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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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Sunday March 16, 2008

• Sunday March 16, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meetings Registration
  Lobby, Warren Weaver Hall
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on L-Functions and Automorphic Forms, III
  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
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Oppenheim Summation and the Atkinson-Jutila Formula for the Square of the Riemann Zeta Function.
    Jennifer Beineke*, Western New England College
    Daniel Bump, Stanford University
    (1036-11-138)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Applications of Invariant Distributions.
    Stephen D Miller*, Rutgers University
    (1036-11-129)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series and Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns.
    Ben Brubaker, Department of Mathematics, M.I.T.
    Daniel Bump, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
    Solomon Friedberg*, Department of Mathematics, Boston College
    (1036-11-66)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lefschetz numbers of automorphism on the cuspidal cohomology.
    Birgit Speh*, Cornell University
    (1036-22-155)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Calculating Maass forms and L-functions for GL(3).
    David W Farmer*, American Institute of Mathematics
    (1036-11-108)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Subconvexity bounds of $L$-functions.
    Xiaoqing Li*, SUNY-Buffalo
    (1036-11-197)
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorial Geometry, III
  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.
    Symplectic techniques in algebraic combinatorial geometry.
    Tara S Holm*, Cornell University
    (1036-53-186)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Schubert calculus and Bott-Samelson manifolds.
    Rebecca F Goldin*, George Mason University
    (1036-14-159)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Positivity in Equivariant Schubert Calculus: A Symplectic Approach.
    Catalin Zara*, University of Massachusetts Boston
    (1036-53-182)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hypertoric varieties and Gale duality.
    Tom Braden*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Anthony Licata, Stanford University
    Nicholas Proudfoot, University of Oregon
    Ben Webster, IAS, Princeton
    (1036-14-101)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hyperkahler Kirwan surjectivity for quiver varieties: Morse theory and examples.
    Megumi Harada*, McMaster University
    Graeme Wilkin, Johns Hopkins University
    (1036-53-77)
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  13th Floor Lounge, Warren Weaver Hall
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and Geometric Inequalities, III
  Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall
  Organizers:
  Fengbo Hang, Princeton University fhang@math.princeton.edu
  Xiaodong Wang, Michigan State University xwang@math.msu.edu
  

  • 8:30 p.m.
    Reflector problem in $\Bbb R^n$ endowed with non-Euclidean norm.
    Luis A. Caffarelli, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
    Qingbo Huang*, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Wright State University
    (1036-35-106)
  • 9:20 p.m.
    Some special boundary value problems for the complex Monge-Ampere equation.
    Bo Guan*, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University
    (1036-35-190)
  • 10:10 p.m.
    Curvature and continuity of optimal transport.
    Young-Heon Kim*, University of Toronto
    (1036-35-08)
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, III
  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.
    Supersymmmetric Quantum Mechanics, Infinite-Dimensional Mathai-Quillen Formalism, and Gauss-Bonnet-Chern.
    Dana Fine, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
    Stephen F Sawin*, Fairfield University
    (1036-58-20)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Burnside Ring, Equivariant Stable Cohomotopy and the Segal Conjecture for Infinite Groups.
    Wolfgang Lueck*, Mathematisches Institut der Westfaelischen Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster
    (1036-57-113)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Obstructions to Realizing Diagrams of $\Pi$-algebras.
    David Blanc, Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa
    Mark W. Johnson*, Department of Mathematics, Penn State Altoona
    James M. Turner, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Calvin College
    (1036-55-145)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Cohomology of planar polygon spaces.
    Dirk Schuetz*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, UK
    (1036-58-183)
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 8:50 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Fluid Dynamics, III
  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.
    A Numerical Method for Soluble Surfactants on Moving Interfaces.
    Shilpa Madangopal Khatri*, Courant Institute, NYU
    Anna-Karin Tornberg, Courant Institute, NYU / KTH, Sweden
    (1036-65-80)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Numerical Study of Jet Spray Formation in Diesel Injectors.
    W Bo*, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics,Stony Brook University, NY
    W Glimm, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics,Stony Brook University, NY
    X Li, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics,Stony Brook University, NY
    (1036-76-39)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Effects of electric fields and inertia on the deformation of liquid drops in simple shear flow.
    Stefan B Maehlmann*, Postdoctoral fellow/Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
    (1036-76-54)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Interface Tracking Using Face Offsetting and Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation.
    Xiangmin Jiao*, Department of Applied Mathamatics & Statistics, Stony Brook University
    (1036-65-68)
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Multiscale Phenomena,III
  Room 803, Silver Center
  Organizers:
  Peter McCoy, U.S. Naval Academy pam@usna.edu
  Reza Malek-Madani, U.S. Naval Academy rmm@usna.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multiscale decomposition of images: deblurring, denoising and segmentation.
    Eitan Tadmor*, University of Maryland
    Suzanne Nezzar, Richard Stockton College
    Luminita Vese, University of California, Los-Angeles
    (1036-41-53)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Coupled atomistic-continuum methods for fluid.
    Weiqing Ren*, Courant Institute, New York University
    (1036-76-128)
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Isoperimetric Problems and PDE, III
  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.
    Minimal surfaces in hyperbolic space and renormalized area.
    Spyros Alexakis*, University of Princeton
    (1036-53-81)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hamiltonian identities for Elliptic PDEs and its application.
    Changfeng Gui*, University of Connecticut
    (1036-35-116)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Radial symmetry of solutions to systems of higher order semilinear PDE.
    Michael Kiessling*, Rutgers University
    (1036-35-61)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symmetry properties of extremals for the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality in dimension two.
    Gabriella Tarantello*, University of Rome Tor Vergata
    (1036-35-70)
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, II
  Room 513, Warren Weaver Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Extensions of Bernoulli Theorem.
    Hung-ping Tsao*, Novato, California
    (1036-11-36)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Method Of Infinite Ascent Applied On $ mA^6 + nB^3 = C^2 $.
    Susil Kumar Jena*, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India
    (1036-11-185)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On some analitical properties of Diriclet series.
    Ilgar Shikar Jabbarov*, Ganja State University, Ganja, Azerbaican
    (1036-11-69)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Cusp Forms and Quantum Mechanics.
    Julio Cesar Bueno de Andrade*, Sao Paulo State University - UNESP.
    (1036-11-180)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fragment Computing Categories and Fragment Consistent Functorial Models.
    Cyrus F Nouranij*, http://projektakdmkrd.tripod.com
    (1036-12-122)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    A framework for classical and quantum geometries.
    M. D Iftime*, Boston U. and MCP
    (1036-14-48)
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  The density functional theory of electronic structure.
  Room 109, Warren Weaver Hall
  Weinan E*, Princeton University
  (1036-81-01)
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Algebraic rigidity and randomness in geometric group theory.
  Room 109, Warren Weaver Hall
  Ilya Kapovich*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1036-20-02)
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Fluid Dynamics, IV
  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.
    The Boundary Integral Method for Stokes-Darcy Problems.
    Svetlana Tlupova*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Ricardo Cortez, Tulane University
    (1036-76-59)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Multiphase MHD at low magnetic Reynolds numbers.
    Tianshi Lu*, Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Jian Du, University of Utah
    Roman Samulyak, Stony Brook University
    (1036-76-29)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A hybrid approach to simulating vibrated gas-fluidized beds of fine powders.
    Sung Joon Moon*, Princeton University
    Sankaran Sundaresan, Princeton University
    Ioannis G Kevrekidis, Princeton University
    (1036-76-194)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Modeling and Simulating the Fluid Dynamics of Electrowetting On Dielectric (EWOD) with Contact Line Friction.
    Shawn W. Walker*, Courant Institute
    Ricardo H. Nochetto, University of Maryland
    Andrea Bonito, University of Maryland
    (1036-76-58)
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on L-Functions and Automorphic Forms, IV
  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.
    An update on non-vanishing results for twists of automorphic L-series.
    Jeff Hoffstein*, Brown University
    (1036-11-98)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Partition statistics and quasiweak Maass forms.
    Kathrin Bringmann, University of Minnesota
    Frank Garvan, University of Florida
    Karl Mahlburg*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1036-11-196)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Recent trends and advances in sieve methods.
    Henryk Iwaniec*, Rutgers University
    (1036-11-147)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Symplectic Test of the L-Functions Ratios Conjecture.
    Steven J Miller*, Brown University
    (1036-11-49)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Orbital Counting for Infinite Co-Volume Fuchsian Groups and Affine Linear Sieves.
    Alex V Kontorovich*, Brown University
    (1036-11-51)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Algebraic Number Fields, Primes, and Photonic Devices.
    P. Robert Kotiuga*, ECE Dept. Boston University
    (1036-11-126)
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and Geometric Inequalities, IV
  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.
    Problems in General Relativity.
    Marcus A. Khuri*, Stony Brook University
    (1036-83-148)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Isometric embeddings and quasi-local mass.
    Mu-Tao Wang*, Columbia University
    Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University
    (1036-53-156)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Applications of Geometric Inequalities to the topology of manifolds with nonnegative Ricci Curvature.
    Michael Munn*, CUNY Graduate Center
    Christina Sormani, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College
    (1036-58-100)
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology, IV
  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.
    Secondary Transfer and Higher Reidemeister Torsion.
    Wojciech Dorabiala*, Department of Mathematics, Penn State Altoona
    Bernard Badzioch, Department of Mathematics, SUNY, Buffalo
    John Klein, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University
    Bruce Williams, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame
    (1036-55-144)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    $L^2$ Betti-less manifolds.
    Sylvain Cappell*, Courant Institute, NYU
    (1036-57-152)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rotation numbers, a generalized Maslov index and representation varieties.
    Anna Wienhard*, Princeton University
    Marc Burger, ETH Zuerich
    Alessandra Iozzi, ETH Zuerich
    (1036-22-171)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Aspects of compact topological group actions.
    Shmuel Weinberger*, University of Chicago
    (1036-57-111)
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Northeast Hyperbolic Geometry, III
  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.
    Commutators in Groups of Hyperbolic Motions.
    Ara Basmajian, Hunter College, CUNY
    Bernard Maskit*, Stony Brook University
    (1036-20-95)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the geometry of quasiconformally homogeneous domains.
    Petra Bonfert-Taylor*, Wesleyan University
    Edward Taylor, Wesleyan University
    (1036-30-57)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some geometrical properties of the Teichm\"uller space of a Riemann surface rel a closed subset.
    Sudeb Mitra*, Queens College of the City University of New York
    (1036-32-52)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Piecewise linear coordinates for spaces of finite disk patterns.
    Reza Chamanara*, CUNY/Brooklyn College
    (1036-51-176)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Coincidence of conformal densities.
    Kourosh Tavakoli*, Fordham University
    (1036-30-177)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Informative Words and Discreteness: Palindromes.
    Jane Gilman*, Rutgers-Newark
    Linda Keen, Lehman College, CUNY
    (1036-20-92)
• Sunday March 16, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, III
  Room 513, Warren Weaver Hall
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On existence and like results for a modified BBM equation that is applied to unidirectional propagation of long waves in certain nonlinear dispersive systems, with viscosity considered.
    Timothy A Smith*, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
    (1036-35-10)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Computer Algorithms for Isometric Mapping with Ricci Flow.
    Tuan Cao-Huu*, York University (Canada)/MGH, Harvard Medcial School
    (1036-32-46)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On p-harmonic mappings in the plane.
    Tomasz Adamowicz*, Syracuse University
    (1036-35-26)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Uniqueness of Semilinear Elliptic Inverse Problem.
    C Qu, Yunnan University, P. R. China
    P Wang*, Penn State University
    (1036-35-14)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A variational approach to front propagation in reaction-diffusion equations and their singular limits.
    Cyrill B Muratov*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Matteo Novaga, University of Pisa
    (1036-35-67)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Dynamic Adhesive Contact of a Rod.
    Sriyani Renuka Menike Rathugamage*, Rochester, Michigan
    (1036-35-121)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Painleve Property of two Partial Differential Equations.
    Aloysius Bathi Kasturiarachi*, Kent State University, Stark Campus
    (1036-35-158)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    The Numerical Solution of the Exterior Dirichlet Problem for Helmholtz Equation-for Oval of Cassini.
    Yajni M. Warnapala*, Roger Williams University
    Elizabeth Morgan, Roger Williams University
    (1036-45-05)

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