth of Tori.
    Jerzy Wojciechowski*, Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University
    (1025-05-249)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some Recent Progresses on Hamiltonian Line Graphs and Claw-free Graphs.
    Hong-Jian Lai*, West Virginia University
    Yehong Shao, Ohio University Shouthern
    (1025-05-42)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Cycle - Saturated Graphs.
    Ronald J Gould*, Emory University
    Tomasz Luczak, Adam Mickiewicz University
    John Schmitt, Middlebury College
    (1025-05-31)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Making the Components of a Graph k-Connected.
    Richard H Schelp*, University of Memphis
    V Nikiforov, University of Memphis
    (1025-05-43)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Linear Forests, $k$-Ordered, and Pancyclic Graphs.
    Ralph Faudree*, University of Memphis
    (1025-05-94)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Complex Dynamics and Complex Function Theory, I
  Room 234, Culler Hall
  Organizers:
  Stephanie Edwards, University of Dayton sedwards@udayton.edu
  Rich Lawrence Stankewitz, Ball State University rstankewitz@bsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Inequalities for moments of equilibrium distributions of compact sets in the plane.
    Albert Baernstein II*, Washington University
    Richard S. Laugesen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
    Igor E. Pritsker, Oklahoma State University
    (1025-31-93)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Euclidean QuasiConvexity.
    David A Herron*, University of Cincinnati
    Hrant Hakobyn, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (1025-30-105)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Cauchy Integral Theorem.
    Ioan Hrinca*, Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio 43081
    (1025-30-23)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Area, length and diameter versions of Schwarz's Lemma.
    Robert B. Burckel, Dept. of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506
    Donald E. Marshall, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-4350
    C. David Minda*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0025
    Pietro Poggi-Corradini, Dept. of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506
    (1025-30-67)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Analytic Functions in the Unit Disk with an Annular Derivative.
    L. R. Sons*, Northern Illinois University
    (1025-30-79)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, I
  Room 201, Bachelor Hall
  Organizers:
  Jean-Francois LaFont, Ohio State University jlafont@math.ohio-state.edu
  Ivonne J. Ortiz, Miami University ortizi@muohio.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Space of Negatively Curved Metrics.
    F. T. Farrell*, Binghamton University
    P. Ontaneda, Binghamton University
    (1025-53-173)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Examples of Non-Rigid CAT(0) Groups from the Category of Knot Groups.
    Christopher Paul Mooney*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1025-20-280)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic conditions for smooth rigidity.
    Chris Connell*, Indiana University
    (1025-53-238)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Maximal Toric Ball Packings of Symplectic Toric Manifolds.
    Ben Schmidt*, U. of Chicago
    Alvaro Pelayo, U. of Michigan
    (1025-51-239)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on PDE Methods in Several Complex Variables, I
  Room 218, Culler Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffery D. McNeal, Ohio State University mcneal@math.ohio-state.edu
  Emil J. Straube, Texas A&M University straube@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Positivity of the $\bar\partial$-Neumann Laplacian.
    Siqi Fu*, Rutgers University-Camden
    (1025-32-142)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The $\bar{\partial}$-problem on non-smooth domains.
    Dariush Ehsani*, Penn State - Lehigh Valley
    (1025-00-145)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ideal of Compactness Multipliers.
    Mehmet Celik*, Texas A&M University
    (1025-32-127)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On regularity properties of $\bar \partial$ and $\bar \partial _b$.
    Kenneth D Koenig*, Ohio State University
    (1025-32-98)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    $L^2$ solvability for the $\overline\partial_b$ operator on non-smooth domains.
    Phillip S. Harrington*, University of South Dakota
    (1025-32-70)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Vector Measures, Banach Spaces and Applications, I
  Room 102, Bachelor Hall
  Organizers:
  Patrick N. Dowling, Miami University dowlinpn@muohio.edu
  Christopher J. Lennard, University of Pittsburgh lennard@pitt.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Return Visit to Notes and Remarks in Vector Measures.
    Joe Diestel*, Mathematics Department, Kent State University
    J Jerry Uhl, Math Department, University of Illinois
    (1025-46-141)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Small Comibnation of Slices in Banach Spaces.
    Sudeshna Basu*, Morgan State University
    (1025-46-169)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Radon-Nikodym property for tensor products of Banach lattices.
    Qingying Bu*, The University of Mississippi
    (1025-46-68)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the "Multiple of the Inclusion plus Compact" Problem.
    G. Androulakis, University of South Carolina
    F. Sanacory*, University of South Carolina
    (1025-46-14)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Topology, I
  Room 046, Culler Hall
  Organizers:
  Sergei Chmutov, Ohio State University chmutov@math.ohio-state.edu
  Thomas Kerler, Ohio State University kerler@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Hennings Invariant of a Finite-Dimensional Factorizable Hopf Algebra.
    David E Radford*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1025-16-222)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some examples of integral TQFTs.
    Qi Chen*, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University
    (1025-57-165)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Turaev-Viro invariants and the Reidemeister torsion.
    Charles D Frohman, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
    (1025-57-231)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Congruence and Similarity of 3-manifolds.
    Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
    (1025-57-146)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Theory, Orbifolds, Symplectic Reduction and Quantization, I
  Room 216, Culler Hall
  Organizers:
  William Kirwin, University of Notre Dame wkirwin@nd.edu
  Christopher Seaton, Rhodes College seatonc@rhodes.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    When are there enough twisted orbifold vector bundles?
    Christopher Dwyer*, Binghamton University
    (1025-19-125)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An isospectral deformation on an orbifold quotient of a nilmanifold.
    Emily B. Proctor*, Middlebury College
    Elizabeth A. Stanhope, Lewis & Clark College
    (1025-53-59)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Geometry of Special Holonomy.
  Room 101, Bachelor Hall
  Naichung Conan Leung*, University of Minnesota
  (1025-00-02)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The $\overline{\partial}$-Neumann Problem: Analysis, Geometry, and Potential Theory.
  Room 101, Bachelor Hall
  Emil J. Straube*, Texas A\&M University
  (1025-32-03)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Time Scales: Theory and Applications, II
  Room 226, Culler Hall
  Organizers:
  Ferhan M. Atici, Western Kentucky University ferhan.atici@wku.edu
  Paul W. Eloe, University of Dayton paul.eloe@notes.udayton.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Linear Fractional Difference Equations.
    Ferhan M. Atici, Western Kentucky University
    Paul W. Eloe*, University of Dayton
    Johnny Henderson, Baylor University
    (1025-39-55)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Conditions for the Contractibility of the Hyperspace $\mathbf{CL}(M)$.
    Norah C Esty*, Marshall University
    (1025-54-118)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Production-Inventory Model of HMMS on Time Scales.
    Ferhan M. Atici*, Western Kentucky University
    Fahriye Uysal, Akdeniz University
    (1025-49-40)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A periodic boundary value problem.
    Haiyan Wang*, Arizona State University
    (1025-34-217)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Optimization Theory and Applications, II
  Room 219, Bachelor Hall
  Organizers:
  Olga Brezhneva, Miami University brezhnoa@muohio.edu
  Doug E. Ward, Miami University wardde@muohio.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Necessary Conditions for Constrained Optimization in Metric Spaces.
    Boris S. Mordukhovich, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202
    Libin Mou*, Department of Mathematics, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625
    (1025-49-86)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Equivalent Variational Problems: Sufficient conditions for optimality.
    Dean A. Carlson*, American Mathematical Society
    (1025-49-106)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Optimality Conditions in Nonsmooth Set Constrained Minimization.
    Elena Constantin*, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
    (1025-49-140)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On regularity properties of optimal controls in dynamic optimization.
    Ilya Shvartsman*, Miami University
    Maria de Rosario Pinho, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
    Richard B Vinter, Imperial College, UK
    (1025-49-177)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Calculus for Clarke Subgradients and Convexified Coderivatives in Reflexive Banach Spaces.
    Hoang Dinh Nguyen*, Wayne State University
    Boris Mordukhovich, Wayne State University
    Mau Nam Nguyen, Wayne State University
    (1025-49-51)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    New results on submonotone operators in Banach spaces via variational analysis.
    Pando G Georgiev*, University of Cincinnati, 2600 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio 45221
    (1025-49-254)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Random Matrices and Non-commutative Probability, I
  Room 220, Culler Hall
  Organizers:
  Wlodzimierz Bryc, University of Cincinnati brycw@math.uc.edu
  Narcisse J. Randrianantoanina, Miami University randrin@muohio.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Inequalities for sums of independent copies of noncommutative random variables.
    Marius Junge*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1025-46-248)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Random Orthogonal Matrices and Gaussian Matrices.
    Elizabeth Meckes*, American Institute of Mathematics/Cornell University
    (1025-60-111)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Non Commutative Versions of the Law of the Iterated Logarithm.
    Malgorzata E Konwerska*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1025-46-261)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The norms of random Toeplitz and Hankel matrices.
    Mark W Meckes*, Cornell University
    (1025-60-101)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    BMO-norms of sums of noncommuting independent sequences.
    Narcisse Randrianantoanina*, Miami University
    (1025-46-251)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Topology, II
  Room 046, Culler Hall
  Organizers:
  Sergei Chmutov, Ohio State University chmutov@math.ohio-state.edu
  Thomas Kerler, Ohio State University kerler@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    An $sl(2)$ tangle homology and seamed cobordisms.
    Carmen L. Caprau*, The University of Iowa
    (1025-57-25)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cohomology in a symmetric monoidal category that has products and coproducts.
    J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
    Alissa S. Crans, Loyola Marymount Univeristy
    Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
    Pedro Lopes, Instituto Superior Técnico
    Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
    (1025-18-171)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Relations among algebraic cohomology theories and applications.
    J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
    Alissa Crans, Loyola Marymount University
    Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
    (1025-57-143)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Homology of dihedral quandles.
    Jozef H Przytycki*, GWU and UMD
    Maciej Niebrzydowski, GWU
    (1025-57-139)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A homology theory via clock moves.
    Yongwu Rong*, George Washington University
    (1025-57-180)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Theoretical and Numerical Issues in Fluid Dynamics, I
  Room 116, Culler Hall
  Organizers:
  Jie Shen, Purdue University shen@math.purdue.edu
  Shouhong Wang, Indiana University showang@indiana.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Remarks on the Three-Dimensional Linearized Primitive Equations in the Absence of Viscosity.
    Roger Temam*, Indiana University
    (1025-35-283)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stratified Rotating Boussinesq Equations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics : Dynamic Bifurcation and Periodic Solutions.
    Chun-Hsiung Hsia*, The University of Illinois at Chicago
    Tian Ma, Sichuan University
    Shouhong Wang, Indiana University
    (1025-35-204)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Inviscid dyadic model of turbulence: global attractor and Onsager's conjecture.
    Alexey Cheskidov*, University of Michigan
    (1025-35-267)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Nonlocal energy effect on ferroelectric liquid crystals.
    Jinhae Park*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
    Maria Carme Calderer, University of Minnesota
    (1025-49-269)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Elliptic estimates and asymptotic regularity for the linearized equations of non-isothermal free liquid film flow.
    Thomas Hagen*, The University of Memphis
    (1025-76-108)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Theory, Orbifolds, Symplectic Reduction and Quantization, II
  Room 216, Culler Hall
  Organizers:
  William Kirwin, University of Notre Dame wkirwin@nd.edu
  Christopher Seaton, Rhodes College seatonc@rhodes.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Asymptotics of eigenvalue clusters for a perturbation of the hydrongen atom.
    Alejandro Uribe*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
    Carlos Villegas-Blas, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM, Unidad Cuernavaca, Mexico.
    (1025-81-166)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Geometry of the index gerbe.
    Jerome A Jenquin*, Stony Brook University
    (1025-58-10)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Almost Kahler Quantization of the Thurston Manifold.
    William D Kirwin*, University of Notre Dame
    Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan
    (1025-53-216)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Universal Property of the Group Spin^c.
    Shay Fuchs*, University of Toronto
    (1025-53-193)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Large Cardinals in Set Theory, II
  Room 228, Culler Hall
  Organizers:
  Paul B. Larson, Miami University larsonpb@muohio.edu
  Justin Tatch Moore, Boise State University justin@diamond.boisestate.edu
  Ernest Schimmerling, Carnegie Mellon University eschimme@andrew.cmu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Squares and very large cardinals.
    James Cummings*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1025-03-208)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Combinatorial principles above a supercompact cardinal.
    Bernhard Koenig*, University of Toronto
    (1025-03-147)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Forcing and Large Cardinals.
    E. T. Brown*, James Madison University
    (1025-03-274)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Club-guessing and combinatorial set theory.
    E. Todd Eisworth*, Ohio University
    (1025-03-215)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The saturation of club guessing ideals.
    Tetsuya Ishiu*, Miami University
    (1025-03-41)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Measuring sequences of closed sets.
    Justin Tatch Moore*, Boise State University
    (1025-03-88)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, II
  Room 201, Bachelor Hall
  Organizers:
  Jean-Francois LaFont, Ohio State University jlafont@math.ohio-state.edu
  Ivonne J. Ortiz, Miami University ortizi@muohio.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A metric Kan-Thurston theorem.
    Ian J Leary*, The Ohio State University
    (1025-20-170)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The lower central series and pseudo-Anosov dilatations.
    Christopher J Leininger*, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
    Benson Farb, University of Chicago
    Dan Margalit, University of Utah
    (1025-51-206)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    L^2-Betti numbers and simplicial and minimal volume.
    Roman Saurer*, University of Chicago
    (1025-20-284)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Fixed point properties.
    Angela Kubena Barnhill*, The Ohio State University
    Indira Chatterji, The Ohio State University
    (1025-20-259)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Finite Geometry and Combinatorics, II
  Room 112, Bachelor Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark A. Miller, Marietta College millerr@marietta.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Generalized quadrangles and the BLT-property.
    Joseph A Thas*, Ghent University
    (1025-51-20)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Generalized quadrangles of order $s$ with a hyperbolic line consisting of regular points.
    Bart De Bruyn*, Ghent University
    (1025-51-52)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A generalization of generalized $m$-gons via truncated root systems of affine Lie algebras.
    Andrew J Woldar*, Villanova University
    (1025-05-148)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The full automorphism group of a class of geometries constructed from classical polar spaces.
    Stefaan De Winter*, Dept. Pure Mathematics and Computer Algebra, Ghent University
    (1025-05-53)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Projective grassmannians in polar grassmannians.
    Rieuwert Blok*, Bowling Green State University
    Bruce Cooperstein, University of California Santa Cruz
    (1025-05-185)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-6:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, II
  Room 245, Bachelor Hall
  Organizers:
  Tao Jiang, Miami University jiangt@muohio.edu
  Zevi Miller, Miami University millerz@muohio.edu
  Dan Pritikin, Miami University pritikd@muohio.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Pebbling and optimal pebbling numbers of graphs.
    David P. Bunde, Knox College
    Erin W. Chambers, University of Illinois
    Daniel Cranston, University of Illinois
    Kevin Milans, University of Illinois
    Douglas B. West*, University of Illinois
    (1025-05-144)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Equitable colorings of graphs with bounded vertex degrees.
    H. A. Kierstead, Arizona State University
    A. V. Kostochka*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1025-05-17)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Turan's theorem with colors.
    Ajit Diwan, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
    Dhruv Mubayi*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1025-05-76)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    $k$-robust single message transmission.
    Andre Kundgen, Cal State San Marcos
    Michael Pelsmajer, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Radhika Ramamurthi*, Cal State San Marcos
    (1025-05-211)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the matching extendability of graphs in surfaces.
    Robert L Aldred, Department of Mathematics, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand
    Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
    Michael D Plummer*, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    (1025-05-36)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    More $\rho$-valuations for trees via the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz.
    Andr\'{e} E. K\'{e}zdy*, University of Louisville
    (1025-05-120)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Chord-Set Subgraphs of Chordal Graphs.
    Terry A. McKee*, Wright State University
    (1025-05-13)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, I
  Room 110, Bachelor Hall
  Organizers:
  John Donnelly, Mount Union College donneljr@muc.edu
  Daniel Farley, Mathematisches Institut Einsteinstrasse and Miami University farleyds@muohio.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Controlled acyclicity invariants of group actions on CAT(0) spaces.
    Ross Geoghegan*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
    (1025-20-227)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Isomorphism Problem for tree braid groups.
    Lucas Sabalka*, University of California, Davis
    (1025-20-132)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Self-coverings, contraction, and groups of intermediate growth.
    Zoran \v{S}uni\'c*, Texas A&M University
    Volodymyr Nekrashevych, Texas A&M University
    (1025-20-100)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the homotopy classification of 2-complexes.
    Jens Harlander*, Western Kentucky University
    (1025-20-163)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on PDE Methods in Several Complex Variables, II
  Room 218, Culler Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffery D. McNeal, Ohio State University mcneal@math.ohio-state.edu
  Emil J. Straube, Texas A&M University straube@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On analyticity of solutions of first-order nonlinear PDE.
    S. Berhanu*, Temple University
    (1025-32-16)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Meromorphic Whitney multifunction solutions to the sign-flipped Burgers equation with application to boundaries of analytic varieties.
    Ronald A. Walker*, Juniata College
    (1025-32-78)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    M\"obius geometry of hypersurfaces.
    Michael D Bolt*, Calvin College
    (1025-32-80)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Radial Limits of Holomorphic Functions.
    Michael C. Fulkerson*, Texas A&M University
    (1025-32-95)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Sharpe Estimates for $\bar{\partial}$-Neumann Problem on Regular Coordinate Domains.}
    David Catlin, Purdue University
    Jae-Seong Cho*, Purdue University
    (1025-32-96)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 114, Bachelor Hall
  Organizers:
  Dennis S. Keeler, Miami University keelerds@muohio.edu
  Rajesh Shrikrishna Kulkarni, Michigan State University kulkarni@math.msu.edu
  Daniel S. Rogalski, University of California San Diego drogalsk@math.ucsd.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Geometric idealizers and critical transversality.
    Susan J. Sierra*, University of Michigan
    (1025-16-244)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Noncommutative resolutions and rational singularities.
    J. T. Stafford*, University of Michigan
    M. Van den Bergh, Universiteit Hasselt
    (1025-16-131)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Generalizing the notion of Koszul Algebra.
    Brad Shelton*, University of Oregon
    Thomas Cassidy, Bucknell University
    (1025-16-240)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Subfields of quotient division algebras of affine domains.
    Jason P Bell*, Simon Fraser University
    (1025-16-83)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Necklace Lie coalgebras and renormalization algebras.
    Wee Liang Gan*, University of California, Riverside
    Travis Schedler, University of Chicago
    (1025-17-103)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Continuous Hecke algebras.
    Tatyana Chmutova*, University of Michigan
    (1025-16-203)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Vector Measures, Banach Spaces and Applications, II
  Room 102, Bachelor Hall
  Organizers:
  Patrick N. Dowling, Miami University dowlinpn@muohio.edu
  Christopher J. Lennard, University of Pittsburgh lennard@pitt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Operator-valued martingale transforms and R-boundedness.
    Maria Girardi*, University of South Carolina
    Lutz Weis, Universitaet Karlsruhe
    (1025-46-281)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Some classes of strictly cosingular operators.
    George Androulakis*, University of South Carolina
    Kevin Beanland, Amherst College
    (1025-46-236)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An Introduction to Koml\'os Sets in Banach Function Spaces.
    Jerry Day*, University of Pittsburgh
    Chris Lennard, University of Pittsburgh
    (1025-46-270)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Almost Weakly Compact Operators.
    Ioana Ghenciu*, Univ. of Wisconsin-River Falls, WI
    Paul Lewis, University of North Texas, TX
    (1025-46-73)
• Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Complex Dynamics and Complex Function Theory, II
  Room 234, Culler Hall
  Organizers:
  Stephanie Edwards, University of Dayton sedwards@udayton.edu
  Rich Lawrence Stankewitz, Ball State University rstankewitz@bsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Szeg\"o Kernel for Tubular Domains Near a Point of Infinite Type.
    Jennifer Halfpap*, University of Montana
    (1025-32-87)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Isometric composition operators on the Bloch space of a bounded symmetric domain.
    Flavia Colonna*, George Mason University
    Robert F Allen, George Mason University
    (1025-32-77)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Axiom A Polynomial Skew Products of $\mathbf{C}^2$.
    Laura DeMarco, University of Chicago
    Suzanne Lynch Hruska*, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    (1025-37-30)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A family of critically finite maps with symmetry.
    Scott Crass*, CSU, Long Beach
    (1025-37-24)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Structural stability for H\'enon maps.
    Gregery T Buzzard*, Purdue University
    (1025-37-104)