AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Monday, October 30, 2006 00:36:37
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
Saturday October 21, 2006
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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.
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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9:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 21, 2006, 10:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Session for Contributed Papers, II
Room 324, Braunstein Hall
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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)
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10:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers, II
Room 324, Braunstein Hall
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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)
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3:00 p.m.
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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)