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2006 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
Storrs, CT, October 28-29, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1021

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

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Sunday October 29, 2006

• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sale
  Atrium, ITE Building, Information Technology Engineering Building
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meetings Registration
  Atrium, ITE Building, Information Technology Engineering Building
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Analytic Combinatorics, III
  Room 227, Business School
  Organizers:
  Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky and MIT jrge@ms.uky.edu
  Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and MIT readdy@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Harmonic analysis of Boolean functions.
    Gil Kalai*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale University
    (1021-05-147)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Polyhedral theta functions.
    Sinai Robins*, Temple Unviersity
    (1021-52-166)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An index for non-regular spheres.
    Michael Slone*, University of Kentucky
    (1021-05-110)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Non-Crossing Tableaux.
    Pavlo Pylyavskyy*, MIT
    (1021-05-40)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Coloring complexes and arrangements.
    Patricia Hersh*, Indiana University-Bloomington
    Edward Swartz, Cornell University
    (1021-05-43)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Is Analysis Necessary?
    Ira M Gessel*, Brandeis University
    (1021-05-155)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Moduli Spaces, III
  Room 112, Business School
  Organizers:
  Dan Abramovich, Brown University abrmovic@math.brown.edu
  Ralph M. Kaufmann, University of Connecticut, Storrs kaufmann@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    New Moduli Spaces for K3 Surfaces.
    Daniele Arcara*, St. Vincent College
    Aaron Bertram, University of Utah
    (1021-14-56)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Picard group of the moduli stack of elliptic curves.
    Martin Olsson*, UC Berkeley
    (1021-14-132)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mirror Symmetry for Finite Quotients of Tori.
    Michael Thaddeus*, Columbia University
    (1021-14-225)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory of Compactified Moduli Spaces, III
  Room 122, Business School
  Organizers:
  Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
  Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill jds@math.upenn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Category of $A_{\infty}$-Bialgebras and Applications.
    Samson Saneblidze, A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute; Georgian Academy of Sciences
    Ronald N Umble*, Millesville University of Pennsylvania
    (1021-55-12)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Brace and $\infty$ - algebras.
    Tom Lada*, North Carolina State University
    (1021-08-24)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The orbifold structure of moduli spaces of algebras.
    Michael Robert Penkava*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    (1021-18-121)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Moduli spaces of $L_{\infty}$ structures.
    Marilyn Daily*, Max Planck Institute
    Alice Fialowski, E\"otv\"os Lor\'and University
    Michael Penkava, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
    (1021-55-30)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Equivariant Topology, III
  Room 226, Business School
  Organizers:
  Tara Holm, University of Connecticut, Storrs tsh@math.uconn.edu
  Tom C. Braden, University of Massachusetts, Amherst braden@math.umass.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A generalized Schubert calculus for symplectic circle manifolds.
    Rebecca F Goldin*, George Mason University
    Susan Tolman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1021-05-70)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Strong Equivalence of Three Definitions of the Bruhat Order and Consequences for the Equivariant Cohomology of Flag Manifolds.
    Catalin Zara*, University of Massachusetts Boston
    (1021-05-237)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Equivariant Pieri rules.
    Julianna S Tymoczko*, University of Michigan
    (1021-05-221)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A combinatorial rule for (co)minuscule Schubert calculus.
    Alexander Yong*, Math Dept., University of Minnesota; Fields Institute/Statistics Department, University of Toronto
    Hugh Thomas, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick
    (1021-05-55)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Double Schubert varieties and double Schubert polynomials.
    Dave Anderson*, University of Michigan
    (1021-14-158)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Affine (Grassmannian) Schubert Calculus: polynomial representatives and Pieri rules.
    Thomas F. Lam*, Harvard University
    (1021-05-47)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Probability on Fractals, III
  Room 127, Business School
  Organizers:
  Robert S. Strichartz, Cornell University str@math.cornell.edu
  Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut, Storrs teplyaev@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:25 a.m.
    Operator algebras, groups and Julia sets.
    Volodymyr Nekrashevych*, Texas A&M University, College Station
    (1021-37-164)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Schreier spectra and self-similar groups.
    Zoran {\v S}uni\'c*, Texas A&M University
    Rostislav Grigorchuk, Texas A&M University
    (1021-37-177)
  • 9:25 a.m.
    Spectral self-similarity on a group.
    Alexander Teplyaev*, University of Connecticut
    (1021-31-105)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Local behavior of harmonic and smooth functions on fractals.
    Anders Pelander*, Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, Sweden
    (1021-60-90)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    Smooth bumps and a Borel Theorem on P.C.F Fractals.
    Luke G Rogers*, Cornell University
    Robert S Strichartz, Cornell University
    Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut
    (1021-28-170)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computability Theory in Honor of Manuel Lerman's Retirement, III
  Room 211, Business School
  Organizers:
  Joseph S. Miller, University of Connecticut, Storrs josephmiller@math.uconn.edu
  David Reed Solomon, University of Connecticut, Storrs solomon@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Degrees of Homogeneous Models.
    Robert I. Soare*, The University of Chicago
    (1021-03-37)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Algorithmic randomness of closed sets and continuous functions.
    Douglas Cenzer*, University of Florida
    (1021-03-191)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computable Shuffle Sums of Ordinals.
    Asher M. Kach*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1021-03-197)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lowness properties for randomness in higher recursion theory.
    C T Chong*, National University of Singapore
    (1021-03-216)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Settling Time Reducibility Ordering.
    Barbara F. Csima*, University of Waterloo
    Richard A. Shore, Cornell University
    (1021-03-185)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $\eta$-Representation of Sets and Degrees.
    Kenneth Allen Harris*, University of Chicago
    (1021-03-196)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Geometric PDEs, III
  Room 125, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Organizers:
  Wenxiong Chen, Yeshiva University wchen@yu.edu
  Zheng-Chao Han, Rutgers University zchan@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A sup + inf inequality for a semilinear elliptic equation.
    Wenxiong Chen*, Yeshiva University
    Congming Li, University of California, Riverside
    (1021-35-93)
  • 9:10 a.m.
    Harmonic maps from a simplicial complex and geometric rigidity.
    Georgios Daskalopoulos, Brown University
    Chikako Mese*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1021-53-68)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Stability and uniqueness of minimal graphs of higher codimensions.
    Mu-Tao Wang*, Columbia University
    (1021-53-172)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lagrangian mean curvature flow.
    Andre Neves*, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
    (1021-53-238)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Teichmuller Theory and Hyperbolic Geometry, III
  Room 202, Business School
  Organizers:
  Martin Bridgeman, Boston College martin.bridgeman.1@bc.edu
  Jeffrey F. Brock, Brown University Jeffrey_Brock@brown.edu
  Linda Keen, Lehman College, CUNY linda.keen@lehman.cuny.edu
  Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut, Storrs rafi@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Kleinian groups with discrete length spectrum.
    Richard D Canary*, University of Michigan
    Christopher J Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1021-57-232)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The skinning map.
    Richard P Kent*, Brown University
    (1021-57-224)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Volumes of hyperbolic orbifolds.
    Ilesanmi D. Adeboye*, University of Southern California
    (1021-57-139)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bending Invariants of Jordan Curves.
    Reza Chamanara*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (1021-51-205)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Bounds on the geometry of torus cusps.
    Richard Evans, University of Auckland
    John Holt*, Massey University
    (1021-57-156)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory, III
  Room 203, Business School
  Organizers:
  Keith Conrad, University of Connecticut, Storrs kconrad@math.uconn.edu
  David Pollack, Wesleyan University dpollack@wesleyan.edu
  Thomas A. Weston, University of Massachusetts, Amherst weston@math.umass.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Cuspidal Cohomology for GL(3).
    Avner Ash*, Boston College
    (1021-11-18)
  • 9:05 a.m.
    Lifting CM abelian varieties to characteristic 0.
    Brian David Conrad*, University of Michigan
    (1021-11-09)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Class field theory for a semi-global field.
    Karen Acquista*, Boston University
    (1021-11-63)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    A p-adic method for (conjecturally) constructing points on elliptic curves.
    Robert Pollack*, Boston University
    (1021-11-154)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic Equations, III
  Room 119, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Organizers:
  Yung-Sze Choi, University of Connecticut, Storrs choi@math.uconn.edu
  Changfeng Gui, University of Connecticut, Storrs gui@math.uconn.edu
  Joseph McKenna, University of Connecticut, Storrs mckenna@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the Stability of the Positive Steady States for a Nonhomogeneous Semilinear Cauchy Problem.
    YinBin Deng, Huazhong Normal University
    Yi Li*, University of Iowa & Hunan Normal University
    Fen Yang, Huazhong Normal University
    (1021-35-141)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multiphase Image Segmentation via Modica-Mortola Phase Transition.
    Jackie J. Shen*, University of Minnesota
    Sung-Ha Kang, University of Kentucky
    Yoon-Mo Jung, University of Minnesota
    (1021-49-102)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Computer-assisted Proofs for Nonlinear Elliptic Boundary Value Problems.
    Michael Plum*, University of Karlsruhe, Faculty of Mathematics, Institute for Analysis
    (1021-35-209)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bistable dynamics in autocatalytic chemical reactions.
    Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
    (1021-35-103)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Numerical Method for Computing Nonlinear Eigenpairs.
    Xudong Yao*, Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut
    (1021-49-167)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Mathematics Education, III
  Room 215, Business School
  Organizers:
  Tom Roby, University of Connecticut, Storrs tom.roby@uconn.edu
  Fabiana Cardetti, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  Tom DeFranco, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Proving Minkowski's Inequality as a Tool for Student Research.
    Karen S. Adams*, Morgan State University
    Xiao-Xiong Gan, Morgan State University
    (1021-97-149)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Teaching Graduate Students to Teach Mathematics.
    Thomas W Judson*, Harvard University
    (1021-97-75)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Preparation for Sciences:Integrating Intermediate Algebra and Mathematical Modeling.
    Sarah Glaz*, University of Connecticut
    (1021-97-58)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Effects of highly contextualized learning activities on students' mathematical and non-mathematical recall.
    Dale J Winter*, University of Michigan
    (1021-97-16)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Computer manipulatives in an Ordinary Differential Equations Course: Development, Implementation, and Assessment.
    Haynes Miller*, MIT
    Deborah Upton, Stonehill College
    (1021-97-54)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, III
  Room 127, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Organizers:
  Jesse Ratzkin, University of Connecticut ratzkin@math.uconn.edu
  Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts kusner@math.umass.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Rigidity result for Conformally Compact Manifolds with the round sphere as the Conformal Infinity.
    Satyaki Dutta*, State University of New York, StonyBrook
    (1021-53-157)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Minimal surfaces and isoperimetric domains in sub-Riemannian geometry.
    Robert K Hladky*, University of Rochester
    (1021-53-120)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Renormalization and blow up for charge one equivariant critical wave maps.
    Joachim Krieger*, Harvard University
    (1021-35-161)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A view on affine differential geometry from the perspective of illumination bodies.
    Alina Stancu*, Concordia University & University of Massachusetts Lowell
    (1021-53-169)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Pretentious characters and the Polya-Vinogradov inequality.
  Room C80, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Kannan Soundararajan*, University of Michigan
  (1021-11-03)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Floer theories in symplectic topology and gauge theory.
  Room C80, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Katrin Wehrheim*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1021-54-02)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Analytic Combinatorics, IV
  Room 227, Business School
  Organizers:
  Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky and MIT jrge@ms.uky.edu
  Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and MIT readdy@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the Torsion Part of the Homology of the Matching Complex.
    Jakob Jonsson*, Department of Mathematics, MIT, Cambridge, MA
    (1021-05-98)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Rank of Random Graphs.
    Kevin P Costello*, Rutgers University
    Van H Vu, Rutgers University
    (1021-05-215)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Moduli Spaces, IV
  Room 112, Business School
  Organizers:
  Dan Abramovich, Brown University abrmovic@math.brown.edu
  Ralph M. Kaufmann, University of Connecticut, Storrs kaufmann@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Explicit equations for and degenerations of $\overline{M}_{0,n}$.
    Angela Gibney*, University of Pennsylvania
    Diane Maclagan, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    (1021-14-183)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Moduli of $\mathrm{SL} (3,\mathbb{C})$-Bundles over a Surface of Euler Characteristic -1.
    Sean Lawton*, Kansas State University
    (1021-14-23)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory of Compactified Moduli Spaces, IV
  Room 122, Business School
  Organizers:
  Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
  Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill jds@math.upenn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Hopf algebras of graphs, multiple zeta values and motives.
    Abhijnan Rej*, Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn
    (1021-14-72)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The orbifold cohomology of a global quotient of a manifold by an abelian Lie group.
    Rebecca Goldin*, George Mason University
    (1021-14-95)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Poisson and other algebras on bordism groups of garlands.
    Vladimir V Chernov*, Dartmouth College
    (1021-57-35)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Equivariant Topology, IV
  Room 226, Business School
  Organizers:
  Tara Holm, University of Connecticut, Storrs tsh@math.uconn.edu
  Tom C. Braden, University of Massachusetts, Amherst braden@math.umass.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Symplectic geometry.
    Jonathan Weitsman*, UC Santa Cruz
    (1021-51-212)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes for Schubert varieties in the Grassmannian.
    Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University
    Leonardo Constantin Mihalcea*, Duke University
    (1021-14-48)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quiver coefficients of Dynkin type.
    Anders S. Buch*, Rutgers University
    (1021-14-163)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Probability on Fractals, IV
  Room 127, Business School
  Organizers:
  Robert S. Strichartz, Cornell University str@math.cornell.edu
  Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut, Storrs teplyaev@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Outer approximation: a new approach to studying fractal Laplacians.
    Tyrus Berry, Ohio State University
    Stacey Goff, New College of Florida
    Robert S Strichartz*, Cornell University
    (1021-28-116)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    Spectra of self-similar Laplacians on the Sierpinski gasket with twists.
    Anna Blasiak*, Middlebury college
    Robert S Strichartz, Cornell Univ.
    Baris Evren Ugurcan, Bilkent Univ.
    (1021-28-99)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dirichlet Forms on Higher-Dimensional Analogues of the Sierpinski Gasket.
    Michael Jeremy Barany*, Cornell University
    Luke Rogers, Cornell University
    (1021-28-204)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    Harmonic Gradients of Eigenfunction on the Sierpinski Gasket.
    Jessie L DeGrado*, Cornell University
    Luke G Rogers, Cornell University
    Robert S Strichartz, Cornell University
    (1021-28-195)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    What Happens to the Spectrum When You Perturb a Fractal Graph?
    Marya Bessonov, North Carolina State University
    Michael Jennings, Cornell University
    Robyn L Miller*, Cornell University
    Robert S Strichartz, Cornell University
    (1021-26-171)
  • 4:55 p.m.
    Analogs of the quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator on the Sierpinski gasket.
    Edward Fan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Zuhair Khandker*, Princeton University
    Robert S Strichartz, Cornell University
    (1021-28-117)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Computability Theory in Honor of Manuel Lerman's Retirement, IV
  Room 211, Business School
  Organizers:
  Joseph S. Miller, University of Connecticut, Storrs josephmiller@math.uconn.edu
  David Reed Solomon, University of Connecticut, Storrs solomon@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Logic and Control Theory.
    Anil Nerode*, Cornell University
    (1021-03-182)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Subsystems of 2nd-order arithmetic below $WKL_0$.
    Stephen Binns*, University of Connecticut
    (1021-03-186)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Complex oscillations and the law of the iterated logarithm.
    Bjoern Kjos-Hanssen*, Cornell University
    Anil Nerode, Cornell University
    (1021-03-165)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Direct definitions of the Turing Jump from degree classes.
    Richard A Shore*, Cornell University
    (1021-03-52)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis and Nonlinear Geometric PDEs, IV
  Room 336, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Organizers:
  Jesse Ratzkin, University of Connecticut ratzkin@math.uconn.edu
  Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts kusner@math.umass.edu
  Wenxiong Chen, Yeshiva University
  Zheng-Chao Han, Rutgers University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the extinction profile of solutions to the fast diffusion.
    Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Columbia University
    Natasa Sesum*, Columbia University
    (1021-41-142)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Ancient Solutions of the Affine Normal Flow.
    John C Loftin*, Rutgers Newark
    Mao-Pei Tsui, University of Toledo
    (1021-35-219)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    On the Penrose Inequality of General Relativity.
    Marcus A. Khuri*, Stony Brook University
    (1021-83-173)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Teichmuller Theory and Hyperbolic Geometry, IV
  Room 202, Business School
  Organizers:
  Martin Bridgeman, Boston College martin.bridgeman.1@bc.edu
  Jeffrey F. Brock, Brown University Jeffrey_Brock@brown.edu
  Linda Keen, Lehman College, CUNY linda.keen@lehman.cuny.edu
  Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut, Storrs rafi@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Grafting Coordinates for Teichm\"uller space.
    David Dumas*, Brown University
    Michael Wolf, Rice University
    (1021-30-100)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Grafting lines fellow travel Teichmuller geodesics.
    Young-Eun Choi*, Penn State Altoona
    Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut
    (1021-32-174)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Coarse geometry of mapping class groups.
    Yair N Minsky*, Yale University
    (1021-20-193)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A structure theorem for two-parabolic space.
    Jane Gilman*, Rutgers Univesity-Newark
    (1021-20-86)

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