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2006 Fall Central Section Meeting
Cincinnati, OH, October 21-22, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1020

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

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Saturday October 21, 2006

• Saturday October 21, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 614, Old Chemistry Building
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 615, Old Chemistry Building
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory---Honoring the Retirement of Vera Pless, I
  Room 719, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  William Cary Huffman, Loyola University wch@math.luc.edu
  Jon-Lark Kim, University of Louisville jl.kim@louisville.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Automorphism groups of rational circulant graphs.
    Mikhail Klin*, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    Istvan Kovacs, University of Primorska
    (1020-20-237)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Structural Result on Circulant Weighing Matrices.
    Vassil Y Yorgov*, Fayetteville State University
    (1020-05-208)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On tresholds for secret sharing schemes.
    Iwan M. Duursma*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1020-94-236)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Degenerate Stabilizer Codes.
    Judy L Walker*, University of Nebraska
    (1020-94-221)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bounds on ordered codes and orthogonal arrays.
    Alexander Barg*, University of Maryland
    Punarbasu Purkayastha, University of Maryland
    (1020-94-171)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Gleason's Theorem on Self-Dual Codes and Its Generalizations.
    Neil J.A. Sloane*, AT&T Shannon Labs
    (1020-94-31)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Results on Operator Algebras, I
  Room 816, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Herbert Halpern, University of Cincinnati halpern@math.uc.edu
  Gary Weiss, University of Cincinnati gary.weiss@math.uc.edu
  Costel Peligrad, University of Cincinnati costel.peligrad@uc.edu
  Shuang Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@math.uc.edu
  Victor G. Kaftal, University of Cincinnati kaftal@math.uc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Operator Valued Frames.
    Victor Kaftal, University of Cincinnati
    David Larson*, Texas A&M University
    Shuang Zhang, University of Cincinnati
    (1020-47-231)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Operator theory in Quantum information.
    Man-Duen Choi*, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
    (1020-47-224)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Cuntz Semigroup.
    N. P. Brown*, Penn State University
    (1020-46-190)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Survey of the Quantum Permutation Groups.
    Shuzhou Wang*, University of Georgia
    (1020-46-155)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Twisted spectral triples.
    Henri Moscovici*, Department of mathematics, The Ohio State University
    (1020-46-137)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Quantum spheres and their modules.
    Albert J. L. Sheu*, University of Kansas
    (1020-46-255)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, I
  Room 820, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Srdjan D. Stojanovic, University of Cincinnati srdjan.stojanovic@uc.edu
  Ning Zhong, University of Cincinnati ning.zhong@uc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Backward Stochastic Volterra Integral Equations and Dynamic Time-Inconsistent Coherent Risk Measures.
    Jiongmin Yong*, University of Central Florida
    (1020-60-29)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Stochastic Models for Stock Price Movements which Employ the Power-Variance Family.
    Vladimir Vinogradov*, Ohio University
    (1020-60-07)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The dynamics of trader motivations in asset bubbles.
    Gunduz Caginalp*, University of Pittsburgh
    Vladimira Ilieva, Dreman Foundation
    (1020-34-34)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Selection of an Optimal Portfolio with Stochastic Volatility and Discrete Observations.
    Frederi G Viens*, Purdue University, Department of Statistics
    Natalia V Batalova, Bank of America Securities, London, UK
    Vassili Maroussov, Purdue University, Department of Physics
    (1020-91-196)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Risk-Minimizing Hedge for a Partially-Observed Micromovement Model of Asset Price.
    Kiseop Lee*, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville
    Yong Zeng, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Missouri at Kansas City
    (1020-60-36)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Optimal Pension Funding: A Case Study of MOSERS.
    J. Tao*, Central Missouri State University
    (1020-90-77)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking, I
  Room 326, Braunstein Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric J. Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
  Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
  Jonathan Simon, University of Iowa jsimon@math.uiowa.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Knotting and Linking for self-avoiding polygons in sublattices of $\mathbb{Z}^3$.
    Chris Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
    (1020-05-251)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Counting almost unknotted embeddings of graphs in the cubic lattice.
    S G Whittington*, University of Toronto
    (1020-57-27)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Knotting frequency and knot spectrum of globular polymer rings.
    Enzo Orlandini*, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Padova, Padova, Italy.
    Marco Baiesi, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Firenze, Italy
    Attilio Stella, Dipartimento di Fisica, Padova
    (1020-60-145)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Correlation functions of random knots and some physical applications.
    Tetsuo Deguchi*, Department of Physics, Ochanomizu University
    (1020-82-188)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Protein-induced Local DNA Bends Regulate Global Topology of Recombination Products.
    Alexander Vologodskii*, New York University
    (1020-92-78)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A few more puzzles surrounding random knots.
    Alexander Y Grosberg*, University of Minnesota, Physics Department
    (1020-60-79)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory, I
  Room 519, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Nikos Frantzikinakis, Pennsylvania State University nikos@math.psu.edu
  Bryna R. Kra, Northwestern University kra@math.northwestern.edu
  Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis mw@csi.hu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Divergent Square Averages.
    R. Daniel Mauldin*, Mathematics Department, University of North Texas
    Zoltan Buczolich, Analysis Dept., Eotvos Lorand Univ. Budapest
    (1020-37-252)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Expansive Cellular Automata on Subshift Spaces of Dimension D.
    Emily Gamber*, Santa Fe Institute
    (1020-37-200)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Partitions with independent iterates in random dynamical systems.
    Andres del Junco*, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Toronto
    Boris Begun, Hebrew University
    (1020-28-56)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Idempotence and polynomiality.
    Randall McCutcheon*, Memphis
    (1020-11-244)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the identification of points by Borel semiflows.
    David M McClendon*, Northwestern University
    (1020-37-68)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    $\mathbb Z^d$ actions, rank one and F\o lner sets.
    E. Arthur Robinson, Jr., George Washington University
    Ayse A Sahin*, DePaul University
    (1020-37-69)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Algebraic Geometry and Cryptography, I
  Room 520, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Jintai Ding, University of Cincinnati ding@math.uc.edu
  Jason Eric Gower, University of Cincinnati jgower@math.purdue.edu
  Timothy J. Hodges, University of Cincinnati timothy.hodges@uc.edu
  Lei Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences hu@is.ac.cn
  Dieter S. Schmidt, University of Cincinnati dschmidt@ececs.uc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Rational points on curves over function fields andan application to cryptography.
    Koichiro Akiyama, Toshiba Corporation
    Yasuhiro Goto*, Hokkaido University of Education at Hakodate
    (1020-14-28)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Zhuang-Zi: A new algorithm for solving multivariable polynomial equations over a finite field.
    Dieter S Schmidt*, University of Cincinnati
    (1020-14-117)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the difficulty of finding sections of fibered algebraic surfaces.
    Koichiro Akiyama*, Corporate R\&D Center, Toshiba Corporation
    Yoshinobu Fujiwara, Corporate R\&D Center, Toshiba Corporation
    Yasuhiro Goto, Dept of Mathematics, Hokkaido Univ. of Edu. at Hakodate
    (1020-14-201)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:30 a.m.
    New Results on Real Hyperelliptic Curve Arithmetic.
    Andreas Stein*, University of Wyoming
    Michael J Jacobson, University of Calgary
    Renate Scheidler, University of Calgary
    (1020-11-139)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Gr\"obner Basis based Cryptanalysis of SHA-1.
    Makoto Sugita*, IT Security Center, Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan
    (1020-14-186)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Potential Theory on Metric Spaces, I
  Room 516, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas Bieske, University of South Florida tbieske@math.usf.edu
  Zair Ibragimov, University of Cincinnati ibragizs@math.uc.edu
  Nageswari Shanmugalingam, University of Cincinnati nages@math.uc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dieudonn\'e points of holomorphic self-maps of regions.
    A. F. Beardon, University of Cambridge
    David Minda*, University of Cincinnati
    (1020-30-215)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quasiconvex Plane Domains.
    David A Herron*, University of Cincinnati
    (1020-51-239)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Poincar\'e inequality and quasiconvexity of annuli.
    Riikka Korte*, Helsinki University of Technology
    (1020-31-258)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quasisymmetric parameterizations of two-dimensional metric planes.
    Kevin M. Wildrick*, University of Michigan
    (1020-30-241)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Isotropic Doubling Measures, $\delta$-Monotonicity and Quasiconformal Jacobian.
    Leonid Kovalev, Texas A & M University
    Diego Maldonado, Kansas State University
    Jang-Mei Wu*, University of Illinois
    (1020-30-61)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Quasimobius maps preserve uniform domains.
    Xiangdong Xie*, Math dept, Virginia Tech
    (1020-30-15)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Applications, I
  Room 819, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  S. P. Singh, Memorial University of Newfoundland spsingh@math.mun.ca
  Bruce Watson, Memorial University of Newfoundland bruce2@math.mun.ca
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fixed point theorems for occasionally weakly compatible mappings.
    G. F. Jungck, Bradley University
    B. E. Rhoades*, Indiana University
    (1020-47-125)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Parametric variational Inclusions Problems With Applications to Ekeland's Principle,Fixed Point and Optimization Problems.
    Lai-Jiu Lin*, National Changhua University of Education
    (1020-46-14)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Karmarmar's Interior Point Method for Linear Programming and it's Recent Consequences in Convex Optimization.
    Jai N. Singh*, Barry University
    (1020-46-67)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Best Approximation Theorem and Applications to Nonlinear Analysis.
    S P Singh*, Memorial University
    Bruce Watson, Memorial University
    M Singh, University of Western Ontario
    (1020-47-71)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Fixed and Coincidence Points for Fibre-preserving maps.
    Neeta Singh*, Department of Mathematics, University of Allahabad
    (1020-47-160)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Developments in Pseudocontractive Mappings.
    B K Sharma*, School of Studies in Mathematics
    (1020-47-172)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential and Its Applications, I
  Room 312, Braunstein Hall
  Organizers:
  Changyou Wang, University of Kentucky cywang@ms.uky.edu
  Guan Bo, Ohio State University guan@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Large Prandtl Number Behavior of the Boussinesq System of Rayleigh-Benard Convection.
    Xiaoming Wang*, Florida State University
    (1020-76-93)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    $W^{1,p}$ estimates on Lipschitz domains for elliptic equations with periodic coefficients.
    Zhongwei Shen*, University of Kentucky
    (1020-35-72)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Alexandrov type estimates for the reflector antenna problem and application to the regularity of weak solutions.
    Luis A Caffarelli, Department of Mathematics /University of Texas at Austin
    Cristian E. Gutierrez, Department of Mathematics /Temple University
    Qingbo Huang*, Department of Mathematics & Statistics /Wright State University
    (1020-35-209)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Construction of complete embedded self-similar surfaces under mean curvature flow. Part I.
    Xuan Hien Nguyen*, University of Cincinnati
    (1020-35-124)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Novel Mechanism for the Onset of Step-Bunching Instabilities During the Epitaxy of Single-Species Crystalline Films.
    Michel Elie Jabbour*, University of Kentucky
    (1020-35-217)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Multiphase Image Segmentation via Modica-Mortola Phase transition.
    Sung Ha Kang*, University of Kentucky
    Yoon Mo Jung, University of Minnesota
    Jainhong Shen, University of Minnesota
    (1020-65-218)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Boundary Value Problems for Differential Equations with Applications, I
  Room 325, Braunstein Hall
  Organizers:
  Xiaojie Hou, University of Cincinnati houx@email.uc.edu
  Philip L. Korman, University of Cincinnati kormanp@math.uc.edu
  Bingyu Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@uc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Singular boundary value problems associated with the Monge-Amp\`{e}re equation.
    Ahmed Mohammed*, Ball State University
    (1020-35-131)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Exclusive traveling waves for competitive reaction-diffusion systems and their stabilities.
    Anthony W Leung*, University of Cincinnati
    Xiaojie Hou, University of Cincinnati
    Yi Li, The University of Iowa
    (1020-35-65)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Traveling Wave Solutions To A Reaction Diffusion Equation Arising From Forest Succession.
    Xiaojie Hou*, University fo Cincinnati
    Paul Tian, The Ohio State University
    (1020-35-140)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    BV theory for p-system with damping.
    Constantine M Dafermos, Brown University
    Ronghua Pan*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1020-35-213)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A simple example of Arnold diffusion.
    Mark Levi*, Penn State
    Vadim Kaloshin, Penn State
    (1020-37-275)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Optimal Controls and Stochastic Differential Games, I
  Room 716, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael J. McAsey, Bradley University mcasey@bradley.edu
  Libin Mou, Bradley University mou@bradley.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Large deviations for stochastic Navier-Stokes equations using Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations.
    Andrzej Swiech*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1020-49-149)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Optimal Anticipative Stopping.
    Yaozhong Hu*, University of Kansas
    (1020-60-191)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Variational approach to pathwise solution of stochastic optimal control problems.
    Harry Randolph Hughes*, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    (1020-49-143)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Identification for Stochastic Systems with a Fractional Brownian Motion.
    Bozenna J. Pasik-Duncan*, University of Kansas
    (1020-93-212)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Radon-Nikodym Derivatives for Stochastic Systems with Fractional Brownian Motions.
    Tyrone E. Duncan*, University of Kansas
    (1020-93-210)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Birational Geometry, I
  Room 608, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Mirel Constantin Caibar, Ohio State University caibar@math.ohio-state.edu
  Gary P. Kennedy, Ohio State University kennedy@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Higher elliptic genera.
    Anatoly Libgober*, Univerisity of Illinois at Chicago
    (1020-14-136)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Perverse bundles and CM spaces.
    Thomas Nevins*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1020-14-195)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A GIT construction of $\overline{M}_{0,n}(\mathbf{P}^r,d)$.
    Adam E. Parker*, Wittenberg University
    (1020-14-103)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The motive of the moduli stack of bundles over the universal curve.
    Donu Arapura*, Purdue University
    (1020-14-170)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 9:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, I
  Room 616, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Edward W. Swim, Air Force Institute of Technology Edward.Swim@afit.edu
  Richard Schugart, Ohio State University rschugart@mbi.osu.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Analysis of a Mechano-Chemical Model for Passive Swelling of an Isolated Chondron Under Osmotic Loading.
    Richard C Schugart*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    Mansoor A Haider, North Carolina State University
    (1020-92-50)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Multiscale biphasic continuum mixture models of the pericellular microenvironment in articular cartilage.
    Mansoor A Haider*, Dept. of Mathematics, N.C. State University
    Eun Jung Kim, Dept. of Mathematics, N.C. State University
    Farshid Guilak, Depts. of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
    (1020-92-245)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Applied mathematics and renal physiology.
    Paula Grajdeanu*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University
    (1020-92-128)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Convexity Properties of Constitutive Models for Soft Tissues.
    J. Patrick Wilber*, University of Akron
    Jay R Walton, Texas A&M University
    (1020-74-274)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Combinatorics, I
  Room 720, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota ezra@math.umn.edu
  Igor Pak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology pak@math.mit.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Face ring multiplicity via CM-connectivity sequences.
    Ed Swartz*, Cornell University
    Isabella Novik, University of Washington
    (1020-05-199)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Realizations of generalized associahedra.
    Carsten Lange*, FU Berlin
    Christophe Hohlweg, The Fields Institute
    Hugh Thomas, University of New Brunswick
    (1020-52-265)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Flag arrangements and triangulations of products of simplices.
    Federico Ardila*, San Francisco State University
    Sara Billey, University of Washington
    (1020-05-81)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Discrete Fundamental Group of the Order Complex of $B_n$.
    Helene Barcelo*, Arizona State University
    Shelly Smith, Grand Valley State University
    (1020-05-141)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 10:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, II
  Room 324, Braunstein Hall
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Recurrent sequences based on the greatest prime factor function.
    Mihai Caragiu*, Department of Mathematics, Ohio Northern University
    (1020-11-247)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Several Convex-Ear Decompositions.
    Jay Schweig*, Cornell University
    (1020-05-19)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the Likelihood of Comparability in Bruhat Order.
    Adam J Hammett*, The Ohio State University
    Boris G Pittel, The Ohio State University
    (1020-05-118)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Steiner Graphs in Hypberbolic Geometry.
    Mohammad Javaheri*, University of Oregon
    (1020-51-41)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Breuil Module of a Hopf Order in an Elementary Abelian $p$-Group Ring.
    Alan Koch*, Agnes Scott College
    (1020-14-193)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Two and three-generated ideals of linear type.
    Hamid Kulosman*, University of Louisville
    (1020-13-269)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Mathematics for cardiovascular interventions.
  Room 500, Swift Hall
  Suncica Canic*, University of Houston
  (1020-00-04)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Unfolding polyhedra.
  Room 500, Swift Hall
  Ezra N. Miller*, University of Minnesota
  (1020-52-02)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Results on Operator Algebras, II
  Room 816, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Herbert Halpern, University of Cincinnati halpern@math.uc.edu
  Gary Weiss, University of Cincinnati gary.weiss@math.uc.edu
  Costel Peligrad, University of Cincinnati costel.peligrad@uc.edu
  Shuang Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@math.uc.edu
  Victor G. Kaftal, University of Cincinnati kaftal@math.uc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Kadison-Singer Problem in Mathematics and Engineering.
    Peter G. Casazza*, University of Missouri
    (1020-47-24)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Symmetric functionals, traces and norms.
    Nigel J Kalton*, University of Missouri
    (1020-46-115)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    3-Paving Small Matrices and the Kadison-Singer Extension Problem.
    Gary Weiss, University of Cincinnati
    Vrej Zarikian*, United States Naval Academy
    (1020-47-159)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Gradients for free groups.
    Marius Junge*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
    (1020-46-123)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Spectral pictures of $2$-variable weighted shifts.
    Ra\'ul E Curto*, The University of Iowa
    (1020-47-44)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Boundary Value Problems for Differential Equations with Applications, II
  Room 325, Braunstein Hall
  Organizers:
  Xiaojie Hou, University of Cincinnati houx@email.uc.edu
  Philip L. Korman, University of Cincinnati kormanp@math.uc.edu
  Bingyu Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@uc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Conditions for transport in a model of molecular motors.
    S P Hastings*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1020-35-47)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Lower Bounds for Blow-up Time in Some Parabolic Problems.
    Philip Schaefer*, University of Tennessee
    (1020-35-23)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rate of Decay of Stable Periodic Solutions of Duffing Equations.
    Hongbin Chen, Department of Mathematics, Xian Jiaotong University
    Yi Li*, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa & Hunan Normal University
    (1020-35-219)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Advection-mediated coexistence of competing species.
    Yuan Lou*, Ohio State University
    Chris Cosner, University of Miami
    Robert Cantrell, University of Miami
    (1020-35-197)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A periodic problem for a nonlinear evolution inclusion.
    Sergiu Aizicovici*, Ohio University
    (1020-34-33)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, II
  Room 820, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Srdjan D. Stojanovic, University of Cincinnati srdjan.stojanovic@uc.edu
  Ning Zhong, University of Cincinnati ning.zhong@uc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Whether to Sell or Hold a Stock.
    Raymond Rishel*, University of Kentucky
    (1020-91-10)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Optimal Barrier Policy for Dividend Optimization.
    G. Yin*, Wayne State University
    Q.S. Song, University of Souther California
    H.-L. Yang, University of Hong Kong
    (1020-60-48)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    One-Factor Term Structure without Forward Rates.
    Victor Goodman*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Kyounghee Kim, Florida State University
    (1020-91-66)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Valuing Guaranteed Unit-Linked Life Insurance Under Regime-Switching Model.
    Ruihua Liu*, University of Dayton
    (1020-60-169)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Double barrier hitting time distributions for irregular Gaussian processes and applications.
    Vilen Abramov, Kent State University
    Kazim Khan, Kent State University
    Oana Mocioalca*, Kent State University
    (1020-60-262)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking, II
  Room 326, Braunstein Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric J. Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
  Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
  Jonathan Simon, University of Iowa jsimon@math.uiowa.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    New Results on the ``Square Peg'' problem.
    Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Elizabeth Denne, Harvard University
    John McCleary, Vassar College
    (1020-54-119)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Convergence and isotopy type for graphs of finite total curvature.
    Elizabeth Denne*, Harvard University
    John M Sullivan, Technische Universitat, Berlin
    (1020-57-59)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    How can we measure tangling?
    Jonathan Simon*, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
    Rob Scharein, Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
    (1020-57-111)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Protein Similarity from Line Weavings.
    Michael Erdmann*, Computer Science Department and Robotics Institute/Carnegie Mellon University
    (1020-92-89)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Mathematical challenges in description and classification of protein structures.
    Peter R{\o}gen*, Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Denmark
    (1020-92-62)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Optimal Controls and Stochastic Differential Games, II
  Room 716, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael J. McAsey, Bradley University mcasey@bradley.edu
  Libin Mou, Bradley University mou@bradley.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Numerical Solution of Singular Stochastic Control Problems.
    Richard H Stockbridge*, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    (1020-60-42)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Over View of Optimal Control and Its Application to Real World Problems.
    Hem Raj Joshi*, Xavier University
    (1020-49-127)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Optimal Control of Immunotherapy and Chemotherapy of Tumors.
    Weiqing Gu*, Mathematics Department, Harvey Mudd College
    Lisette de Pillis, Mathematics Department, Harvey Mudd College
    Renee K. Fister, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    (1020-93-222)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Switching Diffusion Systems.
    G. Yin*, Wayne State University
    C. Zhu, Wayne State University
    (1020-93-49)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, II
  Room 616, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Edward W. Swim, Air Force Institute of Technology Edward.Swim@afit.edu
  Richard Schugart, Ohio State University rschugart@mbi.osu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Numerical approximation of solutions to nonlinear inverse problems arising in olfaction experimentation.
    Donald A. French*, Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati
    Steve J. Kleene, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati
    (1020-35-204)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Modeling pathophysiology of motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease.
    Leonid L Rubchinsky*, Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis and Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
    Karen A Sigvardt, Neurology and Center for Neuroscience ,University of California, Davis, CA and VA Northern California Health Care System
    (1020-92-167)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Mathematical Model for the Development of Sleep Regulation.
    Janet Best*, Ohio State University
    David Terman, Ohio State University
    (1020-92-185)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Transcriptional Delays in Cyclic Biochemical Networks.
    German A Enciso*, MBI
    (1020-93-51)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    NMR Protein Structure Refinement with Mean Force Potentials.
    Di Wu*, Department of Mathematics Western Kentucky University
    Robert Jernigan, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University
    Zhijun Wu, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University
    (1020-00-151)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory, II
  Room 519, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Nikos Frantzikinakis, Pennsylvania State University nikos@math.psu.edu
  Bryna R. Kra, Northwestern University kra@math.northwestern.edu
  Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis mw@csi.hu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Breaking the duality in the "Return times" theorem.
    Ciprian Demeter*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1020-37-73)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    WM sets - definitions, Ramsey properties and open problems.
    Alexander Fish*, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, currently Ohio State University
    (1020-37-105)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Projectional Entropy in Higher Dimensional Shifts of Finite Type.
    Aimee S. A. Johnson*, Swarthmore College
    Kathleen Madden, Drew University
    Steve Kass, Drew University
    (1020-37-129)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Convergence of Polynomial Ergodic Averages of Several Variables for Some Commuting Transformations.
    Michael C R Johnson*, Northwestern University
    (1020-37-184)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the uniqueness of measures of full Hausdorff dimension for some compact invariant sets.
    Yuki Yayama*, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1020-37-175)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Birational Geometry, II
  Room 608, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Mirel Constantin Caibar, Ohio State University caibar@math.ohio-state.edu
  Gary P. Kennedy, Ohio State University kennedy@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Local systems and multiplier ideals.
    Nero Budur*, IAS, Princeton / University of Notre Dame
    (1020-14-94)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Recent applications of multiplier ideals and arc spaces to the rationality problem.
    Tommaso de Fernex*, University of Utah
    (1020-14-246)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Invariants of singularities in positive characteristic.
    Manuel Blickle, University of Duisburg-Essen
    Mircea Mustata*, University of Michigan
    Karen Smith, University of Michigan
    (1020-14-203)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Celestial integration and birational invariants.
    Paolo Aluffi*, Florida State University
    (1020-14-142)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Algebraic Geometry and Cryptography, II
  Room 520, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Jintai Ding, University of Cincinnati ding@math.uc.edu
  Jason Eric Gower, University of Cincinnati jgower@math.purdue.edu
  Timothy J. Hodges, University of Cincinnati timothy.hodges@uc.edu
  Lei Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences hu@is.ac.cn
  Dieter S. Schmidt, University of Cincinnati dschmidt@ececs.uc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Multivariate Public Key Cryptography.
    Jintai Ding*, University of Cincinnati
    Dieter Schmidt, University of Cincinnati
    (1020-94-135)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Group Independent Secret Sharing: properties and constructions.
    Brian King*, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
    (1020-94-164)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Mathematics and Cryptology.
    Chris Christensen*, Northern Kentucky University
    (1020-01-75)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Cryptographic Hash Function Based on Elliptic Curves.
    George B Purdy*, Computer Science Dept, University of Cincinnati
    (1020-11-257)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Potential Theory on Metric Spaces, II
  Room 516, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas Bieske, University of South Florida tbieske@math.usf.edu
  Zair Ibragimov, University of Cincinnati ibragizs@math.uc.edu
  Nageswari Shanmugalingam, University of Cincinnati nages@math.uc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mappings of finite distortion: discreteness and openness.
    Xiao Zhong*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Jyv\"askyl\"a
    (1020-51-248)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Hardy Space Estimates of the Jacobian Determinant in Terms of its Subdeternminants.
    Tadeusz Iwaniec*, Syracuse University
    Jani Onninen, Syracuse University
    (1020-31-266)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Deformations of Finite Energy.
    Tadeusz Iwaniec, Syracuse University
    Jani Onninen*, Syracuse University
    (1020-31-264)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On a boundary Harnack inequality for p harmonic functions.
    John L Lewis*, University of Kentucky
    Kaj Nystrom, Umea University
    (1020-31-58)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Riesz potentials that are $p$-superharmonic or $p$-subharmonic functions.
    J Manfredi Juan*, University of Pittsburgh
    Peter Lindqvist, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    (1020-31-235)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Applications, II
  Room 819, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  S. P. Singh, Memorial University of Newfoundland spsingh@math.mun.ca
  Bruce Watson, Memorial University of Newfoundland bruce2@math.mun.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some Applications of Ring Hulls to C*-Algebras.
    Gary F. Birkenmeier, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Jae Keol Park, Busan National University
    S Tariq Rizvi*, The Ohio State University, Lima
    (1020-16-220)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Convergence of Iterates to a Common Fixed Point of a Family of Mappings.
    Charles Chidume*, International Centre for Theoretical Physics
    (1020-47-225)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Approximation of Functions(Signals)by Trigonometric Polynomials in $L_p$-spaces ($p\geq 1$)using Summability Techniques.
    Madan Mittal*, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
    (1020-40-161)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Tauberian theorem for uniformly weakly convergence and its application to Fourier series.
    Chang-Pao Chen*, National Tsing Hua University
    Meng-Kuang Kuo, National Tsing Hua University
    (1020-46-144)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Tauberian Theorem for Discrete Weighted Means.
    Bruce Watson*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    (1020-40-32)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Combinatorics, II
  Room 720, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota ezra@math.umn.edu
  Igor Pak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology pak@math.mit.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Adornments and expanding flowers.
    Robert Connelly*, Cornell University
    Erik D. Demaine, MIT
    Martin L. Demaine, MIT
    S\'andor P. Fekete, TU Braunschweig
    Stefan Langerman, Univrsit\'e Libre de Bruxelles
    Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Stony Brook University
    Ares Rib\'o, Freie Universit\"at Berlin
    G\"unter Rote, Freie Universit\"at Berlin
    (1020-52-182)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Heat flow and a faster algorithm to compute the surface area of a convex body.
    Mikhail Belkin*, The Ohio State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    Hariharan Narayanan, The University of Chicago, Department of Computer Science
    Partha Niyogi, The University of Chicago, Department of Computer Science
    (1020-05-85)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Gale and braxial polytopes.
    Margaret M Bayer*, University of Kansas
    Tibor Bisztriczky, University of Calgary
    (1020-52-211)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Moebius inversion and combinatorial curvature.
    Jon McCammond*, University of California - Santa Barbara
    (1020-05-95)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential and Its Applications, II
  Room 312, Braunstein Hall
  Organizers:
  Changyou Wang, University of Kentucky cywang@ms.uky.edu
  Guan Bo, Ohio State University guan@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Relativistic Chern-Simons Equations and Variational Methods.
    Yisong Yang*, Polytechnic University
    (1020-35-132)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Existence and regularity of solutions to shock reflection problem.
    Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
    Mikhail Feldman*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1020-35-223)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Homogenizations in applied PDEs.
    Bo Su*, Iowa State University
    (1020-35-87)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A simple proof of the propagation of singularities for solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
    Yifeng Yu*, Department of mathematics, U.T. Austin
    (1020-35-229)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Sharp form for improved Moser-Trudinger inequality.
    Y. Ni, University of Oklahoma
    M. Zhu*, University of Oklahoma
    (1020-35-108)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory---Honoring the Retirement of Vera Pless, II
  Room 719, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  William Cary Huffman, Loyola University wch@math.luc.edu
  Jon-Lark Kim, University of Louisville jl.kim@louisville.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The minimum weight of dual codes from projective planes.
    J. D. Key*, Clemson University
    (1020-05-70)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Combinatorial Designs and Code Synchronization.
    Vladimir D. Tonchev*, Michigan Technological Universirty
    (1020-94-63)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Optical Orthogonal Codes from Arcs in Root Subspaces.
    Keith E. Mellinger*, University of Mary Washington
    Tim Alderson, University of New Brunswick - Saint John
    (1020-51-11)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Towards a classification of three-dimensional Griesmer codes.
    Ray Hill, University of Salford
    Harold Ward*, University of Virginia
    (1020-94-174)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Optimal Linear Codes over $Z_m$.
    Steven T. Dougherty, University of Scranton
    T. Aaron Gulliver*, University of Victoria
    Young Ho Park, Kangwon National University
    John N.C. Wong, University of Victoria
    (1020-94-233)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Limit Theorems of Probability Theory, I
  Room 316, Braunstein Hall
  Organizers:
  Wlodzimierz Bryc, University of Cincinnati brycw@math.uc.edu
  Magda Peligrad, University of Cincinnati peligrm@math.uc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Almost Sure Limit Theorem for the Product of Partials Sums.
    Hurlee Gonchigdanzan*, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
    (1020-60-126)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Spatial Epidemics: Critical Behavior.
    Steven P. Lalley*, University of Chicago
    (1020-60-90)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Limiting Spectral Distribution of Random Block-Matrices.
    Tamer F Oraby*, University of cincinnati
    (1020-60-162)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Approximations of fractional Brownian motion and Gamma process.
    Krzysztof Podgorski*, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
    (1020-60-38)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Moderate deviations for stationary processes.
    Wei Biao Wu*, University of Chicago
    Zhibiao Zhao, University of Chicago
    (1020-60-99)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, II
  Room 324, Braunstein Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    When is it possible for a finite semimodular lattice to contain a median that is not bounded above by the join of input elements?
    Jeremy M White*, University of Louisville
    (1020-06-194)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On two functional equations and their solutions.
    Kelly B Houston*, Undergraduate Student, University of Louisville
    Prasanna K Sahoo, Professor, University of Louisville
    (1020-39-207)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On a Sincov type functional equation.
    Prasanna K Sahoo*, Professor of Mathematics, University of Louisville
    (1020-39-243)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Behavior of the Sum of the Absolute Values of the Bessel Functions.
    George C. Stey*, The Ohio State University
    (1020-42-277)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Extension of Tikhonov Regularization Method with Varying Regularization Operators.
    Kourosh Modarresi*, Stanford University(Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics, SCCM)
    Gene H. Golub, Stanford University, CS/SCCM dep.
    (1020-15-271)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    A Variant of Primal-Dual Interior-Point Method for Linear Programming based on Kernel Functions.
    Mohammed Shakil, Miami Dade College, Hialeah Campus
    Jai N Singh*, Barry University
    (1020-90-120)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Probability of Knotting after a Local Strand Passage in a SAP.
    Michael L Szafron*, St. Peter's College/University of Saskatchewan
    Christine E Soteros, Univerisity of Saskatchewan
    (1020-62-256)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Strange inequalities in a partially ordered linear algebra.
    Donald Beken, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
    Ralph DeMarr*, University of New Mexico
    (1020-06-114)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  From combinatorics to ergodic theory and back.
  Room 500, Swift Hall
  Bryna R. Kra*, Northwestern University
  (1020-37-01)
• Saturday October 21, 2006, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
  Reception Hosted by the Department of Mathematics
  Mick & Mack's (3rd Level), Tangeman University Center (TUC)

Sunday October 22, 2006

• Sunday October 22, 2006, 7:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 614, Old Chemistry Building
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 7:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 615, Old Chemistry Building
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Results on Operator Algebras, III
  Room 816, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Herbert Halpern, University of Cincinnati halpern@math.uc.edu
  Gary Weiss, University of Cincinnati gary.weiss@math.uc.edu
  Costel Peligrad, University of Cincinnati costel.peligrad@uc.edu
  Shuang Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@math.uc.edu
  Victor G. Kaftal, University of Cincinnati kaftal@math.uc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Continued fractions and AF algebras.
    Florin P Boca*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    (1020-46-26)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Limits and $C^*$-Algebras of Low Rank or Dimension.
    Lawrence G. Brown*, Purdue University
    Gert K. Pedersen,
    (1020-46-52)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some examples of actions of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ on C*-algebras generated by unitaries.
    Man-Duen Choi, University of Toronto
    Frederic Latremoliere*, University of Cincinnati
    (1020-46-183)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The homotopy type of the automorphism group of Kirchberg algebras.
    Marius Dadarlat*, Purdue University
    (1020-46-25)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Algebras generated by isometries.
    Hari Bercovici*, Indiana University
    (1020-47-147)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Local Structure of Nuclear C*-algebras.
    Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1020-46-158)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking, III
  Room 326, Braunstein Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric J. Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
  Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
  Jonathan Simon, University of Iowa jsimon@math.uiowa.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Solving n-string tangle equations modeling protein-DNA complexes.
    Isabel K. Darcy*, University of Iowa
    (1020-57-232)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Linking of chromosomes during interphase.
    Javier Arsuaga*, Mathematics Department, San Francisco State University
    Trevor Blackstone, San Francisco State University
    Mariel Vazquez, Mathematics Department, San Francisco State University
    (1020-92-187)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Efficient DNA decatenation by Xer system of recombination.
    Mariel Vazquez*, San Francisco State University
    David J Sherratt, Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford
    (1020-92-157)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Model of DNA Knotting and Linking: Part I.
    Dorothy Buck*, Imperial College London
    Erica Flapan,
    (1020-92-46)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Model of DNA Knotting and Linking: Part II.
    Erica Flapan*, Pomona College
    Dorothy Buck, Imperial College London
    (1020-57-53)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Understanding Gene-regulatory Mechanisms in vivo: Lessons from the Mechanics of Protein-DNA Complexes.
    Stephen D Levene*, University of Texas at Dallas
    Abbye E McEwen, University of Texas at Dallas
    Yongli Zhang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    (1020-92-110)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Spiral Waves in Excitable Media.
    Irma Cruz-White, Chipola College
    De Witt Sumners*, Florida State University
    (1020-57-150)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential and Its Applications, III
  Room 312, Braunstein Hall
  Organizers:
  Changyou Wang, University of Kentucky cywang@ms.uky.edu
  Guan Bo, Ohio State University guan@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Configurations of nonlinear materials with electric fields that minimize $L^p$ norms.
    Robert P Lipton*, Louisiana State University
    (1020-35-102)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    An Energy Reducing Flow for Multiple-Valued Functions.
    Wei Zhu*, Department of Mathematics, Rice University
    (1020-35-107)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Singular set for Lipschitzian critical points of polyconvex functionals from nonlinear elasticity.
    Sungwon Cho, Michigan State University
    Xiaodong Yan*, Michigan State Univerisy
    (1020-35-104)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A nonlinear integral equation in conformal geometry.
    Fengbo Hang, Princeton University
    Xiaodong Wang*, Michigan State University
    Xiaodong Yan, Michigan State University
    (1020-53-206)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Alternative proofs on the radial symmetry and monotonicity for positive regular solutions to a singular integral equation.
    Wenxiong Chen, Yeshiva University
    Congming Li, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Biao Ou*, University of Toledo
    (1020-35-45)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Vanishing Moment Method and Numerical Approximations for Fully Nonlinear PDEs.
    Xiaobing Feng*, Department of Mathematics, The University of Tennessee
    (1020-35-228)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory---Honoring the Retirement of Vera Pless, III
  Room 719, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  William Cary Huffman, Loyola University wch@math.luc.edu
  Jon-Lark Kim, University of Louisville jl.kim@louisville.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On Modular Cyclic Codes.
    Steven T Dougherty*, University of Scranton
    Young Ho Park, Kangwon National University
    (1020-94-138)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Equivalence of Linear Codes over Finite Rings.
    Jay A. Wood*, Western Michigan University
    (1020-94-06)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Number of Inequivalent Binary Self-Orthogonal Codes.
    Xiang-dong Hou*, University of South Florida
    (1020-94-64)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A bound for certain $s$-extremal codes and lattices.
    Philippe Gaborit*, Universit\'e de Limoges
    (1020-05-234)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Duadic codes at length.
    Patrick Sole*, CNRS-I3S
    (1020-94-20)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Optimal Subcodes of Self-Dual Codes.
    Jon-Lark Kim*, University of Louisville
    Vera Pless, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1020-94-163)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Additive Self-Dual Codes over GF(4) with an Odd Order Automorphism.
    W. Cary Huffman*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Loyola University of Chicago
    (1020-94-153)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, III
  Room 820, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Srdjan D. Stojanovic, University of Cincinnati srdjan.stojanovic@uc.edu
  Ning Zhong, University of Cincinnati ning.zhong@uc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A bivariate Levy process with negative binomial and gamma marginals.
    Tomasz J. Kozubowski*, University of Nevada at Reno
    Anna K. Panorska, University of Nevada at Reno
    Krzysztof Podgorski, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
    (1020-62-30)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Deviation Model for Financial Overreaction.
    A. Duran*, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI, USA
    G. Caginalp, University of Pittsburgh
    (1020-90-18)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Statistical Analysis of the Filtering Model with Marked Point Process Observations: Application to Ultra-High Frequency Data.
    Yong Zeng*, Dept. of Math and Stat, University of Missouri at Kansas City
    (1020-60-101)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Stochastic Risk Model and its Applications to Actuarial Funding.
    Guangwei Fan*, Maryville University – St. Louis
    (1020-60-113)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Pricing and Trading Credit Default Swaps.
    Tomasz R Bielecki*, Applied Mathematics Department, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Monique Jeanblanc, Mathematics Department, Evry University
    Marek Rutkowski, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales
    (1020-60-276)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Neutral derivative pricing and hedging under multi-dimensional risks in incomplete markets: theory and applications.
    Srdjan D Stojanovic*, University of Cincinnati
    (1020-90-165)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Algebraic Geometry and Cryptography, III
  Room 520, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Jintai Ding, University of Cincinnati ding@math.uc.edu
  Jason Eric Gower, University of Cincinnati jgower@math.purdue.edu
  Timothy J. Hodges, University of Cincinnati timothy.hodges@uc.edu
  Lei Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences hu@is.ac.cn
  Dieter S. Schmidt, University of Cincinnati dschmidt@ececs.uc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Elliptic Curves of Almost Prime Order.
    Shuo Shen*, Purdue University
    Samuel S Wagstaff, Purdue University
    (1020-11-96)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cryptanalysis on the New Instance of Tractable Rational Map Cryptosystems.
    Hu Lei*, Graduate School of the Chineses Academy of Sciences
    Jintai Ding, University of Cincinnati
    Xuyun Nie, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    John Wagner, University of Cincinnati
    Jianyu Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    (1020-94-134)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sato-Tate Distributions for Genus 2 Curves.
    William Butske*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (1020-14-173)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Structure of the subgroup of permutations spanned by the Dickson and the Linear polynomials.
    Adama Diene*, Central State University. Wilberforce , Ohio
    Jintai Ding, University of Cincinnati
    (1020-20-268)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Applications, III
  Room 819, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  S. P. Singh, Memorial University of Newfoundland spsingh@math.mun.ca
  Bruce Watson, Memorial University of Newfoundland bruce2@math.mun.ca
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Full Bounded Solutions of Nonlinear Parabolic Equations with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions.
    N. Mavinga, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    M. N. Nkashama*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1020-35-230)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Maximal elements in economics and applications.
    A Carbone*, Dip. di Matematica, Universita della Calabria
    (1020-47-240)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A theory of dressed particles and the Stark effect in periodic dielectric materials.
    I Haque*, University of Western Ontario
    Mahi Singh, University of Western Ontario
    (1020-47-272)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fixed Point Theory and Its Applications.
    A Rajput*, Sadhu Vaswani College
    (1020-47-273)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Boundary Value Problems for Differential Equations with Applications, III
  Room 325, Braunstein Hall
  Organizers:
  Xiaojie Hou, University of Cincinnati houx@email.uc.edu
  Philip L. Korman, University of Cincinnati kormanp@math.uc.edu
  Bingyu Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@uc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quarter-plane and two-point boundary value problems for the KdV equation.
    Shu-Ming Sun*, Virginia Tech
    (1020-35-176)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Numerical investigation of three-dimensional water waves.
    Min Chen*, Dept. of Math., Purdue University
    (1020-76-146)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Using finite intervals to approximate infinite intervals: the BBM-equation.
    Jerry L Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Hongqiu Chen*, University of Memphis
    Shuming Sun, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
    Bingyu Zhang, University of Cincinnati
    (1020-35-133)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Error Estimation For A Class of Hierarchical Immersed Finite Element Spaces.
    Tao Lin*, Department of Mathematics, Vriginia Tech
    Slimane Adjerid, Department of Mathematics, Vriginia Tech
    (1020-65-116)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Entire Positive Solutions of Elliptic Systems: Understanding the General Structure.
    Alan V Lair, Air Force Institute of Technology
    Xuefeng Wang, Tulane University
    Aihua W Wood*, Air Force Institute of Technology
    (1020-35-88)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Optimal Controls and Stochastic Differential Games, III
  Room 716, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael J. McAsey, Bradley University mcasey@bradley.edu
  Libin Mou, Bradley University mou@bradley.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Systematic Approach to Solving Holonomic Constraint Problems.
    John Gregory*, Department of Mathematics, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    (1020-49-109)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Multiplier Rule for Optimizations on Metric Spaces and Applications.
    Michael McAsey, Department of Mathematics, Bradley University
    Libin Mou*, Department of Mathematics, Bradley University
    (1020-49-238)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Regularity of Optimal Controls for State Constrained Problems.
    Ilya A Shvartsman*, Miami University
    Richard B Vinter, Imperial College
    (1020-49-121)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Optimal Control of Semilinear Evolution Inclusions.
    Boris Mordukhovich, Wayne State University
    Dong Wang*, Fayetteville State University
    (1020-49-112)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, III
  Room 616, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Edward W. Swim, Air Force Institute of Technology Edward.Swim@afit.edu
  Richard Schugart, Ohio State University rschugart@mbi.osu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computational mechanics of nonlinear biological soft-tissues.
    Padmanabhan Seshaiyer*, Texas Tech University
    (1020-65-226)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear fluid-structure interaction models for biologically inspired elastic membrane wings.
    Edward W. Swim*, Air Force Institute of Technology
    Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, Texas Tech University
    (1020-74-148)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Reaction-Diffusion Model for Eradication of the Screwworm Fly by Sterile Fly Release Method.
    John Gordon Alford*, Sam Houston State University
    Robert Matlock, City University of New York, Staten Island
    (1020-92-83)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Estimation and Identification of Klebsiella pneumoniae Aggregation Dynamics.
    David M Bortz*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1020-92-259)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Mathematical Models for Evolution and Dynamics of Avian Influenza.
    Jianjun Paul Tian*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    Jin Zhou, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    (1020-37-177)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory, III
  Room 519, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Nikos Frantzikinakis, Pennsylvania State University nikos@math.psu.edu
  Bryna R. Kra, Northwestern University kra@math.northwestern.edu
  Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis mw@csi.hu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Adic transformations and random walks, I.
    Sarah Bailey Frick*, The Ohio State University
    Karl Petersen, University of North Carolina
    (1020-37-130)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Adic transformations and random walks, II.
    Sarah Bailey, Ohio State University
    Karl Petersen*, University of North Carolina
    (1020-37-106)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bounds for Square Functions of Differences in Ergodic Theory.
    Joseph Rosenblatt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Mary Liu, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1020-28-54)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On an Argument of Shkredov on Two-Dimensional Corners in a Finite Field Setting.
    Michael T Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology
    William C McClain*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1020-05-202)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Perturbations of Multidimensional Shifts of Finite Type.
    Ronnie Pavlov*, The Ohio State University
    (1020-37-205)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Birational Geometry, III
  Room 608, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Mirel Constantin Caibar, Ohio State University caibar@math.ohio-state.edu
  Gary P. Kennedy, Ohio State University kennedy@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the geometry of normal functions associated to high-degree hypersurface sections of a Calabi-Yau fourfold.
    C Herbert Clemens*, Ohio State University
    (1020-14-250)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fibered Calabi-Yau Varieties and Toric Varieties.
    Joshua P Mullet*, The Ohio State University
    (1020-14-214)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Birational Equivalence, Linear Systems, and Desingularization.
    Yasuyuki Kachi*, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas
    (1020-14-260)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Resolution of singularities in characteristic zero.
    Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk*, Purdue University
    (1020-14-97)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Potential Theory on Metric Spaces, III
  Room 516, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas Bieske, University of South Florida tbieske@math.usf.edu
  Zair Ibragimov, University of Cincinnati ibragizs@math.uc.edu
  Nageswari Shanmugalingam, University of Cincinnati nages@math.uc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Conformal dimension of middle interval Cantor sets.
    Hrant Hakobyan*, Stony Brook University
    (1020-30-242)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dimension comparison and distortion in sub-Riemannian geometry.
    Jeremy T Tyson*, University of Illinois
    (1020-28-263)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An Extension of the Schoenflies Theorem for Sobolev Homeomorphisms, and Connections to Smooth Geometry.
    Jasun Gong*, University of Michigan
    (1020-28-180)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Limit Theorems of Probability Theory, II
  Room 316, Braunstein Hall
  Organizers:
  Wlodzimierz Bryc, University of Cincinnati brycw@math.uc.edu
  Magda Peligrad, University of Cincinnati peligrm@math.uc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic results for empirical measures of weighted sums of independent random variables.
    Bernard Bercu, Universit\'e Paul Sabatier
    Wlodzimierz Bryc*, University of Cincinnati
    (1020-60-82)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An Ito Formula for Domain-Valued Processes Driven by Stochastic Flows.
    Kimberly K.J. Kinateder*, Wright State University
    Patrick T McDonald, New College
    (1020-60-43)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An infinitesimal version of Stein's method of exchangeable pairs.
    Elizabeth Meckes*, American Institute of Mathematics
    (1020-60-40)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Occupation laws for some Markov time-reinforcement schemes.
    Zach Dietz, Mathematics/Tulane University
    Sunder Sethuraman*, Mathematics/Iowa State University
    (1020-60-122)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On weak convergence to Poisson-exponential law.
    Vladimir Vinogradov*, Ohio University
    (1020-60-05)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Combinatorics, III
  Room 720, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota ezra@math.umn.edu
  Igor Pak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology pak@math.mit.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Properties of the $\gamma$-vector, an angle analog of the $h$-vector.
    Kristin A Camenga*, Houghton College
    (1020-52-189)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generalized Degree Sequences.
    Caroline J. Klivans*, University of Chicago
    (1020-05-181)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Inflating polyhedral surfaces.
    Igor Pak*, M.I.T.
    (1020-52-168)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The ${\bf cd}$-index of Gorenstein* lattices.
    Richard Ehrenborg*, University of Kentucky
    Kalle Karu, University of British Columbia
    (1020-05-216)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Lagrangian submanifolds and volume.
  Room 500, Swift Hall
  Jon G. Wolfson*, Michigan State University
  (1020-53-03)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Results on Operator Algebras, IV
  Room 816, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Herbert Halpern, University of Cincinnati halpern@math.uc.edu
  Gary Weiss, University of Cincinnati gary.weiss@math.uc.edu
  Costel Peligrad, University of Cincinnati costel.peligrad@uc.edu
  Shuang Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@math.uc.edu
  Victor G. Kaftal, University of Cincinnati kaftal@math.uc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    About some C*-algebras arising from reduced group C*-algebras.
    Bogdan C Visinecu*, University of Cincinnati
    (1020-47-267)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Subspaces of spherical functions of the crossed product.
    Raluca Dumitru*, University of Cincinnati
    (1020-47-254)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On perturbation of operators in semifinite von Neumann algebras.
    Anna Skripka*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1020-47-179)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Examples of prime von Neumann algebras.
    Mingchu Gao*, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Marius Junge, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1020-46-156)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Boundary Value Problems for Differential Equations with Applications, IV
  Room 325, Braunstein Hall
  Organizers:
  Xiaojie Hou, University of Cincinnati houx@email.uc.edu
  Philip L. Korman, University of Cincinnati kormanp@math.uc.edu
  Bingyu Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@uc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Final steady flow near a stagnation point on a vertical surface in a porous medium.
    Keith Merrill, Penn State Erie
    Matthew Beauchesne, Penn State Erie
    Joseph Previte, Penn State Erie
    Joseph Paullet*, Penn State Erie
    Patrick Weidman, University of Colorado
    (1020-34-09)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Conformally Compact Einstein Metrics with Symmetry in Dimension 5.
    Mohammad Javaheri*, University of Oregon
    (1020-53-16)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Scattering for transmission obstacles with variable matrix interfaces.
    Stephen O'Dell*, UCLA
    (1020-35-17)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the initial-boundary value problem for constrained hyperbolic systems.
    Nicolae Tarfulea*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University Calumet
    (1020-35-74)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Solutions to the non-homogeneous parabolic problems by the extended homogeneous Adomian decomposition method.
    Bongsoo Jang*, Kent State University at Ashtabula
    (1020-35-152)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Analysis of the Convergence of Fourier Coefficients Using a Variational Approach.
    John L Fleming*, Duquesne University
    (1020-42-166)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking, IV
  Room 326, Braunstein Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric J. Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
  Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara millett@math.ucsb.edu
  Jonathan Simon, University of Iowa jsimon@math.uiowa.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Partial Ordering of Knots Through Diagrammatic Unknotting.
    Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
    Andrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne
    (1020-57-154)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Tutte Polynomials of Signed Graphs and Jones Polynomials of Some Large Knots.
    Yuanan Diao*, UNC Charlotte
    Gabor Hetyei, UNC Charlotte
    Kenneth E Hinson, UNC Charlotte
    (1020-57-57)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    "Physical systems with tight knots, links and braids".
    Thomas W. Kephart*, Physics Dept., Vanderbilt Univ.
    Roman V, Buniy, University of Oregon
    (1020-55-261)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Explorations in Knot Self-Repulsion.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Dan Sandin, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Robert Kooima, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1020-57-80)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:30 p.m.
    M\"obius Energy of smooth knots inscribed in polygons.
    Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
    (1020-57-192)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory, IV
  Room 519, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Nikos Frantzikinakis, Pennsylvania State University nikos@math.psu.edu
  Bryna R. Kra, Northwestern University kra@math.northwestern.edu
  Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis mw@csi.hu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A characterization of Levitan almost periodicity.
    Alica Miller*, University of Louisville
    (1020-37-227)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Distribution of Periodic Torus Orbits on Homogeneous Spaces.
    Manfred L Einsiedler*, Ohio State University
    (1020-37-60)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Combinatorics, IV
  Room 720, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota ezra@math.umn.edu
  Igor Pak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology pak@math.mit.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Brunn-Minkowski inequalities for integer points in transportation polytopes.
    Alexander Barvinok*, University of Michigan
    (1020-05-98)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Inside-out polytopes.
    Matthias Beck*, San Francisco State University
    Thomas Zaslavsky, Binghamton University (SUNY)
    (1020-05-39)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A convex ear decomposition for the coloring complex.
    Patricia Hersh*, Indiana University--Bloomington
    Ed Swartz, Cornell University
    (1020-05-100)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A simplicial matrix-tree theorem.
    Art M Duval, University of Texas at El Paso
    Caroline Klivans, University of Chicago
    Jeremy L Martin*, University of Kansas
    (1020-05-92)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory---Honoring the Retirement of Vera Pless, IV
  Room 719, Swift Hall
  Organizers:
  William Cary Huffman, Loyola University wch@math.luc.edu
  Jon-Lark Kim, University of Louisville jl.kim@louisville.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    An approach to decoding Hermitian codes.
    Gretchen L. Matthews*, Clemson University
    (1020-94-253)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    LDPC Codes of Arbitrary Girth.
    Tsvetan I Asamov*, Kenyon College
    Nuh Aydin, Kenyon College
    (1020-05-198)
• Sunday October 22, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Limit Theorems of Probability Theory, III
  Room 316, Braunstein Hall
  Organizers:
  Wlodzimierz Bryc, University of Cincinnati brycw@math.uc.edu
  Magda Peligrad, University of Cincinnati peligrm@math.uc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A strictly stationary, 5-tuplewise independent counterexample to the central limit theorem.
    Richard C. Bradley*, Indiana University
    (1020-60-35)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Mass of Sites Visited by a Random Walk on an Infinite Graph.
    Lee R Gibson*, University of Louisville
    (1020-60-21)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Eexponential martingales and time integrals of brownian motion.
    Victor Goodman, Indiana University
    Kyounghee Kim*, Florida State University
    (1020-60-37)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic results for linear processes with martingale-like innovations.
    Magda Peligrad*, University of Cincinnati
    Sergey Utev, University of Nottingham
    (1020-60-84)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Two inequalities for the norms of Wick products.
    Aurel Iulian Stan*, The Ohio State University
    (1020-60-55)

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