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2007 Fall Central Section Meeting
Chicago, IL, October 5-6, 2007 (Friday - Saturday)
Meeting #1030

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

Friday October 5, 2007

Friday October 5, 2007, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Lobby (8th Floor), Lewis Center

Friday October 5, 2007, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Lobby (8th Floor), Lewis Center

Friday October 5, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Sequence Spaces and Transformations, I
Room 1107, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Constantine Georgakis, DePaul University cgeorgak@condor.depaul.edu
Martin Buntinas, Loyola University of Chicago mbuntin@math.luc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  A Survey of G\"{u}nther Goes' Research Work II.
  Martin G Buntinas*, Loyola University Chicago
  (1030-40-135)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Abel Summability of Laguerre and Jacobi Functions Expansions.
  Calixto P. Calderon*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1030-42-166)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On some recent results on sequence spaces.
  R N Mohapatra*, University of Central Florida
  (1030-40-212)

Friday October 5, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Analysis and CR Geometry, I
Room 8207, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Song-Ying Li, University of California Irvine sli@math.uci.edu
Stephen S-T Yau, University of Illinois at Chicago yau@uic.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Regularity of solutions of non-subelliptic PDE's.
  David S Tartakoff*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1030-32-420)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Positive closed currents on pseudoconcave sets with thin fibers.
  Zbigniew Slodkowski*, University of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. of Mathematics, Stat. and Comp. Sci., Chicago, Illinois 60607
  (1030-32-384)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Remarks on overconvergence.
  Harold P. Boas*, Texas A&M University
  (1030-32-177)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Extension of Levi-flat hypersurfaces past CR boundaries.
  Jiri Lebl*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1030-32-45)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Chern-Weil forms on CY moduli.
  Zhiqin Lu*, UCI
  (1030-58-114)

Friday October 5, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algorithmic Probability and Combinatorics, I
Room 1006, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Manuel Lladser, University of Colorado lladser@colorado.edu
Robert S. Maier, University of Arizona rsm@math.arizona.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Phase Changes in Subtree Varieties in Random Trees.
  Hosam M. Mahmoud*, The George Washington University
  (1030-60-129)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Number of $k$-Cousins in Tries and Suffix Trees.
  Hosam M. Mahmoud, The George Washington University
  Mark Daniel Ward*, Purdue University
  (1030-60-370)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quantum random walks in one dimension via generating functions.
  Andrew Bressler*, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Mathematics
  (1030-05-155)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Hybrid of Darboux's Method and Singularity Analysis in Combinatorial Asymptotics.
  Eric Fusy*, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
  Philippe Flajolet, Projet ALGO, INRIA Rocquencourt, France
  Xavier Gourdon, Paris, France
  Daniel Panario, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, Ottawa
  Nicolas Pouyanne, Universit� de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, France
  (1030-05-80)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Effective methods in multivariate asymptotics.
  Robin Pemantle*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1030-05-13)

Friday October 5, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Smooth Dynamical Systems, I
Room 8012, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University mgidea@neiu.edu
Ilie D. Ugarcovici, DePaul University iugarcov@depaul.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Geometric methods for instability in Hamiltonian systems.
  A. Delshams, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya
  M. Gidea, Northeastern IIllinois University
  R. de la Llave*, Univ. of Texas at Austin
  T. M.-Seara, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya
  (1030-37-317)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Arnold diffusion for non polynomial perturbations of an a-priori unstable Hamiltonian system.
  Gemma Huguet*, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
  Amadeu Delshams, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
  (1030-37-79)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Shadowing orbits for transition chains of invariant tori.
  Clark Robinson*, Northwestern University
  (1030-37-178)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dynamics of Volume-Preserving Maps near a Saddle-Node-Hopf Bifurcation.
  James D Meiss*, University of Colorado
  (1030-37-52)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A result regarding the boundary map of an attractor-repeller pair.
  Catalin Georgescu*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of South Dakota
  (1030-37-359)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Conservation Laws and Related Problems, I
Room 8010, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Cleopatra Christoforou, University of Houston cleopatra@math.uh.edu.
Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University gqchen@math.northwestern.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Time analyticity and backwards uniqueness of weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations of multidimensional, compressible flow.
  David Hoff*, Indiana University
  Eugene Tsyganov, Indiana University
  (1030-35-14)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Global Solution to the Multi-Dimensional Equations of Compressible Magnetohydrodynamic Flows.
  Dehua Wang*, University of Pittsburgh
  (1030-35-15)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A bound from below for the temperature in compressible Navier-Stokes equations.
  Antoine Mellet, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
  Alexis F. Vasseur*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1030-35-12)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Optimal regularity near sonic line for regular shock reflection.
  Myoungjean Bae, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
  Mikhail Feldman*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1030-35-33)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applied Harmonic Analysis, I
Room 8002, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Jonathan Cohen, DePaul University jcohen@math.depaul.edu
Ahmed I. Zayed, DePaul University azayed@math.depaul.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Cyclic frames, burst erasures and statistics.
  Bernhard G Bodmann*, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston
  (1030-42-252)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rotational invariance and multiresolution analysis for 2D and 3D-image analysis.
  Juan R Romero, University of Houston
  Manos Papadakis*, University of Houston
  Saurabh Jain, University of Houston
  Simon K Alexander, University of Houston
  Shikha Baid, University of Houston
  (1030-41-361)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Decomposition and generalized wavelet bases on fractals.
  Palle E. T. Jorgensen*, The University of Iowa
  (1030-41-06)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Applications of the Theory of Self-Adjoint Extensions of Symmetric Operator in Sampling and Interpolation.
  Yufang Hao*, Department of Applied Mathematics / University of Waterloo
  (1030-43-110)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Singular Integrals and Related Problems, I
Room 8011, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Laura De Carli, Florida International University decarlil@fiu.edu
A. M. Stokolos, DePaul University astokolo@condor.depaul.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On Besov-Lipschitz spaces for Hermite polynomial expasions for any $\alpha >0$.
  Ebner Pineda, Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado
  Wilfredo O Urbina*, Universidad Central de Venezuela and DePaul University
  (1030-42-203)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Existence of positive definite noncoercive sums ofsquares of real polynomials.
  Gregory C Verchota*, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244
  (1030-12-141)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Algebras of rough singular integrals.
  Dmitry Ryabogin*, Kent State University
  (1030-42-375)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Calderon-Zygmund Theory on uniformly rectifiable domains.
  Marius Mitrea*, University of Missouri-Columbia
  (1030-42-335)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Combinatorics, I
Room 1005, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Caroline J. Klivans, University of Chicago cjk@math.uchicago.edu
Kathryn Nyman, Loyola University Chicago knyman@luc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On sequentially Cohen-Macaulay complexes and posets.
  Anders Bjorner, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
  Michelle L. Wachs*, University of Miami
  Volkmar Welker, Marburg University, Germany
  (1030-05-413)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Matroid base polytope decompositions and quasisymmetric functions.
  Kurt W. Luoto*, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  (1030-05-182)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Zonotopes of Line Shellings of Polytopes.
  Catherine Stenson*, Juniata College
  (1030-52-349)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Tropical hyperplane arrangements and oriented matroids.
  Federico Ardila*, San Francisco State University
  Mike Develin, American Institute of Mathematics
  (1030-52-172)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Numerical and Symbolic Techniques in Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications, I
Room 1110, Lewis Center
Organizers:
GianMario Besana, DePaul University gbesana@cti.depaul.edu
Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago jan@math.uic.edu
Zhonggang Zeng, Northeastern Illinois University zzeng@neiu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Recent Results in Numerical Algebraic Geometry.
  Andrew Sommese*, University of Notre Dame,
  (1030-65-311)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Algebraic Structures in Finite Element Computation.
  Matthew G. Knepley*, Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division
  Dmitry Karpeev, Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division
  (1030-65-424)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Parallel Implementation of a Subsystem-by-Subsystem Solver.
  Yun Guan*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1030-65-318)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Likelihood ratio tests and singularities.
  Mathias Drton*, University of Chicago
  (1030-62-200)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory (in honor of Harold N. Ward's retirement), I
Room 1217, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Jay A. Wood, Western Michigan University jay.wood@wmich.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Additive Cyclic Codes over $F_4$.
  W. Cary Huffman*, Loyola University of Chicago
  (1030-94-148)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Formally self-dual additive codes over $\mathbb F_4$.
  Sunghyu Han, University of Louisville
  Jon-Lark Kim*, University of Louisville
  (1030-94-161)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Twisted Tensor Product Codes.
  Anton Betten*, Colorado State University
  (1030-05-63)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Constacyclic Codes over Galois Extension Rings of $\mathbb F_2+u\mathbb F_2$.
  Hai Q Dinh*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, 4314 Mahoning Avenue, Warren, OH 44483
  (1030-94-385)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes and Related Topics, I
Room 1216, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Sung Y. Song, Iowa State University sysong@iastate.edu
Paul Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin terwilli@math.wisc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Symmetrizable three-class association schemes and Schur rings.
  Sung Y. Song*, Iowa State University
  (1030-05-163)
- 9:30 a.m.
  New non-symmetric 3-class association schemes on 64 points.
  Leif K. J{\o}rgensen*, Aalborg University
  (1030-05-87)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Subsets of Coherent Configurations.
  Sylvia A. Hobart*, University of Wyoming
  (1030-05-191)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Cometric association schemes with the $Q$-antipodal property.
  William J Martin*, Department of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  (1030-05-184)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, I
Room 1214, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Hemanshu Kaul, Illinois Institute of Technology kaul@iit.edu
Michael J. Pelsmajer, Illinois Institute of Technology pelsmajer@iit.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  List-coloring the square of a subcubic graph.
  Daniel W Cranston*, DIMACS, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
  Seog-Jin Kim, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
  (1030-05-196)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Randomized Coloring Procedure with Symmetry-Breaking.
  Sriram Pemmaraju*, The University of Iowa
  Aravind Srinivasan, University of Maryland, College Park
  (1030-05-226)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Distance graph -- $p$-adic approach.
  Jeong-Hyun Kang*, University of West Georgia
  Hiren Maharaj, Clemson University
  (1030-05-402)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Distance Related Graph Labelings.
  Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo*, Valparaiso University
  (1030-05-353)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Model Theory of Non-elementary Classes, I
Room 1106, Lewis Center
Organizers:
John T. Baldwin, University of Illinois at Chicago jbaldwin@uic.edu
David W. Kueker, University of Maryland dwk@math.umd.edu
Rami Grossberg, Carnegie Mellon University rami@cmu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Unique Non-splitting Extensions in AEC.
  John T. Baldwin*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1030-03-347)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The white region of the map of AECs.
  Rami Grossberg*, Carnegie Mellon University
  (1030-03-393)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Superstability in Abstract Elementary Classes.
  Monica VanDieren*, Robert Morris University
  (1030-03-297)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Networks, I
Room 1111, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston mg@uh.edu
Mary Silber, Northwestern University m-silber@northwestern.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Networkology.
  Adilson E. Motter*, Northwestern University
  (1030-37-392)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Modules and roles: towards a cartography of complex biological networks.
  Roger Guimera*, Northwestern University
  (1030-92-74)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Delay Differential Equation Model of Cellular Protein Translation from First Principles.
  Luis Mier-y-Teran, Northwestern University and EPFL
  Mary Silber*, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University
  Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
  (1030-92-157)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Noise-induced limit cycle transitions in a coupled oscillator network.
  Peter J. Thomas*, Case Western University
  (1030-92-428)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Related Areas, I
Room 1210, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Yevgenia Kashina, DePaul University ykashina@condor.depaul.edu
Leonid Krop, DePaul University lkrop@condor.depaul.edu
M. Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California smontgom@math.usc.edu
David E. Radford, University of Illinois at Chicago radford@uic.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Group grading and Hopf actions on algebras.
  Yuri Bahturin, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  Mikhail Kochetov*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California
  (1030-17-301)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Characters of projective modules and invariants of the adjoint action.
  Miriam Cohen*, Ben Gurion University
  Sara Westreich, Bar Ilan University
  (1030-16-107)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Verlinde type formula for factorizable ribbon Hopf algebras.
  Sara Westreich*, Bar Ilan University
  Miriam Cohen, Ben Gurion University
  (1030-16-106)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Some combinatorial identities via Hopf algebra methods.
  Earl J Taft*, Rutgers University
  (1030-16-46)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, I
Room 1004, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois at Chicago mubayi@math.uic.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 9:30 a.m.
  On hypergraph Tur\'an numbers.
  Linyuan Lu, University of South Carolina
  Yi Zhao*, Georgia State University
  (1030-05-136)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On families of subsets with a forbidden subposet.
  Jerrold R. Griggs, University of South Carolina
  Linyuan Lu*, Univeristy of South Carolina
  (1030-05-390)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Packing of graphs with small product of sizes.
  Alenxandr V. Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Gexin Yu*, Vanderbilt University
  (1030-05-249)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 8209, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Lawrence Man Hou Ein, University of Illinois at Chicago ein@math.uic.edu
Anatoly S. Libgober, University of Illinois at Chicago libgober@math.uic.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Kawanoue program: an approach toward resolution of singularities in positive characteristic.
  Kenji Matsuki*, Purdue University
  (1030-14-149)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Limits of log canonical thresholds.
  Tommaso de Fernex, University of Utah
  Mircea I Mustata*, University of Michigan
  (1030-14-160)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Symbolic Dynamical Systems, I
Room 8014, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Ayse A. Sahin, DePaul University asahin@condor.depaul.edu
Ilie D. Ugarcovici, DePaul University iugarcov@depaul.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Multicorrelations and Nilsequences.
  Bryna Kra*, Northwestern University
  (1030-37-145)
- 9:30 a.m.
  New examples of sets of multiple recurrence.
  Nikos Frantzikinakis*, University of Memphis
  (1030-37-292)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Weak mixing implies weak mixing of higher orders along tempered functions.
  Inger J. H\aa land Knutson*, Agder University College
  (1030-37-25)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Solvability of Rado systems in D-sets.
  Alexander Fish*, The Ohio State University
  Mathias Beiglb�ck, Technical University Vienna
  Vitaly Bergelson, The Ohio State University
  Tomasz Downarowicz, Wroclaw University of Technology
  (1030-37-401)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Automorphic Forms: Representation Theory of p-adic and Adelic Groups, I
Room 1207, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Mahdi Asgari, Oklahoma State University asgari@math.okstate.edu
Anantharam Raghuram, Oklahoma State University araghur@math.okstate.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  $L$-functions and Functoriality.
  James W. Cogdell*, Ohio State University
  (1030-11-324)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Sign Changes for Hecke eigenvalues of Siegel cusp forms of degree 2.
  Ameya Pitale*, University of Oklahoma, Norman
  (1030-11-260)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the Fourier coefficients of automorphic foms on GL(2).
  Muthukrishnan Krishnamurthy*, University of Iowa
  (1030-11-372)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Wave Propagation from Mathematical and Numerical Viewpoints, I
Room 8009, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Gabriel Koch, University of Chicago koch@math.uchicago.edu
Catalin Constantin Turc, Caltech and University of North Carolina at Charlotte turc@acm.caltech.edu
Nicolae Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some Mathematical Problems in Optics: A Preliminary Report.
  Gang Bao*, Michigan State University
  (1030-78-278)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Decay rates for partially dissipative hyperbolic systems.
  Enrique Zuazua Iriondo*, IMDEA-Matem�ticas & Universidad Aut�noma de Madrid
  (1030-35-42)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Global well-posedness in the energy space for the Kadomstev-Petviashvili I equation.
  Carlos E. Kenig*, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago
  (1030-35-67)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A semiclassical transport model for thin quantum barrier.
  Shi Jin*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Kyle Novak, Air Force Institute of Technology
  (1030-65-209)

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations, I
Room 8005, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Alexey Cheskidov, University of Michigan acheskid@umich.edu
Susan J. Friedlander, University of Illinois at Chicago susan@math.uic.edu
Roman Shvydkoy, University of Illinois at Chicago shvydkoy@math.uic.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Kdv-KdV-type Boussinesq system -- from the energy level to analytic spaces.
  Jerry L Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Zoran Grujic*, University of Virginia
  Kalisch Henrik, University of Bergen
  (1030-35-417)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Vanishing viscosity with vorticity in a borderline space of Besov type.
  Elaine M. Cozzi*, Carnegie Mellon University
  James P. Kelliher, Brown University
  (1030-76-331)
- 10:30 a.m.
  3D Vortex Sheets and Water Waves.
  David M. Ambrose*, Clemson University
  (1030-35-352)

Friday October 5, 2007, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Invited Address
Symmetry breaking and synchrony breaking.
Room 8005, DePaul Center
Martin Golubitsky*, University of Houston
(1030-34-05)

Friday October 5, 2007, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Representations of Pointed Hopf Algebras.
Room 8005, DePaul Center
David E. Radford*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(1030-16-04)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Sequence Spaces and Transformations, II
Room 1107, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Constantine Georgakis, DePaul University cgeorgak@condor.depaul.edu
Martin Buntinas, Loyola University of Chicago mbuntin@math.luc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Pointwise Fourier Inversion.
  Mark A. Pinsky*, Mathematics Department, Northwestern University, Evanston IL 60208-2730
  (1030-42-64)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Summability Methods and Probabilistic Approximation Operators.
  Jerry P. King*, Lehigh University
  (1030-40-31)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On spaces ``close'' to $L^{p}(\mathbb{T})$.
  J. Marshall Ash*, DePaul University
  Sergey Tikonov, Scuola Normale Superiore
  James Tung, DePaul University
  (1030-42-187)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Conservation Laws and Related Problems, II
Room 8010, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Cleopatra Christoforou, University of Houston cleopatra@math.uh.edu
Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University gqchen@math.northwestern.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Transonic steady irrotational flow of a compressible gas.
  Marshall Slemrod*, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1030-35-07)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Kinetic Formulations and Regularizing Effects in Quasi-Linear PDEs.
  Eitan Tadmor*, University of Maryland
  Terence Tao, UC Los Angeles
  (1030-35-18)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Nonlinear variational systems of wave equations.
  John K Hunter*, University of California at davis
  (1030-35-201)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Weak solutions of hydrodynamic equations.
  Peter Constantin*, The University of Chicago
  (1030-35-216)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Onsager's conjecture and a Model for Turbulence.
  Susan Friedlander*, University of Illinois-Chicago and USC
  (1030-76-51)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Boundary behavior of compressible, viscous fluid flows.
  Misha Perepeltisa*, Vanderbilt University
  (1030-35-59)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On the existence and uniqueness of a solution to a mixed hyperbolic-parabolic free-boundary problem arising in blood flow modeling.
  Suncica Canic*, University of Houston
  Taebeom Kim, University of Houston
  Giovanna Guidoboni, University of Houston
  Andro Mikelic, University of Lyon 1
  (1030-35-34)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Analysis and CR Geometry, II
Room 8207, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Song-Ying Li, University of California Irvine sli@math.uci.edu
Stephen S-T Yau, University of Illinois at Chicago yau@uic.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  CR mappings from Lens spaces to spheres and to hyperquadrics.
  John P. D'Angelo*, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  (1030-32-77)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Geometric analysis of the Kohn Laplacian on a family of pseudoconvex hypersurfaces.
  Der-Chen E. Chang*, Georgetown University
  (1030-32-411)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Estimates for the Bergman kernel on monomial polyhedra -- preliminary report.
  Alexander Nagel*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1030-32-151)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A fundamental inequality for holomorphic curves into projective varieties.
  Min Ru*, University of Houston
  (1030-32-303)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Regularity for the integrability problem for almost CR vector bundles on strongly pseudoconvex real hypersurfaces.
  Xianghong Gong*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Sidney M. Webster, University of Chicago
  (1030-32-116)
- 5:00 p.m.
  local dynamics of holomorphic diffeomorphisms.
  Feng Rong*, Syracuse University
  (1030-32-09)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Coupled Singular Perturbations and Periodic Homogenization in Phase Transitions.
  Cristina Popovici*, North Dakota State University
  (1030-49-410)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Applied Harmonic Analysis, II
Room 8002, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Jonathan Cohen, DePaul University jcohen@math.depaul.edu
Ahmed I. Zayed, DePaul University azayed@math.depaul.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Chromatic series of prolate spheroidal waves and wavelets.
  Gilbert G Walter*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (1030-41-117)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Paley-Wiener-Type Theorem in a Hilbert Space.
  Ahmed I Zayed*, DePaul University
  Isaac Pesenson, Temple University
  (1030-42-236)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Optimal Non-Linear Models for Compressed Sensing and Sampling.
  Akram Aldroubi*, Vanderbilt University
  Carlos Cabrelli, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Ursula Molter, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
  (1030-41-396)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discrete Fourier Transform on compact manifolds and finite graphs.
  Isaac Pesenson*, Department of Mathematics CCP and Temple University
  (1030-42-70)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Lagrange Interpolation by Periodic Prolate Spheroidal Wavelets.
  Xiaoping Shen*, Ohio University
  (1030-42-159)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Singular Integrals and Related Problems, II
Room 8011, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Laura De Carli, Florida International University decarlil@fiu.edu
A. M. Stokolos, DePaul University astokolo@condor.depaul.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Sharp $A_1$ bounds for Calder�n-Zygmund operators and the relationship with a problem of Muckenhoupt and Wheeden.
  Carlos P�rez*, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) and Kansas University
  Andrei Lerner, Universidad de Sevilla
  Sheldy Ombrosi, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca and Universidad de Sevilla
  (1030-42-348)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Radially symmetric intersection bodies with an (n-1)-dimesional face.
  Maria Alfonseca*, North Dakota State University
  Dmitry Ryabogin, Kansas State University
  Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University
  (1030-52-366)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Kakeya Sets and Directional Maximal Operators in the Plane.
  Michael Bateman*, Indiana University
  (1030-42-262)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Tauberian conditions for geometric maximal operators.
  Paul Alton Hagelstein*, Baylor University
  Alexander Stokolos, De Paul University
  (1030-42-130)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Restriction for curves and surfaces.
  Sarah N Ziesler*, University of Chicago
  (1030-42-75)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Combinatorics, II
Room 1005, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Caroline J. Klivans, University of Chicago cjk@math.uchicago.edu
Kathryn Nyman, Loyola University Chicago knyman@luc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Face numbers of simplicial manifolds.
  Isabella Novik*, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington
  Edward B Swartz, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
  (1030-05-305)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Closed geodesics and quasi-geodesics on convex surfaces.
  Igor Pak*, MIT
  (1030-52-194)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Convex hull realizations of the multiplihedra.
  Stefan A. Forcey*, Tennessee State University
  (1030-05-44)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A simplicial matrix-tree theorem, I. General results.
  Art M Duval, University of Texas, El Paso
  Caroline Klivans, University of Chicago
  Jeremy L Martin*, University of Kansas
  (1030-05-143)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A Simplicial matrix-tree theorem, II. Examples.
  Art Duval*, University of Texas at El Paso
  Caroline J. Klivans, University of Chicago
  Jeremy L. Martin, University of Kansas
  (1030-05-101)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Methods, I
Room 1108, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Atife Caglar, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay caglara@uwgb.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A Finite Element Approximation of Navier-Stokes-Alpha Model.
  Atife Caglar*, Assistant Professor
  (1030-65-398)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality with Lattice Designs.
  Fred J Hickernell*, Department of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
  (1030-65-358)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Numerical Analysis and Computational Testing of a Leray-deconvolution Turbulence Model.
  Leo Rebholz*, University Of Pittsburgh
  W Layton, University of Pittsburgh
  M Neda, University of Nevada-Las vegas
  C Manica, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
  (1030-65-409)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On The Numerical Solution of Parabolic Stochastic Differential Equation.
  Mehmet E San*, Fatih University/Istanbul/Turkey
  (1030-35-36)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, I
Room 8206, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Blocking geodesics -- a survey of recent results.
  Ben Schmidt*, U. of Chicago
  (1030-51-273)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Infinite-dimensional steepest descent flow invariants and related nonlinear ordinary differential equations.
  Anders Linn\'er*, Northern Illinois University
  (1030-58-146)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Optimization of the Distortion Energy Functional over Homotopy Classes of Diffeomorphisms.
  Oksana Bihun*, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia
  Carmen Chicone, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia
  (1030-53-24)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces with Symmetries.
  Hongyou Wu*, Northern Illinois University
  (1030-53-270)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Bismut's Formula for Heat Kernels and Its Generalizations.
  Elton P Hsu*, Northwestern University
  (1030-53-144)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Solution of first order second degree quadratic differential equation.
  Ali A. Salim*, Al nahrain University / faculity of engineering
  (1030-34-10)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Insecurity and the growth of the number of geodesics between two points.
  Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
  Eugene Gutkin, IMPA/Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika
  (1030-53-86)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Numerical and Symbolic Techniques in Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications, II
Room 1110, Lewis Center
Organizers:
GianMario Besana, DePaul University gbesana@cti.depaul.edu
Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago jan@math.uic.edu
Zhonggang Zeng, Northeastern Illinois University zzeng@neiu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Finding All Solutions to Dynamic Stochastic Games.
  Kenneth L. Judd*, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
  Karl Schmedders, Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University
  (1030-91-421)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Regeneration, adaptive multiprecision and Bertini.
  Jonathan D Hauenstein*, University of Notre Dame
  (1030-14-379)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Computing the GCD of Ore Polynomials.
  Zhonggang Zeng, Northeastern Illinois University
  Yang Zhang*, DePaul University
  (1030-16-405)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break
- 4:30 p.m.
  Numerical primary decomposition.
  Anton Leykin*, IMA, University of Minnesota
  (1030-14-376)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Computing Critical Points by Continuation.
  Kathy Wei Piret*, University of Illinois at Chicago, Dept of Math, Stat & CS
  Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. of Math, Stat & CS
  (1030-65-325)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Induction for secant varieties of Segre varieties.
  Hirotachi Abo*, University of Idaho
  Giorgio Ottaviani, University of Florence
  Chris Peterson, Colorado State University
  (1030-14-199)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory (in honor of Harold N. Ward's retirement), II
Room 1217, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Jay A. Wood, Western Michigan University jay.wood@wmich.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  New Negative Latin Square Type Partial Difference Sets in Nonelementary Abelian 2-groups and 3-groups.
  John B Polhill*, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
  (1030-05-17)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Crossover of aperiodic autocorrelation functions for quaternary sequences.
  James A Davis*, University of Richmond
  Pohl Michael, University of Richmond
  (1030-05-304)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Loose ends.
  Harold N. Ward*, University of Virginia
  (1030-94-92)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Applications of Quadratic Forms in Coding Theory.
  Gary McGuire*, University College Dublin
  (1030-94-374)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Hartmann-Tzeng-type Bounds for Cyclic Codes.
  Nigel Boston*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (1030-14-258)
- 5:00 p.m.
  LDPC codes from voltage graphs.
  Christine A. Kelley, The Ohio State University
  Judy L. Walker*, University of Nebraska
  (1030-94-355)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On the dimensions of certain LDPC codes based on $q$-regular bipartite graphs.
  Peter Sin, University of Florida
  Qing Xiang*, University of Delaware
  (1030-94-171)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes and Related Topics, II
Room 1216, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Sung Y. Song, Iowa State University sysong@iastate.edu
Paul Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin terwilli@math.wisc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Euclidean $t$-designs.
  Etsuko Bannai*, Faculty of Mathematics, Graduate School, Kyushu University
  (1030-05-247)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Delsarte LP bounds for complex systems of lines and subspaces.
  Aidan Roy*, University of Calgary
  (1030-05-404)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Perfect matchings in regular graphs from eigenvalues.
  Sebastian M. Cioab\u{a}*, University of California, San Diego
  David A. Gregory, Queen's University
  Willem H. Haemers, University of Tilburg
  (1030-05-340)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Association schemes and set partition systems.
  Karen Meagher*, University of Regina
  (1030-05-121)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A characterization of Q-polynomial triangle-free distance-regular graphs with an eigenvalue multiplicity equal to the valency.
  Aleksandar Jurisic*, Faculty of Computer and Information Science
  (1030-05-400)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:30 p.m.
  On schemes which contain a constrained set of involutions.
  Paul-Hermann Zieschang*, University of Texas at Brownsville
  (1030-05-427)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, II
Room 1214, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Hemanshu Kaul, Illinois Institute of Technology kaul@iit.edu
Michael J. Pelsmajer, Illinois Institute of Technology pelsmajer@iit.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Acquisition number of graphs.
  Timothy D. LeSaulnier, University of Illinois - Urbana
  Noah Prince, University of Illinois - Urbana
  Paul S. Wenger, University of Illinois - Urbana
  Douglas B. West*, University of Illinois - Urbana
  Pratik Worah, University of Illinois - Urbana
  (1030-05-256)
- 3:00 p.m.
  $(\alpha,k)$-balanced graphs.
  A. Brieden, Universit\"at der Bundeswehr M\"unchen
  Z. F\"uredi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign & Renyi Institute of Mathematics
  A. K\"undgen, Cal State San Marcos
  R. Ramamurthi*, Cal State San Marcos
  (1030-05-416)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On Vizing's Independence Number Conjecture of edge chromatic critical graphs.
  Yue Zhao*, Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida
  (1030-05-72)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Identifying Codes in $q$-ary hypercube.
  Seog-Jin Kim*, Konkuk University
  Jon-Lark Kim, University of Louisville
  (1030-05-257)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On a generalization of the local-global theorem for isoperimetric orders.
  Sergei L Bezrukov*, University of Wisconsin - Superior
  Miquel Rius, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
  Oriol Serra, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
  (1030-05-316)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Free Resolutions, I
Room 1007, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Noam Horwitz, Cornell University nh54@cornell.edu
Irena Peeva, Cornell University ivp1@cornell.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Specializations of Ferrers ideals.
  Alberto Corso, University of Kentucky, Department of Mathematics
  Uwe Nagel*, University of Kentucky, Department of Mathematics
  (1030-13-238)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Tetrahedral curves via graphs and Alexander duality.
  Christopher A Francisco*, Oklahoma State University
  (1030-13-57)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Sparse filter regular sequences and extremal Betti numbers.
  Giulio Caviglia*, Purdue University
  (1030-13-230)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Double Points on a Pair of Lines.
  Susan Marie Cooper*, California Polytechnic State University
  Brian Harbourne, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
  Zachariah Teitler, Texas A&M University
  (1030-13-312)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Minimal Free Resolutions and Asymptotic Behavior of Multi-Graded Regularity.
  Brent D Strunk*, University of Louisiana At Monroe
  Huy Tai Ha, Tulane University
  (1030-13-132)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Multigraded modules and the topology of representable matroids.
  Amanda Beecher, United States Military Academy at West Point
  Alexandre Tchernev*, University at Albany, SUNY
  (1030-13-245)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Cohomology of connected sums of artinian Gorenstein rings.
  Luchezar L. Avramov, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
  W. Frank Moore*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
  (1030-13-215)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Discussion

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Model Theory of Non-elementary Classes, II
Room 1106, Lewis Center
Organizers:
John T. Baldwin, University of Illinois at Chicago jbaldwin@uic.edu
David W. Kueker, University of Maryland dwk@math.umd.edu
Rami Grossberg, Carnegie Mellon University rami@cmu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Stability, simplicity, and Banach space geometry.
  Jose N Iovino*, The University of Texas at San Antonio
  (1030-03-218)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Galois Types and Topology.
  Michael J Lieberman*, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
  (1030-03-251)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On Quasiminimal Excellent Classes.
  Jonathan Kirby*, University of Oxford
  (1030-03-119)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Few pairs of countable models.
  Maryanthe Malliaris*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1030-03-73)
- 5:00 p.m.
  AECs of Abelian Groups.
  John Baldwin, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Wesley Calvert, Murray State University
  John Goodrick*, University of Maryland, College Park
  Andres Villaveces, Universidad Nacional de Columbia
  Agatha Walczak-Typke, University of Vienna
  (1030-03-125)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Recent developments in classification theory of classes of metric structures.
  Alex Usvyatsov*, UCLA
  (1030-03-386)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
Special Session on Networks, II
Room 1111, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston mg@uh.edu
Mary Silber, Northwestern University m-silber@northwestern.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Social Interactions in Myxobacterial Swarming.
  Mark Alber*, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame
  (1030-92-76)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Multiple Attractors and Long Chaotic Transients in Small-World Networks of Excitable Neurons.
  Hermann Riecke*, Northwestern University
  A. Roxin, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  S. Madrug, MPI Complex Systems
  (1030-92-431)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Feedback control of unstable patterns and periodic orbits.
  Claire M Postlethwaite*, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University
  Mary Silber, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University
  (1030-37-153)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Quotient Networks.
  Manuela A.D. Aguiar, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto
  Ana Paula S. Dias, Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade do Porto
  Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston
  Maria C.A. Leite*, Purdue University
  (1030-34-266)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Related Areas, II
Room 1210, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Yevgenia Kashina, DePaul University ykashina@condor.depaul.edu
Leonid Krop, DePaul University lkrop@condor.depaul.edu
M. Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California smontgom@math.usc.edu
David E. Radford, University of Illinois at Chicago radford@uic.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Weyl groupoid of a semisimple Yetter-Drinfeld module.
  H.-J. Schneider*, Mathematisches Institut Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
  (1030-16-285)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Lusztig Isomorphisms for some Drinfeld Doubles.
  Istvan Heckenberger*, Mathematisches Institut, Universit�t M�nchen, Germany
  (1030-81-255)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Quantum subgroups of a simple quantum group at roots of 1.
  Nicolas Andruskiewitsch*, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina
  Gaston Andres Garcia, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina
  (1030-17-11)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Representations of the Drinfel'd Doubles of a Family of Hopf Algebras.
  Leonid Krop*, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
  David E. Radford, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1030-16-164)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Graded deformations and pointed Hopf algebras.
  Mitja Mastnak*, University of Waterloo
  Sarah J Witherspoon, Taxas A&M University
  (1030-16-156)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Coideal subalgebras in quantum groups.
  Vladislav Kharchenko*, Universidad Nacional Automoma de Mexico, FES-C.
  Alma Virginia Lara Sagahon, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, FES-C.
  (1030-16-43)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Braided Hopf algebras obtained from coquasitriangular Hopf algebras.
  Margaret Beattie*, Mount Allison University
  Daniel Bulacu, University of Bucharest
  (1030-16-96)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, II
Room 1004, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois at Chicago mubayi@math.uic.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Nearly optimal embeddings of trees.
  Benny Sudakov, Princeton University
  Jan Vondrak*, Princeton University
  (1030-05-69)
- 3:00 p.m.
  An extension of Erdos-Stone theorem.
  Vladimir Nikiforov*, University of Memphis
  (1030-05-127)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Negative dependence and Srinivasan's sampling process.
  Jonathan Cutler*, Montclair State University
  A J Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (1030-05-389)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break
- 4:30 p.m.
  Coloring uniform simple hypergraphs with few edges.
  Alexandr Kostochka*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Mohit Kumbhat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1030-05-162)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Covering hypergraphs with cuts of minimum total size.
  Sebastian M. Cioab\u{a}*, University of California, San Diego
  Andr\'{e} K\"{u}ndgen, California State University, San Marcos
  (1030-05-338)
- 5:30 p.m.
  $M$-part $L$-Sperner families.
  Harout Aydinian, Universit\"at Bielefeld
  \'Eva Czabarka*, University of South Carolina
  P\'eter L Erd\H os, R\'enyi Institute, Hungary
  L\'aszl\'o Sz\'ekely, University of South Carolina
  (1030-05-377)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on The Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations, II
Room 8005, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Alexey Cheskidov, University of Michigan acheskid@umich.edu
Susan J. Friedlander, University of Illinois at Chicago susan@math.uic.edu
Roman Shvydkoy, University of Illinois at Chicago shvydkoy@math.uic.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Approximation of convection-diffusion equations with multiple boundary layers.
  Chang-Yeol Jung, Institute for scientific computing and applied mathematics
  Roger Temam*, Institute for scientific computing and applied mathematics
  (1030-35-142)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Liouville Theorems and Applications to the Regularity Theory of the Navier-Stokes Equations.
  Gabriel Koch*, University of Chicago
  Nicolai Nadirashvili, CNRS, LATP, CMI
  Gregory Seregin, Steklov Institute of Mathematics
  Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota
  (1030-35-395)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Vanishing viscosity limit for incompressible flow around a sufficiently small obstacle.
  Dragos Iftimie, Universit� de Lyon I
  Milton C Lopes Filho, IMECC-UNICAMP
  Helena J Nussenzveig Lopes*, IMECC-UNICAMP
  (1030-76-408)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the construction of suitable weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations.
  Jean-Luc Guermond*, Texas A&M University
  (1030-65-50)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Vanishing viscosity limit in boundary-driven 2D flows.
  Milton C. Lopes Filho, UniCamp, Campinas, Brazil
  Anna L. Mazzucato*, Penn State University
  Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes, UniCamp, Campinas, Brazil
  Michael E. Taylor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  (1030-35-120)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On the regularity of weak solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations in $B^{-1}_{\infty,\infty}$.
  Alexey Cheskidov*, University of Chicago
  Roman Shvydkoy, University of Illinois
  (1030-35-378)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Smooth Dynamical Systems, II
Room 8012, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University mgidea@neiu.edu
Ilie D. Ugarcovici, DePaul University iugarcov@depaul.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The compressible fluid two-body problem.
  C Chicone*, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
  (1030-37-112)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Invariant Objects for Dynamical Systems.
  John W Robertson*, Wichita State University
  (1030-37-29)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Solenoids and adding machines in Hamiltonian Systems.
  Kenneth R. Meyer*, University of Cincinnati
  (1030-37-19)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Solenoidal minimal sets in foliations.
  Steven Hurder*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1030-37-94)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Pathological foliations, revisited.
  Amie Wilkinson*, Northwestern University
  (1030-37-287)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Homology of Invariant Foliations.
  Radu Saghin*, University of Toronto
  (1030-37-241)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Harmonic functions and Brownian motion on foliated manifolds.
  Renato Feres*, Washington University
  Sergio Fenley, Florida State University
  Kamlesh Parwani, University Of Missouri, St. Louis
  (1030-37-174)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Symbolic Dynamical Systems, II
Room 8014, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Ayse A. Sahin, DePaul University asahin@condor.depaul.edu
Ilie D. Ugarcovici, DePaul University iugarcov@depaul.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Reduction theory and coding of geodesics.
  Svetlana Katok*, The Pennsylvania State University
  (1030-37-354)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Self-similar tiling systems, topological factors and expansion constants.
  Maria Isabel Cortez*, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
  Fabien Durand, Universit� de Picardie Jules Verne, France.
  (1030-37-231)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The dynamics of model sets.
  E Arthur Robinson*, George Washington University
  (1030-37-328)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Weak equivalence for shifts of finite type.
  Andrew Dykstra*, Colorado State University
  Joseph Barth, University of Maryland
  (1030-37-168)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Property A and Krieger equivalence classes in higher dimensional subshifts.
  Sam Lightwood*, Western Connecticut State University
  (1030-37-412)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A class of higher dimensional shifts of finite type which factor onto the full shift.
  Angela V Desai*, University of Montevallo
  (1030-37-363)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Recursive-Theoretic Aspects of Multidimensional Symbolic Dynamics.
  Michael Hochman*, Princeton University
  (1030-37-259)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Automorphic Forms: Representation Theory of p-adic and Adelic Groups, II
Room 1207, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Mahdi Asgari, Oklahoma State University asgari@math.okstate.edu
Anantharam Raghuram, Oklahoma State University araghur@math.okstate.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The local Langlands conjecture for GSp(4).
  Shuichiro Takeda*, University of California, San Diego/Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
  Wee Teck Gan, University of California, San Diego
  (1030-11-269)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Liftings of Representations of Finite Groups with Applications to $p$-adic Base Change.
  Joshua M. Lansky*, American University
  Jeffrey D. Adler, American University
  (1030-22-179)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Shalika models and functoriality.
  Yujun Qin*, Department of Mathematics, East China Normal University
  (1030-20-138)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Determining "good test vectors" for the doubling method applied to the groups ${\rm Sp}_2(F)$ and $\widetilde{{\rm Sp}_2}(F)$.
  Christian A Zorn*, The Ohio State University
  (1030-22-294)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The existence of Bessel models for GSp(4).
  Ramin Takloo-Bighash*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1030-11-272)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Some Local Consequences of Functoriality.
  Freydoon Shahidi*, Purdue University
  (1030-11-279)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Wave Propagation from Mathematical and Numerical Viewpoints, II
Room 8009, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Gabriel Koch, University of Chicago koch@math.uchicago.edu
Catalin Constantin Turc, Caltech and University of North Carolina at Charlotte turc@acm.caltech.edu
Nicolae Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Two-dimensional water wave patterns.
  Min Chen*, Purdue University
  (1030-76-84)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Symmetry Breaking of Ground States in Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation.
  Eduard Kirr*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  M. I. Weinstein, Columbia University
  P. Kevrekidis, University of Massachussetts
  E. Shlizerman, Weizmann Institute
  (1030-35-204)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On a class of nonlinear wave-particle solutions of integrable systems.
  Mikhail Kovalyov*, University of Alberta, Canada
  (1030-35-254)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break
- 4:30 p.m.
  Travel Time and Tensor Tomography.
  Plamen Stefanov*, Purdue University
  (1030-53-228)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A Coupled System of ODEs and Quasilinear Hyperbolic PDEs Arising in a Multiscale Blood Flow Model.
  Wei H Ruan*, Purdue University Calumet
  (1030-35-296)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Maxwell's equations in nonlinear media.
  Aurelia Minut*, U.S. Naval Academy
  (1030-35-351)

Friday October 5, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algorithmic Probability and Combinatorics, II
Room 1006, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Manuel Lladser, University of Colorado lladser@colorado.edu
Robert S. Maier, University of Arizona rsm@math.arizona.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Transforming and reducing D-finite combinatorial sequences.
  Robert S. Maier*, University of Arizona
  (1030-05-403)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Systematic Asymptotic Enumeration of Regular Structures.
  Marni Mishna*, Dept. Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
  (1030-05-357)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the Congruences of Combinatorial Numbers.
  Shu-Chung Liu*, Department of Applied Mathematics, National Hsinchu University of Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan
  Sen-Peng Eu, Department of Applied Mathematics, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  Yeong-Nan Yeh, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
  (1030-05-387)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Planar tableaux in a strip as an exactly solvable model.
  Yuliy Baryshnikov*, Bell Labs
  Dan Romik, Hebrew University
  (1030-60-234)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Asymptotic Enumeration of Trapping Sets in Random Tanner Graph Ensembles.
  Olgica Milenkovic*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Emina Soljanin, Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs Technology
  Philip Whiting, Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs Technologies
  (1030-05-233)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Discussion

Friday October 5, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 8209, DePaul Center
Organizers:
Lawrence Man Hou Ein, University of Illinois at Chicago ein@math.uic.edu
Anatoly S. Libgober, University of Illinois at Chicago libgober@math.uic.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Strong exceptional collections of line bundles on toric del Pezzo DM stacks.
  Lev A. Borisov*, University of Wisconsin
  Zheng Hua, University of Wisconsin
  (1030-14-190)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Non-flat base change and the orbifold HKR isomorphism.
  Andrei H. C\u ald\u araru*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (1030-14-339)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Numerical inequalities via syzygies and generic vanishing.
  Mihnea Popa*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1030-14-140)

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2007 Fall Central Section Meeting Chicago, IL, October 5-6, 2007 (Friday - Saturday) Meeting #1030

Friday October 5, 2007

2007 Fall Central Section Meeting
Chicago, IL, October 5-6, 2007 (Friday - Saturday)
Meeting #1030