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2007 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
New Brunswick, NJ, October 6-7, 2007 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1031

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

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Sunday October 7, 2007

• Sunday October 7, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sale
  Room 105, Scott Hall
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meetings Registration
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry and Arithmetic Geometry, III
  Room 119, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Caterina Consani, Johns Hopkins University kc@math.jhu.edu
  Li Guo, Rutgers University liguo@andromeda.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 8:50 a.m.
    The role of periods in non-perturbative quantum field theory.
    Dirk Kreimer*, Center for Math.Phys., Boston Univ. and IHES
    (1031-81-22)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Rearranging Dyson--Schwinger equations.
    Karen A Yeats*, Boston University
    (1031-81-44)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Noncommutative tori and the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence.
    Walter D. van Suijlekom*, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
    (1031-58-40)
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
  Room 101, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Jooyoun Hong, University of California Riverside hongucr@gmail.com
  Wolmer V. Vasconcelos, Rutgers University vasconce@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Rees algebras and polyhedral cones of ideals of vertex covers of perfect graphs.
    Rafael H Villarreal*, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del I.P.N
    (1031-13-16)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Degrees of generators of ideals associated with series-parallel graphs.
    Joseph P Brennan*, University of Central Florida
    Guantao Chen, Georgia State University
    (1031-13-125)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homological Characteriazations of Gaussian Properties of Rings.
    Sarah Glaz*, University of Connecticut
    (1031-13-21)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Non-commutative desingularization of the generic determinant.
    Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, University of Toronto
    Graham J Leuschke*, Syracuse University
    Michel Van den Bergh, Free University of Brussels
    (1031-13-70)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Characterizing ring properties through uniform behavior.
    Hans Schoutens*, City University of New York
    (1031-13-34)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The intersection of subfields of K(x).
    Michael E Zieve*, Rutgers University (New Brunswick)
    (1031-12-14)
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Toric Varieties, III
  Room 104, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Milena S. Hering, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications hering@ima.umn.edu
  Diane Maclagan, Rutgers University maclagan@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Maximal toric packings of symplectic\--toric manifolds.
    Alvaro Pelayo*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Benjamin Schmidt, University of Chicago
    (1031-53-91)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Combinatorial aspects of mirror symmetry.
    Benjamin Nill*, Research Group Lattice Polytopes, Freie Universitaet Berlin
    (1031-14-59)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    $\mathbb{Z}_2$ Hodge spaces of fans.
    Valerie M Hower*, Wake Forest University Health Sciences/Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
    (1031-14-72)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Localization on Toric Varieties and a new proof of Bernstein's theorem.
    Eric E Katz*, University of Texas
    (1031-14-94)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A ring structure on intersection cohomology of hypertoric varieties.
    Tom Braden*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Nicholas Proudfoot, University of Oregon
    (1031-14-31)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Weyl Closure of Hypergeometric Systems.
    Layra Felicia Matusevich*, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
    (1031-13-18)
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics, III (in Honor of Shelly Goldstein's 60th Birthday)
  Room 204, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Sagun Chanillo, Rutgers University
  Michael K.-H. Kiessling, Rutgers University miki@math.rutgers.edu
  Avy Soffer, Rutgers University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Borel summation techniques in PDEs and the Navier-Stokes equation in $\mathbb{R}^3$.
    O. Costin*, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
    (1031-35-109)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Some Limit Theorems in Ergodic Theory.
    Y. Sinai*, Princeton University
    (1031-37-108)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Break
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Regularity criteria for asymmetric Navier-Stokes equations.
    H.-T. Yau*, Harvard University
    (1031-35-110)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    TBA.
    S. Klainerman*, Princeton University
    (1031-35-111)
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis of Complex Laplacians, III
  Room 205, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Siqi Fu, Rutgers University, Camden sfu@camden.rutgers.edu
  Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University, New Brunswick huangx@math.rutgers.edu
  Howard J. Jacobowitz, Rutgers University, Camden jacobowi@camden.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Cauchy-type integrals for non-smooth domains in $\mathbb C^n$.
    Loredana Lanzani*, University of Arkansas
    Elias Stein, Princeton University
    (1031-32-65)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multiplier ideal sheaves and canonical metrics.
    Duong H Phong*, Columbia University
    (1031-53-90)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    CR manifolds and complex analytic varieties.
    Joseph J. Kohn*, Princeton University
    (1031-32-48)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Solving $\overline\partial$ on complex analytic spaces with general singularities.
    Nils Ovrelid, University of Oslo
    Sophia Vassiliadou*, Georgetown University
    (1031-32-136)
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Combinatorics, III
  Room 206, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffry N. Kahn, Rutgers University jkahn@math.rutgers.edu
  Van Ha Vu, Rutgers University vanvu@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Nearly optimal embedding of trees.
    Benjamin Sudakov*, UCLA and Princeton University
    Jan Jan Vondrak, Princeton University
    (1031-05-25)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Entropy bounds for perfect matchings and Hamiltonian cycles.
    Bill Cuckler*, University of Delaware
    Jeff Kahn, Rutgers University
    (1031-05-61)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory of the Continuum, III
  Room 214, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Simon R. Thomas, Rutgers University sthomas@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Splitting reals and product forcing.
    Jindrich Zapletal*, University of Florida
    (1031-03-17)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    A Locally Finite Maximal Cofinitary Group.
    Bart Kastermans*, University of Wisconsin
    (1031-03-68)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    The Open Coloring Axiom in ccc forcing extensions.
    Justin Tatch Moore*, Cornell University
    (1031-03-43)
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Lie Group Actions and Their Quotients, III
  Room 116, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Tara S. Holm, Cornell University tsh@math.cornell.edu
  Rebecca F. Goldin, George Mason University rgoldin@math.gmu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quantum K-theory of Grassmannians.
    Anders S. Buch*, Rutgers University
    Leonardo C. Mihalcea, Duke University
    (1031-14-118)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Number Theory from Atiyah-Bott for Orbifolds.
    Ana Cannas da Silva*, Princeton University
    (1031-53-130)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A New Proof of a Positive Formula for Equivariant Schubert Classes.
    Catalin Zara*, University of Massachusetts Boston
    (1031-05-122)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Polytope decompositions.
    Leonor Godinho*, Instituto Superior Tecnico
    Jose Agapito, CAMGSD- Instituto Superior Tecnico
    (1031-53-80)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Equivariant classes of matroid realization spaces.
    Richard Rimanyi*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1031-14-104)
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, II
  Room 201, Scott Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On measurable bundles of real C*- and JB-algebras.
    Alexander A. Katz*, St. John's University, NY
    (1031-46-73)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    On universal enveloping locally C*-algebra for locally JB-algebra.
    Alexander A Katz, St. John's University
    Oleg Friedman*, University of South Africa
    (1031-46-119)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Integration with respect to Local Time of Bifractional Brownian Motion.
    Zhenxia Liu*, Shanghai, China
    (1031-60-07)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    A lower bound for the Chung-Diaconis-Graham random process.
    Martin V. Hildebrand*, University at Albany, State University of New York
    (1031-60-09)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Toward a Dichotomy Theorem for Finite Quandles.
    Robert W McGrail*, Laboratory for Intelligent Deductive Systems, Bard College
    Mona Merling, Laboratory for Intelligent Deductive Systems, Bard College
    (1031-68-138)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Linear Stability of Multi-frequency Mode-locked Lasers.
    Edward D. Farnum*, Kean University, Center for Science, Technology and Mathematics Education
    J. Nathan Kutz, University of Washington
    (1031-78-56)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On existence and stability of stationary forest canopies in the perfect plasticity approximation model.
    Nikolay Strigul*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1031-92-140)
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Random metrics and geometries in two dimensions
  Room 123, Scott Hall
  Scott Sheffield*, Courant Institute and Institute for Advanced Study
  (1031-60-05)
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The topology of particle collisions.
  Room 123, Scott Hall
  Satyan L. Devadoss*, Williams College
  (1031-57-02)
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry and Arithmetic Geometry, IV
  Room 119, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Caterina Consani, Johns Hopkins University kc@math.jhu.edu
  Li Guo, Rutgers University liguo@andromeda.rutgers.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hopf Cyclic Cohomology in Braided Monoidal Categories.
    Masoud Khalkhali*, University of Western Ontario, London ON, Canada
    (1031-18-131)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Hopf cyclic cohomology and its dual theory.
    Bahram Rangipour*, University of New Brunswick, Canada
    (1031-51-127)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Polygons and mixed Tate motives.
    Herbert Gangl*, University of Durham, UK
    Francis Brown, CNRS Paris, France
    Andrey Levin, Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia
    (1031-11-83)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Differential renormalization for multiple zeta values.
    Li Guo, Rutgers University, Newark
    Bin Zhang*, Sichuan University, P. R. China
    (1031-11-100)
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Combinatorics, IV
  Room 206, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffry N. Kahn, Rutgers University jkahn@math.rutgers.edu
  Van Ha Vu, Rutgers University vanvu@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Exciting Neurons.
    Joel H Spencer*, Courant Institute
    (1031-05-26)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the singularity probability of discretely random complex matrices.
    Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Study
    Van H Vu, Rutgers University
    Philip Matchett Wood*, Rugters University
    (1031-05-121)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Physical Problems in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (in honor of Shelly Goldstein's 60th birthday)
  Room 203, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Roderich Tumulka, Rutgers University tumulka@math.rutgers.edu
  Detlef D\"urr, M\"unchen University duerr@mathematik.uni-muenchen.de
  Nino Zanghi, University of Genova zanghi@ge.infn.it
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Opening of Session
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:50 p.m.
    Break
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Quantum Dynamics with Trajectories: Bohmian, Post-Bohmian, Adaptive, and Un-Real Dynamics.
    R. E. Wyatt*, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas
    (1031-65-132)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:40 p.m.
    Typicality, Preclusion and Quantum Measure Theory.
    Fay Dowker*, Imperial College London UK
    (1031-81-74)
  • 6:10 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Toric Varieties, IV
  Room 104, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Milena S. Hering, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications hering@ima.umn.edu
  Diane Maclagan, Rutgers University maclagan@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quivers \& Toric Varieties.
    Gregory G. Smith*, Queen's University
    Alastair Craw, University of Glasgow
    (1031-14-98)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A nice projective embedding for the geometric invariant theory quotients $(\mathbb{P}^1)^n /\!/ SL_2$.
    Milena Hering, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota
    Benjamin James Howard*, University of Michigan
    (1031-14-128)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The moduli space of stable fat pointed curves of genus zero.
    Angela C Gibney*, University of Pennsylvania
    Diane Maclagan, University of Rutgers and the University of Warwick
    (1031-14-99)
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis of Complex Laplacians, IV
  Room 205, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Siqi Fu, Rutgers University, Camden sfu@camden.rutgers.edu
  Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University, New Brunswick huangx@math.rutgers.edu
  Howard J. Jacobowitz, Rutgers University, Camden jacobowi@camden.rutgers.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Characteristic classes of boundaries of compact complex $b$-manifolds.
    Gerardo A. Mendoza*, Temple University
    (1031-32-41)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    On analyticity of solutions of first order nonlinear pdes.
    S. Berhanu*, Temple University
    (1031-35-79)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    The Kahler-Ricci flow and the $\bar\partial$ operator on vector fields.
    Duong H. Phong, Columbia University
    Jian Song*, Rutgers University
    Jacob Sturm, Rutgers University
    Ben Weinkove, Harvard University
    (1031-58-105)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 7, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Lie Group Actions and Their Quotients, IV
  Room 116, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Tara S. Holm, Cornell University tsh@math.cornell.edu
  Rebecca F. Goldin, George Mason University rgoldin@math.gmu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Geometric vertex decompositions of Schubert varieties.
    Allen Knutson*, University of California, San Diego
    (1031-14-76)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Smoothness and Rational Smoothness for Schubert Varieties in Affine Grassmannians.
    Sara C. Billey*, University of Washington
    Stephen A. Mitchell, University of Washington
    (1031-22-71)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Schubert combinatorics.
    Alexander T Yong*, University of Minnesota, Dept. of Math.
    Hugh Thomas, University of New Brunswick
    (1031-05-37)

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