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2008 Spring Southeastern Meeting
Baton Rouge, LA, March 28-30, 2008 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1037

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

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Sunday March 30, 2008

• Sunday March 30, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Radon Transforms, Tomography, and Related Geometric Analysis, IV
  Room 211, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Fulton B. Gonzalez, Tufts University
  Isaac Pesenson, Temple University
  Todd Quinto, Tufts University todd.quinto@tufts.edu
  Boris S. Rubin, Louisiana State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Sampling in Paley-Wiener spaces on combinatorial graphs.
    Isaac Z Pesenson*, Temple University
    (1037-94-64)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Spectral theory for multi-scale phenomena.
    Palle E. T. Jorgensen*, University of Iowa
    Dorin Dutkay, University of Central Florida
    (1037-42-32)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cryo-EM Structure Determination through Eigenvectors of Sparse Matrices.
    Amit Singer*, Yale University
    (1037-51-134)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    $L^1$ regularization applied to electron tomography.
    Hans Rullgaard*, Stockholm University
    (1037-65-76)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sampling Functions with Symmetry: Applications to Computed Tomography.
    Larry A Gratton*, Berea College
    (1037-94-248)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Applications of the Wavelet and Ridgelet Transforms in Tomography and Medical Imaging.
    Ahmed I Zayed*, DePaul University
    Lucia Dettori, DePaul University
    (1037-42-145)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Discussion led by Sigurdur Helgason.
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Wavelets, Frames, and Multi-Scale Constructions, IV
  Room 221, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Palle E. T. Jorgensen, University of Iowa
  David R. Larson, Texas A&M University
  Gestur Olafsson, Louisiana State University
  Darrin Speegle, Saint Louis University speegled@slu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Wiener's lemma for localized integral operators.
    Qiyu Sun*, University of Central Florida
    (1037-42-101)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Beurling-Helson type theorem for modulation spaces.
    Kasso Okoudjou*, University of Maryland
    (1037-42-100)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An Almost Periodic Noncommutative Wiener's Lemma.
    Radu Balan*, University of Maryland, College Park
    Ilya Kryshtal, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
    (1037-43-301)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Filters and probability measures on solenoids.
    Judith A Packer*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1037-42-331)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Optimal Nonlinear Models for Sparsity and Image Segmentation.
    Akram Aldroubi, Vanderbilt University
    Kourosh Zarringhalam*, Vanderbilt University
    (1037-41-105)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Extension theorems for paraboloids in the finite field setting.
    Alex Iosevich, University of Missouri
    Doowon Koh*, University of Missouri
    (1037-43-158)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Principal Invariant Subspaces for Unitary Representations of LCA Groups.
    E. Hernandez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
    H. Sikic, University of Zagreb
    G. Weiss*, Washington University in St. Louis
    E. Wilson, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1037-43-79)
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations in Real and Complex Domains, IV
  Room 215, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Loredana Lanzani, University of Arkansas lanzani@uark.edu
  Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The $\overline\partial$-cohomology groups, holomorphic Morse inequalities, and finite type conditions.
    Siqi Fu*, Rutgers University, Camden
    Howard Jacobowitz, Rutgers University, Camden
    (1037-32-190)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    $L^p$ Dirichlet problem for elliptic operators with rough coefficients.
    Martin Dindos*, University of Edinburgh
    Jill Pipher, Brown University
    Stefanie Petermichl, Institut de Math\'ematiques de Bordeaux
    (1037-35-207)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geometric sufficient conditions for compactness of the $\overline{\partial}$-Neumann operator.
    Samangi Munasinghe*, University of Arkansas
    Emil J. Straube, Texas A&M University
    (1037-32-255)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Commutators on Lipschita spaces and related function spaces.
    Zhijian Wu*, Mathematics Department, The University of Alabama
    (1037-47-339)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Szeg\"o Kernel for Tube Domains in $\mathbb{C}^2$ Near a Point of Infinite Type.
    Jennifer Halfpap*, University of Montana
    (1037-32-359)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Regularity of vanishing viscosity intrinsic minimal graphs in Heisenberg groups.
    Luca Capogna*, University of Arkansas
    (1037-35-239)
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, IV
  Room 120, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
  Tara E. Brendle, Louisiana State University
  Pallavi Dani, University of Oklahoma pdani@math.ou.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Casson invariant and the word metric on the Torelli group.
    Nathan Broaddus*, University of Chicago
    Benson Farb, University of Chicago
    Andrew Putman, MIT
    (1037-20-292)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Whitehead Doubles of Knots with Certain Underlying Polyhedra.
    Jacqueline A Jensen*, Sam Houston State University
    (1037-55-183)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On transverse knots and branched covers.
    Keiko Kawamuro*, Rice University
    (1037-57-321)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Brownstein-Lee Conjecture.
    Craig Jensen*, University of New Orleans
    Jon McCammond, UC Santa Barbara
    John Meier, Lafayette College
    (1037-20-34)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Length and convexity in Thompson's group $F$.
    Matthew E Horak*, University of Wisconsin-Stout
    Melanie Stein, Trinity College
    Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College
    (1037-57-165)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Twisted Cohomology of Hyperelliptic Mapping Class Groups.
    Joseph Alfred Spivey*, Duke University
    (1037-57-172)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Higher-Order signature cocycles for subgroups of the Torelli Group.
    Tim Cochran, Rice University
    Shelly Harvey*, Rice University
    (1037-57-355)
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arrangements and Related Topics, IV
  Room 109, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On configuration spaces in tropical geometry.
    Eva-Maria E. Feichtner*, University of Bremen
    (1037-51-282)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Orlik-Terao algebra and formal arrangements.
    Hal Schenck, University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne and Texas A&M University
    Stefan Tohaneanu*, University of Cincinnati
    (1037-52-78)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Gale duality for complete intersections.
    Frank Sottile*, Texas A&M University
    Frederic Bihan, Universite de Savoie, Chambery, France
    (1037-14-70)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Alexander and Thurston norms of E-N graph links.
    David G. Long*, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
    (1037-55-142)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The center of some braid groups and the Farrell cohomology of certain pure mapping class groups.
    Craig Jensen*, University of New Orleans
    Yuqing Chen, Wright State University
    Henry Glover, Ohio State University
    (1037-20-07)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Free arrangements, nested sets, and zeroes of one-forms.
    Graham Denham*, University of Western Ontario
    (1037-13-279)
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Structural Graph Theory, IV
  Room 105, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University mchudnov@columbia.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Adjusted Interval Digraphs and List Homomorphisms.
    Tom\'as Feder, Palo Alto, California
    Pavol Hell*, Simon Fraser University
    Jing Huang, University of Victoria
    (1037-05-50)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Intersections of graphs.
    Alexander D Scott*, University of Oxford
    (1037-05-243)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Perfect matchings in planar cubic graphs.
    Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University
    Paul Seymour*, Princeton University
    (1037-05-90)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    When do two graphs have the same set of even cycles?
    Bertrand Guenin*, Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo
    Irene Pivotto, Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo
    Paul Wollan, University of Hamburg
    (1037-05-304)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the S. B. Rao well-quasi-order conjecture.
    Chris Altomare, Ohio State University
    Neil Robertson*, Ohio State University
    Zixia Song, University of Central Florida
    (1037-05-374)
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric and Combinatorial Representation Theory, IV
  Room 102, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Pramod N. Achar, Louisiana State University pramod@math.lsu.edu
  Daniel S. Sage, Louisiana State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geometric representations through Springer fibers and related varieties.
    Julianna Tymoczko*, University of Iowa
    (1037-14-366)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Kazhdan -Lusztig cells in unequal parameter Hecke Algebras.
    Thomas Pietraho*, Bowdoin College
    (1037-20-206)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The real loci of Calogero-Moser spaces, representations of rational Cherednik algebras, and the Shapiro Conjecture.
    Iain Gordon, Edinburgh University
    Emil Horozov, Sofia University
    Milen Yakimov*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1037-22-141)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nilpotent centralizers and Springer's isomorphisms.
    George J. McNinch*, Tufts University
    (1037-20-347)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Towards a lifting of representations of finite reductive groups.
    Jeffrey D. Adler*, American University
    Joshua M. Lansky, American University
    (1037-22-66)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Toric varieties and the principal nilpotent orbit.
    William Graham*, University of Georgia
    (1037-22-271)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Support Varieties and Representation Type of Finite Quantum Groups.
    Jorg Feldvoss*, University of South Alabama
    (1037-16-173)
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling in Biology, IV
  Room 201, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Hongyu He, Louisiana State University hongyu@math.lsu.edu
  Sergei S. Pilyugin, University of Florida
  Jianjun Tian, College of William and Mary
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stabilization and Robustness Analysis for a Chemostat with Two Species.
    Frederic Mazenc, Projet MERE INRIA-INRA
    Jerome Harmand, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
    Michael Malisoff*, Louisiana State University
    (1037-92-08)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Transformed Epithelial cells and fibroblasts/myofibroblasts interaction in Breast Tumor: A Mathematical Model and Experiments.
    Yangjin Kim*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
    Avner Friedman, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
    Michael Ostrowski, Human Cancer Genetics, Ohio State University
    Julie Wallace, Human Cancer Genetics, Ohio State University
    Fu Li, Human Cancer Genetics, Ohio State University
    (1037-00-65)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stimulated Unidirectional Propagation in Heterogeneous Excitable Media.
    John Gordon Alford*, Sam Houston State University
    (1037-92-17)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Combinatorics of RNA Secondary Structures.
    Christine E. Heitsch*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1037-05-276)
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Lie Groups and Holomorphic Function Spaces: Analysis, Geometry, and Mathematical Physics, III
  Room 226, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Brian C. Hall, University of Notre Dame bhall@nd.edu
  Jeffrey J. Mitchell, Robert Morris University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The heat equation on Riemannian symmetric spaces and the Radon transform.
    Gestur Olafsson*, Louisiana State University
    Henrik Schlichtkrull, University of Copenhagen
    (1037-22-214)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quantum cutting and asymptotics of zeroes of orthogonal polynomials.
    Alejandro Uribe*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
    (1037-81-283)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics of spectral clusters for a perturbation of the hydrogen atom.
    Carlos Villegas-Blas*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan
    (1037-81-163)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Large-N aspects of two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory.
    Ambar Niel Sengupta*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    (1037-81-223)
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory in Smooth and Symplectic Topology, III
  Room 108, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Scott J. Baldridge, Louisiana State University sbaldrid@math.lsu.edu
  Brendan E. Owens, Louisiana State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The slice-ribbon conjecture for 3-stranded pretzel knots.
    Stanislav Jabuka*, University of Nevada, Reno
    Josh Greene, Princeton University
    (1037-57-303)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Seiberg--Witten invariants for homology $S^1\times S^3$.
    Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
    Nikolai Saveliev*, University of Miami
    (1037-57-242)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Braids and open book decompositions.
    Elena Bogdan Pavelescu*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1037-57-343)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Heegaard Floer Homology, Contact Structures,and TQFT.
    Ko Honda, University of Southern California
    William H. Kazez, University of Georgia
    Gordana Mati\'c*, University of Georgia
    (1037-57-240)
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Knot Theory: Quandle Theory and Categorified Knot Invariants, III
  Room 101, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Sam Nelson, Pomona College knots@esotericka.org
  Alissa S. Crans, Loyola Marymount University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Virtual cocycle invariants.
    Sam Nelson*, Pomona College
    Jose Ceniceros, Whittier College
    (1037-57-56)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Khovanov-Rozansky cohomology.
    Carmen L Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
    (1037-57-227)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Relations and homology of the Dehn twist quandle.
    Joel Zablow*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1037-57-102)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the fundamental quandles of the long and closed trefoil knots.
    Maciej Niebrzydowski*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1037-57-290)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Polynomial Cocycles and Higher Homology Groups of Alexander Quandles.
    Kheira Ameur*, University of South Florida
    (1037-55-270)
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knot and 3-Manifold Invariants, IV
  Room 100, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Oliver T. Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten@math.lsu.edu
  Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    An Extended Bracket State Summation for Virtual Knots and Links.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1037-57-29)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hirzebruch-type invariants from iterated p-covers and slicing iterated Bing doubles.
    Jae Choon Cha*, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
    (1037-57-323)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The reduced Kauffman bracket skein algebra of the torus has a unique irreducible representation.
    Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
    Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan
    (1037-57-53)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Density of the SO(3) quantum invariants for three-manifolds.
    Helen M. Wong*, Bowdoin College
    (1037-57-220)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Gram determinant of the type B Temperley-Lieb algebra and the determinant of the matrix of chromatic joins.
    Qi Chen, Winston-Salem State University
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
    (1037-57-310)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The $I_{p}$ quantum invariant of Periodic 3-manifolds.
    Khaled Moham Qazaqzeh*, Yarmouk University
    (1037-57-314)
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Actions of Quantum Algebras, II
  Room 125, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Lars Kadison, University of Pennsylvania lkadison@math.upenn.edu
  Alexander Stolin, University of Gothenburg/Chalmers University of Technology
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Hopf algebra having a separable Galois extension is finite dimensional.
    Juan Cuadra*, University of Almeria
    (1037-16-168)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Representation theory of Schur superalgebras in positive characteristic.
    Frantisek Marko*, The Pennsylvania State University Hazleton
    (1037-17-110)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The congruence subgroup property for factorizable Hopf algebras.
    Yorck Sommerh\"auser*, University of South Alabama
    (1037-16-99)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Abstract integrals in algebra.
    Miodrag C Iovanov*, SUNY - Buffalo, USA
    (1037-16-225)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Ideal Intrinsic Extensions with Connections to PI-rings.
    Efraim P. Armendariz, University of Texas
    Gary F. Birkenmeier*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Jae Keol Park, Busan National University
    (1037-16-138)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Atlas for quantum groups of a certain type.
    A. A. Stolin*, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
    (1037-81-144)
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory and Applications in Other Fields, IV
  Room 129, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Jorge Morales, Louisiana State University morales@math.lsu.edu
  Robert Osburn, University College Dublin
  Robert V. Perlis, Louisiana State University
  Helena Verrill, Louisiana State University
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Wild sets of Hilbert symbol self-equivalences.
    Marius M Somodi*, University of Northern Iowa
    (1037-11-289)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Trace Forms of Abelian Extensions of Number Fields.
    Karli Morris*, Louisiana State University
    (1037-11-361)
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry of Matrices and Determinants, III
  Room 119, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Zachariah C. Teitler, Texas A&M University zteitler@math.tamu.edu
  Kent M. Neuerburg, Southeastern Louisiana University
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cohen-Macaulay multigraded modules.
    C-Y. Jean Chan, Purdue University
    Christine Cumming, University of Louisiana at Monroe
    Huy Tai Ha*, Tulane University
    (1037-13-75)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Brill-Noether-type Theorems on the Existence of Line Bundles with Specified Ramification at a Movable Point.
    Rebecca C Lehman*, Tulane University
    (1037-14-23)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symplectic and Orthogonal Analogues of Determinantal Ideals - Desingularizations and Resolutions.
    Stephen Lovett*, Eastern Nazarene College
    (1037-14-233)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the orbit of the determinant under the action of ${\rm SL}_{{\rm n}} $.
    Pradeep K. Shukla*, Suffolk University A
    V. Lakshmibai, Northeastern University
    (1037-14-373)

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