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2007 Fall Western Section Meeting
Albuquerque, NM, October 13-14, 2007 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1032

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

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Saturday October 13, 2007

• Saturday October 13, 2007, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Atrium, Dane Smith Hall
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Atrium, Dane Smith Hall
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Methods of Heterogeneous Data Analysis, I
  Room 327, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hanna Ewa Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory hanna_m@lanl.gov
  Nikita A. Sakhanenko, University of New Mexico sanik@cs.unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Diagnosis and Prognosis: From Rule-Based Systems to First-Order Graphical Models.
    George F. Luger*, Computer Science Department, University of New Mexico
    (1032-68-85)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Causally Informed Context Management and Model Induction in a Context-Partitioned Stochastic Modeling System.
    Nikita A. Sakhanenko*, Computer Science Department, University of New Mexico
    (1032-68-93)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An Investigation of Methods to Determine Weights for the OWA Operator.
    Roshan R. Rammohan*, Dept. of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
    Jung J. Kim, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico
    Mahmoud R. Taha, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico
    Timothy J. Ross, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico
    (1032-47-171)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Evolution of imagery analysis software by a genetic algorithm.
    Steven P. Brumby*, Space and Remote Sensing Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1032-68-173)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in 2-D Turbulence, I
  Room 228, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael S. Jolly, Indiana University msjolly@indiana.edu
  Greg Eyink, Johns Hopkins University eyink@ams.jhu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Lagrangian measurements of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Turbulence.
    Robert E Ecke*, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Michael K Rivera, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1032-76-27)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quasi-two-dimensional turbulent decay and fossil turbulence.
    Peter Vorobieff*, The University of New Mexico
    Tanveer Shakeel, Eclipse Aviation
    Aparna Korlimarla, AMD
    (1032-76-163)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Coherent Structures Resulting from "Energy Condensation" in 2D Inverse Cascades.
    Colm Connaughton*, Center for Nonlinear Studies, LANL and Univ. of Warwick, UK
    (1032-76-134)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the locality of the enstrophy cascade in a 2D flow.
    Alexey Cheskidov*, University of Chicago
    Peter Constantin, University of Chicago
    Susan Friendalder, University of Illinois
    Roman Svydkoy, University of Illinois
    (1032-76-158)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Energy dissipation in low-wavenumber-forced and fractal-forced flows.
    Alexey Cheskidov, University of Michigan
    Charles R Doering, University of Michigan
    Nikola P Petrov*, University of Oklahoma
    (1032-76-148)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Mathematical Physics, I
  Room 229, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Rafal Komendarczyk, University of Pennsylvania rako@math.upenn.edu
  Robert Michal Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory rmo@lanl.gov
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Optical field interaction with multi-level atoms embedded in negative refractive index material.
    I. Gabitov*, University of Arizona
    R. Indik, University of Arizona
    B. Kennedy, University of Arizona
    (1032-78-209)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Modeling ultraviolet light propagation in air.
    Alejandro Aceves*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico
    Alexey Sukhinin, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, U. of New Mexico
    Jean-Claude Diels, Department of Physics and Astronomy, U. of New Mexico
    (1032-78-121)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rethinking the KP Hierarchy: Rank One Operators and Rank Six Quadrics.
    Alex Kasman*, Department of Mathematics / College of Charleston
    (1032-58-09)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Temperature in Laser Inducted Plasma Experiments.
    Hanna E Makaruk*, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
    (1032-78-60)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Applications of Algebraic Topology, I
  Room 324, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Ross Staffeldt, New Mexico State University ross@nmsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Introduction to Topology of Data Sets.
    Ross E. Staffeldt*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM 88003
    (1032-55-115)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Excursions in Computational and Discrete Morse Theory.
    Abhishek Jayantilal Rathod*, Stanford University
    (1032-55-25)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hodge Theory and Rank Aggregation.
    Yuan Yao*, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
    Lek-Heng Lim, University of California at Berkeley
    (1032-55-203)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Aspects of Compressible Flow Problems, I
  Room 326, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Jens Lorenz, University of New Mexico lorenz@math.unm.edu
  Thomas M. Hagstrom, University of New Mexico hagstrom@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Analyticity in time and backward uniqueness for weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations of multidimensional, compressible flow.
    David Hoff*, Indiana University
    Eugene Tsyganov, Indiana University
    (1032-35-102)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Analysis of the Brenner-Klimontovich Modifications of the NSF-System.
    Thomas Hagstrom, The University of New Mexico
    Jens Lorenz*, The University of New Mexico
    (1032-76-95)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Entropy structure and global solutions for hyperbolic systems of balance laws.
    Wen-An Yong*, Tsinghua University, China
    (1032-35-128)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Operator Theory, I
  Room 224, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria C. Pereyra, University of New Mexico crisp@math.unm.edu
  Wilfredo O. Urbina, University of New Mexico wurbina@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Boundedness for a bilinear model sum operator on $\mathbb R^n$.
    Erin Terwilleger*, University of Connecticut
    (1032-42-188)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The bilinear multiplier problem for the ellipsoid.
    Loukas Grafakos, University of Missouri
    Maria del Carmen Reguera Rodriguez*, University of Missouri
    (1032-42-167)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Multilinear singular integrals associated with rough kernels.
    Geoff Diestel*, University of South Carolina
    Loukas Grafakos, University of Missouri
    (1032-42-157)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Properties of solutions to the biharmonic equation on non-smooth domains.
    Svitlana Mayboroda*, The Ohio State University
    Vladimir Maz'ya, The Ohio State University
    (1032-35-183)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Global exponential bounds for Green's functions of Schr\"{o}dinger operators.
    Michael W. Frazier*, University of Tennessee
    Igor E. Verbitsky, University of Birmingham, UK
    (1032-35-141)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Variational Problems in Condensed Matter, I
  Room 234, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Lia Bronsard, McMaster University bronsard@mcmaster.ca
  Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the Phase Diagram for Microphase Separation of Diblock Copolymers: Small Volume Fraction Regimes.
    Rustum Choksi*, Simon Fraser University
    (1032-35-160)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sharp Interface Limits in the Study of Rare Events.
    Maria G. Westdickenberg*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1032-49-137)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mathematical characterization of equilibria of the Smoluchowski equation for nematic liquid crystalline polymers.
    Hong Zhou*, Naval Postgraduate School
    Hongyun Wang, UC Santa Cruz
    Qi Wang, Florida State University
    M. Gregory Forest, UNC Chapel Hill
    (1032-35-33)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Solving Diffuse Charge Equations.
    Rolf Josef Ryham*, Mathematics, Rice University
    (1032-35-38)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Viscoelstic Materials.
    Chun Liu*, Department of Mathematics, Penn State University
    (1032-35-185)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis Applied to Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Justin Holmer, University of California Berkeley holmer@math.berkeley.edu
  Changxing Miao, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics miao_changxing@iapcm.ac.cn
  Jiaong Wu, Oklahoma State University jiahong@math.okstate.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Initial Boundary Value Problems of the Korteweg-de Vries Equation.
    Shu-Ming Sun*, Virginia Tech
    (1032-35-156)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Scattering for energy critical NLS and NLKG equations in two space dimension.
    Slim Ibrahim*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University
    Mohamed Majdoub, Depatment of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis
    Nader Masmoudi, The Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences
    Kenji Nakanishi, Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University
    (1032-35-181)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Scattering for $H^{1/2}$ bounded solutions of the cubic, defocusing NLS in 3d.
    Carlos E. Kenig*, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago
    (1032-35-81)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Boundary Value Problems for Dispersive Equations in Large Sobolev Spaces.
    Jerry L. Bona*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1032-35-18)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the singular solutions of $L^2$-critical Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equations below $H^1$.
    Sahbi Keraani*, IRMAR, Université Rennes 1, France
    (1032-35-52)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic and Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 123, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexandru Buium, University of New Mexico buium@math.unm.edu
  Michael J. Nakamaye, University of New Mexico nakamaye@math.unm.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    An Ideal Separating Extension of Affine Space.
    Paul S Pedersen*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1032-13-26)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the Minimal Model Program for Varieties of General Type.
    Paolo Cascini*, UC Santa Barbara
    (1032-14-50)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Structures on Manifolds, I
  Room 223, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
  Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Conjugate points on length spaces.
    Krishnan Shankar*, University of Oklahoma
    Christina Sormani, City University of New York (CUNY) Lehman
    (1032-53-111)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The energy of a K\"ahler class on admissible bundles.
    Santiago R Simanca, University of New Mexico
    Christina Wiis T{\o}nnesen-Friedman*, Union College
    (1032-58-75)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the contact Goldberg conjecture.
    Tedi Draghici*, Florida International University
    (1032-53-136)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics: The Mathematics of Financial Markets and Structures, I
  Room 325, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Cristina Mariani, New Mexico State University mmariani@nmsu.edu
  Kenneth Martin, New Mexico State University kjmartin@nmsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic Analysis of a Cox-Ingersoll-Ross Type Diffusion.
    Robert G Smits*, New Mexico State University
    (1032-60-07)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The best 2-CUSUM rules for quickest detection of two-sided alternatives in a Brownian motion model.
    Olympia Hadjiliadis*, C.U.N.Y.
    (1032-60-65)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stochastic volatility: option pricing using a multinomial recombining tree.
    Frederi G Viens*, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
    Ionut Florescu, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken NJ
    (1032-60-142)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves in Optics, Hydrodynamics and Plasmas
  Room 227, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Alejandro Aceves, University of New Mexico aceves@math.unm.edu
  Pavel Lushnikov, University of New Mexico plushnik@math.unm.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Nonlocal beam propagation in hot and cold atomic vapors.
    M Saffman*, University of Wisconsin
    (1032-78-174)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modeling optical supercontinuum generation in photonic structures.
    Alejandro Aceves*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico
    Michelle Hummel, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, U. of New Mexico
    Ronald Chen, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, U. of New Mexico
    Thomas Hagstrom, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, U. of New Mexico
    (1032-78-120)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Pulse color switching in negative index materials with three level atoms.
    Ildar R Gabitov*, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
    Gregor Kovacic, Dept of Mathematical Sciences, Renssealer Polytechnic Institute
    Kathryn Rasmussen, Dept of Mathematical Sciences, Renssealer Polytechnic Institute
    (1032-78-168)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Solitary waves in plasmonic Bragg gratings.
    Alexander O. Korotkevich*, L.D. Landau Instutite for Theoretical Physics
    Ildar R. Gabitov, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
    Andrey I. Maimistov, Department of Solid State Physics, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
    (1032-78-161)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 120, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  David Robert Finston, New Mexico State University dfinston@nmsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The equivalence of the Jacobian, Dixmier and Poisson conjectures.
    Arno Richardus van den Essen*, Dept of Mathematics, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    (1032-14-98)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Vanishing Conjecture on Differential Operators with Constant Coefficients.
    Wenhua Zhao*, Department of Mathematics, Illinois State University
    (1032-14-54)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Embeddings of affine space (preliminary report ).
    James K Deveney*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1032-13-99)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Elliptic hypergeometric integrals.
  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
  Eric M Rains*, California Institute of Technology
  (1032-33-03)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  SAGE: Open source mathematics software
  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
  William E. Stein*, University of California San Diego
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic and Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 123, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexandru Buium, University of New Mexico buium@math.unm.edu
  Michael J. Nakamaye, University of New Mexico nakamaye@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Orbits of rational points on certain $K3$ surfaces.
    Arthur Baragar*, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    (1032-11-110)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Effective Fiber Spaces for Threefolds.
    Adam T. Ringler*, University of New Mexico
    (1032-14-105)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Generic ordinarity of semi-stable fibrations.
    Junmyeong Jang*, Purdue University
    (1032-14-76)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Structures on Manifolds, II
  Room 223, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
  Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Classification of cohomogeneity one manifolds in low dimensions.
    Corey A. Hoelscher*, Rutgers University
    (1032-53-204)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Geometry of Filiform Nilpotent Lie Groups.
    Megan M Kerr*, Wellesley College
    Tracy L Payne, Idaho State University
    (1032-53-179)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Special K\"ahler-Ricci potentials and Ricci solitons.
    Gideon Maschler*, Emory University
    (1032-53-162)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Special Reeb vector fields on Sasaki manifolds.
    Santiago R. Simanca*, University of New Mexico
    (1032-58-151)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics: The Mathematics of Financial Markets and Structures, II
  Room 325, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Cristina Mariani, New Mexico State University mmariani@nmsu.edu
  Kenneth Martin, New Mexico State University kjmartin@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Asset price dynamics with heterogeneous, limited-information agents.
    Alec N Kercheval*, Florida State University
    Paul M. Beaumont, Florida State University
    Andrew J. Culham, Florida Power and Light, Jupiter, FL
    (1032-90-126)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On Coarse Data Modeling in Some Economic Problems.
    Hung T. Nguyen*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State University
    (1032-62-36)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Model for the Money Supply.
    Jerry L. Bona*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Jenny X. Li, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1032-91-175)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves in Optics, Hydrodynamics and Plasmas
  Room 227, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Alejandro Aceves, University of New Mexico aceves@math.unm.edu
  Pavel Lushnikov, University of New Mexico plushnik@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Is there a ``Strong'' Energy Cascade in Wave Turbulence?
    Colm Connaughton*, Center for Nonlinear Studies, LANL and Univ. Of Warwick, UK
    (1032-76-135)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Application of complex analysis to the selective withdrawal problem.
    Vladimir Ajaev*, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University
    Rouslan Krechetnikov, Department of Mathematics, University of Alberta, Canada
    (1032-76-198)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Numerical study of reactive Rayleigh-Taylor instability.
    Natalia Vladimirova*, University of Chicago, LANL
    Michael Chertkov, LANL
    (1032-76-97)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Turbulent Mixing in Imploding Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability.
    John W. Grove*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Thomas Masser, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1032-76-199)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Backscatter instability of incoherent beam in high temperature plasma.
    Pavel M Lushnikov*, Univerisity of New Mexico
    Harvey A Rose, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1032-78-12)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Methods of Heterogeneous Data Analysis, II
  Room 327, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hanna Ewa Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory hanna_m@lanl.gov
  Nikita A. Sakhanenko, University of New Mexico sanik@cs.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Singular Value Decomposition of Spatiotemporal Correlations in Computer-Generated Spike Trains.
    Garrett T Kenyon*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1032-92-69)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dynamic Functional Neuroimaging through Probabilistic Integration of Multiple Imaging Modalities.
    John S. George*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Sung Chan Jun, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Sergey Plis, University of New Mexico
    David M. Schmidt, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1032-92-153)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Dynamic Bayesian Networks for joint analysis of functional neuroimaging data.
    Sergey M Plis*, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
    Terran Lane, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
    (1032-68-166)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Methods in Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing, I
  Room 226, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Emmanuel Candes, California Institute of Technology emmanuel@acm.caltech.edu
  Joseph D. Lakey, New Mexico State University jlakey@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fast Directional Multilevel Algorithms for Oscillatory Kernels.
    Bjorn Engquist, University of Texas at Austin
    Lexing Ying*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1032-65-63)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Uniqueness of Lifting Factorizations for Linear Phase Filter Banks and Wavelets.
    Christopher M. Brislawn*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1032-94-123)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Error estimates for recursive consistent estimation.
    Alexander M. Powell*, Vanderbilt University
    (1032-42-61)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Minimization theorem for 1-bit quantization for finite frames.
    Onur Oktay*, University of Maryland - College Park
    (1032-42-189)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Characteristic wavelet equations and generalizations of the spectral function.
    Veronika Furst*, Fort Lewis College
    (1032-42-129)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 120, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  David Robert Finston, New Mexico State University dfinston@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    $G_a$-actions and completions.
    Masayoshi Miyanishi*, Kwansei Gakuin University
    (1032-14-05)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    In search of irreducible $G_a$-actions.
    Anthony J. Crachiola*, Saginaw Valley State University
    (1032-14-86)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Geometry of kernels of locally nilpotent derivations on a polynomial ring having slices.
    Kayo Masuda*, University of Hyogo
    (1032-14-13)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Density Property of Affine Algebraic Manifolds.
    Shulim Kaliman*, University of Miami, Department of Mathematics
    Frank Kutzschebauch, University of Bern
    (1032-14-82)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in 2-D Turbulence, II
  Room 228, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael S. Jolly, Indiana University msjolly@indiana.edu
  Greg Eyink, Johns Hopkins University eyink@ams.jhu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Physical Mechanism of the 2D Inverse Energy Cascade: Progress and Problems.
    Gregory L Eyink*, The Johns Hopkins University
    (1032-76-131)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Numerical Studies of Physical Mechanism of the Two-Dimensional Inverse Energy Cascade.
    Shiyi Chen*, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
    Robert Ecke, CNLS, Los Alamos
    Gregory Eyink, Johns Hopkins University
    Michael Rivera, Los Alamos
    Minping Wang, Johns Hopkins University
    Zuoli Xiao, Johns Hopkins University
    (1032-76-72)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Eddies and Waves in a Family of Dispersive Dynamically Active Scalars.
    Leslie M. Smith*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Jai Sukhatme, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1032-76-96)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Current status of two dimensional turbulence.
    Eleftherios Gkioulekas*, University of Central Florida
    (1032-76-132)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Casimir Cascades in Two Dimensional Turbulence.
    John C. Bowman*, University of Alberta
    Jahanshah Davoudi, University of Toronto
    (1032-76-154)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Mathematical Physics, II
  Room 229, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Rafal Komendarczyk, University of Pennsylvania rako@math.upenn.edu
  Robert Michal Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory rmo@lanl.gov
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Recent unique continuation results for evolution equations.
    Gerard Misiolek*, University of Notre Dame
    (1032-35-140)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Grand Unification: Mass-Energy and Space-Time in Einstein's Special Thoery of Relativity.
    Garret Eugene Sobczyk*, Universidad de Las Americas Puebla
    Tolga Yarman, Okan University
    (1032-83-119)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On convergence of a series solution of peristaltic movement.
    Robert Michal Owczarek*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1032-76-146)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Variational Problems in Condensed Matter, II
  Room 234, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Lia Bronsard, McMaster University bronsard@mcmaster.ca
  Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On a type of free boundary problems arising from material science.
    Huiqiang Jiang*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1032-35-19)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some remarks regarding vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates.
    Alberto Montero*, Assistant professor, University of Akron
    (1032-35-196)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Convergence of a modified Allen-Cahn equation to a prescribed mean curvature problem.
    Stephane Kirsch*, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Paris VI
    (1032-35-32)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quantum and classical behavior in a model for a supersolid.
    Amandine Aftalion, University of Paris 6
    Xavier Blanc, University of Paris 6
    Robert L Jerrard*, University of Toronto
    (1032-35-107)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    $\Gamma$-limit of the Ginzburg-Landau energy in a thin domain with a large magnetic field.
    Tien-Tsan Shieh*, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
    (1032-49-57)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Fourfold symmetric solution of the Ginzburg Landau equations for d-wave superconductors.
    Minkyun Kim*, Purdue University
    Daniel Phillips, Purdue University
    (1032-35-87)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Applications of Algebraic Topology, II
  Room 324, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Ross Staffeldt, New Mexico State University ross@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Applications of persistent homology.
    Gunnar Erik Carlsson*, Stanford University
    (1032-55-164)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Numerical integration with respect to Euler characteristic.
    Yuliy Baryshnikov, Alcatel / Lucent
    Robert Ghrist*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (1032-55-144)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Persistent homology of human speech data.
    Kevin P Knudson*, Mississippi State University
    (1032-55-78)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis Applied to Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Justin Holmer, University of California Berkeley holmer@math.berkeley.edu
  Changxing Miao, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics miao_changxing@iapcm.ac.cn
  Jiaong Wu, Oklahoma State University jiahong@math.okstate.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Exact Controllability of the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation on a Bounded Interval.
    Lionel Rosier, Institut Elie Cartan, Universit\'e Henri Poincar\'e Nancy 1
    Bingyu Zhang*, University of Cincinnati
    (1032-35-170)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Strichartz estimates on manifolds with boundary.
    Matthew D Blair*, University of New Mexico and University of Rochester
    Hart F Smith, University of Washington
    Christopher D Sogge, Johns Hopkins University
    (1032-35-88)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Schr\"odinger and Floquet equations with $L^{n/2}$ potentials.
    Michael Goldberg*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1032-35-68)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The regularity of weak solutions to magneto-micropolar fluid equations.
    Baoquan Yuan*, College of Mathematics and Informatics, Henan Polytechnic University, Henan, P.R. China
    (1032-35-44)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Fast soliton splitting by an attractive delta potential.
    Kiril Datchev*, University of California, Berkeley
    Justin Holmer, University of California, Berkeley
    (1032-35-169)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Global well-posedness and scattering for the energy-critical, defocusing Hartree equation in $\mathbb{R}^{1+n}$.
    Xu Guixiang*, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics
    (1032-35-64)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Aspects of Compressible Flow Problems, II
  Room 326, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Jens Lorenz, University of New Mexico lorenz@math.unm.edu
  Thomas M. Hagstrom, University of New Mexico hagstrom@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Stability of Shocks on Bounded Intervals.
    Gunilla Kreiss*, Uppsala University
    (1032-35-177)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    High Speed Flow Solvers for Overlapping Grids.
    Jeffrey W. Banks*, Sandia National Laboratory
    (1032-76-182)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Mathematical Models of Detonation in Single and Multiphase Reactive Flow.
    Donald W. Schwendeman*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    (1032-76-202)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Operator Theory, II
  Room 224, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria C. Pereyra, University of New Mexico crisp@math.unm.edu
  Wilfredo O. Urbina, University of New Mexico wurbina@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Schur-type analysis of the minimal weak unitary dilations of a given contraction operator.
    Stefania A.M. Marcantognini*, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
    (1032-47-91)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The relaxed commutant lifting problem.
    M. D. Moran*, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Universidad Simon Bolivar
    (1032-47-127)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the two weight problem for the Hilbert Transform.
    Carlos Perez*, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) and Univeristy of Kansas
    David Cruz-Uribe, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
    Jose Maria Martell, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
    (1032-42-165)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Two-weight, Rubio de Francia extrapolation.
    David V. Cruz-Uribe*, Trinity College, Hartford CT
    Carlos Perez, Universidad de Sevilla
    Jose Maria Martell, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
    (1032-42-83)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Bounds on the norm of the dyadic paraproduct on weighted Lebesgue spaces.
    Oleksandra V Beznosova*, The Univerity of New Mexico
    Maria Cristina Pereyra, University of New Mexico
    (1032-42-194)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Convergence and stability of the Calder\'on reproducing formula and wavelet-like expansions.
    James M Wilson*, Department of Mathematics, University of Vermont
    (1032-42-59)
• Saturday October 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Contributed Paper Session
  Room 136, Dane Smith Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Laplace transform of the linear car-following model.
    Mostafa Ghandehari*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Siamak Ardekani, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1032-34-11)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Estimating Transport Coefficients in Re-entrant Factory Models.
    Ali Kemal Unver*, Arizona State University
    Christian Ringhofer, Arizona State University
    (1032-65-21)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Computation of $K$-theory for Noncommutative $CW$-complexes.
    Erich A. McAlister*, Fort Lewis College
    (1032-46-22)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Green's Functions on Large and Unbounded Intervals.
    Oksana Guba*, University of New Mexico
    (1032-34-23)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Nonarchimedean Cantor Set and String.
    Hung Lu*, Hawaii Pacific University
    Michel L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    (1032-51-24)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    A Generalization of Hilbert Matrices.
    David C Torney*, Round Ideas Institute
    (1032-15-56)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Matrices with Fibonacci Numbers as Entries.
    Donald E. Beken, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
    Ralph E. DeMarr*, University of New Mexico
    (1032-15-39)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Fourier Series Vanishing on an Interval.
    Dennis Nemzer*, California State University, Stanislaus
    (1032-42-124)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Optimization with multiple maximands.
    Rod A Freed*, University of California, Irvine
    (1032-49-172)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Shells.
    Arthur Knoebel*, Albuquerque, New Mexico
    (1032-08-178)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Behavior of the Norm of N-Fold Convolutions.
    George C. Stey*, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, 43210
    (1032-42-207)

Sunday October 14, 2007

• Sunday October 14, 2007, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Atrium, Dane Smith Hall
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Atrium, Dane Smith Hall
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Methods of Heterogeneous Data Analysis, III
  Room 327, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hanna Ewa Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory hanna_m@lanl.gov
  Nikita A. Sakhanenko, University of New Mexico sanik@cs.unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Modified Machine Learning Framework for Anomalous Change Detection.
    James Theiler*, Space and Remote Sensing Sciences Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1032-62-41)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Non-Mathematical Definition of Information.
    Hans-Joachim Ziock*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Stirling A Colgate, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1032-00-197)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Entropy Estimation: Coincidences, Additivity, and Uninformative Priors.
    Ilya M. Nemenman*, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
    (1032-62-206)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Mathematical Physics, III
  Room 229, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Rafal Komendarczyk, University of Pennsylvania rako@math.upenn.edu
  Robert Michal Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory rmo@lanl.gov
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Unitary Representations of the Artin Braid Group and Quantum Computing.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, UIC
    (1032-57-67)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Anyons, Braids, and Tangles.
    Gerald A. Goldin*, Rutgers University
    (1032-81-147)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Helicity, a vector field invariant in three-space.
    Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
    (1032-53-200)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Glueballs and tight knots: theory and computation.
    Ted Ashton, University of Georgia
    Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Thomas Kephart, Vanderbilt University
    Eric Rawdon, St. Thomas University
    (1032-53-186)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Aspects of Compressible Flow Problems, III
  Room 326, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Jens Lorenz, University of New Mexico lorenz@math.unm.edu
  Thomas M. Hagstrom, University of New Mexico hagstrom@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Stable interface treatment for the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations.
    Jan Nordstrom*, FOI, Uppsala University and KTH
    (1032-65-176)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A multi-domain approach for far-field boundary conditions in incompressible flow.
    Tim Colonius*, California Institute of Technology
    Kunihiko Taira, California Institute of Technology
    (1032-76-187)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A simple justification of the singular limit for equatorial shallow water dynamics.
    Alexandre Dutrifoy, Universit\'e Libre de Bruxelles
    Andrew Majda, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    Steven Schochet*, Tel Aviv University
    (1032-35-138)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Operator Theory, III
  Room 224, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria C. Pereyra, University of New Mexico crisp@math.unm.edu
  Wilfredo O. Urbina, University of New Mexico wurbina@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Bilinear embedding for elliptic partial differential operators in divergence form.
    Oliver Dragicevic*, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
    Alexander Volberg, Michigan State University
    (1032-42-155)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bellman function and a generalized Grothendieck inequality.
    Leonid Slavin*, University of MIssouri - Columbia
    (1032-42-192)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Small Ball Inequality and the Discrepancy Function in higher dimensions.
    Dmitriy Bilyk*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Michael Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Armen Vagharshakyan, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1032-42-184)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    $b$-weighted dyadic $\mathrm{BMO}$ from dyadic $\mathrm{BMO}$ and associated $T(b)$ theorems.
    Stephanie A. Salomone*, University of Portland
    (1032-43-118)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rank-type $L^p$-$L^q$ and Sobolev estimates for averages over submanifolds.
    Philip T Gressman*, Yale University
    (1032-44-48)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A note on LlogL.
    Alex Stokolos*, DePaul University
    (1032-26-34)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 120, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  David Robert Finston, New Mexico State University dfinston@nmsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stable tameness of coordinates and automorphisms.
    Joost J Berson*, Department of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
    (1032-13-125)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stably Tame Polynomial Automorphisms.
    Sooraj Kuttykrishnan*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1032-14-10)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Additive group actions on smooth affine surfaces and the instability of the Makar-Limanov invariant - Preliminary report.
    Adrien Dubouloz*, CNRS - Institut de Math\'ematiques de Bourgogne
    (1032-14-51)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in 2-D Turbulence, III
  Room 228, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael S. Jolly, Indiana University msjolly@indiana.edu
  Greg Eyink, Johns Hopkins University eyink@ams.jhu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A study of the Navier-Stokes-$\alpha$ model for two-dimensional turbulence.
    Susan Kurien, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Evelyn Lunasin, University of California
    Mark A. Taylor, Sandia National Laboratory
    Edriss S. Titi*, University of California, Irvine
    (1032-76-92)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Enstrophy dissipation in 2D incompressible fluids.
    Milton C. Lopes Filho, UniCamp, Campinas, Brazil
    Anna L. Mazzucato*, Penn State University
    Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes, Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil
    (1032-76-43)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Behavior of the average energy, enstrophy and palinstrophy of the 2D turbulent flows with high Grashof numbers.
    Radu Dascaliuc*, Indiana University
    Ciprian Foias, Texas A&M University
    Michael S. Jolly, Indiana University
    (1032-35-90)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Estimates for the Kraichnan Spectrum.
    C Foias, Texas A&M University
    M S Jolly*, Indiana University
    (1032-76-205)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Variational Problems in Condensed Matter, III
  Room 234, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Lia Bronsard, McMaster University bronsard@mcmaster.ca
  Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the lower critical field for the Anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau model.
    Stanley Alama, McMaster University
    Lia Bronsard*, McMaster University
    Etienne Sandier, Universite Paris-12
    (1032-35-145)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lorentz space estimates for Ginzburg-Landau.
    Ian Tice*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
    (1032-49-31)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Local minimizers for the Chern-Simons-Higgs energy.
    Daniel Spirn*, University of Minnesota
    (1032-35-53)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Modeling and stability for bent-core liquid crystal fibers.
    Daniel Phillips*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
    Patricia Bauman, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
    (1032-35-47)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Thin boundary layers of chiral smectics.
    Yaniv Almog*, LSU
    (1032-49-79)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis Applied to Partial Differential Equations, III
  Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Justin Holmer, University of California Berkeley holmer@math.berkeley.edu
  Changxing Miao, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics miao_changxing@iapcm.ac.cn
  Jiaong Wu, Oklahoma State University jiahong@math.okstate.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Wave packet parametrices for evolutions governed by PDO's with rough symbols.
    Jeremy Louis Marzuola*, Columbia University
    Jason L Metcalfe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Daniel I Tataru, University of California, Berkeley
    (1032-35-40)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Nonvariational Methods for Semilinear Elliptic Equations of Critical Growth.
    Sarah Raynor*, Wake Forest University
    (1032-35-180)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Local Well-posedness for the $2+1$ Dimensional Monopole Equation.
    Magdalena Czubak*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1032-35-73)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The 2D surface quasi-geostrophic equation.
    Jiahong Wu*, Oklahoma State University
    (1032-35-133)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Blow-up and scattering for the 3d nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation.
    Justin Holmer*, University of California, Berkeley
    Svetlana Roudenko, Arizona State University
    (1032-35-201)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Structures on Manifolds, III
  Room 223, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
  Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Examples of toric Sasakian-Einstein Manifolds.
    Craig C. van Coevering*, M. I. T.
    (1032-53-122)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quaternion-K\"ahler manifolds and $S^1$ actions.
    Haydee Herrera*, Rutgers University - Camden
    (1032-58-103)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On some problems concerning the conformal geometry of quaternionic contact structures.
    Dimiter Vassilev*, University of New Mexico
    (1032-51-113)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics: The Mathematics of Financial Markets and Structures, III
  Room 325, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Cristina Mariani, New Mexico State University mmariani@nmsu.edu
  Kenneth Martin, New Mexico State University kjmartin@nmsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stochastic Volatility models: Leverage effect in continuous time.
    Ionut Florescu*, Department of Mathematical Sciences / Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1032-60-84)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Consistent long-memory parameter estimation in a LARCH time series model and its connection to the Hurst parameter of the fractional Brownian motion.
    Michael Levine*, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
    Soledad Torres, Depto de Estadistica, Universidad de Valparaiso
    Frederi Viens, Dep-t of Statistics, Purdue University
    (1032-62-106)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Development of numerical methods and simulations to forecast and optimize New Mexico red chile harvest.
    Delia Julieta Valles Rosales*, New Mexico State University
    Christopher Erickson, New Mexico State University
    James Libbin, New Mexico State University
    Mariani C Mariani, New Mexico State University
    Maria P. Beccar Varela, New Mexico State University
    Donovan Fuqua, New Mexico State University
    (1032-65-71)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Analyzing Financial Indices with Machine Learning Techniques.
    Inna V. Pivkina*, Department of Computer Science, NMSU
    Maria Christina Mariani, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
    (1032-90-45)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves in Optics, Hydrodynamics and Plasmas
  Room 227, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Alejandro Aceves, University of New Mexico aceves@math.unm.edu
  Pavel Lushnikov, University of New Mexico plushnik@math.unm.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Modulation theory for two dimentional nonlinear equations.
    Gustavo Cruz-Pacheco*, IIMAS-UNAM
    MaCarmen Jorge, IIMAS-UNAM
    Antonmaria A Minzoni, IIMAS-UNAM
    Noel F Smyth, University of Edinburgh
    (1032-76-208)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the structure of systems of integrable equations.
    Vladimir Novikov*, School of Mathematics, Loughborough University
    Alexander Mikhailov, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds
    Jing Ping Wang, Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent
    (1032-35-159)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Pulse propagation in massive multichannel optical fiber communication networks with a mean-field model.
    Yeojin Chung*, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University
    Avner Peleg, Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences, University of Arizona
    (1032-00-112)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Decompositions of the KdV 2-soliton.
    Alex Kasman*, College of Charleston
    (1032-35-104)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Methods in Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing, II
  Room 226, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Emmanuel Candes, California Institute of Technology emmanuel@acm.caltech.edu
  Joseph D. Lakey, New Mexico State University jlakey@nmsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fourier sketching: low-complexity computation of sparse DFT.
    Laurent Demanet*, Stanford University
    (1032-42-35)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dimensionality Reduction of Manifold-Modeled Data via Random Projections.
    Michael B Wakin*, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
    (1032-94-108)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Architectures for Compressive Sampling.
    Justin Romberg*, Georgia Tech
    (1032-94-143)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Statistical Leverage and Improved Matrix Algorithms.
    Michael W. Mahoney*, Yahoo Research
    (1032-15-149)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Applications of Algebraic Topology, III
  Room 324, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Ross Staffeldt, New Mexico State University ross@nmsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quandles and Linking Number.
    V. Sam Nelson*, Pomona College
    Natasha Harrell, University of California, Riverside
    (1032-55-08)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Topology of EEG Data.
    Ross E. Staffeldt*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM 88003
    (1032-55-116)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  The role of probability in compressed sensing.
  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
  Emmanuel J Candes*, California Institute of Technology
  (1032-60-01)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  A-infinity structures and theta series.
  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
  Alexander Polischuk*, University of Oregon
  (1032-14-02)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Structures on Manifolds, IV
  Room 223, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
  Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Topological bounds for hyperk{\"a}hler manifolds.
    Justin Sawon*, Colorado State University
    (1032-53-77)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quaternionic-K\"ahler reductions and Wolf spaces.
    Daniele Grandini*, University of New Mexico
    (1032-53-190)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics: The Mathematics of Financial Markets and Structures, IV
  Room 325, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Cristina Mariani, New Mexico State University mmariani@nmsu.edu
  Kenneth Martin, New Mexico State University kjmartin@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Perpetual real put options and art market efficiency.
    Carlos A. Ulibarri*, New Mexico Tech
    Peter C. Anselmo, New Mexico Tech
    K. S. Hovespian, New Mexico Tech
    (1032-91-74)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Distribution-Valued Weak Solutions to a Parabolic Differential Equation that Arises in Financial Mathematics.
    Michael S Eydenberg*, New Mexico State University
    Maria C. Mariani, New Mexico State University
    (1032-35-70)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Normalized Truncated Levy Models and Detrended Fluctuation Analysis applied to the study of the behavior of financial and agricultural indices and farm portfolios.
    Vijay Kumar Mani*, New Mexico State University
    Maria Pia Beccar Varela, New Mexico State University
    James D. Libbin, New Mexico State University
    Maria Christina Mariani, New Mexico State University
    Christopher A. Erickson, New Mexico State University
    Delia J. Valles-Rosales, New Mexico State University
    (1032-60-55)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Estimating the Risk Versus Return Trade Off.
    Rod A Freed*, University of California Irvine
    (1032-60-16)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Methods of Heterogeneous Data Analysis, IV
  Room 327, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hanna Ewa Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory hanna_m@lanl.gov
  Nikita A. Sakhanenko, University of New Mexico sanik@cs.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Object-Oriented Image Segmentation.
    Alexei N Skurikhin*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1032-68-191)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Nearest neighbor classification for facies delineation.
    Daniel M. Tartakovsky, University of California, San Diego and Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Brendt Wohlberg*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Alberto Guadagnini, Politecnico di Milano
    (1032-62-193)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    How to Validate Radiation-Hydrodynamics Simulations of a Laser-Driven Experiment.
    Barbara G. DeVolder*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    James A. Cobble, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Thomas E. Tierney, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Nelson M. Hoffman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1032-68-109)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Calculating the Temperature of Short-Lived Plasma.
    Tiffany R Hayes*, Los Alamos National Laboratory/University of New Mexico
    (1032-78-58)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Strategies in Compton scattering artifact removal from X-ray radiographs.
    Robert Michal Owczarek*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Ousseini Lankoande, Instrument Technology Inc.
    (1032-94-101)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, IV
  Room 120, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  David Robert Finston, New Mexico State University dfinston@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Families of Affine Fibrations.
    Daniel Daigle, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa
    Gene Freudenburg*, Department of Mathematics, Western Michigan University
    (1032-14-62)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Rigid rings, almost-rigid rings, and infinitely generated invariants.
    Stefan. Maubach*, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    (1032-14-80)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Projections Between Affine Cones of Grassmann Varieties and the Universality of Rank 6 Pl\"ucker Relations.
    Alex Kasman*, College of Charleston
    (1032-14-06)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Mathematical Physics, IV
  Room 229, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Rafal Komendarczyk, University of Pennsylvania rako@math.upenn.edu
  Robert Michal Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory rmo@lanl.gov
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hochschild homology of Frobenius algebras via link diagrams; Khovanov homology.
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
    (1032-57-46)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Algebra structure in Kauffman Bracket Skein Module of twisted I-bundles.
    Milena Dorota Pabiniak*, George Washington University
    Jozef H Przytycki, George Washington University
    (1032-57-152)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Torsion in Chromatic Graph Cohomology.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, The George Washington University
    Milena Pabiniak, The George Washington University
    Jozef H. Przytycki, The George Washington University
    (1032-57-150)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Milnor's $\mu_{123}$ invariant for the asymptotic Schwartzman's cycle.
    R. Komendarczyk*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1032-76-114)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Variational Problems in Condensed Matter, IV
  Room 234, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Lia Bronsard, McMaster University bronsard@mcmaster.ca
  Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mathematical modeling of ferroelectric liquid crystals.
    Jinhae Park*, Purdue University
    M. Carme Calderer, University of Minnesota
    (1032-49-42)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The continuum theory for smectic C* liquid crystals and its application to reorientation dynamics.
    Sookyung Joo*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Maria-Carme Calderer, University of Minnesota
    (1032-76-49)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Phase transitions between swollen and collapsed states of polymeric gels.
    Carme Calderer*, University of Minnesota, School of Mathematics
    (1032-35-94)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Aspects of Compressible Flow Problems, IV
  Room 326, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Jens Lorenz, University of New Mexico lorenz@math.unm.edu
  Thomas M. Hagstrom, University of New Mexico hagstrom@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Nonlinear wave interaction and evolutionary behaviour of a shock in a relaxing gas.
    V D Sharma*, I I T Bombay, India
    (1032-35-117)
• Sunday October 14, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Operator Theory, IV
  Room 224, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria C. Pereyra, University of New Mexico crisp@math.unm.edu
  Wilfredo O. Urbina, University of New Mexico wurbina@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Topics on second-order elliptic equations in unbounded domains: from harmonic functions to viscosity solutions.
    Antonio Vitolo*, University of Salerno
    (1032-35-130)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Growth Conditions for Solutions of the Heat Equation and Hermite Heat Equation with Boundary Values in the Dual of the Beurling-Bjorck Space.
    Michael S Eydenberg*, New Mexico State University
    (1032-46-66)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Extensions of the Nemytsky Operator: Distributional Solutions of Nonlinear Problems.
    Josefina Alvarez, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State University
    Maria Cristina Mariani*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State University
    (1032-47-20)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Short-time Fourier transform over the Silva space.
    Hamed M Obiedat*, Hashemite University
    (1032-46-30)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Extensions of an Inequality for Real Trigonometric Polynomials.
    Mohammed A. Qazi*, Tuskegee University
    Q. I. Rahman, Universite de Montreal
    (1032-42-14)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Some Fixed Point Theory of Mappings on G-Metric Spaces I.
    Zead yousef Mustafa*, The Hashemite University
    (1032-46-37)

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