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

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday March 17, 2007

Saturday March 17, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Meeting Registration
Room 115, Bachelor Hall

Saturday March 17, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Room 118, Bachelor Hall

Saturday March 17, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Time Scales: Theory and Applications, III
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.
  Higher-dimensional functional dynamic equations on periodic time scales.
  Jo Hoffacker*, Clemson University
  Doug Anderson, Concordia College
  (1025-34-156)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Stability In NeutralNonlinear Dynamic Equations on a Time Scale With Functional Delay.
  Eric Kaufmann, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  Youssef Raffoul*, University of Dayton
  (1025-34-99)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Existence of positive solutions of nonlinear fractional differential equations.
  Kouadio David Yao*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  Eric R. Kaufmann, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  (1025-34-233)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Break
- 10:30 a.m.
  Levinson Theorem for 3 x 3 systems of dynamic equations.
  Gro Hovhannisyan*, Kent State University, Stark campus
  (1025-34-54)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Oscillation Criteria of Three - Dimensional Systems.
  Bonita A Lawrence*, Marshall University
  Elvan Akin - Bohner, University of Missouri - Rolla
  Zuzana Dosla, Masarykova Univerzita
  (1025-34-257)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Optimization Theory and Applications, III
Room 219, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
Olga Brezhneva, Miami University brezhnoa@muohio.edu
Doug E. Ward, Miami University wardde@muohio.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Quasi-Consistent Approximation of Effective Diagonalization Strategies for the Solution of a Class of Optimal Design Problems.
  Ivan L Raykov*, Ohio University
  (1025-49-247)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Optimization Methods for Inverse Problems.
  Mark S. Gockenbach, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University
  Baasansuren Jadamba, Rice Lake, WI
  Akhtar A. Khan*, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Barron, Rice LAke, WI
  (1025-49-71)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Orbital Branching.
  James Ostrowski*, Lehigh University
  Jeff Linderoth, Lehigh University
  Fabrizio Rossi, Universit`a di L'Aquila
  Stefano Smriglio, Universit`a di L'Aquila
  (1025-49-47)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Sequential Strict Derivatives on Metric Spaces.
  Michael McAsey*, Bradley University
  Libin Mou, Bradley University
  (1025-49-85)
- 10:30 a.m.
  How Many Trick Does a Variational Analysts Have?
  Q. Jim Zhu*, Western Michigan University
  (1025-49-161)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Variational Methods for Optimization on Manifolds.
  Yuri S. Ledyaev*, Department of Mathematics, Western Michigan University
  (1025-49-229)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Theoretical and Numerical Issues in Fluid Dynamics, II
Room 116, Culler Hall
Organizers:
Jie Shen, Purdue University shen@math.purdue.edu
Shouhong Wang, Indiana University showang@indiana.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Water Wave Models.
  Jerry L. Bona*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1025-76-213)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Forced Oscillations of a Class of Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations and Their Stability.
  Muhammad Usman, University of Cincinnati
  Bingyu Zhang*, University of Cincinnati
  (1025-35-202)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Nonlinear fluid-structure interaction in 3D.
  Viorel Barbu, Romanian Academy, IASI, Romania
  Zoran Grujic*, University of Virginia
  Irena Lasiecka, University of Virginia
  Amjad Tuffaha, University of Virginia
  (1025-35-245)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Onsager's conjecture in critical Besov spaces.
  Roman Shvydkoy*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Alexey Cheskidov, University of Michigan
  Peter Constantin, University of Chicago
  Susan Friedlander, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1025-76-200)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Phase transition and pattern formation of the $n$-dimensional Swift-Hohenberg equation.
  Masoud Yari*, Indiana University, Bloomington IN
  (1025-35-225)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Finite Geometry and Combinatorics, III
Room 112, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
Mark A. Miller, Marietta College millerr@marietta.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The $p$-modular cohomology algebra of finite $p$-groups, Pauli operators and symplectic forms.
  Koen J R Thas*, Ghent University
  (1025-20-154)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Connections between homology groups planes and Flocks of Quadratic Cones.
  Esteban Diaz Morales*, The University of Iowa
  Norman Johnson, The University of Iowa
  (1025-51-181)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Translation planes of order $q^n$ admitting a collineation group of order $(q^n-1)/(q-1)$.
  Oscar E. Vega*, University of Colorado at Denver
  (1025-51-199)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The general structure of the projective planes admitting PSL(2,q) as a collineation group.
  Alessandro Montinaro*, Universita' Degli Studi di Lecce, Dipartimento di matematica, Via per Arnesano, 73100, Lecce, Italy
  (1025-05-136)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On a generalization of cyclic semifields.
  Giuseppe Marino*, Universit� degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"
  (1025-05-218)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, III
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.
  Removing Even Crossings on Surfaces.
  Michael J. Pelsmajer*, Department of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology
  Marcus Schaefer, Department of Computer Science, DePaul University
  Daniel \v{S}tefankovi\v{c}, Computer Science Department, University of Rochester
  (1025-05-45)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Largest Eigenvalue of Non-regular Graphs.
  Bolian Liu, South China Normal University
  Jian Shen*, Texas State University
  Xinmao Wang, University of Science and Technology of China
  (1025-05-175)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Representativity of Cayley maps.
  D. Christopher Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University
  Thomas W Tucker, Colgate University
  Xiaoya Zha*, Middle Tennessee State University
  (1025-05-37)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Orientable strong embeddings for cubic projective-planar graphs.
  Mark N. Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  (1025-05-157)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Minimal Generators of cut-ideals of Graphs without $K_4$-minors.
  Joseph Brennan, University of Central Florida
  Guantao Chen*, Georgia State University
  (1025-05-150)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On stable paths.
  Penny Haxell*, University of Waterloo
  (1025-05-168)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on PDE Methods in Several Complex Variables, III
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
- 8:30 a.m.
  Homage to M. B. Porter.
  Harold P. Boas*, Texas A&M University
  (1025-32-34)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Plurisubharmonic defining functions.
  Anne-Katrin Herbig*, University of Michigan
  John Erik Fornaess, University of Michigan
  (1025-32-97)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Stein Neighborhood Bases.
  S\"{o}nmez \c{S}ahuto\u{g}lu*, University of Michigan
  (1025-32-38)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Cauchy-type singular integrals in several complex variables.
  Loredana Lanzani*, University of Arkansas
  (1025-32-90)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Essential spectrum of the Leray transform on two-dimensional Reinhardt domains.
  David E Barrett*, University of Michigan
  Loredana Lanzani, University of Arkansas
  (1025-32-209)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Equivalence of Types.
  Andreea C Nicoara*, Harvard University
  (1025-32-69)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Complex Dynamics and Complex Function Theory, III
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.
  Quasiconformal maps and substantial boundary points.
  J.M. Anderson, University College London, U.K.
  Aimo Hinkkanen*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1025-30-44)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Weakly quasiconformal mappings. Preliminary report.
  Xiaosheng Li*, University of Minnesota Morris
  (1025-30-178)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Characterization of quasidisks in terms of first-order univalence criteria.
  Milne Anderson, University College London
  Jochen Becker, Technische Universit�t Berlin
  Julian Gevirtz*, Muncie, Indiana
  (1025-30-28)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Julia sets of postcritically bounded polynomial semigroups.
  Rich L Stankewitz*, Ball State University
  Hiroki Sumi, Department of Mathematics, Osaka University
  (1025-30-82)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Random dynamics of polynomials and singular functions in the complex plane.
  Hiroki Sumi*, Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Japan
  (1025-37-62)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On the stability of orbits in a two-dimensional model of the cardiac cell.
  I. Popovici*, USNA
  M. Baker, USNA
  M. Kidwell, USNA
  (1025-37-128)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Random Matrices and Non-commutative Probability, II
Room 220, Culler Hall
Organizers:
Wlodzimierz Bryc, University of Cincinnati brycw@math.uc.edu
Narcisse J. Randrianantoanina, Miami University randrin@muohio.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Higher order freeness.
  Roland Speicher*, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
  (1025-46-155)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Spectra of large symmetric block matrices.
  Reza Rashidi Far*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University
  (1025-47-242)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Symmetric functionals on random matrices and matchings in bipartite random graphs.
  Grzegorz A Rempala*, University of Louisville
  (1025-60-46)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Spectra of Random Block-Matrices.
  Tamer F Oraby*, University of Cincinnati
  (1025-60-194)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology, III
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
- 9:00 a.m.
  An algebro-geometric proof of Witten's conjecture.
  Sergei K. Lando*, Independent University of Moscow
  (1025-57-84)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Nilpotent Slices, Hilbert Schemes, and Symplectic Link Invariants.
  Craig Jackson*, University of Chicago
  (1025-57-124)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Flat Bracket Invariant for Virtual Knots, Links and Strings.
  Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1025-57-27)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Virtual Homotopy.
  H A Dye*, US Military Academy
  Louis H Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1025-55-137)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Functors extending the Kauffman bracket.
  John Armstrong*, Yale University
  (1025-55-72)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, III
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.
  Rational homotopy groups of the moduli space of metrics of positive scalar curvature.
  Boris I Botvinnik*, University of Oregon
  (1025-57-210)
- 10:00 a.m.
  $\ell^2$-Betti numbers of hyperplane complements.
  Michael W. Davis*, Ohio State University
  Tadeusz Januszkiewicz, Ohio State University
  Ian James Leary, Ohio State University
  (1025-57-158)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Algebraic K-Theory of Group Rings and Topological Cyclic Homology.
  Wolfgang L\"uck, Westf\"alische Wilhelms-Universit\"at M\"unster, Germany
  Holger Reich, Westf\"alische Wilhelms-Universit\"at M\"unster, Germany
  John Rognes, University of Oslo, Norway
  Marco Varisco*, Binghamton University, SUNY
  (1025-19-262)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Hierarchies for finitely presented groups and 3-manifolds.
  Diane M. Vavrichek*, University of Michigan
  (1025-54-176)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, II
Room 110, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
John Donnelly, Mount Union College donneljr@muc.edu
Daniel Farley, Mathematisches Institut Einsteinstrasse and Miami University farleyds@muohio.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Structure Theorems for Subgroups of Homeomorphisms Groups.
  Collin Bleak, Cornell University
  Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
  Francesco Matucci*, Cornell University
  (1025-20-212)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Metric Properties of Braided Thompson's Groups.
  Jose Burillo, Universitat Polit�cnica de Catalunya
  Sean Cleary*, The City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center
  (1025-20-63)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Using Tree-Pair Diagrams to Represent Elements of Thompson's Group $F(n+1,m+1)$.
  Claire W Wladis*, City University of New York
  (1025-20-187)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Rotation numbers in the Higman-Thompson groups $T_n$.
  Collin Bleak*, Cornell University
  Daniel Farley, Miami University of Ohio
  (1025-20-219)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Computing word length in alternate presentations of Thompson's group F.
  Jennifer Taback*, Bowdoin College
  Melanie Stein, Trinity College
  Matt Horak, University of Wisconsin
  (1025-20-48)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry, II
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
- 9:00 a.m.
  A derived Skolem-Noether theorem and compactified moduli of Azumaya algebras.
  Max Lieblich*, Princeton University
  (1025-14-221)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Curve categories and I-algebras.
  K. Retert*, University of Dallas
  (1025-16-264)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Noncommutative BV Structures, Differential Operators, and Deformation Quantization.
  Travis Schedler*, University of Chicago
  Victor Ginzburg, University of Chicago
  (1025-14-75)
- 10:30 a.m.
  DG models and Nakajima quiver varieties.
  Farkhod Eshmatov*, Cornell University
  (1025-16-201)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Finite dimensional representations of symplectic reflection algebras associated to wreath products.
  Silvia Montarani*, MIT
  (1025-16-74)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Vector Measures, Banach Spaces and Applications, III
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.
  Sobolev spaces and vector measures?
  Guillermo P. Curbera*, Facultad de mathem�ticas, Universidad de Sevilla
  (1025-46-117)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Second derivatives of norms and contractive complementation in vector-valued spaces.
  Bas Lemmens, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
  Beata Randrianantoanina*, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
  Onno van Gaans, Leiden University, The Netherlands
  (1025-46-81)
- 10:30 a.m.
  An application of vector measures in fixed point theory.
  P. N. Dowling, Miami University
  C. J. Lennard, University of Pittsburgh
  B. Turett*, Oakland University
  (1025-46-60)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Lacunary Orbits for Multiplication operators in $\; C[0, 1]\; $ and $\; L_{p}[0,1], \; 1 \leq p \; < \infty$.
  Per Enflo, Kent State University
  Aderaw Fenta*, Kent State University
  (1025-47-182)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Theory, Orbifolds, Symplectic Reduction and Quantization, III
Room 216, Culler Hall
Organizers:
William Kirwin, University of Notre Dame wkirwin@nd.edu
Christopher Seaton, Rhodes College seatonc@rhodes.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  You can't hear the isotropy type of an orbifold.
  N. Shams, Ann Arbor, MI
  E. Stanhope*, Lewis and Clark College
  D. L. Webb, Dartmouth College
  (1025-53-58)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Lie algebras and symplectic quotients.
  Tatyana Foth*, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  (1025-53-56)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Manifold Structure for the Group of Orbifold Diffeomorphisms of a Smooth Orbifold.
  Joseph E Borzellino*, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  Victor Brunsden, Penn State Altoona
  (1025-57-49)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 10:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Large Cardinals in Set Theory, III
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
- 10:00 a.m.
  Representation of locally compact groups as isometry groups.
  Maciej Malicki, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Slawomir Solecki*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (1025-03-271)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Generic representations of countable groups on Fra\"iss\'e structures.
  Christian Rosendal*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1025-03-172)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Weakly pointed trees and partial injections.
  John D. Clemens*, Penn State University
  (1025-03-250)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 10:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Session for Contributed Papers
Room 143, Bachelor Hall
- 10:00 a.m.
  Characterization of Legendrian Minimal Surfaces in $S^5$.
  Rodrigo R. Montes*, Washington University in Saint Louis
  (1025-51-08)
- 10:15 a.m.
  A Model Problem for the Semiclassical Sine-Gordon Equation.
  Robert J. Buckingham*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Peter D. Miller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (1025-35-282)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Graph classes characterized both by forbidden subgraphs and degree sequences.
  Stephen G Hartke*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1025-05-15)
- 10:45 a.m.
  Outcome Probabilities For Randomized Tic-Tac-Toe.
  Laurence D. Robinson*, Ohio Northern University
  Clinton R. Louiso, Ohio Northern University
  (1025-60-220)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On $p$-adic Ducci games.
  Mihai Caragiu*, Ohio Northern University
  (1025-12-167)
- 11:15 a.m.
  On the diophantine equation: A^4 =B^4 + C^4 + D^4 � E^4 � F^4.
  Susil Kumar Jena*, KIIT, Deemed University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa-751024
  (1025-11-119)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Invited Address
Cluster algebras.
Room 101, Bachelor Hall
Sergey Fomin*, University of Michigan
(1025-05-01)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
Stability and Bifurcations in Nonlinear Sciences.
Room 101, Bachelor Hall
Shouhong Wang*, Indiana University
(1025-37-04)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Time Scales: Theory and Applications, IV
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.
  Existence of Positive Solutions.
  Basant K Karna*, Marshall University
  (1025-34-223)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Existence of positive solutions of nonlinear fractional differential equations.
  Ebene Mboumi*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  Eric R. Kaufmann, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  (1025-34-234)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Optimization Theory and Applications, IV
Room 219, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
Olga Brezhneva, Miami University brezhnoa@muohio.edu
Doug E. Ward, Miami University wardde@muohio.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Minimizing move-counts in Rubik's Cube speedsolving.
  Morley A Davidson*, Kent State University
  Joseph Miller, Kent State University
  (1025-90-260)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Generalizing Holder McCarthy inequality to Normal Operators using Convex Optimization.
  Morteza Seddighin*, Indiana University East
  (1025-47-09)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Necessary and sufficient conditions of global and local weak pareto maxima in set-valued optimization.
  Bao Quang Truong*, Wayne State University
  Boris Mordukhovich, Wayne State University
  (1025-49-66)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Optimality Conditions for Nonregular Constrained Optimization Problems.
  Olga A. Brezhneva*, Miami University, Ohio
  Alexey A. Tret'yakov, University of Podlasie in Siedlce, Poland
  (1025-49-273)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Random Matrices and Non-commutative Probability, III
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.
  Matrix integrals and enumeration of maps.
  Edouard Maurel-Segala*, ENS Lyon / Stanford University
  (1025-60-116)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Geometry of the GSE and GOE Pfaff lattice hierarchies.
  Virgil U. Pierce*, The Ohio State University
  Yuji Kodama, The Ohio State University
  (1025-35-113)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Asymptotic normality for traces of polynomials in independent complex Wishart matrices.
  W Bryc*, University of Cincinnati
  (1025-60-149)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology, IV
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.
  Long exact sequence for Khovanov homology corresponding to the Jones skein relation of oriented links.
  Alexander Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
  (1025-57-268)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On geometric Khovanov theory on surfaces.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  (1025-57-159)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Alternating sum formulae for the determinant of a link.
  Oliver T. Dasbach*, Louisiana State University
  D. Futer, MSU
  E. Kalfagianni, MSU
  X.-S. Lin, UCR
  N. Stoltzfus, LSU
  (1025-57-162)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Polyak-Viro formulas for the coefficients of the Conway polynomial.
  Michael John Khoury*, Ohio State University
  Alfred Rossi, Ohio State University
  (1025-05-115)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Theoretical and Numerical Issues in Fluid Dynamics, III
Room 116, Culler Hall
Organizers:
Jie Shen, Purdue University shen@math.purdue.edu
Shouhong Wang, Indiana University showang@indiana.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Decay properties of solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations.
  Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
  Juan J. Torres, University of California, Irvine
  (1025-35-255)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Invariant measures and maximal averaged palinstrophy in 2-D turbulence.
  Radu Dascaliuc, Indiana University
  Ciprian Foias, Texas A&M University
  Michael S. Jolly*, Indiana University
  (1025-76-226)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Statistical solutions to the Navier--Stokes equations and long time behaviors of fluid flows.
  Luan T Hoang*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
  Ciprian Foias, Departments of Mathematics, Texas A&M University and Indiana Universitty
  Basil Nicolaenko, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University
  (1025-76-12)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Numerical study for three-dimensional Boussinesq system with infinite Prandtl number.
  Cheng Wang*, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee
  (1025-65-252)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Theory, Orbifolds, Symplectic Reduction and Quantization, IV
Room 216, Culler Hall
Organizers:
William Kirwin, University of Notre Dame wkirwin@nd.edu
Christopher Seaton, Rhodes College seatonc@rhodes.edu
- 3:30 p.m.
  Analysis and Geometry on Orbifolds.
  Carla Farsi*, University of Colorado
  (1025-46-189)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Hearing the weights of weighted projective planes.
  Miguel Abreu, Instituto Superior T\'{e}cnico, Lisboa
  Emily B. Dryden*, Bucknell University
  Pedro Freitas, TU Lisbon
  Leonor Godinho, Instituto Superior T\'{e}cnico, Lisboa
  (1025-58-21)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Euler classes for orbifolds.
  Christopher W Seaton*, Rhodes College
  (1025-53-241)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Large Cardinals in Set Theory, IV
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.
  $\mathbb{P}_{max}$ variations and ccc structures.
  Teruyuki Yorioka*, Department of Mathematics, Shizuoka University
  (1025-03-197)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 4:00 p.m.
  Inner models and consequences of determinacy.
  R Ketchersid*, Miami University
  (1025-03-266)
- 4:30 p.m.
  An initial segment property for inner models.
  Steve C Jackson*, University of North Texas
  Richard Ketchersid, Miami University
  (1025-03-237)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, IV
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.
  Lattices acting on symmetric polygonal complexes.
  Anne Thomas*, University of Chicago
  (1025-20-138)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Toroidal Orbifolds and Cohomology of Semidirect Product Groups.
  Nansen Petrosyan*, Indiana University
  Alejandro Adem, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  Jianquan Ge, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  Jianzhong Pan, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China
  (1025-55-134)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The relative mapping class group of the tangent disk bundle over the standard n-sphere.
  Nikolai A Krylov*, Siena College
  (1025-55-133)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Evil twins of n-dimensional checkerboards.
  Roger Vogeler*, Ohio State University
  (1025-57-279)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Ergodic Frame Flow and Rank Rigidity.
  David Constantine*, University of Michigan
  (1025-53-152)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Finite Geometry and Combinatorics, IV
Room 112, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
Mark A. Miller, Marietta College millerr@marietta.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Subgeometry Partitions of Projective Spaces.
  Norman L Johnson*, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
  (1025-51-122)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Investigation of some association schemes on 40 points.
  Mikhail H. Klin*, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
  Matan Ziv-Av, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
  (1025-05-191)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Association Schemes from Truncated Quadrics.
  Stephen C. Flink*, University of Coloado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
  (1025-05-275)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Spin-embeddings, two-intersection sets and two-weights codes.
  Ilaria Cardinali*, Universita' di Siena
  (1025-05-130)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Problem Session

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
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.
  Pan-partition Transitive Realizations.
  Arthur Busch, University of Dayton
  Guantao Chen, Georgia State University
  Michael Jacobson*, University of Colorado at Denver
  Jian Shen, Texas State University - San Marcos
  (1025-05-110)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A proof of the stability of extremal graphs.
  Zoltan Furedi*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1025-05-230)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Covering complete hypergraphs with cuts of minimum total size.
  Andre Kundgen*, California State University San Marcos
  Sebastian M. Cioaba, University of California San Diego
  (1025-05-153)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Bandwidth of grid type of graphs.
  Jozsef Balogh*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
  (1025-05-112)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The diameter game.
  J\'oszef Balogh, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Ryan Martin*, Iowa State University
  Andr\'as Pluh\'ar, University of Szeged
  (1025-05-11)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, III
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.
  Coxeter group isomorphisms.
  Angela Kubena Barnhill*, The Ohio State University
  (1025-20-235)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Automorphisms of right-angled Coxeter groups.
  Anton Kaul*, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
  (1025-20-135)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Trees and mapping class groups.
  Christopher J Leininger*, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
  Richard P Kent, Brown University
  Saul Schleimer, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
  (1025-20-205)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Automorphisms of the pure braid group.
  Robert W Bell*, Michigan State University
  Dan Margalit, University of Utah
  (1025-20-207)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Relative Hyperbolicity of Countable Groups.
  Chris Hruska*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
  (1025-20-102)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on PDE Methods in Several Complex Variables, IV
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.
  Special CR Mappings from $S^3$ to $S^{2n-1}$.
  John P. D'Angelo*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Jeremy Tyson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (1025-32-32)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Heat Kernel Estimates with Applications to Complex Analysis.
  Andy Raich*, Texas A&M University
  (1025-32-121)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Weighted composition operators between Bergman spaces on strongly pseudoconvex domains.
  Zeljko Cuckovic*, University of Toledo
  Ruhan Zhao, SUNY-Brockport
  (1025-32-50)
- 4:30 p.m.
  An interpolation theorem in higher dimensions.
  Tam\'{a}s Forg\'{a}cs*, Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1025-32-107)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Twisted version of Skoda's Division Theorem.
  Dror Varolin*, SUNY Stony Brook
  (1025-32-89)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry, III
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.
  Azumaya algebras on K3 surfaces.
  Colin J Ingalls*, University of New Brunswick
  Madeeha O'Connell, Trili
  (1025-16-243)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Van den Bergh duality and the modular symmetry of a Poisson variety.
  Vasiliy A. Dolgushev*, Northwestern University
  (1025-16-35)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Extending Herstein's Theorems for Simple Rings to Just Infinite Rings.
  Cayley A. Pendergrass*, Albion College
  (1025-17-184)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Vector Measures, Banach Spaces and Applications, IV
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.
  Some open problems and applications of bilinear Fourier multipliers.
  Geoff Diestel*, University of South Carolina
  Loukas Grafakos, University of Missouri
  (1025-42-164)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Limited Sets and Borwein's Sequentially Reflexive Spaces.
  Douglas Mupasiri*, University of Northern Iowa
  (1025-46-265)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The lineability problem for functionals.
  Francisco Javier Garcia-Pacheco*, Kent State University
  (1025-46-160)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Surjectivity of an Averaged Product Map on Hardy-type Sequence Spaces.
  C. J. Lennard, University of Pittsburgh
  Daniel P. Radelet*, University of Pittsburgh
  (1025-46-276)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On some convergence properties in classical Banach spaces of integrable functions.
  Mienie De Kock*, Kent State University
  (1025-28-277)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Complex Dynamics and Complex Function Theory, IV
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.
  Fluid Flow and Electric Fields with all kinds of Sources and Sinks.
  Michael A. Brilleslyper*, U. S. Air Force Academy
  (1025-30-19)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Minimal Surfaces over Non-Convex Polygonal Domains.
  Beth E. Schaubroeck*, U.S. Air Force Academy
  Jane McDougall, Colorado College
  (1025-30-26)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On meromorphic functions of order slightly greater than one.
  Joseph B. Miles*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1025-30-57)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A Reverse Denjoy Theorem.
  John Rossi*, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
  P C Fenton, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  (1025-30-22)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Typically Real Harmonic Functions.
  Michael Dorff*, Brigham Young University
  Maria Nowak, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
  Wojciech Szapiel, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski
  (1025-30-61)

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

Saturday March 17, 2007

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