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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

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Saturday October 6, 2007

• Saturday October 6, 2007, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby (8th Floor), Lewis Center
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Lobby (8th Floor), Lewis Center
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Free Resolutions, II
  Room 1007, Lewis Center
  Organizers:
  Noam Horwitz, Cornell University nh54@cornell.edu
  Irena Peeva, Cornell University ivp1@cornell.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the Multiplicity Conjecture for Simplicial Complexes.
    Michael Goff*, University of Washington
    (1030-05-115)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Descent via Koszul extensions.
    Lars Winther Christensen*, Texas Tech University
    Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University
    (1030-13-242)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cohen-Macaulay Multigraded Modules.
    C-Y Jean Chan, Purdue University
    Christine Cumming*, University of Louisiana at Monroe
    Huy Tai Ha, Tulane University
    (1030-13-133)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Resolutions over short local rings.
    Luchezar L Avramov, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    Srikanth B Iyengar*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    Liana M Sega, University of Missouri, Kansas City
    (1030-13-53)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Goto numbers of parameter ideals.
    William Heinzer, Purdue University
    Irena Swanson*, Reed College
    (1030-13-268)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Minimal Homogenous Liaison and Licci Ideals.
    Craig Huneke, University of Kansas
    Juan Migliore*, University of Notre Dame
    Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
    Bernd Ulrich, Purdue University
    (1030-13-181)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Smooth Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 8012, DePaul Center
  Organizers:
  Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University mgidea@neiu.edu
  Ilie D. Ugarcovici, DePaul University iugarcov@depaul.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Measure rigidity for smooth group actions: recent results and perspectives.
    Anatole Katok*, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1030-37-350)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Smooth Rigidity for Lattice Actions.
    Theron J Hitchman*, University of Northern Iowa
    (1030-37-246)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Liv\v{s}ic Theory for Cocycles taking Values in a Diffeomorphism Group.
    Alistair Windsor*, University of Memphis
    (1030-37-237)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Logarithm laws for function fields.
    Jayadev S Athreya, Princeton University
    Anish Ghosh*, The University of Texas at Austin
    Amritanshu Prasad, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.
    (1030-37-150)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Numerical Computation of Invariant Manifolds and Applications.
    Sheldon E Newhouse*, Mathematics Department, Michigan State University
    (1030-37-264)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Sequence Spaces and Transformations, III
  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.
    Hausdorff Transformations and Exchangeable Random Variables.
    Constantine Georgakis*, Department of Mathematics, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
    (1030-46-37)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Spectra of Hausdorff matrices and other transformations.
    B. E. Rhoades*, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-7106
    (1030-40-55)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Densities on $\mathbf{N}\times\mathbf{N}$ constructed from regular summability matrices.
    J. Connor*, Ohio University
    J. Kline, Washington and Jefferson University
    (1030-40-223)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algorithmic Probability and Combinatorics, III
  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.
    Fourier analysis and statistics on groups.
    Nicholas Eriksson*, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
    Persi Diaconis, Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, Stanford University
    (1030-62-137)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Minimal Markovian embeddings of non-Markovian random strings.
    Manuel E. Lladser*, Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1030-60-243)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Forbidden patterns in telling random from deterministic time series.
    Sergi Elizalde*, Dartmouth College
    (1030-05-321)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    New Dumont permutations.
    Alexander Burstein*, Howard University
    Walter Stromquist, Swarthmore College
    (1030-05-391)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Statistics on permutation tableaux.
    Pawel Hitczenko*, Drexel University
    (1030-60-284)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Conservation Laws and Related Problems, III
  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.
    Hyperbolic Balance Laws with Weak Dissipation.
    Constantine M. Dafermos*, Brown University
    (1030-35-32)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Removable singularities of divergence free vector fields and related equations with measure data.
    Monica Torres*, Purdue University
    Cong Phuc Nguyen, Purdue University
    (1030-35-30)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On contact discontinuity for Jin-Xin relaxation system.
    Ronghua Pan*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Feimin Huang, Institute of Applied Math., Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Yi Wang, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    (1030-35-54)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Particle-size segregation in granular flow: a conservation law in two space dimensions.
    Michael Shearer*, North Carolina State University
    (1030-35-16)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and CR Geometry, III
  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
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Local integrability problems for CR structures and vector bundles.
    X. Gong, University of Wisconsin
    S. M. Webster*, University of Chicago
    (1030-32-341)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Real hypersurfaces of low and constant Levi rank.
    Peter Ebenfelt*, UC, San Diego
    Salah Baouendi, UC, San Diego
    Dmitri Zaitsev, Trinity College, Dublin
    (1030-32-202)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Leray transform in two dimensions: spectral properties, transformation laws and duality.
    David E. Barrett*, University of Michigan
    Loredana Lanzani, University of Arkansas
    (1030-32-326)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rational maps between balls.
    Shanyu Ji*, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston
    (1030-32-229)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Harmonic Analysis, III
  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.
    Affine synthesis onto Lebesgue and Hardy spaces.
    H.-Q. Bui, University of Canterbury
    R. S. Laugesen*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (1030-42-20)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Orthonormal Wavelets with Integer Matrix Dilations.
    Edward N. Wilson*, Washington University in St. Louis
    Damir Bakic, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
    (1030-42-183)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Independence and redundancy of integer translates of a square integrable function on the reals.
    Guido Weiss*, Washington University
    Hrvoje Sikic, University of Zagreb
    (1030-42-309)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Custom factorizations of wavelet filter transforms.
    Mladen Victor Wickerhauser*, Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri
    (1030-65-239)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Singular Integrals and Related Problems, III
  Room 8011, DePaul Center
  Organizers:
  Laura De Carli, Florida International University decarlil@fiu.edu
  A. M. Stokolos, DePaul University astokolo@condor.depaul.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Minimizing analytic capacity and Buffon needle probability on Pictures.
    Alexander L Volberg*, Mich. State Univ.
    (1030-30-78)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modulation Invariant Bilinear T(1) Theorem.
    Arpad Benyi, Western Washington University
    Ciprian Demeter, UCLA
    Andrea R. Nahmod, University of Massachusetts
    Christoph M. Thiele, UCLA
    Rodolfo H. Torres*, University of Kansas
    Paco Villarroya, UCLA
    (1030-42-388)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bilinear oscillatory integrals along curves.
    Xiaochun Li*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1030-42-313)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The characteristic function of the paraboloid is not a bounded bilinear multiplier.
    Maria del Carmen Reguera Rodriguez*, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri
    (1030-42-320)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Combinatorics, III
  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.
    Multiplicity free expansions of Schur P functions.
    S van Willigenburg*, University of British Columbia
    (1030-05-58)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The h-vector of a Lattice Path Matroid.
    Jay Schweig*, Cornell University
    (1030-05-299)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Matching polytopes, toric geometry, and the nonnegative part of the Grassmannian.
    Alex Postnikov, MIT
    David Speyer, MIT
    Lauren Williams*, Harvard
    (1030-05-180)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Face vectors of flag complexes.
    Andrew D. Frohmader*, University of Washington
    (1030-05-345)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, II
  Room 8206, DePaul Center
  Organizers:
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Topology of nonnegatively curved Euclidean hypersurfaces spanning a prescribed boundary.
    Stephanie B. Alexander*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Mohammad Ghomi, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Jeremy A. Wong, University of Toronto
    (1030-53-369)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Harmonic Maps and the Rigidity of Discrete Groups.
    Theron J Hitchman*, University of Northern Iowa
    David Fisher, Indiana University
    (1030-53-253)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic conditions for smooth rigidity.
    Chris Connell*, Indiana University
    (1030-53-365)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symmetric planar intersections characterize quadrics among certain tubes in $\mathbf{R}^3$.
    Bruce Solomon*, Indiana University
    (1030-53-195)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Numerical and Symbolic Techniques in Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications, III
  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.
    The mixed volume computation, A revisit.
    Tsung-Lin Lee, Michigan State University, Department of Mathematics
    T.Y. Li*, Michigan State University, Department of Mathematics
    (1030-52-104)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A new method for real root-finding using Gale duality.
    Daniel J Bates*, IMA (University of Minnesota)
    (1030-14-360)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Thomae's formula for normal cyclic curves.
    Galbodayage Sujeeva Wijesiri*, Oakland University
    (1030-14-48)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Eliminating near multiplicities in polynomial systems: a global approach.
    Itnuit Janovitz-Freireich, North Carolina State University
    Bernard Mourrain, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
    Lajos Ronyai, MTA SZTAKI and Budapest University of Technology and Economics
    Agnes Szanto*, North Carolina State University
    (1030-08-302)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory (in honor of Harold N. Ward's retirement), III
  Room 1217, Lewis Center
  Organizers:
  Jay A. Wood, Western Michigan University jay.wood@wmich.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Upper Bounds for the length of $s$-Extremal Codes over $\mathbb F_2$, $\mathbb F_4$, and $\mathbb F_2 + u\mathbb F_2$.
    Sunghyu Han*, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville
    Jon-Lark Kim, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville
    (1030-94-175)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Coding theory over finite principal ideal rings.
    Hamid Kulosman*, University of Louisville
    (1030-94-275)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Codes over rings.
    Steven T Dougherty*, University of Scranton
    (1030-94-108)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Character-theoretic proofs of equivalence theorems.
    Jay A. Wood*, Western Michigan University
    (1030-94-61)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes and Related Topics, III
  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.
    Association schemes from simple Bol loops.
    J. D. H. Smith*, Iowa State University
    K. W. Johnson, Penn State University Abington
    (1030-20-167)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Morphisms of Association Schemes.
    Bangteng Xu*, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1030-05-56)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fusions of character tables of groups and association schemes.
    Kenneth W Johnson*, Penn State University, Abington College,
    Stephen P Humphries, Brigham Young University
    (1030-20-235)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Nilpotent Table Algebras.
    Harvey I. Blau*, Northern Illinois University
    Bangteng Xu, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1030-05-322)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, III
  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.
    Colorings and Crossings.
    Michael O. Albertson*, Smith College
    (1030-05-290)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Graphs with Rotation.
    Marcus Schaefer*, DePaul University
    Michael Pelsmajer, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Daniel Stefankovic, University of Rochester
    (1030-05-154)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the minor crossing number.
    Drago Bokal, University of Ljubljana
    \'Eva Czabarka, University of South Carolina
    L\'aszl\'o A. Sz\'ekely*, University of South Carolina
    Imrich Vrt'o, Institute of Mathematics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
    (1030-05-291)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Constrained coloring problems for planar graphs.
    Andr\'e K\"undgen*, Cal State San Marcos
    (1030-05-383)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Model Theory of Non-elementary Classes, III
  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.
    Independence in Finitary Abstract Elementary Classes.
    Meeri Kesälä*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1030-03-276)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Abstract Elementary Classes and Infinitary Logics.
    David W. Kueker*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1030-03-83)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Related Areas, III
  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.
    Semisimple quasi-Hopf algebras of prime power dimension are group-theoretical.
    Dmitri Nikshych*, University of New Hampshire
    (1030-16-109)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lagrangian subcategories and braided tensor equivalences of twisted quantum doubles of finite groups.
    Deepak Naidu*, University of New Hampshire
    Dmitri Nikshych, University of New Hampshire
    (1030-16-23)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Higher Frobenius-Schur indicators for fusion categories and quasi-Hopf algebras.
    Peter C Schauenburg*, Mathematisches Institut der Universit{\"a}t M{\"u}nchen
    Siu-Hung Ng, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University
    (1030-16-288)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Frobenius-Schur Indicators and Exponents.
    Siu-Hung Ng*, Iowa State University
    Peter Schauenburg, Universit\"at M\"unchen
    (1030-18-82)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, III
  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.
    Tur\'an's problem for the hypercube.
    J Robert Johnson, Queen Mary University of London
    John Talbot*, University College London
    (1030-05-99)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extremal Problems for counting homomorphisms.
    Jonathan Cutler, Montclair State University
    Andrew J Radcliffe*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1030-05-315)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Avoiding induced subgraphs as transversals in vertex-partitions.
    Maria Axenovich*, Iowa State University
    Ryan Martin, Iowa State University
    (1030-05-295)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, III
  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.
    On the Hodge filtration of local systems.
    Nero Budur*, University of Notre Dame
    (1030-14-300)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Degenerations and the cohomology of homogeneous varieties.
    Izzet Coskun*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1030-14-176)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Symbolic Dynamical Systems, III
  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.
    Fluctuations of ergodic sums for horocycle flows on some infinite surfaces.
    Francois Ledrappier*, University of Notre Dame
    Omri Sarig, Penn. State University
    (1030-37-222)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Almost automorphicity in dynamical systems.
    Alica Miller*, University of Louisville
    (1030-37-371)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    \textbf{Heaviness} and Symbolic Dynamics.
    David Ralston*, Rice University
    (1030-37-97)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A characterization of the Morse minimal set up to topological conjugacy.
    Ethan M. Coven, Wesleyan University
    Michael Keane*, Wesleyan University
    Michelle Lemasurier, Hamilton College
    (1030-37-380)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms: Representation Theory of p-adic and Adelic Groups, III
  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.
    Survey of affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties.
    Robert E. Kottwitz*, University of Chicago
    (1030-22-342)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Newton-Hodge Filtration for Self-Dual $F$-Crystals.
    N. Elizabeth Csima*, University of Chicago
    (1030-14-362)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Residues of Intertwining Operators for Classical Groups.
    Steven T Spallone*, Purdue University
    (1030-22-323)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Wave Propagation from Mathematical and Numerical Viewpoints, III
  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.
    The uniform Korn-Poincare inequality in thin domains.
    Marta Lewicka*, University of Minnesota
    (1030-35-286)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Inverse medium scattering for Maxwell's equations at fixed frequency.
    Gang Bao, Michigan State University
    Peijun Li*, University of Michigan
    (1030-78-250)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Elastic waves in incompressible anisotropic elasticity--some new results.
    Sudhakar E. Nair*, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 60616
    (1030-74-336)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Boundary Perturbation Methods for High-Frequency Acoustic Scattering: Shallow Periodic Gratings.
    David P. Nicholls*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Fernando Reitich, University of Minnesota
    (1030-65-197)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations, III
  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.
    Blow-up and regularity in some discrete models of the Euler equation.
    Alexander Kiselev, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Andrej Zlatos*, University of Chicago
    (1030-76-344)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the average energy and average enstrophy of the 3D turbulent flows.
    Radu Dascaliuc*, Indiana University
    Ciprian Foias, Texas A&M University
    Michael S Jolly, Indiana University
    (1030-35-356)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Instability of surface water waves.
    Zhiwu Lin*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1030-76-293)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 10:00 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
  Session on Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 1111, Lewis Center
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Sheffer Group, the Riordan Group, and their Characterization.
    Tian-Xiao He*, Illinois Wesleyan University
    (1030-05-248)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Group gradings on simple Lie and Jordan algebras and Hopf algebras.
    Yuri Bahturin*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    (1030-16-415)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Incidence theory, Fourier analysis and applications to geometric combinatorics and additive number theory.
  Room 8005, DePaul Center
  Alex Iosevich*, University of Missouri
  (1030-42-03)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Origins and applications of some nonlinear equations in conformal geometry.
  Room 8005, DePaul Center
  Matthew J. Gursky*, University of Notre Dame
  (1030-35-02)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Sequence Spaces and Transformations, IV
  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.
    Hausdorff Means and Inequalities.
    Grahame Bennett*, Indiana University
    (1030-40-186)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Characterizations of the matrices whose norms are determined by their actions on decreasing sequences.
    Hao-Wei Huang*, Indiana University
    (1030-46-170)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Absolute summability methods.
    Hamdullah \c{S}evli*, Y\"uz\"unc\"u Yil University, Van-Turkey
    (1030-40-189)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Automorphic-Invariant Non-Densely Defined\\ Hermitian Contractive Operators.
    Miron B Bekker*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Missouri-Rolla
    (1030-46-21)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Conservation Laws and Related Problems, IV
  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.
    On the formation of adiabatic shear bands.
    Theocharis Baxevanis, University of Crete, Greece
    Thodoros Katsaounis, University of Crete, Greece
    Athanasios E. Tzavaras*, University of Maryland
    (1030-35-22)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Systems of Hamilton-Jacobi equations and non-cooperative differential games.
    Alberto Bressan*, Penn State University
    (1030-35-62)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Transonic flows for full Euler equations in 2-D nozzles.
    Qui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
    Jun Chen*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1030-35-08)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Perturbation techniques applied to the parabolic approximation of a boundary Riemann problem.
    Laura Valentina Spinolo*, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
    Stefano Bianchini, SISSA-ISAS, Trieste, Italy
    (1030-35-39)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    From the dynamics of gaseous stars to the incompressible Euler equations.
    Konstantina Trivisa*, University of Maryland
    Donatella Donatelli, University of L'Aquila
    (1030-35-40)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and CR Geometry, IV
  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.
    Holomorphic approximations in Banach spaces.
    Laszlo Lempert*, Purdue University
    (1030-32-210)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Concepts of general position and a Second Main Theorem for non-linear divisors.
    Pit-Mann Wong*, University of Notre Dame
    H. F. Law, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    Philip P.-W. Wong, University of Hong Kong
    (1030-32-397)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Sharp Estimates for the $\bar{\partial}$-Neumann Problem on Regular coordinate domains.
    Jae-Seong Cho*, Purdue University
    David Catlin, Purdue University
    (1030-32-205)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The envelope of holomorphy of certain 2 manifolds.
    Berit Stensones*, University of Michigan
    (1030-32-430)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Attracting basins of volume preserving automorphisms of $\mathbb{C}^k$.
    Han Peters, University of Wisconsin
    Liz R Vivas*, University of Michigan
    Erlend Wold, University of Oslo
    (1030-32-407)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Constructing supporting manifolds for non-pseudoconvex domains in $\mathbb{C}^n$.
    Anna Siano*, University of Michigan
    (1030-32-224)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Boundary smoothness and irregularity of the $\overline{\partial}$-Neumann problem.
    S\"{o}nmez \c{S}ahuto\u{g}lu*, University of Michigan
    (1030-32-134)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Harmonic Analysis, IV
  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.
    Harmonic Polysplines.
    W. R. Madych*, University of Connecticut
    (1030-41-240)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Wavelets and three-way tiling sets in two dimensions.
    Gestur Olafsson*, Louisiana State University
    David Larson, Texas A&M
    Peter Massopust, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health and Univ. Munich
    (1030-43-113)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Subspaces of $L^2(\mathbb{R})$ with the sampling property.
    R. T. W. Martin*, University of Waterloo
    (1030-47-100)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Singular Integrals and Related Problems, IV
  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.
    Some results and open problems related to multilinear operators associated with rough kernels or multipliers.
    Geoff Diestel*, University of South Carolina
    (1030-42-373)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Paraproducts as bilinear Calderon-Zygmund operators.
    Diego Maldonado*, Kansas State University
    Arpad Benyi, Western Washington University
    Andrea Nahmod, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Rodolfo Torres, University of Kansas
    (1030-42-81)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Weighted norm inequalities for bilinear pseudodifferential operators with mild regularity.
    Virginia Naibo*, Kansas State University
    Diego Maldonado, Kansas State University
    (1030-42-88)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Boundary Value Problems for Higher Order Elliptic Operators in Two Dimensions.
    Irina Mitrea*, University of Virginia
    (1030-45-343)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Green function estimates and Wiener's test for the biharmonic equation.
    Svitlana Mayboroda*, The Ohio State University
    Vladimir Maz'ya, The Ohio State University
    (1030-35-327)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Mixed Boundary Value Problems for the Stokes System.
    Matthew Wright*, University of Missouri
    (1030-35-334)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Combinatorics, IV
  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.
    Discussion
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Higher-order non-Euclidean oriented matroid programs and triangulations.
    Laura Anderson*, Binghamton University
    (1030-05-220)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Affine and toric hyperplane arrangements.
    Margaret A. Readdy*, University of Kentucky
    Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky
    Michael Slone, University of Kentucky
    (1030-05-93)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Steinberg torus and affine descents.
    T. Kyle Petersen*, University of Michigan
    (1030-05-105)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The discrete fundamental group of the associahedron.
    Helene Barcelo*, Arizona State University
    Christopher Severs, Arizona State University
    (1030-05-346)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and Its Applications, III
  Room 8206, DePaul Center
  Organizers:
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Fake projective planes and fake Hermitian symmetric spaces.
    Sai-Kee Yeung*, Purdue University
    (1030-51-91)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ergodic Frame Flow and Rank Rigidity.
    David Constantine*, University of Michigan
    (1030-53-213)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Subdifferentials of functions on metric spaces with convex tangent spaces.
    Libin Mou*, Bradley University
    (1030-53-419)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Theta lifts of eigenfunctions.
    Harold Gerard Donnelly*, Purdue University
    (1030-58-49)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Recovering parallel Jacobi fields from ultraflats.
    Jean-Francoise Lafont*, Ohio State University
    (1030-53-429)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Numerical and Symbolic Techniques in Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications, IV
  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.
    Equations of curves with automorphisms.
    Tanush Shaska*, Oakland University
    (1030-14-47)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    NHOM4PSpara - Parallel Implementation of the Polyhedral Homotopy Continuation Method for Polynomial Systems.
    Chih-Hsiung Tsai*, Department of Mathematics/Michigan State University
    (1030-65-128)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Newton Polytope Construction for Systems of Equations.
    John McDonald*, DePaul University
    (1030-52-422)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Applications of homotopies in the space of sections of a sheaf.
    Chris S Peterson*, Colorado State University
    (1030-14-308)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A rank-revealing method for low rank matrices with updating, downdating, and applications.
    Lee Tsung-Lin*, Michigan State University
    Li Tien-Yien, Michigan State University
    Zeng Zhonggang, Northeastern Illinois University
    (1030-65-124)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Multiple Zeros of Analytic Systems.
    Barry H Dayton*, Northeastern Illinois University
    (1030-14-65)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory (in honor of Harold N. Ward's retirement), IV
  Room 1217, Lewis Center
  Organizers:
  Jay A. Wood, Western Michigan University jay.wood@wmich.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Partial permutation decoding of Hermitian codes.
    Gretchen L Matthews*, Clemson University
    (1030-14-185)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Groebner Bases \& List Decoding BCH Codes.
    Philip R Busse*, University of Kentucky
    (1030-14-244)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Hadamard Matrices.
    Stephen London, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
    Vera Pless*, UIC, Chicago, IL
    (1030-05-123)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    New results on self-orthogonal codes.
    Xiang-dong Hou*, University of South Florida
    (1030-94-319)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A MacWilliams Identity for Convolutional Codes.
    Heide Gluesing-Luerssen*, University of Kentucky
    (1030-94-68)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Cyclic convolutional codes and skew polynomial rings.
    Sergio R Lopez-Permouth*, Ohio University
    Steve Szabo, Ohio University
    (1030-94-337)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes and Related Topics, IV
  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.
    Leonard triples.
    Brian W Curtin*, University of South Florida
    (1030-05-314)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    \qquad \qquad {\bf A family of tridiagonal pairs.}\\.
    Melvin A. Vidar*, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of the East-Manila, Philippines
    (1030-15-329)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Characterization of Tridiagonal Pair via Split Decomposition.
    Ali Godjali*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1030-15-333)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The subconstituent algebra of a Latin square.
    Ibtisam Daqqa*, University of South Florida
    Brian Curtin, University of South Florida
    (1030-05-158)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Comparison of Character Formulas for the Lie superalgebra $gl(m,n)$.
    Ian M Musson*, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
    (1030-05-426)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Terwilliger algebra of the wreath power of H(1,q).
    Gargi Bhattacharyya*, Iowa State University
    Sung-Yell Song, Iowa State University
    (1030-05-169)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Robertson-Anstee cage with 40 vertices and related association scheme.
    Mikhail H. Klin*, Department of Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    Matan Ziv-Av, Department of Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    (1030-05-307)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
  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.
    Multi-route Cuts and Flows.
    Chandra Chekuri*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Sanjeev Khanna, University of Pennsylvania
    (1030-68-227)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The linear discrepancy of product of chains.
    Jeong Ok Choi*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Douglas B. West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1030-05-394)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Partitions of finite vector spaces into subspaces.
    Saad El-Zanati, Illinois State University
    George Seelinger, Illinois State University
    Papa Sissokho*, Illinois State University
    Larry Spence, Illinois State University
    Charles Vanden Eynden, Illinois State University
    (1030-05-267)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Graphic Gap-Free Sequences.
    Stephen G. Hartke*, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
    (1030-05-364)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Free Resolutions, III
  Room 1007, Lewis Center
  Organizers:
  Noam Horwitz, Cornell University nh54@cornell.edu
  Irena Peeva, Cornell University ivp1@cornell.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Optimal asymptotic results for powers containing symbolic powers.
    Cristiano Bocci, University of Milan
    Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1030-13-192)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Eliahou-Kervaire resolution is cellular.
    Jeff A Mermin*, University of Kansas
    (1030-13-217)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Shellable graphs and sequentially Cohen-Macaulay bipartite graphs.
    Adam Van Tuyl*, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Lakehead University
    (1030-13-102)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Minimal free resolutions over rational normal curves.
    Noam Horwitz*, Cornell University
    Vesselin Gasharov, Cornell University
    Irena Peeva, Cornell University
    (1030-13-332)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Edge ideals and odd cycles in a graph.
    Tai H. Ha*, Tulane University
    Chris A. Francisco, Oklahoma State University
    Adam Van Tuyl, Lakehead University
    (1030-13-89)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Complete intersection dimension and Auslander classes.
    Sean Sather-Wagstaff*, North Dakota State University
    Diana White, University of South Carolina
    (1030-13-111)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On liftable and weakly liftable modules.
    Hailong Dao*, University of Utah
    (1030-13-90)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Model Theory of Non-elementary Classes, IV
  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.
    Fractured a.e.c. and the parallel to superstability.
    Saharon Shelah*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    (1030-03-381)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stability and tameness.
    John Baldwin, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Alexei Kolesnikov*, Towson University
    (1030-03-277)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Around simplicity in various non-elementary classes.
    Andr\'es Villaveces*, Professor - Department of Mathematics - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    (1030-03-310)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Definable groups in simple metric structures.
    Bradd Hart*, McMaster University
    (1030-03-367)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Application topics for the $[0,1]$-valued continuous version of first-order logic.
    C.\ Ward Henson*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1030-03-103)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Related Areas, IV
  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.
    Computing the second cohomology of Hopf algebras.
    Akira Masuoka*, Institute of Mathematics, University of Tsukuba
    (1030-16-95)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Representations of quantum $SL(2)$ at roots of unity.
    William Chin*, DePaul University
    (1030-16-71)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Braid group representations from twisted quantum doubles of finite groups.
    Pavel Etingof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University
    Sarah Witherspoon*, Texas A&M University
    (1030-16-41)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Simple deformations of finite groups.
    Sonia Natale*, Universidad Nacional de C\' ordoba. CIEM--CONICET.
    C\' esar N. Galindo, Universidad Nacional de C\' ordoba. CONICET.
    (1030-16-38)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Frobenius-Schur indicators and their generalizations.
    Yorck Sommerh\"auser*, University of South Alabama
    (1030-16-261)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Representations of some Hopf algebras associated to the symmetric group.
    Andrea Jedwab*, University of Southern California
    Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California
    (1030-16-232)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Semisimple Hopf algebras with large abelian groups of grouplikes.
    Yevgenia Kashina*, DePaul University
    (1030-16-283)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, IV
  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.
    Bandwidth of grid type of graphs.
    Jozsef Balogh*, U. of Illinois
    (1030-05-85)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Properly colored cycles and rainbow cycles in edge-colored graphs.
    Tao Jiang*, Miami University
    (1030-05-281)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On a Likely Number of Solutions for a Stable Marriage Problem.
    Craig Lennon*, The Ohio State University
    Boris Pittel, The Ohio State University
    (1030-05-27)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the edit distance in graphs.
    Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Ryan Martin*, Iowa State University
    (1030-05-126)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Hales-Jewett Number and Hypercube Tic-tac-toe.
    Jozsef Beck, Rutgers University
    Wesley Pegden, Rutgers University
    Sujith Vijay*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1030-05-198)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on The Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations, IV
  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.
    Non-local maximum principle in fluid mechanics and applications to critical surface quasi-geostrophic and Burgers equations.
    Alexander Kiselev*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Fedor Nazarov, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Alexander Volberg, Michigan State University
    (1030-76-289)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Regularity of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations evolving from small initial data in a critical space.
    Pierre Germain, New York University
    Natasa Pavlovic*, The University of Texas at Austin
    Gigliola Staffilani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1030-35-98)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dynamic transition and stability in geophysical fluid dynamics.
    Chun-Hsiung Hsia, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Tian Ma, Sichuan University
    Shouhong Wang*, Indiana University
    (1030-76-139)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dicsussion
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Regularity of the Primitive Equations of the Ocean.
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    Mohammed Ziane, University of Southern California
    (1030-35-414)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Stationary Statistical Solutions of Navier-Stokes equations and the zero viscosity limit.
    Peter Constantin*, The University of Chicago
    Fabio Ramos, Weizmann Institute
    (1030-35-219)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the energy balance relation for incompressible fluids.
    Roman Shvydkoy*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1030-76-214)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Smooth Dynamical Systems, IV
  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.
    Mixing for hyperbolic flows.
    Michael Field*, University of Houston
    (1030-37-66)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quasi-Anosov diffeomorphisms of 3-manifolds.
    Todd Fisher*, Brigham Young University
    Jana Rodriguez Hertz, Facultad de Ingenieria - Universidad de la Republica
    (1030-37-118)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On nearest neighbors under isometries and nearest neighbor metrics.
    Ben Schmidt*, U. of Chicago
    (1030-51-274)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Extreme value distributions for non-uniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems.
    Mark Holland, University of Exeter, UK
    Matthew Nicol, University of Houston
    Andrew T\"or\"ok*, University of Houston
    (1030-37-399)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Whitney regularity for solutions to the coboundary equation on Cantor sets.
    Mark Holland, University of Exeter
    Matthew Nicol*, University of Houston
    Andrew Torok, University of Houston
    (1030-37-147)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Smooth actions of mapping class groups on the circle.
    Kamlesh Parwani*, Eastern Illinois University
    (1030-37-173)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Density of accessibility for partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms with one dimensional center.
    Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
    Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Universidad de la Rep\'ublica, Uruguay
    Jana Rodriguez Hertz, Universidad de la Rep\'ublica, Uruguay
    Raul Ures, Universidad de la Rep\'ublica, Uruguay
    Anna Talitskaya, Northwestern University
    (1030-37-306)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Symbolic Dynamical Systems, IV
  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.
    Dynamics of the Nash map in the game of Matching Pennies.
    Robert Becker, Indiana University
    Subir Chakrabarti, Indiana U-Purdue U Indianapolis
    William Geller*, Indiana U Purdue U Indianapolis
    Bruce Kitchens, Indiana U Purdue U Indianapolis
    Michal Misiurewicz, Indiana U Purdue U Indianapolis
    (1030-37-406)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The modulated ergodic Hilbert transform.
    Dogan Comez*, North Dakota State University
    (1030-37-122)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An Ambrose-Kakutani theorem for Borel semiflows.
    David M McClendon*, Northwestern University
    (1030-37-131)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Flow-orbit equivalence for minimal Cantor systems.
    Nicholas S. Ormes*, University of Denver
    Daniel J Rudolph, Colorado State University
    Wojciech Kosek, Colorado College
    (1030-37-330)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Any two irreducible Markov chains are finitarily orbit equivalent.
    Mrinal K Roychowdhury*, University of North Texas
    (1030-37-263)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Almost continuous orbit equivalence.
    Andres del Junco*, University of Toronto
    (1030-28-152)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Almost Continuous Kakutani Equivalence.
    Daniel J. Rudolph*, Colorado State University
    (1030-37-382)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms: Representation Theory of p-adic and Adelic Groups, IV
  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.
    On nilpotent orbits of $\mathrm{SL}_n$ and $\mathrm{Sp}_{2n}$ over a $p$-adic field.
    Monica Nevins*, University of Ottawa, Canada
    (1030-20-211)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Motivic parameterization of good orbital integrals.
    Clifton Cunningham*, University of Calgary
    (1030-22-207)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Characters are motivic near the identity.
    Clifton Cunningham, University of Calgary
    Julia Gordon*, University of British Columbia
    Loren Spice, University of Michigan
    (1030-22-208)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Characters of tame $p$-adic groups.
    Loren Spice*, University of Michigan
    (1030-22-221)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Supercuspidal Representations of P-Adic Groups.
    Paul J Sally*, University of Chicago
    (1030-22-193)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Wave Propagation from Mathematical and Numerical Viewpoints, IV
  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.
    Systems of nonlinear wave equations with nonlinear degenerate damping and source terms.
    Mohammad A. Rammaha*, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
    Sawanya Sakuntasathien, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
    (1030-35-60)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Diffraction of waves on manifolds with corners.
    Richard Melrose, MIT
    Andras Vasy, Stanford University
    Jared Wunsch*, Northwestern University
    (1030-35-225)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for numerical relativity.
    James Rossmanith*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Qiang Deng, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1030-65-425)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Acoustic and electromagnetic integral equations requiring small numbers of Krylov-subspace iterations.
    Catalin Turc*, Department of Mathematics UNC Charlotte
    Oscar Bruno, Caltech
    Tim Elling, Caltech
    Randy Paffenroth, Caltech
    (1030-65-423)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion

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