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2008 Spring Eastern Meeting
New York, NY, March 15-16, 2008 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1036

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

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Saturday March 15, 2008

• Saturday March 15, 2008, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meetings Registration
  Lobby, Warren Weaver Hall
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  13th Floor Lounge, Warren Weaver Hall
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Difference Equations and Applications,I
  Room 804, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Michael A. Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology michael.radin@rit.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On Riccati Difference Equations With Complex Coefficients.
    E Grove, University Of Rhode Island
    Yevgeniy Kostrov*, University Of Rhode Island
    G Ladas, University Of Rhode Island
    S Schultz, Providence College
    (1036-39-157)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Global Attractivity Results of a Quadratic-Linear Rational Difference Equation with Delay.
    Candace Marie Kent*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Hassan Sedaghat, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1036-39-99)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On a class of third order rational difference equations with quadratic terms.
    H Sedaghat*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1036-39-87)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Global behavior of solutions of a rational first order system of difference equations in the plane.
    Sukanya Basu*, University of Rhode Island
    Orlando Merino, University of Rhode Island
    (1036-39-184)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stability of Large Systems.
    Harold M Hastings*, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549
    (1036-39-74)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Modeling and Comparing Non-conjugate systems.
    Erik Bollt*, Clarkson University
    (1036-39-163)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and Geometric Inequalities, I
  Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall
  Organizers:
  Fengbo Hang, Princeton University fhang@math.princeton.edu
  Xiaodong Wang, Michigan State University xwang@math.msu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    An approximation theorem for prescribing Q-curvature equations on riemannian manifolds.
    Lei Zhang*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1036-35-75)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Conformally compact Einstein manifolds.
    Szu-yu Sophie Chen*, University of California, Berkeley
    Alice Chang, Princeton University
    Paul Yang, Princeon University
    (1036-35-139)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Affine Moser-Trudinger and Morrey-Sobolev inequalities.
    Andrea Cianchi, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universit\`a di Firenze
    Erwin Lutwak, Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic University
    Deane Yang, Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic University
    Gaoyong Zhang*, Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic University
    (1036-46-82)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Hessian equations and inequalities.
    Igor E. Verbitsky*, School of Math., University of Birmingham, UK, and Dept. of Math., University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1036-35-79)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorial Geometry, I
  Room 207, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Julianna Tymoczko, University of Iowa tymoczko@umich.edu
  Linda Chen, Ohio State University lchen@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Degenerations of $\overline{M}_{0,n}$ to toric varieties.
    Angela Gibney*, University of Pennsylvania
    Diane Maclagan, University of Warwick
    (1036-14-149)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Embeddings of the moduli space of points on the projective line.
    Milena Hering*, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota
    Benjamin Howard, University of Michigan
    (1036-14-127)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A natural smooth compactification of the space of elliptic curves in projective space.
    Ravi Vakil*, Stanford University
    Aleksey Zinger, SUNY Stony Brook
    (1036-14-135)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Schubert geometry and jeu de taquin.
    Kevin Purbhoo*, University of Waterloo/MSRI
    (1036-14-164)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Toward a Type $B_n$ Geometric Littlewood-Richardson Rule.
    Diane E Davis*, Metropolitan State College of Denver
    (1036-14-105)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Multiscale Phenomena,I
  Room 803, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Peter McCoy, U.S. Naval Academy pam@usna.edu
  Reza Malek-Madani, U.S. Naval Academy rmm@usna.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Multi-Scale Models for the Tropics: A Systematic Route for Improving Theory, Computational, and Predictive Strategies.
    Andrew J. Majda*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU
    (1036-35-94)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    New Algorithms in Information Science.
    Stanley J Osher*, Math, UCLA
    (1036-65-73)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rare Events in Complex Systems.
    Eric Vanden-Eijnden*, Courant Institute
    (1036-82-162)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics and Mathematics, I
  Room 802, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Christopher J. Fearnley, Synergetics Collaborative cjf@cjfearnley.com
  Joe Clinton, Synergetics Collaborative jclinton@kennett.net
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Participants Introductions/Moderated Q&A on Buckminster Fuller's Mathematics, I
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Break
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Participants Introductions/Moderated Q&A on Buckminster Fuller's Mathematics, II
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Explorations to define a Theory of Foldable Great Circle Origami.
    CJ Fearnley*, Synergetics Collaborative
    (1036-51-30)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Structural Skew Topology (SST): geometric topology. three-dimensional linkages and knots, a new paradigm for the meaning and interpretation of structure and fields.
    Charles Donald Briddell*, Independent researcher, member of Synergetic Collaborative (SNEC), fieldstructure.org, Mt. Airy, MD
    (1036-54-107)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The structure of particles as explained by the Structural Skew Topology of Field Structure Theory producing a Particle Hierarchy Chart.
    Charles Donald Briddell*, Independent researcher, member of Synergetic Collaborative (SNEC), fieldstructure.org, Mt. Airy, MD
    (1036-70-114)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Synergetic structures of topological knots and links as physical models of point surfaces in 3D space.
    Dmitri Kozlov*, Research institute of the theory and history of architecture, Russian Academy of the Architecture and Building Sciences
    (1036-54-23)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and their Applications, I
  Room 809, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Edward D. Farnum, Kean University efarnum@kean.edu
  Roy Goodman, New Jersey Institute of Technology goodman@njit.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Bifurcation structure in multi-frequency mode-locked lasers.
    Edward D. Farnum*, Kean University, Center for Science, Technology & Mathematics Education
    (1036-78-181)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Mode-locking Dynamics: Attracting States, Limit Cycles, and Bifurcations.
    Brandon G. Bale*, University of Washington
    (1036-78-120)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dynamics and bifurcation structure of harmonic mode-locking.
    J. Nathan Kutz*, University of Washington
    Bjorn Sandstede, University of Surrey
    (1036-78-44)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonlocal stabilization of localized solutions to damped-dispersive equations.
    Richard O. Moore*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1036-78-153)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stability of Trapped Light in Bragg Grating Optical Fiber Defects.
    Roy H. Goodman*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1036-78-96)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    ``Solitray Waves in Discrete Media in the presence of Four-wave mixing products".
    Rudy L. Horne*, Florida State University
    (1036-78-166)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, I
  Room 208, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Marco Varisco, Binghamton University, SUNY marco@math.binghamton.edu
  David Rosenthal, St. John's University rosenthd@stjohns.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Algebraic K-theory over the infinite dihedral group.
    James F. Davis, Indiana University
    Qayum Khan*, Vanderbilt University
    Andrew A. Ranicki, University of Edinburgh
    (1036-19-124)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some remarks on Nil groups in algebraic K-theory.
    James F. Davis*, Indiana University
    (1036-19-192)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Degree Complexes in Auter Space.
    Heather Armstrong, Minneapolis, MN
    Brad Forrest*, Cornell University
    Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
    (1036-20-165)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Centralizers in R.Thompson's groups.
    Francesco Matucci*, Cornell University
    (1036-20-143)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 8:50 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Fluid Dynamics, I
  Room 810, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Daljit S. Ahluwalia, New Jersey Institute of Technology ahluwali@njit.edu
  James G. Glimm, State University of New York at Stony Brook glimm@ams.sunysb.edu, ldalessio@notes.cc.sunysb.ed
  Jean E. Taylor, NYU-Courant Institute jtaylor@cims.nyu.edu
  

  • 8:50 a.m.
    The Mathematics and Numerics of Chaotic Mixing Flows.
    James Glimm*, SUNY Stony Brook
    Hyun Kyung Lim, SUNY Stony Brook
    Yan Yu, SUNY Stony Brook
    (1036-76-28)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Numerical studies on the evolution of nonlinear water waves and their validation with laboratory experiments.
    Arnaud Goullet*, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
    Wooyoung Choi, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
    (1036-76-76)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Two-point microrheology: modeling and simulation protocols.
    Christel Hohenegger*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    M Gregory Forest, Department of Mathematics & Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina
    (1036-76-72)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Thin film dynamics in a cylindrical tube: new equilibrium structures, and bifurcations.
    L J Cummings*, University of Nottingham (UK), and City College New York
    A A King, University of Nottingham
    O E Jensen, University of Nottingham
    (1036-76-130)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Isoperimetric Problems and PDE, I
  Room 102, Warren Weaver Hall
  Organizers:
  Bernd Kawohl, University of Cologne kawohl@math.uni-koeln.de
  Marcello Lucia, City University of New York mlucia@math.csi.cuny.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A comparison principle, a Liouville theorem and applications.
    Yanyan Li*, Rutgers University
    (1036-35-50)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Inequalities on CR manifolds and nilpotent groups.
    Sagun Chanillo*, Rutgers University
    (1036-53-22)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An approximation theorem for prescribing Q-curvature equations on riemannian manifolds.
    Lei Zhang*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1036-58-47)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Moment, entropy and Fisher information inequalities.
    Erwin Lutwak*, Polytechnic University
    Deane Yang, Polytechnic University
    Gaoyong Zhang, Polytechnic University
    (1036-52-83)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on L-Functions and Automorphic Forms, I
  Room 206, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Alina Bucur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Akshay Venkatesh, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  Stephen D. Miller, Rutgers University
  Steven J. Miller, Brown University sjmiller@math.brown.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Chebyshev's bias in function fields.
    Byungchul Cha*, Muhlenberg College
    (1036-11-07)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Combinatorics and representation theory of p-adic groups.
    Cristina M Ballantine*, College of the Holy Cross
    (1036-11-102)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hecke Operators and Buildings.
    A Setyadi*, College of Mount Saint Vincent
    (1036-11-60)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Northeast Hyperbolic Geometry, I
  Room 1302, Warren Weaver Hall
  Organizers:
  Ara Basmajian, Hunter College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York abasmaji@hunter.cuny.edu
  Ed Taylor, Wesleyan University ectaylor@wesleyan.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Kleinian groups with discrete length spectrum.
    Richard D Canary*, University of Michigan
    Christopher Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1036-57-151)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Quasiconformal Stability in Hyperbolic 4-Space.
    Youngju Kim*, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
    (1036-51-88)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Extremal Groups for the Bers Area Theorems.
    William Abikoff*, University of Connecticut at Storrs
    William J. Harvey, Kings College, London
    (1036-30-115)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Murphy's Law in algebraic geometry: Badly-behaved moduli spaces.
  Room 109, Warren Weaver Hall
  Ravi Vakil*, Stanford University
  (1036-14-03)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Are solutions to elliptic PDEs always nice?
  Room 109, Warren Weaver Hall
  Ovidiu Savin*, Columbia University
  (1036-35-04)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Fluid Dynamics, II
  Room 810, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Daljit S. Ahluwalia, New Jersey Institute of Technology ahluwali@njit.edu
  James G. Glimm, State University of New York at Stony Brook glimm@ams.sunysb.edu, ldalessio@notes.cc.sunysb.ed
  Jean E. Taylor, NYU-Courant Institute jtaylor@cims.nyu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Novel dynamics in Stokes flows due to fluid-structure or fluid-interface interaction.
    Yuan N. Young*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technolgoy
    (1036-76-37)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Shape Changing Bodies in Fluid: Hovering, Ratcheting, and Bursting.
    Saverio E Spagnolie*, New York University
    Michael J Shelley, New York University
    (1036-76-64)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Benchmark of FronTier Library and its Applications to Scientific and Engineering Problems.
    Brian Fix*, SUNY Stony Brook
    James Glimm, SUNY Stony Brook
    Justin Iwerks, SUNY Stony Brook
    Ryan Kaufman, SUNY Stony Brook
    Xiaolin Li, SUNY Stony Brook
    (1036-76-31)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Simulation of viscous drops rolling on an inclined super-hydrophobic plane.
    Xinli Wang*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Michael Siegel, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1036-76-63)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Multidomain spectral methods for the helically reduced wave equation.
    Stephen R Lau*, Brown University
    (1036-00-90)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Pearling Instability of Nano-flows Confined to a Chemical Channel.
    Tak S. Lo*, Levich Institute, City College of CUNY, New York, NY
    Joel Koplik, Levich Institute, City College of CUNY, New York, NY
    (1036-76-89)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Difference Equations and Applications,II
  Room 804, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Michael A. Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology michael.radin@rit.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Global Stability in a Nonlinear System of Difference Equations.
    M Predescu*, Bentley College
    R Levins, HSPH
    T Awerbuch, HSPH
    (1036-39-146)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Modeling Public Health Systems with Difference Equations.
    Tamara Awerbach*, Harvard School of Public Health
    (1036-39-112)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discrete-time models and epidemic thresholds for infections on networks.
    L. A. Zager*, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
    (1036-39-136)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Fixed Points Results in Partially Ordered Metric Spaces.
    Ann Brett*, Department of Mathematics, University of Rhode Island
    M. R.S. Kulenovic, Department of Mathematics, University of Rhode Island
    (1036-39-103)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Complex Dynamics of Singularly Perturbed Rational Maps.
    Sebastian M. Marotta*, Boston University
    (1036-37-97)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Generalized Version of the McMullen Domain.
    Elizabeth D Russell*, Boston University
    (1036-37-134)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on L-Functions and Automorphic Forms, II
  Room 206, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Alina Bucur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Akshay Venkatesh, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  Stephen D. Miller, Rutgers University
  Steven J. Miller, Brown University sjmiller@math.brown.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Atkin-Serre type conjectures for automorphic representations on $GL(2)$.
    Jeremy A Rouse*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (1036-11-12)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Arithmetic functions attached to real quadratic fields and central values of L-functions.
    Alexandru Popa*, University of Pennsylvania, Mathematics Dept.
    (1036-11-172)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quadratic function fields with large class rank.
    Siman Wong*, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Massachusetts. Amherst, MA
    (1036-11-84)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Moments of automorphic L-functions.
    Adrian Diaconu*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1036-11-191)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and Geometric Inequalities, II
  Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall
  Organizers:
  Fengbo Hang, Princeton University fhang@math.princeton.edu
  Xiaodong Wang, Michigan State University xwang@math.msu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The quermassintegral inequalities for starshaped domains.
    Junfang Li*, CRM and McGill University
    (1036-35-132)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On the classification of gradient Ricci solitons.
    William Wylie*, UCLA
    (1036-53-150)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On Keller-Rubinstein-Sternberg's problem.
    Fanghua Lin, New York University
    Xingbin Pan, Eastern China Normal Unviersity
    Changyou Wang*, Unviersity of Kentucky
    (1036-35-179)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Smoothness of solutions of some classes of semilinear elliptic degenerate equations.
    Tri Minh Nguyen*, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
    (1036-35-43)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorial Geometry, II
  Room 207, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Julianna Tymoczko, University of Iowa tymoczko@umich.edu
  Linda Chen, Ohio State University lchen@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Quantum cohomology and the periodicity of Littlewood-Richardson coefficients for flag varieties.
    Izzet Coskun*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1036-14-55)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Giambelli formula for isotropic Grassmannians.
    Harry Tamvakis*, University of Maryland
    (1036-14-123)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Triality and symmetries of morphisms.
    Dave Anderson*, University of Michigan
    (1036-14-174)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    K-theoretic Gromov-Witten invariants of Grassmannians.
    Anders S. Buch*, Rutgers University
    Leonardo C. Mihalcea, Duke University
    (1036-14-187)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Affine tableaux approach to Macdonald polynomials, Gromov-Witten invariants and Schubert calculus.
    Jennifer Morse*, Math Department, Drexel University
    (1036-05-170)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Multiscale Phenomena,II
  Room 803, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Peter McCoy, U.S. Naval Academy pam@usna.edu
  Reza Malek-Madani, U.S. Naval Academy rmm@usna.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Some thoughts about building general framework for multiscale modeling.
    Weinan E*, Princeton University
    (1036-65-71)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quantum-Based Multiscale and Multiphysics Simulations of Materials.
    Emily A Carter*, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
    (1036-82-85)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics and Mathematics, II
  Room 802, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Christopher J. Fearnley, Synergetics Collaborative cjf@cjfearnley.com
  Joe Clinton, Synergetics Collaborative jclinton@kennett.net
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    R. Buckminster Fuller's Synergetic 'Jitterbug:' its fascination and some challenges.
    Joseph D. Clinton*, West Chester, PA
    (1036-00-35)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Optimal Tensegrity Systems.
    R E Skelton*, UCSD
    (1036-06-38)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Symmetric Tensegrities.
    Robert Connelly*, Cornell University
    (1036-52-32)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Some Geometric Invariants of a Class of Tensile-Integrity Structures.
    Roger S. Tobie*, Princeton, NJ
    (1036-51-33)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Scientific Storytelling: How to Increase Pattern Recognition of the Primordial Units of Structural Integrity.
    Thomas Miller*, Manhattan, NY
    (1036-51-137)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Prototyping of forms in structural morphology.
    Romuald Tarczewski*, Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture
    Waldemar Bober, Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture
    (1036-52-34)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Isoperimetric Problems and PDE, II
  Room 102, Warren Weaver Hall
  Organizers:
  Bernd Kawohl, University of Cologne kawohl@math.uni-koeln.de
  Marcello Lucia, City University of New York mlucia@math.csi.cuny.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Minimum Cuts and Maximum Area.
    Gilbert Strang*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1036-49-21)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some results about Cheeger sets: uniqueness and nonuniqueness.
    Enea Parini*, University of Cologne
    (1036-35-19)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some Simple Inequalities: Best Constants and Minimizing Functions.
    Florin Catrina*, St John's University
    (1036-35-18)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Isoperimetric problem for the free plate eigenvalue.
    L. M. Chasman*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1036-35-25)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Faber-Krahn inequality for the $p$-Laplacian operator in a Minkowski metric.
    Bernd Kawohl*, Mathematical Institute, University of Cologne, D 50923 Cologne, Germany
    (1036-49-15)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, II
  Room 208, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Marco Varisco, Binghamton University, SUNY marco@math.binghamton.edu
  David Rosenthal, St. John's University rosenthd@stjohns.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stable concordance of knots in 3-manifolds.
    Rob Schneiderman*, Lehman College, City University of New York
    (1036-57-133)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Aspherical 2-complexes and 4-manifolds.
    Ian Hambleton*, McMaster University
    (1036-57-86)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Volume entropy rigidity for buildings.
    Fran\c cois Ledrappier, University of Notre Dame
    Seonhee Lim*, Cornell University
    (1036-51-125)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Notes on an additive decomposition for twisted equivariant K-theory.
    Christopher Dwyer*, Binghamton University
    Nansen Petrosyan, K.U.Leuven Campus Kortrijk
    (1036-19-154)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Mod-2 Equivalence of the Symbols of the de Rham and Signature Operators.
    James F. Davis, Indiana University
    Pisheng Ding*, St. John's University, New York
    (1036-58-109)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and their Applications, II
  Room 809, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Edward D. Farnum, Kean University efarnum@kean.edu
  Roy Goodman, New Jersey Institute of Technology goodman@njit.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Raman-induced energy exchange between optical solitons as a random cascade model.
    Avner Peleg*, University at Buffalo, SUNY
    (1036-35-24)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Impact of stochastic perturbations on ultra-short solitons in cubic nonlinear media.
    Tobias B Schaefer*, The College of Staten Island, CUNY
    (1036-35-65)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dynamics of KdV discretizations.
    A. David Trubatch*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montclair State University
    (1036-34-169)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the stability of deep-water surface waves.
    Diane M Henderson*, Penn State University
    Harvey Segur, University of Colorado
    (1036-76-175)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Gravity induced dispersion for nearly flat vortex sheets.
    Doug Wright*, Drexel University
    Daniel Spirn, University of Minnesota
    (1036-35-42)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Kinematic Model of Wave Propagation in an Excitable Medium.
    John Wesley Cain*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1036-92-09)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Northeast Hyperbolic Geometry, II
  Room 1302, Warren Weaver Hall
  Organizers:
  Ara Basmajian, Hunter College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York abasmaji@hunter.cuny.edu
  Ed Taylor, Wesleyan University ectaylor@wesleyan.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Asymptotics of Weil-Petersson geodesics: ending laminations, recurrence and flows.
    Jeffrey F. Brock*, Brown University
    Howard A. Masur, University of Illinois, Chicago
    Yair N. Minsky, Yale University
    (1036-37-195)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Strong convergence of Kleinian groups: the cracked eggshell.
    James W Anderson*, Southampton
    Cyril Lecuire, Toulouse
    (1036-57-173)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The minimum Dirichlet principle for measured foliations, Teichm\"uller lines of minima and the associahedron.
    Frederick P. Gardiner*, Brooklyn College CUNY and The Graduate Center of CUNY
    (1036-30-41)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Diffeomorphism groups of compact 2-dimensional hyperbolic orbifolds.
    Clifford J Earle*, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
    (1036-30-56)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Sato-Tate like measures for geodesic laminations on hyperbolic surfaces.
    Martin J Bridgeman*, Boston College
    David Dumas, Brown University
    (1036-51-161)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Geodesic excursions into a neighborhood on a hyperbolic 2-orbifold.
    Andrew Haas*, University of Connecticut
    (1036-30-167)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, I
  Room 513, Warren Weaver Hall
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Noncommutative Stone-Weierstrass Theorem.
    Krzysztof Jarosz*, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
    (1036-46-193)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Mentors and Mechanics of Molecular Biotopology: Warren Weaver (1894-1978) --$>$ Linus Pauling (1901-1994) Conrad Hal Waddington (1905-1975) --$>$ Rene Thom (1923-2002).
    Okan Gurel*, IBM
    Demet Gurel, Touro College, Chemistry and Physics
    (1036-54-17)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    "The gradient flows, spaces of multi-tangent trajectories, convexity and complexity on manifolds with boundary".
    Gabriel Katz*, William Paterson University
    (1036-57-178)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    An Analysis of Underwood's model of traffic flow.
    Mostafa Ghandehari*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Siamak Ardekani, The University of Texas at Arlington
    (1036-62-27)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the stability of semi-adaptive iterative splitting for solving two-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations.
    Juergen Geiser, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin
    Qin Sheng*, Baylor University
    (1036-65-11)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Investigation of ground state energies and pair correlation functions for the system of three electrons confined in a parabolic well by the use of the hyperspherica function method.
    Lia Leon Margolin*, Marymount Manhattan College
    Shalva Tsiklauri, City College of Technology, CUNY
    (1036-70-91)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Direct Simulation of Fluid-Solid Systems Using Implicit Compressible Immersed Continuum Method.
    Sheldon Wang*, Department of Mathematical Sciences/New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1036-74-40)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Soliton Content of Generalised Two-Dimensional Gravitation.
    Shabnam Beheshti*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
    (1036-83-189)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Coalescent Theory Analysis of a Population Structure Statistic.
    Sivan Rottenstreich*, Georgetown University
    (1036-92-160)
• Saturday March 15, 2008, 5:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Erd\H os Memorial Lecture
  Decomposing bounded functions.
  Room 109, Warren Weaver Hall
  William Timothy Gowers*, University of Cambridge
  (1036-41-16)

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