AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Monday, October 16, 2006 00:25:09
2006 Fall Western Section Meeting
Salt Lake City, UT, October 7-8, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1019
Associate secretaries: Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Saturday October 7, 2006
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Faculty Lounge, John Widtsoe Building -
Saturday October 7, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Faculty Lounge, John Widtsoe Building -
Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonconvex Variational Problems: Recent Advances and Applications, I
Room 103, James Fletcher Building
Organizers:
Marian Bocea, North Dakota State University and University of Utah bocea@math.utah.edu
Andrej Cherkaev, University of Utah cherk@math.utah.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Steady Poiseuille flow of nematic liquid crystals: effective equations and momentum relations for Young measures.
ALexander Panchenko*, Department of Mathematics, Washington State University
(1019-35-154) -
8:30 a.m.
Homogenization and field concentrations in heterogeneous media.
Robert Lipton*, Louisiana State University
(1019-35-145) -
9:00 a.m.
Min-max variational problem of optimal design.
Elena Cherkaev*, University of Utah
(1019-35-208) -
9:30 a.m.
Optimal design of an optical resonator.
Chiu-Yen Kao, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University
Fadil Santosa*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
(1019-35-50) -
10:00 a.m.
Variational principles in $L^{\infty}$ under general PDE constraints.
Marian Bocea*, North Dakota State University
(1019-49-144) -
10:30 a.m.
Quadratic cost functionals in the gradient and linear state laws.
Pablo Pedregal*, Departamento de Matem\'aticas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real (SPAIN)
(1019-49-31)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Multi-variable Operator Theory, I
Room 219, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
William B. Arveson, University of California Berkeley arveson@math.berkeley.edu
Scott A. McCullough, University of Florida sam@math.ufl.edu
Geoffrey L. Price, U.S. Naval Academy glp@usna.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Two-Isometric d-tuples of commuting operators.
Stefan Richter*, University of Tennessee
(1019-47-169) -
8:30 a.m.
A canonical isomorphism from a Hilbert module to its sheaf model.
Xiang Fang*, Kansas State University
(1019-47-91) -
9:00 a.m.
A constructive proof of the corona theorem for $H^{\infty}(D)$.
Tavan T Trent*, University of Alabama
(1019-47-119) -
9:30 a.m.
Free holomorphic functions on the unit ball of $B(H)^n$.
Gelu Popescu*, University of Texas at San Antonio
(1019-47-86) -
10:00 a.m.
On Certain Quotient Modules of the Bergman Module.
Jingbo Xia*, State University of New York at Buffalo
(1019-47-34) -
10:30 a.m.
Noncommutative Inequalities.
J William Helton*, Math Dept UC San Diego
(1019-47-157)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, I
Room 140, James Talmage Building
Organizers:
Jasbir Singh Chahal, Brigham Young University jasbir@math.byu.edu
Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley State College vanframa@uvsc.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Sums of two relatively prime cubes.
Roger C Baker*, Brigham Young University
(1019-11-09) -
8:30 a.m.
p-rank stratification of Artin-Schreier curves.
Hui June Zhu*, State University of New York at Buffalo
(1019-14-28) -
9:00 a.m.
Explicit elliptic K3 surfaces.
Jaap Top*, IWI, University of Groningen
(1019-11-32) -
9:30 a.m.
Elementary geometry applied to analytic number theory.
Peter D.T.A. Elliott*, University of Colorado at Boulder
(1019-11-41) -
10:00 a.m.
Dyson's challenge for the future: The mock theta functions.
Ken Ono*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Kathrin Bringmann, University of Wisconsin at Madison
(1019-11-45) -
10:30 a.m.
The Atkin-Serre Conjecture.
Jeremy A Rouse*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(1019-11-46)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis: Trends and Perspectives, I
Room 130, James Talmage Building
Organizers:
Alex Iosevich, University of Missouri iosevich@math.missouri.edu
Michael T. Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology lacey@math.gatech.edu
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8:00 a.m.
New results on Irregularity of Distribution and Discprepancy in Three Dimensions.
Michael T Lacey*, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dmitry Bilyk, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1019-42-44) -
8:30 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
(1019-00-92) -
9:00 a.m.
Kloosterman sums, distance sets and sum-product theorems in combinatorics.
Alex Iosevich*, University of Missouri-Columbia
Doowon Koh, University of Missouri
Jozsef Solymosi, Uinversity of British Columbia
(1019-05-201) -
9:30 a.m.
On a theorem of S\'ark\"ozy.
Neil Lyall*, University of Georgia
\'Akos Magyar, University of Georgia
(1019-42-195) -
10:00 a.m.
Pointwise polynomial type ergodic theorems for nilpotent group actions.
A Magyar*, University of Georgia
(1019-42-185) -
10:30 a.m.
Breaking the duality in the "Return times" theorem.
Ciprian Demeter*, University of California, Los Angeles
(1019-42-180)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Differential Equations: Methods and Applications, I
Room 101, James Fletcher Building
Organizers:
David G. Costa, University of Nevada costa@unlv.nevada.edu
Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University zhi-qiang.wang@usu.edu
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8:00 a.m.
A semilinear wave equations without resonance.
Alfonso Castro*, Harvey Mudd College
(1019-35-152) -
9:00 a.m.
Semilinear Equations with Logistic Type Nonlinearities and Constant Yield Harvesting in $\mathbb{R}^N$.
Hossein T. Tehrani*, UNLV
David G. Costa, UNLV
(1019-35-73) -
9:30 a.m.
Multiple Positive Solutions for Singular Boundary Value Problems.
Maya Chhetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Stephen Robinson*, Wake Forest University
(1019-34-65) -
10:00 a.m.
On a class of anisotropic nonlinear elliptic equations.
Francois A van Heerden*, University of Utah
Z.-Q. Wang, Utah State University
(1019-35-79) -
10:30 a.m.
A variational problem in climate dynamics.
Chjan Lim, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
(1019-35-129)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
Room 310, James Talmage Building
Organizers:
Paul Roberts, University of Utah roberts@math.utah.edu
Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
Oana Veliche, University of Utah oveliche@math.utah.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Intersection Multiplicity, Local and Global.
Sankar P Dutta*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(1019-13-53) -
8:30 a.m.
Geometric exotic modules.
W Frank Moore, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Greg Piepmeyer*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
(1019-18-121) -
9:00 a.m.
An overview of Euler class theory.
S M Bhatwadekar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Mrinal K Das, University of Kansas
Satya Mandal*, University of Kansas
(1019-13-52) -
9:30 a.m.
The commutativity of intersection with divisors.
Sandra M Spiroff*, Seattle University
Paul C Roberts, University of Utah
(1019-13-179) -
10:00 a.m.
On the number of Rees valuations.
Irena Swanson*, Reed College
(1019-13-39) -
10:30 a.m.
On the highest Lyubeznik number of a local ring.
Wenliang Zhang*, Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
(1019-13-58)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematics Motivated by Physics, I
Room 121, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Aaron J. Bertram, University of Utah bertram@math.utah.edu
Yuan-Pin Lee, University of Utah yplee@math.utah.edu
Eric R. Sharpe, University of Utah ersharpe@math.utah.edu
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8:00 a.m.
The Pfaffian-Grassmannian derived equivalence.
Andrei H Caldararu*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lev Borisov, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(1019-14-95) -
9:00 a.m.
Sheaves and Metrics on Canonical Singularities.
David R Morrison*, Duke University
(1019-14-150) -
10:00 a.m.
Birational Geometry and Homological Mirror Symmetry.
Ludmil Katzarkov*, University of California, Irvine
(1019-14-78)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Theory and Applications of Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems, I
Room 222, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Peter W. Bates, Michigan State University bates@math.msu.edu
Kening Lu, Brigham Young University klu@math.byu.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Invariant Manifolds of Spikes.
Peter W Bates*, Michigan State University
Kening Lu, Brigham Young University
Chongchun Zeng, Georgia Tech
(1019-35-87) -
9:00 a.m.
A possible approach to the dynamic of forward-backward parabolic equations.
Giorgio Fusco*, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, ITALY
(1019-35-66) -
10:00 a.m.
Attractors for the Singularly Perturbed FitzHugh-Nagumo System.
Bixiang Wang*, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
(1019-35-80)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Floer Methods in Low-dimensional Topology, I
Room 225, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Alexander Felshtyn, Boise State University felshtyn@math.boisestate.edu
Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
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8:00 a.m.
On the Fukaya Categories of Surfaces.
Mohammed Abouzaid*, University of Chicago
(1019-57-135) -
8:30 a.m.
Spectral invariants in Lagrangian intersections Floer theory.
Remi Leclercq*, University of Montreal
(1019-55-163) -
9:00 a.m.
Floer homology and knot concordance order.
Stanislav Jabuka*, University of Nevada Reno
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada Reno
(1019-57-82) -
10:00 a.m.
Low-dimensional symplectic field theory and holomorphic foliations.
Chris Wendl*, MIT
(1019-53-160) -
10:30 a.m.
On the classification of Floer-type theories.
N. Shirokova*, Stanford University
(1019-57-139)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry, I
Room 215, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah bestvina@math.utah.edu
Kenneth W. Bromberg, University of Utah bromberg@math.utah.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Punctured surface mapping class groups.
Richard P. Kent, Brown U.
Christopher J. Leininger*, U. of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
Saul Schleimer, Rutgers U., New Brunswick
(1019-51-107) -
9:30 a.m.
Infinite Presentations of the Torelli Group.
Andrew Putman*, University of Chicago
(1019-55-177) -
10:00 a.m.
Dimension of Torelli groups.
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
Kai-Uwe Bux, University of Virginia
Dan Margalit*, University of Utah
(1019-20-131) -
10:30 a.m.
Random walks on the mapping class group.
Joseph Maher*, Oklahoma State
(1019-57-08)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Random Motion in Random Media, I
Room B-1, James Fletcher Building
Organizers:
Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah firas@math.utah.edu
Tom Schmitz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich schmitz@math.ethz.ch
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9:00 a.m.
Random walks in reversible random environments: some solutions and open problems.
Marek Biskup*, Department of Mathematics at UCLA
(1019-60-151) -
10:00 a.m.
Transient random walks on a strip in a random environment.
Alexander Roitershtein*, University of British Columbia
(1019-60-193)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Interface of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Gaussian Analysis, I
Room 102, James Fletcher Building
Organizers:
Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah davar@math.utah.edu
Eulalia Nualart, University of Paris XIII nualart@math.univ-paris13.fr
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9:00 a.m.
Stochastic Heat Equation Driven by Fractional Noise.
David Nualart*, The University of Kansas
(1019-60-126) -
10:00 a.m.
Malliavin derivatives, supremum analysis, and Lyapunov exponents for stochastic PDEs.
Frederi G Viens*, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
(1019-60-113)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Complex Geometry, Kaehler Groups, and Related Topics, I
Room 110, James Talmage Building
Organizers:
Terrence Napier, Lehigh University tjn2@lehigh.edu
Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York at Buffalo ramac-m@math.buffalo.edu
Domingo Toledo, University of Utah toledo@math.utah.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Projective geometry and topology.
Daryl Cooper*, UCSB
Darren Long, UCSB
Morwen Thistlethwaite, Univesity of Tennessee at Knoxville
(1019-51-35) -
10:00 a.m.
The Moduli Space of Cubic Threefolds as a Ball Quotient.
Daniel Allcock, University of Texas (Austin)
James A Carlson*, Clay Mathematics Institute
Domingo Toledo, University of Utah
(1019-14-130)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Schur processes.
Room 335, John Widtsoe Building
Alexei Borodin*, California Institute of Technology
(1019-60-159) -
Saturday October 7, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
Harmonic analysis and incidence geometry: a survey.
Room 335, John Widtsoe Building
Izabella Laba*, University of British Columbia
(1019-42-191) -
Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonconvex Variational Problems: Recent Advances and Applications, II
Room 103, James Fletcher Building
Organizers:
Marian Bocea, North Dakota State University and University of Utah bocea@math.utah.edu
Andrej Cherkaev, University of Utah cherk@math.utah.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Comparison of the asymptotic analyses of a non-planar rod in linear elasticity and non-linear elasticity.
Pierre Seppecher*, Insitut de Mathematiques de l'Universite du Sud-Toulon-Var
(1019-49-166) -
3:30 p.m.
On the Contact-angle Condition for Stranski-Krastanow Islands.
Giovanni Leoni*, Carnegie Mellon University
(1019-49-51) -
4:00 p.m.
Threshold-based quasistatic evolution of brittle damage.
A Garroni, University of Rome
C J Larsen*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(1019-49-200) -
4:30 p.m.
Quasiconvexity-based sufficient conditions for strong local minima: the smooth case.
Yury Grabovsky*, Temple University
Tadele Mengesha, Temple University
(1019-49-21) -
5:00 p.m.
New bounds for multiphase conducting composites.
Andrej Cherkaev*, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
(1019-49-204) -
5:30 p.m.
The dipole problem for $S^1$-valued maps with $H^{1/2}$-regularity.
Vincent Millot*, Carnegie Mellon University
Adriano Pisante, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
(1019-49-112)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Random Motion in Random Media, II
Room B-1, James Fletcher Building
Organizers:
Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah firas@math.utah.edu
Tom Schmitz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich schmitz@math.ethz.ch
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3:00 p.m.
Diffusions in random environment and ballistic behaviour.
Tom Schmitz*, University of California, Los Angeles
(1019-60-102) -
4:00 p.m.
Variance bounds for the current in the asymmetric simple exclusion process.
M\'arton Bal\'azs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Timo Sepp\"al\"ainen*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(1019-60-117) -
5:00 p.m.
Discussion
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Dynamical Systems, I
Room 219, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
William B. Arveson, University of California Berkeley arveson@math.berkeley.edu
Scott A. McCullough, University of Florida sam@math.ufl.edu
Geoffrey L. Price, U.S. Naval Academy glp@usna.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Semi-crossed products and their C*-envelopes.
Justin R. Peters*, Iowa State University
(1019-47-23) -
3:30 p.m.
Combinatorics of free Wick products.
Michael Anshelevich*, Texas A&M University
(1019-46-182) -
4:00 p.m.
A dynamical restriction on $C^*$-algebras of graphs.
Jack Spielberg*, Arizona State University, Dept. of Maths & Stats
(1019-46-115) -
4:30 p.m.
Graded Groups in K-theory.
Michael V. Pimsner*, University of Pennsylvania
(1019-46-132) -
5:00 p.m.
The asymptotic lift of a completely positive map.
William Arveson*, UC Berkeley
(1019-46-47) -
5:30 p.m.
Multiplicative properties of positive maps of operator algebras.
Erling Stormer*, Dept. of Math., University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
(1019-46-194)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory, II
Room 140, James Talmage Building
Organizers:
Jasbir Singh Chahal, Brigham Young University jasbir@math.byu.edu
Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley State College vanframa@uvsc.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Powers of rationals in short intervals.
Cameron L. Stewart*, University of Waterloo
(1019-11-108) -
3:30 p.m.
Sharp bounds for the number of solutions to classes of systems of simultaneous Pell equations.
P.G. Walsh*, University of Ottawa
(1019-11-63) -
4:00 p.m.
A problem on zeros of L-series of elliptic curves.
Xian-Jin Li*, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
(1019-11-70) -
4:30 p.m.
The $\omega(q)$ mock theta function and vector-valued Maass-Poincar\'e series.
Sharon Anne Garthwaite*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
(1019-11-97) -
5:00 p.m.
An equivalence for the Riemann hypothesis in terms of coefficients of orthogonal projections.
Andreas Weingartner*, Southern Utah University
(1019-11-105) -
5:30 p.m.
On a family of quintic Thue equations.
Claude Levesque*, U. Laval
(1019-11-116)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis: Trends and Perspectives, II
Room 130, James Talmage Building
Organizers:
Alex Iosevich, University of Missouri iosevich@math.missouri.edu
Michael T. Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology lacey@math.gatech.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Affine fractals and their harmonic analysis.
Palle E. T. Jorgensen*, The University of Iowa
(1019-42-19) -
3:30 p.m.
Geometric properties of intersection bodies.
Maria Angeles Alfonseca*, North Dakota State University
Dmitry Ryabogin, Kansas State University
Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University
(1019-52-141) -
4:00 p.m.
Sharp constants in the integral John-Nirenberg inequality and the corresponding weak-form estimates.
Leonid Slavin*, University of Connecticut
Vasily Vasyunin, St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute
(1019-42-199) -
4:30 p.m.
Strichartz estimates for Schr\"odinger operators with large magnetic potentials in $\mathbb{R}^3$.
M. B. Erdogan*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
(1019-35-96) -
5:00 p.m.
The optimal bound for Riesz transforms in weighted spaces.
Stefanie Petermichl*, University of Texas at Austin
(1019-42-72) -
5:30 p.m.
Multilinear oscillatory integrals.
Xiaochun Li*, UIUC
(1019-42-64)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Differential Equations: Methods and Applications, II
Room 101, James Fletcher Building
Organizers:
David G. Costa, University of Nevada costa@unlv.nevada.edu
Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University zhi-qiang.wang@usu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
A Local Theory for Finding Multiple Solutions.
Jianxin Zhou*, Texas A&M University
(1019-35-99) -
3:30 p.m.
Some three-body problems in atomic and molecular quantum mechanics.
Zhonghai Ding*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
(1019-35-101) -
4:00 p.m.
Symmetry and Automated Branch Following for Nonlinear Elliptic PDE and PdE on Graphs.
John M Neuberger*, Northern Arizona University
Nandor Sieben, Northern Arizona University
James W Swift, Northern Arizona University
(1019-35-172) -
4:30 p.m.
On Brunn-Minkowski-type Inequalities Related to Partial Differential Equations.
David Hartenstine*, Western Washington University
(1019-35-147) -
5:00 p.m.
Nontrivial Critical Groups in p-Laplacian Problems via the Cohomological Index.
Kanishka S. Perera*, Florida Institute of Technology
(1019-35-155) -
5:30 p.m.
A stable method for finding multiple solutions to noncooperative elliptic systems.
Xianjin Chen*, Texas A&M University, College Station
Jianxin Zhou, Texas A&M University, College Station
(1019-35-15)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
Room 310, James Talmage Building
Organizers:
Paul Roberts, University of Utah roberts@math.utah.edu
Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
Oana Veliche, University of Utah oveliche@math.utah.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Detecting completeness from ext-vanishing.
Sean M Sather-Wagstaff*, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Anders Frankild, University of Copenhagen
(1019-13-42) -
3:30 p.m.
Acyclicity of complexes detects Gorensteinness of rings.
Lars Winther Christensen*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Oana Veliche, University of Utah
(1019-13-128) -
4:00 p.m.
On the triviality of self-extensions.
David A Jorgensen*, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington
(1019-13-153) -
4:30 p.m.
Generic modules over small algebras.
Luchezar Avramov, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Srikanth Iyengar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Liana Sega*, University of Missouri-Kansas City
(1019-13-198) -
5:00 p.m.
Loewy length of modules of finite projective dimension.
Luchezar L. Avramov, University of Nebraska
Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, University of Toronto
Srikanth B. Iyengar*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
(1019-13-88) -
5:30 p.m.
Discussion
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry, II
Room 215, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah bestvina@math.utah.edu
Kenneth W. Bromberg, University of Utah bromberg@math.utah.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Automorphisms of the genus 2 Heegaard splitting of $S^3$.
Ian Agol*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(1019-57-74) -
4:00 p.m.
Spaces with nonpositive immersions.
Robert W Bell*, Michigan State University
(1019-20-176) -
4:30 p.m.
Quasi-isometric classification of graph manifolds.
Jason A. Behrstock*, University of Utah
Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University
(1019-20-109) -
5:00 p.m.
The Ricci flow for nilmanifolds.
Tracy L Payne*, Idaho State University
(1019-22-184)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematics Motivated by Physics, II
Room 121, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Aaron J. Bertram, University of Utah bertram@math.utah.edu
Yuan-Pin Lee, University of Utah yplee@math.utah.edu
Eric R. Sharpe, University of Utah ersharpe@math.utah.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Integrable Hierarchies and Mirror Symmetry for Quasi-homogeneous Singularities.
Huijun Fan, Peking University
Tyler Jarvis*, Univ. Connecticut
Yongbin Ruan, University of Michigan
(1019-14-134) -
4:00 p.m.
Computation of (0,2) correlation functions.
Josh Guffin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sheldon Katz*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(1019-81-219) -
5:00 p.m.
Geometric Langlands duality, gauge theory, and mirror symmetry.
Anton Kapustin*, California Institute of Technology
(1019-81-59)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Theory and Applications of Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems, II
Room 222, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Peter W. Bates, Michigan State University bates@math.msu.edu
Kening Lu, Brigham Young University klu@math.byu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Approximations of the Generalized Euler-Poisson-Darboux Equation.
Cheng-Hsiung Hsu*, Department of Mathematics, National Central University, Taiwan
(1019-35-127) -
4:00 p.m.
Evans Function Computation for Large Systems.
Jeffrey Humpherys*, Brigham Young University
Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University
(1019-35-56) -
5:00 p.m.
Energy estimates of free boundary problems of the Euler equation.
Jalal Shatah, New York University
Chongchun Zeng*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1019-35-100)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Interface of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Gaussian Analysis, II
Room 102, James Fletcher Building
Organizers:
Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah davar@math.utah.edu
Eulalia Nualart, University of Paris XIII nualart@math.univ-paris13.fr
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3:00 p.m.
Some rigorous results on a stochastic GOY model.
Hakima Bessaih*, University of Wyoming Department of Mathematics
Michele Barsanti, University of Pisa
David Barbato, University of Pisa
Franco Flandoli, University of Pisa
(1019-60-178) -
4:00 p.m.
Hitting probabilities for systems of non-linear stochastic heat equations.
Eulalia Nualart*, University of Utah & Universite Paris 13
(1019-60-110)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Floer Methods in Low-dimensional Topology, II
Room 225, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Alexander Felshtyn, Boise State University felshtyn@math.boisestate.edu
Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
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3:00 p.m.
On symplectic analog of Lusternik--Schnirelmann theory.
Yuli B Rudyak*, University of Florida
(1019-53-57) -
3:30 p.m.
Exploded Torus Fibrations.
Brett D Parker*, MIT
(1019-58-25) -
4:00 p.m.
The Floer homotopy type of the cotangent bundle and string topology.
Ralph L Cohen*, Stanford University
(1019-57-123) -
5:00 p.m.
Moduli space transversality for knot complements.
Christopher M. Herald*, University of Nevada, Reno
(1019-57-218) -
5:30 p.m.
The SU(3) Casson invariant and spliced sums.
Hans U. Boden*, McMaster University
(1019-57-203)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Complex Geometry, Kaehler Groups, and Related Topics, II
Room 110, James Talmage Building
Organizers:
Terrence Napier, Lehigh University tjn2@lehigh.edu
Mohan Ramachandran, State University of New York at Buffalo ramac-m@math.buffalo.edu
Domingo Toledo, University of Utah toledo@math.utah.edu
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3:00 p.m.
On the geometry of the moduli space of real binary octics.
Kenneth Chung-kan Chu*, University of Texas at Austin
(1019-53-103) -
4:00 p.m.
Hyperbolicity and the geometry of submanifolds of $\Bbb P^n$ via symmetric differentials.
Bruno N De Oliveira*, Department of Mathematics, University of Miami
(1019-32-217)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers
Room 323, LeRoy Cowles Building
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3:00 p.m.
The Action of Operator Semigroups on the Topological Dual of the Beurling-Bjork Space.
Michael S Eydenberg*, New Mexico State University
Josefina Alvarez, New Mexico State University
Hamed Obiedat, Alhashemite University
(1019-46-18) -
3:15 p.m.
A Hahn-Banach Theorem Converse.
Fred E.J. Linton*, Math. Dept., Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT 06459 USA
(1019-46-54) -
3:30 p.m.
An Efficient Adaptive Algorithm for the Solution of Fredholm Integral Equations of the First Type.
Kourosh Modarresi*, Stanford University(Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics-SCCM)
Gene H. Golub, Stanford University(Professor:Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics-SCCM)
(1019-15-120) -
3:45 p.m.
Length in Thompson's Group F.
Matthew E Horak*, University of Wisconsin -- Stout
Melanie Stein, Trinity College
(1019-20-94) -
4:00 p.m.
Proven cases of a generalization of Serre's conjecture.
Jonathan Blackhurst*, Brigham Young Univeristy
(1019-11-171) -
4:15 p.m.
The Distribution of Prime Numbers and Its Application to a Proof.
Hyeok-Je Jeong*, Hynix Semiconductor
(1019-11-06)
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3:00 p.m.