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2008 Spring Western Section Meeting
Claremont, CA, May 3-4, 2008 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1039

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

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Sunday May 4, 2008

• Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Bauer North
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Founders Room, Bauer North
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on C*-algebras, subfactors and free probability, III
  Room B-35, Bauer South
  Organizers:
  Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon hlin@uoregon.edu
  Feng Xu, University of California Riverside xufeng@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Pairs of Intermediate Subfactors.
    Pinhas Grossman*, Vanderbilt University
    Masaki Izumi, Kyoto University
    (1039-47-109)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Random matrices, free probability, planar algebras and subfactors.
    A Guionnet, ENS Lyon
    VFR Jones, UC Berkeley
    D Shlyakhtenko*, UCLA
    (1039-46-151)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Automorphisms of Cuntz-Krieger algebras.
    Efren Ruiz*, Mathematics Department/University of Hawaii at Hilo
    (1039-47-27)
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in Riemannian and Kaehlerian Geometry, III
  Room RN 104, Roberts Hall North
  Organizers:
  Hao Fang, University of Iowa haofang@math.uiowa.edu
  Zhiqin Lu, University of California, Irvine zlu@math.uci.edu
  Dragos-Bogdan Suceava, California State University Fullerton bsuceava@fullerton.edu
  Mihaela B. Vajiac, Chapman University mbvajiac@chapman.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Harmonic Maps in Lie Groups and Integrable Systems.
    Mihaela B Vajiac*, Chapman University
    (1039-53-173)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Spectrum of the Laplacian on Quaternionic K\"ahler Manifolds.
    Shengli Kong*, UC Irvine
    (1039-58-144)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lagrangian H-umbilical submanifold in a quaternion Euclidean space.
    Yun Myung Oh*, Andrews University
    (1039-53-93)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Comparison Theorem and A Sharp Bound via the Ricci Flow.
    Jun Ling*, Utah Valley State College
    (1039-53-136)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Examples of generalized Sasakian-space-forms.
    Alfonso Carriazo*, University of Sevilla (Spain)
    (1039-53-156)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Strict slope stability and the existence of Calabi Extremal Metrics.
    Zhuang-dan Daniel Guan*, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Riverside
    (1039-53-85)
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Quantum Groups, III
  Davidson Lecture Hall, Adams Hall
  Organizers:
  Gizem Karaali, Pomona College Gizem.Karaali@pomona.edu
  M. Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California smontgom@math.usc.edu
  Serban Raianu, California State University Dominguez Hills sraianu@csudh.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Root system and Weyl grpupoid of Nichols algebras.
    Hans-J\"urgen Schneider*, Mathematisches Institut, LMU M\"unchen, Germany
    Istvan Heckenberger, Mathematisches Institut, LMU M\"unchen, Mathematisches Institut, Universit\"at Leipzig, Germany
    (1039-16-127)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Pseudosymmetric braidings and Yetter-Drinfeld modules.
    Florin Panaite, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
    Mihai D. Staic*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Freddy Van Oystaeyen, University of Antwerp
    (1039-16-33)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On finite braid representations.
    Imre Tuba*, San Diego State University-Imperial Valley
    (1039-81-176)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The half twist in ribbon categories.
    Peter Tingley*, University of California, Berkeley
    Snyder Noah, University of California, Berkeley
    (1039-17-104)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On deformations of graded Hopf algebras.
    Mitja Mastnak*, University of Waterloo
    (1039-17-128)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Cohomology of pointed Hopf algebras.
    Mitja Mastnak, University of Waterloo
    Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington
    Peter Schauenburg, Universitaet Muenchen
    Sarah Witherspoon*, Texas A&M University
    (1039-18-80)
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knot Theory and the Topology of 3-manifolds, III
  Room B-36, Bauer South
  Organizers:
  Sam Nelson, Pomona College knots@esotericka.org
  David Bachman, Pitzer College david_bachman@pitzer.edu
  Erica Flapan, Pomona College eflapan@pomona.edu
  Jim Hoste, Pitzer College jhoste@pitzer.edu
  Patrick Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University pshanahan@lmu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Rational structure on algebraic tangles and closed incompressible surfaces in the complements algebraically alternating knots and links.
    Ozawa Makoto*, Komazawa University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences
    (1039-57-29)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quasifuchsian Spanning Surfaces in Knot Complements.
    Colin C. Adams*, Williams College
    (1039-57-57)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The volume and Jones polynomial of hyperbolic links.
    David Futer*, Michigan State University
    Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University
    (1039-57-58)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Commensurability classes of (-2,3,n) pretzel knot complements.
    Melissa L Macasieb, The University of British Columbia
    Thomas W Mattman*, California State University, Chico
    (1039-57-61)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Commensurability of knot complements.
    Genevieve S Walsh*, Tufts University
    (1039-57-96)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Special links.
    Eric B. Chesebro*, Rice University
    Jason Deblois, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Henry Wilton, University of Texas at Austin
    (1039-57-89)
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, III
  Room RS 103, Roberts Hall South
  Organizers:
  Anne Schilling, University of California Davis anne@math.ucdavis.edu
  Michael Zabrocki, York University zabrocki@mathstat.yorku.ca
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    New applications of combinatorial Hopf algebras.
    Jean-Christophe Novelli*, Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee
    (1039-05-155)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Expansions of Symmetric Functions in Commutative Images of Noncommutative Symmetric Functions.
    Lenny Tevlin*, Physics Department, Yeshiva University
    (1039-05-113)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rationality, irrationality, and Wilf equivalence in the generalized factor order.
    Sergey Kitaev, Institute of Mathematics, Reykjav\'ik University
    Jeffrey Liese, University of California, San Diego
    Jeffrey B. Remmel*, University of California, San Diego
    Bruce E. Sagan, Michigan State University
    (1039-05-105)
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, II
  Room B-34, Bauer South
  Organizers:
  Adolfo Rumbos, Pomona College arumbos@pomona.edu
  Mario Martelli, Claremont McKenna College Mario.Martelli@ClaremontMcKenna.edu
  Alfonso Castro, Harvey Mudd College castro@math.hmc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Periodic Nonstationary Stokes Flow.
    Victor L Shapiro*, University of California,Riverside
    (1039-35-15)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Modeling the Evolution of Repetitive Sequence in DNA.
    Suzanne S Sindi*, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
    (1039-34-130)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Prevalent Behavior of Strongly Order Preserving Semiflows.
    Hal L. Smith*, Arizona State University
    M. W. Hirsch, University of California , Berkeley
    German Enciso, Ohio State University
    (1039-37-14)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Perturbation from symmetry for indefinite semilinear elliptic equations.
    Hossein T. Tehrani*, UNLV
    (1039-35-94)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stability of periodic orbits in a high-dimensional electrical network.
    Harish S Bhat*, Claremont McKenna College, Department of Mathematics
    (1039-37-170)
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operators, Functions and Linear Spaces, III
  Room B-25, Bauer South
  Organizers:
  Asuman G. Aksoy, Claremont McKenna College aaksoy@cmc.edu
  Stephan R. Garcia, Pomona College Stephan.garcia@pomona.edu
  Michael Davlin O'Neill, Claremont McKenna College moneill@cmc.edu
  Winston C. Ou, Scripps College Winston.ou@scripps.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Multivariate moment matrices with zeros in their inverse.
    Mihai Putinar*, University of California
    (1039-60-18)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Joint defect indices of tuples of symmetric operators in the multidimensional moment problem.
    Roger A. Roybal*, California State University, Channel Islands
    (1039-47-178)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sets which lift to a set with an LMI representation.
    J William Helton*, University of California at San Diego
    Jiawang Nie, UC San Diego
    (1039-90-52)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Complex Symmetric Operators.
    Warren Wogen*, University of North Carolina
    (1039-47-51)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stable polynomials and distinguished varieties.
    Greg Knese*, University of California, Irvine
    (1039-32-42)
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Diophantine Problems and Discrete Geometry, III
  Room RN 15 (Lower Level), Roberts Hall North
  Organizers:
  Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University beck@math.sfsu.edu
  Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna College lenny@cmc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Heights for subvarieties of abelian varieties.
    Sinnou David*, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
    (1039-11-180)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Orbits of points on $K3$ surfaces.
    Arthur Baragar*, UNLV
    (1039-11-157)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sums over polytopes.
    James E Pommersheim*, Reed College
    (1039-52-139)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Minimal Volume $k$-Point Lattice $d$-Simplices.
    Han M Duong*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1039-52-59)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Lattices in Division Algebras and Wireless Communication.
    B. A. Sethuraman*, California State University Northridge
    (1039-16-54)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Congruences for some theta series coefficients.
    Pavel Guerzhoy*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    (1039-11-124)
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorics of Partially Ordered Sets, III
  Room RN 105, Roberts Hall North
  Organizers:
  Timothy M. Hsu, San Jose State University hsu@math.sjsu.edu
  Mark J. Logan, University of Minnesota-Morris loganm@morris.umn.edu
  Shahriar Shahriari, Pomona College sshahriari@pomona.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On chain partitions for quotients of the Boolean lattice.
    Jerrold R. Griggs*, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
    (1039-05-120)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Nested Chain Decompositions of Normalized Matching Posets of Rank 3.
    Jordan O Tirrell*, Lafayette College
    Elinor Escamilla, Pomona College
    Andreea Nicolae, Pomona College
    Paul Salerno, Pomona College
    Shahriar Shahriari, Pomona College
    (1039-05-87)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Matchwebs.
    Rae Fredrich*, University of Minnesota, Morris
    Tim Hsu, San Jose State University
    Mark J. Logan, University of Minnesota, Morris
    Katherine Nolan, San Jose State University
    (1039-05-163)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Distributive Lattices of Small Width: A Problem from Richard Stanley's 1986 Text {\sl Enumerative Combinatorics\/}.
    Jonathan David Farley*, California Institute of Technology
    Ryan Klippenstine, Brandon University
    (1039-06-154)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Graph Homomorphisms.
    Eric Babson*, CA
    (1039-00-160)
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Classification of simple amenable $C^*$-algebras of stable rank one.
  Forum, Bauer South
  Huaxin Lin*, University of Oregon
  (1039-46-03)
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on C*-algebras, subfactors and free probability, IV
  Room B-35, Bauer South
  Organizers:
  Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon hlin@uoregon.edu
  Feng Xu, University of California Riverside xufeng@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    \noindent{\it($\mathcal D$-stable) purely infinite $C^*$-algebras, the ideal property and real rank zero} ({\it Mostly a joint work with Mikael R{\o}rdam)}\\.
    Cornel Pasnicu*, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus
    (1039-46-23)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Lifting KK-elements, asymptotical unitary equivalence and classification of simple C*-algebras.
    Zhuang Niu*, University of Oregon
    Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon
    (1039-46-171)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Subfactors Obtained From Hadamard Matrices.
    Richard Burstein*, UC Berkeley
    (1039-47-166)
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operators, Functions and Linear Spaces, IV
  Room B-25, Bauer South
  Organizers:
  Asuman G. Aksoy, Claremont McKenna College aaksoy@cmc.edu
  Stephan R. Garcia, Pomona College Stephan.garcia@pomona.edu
  Michael Davlin O'Neill, Claremont McKenna College moneill@cmc.edu
  Winston C. Ou, Scripps College Winston.ou@scripps.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Function Spaces of Dirichlet Series.
    Brian Maurizi*, Washington University in Saint Louis
    H Queffelec, University of Lille (France)
    (1039-30-53)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Linear Operators in Hypernormed Spaces.
    Mark Burgin*, UCLA
    (1039-47-09)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Simplified refined Jones factorization of $A_\infty$ weights.
    Winston Ou*, Scripps College
    (1039-42-142)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Bi-Lipschitz decomposition of Lipschitz functions into a metric space.
    Raanan Schul*, UCLA
    (1039-28-145)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On infinite matrices generated dyadically by a $2\times2$ block.
    Mark C Ho*, Department of Applied Mathematics, National Sun Yat Sen University
    Mu Ming Wong, Department of Information Technology, Meiho Institute of Technology
    (1039-47-91)
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Quantum Groups, IV
  Davidson Lecture Hall, Adams Hall
  Organizers:
  Gizem Karaali, Pomona College Gizem.Karaali@pomona.edu
  M. Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California smontgom@math.usc.edu
  Serban Raianu, California State University Dominguez Hills sraianu@csudh.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    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
    (1039-05-172)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The boson-fermion correspondence and one-sided quantum groups.
    Earl J. Taft*, Rutgers University
    (1039-16-36)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Lie bialgebras and Quantum Symmetric Algebras.
    Sebastian Zwicknagl*, University of California, Riverside
    (1039-17-66)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Hopf algebra structures in nonlinear control systems.
    Matthias Kawski*, Arizona State University
    (1039-93-177)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Knot Theory and the Topology of 3-manifolds, IV
  Room B-36, Bauer South
  Organizers:
  Sam Nelson, Pomona College knots@esotericka.org
  David Bachman, Pitzer College david_bachman@pitzer.edu
  Erica Flapan, Pomona College eflapan@pomona.edu
  Jim Hoste, Pitzer College jhoste@pitzer.edu
  Patrick Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University pshanahan@lmu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Intrinsic linking and knotting are arbitrarily complex.
    Erica Flapan, Pomona College
    Blake Mellor*, Loyola Marymount University
    Ramin Naimi, Occidental College
    (1039-57-92)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Milnor invariants for spatial graphs.
    Thomas R Fleming*, UC San Diego
    (1039-57-50)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Intrinsically linked graphs in ${\mathbb R}P^3$.
    Jason Bustamante, Montana Tech of the University of Montana
    Joel Foisy*, SUNY Potsdam
    Kenji Kozai, Harvey Mudd College
    Kevin Matthews, SUNY Potsdam
    Trickey Kristen, Clarkson University
    (1039-57-24)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Intrinsically $n$-linked Spatial Graphs and Minor Minimality.
    Danielle O'Donnol*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1039-54-72)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Clasp-pass moves on spatial handcuff graphs.
    Takaaki Hoki, Waseda University
    Ryo Nikkuni, Kanazawa University
    Kouki Taniyama*, Waseda University
    (1039-57-88)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An intrinsic non-triviality of graphs.
    Ryo Nikkuni*, Kanazawa University
    (1039-57-38)
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, IV
  Room RS 103, Roberts Hall South
  Organizers:
  Anne Schilling, University of California Davis anne@math.ucdavis.edu
  Michael Zabrocki, York University zabrocki@mathstat.yorku.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hecke group algebras.
    Nicolas M. Thi\'ery*, Univ Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Math\'ematiques d'Orsay, Orsay, F-91405; CNRS, Orsay, F-91405, FRANCE / UC Davis
    Anne Schilling, UC Davis
    Florent Hivert, Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Traitement de l'Information et des Syst\`emes, Universit\'e de Rouen, FRANCE
    (1039-05-97)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Type $A_n^{(1)}$ crystals and promotion operators.
    Jason Bandlow*, University of California-Davis
    (1039-05-167)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Multiple Andrews-Gordon Identities associated to root systems.
    Hasan Coskun*, Texas A&M University-Commerce
    (1039-05-114)

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