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2008 Spring Central Section Meeting
Bloomington, IN, April 5-6, 2008 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1038

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

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Sunday April 6, 2008

• Sunday April 6, 2008, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  East Lounge - Mezzanine Level, Indiana Memorial Union
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Distinguished Alumni Room, Indiana Memorial Union
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic K-theory and Nil groups in Algebra and Topology, III
  Room 204, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  James F. Davis, Indiana University jfdavis@indiana.edu
  Christian Haesemeyer, University of Illinois at Chicago chh@math.uic.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Behavior of Nil-Groups under Localization and the Relative Assembly Map.
    Grunewald Joachim*, Bonn University
    (1038-19-249)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Higher Grothendieck-Witt groups of schemes.
    Marco Schlichting*, Louisiana State University
    (1038-19-85)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generation and computation of Nil-groups.
    Ian Hambleton*, McMaster University
    (1038-19-293)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hyperbolic and Kinetic Equations, III
  Room 304, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Shi Jin, University of Wisconsin jin@math.wisc.edu
  Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin slemrod@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Subsonic Flows for Full Euler Equations in Half Plane.
    Jun Chen*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1038-35-49)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stability of strong ideal gas shock layers.
    J Humpherys, Dept. Math., BYU
    G Lyng, Dept. Math., Univ. Wyoming
    K Zumbrun*, Dept. Math., Indiana Univ.
    (1038-35-42)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Alternating evolution methods for hyperbolic conservation laws.
    Haseena Ahmed, Iowa State University
    Hailiang Liu*, Iowa State University
    (1038-65-28)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Evolution of Discontinuity and Triple-Shock Pattern for a Two-Dimensional System of Conservation Laws.
    Dehua Wang*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1038-35-19)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Vlasov type kinetic model for Cucker-Smale's flocking: Modeling and Analysis.
    Seung-Yeal Ha*, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland-College Park
    Eitan Tadmor, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland
    (1038-35-18)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Transonic flow and supersonic differential geometry.
    Marshall Slemrod*, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1038-35-14)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Birational Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 215, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Mircea I. Mustata, University of Michigan mmustata@umich.edu
  Mihnea Popa, University of Illinois at Chicago mpopa@math.uic.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Analytic extension of pluri-adjoint sections.
    Dror Varolin*, SUNY Stony Brook
    (1038-32-151)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Deformations of canonical pairs.
    Tommaso de Fernex*, University of Utah
    (1038-14-120)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Geometry of zeroes of polynomials.
    James McKernan*, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1038-14-35)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, Topological Combinatorics, and Interactions Between Them, III
  Room 217, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Patricia Hersh, Indiana University phersh@indiana.edu
  Cristian P. Lenart, State University of New York at Albany lenart@albany.edu
  Michelle Wachs, University of Miami wachs@math.miami.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon, Jeu-de-taquin Promotion, and Representation Theory.
    Brendon Rhoades*, University of Minnesota
    (1038-05-143)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generalized degree sequences and plethysm.
    Caroline J Klivans*, University of Chicago
    Vic Reiner, University of Minnesota
    (1038-05-122)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Parabolic Kazhdan-Lusztig and R-polynomials for quasi-minuscule quotients.
    Francesco Brenti*, Universita' di Roma ``Tor Vergata''
    (1038-05-320)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Webs and promotion.
    Pavlo Pylyavskyy*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1038-05-116)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Aspects of Commutative Algebra, III
  Room 228, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame migliore.1@nd.edu
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky uwenagel@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A sharp bound on the multiplicity of almost complete intersections.
    Giulio Caviglia*, Purdue University
    (1038-13-347)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Interval Conjectures for level Hilbert functions.
    Fabrizio Zanello*, Michigan Technological University
    (1038-13-180)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cremona maps by way of ideals of linear type and linear syzygies.
    Francesco Russo, Federal University of Pernambuco
    Aron Simis*, Federal University of Pernambuco
    (1038-14-91)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Persistence complexes for graphs.
    Chris Frederick, Colorado State University
    Chris Peterson*, Colorado State University
    (1038-13-276)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Ulrich bundles on cubic surfaces.
    Marta Casanellas, Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya
    Robin Hartshorne*, University of Calfornia, Berkeley
    (1038-14-227)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Aspects of Coding Theory, III
  Room 247, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky heidegl@ms.uky.edu
  Roxana Smarandache, San Diego State University rsmarand@sciences.sdsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Linear programming bounds for secret sharing thresholds.
    Iwan Duursma*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Radoslav Kirov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-94-202)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On quantum codes from multipoint AG codes.
    Gretchen L. Matthews*, Clemson University
    Jon-Lark Kim, University of Louisville
    (1038-94-219)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Unit-derived codes.
    Ted Hurley*, National University of Ireland, Galway. Galway, Ireland.
    (1038-94-53)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Spread Codes for Network Coding, a Grassmannian Approach.
    Joachim Rosenthal*, University of Zurich
    Elisa Gorla, University of Zurich
    Felice Manganiello, University of Zurich
    (1038-94-208)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Finite Element Methods and Applications, III
  Room 305, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Nicolae Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet Tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
  Sheng Zhang, Wayne State University sheng@math.wayne.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discontinuous Galerkin fast sweeping methods.
    Yong-Tao Zhang*, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-4618
    (1038-65-185)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fast and Robust Multigrid method for Stokes-like equations.
    Young Ju Lee*, Rutgers University
    (1038-65-332)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sharply local pointwise a posteriori error estimates for parabolic problems.
    Alan Demlow*, University of Kentucky
    Charalambos Makridakis, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete
    (1038-65-251)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Spurious-Free Maxwell Eigensolvers.
    Fengyan Li*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    (1038-65-195)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Spatial Systems, III
  Room 319, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
  Alexander Holroyd, University of British Columbia holroyd@math.ubc.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Velocity gain for a self-repelling Brownian particle.
    Nathanael Berestycki*, Cambridge University
    (1038-60-212)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Natural parametrization for Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE).
    Gregory F Lawler*, University of Chicago
    (1038-60-166)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Structures in Conformal Dynamics and Geometry, III
  Room 005, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Kevin M. Pilgrim, Indiana University pilgrim@indiana.edu
  William J. Floyd, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University floyd@math.vt.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Informal Session
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A new link between Teichmueller theory and complex dynamics.
    Sarah C. Koch*, Cornell University
    (1038-30-65)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hanoi Towers group and complex dynamics.
    Zoran Sunic*, Texas A&M University
    Rostislav Grigorchuk, Texas A&M University
    Volodymyr Nekrashevych, Texas A&M University
    (1038-37-316)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Applications, III
  Room 317, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Hari Bercovici, Indiana University bercovic@indiana.edu
  Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University mdd@math.purdue.edu
  Mihai Popa, Indiana University mipopa@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some applications of operator space techniques in quantum information.
    Marius Junge*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
    (1038-46-167)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Applications of Quantum Groups to Quantum Information Theory.
    Marius Junge, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
    Matthias Neufang, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6
    Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
    (1038-46-132)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Diagonals of positive operators.
    Victor Kaftal*, University of Cincinnati
    (1038-47-134)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on D-modules, III
  Room 219, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Mathias Schulze, Oklahoma State University mschulze@math.okstate.edu
  Hans Ulrich Walther, Purdue University walther@math.purdue.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lyubeznik numbers of projective schemes.
    Wenliang Zhang*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1038-13-226)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Normal Forms, K3 Surface Moduli, and Modular Parametrizations.
    Adrian Clingher, University of Missouri
    Charles F Doran*, University of Washington
    Jacob Lewis, University of Washington
    Ursula Whitcher, University of Washington
    (1038-14-197)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Characteristic variety of D-modules in positive characteristic.
    Josep Alvarez-Montaner*, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
    (1038-13-114)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Degree bounds for Gr\"obner bases in algebras of solvable type.
    Matthias Aschenbrenner, Univercity of California, Los Angeles
    Anton Leykin*, IMA, University of Minnesota
    (1038-13-56)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Classical and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, III
  Room 103, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Roger Temam, Indiana University temam@indiana.edu
  Shouhong Wang, Indiana University showang@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Numerical Simulations of two-dimensional Boussinesq systems for three-dimensional water waves.
    Min Chen*, Purdue University
    (1038-76-263)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Group foliation and the Korteweg-de Vries equation.
    Jeffrey J. Early*, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
    Juha Pohjanpelto, Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University
    Roger M. Samelson, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
    (1038-86-272)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Unstable solitary water waves and wave breaking.
    Zhiwu Lin*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1038-76-322)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Negative specific heat in nearly parallel vortex lines - applications to open ocean convection.
    Chjan C Lim*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    (1038-76-137)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Ring Spectra, III
  Room 209, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Randy McCarthy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign randy@math.uiuc.edu
  Ayelet Lindenstrauss, Indiana University ayelet@math.indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Motivic homological algebra.
    Dan Isaksen*, Wayne State University
    (1038-55-100)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Enriched Model Categories and Diagram Categories.
    Bertrand J Guillou*, University of Chicago
    J Peter May, University of Chicago
    (1038-55-262)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, III
  Room 246, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
  Hemanshu Kaul, Illinois Institute of Technology kaul@math.iit.edu
  Tao Jiang, Miami University jiangt@muohio.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computer Methods for Finding Graph Decompositions.
    Stephen G Hartke*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1038-05-113)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The maximum spectral radius of C4-free graphs.
    Vladimir Nikiforov*, University of Memphis
    (1038-05-221)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Kneser representations of graphs.
    Peter Hamburger, Department of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green KY
    Attila Por*, Department of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green KY
    Matt Walsh, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne IN
    (1038-20-136)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Independence number of 2-factor-plus-triangles graphs.
    Jennifer Vandenbussche, University of Illinois - Urbana
    Douglas B. West*, University of Illinois - Urbana
    (1038-05-244)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Minimal and CMC Surfaces, III
  Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union
  Organizers:
  Bruce Michael Solomon, Indiana University solomon@indiana.edu
  Matthias Weber, Indiana University matweber@indiana.edu
  Adam Weyhaupt, Southern Illinois University aweyhau@siue.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussions
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis Methods in Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, III
  Room 144, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Zoran Grujic, University of Virginia zg7c@virginia.edu
  Irina Mitrea, University of Virginia im3p@virginia.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Singular estimates of transfer functions arising in Riccati and H-J equations corresponding to fluid-structure ineteractions.
    Irena M Lasiecka*, University of Virginia
    (1038-35-88)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Wellposedness and stability theory for a PDE which governs fluid-structure interactions.
    George Avalos*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1038-35-107)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On local uniqueness of weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes system with $BMO^{-1}$ initial datum.
    Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California
    Vlad Vicol*, University of Southern California
    (1038-35-11)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Convolution inequalities in locally compact abelian groups and Navier-Stokes equations.
    Animikh Biswas*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    David Swanson, University of Louisville
    (1038-76-24)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics, III
  Room 345, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Victor Goodman, Indiana University goodmanv@indiana.edu
  Kiseop Lee, University of Louisville kiseop.lee@louisville.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Option Pricing in a Regime-Switching Black-Scholes Market.
    Richard H. Stockbridge*, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    Katharina Zaglauer, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    (1038-60-257)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Convergence Studies on Monte Carlo Methods for Pricing Mortgage-Backed Securities.
    Tao Pang*, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
    Yipeng Yang, Operations Research Program, North Carolina State University
    Dai Zhao, ZM Financial Systems, Inc
    (1038-90-264)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Partial hedging in financial markets with a large agent.
    Jungmin Choi*, Postdoctoral Felow, Florida State University
    (1038-90-102)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Derivatives of Asian Call option prices.
    Kyounghee Kim*, Florida State University
    Jungmin Choi, Florida State University
    (1038-60-159)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Weak Dependence in Probability and Statistics, III
  Room 344, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard C. Bradley, Indiana University bradleyr@indiana.edu
  Lahn T. Tran, Indiana University tran@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geometric Ergodicity and beta-mixing Property for a Seasonal GARCH model with Periodic Coefficients.
    Oesook Lee*, Ewha Womans University, Department of Statistics
    (1038-60-111)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Spatial fixed design nonparametric regression.
    Soyeon Lee*, Occidental college
    (1038-62-163)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Density estimation by frequency polygons on random fields.
    Michel Carbon*, Rennes 2 University
    (1038-62-108)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Erd\"os-Renyi Law For Gibbs Markov Systems.
    M Denker*, Mathematische Stochastik, Universit\"at G\"ottingen
    (1038-60-70)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Some Mathematical Problems in Biology, from Macromolecules to Ecosystems, III
  Room 148, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Santiago David Schnell, Indiana University schnell@indiana.edu
  Roger Temam, Indiana University temam@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multi-Cell Modeling of Biological Development using the GGH Model and CompuCell3D: Applications, Technology and Open Problems.
    James A. Glazier*, Indiana University, Department of Physics and Biocomplexity Institute
    (1038-92-125)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Two-Sex, Age-Structured, Logistic Population Models.
    Fabio Augusto Milner*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
    Kai Yang, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
    (1038-92-86)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A new mathematical model of syphilis.
    Ruijun Zhao*, Purdue University
    (1038-92-110)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Dynamics, III
  Room 006, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Chris Connell, Indiana University connell@indiana.edu
  David M. Fisher, Indiana University fisherdm@indiana.edu
  Marlies Gerber, Indiana University gerber@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the tip of the tongue.
    Micha{\l} Misiurewicz*, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
    Ana Rodrigues, Universidade do Porto
    (1038-37-103)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Liouville property on regular covers.
    Anders Karlsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
    Fran\c cois Ledrappier*, University of Notre Dame
    (1038-58-83)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Continued fractions, natural extension maps and their geometric structure.
    Ilie D Ugarcovici*, DePaul University
    (1038-37-235)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An intrinsic proof of Gromoll-Grove diameter rigidity theorem.
    Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame
    Hongyan Tang*, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
    (1038-58-67)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Related Topics, III
  Room 146, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Ciprian Demeter, Institute for Advance Study demeter@math.ias.edu
  Nets Katz, Indiana University nhkatz@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Generalization of the Theorem of Whittaker-Shannon-Kotelnikov.
    Yufang Hao*, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo
    (1038-43-281)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The (weak-$L^2$) Boundedness of The Quadratic Carleson Operator.
    Victor D. Lie*, UCLA
    (1038-42-224)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A critical-exponent Balian-Low theorem.
    S. Zubin Gautam*, UCLA
    (1038-42-223)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Applications of interpolation theorems.
    Chaoyuan Mary Liu*, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1038-46-06)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Non-derivative optimization: Mathematics, heuristics, or hack?
  Room 122, Chemistry Building
  Margaret H. Wright*, Courant Institute, NYU
  (1038-49-04)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Hamiltonian systems and Liouville equations with discontinuous Hamiltonians: Computational methods for high frequency waves in heterogeneous media.
  Room 122, Chemistry Building
  Shi Jin*, University of Wisconsin
  (1038-35-01)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Spatial Systems, IV
  Room 319, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
  Alexander Holroyd, University of British Columbia holroyd@math.ubc.ca
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The scaling limits of dynamical and near-critical percolation, and the Minimal Spanning Tree.
    Christophe Garban, Universite Paris-Sud and ENS
    G\'abor Pete*, Microsoft Research
    Oded Schramm, Microsoft Research
    (1038-60-321)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quasi-units in Zhang's sandpile model.
    Anna Fey-den Boer*, VU Amsterdam
    Haiyan Liu, VU Amsterdam
    Ronald Meester, VU Amsterdam
    Corrie Quant, VU Amsterdam
    Frank Redig, Leiden University
    (1038-60-231)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Sampling $3$-colourings of the discrete torus.
    David Galvin*, University of Notre Dame
    (1038-60-187)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A different approach to strong embeddings.
    Sourav Chatterjee*, University of California at Berkeley
    (1038-60-199)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Structures in Conformal Dynamics and Geometry, IV
  Room 005, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Kevin M. Pilgrim, Indiana University pilgrim@indiana.edu
  William J. Floyd, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University floyd@math.vt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homotopy Pseudo-Orbits and Iterated Monodromy Groups (Part I).
    Suzanne Hruska, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    Rodrigo A Perez*, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
    John Smillie, Cornell University
    (1038-37-307)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Homotopy Pseudo-Orbits and Iterated Monodromy Groups, Part II.
    Suzanne Hruska*, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    Rodrigo Perez, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
    John Smillie, Cornell University
    (1038-37-306)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Polynomial combinatorics.
    Laura DeMarco*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1038-37-173)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Pinching Deformations of Rational Maps.
    Robert W. O'Connell*, Indiana University-Bloomington
    (1038-37-252)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, Topological Combinatorics, and Interactions Between Them, IV
  Room 217, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Patricia Hersh, Indiana University phersh@indiana.edu
  Cristian P. Lenart, State University of New York at Albany lenart@albany.edu
  Michelle Wachs, University of Miami wachs@math.miami.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    From total positivity to positroids (via the Grassmannian, the Bruhat order, and pattern avoidance).
    Alexander Postnikov*, MIT
    (1038-05-259)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discrete Morse theory and the totally non-negative part of G/P.
    Lauren K Williams*, Harvard University
    (1038-05-161)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A quantization of a theorem of Goulden and Jackson.
    Matjaz Konvalinka, MIT
    Mark Skandera*, Lehigh University
    (1038-05-271)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Rees product of the cubical lattice with the chain.
    Patricia Muldoon, University of Kentucky
    Margaret A. Readdy*, University of Kentucky
    (1038-05-215)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Exponential Dowling structures.
    Richard Ehrenborg*, University of Kentucky
    Margaret Readdy, University of Kentucky
    (1038-05-291)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Inversion arrangements and lower intervals in the Bruhat order.
    Axel Hultman, KTH, Stockholm
    Svante Linusson, KTH, Stockholm
    John Shareshian*, Washington University
    Jonas Sj\"ostrand, KTH, Stockholm
    (1038-05-324)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Classical and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, IV
  Room 103, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Roger Temam, Indiana University temam@indiana.edu
  Shouhong Wang, Indiana University showang@indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The primitive equations of the atmosphere at small viscosity.
    Roger Temam*, Indiana University
    C.-Y. Jung, Indiana University
    (1038-35-350)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The predictability of two-dimensional and quasi-geostrophic turbulence.
    Joseph J Tribbia*, NCAR
    (1038-76-335)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A scheme for stationary statistical properties of the infinite Prandtl number model.
    Wenfang Cheng, Florida State University
    Xiaoming Wang*, Florida State University
    (1038-76-329)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Regularity results of the primitive equations.
    I Kukavica, University of Southern California
    M Ziane*, University of Southern California
    (1038-35-311)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Recent Carleman estimates for the Stokes system and applications.
    Oleg Yu. Emanouilov*, Colorado State University
    (1038-35-274)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Dynamic Transitions and Stability for Equatorial Flows.
    Tian Ma, Sichuan University
    Shouhong Wang*, Indiana University
    (1038-35-312)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Ring Spectra, IV
  Room 209, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Randy McCarthy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign randy@math.uiuc.edu
  Ayelet Lindenstrauss, Indiana University ayelet@math.indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Enriched Reedy Categories.
    Vigleik Angeltveit*, University of Chicago
    (1038-18-254)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Elliptic cohomology and abelian surfaces.
    Tyler D Lawson*, University of Minnesota
    Mark Behrens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1038-55-303)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    $v_2$-periodicity at the prime $2$.
    M. Behrens*, MIT
    M. Hill, Univeristy of Virginia
    M. J. Hopkins, Harvard
    M. Mahowald, Northwestern University
    (1038-55-317)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
  Room 246, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
  Hemanshu Kaul, Illinois Institute of Technology kaul@math.iit.edu
  Tao Jiang, Miami University jiangt@muohio.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On circular flows of graphs.
    Hong-Jian Lai*, Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University
    Rui Xu, Department of Mathematics, University of West Georgia
    Cunquan Zhang, Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University
    (1038-05-43)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Lower Bound for Potentially $H$-graphic Sequences.
    Michael Ferrara*, The University of Akron
    John Schmitt, Middlebury College
    (1038-05-60)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A min-max theorem for chordal bipartite graphs.
    Atif Abuieda, University of Dayton
    Arthur Busch*, University of Dayton
    R Sritharan, University of Dayton
    (1038-05-76)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Decompositions of planar graphs into a forest and another graph.
    Naeem N. Sheikh*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Oleg V. Borodin, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia
    Alexandr V. Kostochka, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia
    A. O. Ivanova, Yakutsk State University, Yakutsk, Russia
    Gexin Yu, Vanderbilt University
    (1038-05-243)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Structure of $K_{3,4}$-Free Projective Planar Graphs.
    John Maharry*, The Ohio State University
    Daniel Slilaty, Wright State University
    (1038-05-172)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Separation in trees.
    Tao Jiang, Miami University
    Zevi Miller*, Miami University
    Dan Pritikin, Miami University
    (1038-05-196)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Modulo $n$ Representations of Graphs.
    Anthony B. Evans, Wright State University
    Dan Pritikin*, Miami University
    (1038-05-160)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic K-theory and Nil groups in Algebra and Topology, IV
  Room 204, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  James F. Davis, Indiana University jfdavis@indiana.edu
  Christian Haesemeyer, University of Illinois at Chicago chh@math.uic.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the Cappell UNil-groups.
    Andrew Ranicki*, University of Edinburgh
    (1038-57-133)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An approach to the Farrell-Jones conjecture.
    Frank Quinn*, Virginia Tech
    (1038-19-340)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Algebraic K-theory of hyperbolic reflection groups.
    Jean-Francois Lafont*, Ohio State University
    Ivonne J. Ortiz, Miami University
    Bruce Magurn, Miami University
    (1038-19-298)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics, IV
  Room 345, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Victor Goodman, Indiana University goodmanv@indiana.edu
  Kiseop Lee, University of Louisville kiseop.lee@louisville.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Arbitrage Free Models In Markets With Transaction Costs.
    Hasanjan Sayit*, Assistant professor, Mathematics Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
    Erhan Bayraktar, Assistant professor, University of Michigan
    (1038-60-178)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Mathematical Model for Power Derivatives.
    Chunfeng She*, Indiana University
    (1038-60-228)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Additive-Interactive Nonlinear Arch Model and its Estimation.
    Michael Levine*, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
    Tony Li, Purdue University
    (1038-62-241)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Principal Component Analysis of Forward Interest Rates.
    Victor Goodman*, Indiana University
    (1038-91-71)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Estimation of Liquidity Cost.
    Kiseop Lee*, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville
    (1038-60-44)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Aspects of Coding Theory, IV
  Room 247, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky heidegl@ms.uky.edu
  Roxana Smarandache, San Diego State University rsmarand@sciences.sdsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    List Decoding BCH Codes Using Gr\"obner Bases.
    Philip R. Busse*, University of Kentucky
    (1038-14-230)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Self-dual codes over finite chain rings.
    Steven T. Dougherty, University of Scranton
    Jon-Lark Kim*, University of Louisville
    Hongwei Liu, Central China Normal University
    (1038-94-89)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Code loops of both parities.
    Petr Vojt\v{e}chovsk\'y*, University of Denver, Department of Mathematics
    (1038-05-26)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On self-dual codes over $\mathbb{F}_5$.
    Sunghyu Han*, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
    Jon-Lark Kim, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
    (1038-94-54)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Related Topics, IV
  Room 146, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Ciprian Demeter, Institute for Advance Study demeter@math.ias.edu
  Nets Katz, Indiana University nhkatz@indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Some problems on multilinear oscillatory integrals.
    Xiaochun Li*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-42-319)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Maximal averages along one-variable vector fields.
    Michael Bateman*, Indiana University
    (1038-42-313)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tent spaces associated with semigroup of operators.
    Tao Mei*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-42-225)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Finite Element Methods and Applications, IV
  Room 305, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Nicolae Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet Tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
  Sheng Zhang, Wayne State University sheng@math.wayne.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Consistency \& Numerical Smoothing -$>$ Long-time Error Estimation.
    Tong Sun*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University
    (1038-65-30)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    An {\it A Posteriori} Error Estimator for a Quadratic $C^0$ Interior Penalty Method for the Biharmonic Problem.
    Susanne C. Brenner, Department of Mathematics and Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University
    Thirupathi Gudi*, Center for Computation and Technology , Louisiana State University
    Li Yeng Sung, Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University
    (1038-65-68)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Scattering Problem in Near-Field Optics.
    Peijun Li*, University of Michigan
    (1038-78-182)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Efficient and reliable error estimation for elliptic eigenvalue problems.
    Jeffrey S Ovall*, California Institute of Technology
    (1038-65-74)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Finite Element Assembly on Arbitrary Meshes.
    Matthew G Knepley, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Lab
    Andy R Terrel*, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago
    (1038-35-242)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Towards flexible geometric multigrid solvers for finite element problems.
    Peter R Brune*, University of Chicago
    Matthew G Knepley, Argonne National Lab
    (1038-65-282)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Weak Dependence in Probability and Statistics, IV
  Room 344, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard C. Bradley, Indiana University bradleyr@indiana.edu
  Lahn T. Tran, Indiana University tran@indiana.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Weak Convergence of the Standard Empirical Process of Stationary Sequences.
    Juan Carlos Escanciano*, Indiana University, Economics Department
    (1038-60-135)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Conditional U-Statistics with Applications in Discriminant Analysis, ARMA Processes and Hidden Markov Models and Hidden Markov Models.
    Madan L Puri*, Indiana University, Bloomington,Indiana
    Michel Harel, C.N.R.S., Toulouse, France
    (1038-60-109)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Spectrum Estimation for Isotropic Intrinsically Stationary Spatial Processes.
    Chunfeng Huang*, Department of Statistics, Indiana University
    Tailen Hsing, University of MIchigan
    Noel Cressie, The Ohio State University
    (1038-62-140)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Hazard rate estimation on random fields.
    Jiexiang Li, College of Charleston, South Carolina
    Lanh T Tran*, Indiana University
    (1038-62-155)

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