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2009 Spring Central Sectional Meeting
Urbana, IL, March 27-29, 2009 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1047

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

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Friday March 27, 2009

• Friday March 27, 2009, 12:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 314, Altgeld Hall
• Friday March 27, 2009, 12:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Math Library (2nd Floor), Altgeld Hall
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Complex Dynamics and Value Distribution, I
  Room 441, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Aimo Hinkkanen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign aimo@uiuc.edu
  Joseph B. Miles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign joe@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Monotonicity and comparison results for conformal invariants.
    Albert Baernstein II*, Washington University
    A. Yu Solynin, Texas Tech University
    (1047-35-152)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Maimquist-type theorems for Painleve equations.
    Edmund Y. M. Chiang*, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    R. G. Halburd, Loughborough University
    E. F. Lingham, Loughborough University
    (1047-30-497)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A reverse Denjoy theorem.
    P C Fenton, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago
    John F Rossi*, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
    (1047-30-22)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Unbounded Bilipschitz Homogeneous Jordan Curves.
    David M Freeman*, University of Cincinnati
    (1047-30-406)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the differential independence of the Riemann Zeta Function and the Euler Gamma Function.
    Zhuan J Ye*, Dept of Math. Northern Illinois Univ
    (1047-30-241)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The hyperbolic metric and real affine mappings.
    David Minda*, University of Cincinnati
    (1047-30-460)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Local and Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 165, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Florian Enescu, Georgia State University fenescu@gsu.edu
  Sandra Spiroff, University of Mississippi spiroff@olemiss.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Semidualizing modules and Bass numbers.
    Sean Sather-Wagstaff*, North Dakota State University
    (1047-13-265)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Examples of Some Henselian Rings.
    Dana T Weston*, University of Missouri - Columbia
    (1047-13-329)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dualizing modules and Gorenstein presentations.
    David Jorgensen, University of Texas-Arlington
    Graham J Leuschke*, Syracuse University
    Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University
    (1047-13-315)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Coherent Gorenstein Rings.
    Livia M Hummel*, University of Indianapolis
    (1047-13-259)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Generators of the defining ideals of monomial curves.
    Hema Srinivasan*, University of Missouri
    (1047-13-385)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Koszul modules over short Gorenstein local rings.
    Inês Bonacho dos Anjos Henriques*, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Liana M. Şega, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Missouri
    (1047-13-399)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Contracting endomorphisms and Gorenstein modules.
    Hamid Rahmati*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1047-13-383)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory in the Spirit of Erdos, I
  Room 143, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Kevin Ford, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ford@math.uiuc.edu
  A. J. Hildebrand, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hildebr@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A 1935 Erdős paper on prime numbers and Euler's function.
    Carl Pomerance*, Dartmouth College
    (1047-11-157)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Phase transitions in infinitely generated groups, and a problem in additive number theory.
    Melvyn B. Nathanson*, CUNY (Lehman College and the Graduate Center)
    (1047-11-12)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dense Egyptian fractions.
    Greg Martin*, University of British Columbia
    (1047-11-11)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On Carmichael and Giuga numbers.
    William D Banks*, University of Missouri
    (1047-11-356)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some problems concerning the fraction $\sigma(n)/n$.
    Paul Pollack*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1047-11-454)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Time, Scale and Frequency Methods in Harmonic Analysis, I
  Room 141, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard S. Laugesen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Laugesen@illinois.edu
  Darrin M. Speegle, St. Louis University speegled@slu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On some maximal multipliers in $L^p$.
    Ciprian Demeter*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1047-42-417)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On curvature and the bilinear multiplier problem.
    S. Zubin Gautam*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1047-42-426)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some operators related to multilinear oscillatory integrals.
    Xiaochun Li*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1047-42-496)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Time-frequency localization and sampling of multiband signals.
    Joseph D Lakey*, New Mexico State University
    (1047-42-34)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Gabor frames and directional time--frequency analysis.
    Loukas Grafakos*, University of Missouri
    Christopher Sansing, Department of Defense
    (1047-42-199)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Spline Wavelets, Finite Element Wavelets, and Wavelets with Composite Dilation.
    Tian-Xiao He*, Illinois Wesleyan University
    (1047-42-214)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Sparsity Equivalence of Anisotropic Decompositions.
    David L. Donoho, Stanford University
    Gitta Kutyniok*, University of Osnabrueck
    (1047-42-319)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Hyperbolic Geometry and Teichmuller Theory, I
  Room 443, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Jason Deblois, University of Illinois at Chicago jdelbois@math.uic.edu
  Richard P. Kent, IV, Brown University rpkfour@gmail.com
  Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign clein@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Title: The Casson invariant and the word metric on the Torelli group.
    Nathan Broaddus*, University of Chicago
    Benson Farb, University of Chicago
    Andrew Putman, MIT
    (1047-57-185)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The determinant of the Laplacian, Lyapunov exponents and volumes of strata of quadratic differentials.
    Alex Eskin*, University of Chicago
    (1047-37-293)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Controlling covers of arithmetic orbifolds.
    D B McReynolds*, University of Chicago
    (1047-51-107)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Four-free groups and hyperbolic geometry.
    Marc Culler*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Peter B. Shalen, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1047-57-316)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A combinatorial property of isometric Z-actions and geodesic flow.
    Ian Biringer*, University of Chicago
    (1047-51-149)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Epstein surfaces, trees, and bubbles.
    David Dumas*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1047-53-182)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topological Dynamics and Ergodic Theory, I
  Room 345, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Alica Miller, University of Louisville amiller@erdos.math.louisville.edu
  Joseph Rosenblatt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign rosnbltt@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Rudolph's Thesis.
    Matthew Foreman*, UC Irvine
    (1047-37-452)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A concentration function estimate and intersective sets from matrices.
    Paul Balister, Memphis
    Randall McCutcheon*, Memphis
    (1047-37-289)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    About positive and zero exponents of $SL(2,R)$ valued cocycles over irrational rotation flows, in the smooth category.
    Mahesh G Nerurkar*, Rutgers University, New Jersey, 08102.
    (1047-37-165)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The set of sequence entropies for a given space.
    Xiangdong Ye*, university of science and technology of china
    (1047-37-110)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Pointwise Ergodic Theorem along squares.
    Ciprian Demeter*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1047-37-416)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Multiple ergodic theorems for Hardy field sequences.
    Nikos Frantzikinakis*, University of Memphis
    (1047-37-440)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on q-Series and Partitions, I
  Room 147, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Bruce Berndt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign berndt@math.uiuc.edu
  Ae Ja Yee, Pennsylvania State University yee@math.psu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A partial theta identity of Ramanujan and its number theoretic interpretation.
    Krishnaswami Alladi*, University of Florida
    (1047-11-131)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The GBG-Rank , 4-cores and 3-cores.
    Alexander Berkovich*, Mathematics Department, University of Florida
    (1047-05-328)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rank and crank partition congruences.
    Frank G Garvan*, University of Florida
    (1047-11-371)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Ranks for a Function Related to Overpartitions.
    Song Heng Chan*, Nanyang Technological University
    Ae Ja Yee, Penn State University
    (1047-11-422)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Proof of Sellers' Conjecture.
    Peter Paule*, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC)
    (1047-11-370)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Number theoretic properties of generating functions related to Dyson's rank for partitions into distinct parts.
    Maria J Monks*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1047-11-99)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the subpartitions of the ordinary partitions.
    Byungchan Kim*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (1047-11-89)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Concrete Aspects of Real Positive Polynomials, I
  Room 162, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Victoria Powers, Emory University vicki@mathcs.emory.edu
  Bruce Reznick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reznick@illinois.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Optimizing Polynomials via Low Dimensional Restrictions.
    Grigoriy Blekherman*, Brooklyn, NY
    (1047-26-298)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A convex polynomial that is not SOS-convex.
    Amir Ali Ahmadi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Pablo A. Parrilo*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1047-12-415)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rational sums of squares and applications.
    Christopher Jacques Hillar*, MSRI
    (1047-13-424)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Diagonal minus tail forms and Lasserre's sufficient conditions for sums of squares.
    Carla Fidalgo*, Departamento de Física e Matemática, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra
    Alexander Kovacec, Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Coimbra
    (1047-14-246)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Noncoercive sums of squares in $\mathbb{R} [x_1, ... ,x_n]$.
    Gregory C Verchota*, Syracuse University
    (1047-12-65)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Hilbert's theorem for psd ternary sextics.
    Bruce Reznick*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1047-14-390)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on The Logic and Combinatorics of Algebraic Structures, I
  Room 203, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  John Snow, Concordia University john.snow@cune.edu
  Jeremy Alm, Illinois College alm.academic@gmail.com
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Relation algebras from group actions.
    Jeremy F Alm*, Illinois College
    (1047-03-170)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Birelativized relation algebras.
    Richard L Kramer*, Iowa State University
    (1047-03-121)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Chromatic Graphs, Ramsey Numbers, and the Flexible Atom Conjecture.
    Jeremy F. Alm, Illinois College
    Roger D. Maddux, Iowa State University
    Jacob Manske*, Iowa State University
    (1047-05-71)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Relational relevance algebras.
    Roger D Maddux*, Iowa State University
    (1047-03-100)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Clones with finitely many relative $\mathcal R$-classes.
    Agnes E. Szendrei*, University of Colorado
    Erkko Lehtonen, University of Luxembourg
    (1047-08-173)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Moufang sets of finite Morley rank.
    Josh Wiscons*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1047-20-148)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Group Theory
  Room 445, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Sergei V. Ivanov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ivanov@math.uiuc.edu
  Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign kapovich@math.uiuc.edu
  Igor Mineyev, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign mineyev@math.uiuc.edu
  Paul E. Schupp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign schupp@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Classifying surface bundles.
    Daniel P. Groves*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1047-20-195)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Sofic groups and profinite topology on free groups.
    Lev Glebsky*, UASLP, Mexico. UIUC visiting.
    L.M. Rivera, University of Zacatecaz, Mexico
    (1047-20-369)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dehn functions of solvable groups.
    Kevin Wortman*, University of Utah
    (1047-20-335)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Search problems in group theory.
    Vladimir Shpilrain*, The City College of New York
    (1047-20-324)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Packing subgroups and relative hyperbolicity.
    G Christopher Hruska*, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
    Daniel T Wise, McGill University
    (1047-20-468)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics and Probability, I
  Room 204, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Marlos A. G. Viana, University of Illinois at Chicago viana@uic.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Self-avoiding generating sequences for Fourier lattice designs.
    Henry P Wynn*, London School of Economics
    (1047-03-64)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Kiefer-complete classes of designs for cubic mixture models.
    Thomas Klein*, Technische Universität München, Germany
    (1047-62-44)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Non-Parametric Modeling and Survey Design for Censored Preference Data.
    Paul Kidwell*, Purdue University
    Yi Mao, Purdue University
    Guy Lebanon, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1047-62-21)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dihedral Fourier Analysis in Statistical Optics.
    Marlos A.G. Viana*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
    (1047-42-180)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, I
  Room 161, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Alexander V. Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign kostochk@math.uiuc.edu
  Douglas B. West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign west@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Packing seagulls.
    Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University
    Paul Seymour*, Princeton University
    (1047-05-314)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Compact topological cliques in sparse graphs.
    Tao Jiang*, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
    (1047-05-111)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Finding minors in graphs with a given path structure.
    André Kündgen*, California State University San Marcos
    Michael Pelsmajer, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Radhika Ramamurthi, California State University San Marcos
    (1047-05-467)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Graph Minors and graph linkages.
    Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
    Gexin Yu*, College of William and Mary
    (1047-05-244)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $K_5$-subdivisions in 5-connected nonplanar graphs.
    Jie Ma, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Xingxing Yu*, Georgia institute of Technology
    (1047-05-104)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Teledomination in special graph classes: A survey of algorithmic and complexity results.
    Jan Kratochvil*, Charles University, Prague
    (1047-05-436)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Rao's degree sequence conjecture and well-quasi-ordering tournaments by immersion.
    Maria Chudnovsky*, Columbia Univeristy
    Paul Seymour, Princeton Univeristy
    (1047-05-239)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics, I
  Room 163, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
  Zoltan Furedi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign z-furedi@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    New results in Erdos-Frankl-Rodl theory.
    Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Bela Bollobas, Cambridge Univerity, UK and U. of Memphis, TN
    Miklos Simonovits*, Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary
    (1047-05-334)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Random transceiver networks.
    Paul Balister*, University of Memphis
    Béla Bollobás, Cambridge University, UK, and University of Memphis
    Mark Walters, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
    (1047-60-419)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the sum-product problem.
    Jozsef Solymosi*, Department of Mathematics. University of British Columbia
    (1047-05-307)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Counting graphs without a fixed subgraph.
    Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Wojciech Samotij*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1047-05-339)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the minimum degree of minimal Ramsey graphs.
    Tibor Szabo*, McGill University
    Philipp Zumstein, ETH Zurich
    Stefanie Zuercher, ETH Zurich
    (1047-05-471)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Independent dominating sets in graphs of girth five.
    Jacques A Verstraete*, University of California San Diego
    (1047-05-481)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Phylogenetic combinatorics.
    Laszlo A Szekely*, University of South Carolina
    (1047-05-183)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Visualization, I
  Room 102, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  George K. Francis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gfrancis@uiuc.edu
  Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago kauffman@uic.edu
  Dennis Martin Roseman, University of Iowa roseman@math.uiowa.edu
  Andrew J. Hanson, Indiana University hanson@cs.indiana.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Partiview in the Cube.
    Stuart Levy*, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, U Illinois, Urbana
    William Davis, University of Illinois, Urbana
    (1047-51-288)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Holomorphic and CR Mappings, I
  Room 343, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  John P. D'Angelo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jpda@math.uiuc.edu
  Jiri Lebl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jlebl@math.uiuc.edu
  Alex Tumanov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign tumanov@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Möbius geometry of hypersurfaces.
    Michael D Bolt*, Calvin College
    (1047-32-408)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    CR singularities of real $4$-manifolds in ${\mathbb{C}}^3$.
    Adam Coffman*, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne
    (1047-32-54)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Regularity in the CR embedding problem.
    Xianghong Gong*, University of Wisconsin
    Sidney M. Webster, University of Chicago
    (1047-32-479)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Holomorphic Extensions in Toric Varieties.
    Malgorzata Aneta Marciniak*, Misssouri University of Science and Technology
    (1047-32-33)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Geometry of Tube-like Domains in $\mathbb C^2$.
    Roman J. Dwilewicz*, Missouri University of Science and Technology
    (1047-32-457)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Explicit Construction of Moduli Space of Bounded Complete Reinhardt Domains in $C^n$ and Hilbert 14th Problems.
    S. T. Stephen Yau*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Rong Du, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Yun Gao, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1047-53-53)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Session on Session for Contributed Papers, I
  Room 304, Noyes Lab
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    LLL reduction and a conjecture of Gunnells.
    Darrin M. Doud*, Brigham Young University
    (1047-11-187)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Powered sum formulas via term-wise integrations: a geometric point of view.
    Hung-ping Tsao*, Novato, California
    (1047-11-06)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Variants the Diophantine equation $x! + 1 = y^2$.
    Alain Togbe*, Purdue University North Central
    (1047-11-343)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ramanujan Primes and Bertrand's Postulate.
    Jonathan Sondow*, New York, NY
    (1047-11-391)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Flat Primes and Thin Primes.
    Kevin A Broughan*, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
    (1047-11-56)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Method of Infinite Ascent applied on $2^p.A^6 + B^3 = C^2$.
    Susil Kumar Jena*, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar-751024, Orissa, India
    (1047-11-09)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On the Construction of Skew Quasi-Cyclic Codes.
    T Abualrub, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
    A Ghrayeb, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
    N Aydin*, Kenyon College, Ohio, USA
    I Siap, Adiyaman Univ., Adiyaman, Turkey
    (1047-05-35)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Mutually orthogonal latin squares based on groups.
    Anthony B Evans*, Wright State University
    (1047-05-28)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Geometric Figures as Sets of Convergent, Divergent and Parallel Lines and Surfaces.
    Stewart E Brekke*, International University for Graduate Studies
    (1047-00-19)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Deformation Theory as a generalization of Lie Theory.
    Lucian Miti Ionescu*, Illinois State University
    (1047-18-106)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The $sl_3$ Selberg integral.
    S. Ole Warnaar*, The University of Queensland, Australia
    (1047-05-341)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Using Mathematica to Visualize Bifurcation and Chaos in the Dynamics of Symplectic Integrators.
    O. Michael Melko*, Northern State University
    (1047-37-409)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, I
  Room 341, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Stephanie B. Alexander, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign stephanieb.alexander@gmail.com
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Quasilinearization, Euler's inequality and Aleksandrov's curvature.
    Igor G Nikolaev*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1047-53-253)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Conjugate points and non injectivity of the exponential map.
    Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
    Benjamin Schmidt, University of Chicago
    (1047-53-66)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Compact convex central cross-sections make surfaces quadric.
    Bruce M Solomon*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1047-53-271)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Leafwise entropy rigidity for foliations.
    Chris Connell*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Zhenyu Li, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1047-53-299)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Effective universal coverings and their applications.
    Alexander Nabutovsky*, University of Toronto
    (1047-53-150)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Short geodesic loops on complete Riemannian manifolds.
    Regina Rotman*, University of Toronto
    (1047-53-164)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Function Theory and Analysis on Metric Spaces, I
  Room 447, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Sergiy Merenkov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign merenkov@uiuc.edu
  Jeremy Taylor Tyson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign tyson@math.uiuc.edu
  Jang-Mei Wu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign wu@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of quasiconformal fields.
    Jani Onninen*, Syracuse University
    Tadeusz Iwaniec, Syracuse University
    Leonid V Kovalev, Syracuse University
    (1047-30-489)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Thurston obstructions and Ahlfors regular conformal dimension.
    Kevin M Pilgrim*, Dept. Math., Indiana University
    Peter Haissinsky, Universite de Provence
    (1047-37-247)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Invariant Peano curves of expanding Thurston maps.
    Daniel Meyer*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki
    (1047-37-309)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Uniform Metric Spaces and Pointed Gromov-Hausdorff Distance.
    David A Herron*, University of Cincinnati
    (1047-51-437)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Metric cotype and quasisymmetric embeddings.
    Kevin Wildrick*, University of Jyväskylä
    Ellen Veomett, California State University, East Bay
    (1047-46-134)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Finite distortion, value distribution, and cohomology.
    Pekka J. Pankka*, University of Michigan
    (1047-30-176)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On approximate differentiability of the maximal function.
    Piotr Hajlasz*, University of Pittsburgh
    Jan Maly, Charles University and Purkyne University (Czech Republic)
    (1047-46-410)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Topological Field Theories, Representation Theory, and Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 347, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas Nevins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign nevins@uiuc.edu
  David Ben-Zvi, University of Texas at Austin benzvi@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Representation Theory and Equivariant Topological Field Theories.
    Dmytro Shklyarov*, Kansas State University
    (1047-81-102)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Moduli problems and localization functors in orbifold CFT.
    Matthew M Szczesny*, Boston University
    (1047-14-142)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on The Interface Between Number Theory and Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 245, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Florin Boca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign fboca@math.uiuc.edu
  Jeffrey Lagarias, University of Michigan lagarias@umich.edu
  Kenneth Stolarsky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign stolarsk@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    (Non)-uniform bounds for rational preperiodic points in arithmetic dynamics.
    Robert L. Benedetto*, Amherst College
    (1047-11-73)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dynamical Mordell-Lang problems.
    Thomas J Tucker*, University of Rochester
    (1047-11-23)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Galois theory of iterated Euclidean constructions.
    R. Patrick Morton*, Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)
    (1047-12-464)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the Number of Rational Pre-Images of the Origin Under Quadratic Dynamical Systems.
    Xander Faber, McGill University
    Benjamin Hutz*, Amherst College
    (1047-11-445)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Operator Spaces, I
  Room 145, Altgeld Hall
  Organizers:
  Zhong-Jin Ruan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ruan@math.uiuc.edu
  Florin P. Boca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign fboca@math.uiuc.edu
  Marius Junge, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign junge@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Continuous Deformations of Commuting Squares.
    Remus Nicoara*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1047-47-465)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Property $T$ for Discrete Quantum Groups.
    Pierre Fima*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1047-46-355)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Normalizers of Subalgebras of Finite von Neumann Algebras.
    Alan D Wiggins*, Vanderbilt University
    Junsheng Fang, Texas A&M University
    Roger Smith, Texas A&M University
    Stuart White, University of Glasgow
    (1047-46-480)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Intersection theory in a finite von Neumann algebra.
    Hari Bercovici*, Indiana University
    (1047-46-348)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Strong sums of projections.
    Victor Kaftal*, University of Cincinnati
    (1047-47-311)
• Friday March 27, 2009, 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  L-functions: Identities and estimates.
  Room 314, Altgeld Hall
  Akshay Venkatesh*, New York University-Courant Institute
  (1047-11-01)

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