AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Saturday, October 25, 2008 00:42:28
2008 Fall Central Section Meeting
Kalamazoo, MI, October 17-19, 2008 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1043
Associate secretaries: Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu
Saturday October 18, 2008
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Lobby, Fetzer Center -
Saturday October 18, 2008, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book SAle
Lobby, Fetzer Center -
Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Representations of Real and P-adic Lie Groups, II
Room 1060, Fetzer Center
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8:30 a.m.
Discussion -
9:00 a.m.
Supercuspidal characters and applications.
Jeffrey D Adler, American University
Stephen DeBacker, University of Michigan
Loren R Spice*, University of Michigan
(1043-22-141) -
9:30 a.m.
Dirac cohomology of small representations.
Victor Protsak*, Cornell University
(1043-22-158) -
10:00 a.m.
Dirac cohomology of some small unitary representations.
Pavle Pandzic*, University of Zagreb
Victor Protsak, Cornell University
(1043-22-165) -
10:30 a.m.
Dirac cohomology and the unitary dual of complex reductive groups at half integral infinitesimal character.
Dan M Barbasch*, Cornell University
Pavle Pandzic, University of Zagreb
(1043-22-163)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Field Theory, II
Room 1010, Fetzer Center
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8:30 a.m.
Combinatorial Heegaard-Floer invariants for four-dimensional cobordisms.
Ciprian Manolescu*, UCLA
Robert Lipshitz, Columbia University
Jiajun Wang, Caltech
(1043-57-124) -
9:30 a.m.
Renormalization and Effective Field Theory.
Kevin Costello*, Northwestern University
(1043-81-211) -
10:30 a.m.
String Topology and Floer Homology.
Mohammed Abouzaid*, MIT
(1043-81-212)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Computational Group Theory, II
Room 2030, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Luise-Charlotte Kappe, State University of New York Binghamton menger@math.binghamton.edu
Arturo Magidin, University of Louisiana--Lafayette magidin@member.ams.org
Robert F. Morse, University of Evansville rfmorse@evansville.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Extremely primitive groups.
Tim Burness, University of Southhampton, United Kingdom
Avinoam Mann, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Cheryl Praeger, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia
Ákos Seress*, The Ohio State University
(1043-20-112) -
9:30 a.m.
Computer Algebra in Undergraduate Algebra Courses.
Alexander Hulpke*, Colorado State University
(1043-00-116) -
10:00 a.m.
Recent progress on nonabelian tensor squares of groups.
Russell D Blyth*, Saint Louis University
(1043-20-169) -
10:30 a.m.
Finite groups have short rewriting systems.
Jack Schmidt*, University of Kentucky
(1043-20-98) -
11:00 a.m.
Groups of minimal order such that for given n the $n$-th powers of elements do not form a subgroup.
Luise-Charlotte Kappe, SUNY at Binghamton
Gabriela Mendoza*, Riverside Community College
(1043-20-37)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Quasigroups, Loops, and Nonassociative Division Algebras, I
Room 2040, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Clifton E. Ealy, Jr., Western Michigan University ealy@wmich.edu
David Richter, Western Michigan University david.richter@wmich.edu
Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver petr@math.du.edu
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8:30 a.m.
On the automorphism group of a finitely generated free loop. Preliminary report.
C E Ealy Jr.*, Department of Mathematics, Western Michigan University
(1043-20-177) -
9:00 a.m.
The Burnside problem for power associative loops.
Tuval Foguel*, Auburn Montgomery
(1043-20-26) -
9:30 a.m.
On the pseudo normalizer of a homogeneous loop.
Patricia Zoungrana*, University of Ouagadogu, Burkina Faso
(1043-05-183) -
10:00 a.m.
A combinatorial description of the simple Bol loops arising from matched pairs in groups.
Kenneth W Johnson*, Penn State Abington
(1043-20-56) -
10:30 a.m.
On the smallest simple, unipotent Bol loop.
Kenneth W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University Abington
Jonathan D.H. Smith*, Iowa State University
(1043-20-61) -
11:00 a.m.
The Zome system is not Desarguesian.
David A Richter*, Western Michigan University
(1043-08-140)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Applications, II
Room 1320, Schneider Hall
Organizers:
S. P. Singh, University of Western Ontario ssingh2@uwo.ca
Bruce B. Watson, Memorial University bruce2@math.mun.ca
Mahi Singh, University of Western Ontario msingh@uwo.ca
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8:30 a.m.
Elliptic Equations with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions.
M. N. Nkashama*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(1043-35-201) -
9:00 a.m.
Bounded Solutions of Nonlinear Parabolic Systems with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions.
Nsoki Mavinga*, University of Rochester
Marius Nkashama, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(1043-35-136) -
9:30 a.m.
The Nemytsky Operator and a Variable-Coefficient Version of Lusin's Theorem.
Josefina Alvarez*, New Mexico State University
(1043-47-102) -
10:00 a.m.
Some Recent Advances and New Directions in Computational Complexity of Linear Programming Algorithms.
Jai Narain Singh*, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Barry University
(1043-90-76) -
10:30 a.m.
Some Results in Metric Trees.
Asuman G Aksoy*, Professor of Mathematics
(1043-46-190) -
11:00 a.m.
Fixed Point and Solvability Theorems for Nonlinear Operators.
G. Isac*, Royal Military College of Canada
(1043-47-75)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Special Session on Computation in Modular Representation Theory and Cohomology, II
Room 2016/2018, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Christopher P. Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout bendelc@uwstout.edu
Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia bjp8w@virginia.edu
Cornelius Pillen, University of South Alabama pillen@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Computing Lie algebra Cohomology for $p=2$.
Caroline B. Wright*, University of Arizona
(1043-18-150) -
9:00 a.m.
On Kostant's Theorem for Lie Algebra Cohomology.
University of Georgia VIGRE Algebra Group, University of Georgia
Jonathan Kujawa*, University of Oklahoma
(1043-17-53) -
9:30 a.m.
Cohomology of quantum groups: An analog of Kostant's Theorem.
Brian D. Boe*, University of Georgia
University of Georgia VIGRE Algebra Group, University of Georgia
(1043-20-166) -
10:00 a.m.
Adjoint actions on integral forms in quantized enveloping algebras: the mixed case.
Christopher M Drupieski*, University of Virginia
(1043-20-133) -
10:30 a.m.
Discussion
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Labeling, Graph Coloring, and Topological Graph Theory, II
Room 2345, Schneider Hall
Organizers:
Arthur T. White, Western Michigan University arthur.white@wmich.edu
David L. Craft, Muskingum College craft@muskingum.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Recognizable Colorings of Graphs.
Gary Chartrand, Western Michigan University
Linda Lesniak*, Drew University
Donald VanderJagt, Grand Valley University
Ping Zhang, Western Michigan University
(1043-05-20) -
9:00 a.m.
Injective coloring of graphs.
Daniel Cranston, DIMACS, Rutgers University
Seog-Jin Kim, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
Gexin Yu*, College of Williams and Mary
(1043-05-60) -
9:30 a.m.
Rainbow Connectivities of Graphs.
Ping Zhang*, Western Michigan University
(1043-05-101) -
10:00 a.m.
Skolem-type Difference Sets for Cycle Systems.
Darryn Bryant, University of Queensland
Heather Jordon*, Illinois State University
Alan C. H. Ling, University of Vermont
(1043-05-27) -
10:30 a.m.
Recent Results on Saturation Numbers.
Ronald J Gould*, Emory University
(1043-05-35) -
11:00 a.m.
n-maps.
David L. Craft*, Muskingum College
(1043-05-13)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Optimization/Midwest Optimization Seminar, II
Room 1350, Schneider Hall
Organizers:
Jay S. Treiman, Western Michigan University jay.treiman@wmich.edu
Yuri Ledyaev, Western Michigan University iouri.lediaev@wmich.edu
Ilya Shvartsman, Penn State Harrisburg ius13@psu.edu
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8:30 a.m.
A Few of my Favourite Convexity Results.
Jonathan M Borwein*, Dalhousie University and University of Newcastle, NSW
(1043-46-198) -
9:30 a.m.
Applications of the Two Nonzero Component Lemma.
Morteza Seddighin*, Indiana University East
(1043-49-195) -
10:00 a.m.
A Simple and Elementary Proof of the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker Theorem for Inequality-Constrained Optimization.
Olga A. Brezhneva*, Miami University, Ohio
Alexey A. Tret'yakov, University of Podlasie in Siedlce, Poland
Stephen E. Wright, Miami University, Ohio
(1043-90-193) -
10:30 a.m.
Fields of extremals and sufficient conditions for the simplest problem of the calculus of variations in $n$-variables.
Dean A. Carlson*, American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Reviews
(1043-49-200)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching, II
Room 2335, Schneider Hall
Organizers:
Kate Kline, Western Michigan University kate.kline@wmich.edu
Christine Browning, Western Michigan University christine.browning@wmich.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching at the secondary level based on mathematical situations from high school classrooms: A challenge for collegiate mathematics.
Patricia S. Wilson*, University of Georgia
M. Kathleen Heid, Penn State University
(1043-97-121) -
9:30 a.m.
Discussion Session of Heid and Wilson Presentation -
10:00 a.m.
Using a Practice-based Approach to Develop the Mathematical Knowledge Needed for Teaching Concepts Related to Rational Number and Proportionality.
Judith Flowers*, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Nesrin Cengiz, University of Michigan-Dearborn
(1043-97-202) -
11:00 a.m.
Mathematics Curriculum Standards and Deep Mathematical Structure.
James J Madden*, Louisiana State University
(1043-97-192)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory, I
Room 1030, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Michele Intermont, Kalamazoo College intermon@kzoo.edu
John R. Martino, Western Michigan University john.martino@wmich.edu
Jeffrey A. Strom, Western Michigan University jeff.strom@wmich.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Gauge groups and related structures in rational homotopy theory.
Samuel B. Smith*, Saint Joseph's University
(1043-55-80) -
9:00 a.m.
Rational homotopy of gauge groups.
Yves Felix, Universite Catholique de Louvain
John Oprea*, Cleveland State University
(1043-55-57) -
9:30 a.m.
Computational motivic homotopy theory.
Daniel Isaksen*, Wayne State University
(1043-55-73) -
10:00 a.m.
Topological Modular Forms and Level Structures.
Valentina Joukhovitski*, University of Michigan
(1043-55-181) -
10:30 a.m.
The Rational Homotopy Type of Spaces of Self-Equivalences of a Fibration.
Gregory Lupton*, Cleveland State University
Yves F{é}lix, l'Universit{é} Catholique de Louvain
Samuel B Smith, St. Joseph's University
(1043-55-186) -
11:00 a.m.
Connective K-theory of certain symmetric groups.
Son P Nguyen*, Wayne State University
(1043-55-44)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 1040/1050, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Shreeram Abhyankar, Purdue University ram@cs.purdue.edu
Anthony J. Crachiola, Saginaw Valley State University crachiola@member.ams.org
Leonid G. Makar-Limanov, Wayne State University lml@math.wayne.edu
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8:30 a.m.
StableTameness of Two-Dimensional Polynomial Automorphisms Over a Regular Ring.
Joost Berson, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Arno van den Essen, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
David Wright*, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
(1043-14-22) -
9:30 a.m.
Revisiting a differential approach to the 2-variable Jacobian Conjecture.
Hyman Bass*, University of Michigan
(1043-13-131) -
10:00 a.m.
Russell's hypersurface from a geometric point of view.
Karl-Heinz Fieseler*, Dept. of Math., Uppsala University, Sweden
(1043-14-84) -
10:30 a.m.
Unipotent group quotients of affine varieties.
Harm Derksen*, University of Michigan
Gregor Kemper, Technical University Munich
(1043-13-147)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Linear Codes Over Rings and Modules, II
Room 2020, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Steven T. Dougherty, University of Scranton doughertys1@Scranton.edu
Jay A. Wood, Western Michigan University jay.wood@wmich.edu
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9:30 a.m.
On list decoding algebraic geometry codes over rings.
Nathan Drake*, Clemson University
Gretchen L. Matthews, Clemson University
(1043-14-171) -
10:00 a.m.
Recent results on codes designed from permutation matrices.
Christine A. Kelley*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(1043-94-199) -
10:30 a.m.
On the weight distribution of extended $\mathbb{Z}_4$-linear quadratic residue codes.
Michael Kiermaier*, Universität Bayreuth
Alfred Wassermann, Universität Bayreuth
(1043-11-120) -
11:00 a.m.
The use of Frobenius rings in coding theory: a personal view.
Jay A. Wood*, Western Michigan University
(1043-94-39)
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9:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Finance, I
Room 1330, Schneider Hall
Organizers:
Qiji J. Zhu, Western Michigan University zhu@wmich.edu
George Yin, Wayne State University gyin@math.wayne.edu
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9:30 a.m.
Volatility Models of the Yield Curve.
Victor Goodman*, Indiana University
(1043-90-21) -
10:00 a.m.
Term structure of risk premium, risk aversion, and humped yield curves.
Srdjan Stojanovic*, University of Cincinnati
(1043-60-129) -
10:30 a.m.
Measurements of Risk for Hedging with Short-Term Futures.
Chaoqun Ma, Hunan University
Fei Wang, Valuation Group, International Fund Services
Zhijian Wu*, The University of Alabama
(1043-91-134) -
11:00 a.m.
A Risk-Averse Utility-Function Framework for Rebalancing a Portfolio (Preliminary Report).
Stanley L. Sclove*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(1043-62-167)
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9:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Variational Analysis and its Applications, II
Room 1340, Schneider Hall
Organizers:
Yuri Ledyaev, Western Michigan University ledyaev@wmich.edu
Jay S. Treiman, Western Michigan University jay.treiman@wmich.edu
Ilya Shvartsman, Penn State Harrisburg ius13@psu.edu
Qiji J. Zhu, Western Michigan University qiji.zhu@wmich.edu
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9:30 a.m.
A hyperelastic rod model with nonlocal potential.
Thomas I. Seidman*, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Kathleen A. Hoffman, UMBC
(1043-49-77) -
10:00 a.m.
Strong Solutions to a Nonlinear Fluid Structure Interaction System.
Amjad Tuffaha*, University of Southern California
Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California
Mohammed Ziane, University of Southern California
(1043-35-208) -
10:30 a.m.
Dual Optimal Control Problems of Neutral Differential Equations.
Lianwen Wang*, University of Central Missouri
(1043-49-126) -
11:00 a.m.
On Regularity Properties of Optimal Solutions.
Ilya Shvartsman*, Penn State Harrisburg
(1043-49-94)
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9:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Invited Address
Representation theory via topological field theory.
Room 1005, Fetzer Center
David Nadler*, Northwestern University
(1043-22-02) -
Saturday October 18, 2008, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
Mathematical problems and applications of elasticity and liquid crystals.
Room 1005, Fetzer Center
M. Carme Calderer*, University of Minnesota -
Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Representations of Real and P-adic Lie Groups, III
Room 1060, Fetzer Center
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3:00 p.m.
Some Problems and Results in Harmonic Analysis with Origins in Automorphic Forms.
Freydoon Shahidi*, Purdue University
(1043-22-95) -
4:00 p.m.
Genuine Representations of $\widetilde{\text{Spin}}(n+1,n)$.
Scott P Crofts*, University of Utah
(1043-22-51) -
4:30 p.m.
A non-commutative sharp and symmetric uncertainty inequality.
Murad Ozaydin, University of Oklahmoa
Tomasz Przebinda*, University of Oklahoma
(1043-22-123)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Linear Codes Over Rings and Modules, III
Room 2020, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Steven T. Dougherty, University of Scranton doughertys1@Scranton.edu
Jay A. Wood, Western Michigan University jay.wood@wmich.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Negacyclic codes over Galois rings.
Sergio R López-Permouth*, Ohio University
Steve Szabo, Ohio University
(1043-94-204) -
3:30 p.m.
Isometries for convolutional codes.
Heide Gluesing-Luerssen*, U. of Kentucky, Dept. of Mathematics, 715 Patterson Office Tower, Lexington, KY 40506
(1043-94-105) -
4:00 p.m.
Repeated-root constacyclic codes of prime power length over polynomial residue rings.
Hai Q Dinh*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, Warren, OH 44483, USA
(1043-94-197) -
4:30 p.m.
Problem Session
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Field Theory, III
Room 1010, Fetzer Center
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3:00 p.m.
Categories coming from symplectic singularities, or on the Ext-algebra of hot fudge.
Ben Webster*, MIT
(1043-81-213) -
4:00 p.m.
Localization for THH and TC of spectral categories.
Andrew Blumberg*, University of Chicago
(1043-81-214)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computational Group Theory, III
Room 2030, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Luise-Charlotte Kappe, State University of New York Binghamton menger@math.binghamton.edu
Arturo Magidin, University of Louisiana--Lafayette magidin@member.ams.org
Robert F. Morse, University of Evansville rfmorse@evansville.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Can the finite simple groups be classified at all?
Gerhard O. Michler*, Dept. Math. Cornell University, Ithaca NY
(1043-20-40) -
4:00 p.m.
Supercharacter theories of finite cyclic groups.
Anders O.F. Hendrickson*, Concordia College
(1043-20-173) -
4:30 p.m.
Generalized Symmetric Groups with the Best Possible Strong Symmetric Genus.
Michael A Jackson*, Grove City College
(1043-20-16)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quasigroups, Loops, and Nonassociative Division Algebras, II
Room 2040, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Clifton E. Ealy, Jr., Western Michigan University ealy@wmich.edu
David Richter, Western Michigan University david.richter@wmich.edu
Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver petr@math.du.edu
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3:00 p.m.
The existence of Sylow $p$-subloops in finite Moufang loops.
Stephen M Gagola III*, University of Arizona
(1043-20-24) -
3:30 p.m.
The structure of moufang loops arising from zorn vector matrix algebras.
Andrew Wells*, Iowa State University
(1043-17-41) -
4:00 p.m.
Moufang loops and groups with triality are essentially the same thing.
Jonathan I Hall*, Michigan State University
(1043-20-70) -
4:30 p.m.
Moufang Elements.
J. D. Phillips*, Wabash College
(1043-20-93)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Applications, III
Room 1320, Schneider Hall
Organizers:
S. P. Singh, University of Western Ontario ssingh2@uwo.ca
Bruce B. Watson, Memorial University bruce2@math.mun.ca
Mahi Singh, University of Western Ontario msingh@uwo.ca
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3:00 p.m.
Fixed Points and Common Fixed Points in Hausdorff Spaces Via Generalized Continuities.
Gerald F. Jungck*, Bradley University
(1043-54-111) -
3:30 p.m.
Unbounded representations of partial *-algebras and generalized Stinespring theorem.
Camillo Trapani*, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Palermo
(1043-47-90) -
4:00 p.m.
Economic development and sustainability in a two-sector model with variable population growth rate.
Massimiliano Ferrara*, Dept. of History, Law, Economics and Social Sciences - University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria- Italy
Luca Guerrini, Dept. of Mathematical Economics - University of Bologna- Italy
(1043-37-83) -
4:30 p.m.
On some fixed point theorems and applications.
Ashok K. Singh*, Department of Science and Technology
(1043-47-65)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computation in Modular Representation Theory and Cohomology, III
Room 2016/2018, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Christopher P. Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout bendelc@uwstout.edu
Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia bjp8w@virginia.edu
Cornelius Pillen, University of South Alabama pillen@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
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3:00 p.m.
$Ext^{1}$-quivers for the Witt algebra W(1,1).
Brian D. Boe, University of Georgia
Daniel K. Nakano*, University of Georgia
Emilie Wiesner, Ithaca College
(1043-17-110) -
3:30 p.m.
Cohomology and generic cohomology for Specht modules of the symmetric group.
David J Hemmer*, University at Buffalo, SUNY
(1043-20-125) -
4:00 p.m.
Discussion
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Finance, II
Room 1330, Schneider Hall
Organizers:
Qiji J. Zhu, Western Michigan University zhu@wmich.edu
George Yin, Wayne State University gyin@math.wayne.edu
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3:00 p.m.
An Optimal Stopping Problem for SDEs with Random Coefficients.
Jiongmin Yong*, University of Central Florida
(1043-49-43) -
3:30 p.m.
Regime-Switching Recombining Tree for Option Pricing.
Ruihua Liu*, University of Dayton
(1043-60-135) -
4:00 p.m.
Pricing Asian Options for Jump Diffusions.
Erhan Bayraktar, University of Michigan
Hao Xing*, University of Michigan
(1043-60-206) -
4:30 p.m.
Implementing a Robust Option Replacement Strategy.
Anirban Dutta*, Western Michigan University
Qiji J. Zhu, Western Michigan University
(1043-91-104)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Variational Analysis and its Applications, III
Room 1340, Schneider Hall
Organizers:
Yuri Ledyaev, Western Michigan University ledyaev@wmich.edu
Jay S. Treiman, Western Michigan University jay.treiman@wmich.edu
Ilya Shvartsman, Penn State Harrisburg ius13@psu.edu
Qiji J. Zhu, Western Michigan University qiji.zhu@wmich.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Parabolic-Hyperbolic Fluid-Structure Interaction.
Roberto Triggiani*, University of Virginia
(1043-35-55) -
3:30 p.m.
Wellposedness of Solutions for the Wave Equation with Supercritical Interior and Boundary Sources and Damping.
Lorena Bociu*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Irena Lasiecka, University of Virginia
(1043-35-66) -
4:00 p.m.
Well-posedness and trace regularity of a plate equation with non-dissipative boundary conditions.
Daniel Toundykov*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Irena Lasiecka, University of Virginia
(1043-35-153) -
4:30 p.m.
Long time behavior in nonlinear hyperbolic eveolutions.
Irena m Lasiecka*, University of Virginia
(1043-35-74)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Labeling, Graph Coloring, and Topological Graph Theory, III
Room 2345, Schneider Hall
Organizers:
Arthur T. White, Western Michigan University arthur.white@wmich.edu
David L. Craft, Muskingum College craft@muskingum.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Imbeddings of Graph Products: a Survey.
Ghidewon Abay-Asmerom*, Virginia Commonwealth University
(1043-05-33) -
3:30 p.m.
Counting minimum genus embeddings of $K_{3,n}$.
Mark N. Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
Adam Weaver, Vanderbilt University
(1043-05-28) -
4:00 p.m.
Simple closed curves in $N_3$.
Xiaoya Zha*, Middle Tennessee State University
(1043-05-92) -
4:30 p.m.
Representativity of Cayley maps of some Abelian groups.
D. Christopher Stephens*, Middle Tennessee State University
Thomas W. Tucker, Colgate University
Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
(1043-05-191)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Optimization/Midwest Optimization Seminar, III
Room 1350, Schneider Hall
Organizers:
Jay S. Treiman, Western Michigan University jay.treiman@wmich.edu
Yuri Ledyaev, Western Michigan University iouri.lediaev@wmich.edu
Ilya Shvartsman, Penn State Harrisburg ius13@psu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Simultaneously Inpainting in Image and Transformed Domains.
Lixin Shen*, Syracuse University
(1043-42-161) -
3:30 p.m.
An Infeasible Interior-Point Algorithm for Linear Complementarity Problems.
Olena Shevchenko*, Western Michigan University
(1043-90-176) -
4:00 p.m.
Randomized Methods for Linear Constraints: Convergence Rates and Conditioning.
Dennis Leventhal*, Cornell University
Adrian Lewis, Cornell University
(1043-90-113) -
4:30 p.m.
Robust Parameters Estimation of Least Norm problems with Uncertain Data.
Saïd Bahi*, Southern Utah University
(1043-90-155)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching, III
Room 2335, Schneider Hall
Organizers:
Kate Kline, Western Michigan University kate.kline@wmich.edu
Christine Browning, Western Michigan University christine.browning@wmich.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching Algebra: Recent Recommendations and Research.
Sharon L. Senk*, Michigan State University
(1043-97-209) -
4:00 p.m.
Developing preservice teachers' understanding of linearity.
Laura R. Van Zoest*, Western Michigan University
(1043-97-203)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory, II
Room 1030, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Michele Intermont, Kalamazoo College intermon@kzoo.edu
John R. Martino, Western Michigan University john.martino@wmich.edu
Jeffrey A. Strom, Western Michigan University jeff.strom@wmich.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Algebraic $K$-theory of the dual numbers.
Vigleik Angeltveit, University of Chicago
Teena M Gerhardt*, Indiana University
Lars Hesselholt, Nagoya University
(1043-19-148) -
3:30 p.m.
On the Tate spectrum of tmf at the prime 2.
Scott M Bailey*, University of Rochester
(1043-55-49) -
4:00 p.m.
Generalized Cohomology and Generalized Witt Schemes.
Justin Noel*, University of Chicago
(1043-55-47) -
4:30 p.m.
Towards the unstable $v_2$--periodic homotopy of odd spheres.
Nicholas J. Kuhn*, University of Virginia
(1043-55-185)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, III
Room 1040/1050, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Shreeram Abhyankar, Purdue University ram@cs.purdue.edu
Anthony J. Crachiola, Saginaw Valley State University crachiola@member.ams.org
Leonid G. Makar-Limanov, Wayne State University lml@math.wayne.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Arithmetic Dynamics and the Characterization of Finite Solvable Groups.
Tatiana M Bandman*, Bar Ilan University, Israel
(1043-14-18) -
3:30 p.m.
Shestakov-Umirbaev reductions and Nagata's conjecture on a polynomial automorphism.
Shigeru Kuroda*, Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
(1043-14-78) -
4:00 p.m.
Relations between the Leading Terms of a Polynomial Automorphism.
Stéphane Vénéreau*, Departement Mathematik, Basel University
(1043-14-48) -
4:30 p.m.
The variety of plane polynomial automorphisms.
Jean-Philippe Furter*, Univ. of La Rochelle (France).
(1043-14-19)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
Contributed Paper Session
Room 2050, Fetzer Center
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3:00 p.m.
Vertex operator algebras and integrable system.
SHR-JING Chen*, Rutgers University
(1043-47-106) -
3:15 p.m.
Canonical decomposition of graphs and antimagic labeling.
Michael D Barrus*, University of Illinois
(1043-05-175) -
3:30 p.m.
The non-abelian tensor product of finite groups is finite: a homology free proof.
Viji Z Thomas*, Binghamton University
(1043-20-187) -
3:45 p.m.
Persisting mathematics and science high school teachers: A Q-methodology study.
Michelle M. LaVicka*, Little Rock, AR
(1043-97-45) -
4:00 p.m.
Multipliers and Operators on the Tempered Ultradistribution Spaces of Roumieu Type for the Distributional Hankel-Type Transformation Spaces.
Shrideh Khalaf Al-omari*, Assisstant Prof. ,faculty of Engineering Technology,Al-balqa Applied University,Jordan
Pradeep K. Banerji, Prof.,j.n.v.University,India
(1043-00-25)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 18, 2008, 5:10 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Invited Address
Global Schrodinger maps: Small data in the critical Sobolev spaces.
Room 1005, Fetzer Center
Alexandru Ionescu*, University of Wisconsin
(1043-35-03) -
Saturday October 18, 2008, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Reception hosted by the Department of Mathematics
Lobby, Fetzer Center