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2007 Fall Southeastern Meeting
Murfreesboro, TN, November 3-4, 2007 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1033

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

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Sunday November 4, 2007

• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  South Lobby, Business and Aerospace Building
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  East Lobby, Business and Aerospace Building
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knots and Links, III
  Room S332, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Tabulating Composite Knots and Links.
    Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Eric Rawdon, St. Thomas University
    Tom Kephart, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-57-221)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Results and challenges in the analysis of ropelength.
    Joseph Fu*, University of Georgia
    (1033-49-208)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Further results on the ``Square Peg" problem.
    Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia, Athens
    Elizabeth Denne*, Smith College
    John McCleary, Vassar College
    (1033-54-196)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Measuring tangling with the {\em average bridging number}.
    Jonathan K. Simon*, University of Iowa
    Robert G Scharein, Hypnagogic Software - Vancouver
    (1033-57-134)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asphericity of Random Equilateral Polygons.
    Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
    Andrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne
    John C Kern, Duquesne University
    Michael Piatek, University of Washington
    Patrick Plunkett, University of California Santa Barbara
    Kenneth C Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
    (1033-57-71)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Knotting in Stretched Lattice Polygons.
    Esaias J Janse van Rensburg*, Mathematics and Statistics/ York University
    (1033-82-182)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Algebraic Topology, III
  Room S330, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
  Donald Yau, The Ohio State University at Newark
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A splitting of $Q_GS^0$ at a prime $p$.
    Christopher P French*, Grinnell College
    (1033-55-44)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Equivariant homotopy and algebraic $K$-theory.
    Teena Meredith Gerhardt*, Indiana University
    (1033-55-86)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Level structures and topological modular forms.
    Valentina Joukhovitski*, University of Michigan
    (1033-55-193)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Homology of topological modular forms.
    Paul Thomas Pearson*, University of Rochester
    (1033-55-120)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The splitting of $b {\rm o} \wedge tmf$.
    Scott M Bailey*, Northwestern University
    (1033-55-90)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Categorical Sequences and the Lusternik-Schnirelmann Category of Spaces with Free Fundamental Groups.
    Jeff Strom*, Western Michigan University
    (1033-55-121)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Enumeration, Optimization, Geometry, and Statistics, III
  Room S324, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Nicholas A. Loehr, College of William and Mary
  Gabor Pataki, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and M.I.T.
  Carla D. Savage, North Carolina State University savage@csc.ncsu.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Affine and toric hyperplane arrangements.
    Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky
    Margaret A. Readdy*, University of Kentucky
    Michael Slone, University of Kentucky
    (1033-05-70)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bernoulli type games and combinatorial enumeration.
    Gabor Hetyei*, UNC-Charlotte
    (1033-05-132)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the division of space by topological hyperplanes.
    David Forge, LRI, Universit\'e Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
    Thomas Zaslavsky*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
    (1033-52-59)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Compositions and skew tableaux.
    Sarah K Mason*, Davidson College
    (1033-05-225)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantum Lattice Paths and Bijective Subtraction.
    Nicholas A Loehr*, Virginia Tech
    (1033-05-130)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Upper bounds for the number of polygons in the minimum convex subdivisions of points in the plane.
    Carlos M. Nicolas*, University of Kentucky
    (1033-52-202)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, III
  Room S260, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Vanderbilt University
  Mikhail Perepelitsa, Vanderbilt University mikhail.perepelitsa@vanderbilt.edu
  Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of solutions to a model for the combustion of a compressible, reacting fluid.
    David Hoff*, Indiana University
    Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
    Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland
    (1033-35-39)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the regularity of weak solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations in $B^{-1}_{\infty,\infty}$.
    Alexey Cheskidov*, University of Chicago
    Roman Shvydkoy, University of Illinois
    (1033-35-77)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Local existence and regularity of solutions to the $d$-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with weighted initial data.
    David Swanson*, University of Louisville
    (1033-35-155)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Global strong solutions of equations in geophysical fluid dynamics.
    Luan T. Hoang*, University of Minnesota
    George R. Sell, University of Minnesota
    (1033-35-164)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Moving interface problems for the Euler equations.
    Steve Shkoller*, University of California at Davis
    (1033-35-236)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics
  Room S277, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Abdul Khaliq, Middle Tennessee State University akhaliq@mtsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fast Numerical Valuation of European and American Options under Kou's Jump-Diffusion Model.
    Jari Toivanen*, Stanford University
    (1033-65-253)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    High Order Compact Finite Difference Scheme for Solving Nonlinear Black-Scholes equation with Transaction Costs.
    Wenyuan Liao*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary
    Abdul Q. M. Khaliq, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1033-65-174)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Valuation of Guaranteed Equity-Linked Life Insurance with Option of Early Surrender.
    Ruihua Liu*, University of Dayton
    (1033-60-153)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Long correlations and Normalized Truncated Levy Models applied to the study of Financial Indices, Agricultural Indices and Farm Portfolios.
    Vijay Kumar Mani*, New Mexico State University
    Maria C. Mariani, New Mexico State University
    James Libbin, New Mexico State University
    Christopher Erickson, New Mexico State University
    Delia J. Valles Rosales, New Mexico State University
    Maria P. Beccar Varela, New Mexico State University
    (1033-91-125)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An iterative semi-analytic procedure for pricing American options.
    Max Melnikov*, Cumberland University
    (1033-90-26)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, III
  Room S301, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Rong Luo, Middle Tennessee State University
  Don Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University
  Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University cstephen@mtsu.edu
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Finite duality of minor closed classes.
    Jaroslav Nesetril, Charles University, Prague
    Yared Nigussie*, East Tennessee State University
    (1033-05-63)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some Properties of k-trees.
    James Shook, University of Mississippi
    Bing Wei*, University of Mississippi
    (1033-05-43)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On circuit sizes of matroids.
    Talmage James Reid*, The University of Mississippi
    Haidong Wu, The University of Mississippi
    Manoel Lemos, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
    (1033-05-110)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Transit graphs.
    R. Douglas Chatham*, Morehead State University
    Gerd H. Fricke, Morehead State University
    Joe Harless, Morehead State University
    R. Duane Skaggs, Morehead State University
    Nick Wahle, Morehead State University
    (1033-05-15)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-separating cocircuits in binary matroids.
    Haidong Wu*, University of Mississippi
    (1033-05-100)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Universal Cycles of Functions.
    Anant P Godbole*, East Tennessee State University
    (1033-05-93)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Algorithmic Methods for Algebraic Structures, III
  Room S276, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  James B. Hart, Middle Tennessee State University jhart@mtsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Algorithmic methods for equivalence relations.
    Douglas Cenzer*, University of Florida
    (1033-03-129)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Complexity of Relations on Computable Structures.
    Sarah Pingrey*, The George Washington University
    J. Chisholm, Western Illinois University
    J. Chubb, The George Washington University
    V. S. Harizanov, The George Washington University
    D. R. Hirschfeldt, University of Chicago
    C. G. Jockusch, University of Illinois
    T. McNicholl, Lamar University
    (1033-03-152)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Degree spectra of successor in linear orderings.
    Jennifer Chubb*, George Washington University
    (1033-03-180)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dependence Degrees of co-atoms in the Lattice of Computably Enumerable Vector Spaces.
    Rumen D Dimitrov*, Western Illinois University
    (1033-03-197)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some results in $\mathbb{R}$-computable model theory.
    Wesley C Calvert*, Murray State University
    J E Porter, Murray State University
    (1033-03-08)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, III
  Room S334, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University tabachni@math.psu.edu
  Richard Schwartz, Brown University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Birkhoff sums of non-integrable functions over rotations and IETs.
    Corinna Ulcigrai*, University of Bristol and MSRI
    (1033-37-78)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Modular fibers.
    Martin J Schmoll*, Clemson University
    (1033-58-151)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Traps in Polygonal Billiards.
    Gregory Galperin*, Eastern Illinois University
    (1033-37-199)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Continuum Theory (dedicated to Jo Heath, Auburn University, on the occasion of her retirement), III
  Room S316, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Judy A. Kennedy, University of Delaware and Lamar University
  Krystyna M. Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperkm@auburn.edu
  Van C. Nall, University of Richmond
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Problems on distinguishing inverse limit spaces.
    Stewart Baldwin*, Auburn University
    (1033-54-227)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The topology of continua that are approximated by subcontinua.
    Christopher G. Mouron*, Rhodes College
    (1033-54-175)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ingram's Conjecture for a unimodal map with a non-recurrent critical point.
    Brian E Raines*, Baylor University
    Sonja Stimac, University of Zagreb
    (1033-54-218)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Composant Structure in Inverse Limits of Tent Cores.
    David J. Ryden*, Baylor University
    (1033-54-231)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hereditarily Indecomposable Subcontinua of the Inverse Limit of Lexicographic Arcs are Metric.
    Michel Smith*, Auburn University
    (1033-54-35)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Union of two non-metric spaces that each support a Whitney map does not necessarily support a Whitney map.
    Jennifer W. Stone*, Auburn University
    (1033-54-101)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Lie and Representation Theory, III
  Room S328, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
  Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia
  Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fixed point sets and Lefschetz modules.
    Silvia E Onofrei*, Kansas State University
    (1033-20-198)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computing Schur algebras.
    Jon F Carlson*, University of Georgia
    (1033-20-73)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cohomology of finite groups of Lie type.
    Christopher P Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout
    Daniel K Nakano, University of Georgia
    Cornelius Pillen*, University of South Alabama
    (1033-20-82)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Whittaker Modules for the Virasoro Algebra.
    Emilie Wiesner*, Ithaca College
    Matt Ondrus, Weber State University
    (1033-17-104)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the Cohomology of Modular Lie Algebras.
    J\"org Feldvoss*, University of South Alabama
    (1033-17-76)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, III
  Room S270, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Wenzhang Huang, University of Alabama, Huntsville
  Jia Li, University of Alabama, Huntsville
  Zachariah Sinkala, Middle Tennessee State University zsinkala@mtsu.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Compatible Spatial Discretizations and Discrete Exact Sequences.
    Kathryn A Trapp*, University of Richmond
    (1033-35-23)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimal control applied to native-invasive population dynamics.
    Daniel L Kern, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Rachael Miller*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Jiongmin Yong, University of Central Florida, Orlando
    (1033-34-07)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Simulation of the Dynamics of Protein Chains using Metropolis Algorithm.
    Zachariah Sinkala*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Terrance Quinn, Middle Tennessee State University
    Abdul Khaliq, Middle Tennessee State University
    Mary Farone, Biology Department, Middle Tennessee State University
    Anthony Farone, Biology Department, Middle Tennessee State University
    Paul Kline, Chemistry Department, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1033-37-94)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Mathematical models of speciation.
  Room S102, Business and Aerospace Building
  Sergey Gavrilets*, University of Tennessee
  (1033-37-04)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The mathematics of lecture hall partitions.
  Room S102, Business and Aerospace Building
  Carla D. Savage*, North Carolina State University
  (1033-05-02)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knots and Links, IV
  Room S332, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Higher Order Topological Invariants from the Chern-Simons Action.
    Roman V. Buniy*, Indiana University
    Thomas W. Kephart, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-81-150)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Generalizing the Aharonov-Bohm Effect: Higher Order Topological Phases.
    Roman V. Buniy, Indiana University
    Thomas W. Kephart*, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-81-149)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An Algorithm for Generating 4-regular Hamiltonian Plane Graphs.
    O. Ascigil, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington
    Y. Diao, University of North Caroline at Charlotte
    C. Ernst, Western Kentucky University
    D. High, Western Kentucky University
    U. Ziegler*, Department of Computer Science, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101
    (1033-57-232)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The rope length of most knots grows at most linearly with crossing number.
    Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
    Yuanan Diao, UNCC
    Uta Ziegler, WKU
    (1033-57-246)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Lie and Representation Theory, IV
  Room S328, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
  Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia
  Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Realizations of Demazure crystals for the quantum affine algebra $U_q(\widehat{sl}(n))$.
    Kailash C. Misra*, North Carolina State University
    (1033-17-163)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Bloch-Okounkov correlation functions and dimension formulas for modules of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras.
    David G Taylor*, Roanoke College
    (1033-17-41)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Singular Chern Classes of Schubert Cells and Varieties Via Small Resolution.
    Benjamin F Jones*, University of Georgia
    (1033-22-105)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Positivity in equivariant K-theory: conjectures and results.
    William Graham*, University of Georgia
    Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina
    (1033-22-217)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Algebraic Topology, IV
  Room S330, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
  Donald Yau, The Ohio State University at Newark
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Uniqueness of Morava K-theory.
    Vigleik Angeltveit*, University of Chicago
    (1033-55-220)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Categorical algebra of mapping spaces.
    Wojciech Dorabiala*, Penn State Altoona
    Bernard Badzioch, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
    (1033-55-116)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Smooth parametrized Reidemester torsion - a manifold approach.
    Bernard Badzioch*, University at Buffalo, SUNY
    Wojciech Dorabiala, Penn State University, Altoona
    John Klein, Wayne State University
    Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame
    (1033-55-115)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Enumeration, Optimization, Geometry, and Statistics, IV
  Room S324, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Nicholas A. Loehr, College of William and Mary
  Gabor Pataki, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and M.I.T.
  Carla D. Savage, North Carolina State University savage@csc.ncsu.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Markov Bases for Two-way Subtable Sum Problems.
    Hisayuki Hara, University of Tokyo
    Akimichi Takemura, University of Tokyo
    Ruriko Yoshida*, University of Kentucky
    (1033-05-34)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On Finding Pipes and Cables: The Opaque Cover Problem.
    Scott Provan*, University of North Carolina
    Marcus Brazil, University of Melbourne
    Doreen Thomas, University of Melbourne
    Jia Weng, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology of Australia
    (1033-52-210)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Combinatorial properties of permutation tableaux.
    Alexander Burstein*, Howard University
    Niklas Eriksen, Chalmers University of Technology and G\"oteborg University
    (1033-05-252)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Some Statistics on Linear and Circular $r$-Mino Arrangements.
    Mark A. Shattuck*, University of Tennessee
    Carl G. Wagner, University of Tennessee
    (1033-05-58)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, IV
  Room S260, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Vanderbilt University
  Mikhail Perepelitsa, Vanderbilt University mikhail.perepelitsa@vanderbilt.edu
  Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Well-Posedness and Stability Conditions for Some Darcy Flows.
    David M. Ambrose*, Clemson university
    (1033-35-75)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Regularity of the free boundary for solutions of the Hele-Shaw problem.
    Ivan Blank*, Kansas State University
    (1033-35-249)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Stefan problem with surface tension.
    Gieri Simonett*, Vanderbilt University
    Jan Pruss, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
    (1033-35-171)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Elliptic and parabolic model problems with singular coefficients in an angular domain.
    Borys Bazaliy*, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Ukraine
    (1033-35-189)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Boundary behavior of compressible, viscous fluid flows with discontinuous density.
    Mikhail Perepelitsa*, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-35-251)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
  Room S301, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Rong Luo, Middle Tennessee State University
  Don Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University
  Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University cstephen@mtsu.edu
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The orientable genus of $K_{\ell,m,n}$ with $m \equiv 3 \pmod 4$ and $n \equiv 2 \pmod 4$.
    Mark N. Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
    D. Christopher Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University
    Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1033-05-154)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Equimatchable graphs in surfaces.
    Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, National Institute for Informatics
    Michael D. Plummer*, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-05-111)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Edge-partitions of planar graphs.
    O. Borodin, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
    A. Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    N. Sheikh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Gexin Yu*, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-05-99)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Book Embeddings of Chessboard Graphs.
    Casey Hufford, Morehead State Universtiy
    Robin Blankenship*, Morehead State University
    (1033-05-21)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, IV
  Room S334, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University tabachni@math.psu.edu
  Richard Schwartz, Brown University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Cone Exchange Systems.
    Arek Goetz*, San Franicisco State University
    (1033-37-250)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dynamics on an infinite surface with the lattice property.
    W Patrick Hooper*, Northwestern University
    (1033-37-67)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability of periodic billiard trajectories in polyhedra.
    Yaroslav Vorobets*, Texas A&M University
    (1033-37-247)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Continuum Theory (dedicated to Jo Heath, Auburn University, on the occasion of her retirement), IV
  Room S316, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Judy A. Kennedy, University of Delaware and Lamar University
  Krystyna M. Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperkm@auburn.edu
  Van C. Nall, University of Richmond
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Cohomology of some non-metric mapping tori.
    George Kozlowski*, Auburn University
    (1033-55-138)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    An Inverse Limit of Lexicographic Arcs.
    Regina Greiwe*, Auburn University
    Michel Smith, Auburn University
    (1033-54-128)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A simple extension of the bagpipe lemma to dimension 3.
    Alexander Y. Shibakov*, Tennessee Tech University
    (1033-54-156)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Julia sets of basic uniCremer polynomials of arbitrary degree.
    Lex G Oversteegen*, UAB
    A Blokh, UAB
    (1033-37-96)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Inverse limits of simplicial trees and the problem of small retractions of dendroids onto trees.
    Piotr Minc*, Auburn University
    (1033-54-92)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Counting Wandering Continua.
    Alexander Blokh*, UAB
    (1033-37-256)

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