AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

Current as of Sunday, November 8, 2009 00:36:25

2009 Fall Southeastern Meeting
Boca Raton, FL, October 30 - November 1, 2009 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1053

Friday October 30, 2009

• Friday October 30, 2009, 12:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Main Entrance, Physical Sciences Building
• Friday October 30, 2009, 12:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Book Sale and Exhibit
  Room 112, Physical Sciences Building
• Friday October 30, 2009, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Global conformal invariants: A conjecture of Deser and Schwimmer.
  Room 101, General Classroom North
  Spyridon Alexakis*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1053-00-04)
• Friday October 30, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, I
  Room 120, General Classroom South
  Organizers:
  Pete L. Clark, University of Georgia pete@math.uga.edu
  Dino Lorenzini, University of Georgia
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Clifford sequences in the theory of line bundle-valued quadratic forms over arithmetic schemes.
    Asher Auel*, Emory University
    (1053-11-103)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the explicit construction of the maximal almost abelian extension of an imaginary quadratic base field.
    Amanda M Beeson*, Williams College
    (1053-11-302)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Vanishing Cycles and Wild Monodromy.
    Andrew Obus*, Columbia University
    (1053-14-234)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Counting Algebraic Numbers of Fixed Degree and Fixed Height over Global Fields.
    Seyfi Turkelli*, UGA-Athens
    (1053-11-332)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Progress on the arithmetic of rational surfaces.
    Anthony Varilly-Alvarado*, Rice University
    (1053-14-349)
• Friday October 30, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Constructive Mathematics, I
  Room 404, Fleming Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert Lubarsky, Florida Atlantic University Robert.Lubarsky@comcast.net
  Fred Richman, Florida Atlantic University
  Martin Solomon, Florida Atlantic University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Formalizing Brouwer-Heyting-Kolmogorov semantics.
    Sergei N. Artemov*, CUNY Graduate Center
    (1053-03-320)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Cut for Core Logic.
    Neil W Tennant*, Department of Philosophy, The Ohio State University
    (1053-03-60)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Weak Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.
    Robert S. Lubarsky*, FAU
    Fred Richman, FAU
    (1053-03-76)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Real computability and roots of polynomials.
    Russell G. Miller*, Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY
    (1053-03-121)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Homogeneous models, PA degrees, and Weak König's Lemma.
    Denis R. Hirschfeldt*, University of Chicago
    (1053-03-261)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Computing conformal maps onto circular domains.
    Valentin V Andreev, Lamar University
    Dale Daniel, Lamar University
    Timothy H McNicholl*, Lamar University
    (1053-03-37)
• Friday October 30, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Topology, I
  Room 107, General Classroom South
  Organizers:
  Alexander N. Dranishnikov, University of Florida
  Yuli B. Rudyak, University of Florida rudyak@math.ufl.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Ptolemy spaces with many circles.
    Viktor Schroeder*, University of Zurich
    (1053-51-224)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic dimension of tree-graded spaces.
    N. Brodskiy*, University of Tennessee
    J. Higes, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
    (1053-54-198)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic dimension, Property A, and Lipschitz maps.
    Jerzy Dydak*, University of Tennessee
    Matija Cencelj, University of Ljubljana
    Ales Vavpetic, University of Ljubljana
    (1053-55-338)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Legendrian links, causality, and the Low conjecture.
    Vladimir Chernov*, Dartmouth College
    Stefan Nemirovski, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia and Mathematisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
    (1053-53-19)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On rigid Hirzebruch genera.
    Oleg R Musin*, University of Texas at Brownsville
    (1053-55-334)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The odd Chern Character and localization formulae.
    F. Daniel Cibotaru*, Univ. of Notre Dame
    (1053-58-25)
• Friday October 30, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Concentration, Functional Inequalities, and Isoperimetry, I
  Room 102, General Classroom North
  Organizers:
  Mario Milman, Florida Atlantic University extrapol@bellsouth.net
  Christian Houdre, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Emanuel Milman, Institute for Advanced Study
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Sobolev embedding on Lie groups.
    William Beckner*, University of Texas, Austin
    (1053-35-283)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Density formula and concentration inequalities with Malliavin calculus.
    Ivan Nourdin*, University of Paris VI
    (1053-60-284)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Inversion positivity and the sharp Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality.
    Elliott H. Lieb*, Princeton University
    (1053-42-286)
• Friday October 30, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative Combinatorics, I
  Room 102, General Classroom South
  Organizers:
  Christian Krattenthaler, University of Vienna
  Aaron D. Meyerowitz, Florida Atlantic University
  Heinrich Niederhausen, Florida Atlantic University niederha@fau.edu
  Wandi Wei, Florida Atlantic University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Eulerian quasisymmetric functions.
    John Shareshian, Washington University
    Michelle L Wachs*, University of Miami
    (1053-05-333)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The entries in the LR-tableau.
    Markus Schmidmeier*, Florida Atlantic University
    (1053-20-236)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Hyperplane arrangements and q,t-Catalan numbers.
    Drew Armstrong*, University of Miami
    (1053-05-131)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The discrete fundamental group of the Associahedron and its relation to the type-A cluster algebra.
    Hélène Barcelo, Arizona State University / Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    Christopher Severs*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    Jacob A. White, Arizona State University
    (1053-05-203)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Multilateral Bailey Lemma and Multiple Andrews-Gordon Identities.
    Hasan Coskun*, Texas A&M University-Commerce
    (1053-05-353)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Jordan types of certain nilpotent matrices.
    Itaru Terada*, University of Tokyo
    (1053-05-263)
• Friday October 30, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 117, General Classroom South
  Organizers:
  William D. Kalies, Florida Atlantic University wkalies@fau.edu
  Vincent Naudot, Florida Atlantic University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On Multi-Periodic Dynamics, overview and some recent results.
    Hendrik W Broer*, University of Groningen, Institute of Mathematics and Computing Science
    (1053-37-45)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Synchronization of pulse-coupled oscillators on random directed networks.
    M. Drew LaMar*, College of William and Mary
    Gregory D. Smith, College of William and Mary
    (1053-37-347)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Successive derivatives of return maps and relative cohomology.
    Jean-Pierre Francoise*, Université P.-M. Curie, Paris 6
    (1053-37-75)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Geometry in games of pursuit and evasion.
    Stephanie Alexander, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Richard Bishop, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Robert Ghrist*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1053-91-314)
• Friday October 30, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Probability and Statistics, I
  Room 119, General Classroom South
  Organizers:
  Lianfen Qian, Florida Atlantic University lqian@fau.edu
  Hongwei Long, Florida Atlantic University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Econometric Analysis via Filtering for Financial Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) Data.
    Yong Zeng*, University of Missouri at Kansas City
    (1053-60-26)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Empirical likelihood intervals for conditional VaR.
    Gong Yun, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Zhouping Li, Lanzhou University, China
    Liang Peng*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1053-62-11)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discretization Error in simulation of the maximum of a Levy process.
    Liqing Yan*, Department Of Mathematics, University of Florida
    (1053-60-23)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Asymmetric Information in Fads Models in Levy Markets.
    Winston Buckley*, Florida Atlantic University
    (1053-60-58)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Upper Packing Dimension of a Measure and the Limit Distribution of Products of IID Stochastic Matrices.
    Arunava Mukherjea*, University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, TX 78539
    Ricardo Restrepo, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
    (1053-60-15)
• Friday October 30, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Knots and Links, I
  Room 101, General Classroom South
  Organizers:
  Heather A. Dye, McKendree University hadye@mckendree.edu
  Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
  Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homology of Takasaki quandles.
    Maciej Niebrzydowski, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
    (1053-57-152)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Non-involutory connected quandle extensions with good involutions.
    J Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
    (1053-57-270)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Reidemeister Torsion and the A-polynomial.
    Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    Joanna M Kania-Bartoszynska, National Science Foundation
    (1053-57-77)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quandles for Virtual and Higher Dimensional Knots.
    K. Blake Winter*, SUNY University at Buffalo
    (1053-55-144)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A topological construction for all two-row Springer Varieties.
    Heather M. Russell*, Louisiana State University
    (1053-57-216)
• Friday October 30, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, I
  Room 108, General Classroom South
  Organizers:
  Zixia Song, University of Central Florida zsong@mail.ucf.edu
  Yue Zhao, University of Central Florida
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A New Lower Bound on the Density of Vertex Identifying Codes for the Infinite Hexagonal Grid.
    Dan Cranston, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Gexin Yu*, College of William and Mary
    (1053-05-253)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Guarding Orthogonal Art Galleries with Holes.
    Hemanshu Kaul*, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago
    YoungJu Jo, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1053-05-313)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An Enumerative Perspective on the Chain Poset.
    Teena Carroll*, St. Norbert College
    Josh Cooper, University of South Carolina
    Prasad Tetali, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1053-06-304)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The number of independent sets in graphs with small maximum degree.
    David Galvin*, University of Notre Dame
    Yufei Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1053-05-30)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    `Semi-Regular Trees' and Their Applications.
    Hua Wang*, Georgia Southern University
    (1053-05-269)
• Friday October 30, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on General Relativity and Related Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 227, Physical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Spyridon Alexakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology alexakis@math.mit.edu
  Gilbert Weinstein, University of Alabama Birmingham weinstein@uab.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Aspects of marginally trapped surfaces in 2+1 and higher dimensional gravity.
    Gregory J Galloway*, University of Miami
    (1053-83-285)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Generalization of the Riemannian Penrose Inequality.
    Jeffrey L. Jauregui*, Duke University
    (1053-53-186)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On rigidity of charged black-holes, part 1.
    Willie Wai-Yeung Wong*, DPMMS, Cambridge University
    (1053-83-118)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On rigidity of charged black-holes, part 2.
    Pin Yu*, Princeton University
    (1053-83-119)
• Friday October 30, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, a Tribute to the Memory of James Brewer, I
  Room 116, General Classroom South
  Organizers:
  Alan Loper, Ohio State University lopera@math.ohio-state.edu
  Lee C. Klingler, Florida Atlantic University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Unique Decomposition into Ideals for Reduced Commutative Noetherian Rings.
    Basak Ay*, Florida Atlantic University
    Lee Klingler, Florida Atlantic University
    (1053-13-71)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The $D+M$ construction and a generalization.
    Jason Greene Boynton*, North Dakota State University
    (1053-13-279)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Functorial properties of star operations.
    Jesse Elliott*, California State University, Channel Islands
    (1053-13-147)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Integer-valued Polynomials over Quaternion Rings.
    Nicholas Werner*, The Ohio State University
    (1053-13-80)
• Friday October 30, 2009, 3:20 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, I
  Room 109, Physical Sciences Building
  Organizers:
  Galia D. Dafni, Concordia University
  J. Michael Wilson, University of Vermont, Burlington wilson@cems.uvm.edu
  

  • 3:20 p.m.
    Towards sharp bound for the commutator on weighted Lebesgue spaces.
    Maria Cristina Pereyra*, University of New Mexico
    Daewon Chung, University of New Mexico
    (1053-47-171)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Two weight conditions for norm bounds on solutions to Poisson's equation in a bounded nonsmooth domain in Euclidean space.
    Caroline Sweezy*, New Mexico State University
    (1053-42-158)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Linear elliptic operators requiring indefinite terms in the quadratic Dirichlet form in order for a full coercive estimate to hold.
    G. C. Verchota*, Syracuse University
    (1053-35-326)
• Friday October 30, 2009, 3:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Homological Aspects of Module Theory, I
  Room 111, General Classroom South
  Organizers:
  Andrew R. Kustin, University of South Carolina
  Sean M. Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University Sean.Sather-Wagstaff@ndsu.edu
  Janet Vassilev, University of New Mexico
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    Associated primes of the example of Brenner and Monsky.
    Trung Dinh*, University of Utah
    (1053-13-87)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Associated Primes of Local Cohomology After Adjoining Indeterminates to the Ring.
    Hannah Robbins*, Wake Forest University
    (1053-13-220)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Local cohomology, F-purity and antinilpotency.
    Florian Enescu*, Georgia State University
    (1053-13-227)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On (non)rigidity of Frobenius endomorphism over Gorenstein rings.
    Jinjia Li*, Middle Tennessee State Univerisity
    Hailong Dao, Univerisity of Kansas
    Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
    (1053-13-312)
• Friday October 30, 2009, 5:35 p.m.-6:25 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Systems Biology as a source of interesting problems in mathematics.
  Room 101, General Classroom North
  Eduardo D. Sontag*, Rutgers University
  (1053-92-02)