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2009 Fall Western Section Meeting
Riverside, CA, November 7-8, 2009 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1054

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

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Saturday November 7, 2009

• Saturday November 7, 2009, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 277, Surge Building
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 284, Surge Building
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Research Conducted by Students, I
  Room 1125, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Robert G. Niemeyer, University of California Riverside niemeyer@math.ucr.edu
  Jack R. Bennett, University of California Riverside jack@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Partition Zeta Functions of a Trinomial Measure.
    Michael C Mackenzie*, CSU Stanislaus
    (1054-00-223)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Zeta Functions of a Measure on a Cantor String.
    Kate E Ellis*, CSU Stanislaus
    (1054-00-103)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Minkowski and Hausdorff Dimensions of Related Fractal Strings.
    Shane A. Gibson*, CSU Stanislaus
    (1054-00-26)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Spectral Analysis on self-similar sets and spectral zeta function.
    Nishu Lal*, University of California, Riverside
    (1054-28-146)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis and Applications, I
  Room 2130, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Michael L. Green, California State Polytechnic University Pomona mlgreen@csupomona.edu
  Alan C. Krinik, California State Polytechnic University Pomona ackrinik@csupomona.edu
  Randall J. Swift, California State Polytechnic University Pomona rjswift@csupomona.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Alternative Solution of a Renewal Problem.
    Percy Brill*, University of Windsor, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics and Dept. of Management Science
    (1054-60-122)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Averaging our perceptions of highway speed.
    Jennifer M Switkes*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    (1054-60-117)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Illiquid Markets and Demand-driven Prices.
    David German*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1054-60-225)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Stochastic Framework for Incremental Average Reserve Models.
    Roger M. Hayne*, Milliman Inc.
    (1054-62-232)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Inequality and majorization: Robin Hood in unexpected places.
    Barry C. Arnold*, University of California, Riverside
    (1054-60-244)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras, I
  Room 172, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  Marta Asaeda, University of California Riverside marta@math.ucr.edu
  Aviv Censor, University of California Riverside avivc@math.ucr.edu
  Adrian Ioana, Clay Institute and Caltech adiioana@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Skew products of topological graphs and noncommutative duality.
    Valentin Deaconu, University of Nevada, Reno
    S. Kaliszewski, Arizona State University
    John Quigg*, Arizona State University
    (1054-46-30)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Diagonals in Fell algebras,.
    Alexander Kumjian*, University of Nevada, Reno
    Astrid an Huef, University of New South Wales, Australia
    Aidan Sims, University of Wollongong, Australia
    (1054-46-83)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Morita Transforms of Operator Tensor Algebras.
    Paul S. Muhly*, University of Iowa
    Baruch Solel, Technion
    (1054-46-108)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Combinatorics, I
  Room 268, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  Mei-Chu Chang, University of California Riverside mcc@math.ucr.edu
  Alex Gamburd, University of California Santa Cruz and Northwestern University agamburd@math.northwestern.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Phase transitions in groups with a prescribed infinite set of generators.
    Melvyn B. Nathanson*, City University of New York (Lehman College and the Graduate Center)
    (1054-11-201)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Maximal operators and differentiation theorems in sparse sets.
    Izabella Laba*, UBC
    (1054-42-181)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Finding patterns avoiding many monochromatic constellations.
    Steven Butler*, UCLA
    Kevin Costello, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Ronald Graham, UCSD
    (1054-05-55)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Multiple ergodic averages for flows and configurations in sets of positive density in $\mathbb{R}$.
    Amanda J. Potts*, Northwestern University
    (1054-37-155)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, I
  Room 171, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  Vasiliy Dolgushev, University of California Riverside vasiliyd@ucr.edu
  Wee Liang Gan, University of California Riverside wlgan@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Dunkl operator and quantization of $\mathbb{Z}_2$-singularity.
    Gilles Halbout, Institut de Mathématiques et de Modélisation de Montpellier,
    Xiang Tang*, Department of Mathematics, Washington University
    (1054-58-45)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Higher Index Theorems for Orbifolds.
    Markus J. Pflaum*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Hessel Posthuma, Korteweg-de Vries Institute, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Xiang Tang, Washington University, St. Louis
    (1054-58-50)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Verma modules for continuous Cherednik algebras.
    Tatyana S Chmutova*, University of Michigan
    (1054-16-205)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory, I
  Room 1006, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - North
  Organizers:
  Vyjayanthi Chari, University of California Riverside vyjayanc@ucr.edu
  Wee Liang Gan, University of California Riverside wlgan@math.ucr.edu
  Jacob Greenstein, University of California Riverside jacobg@ucr.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Quiver grassmannians, quiver varieties and the preprojective algebra.
    Alistair Savage*, University of Ottawa
    Peter Tingley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1054-17-79)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Finite-dimensional irreducible representations of equivariant map algebras.
    Prasad Senesi*, Catholic University of America
    (1054-17-296)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On modules over affine Kac-Moody algebras at the critical level induced from Whittaker modules.
    Konstantina Christodoulopoulou*, University of California, Riverside
    (1054-17-150)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Fluid Mechanics, I
  Room 1132, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  James Kelliher, University of California Riverside kelliher@math.ucr.edu
  Qi Zhang, University of California Riverside qizhang@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Vacuum in Gas and Fluid Dynamics.
    Juhi Jang*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    Nader Masmoudi, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    (1054-35-254)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Computation of Time-Periodic Interfacial Fluid Flows.
    David M. Ambrose*, Drexel University
    Jon Wilkening, University of California, Berkeley
    (1054-35-61)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the vanishing viscosity limit in incompressible flows.
    Anna L Mazzucato*, Penn State University
    Michael E Taylor, UNC-Chapel Hill
    (1054-35-212)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dimension estimates for the global attactor of the solutions to the 2D Boussinesq equations with fractional dissipation.
    Ning Ju*, Oklahoma State University
    (1054-37-200)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Spreading of free boundaries in hydro- and elasto-dynamics.
    Thomas C Sideris*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1054-35-180)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Global regularity of solutions to a class of systems of reaction-diffusion.
    Alexis F. Vasseur*, The university of Texas at Austin
    Cristina Caputo, The university of Texas at Austin
    (1054-35-309)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Higher Algebraic Structures, I
  Room 173, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  John Baez, University of California Riverside baez@math.ucr.edu
  Julie Bergner, University of California Riverside jbergner@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Categorifying Quantum Groups.
    Aaron D Lauda*, Columbia University
    (1054-16-62)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Categorification via Quiver Varieties.
    Anthony Licata*, Stanford, CA
    Sabin Cautis, Columbia
    Joel Kamnitzer, University of Toronto
    (1054-14-139)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Categorification of Hall Algebras.
    Christopher Walker*, University of California, Riverside
    (1054-18-276)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A categorification of the Hecke algebra.
    Alexander E Hoffnung*, University of California, Riverisde
    (1054-18-144)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Homotopy colimits and the space of square-zero upper-triangular matrices.
    Jonathan W Lee*, Stanford University
    (1054-55-245)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Universal Bott Samelson resolutions.
    Nitu R Kitchloo*, University of California, San Diego
    (1054-22-51)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knotting Around Dimension Three: A Special Session in Memory of Xiao-Song Lin, I
  Room B118, Bourns Hall
  Organizers:
  Martin Scharlemann, University of California Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  Mohammed Ait Nouh, University of California Riverside maitnouh@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A non-standard interpretation of the Thurston boundary of Teichmuller Space.
    Daryl Cooper*, UCSB
    (1054-03-197)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    If smooth 4-manifolds are puzzling, what are the pieces?
    Ronald A Fintushel, Michigan State University
    Ronald J Stern*, UC Irvine
    (1054-57-234)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The k-width of a knot.
    Joel Hass*, University of California, Davis
    J Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
    Abigail Thompson, University of California, Davis
    (1054-57-39)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    New from old representations of braid groups.
    Stephen Bigelow*, University of California at Santa Barbara
    (1054-20-166)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Detecting right-veering homeomorphisms of the once-punctured torus.
    Emille Davie*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1054-57-236)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Global Riemannian Geometry, I
  Room 1134, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Fred Wilhelm, University of California Riverside fred@math.ucr.edu
  Peter Petersen, University of California Los Angeles petersen@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Souls and moduli spaces of nonnegatively curved manifolds.
    Igor Belegradek, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Slawomir Kwasik, Tulane University
    Reinhard Schultz*, University of California, Riverside
    (1054-57-131)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Non-negatively curved cohomogeneity one manifolds.
    Chenxu He*, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
    (1054-53-120)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Locally collapsed 3-manifolds.
    John W Lott*, University of California-Berkeley
    (1054-58-87)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, I
  Room A125, Bourns Hall
  Organizers:
  Alissa S. Crans, Loyola Marymount University acrans@lmu.edu
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Khovanov Homology and the Potts Model.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1054-57-63)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Oriented Quantum Algebras and Coalgebras, Invariants of 1-1 Tangles, Knots, and Links.
    David E Radford*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Louis H Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1054-16-215)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quandle Cohomology and Cocycle Knot Invariants with Inner Automorphism Actions.
    J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
    Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
    (1054-57-96)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the quantization of super dynamical $r$-matrices of zero weight.
    Gizem Karaali*, Pomona College
    (1054-17-176)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Fractal Geometry, Dynamical Systems, Number Theory and Analysis on Rough Spaces, I
  Room 1121, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Michel L. Lapidus, University of California Riverside lapidus@math.ucr.edu
  Hung Lu, Hawaii Pacific University hlu@hpu.edu
  Erin P. J. Pearse, University of Iowa erin-pearse@uiowa.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Complex dimensions of nonlattice self-similar strings.
    Machiel van Frankenhuijsen*, Utah Valley University
    (1054-41-70)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Arithmetic, Fractality and zeta functions.
    Driss Essouabri*, PRES Lyon University, University Jean Monnet (Saint-Etienne, France)
    (1054-11-73)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Shifts of Finite Type and Fibonacci Harps.
    Annalisa Crannell*, Franklin & Marshall College
    (1054-37-64)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    p-adic fractal strings and their complex dimensions.
    Hung Lu*, Hawaii Pacific University
    Michel L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    (1054-51-169)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Arboreal Galois representations arising from dynamical systems.
    Michelle Manes*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    (1054-11-94)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Finite Dimensional Algebras, I
  Room 1002, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - North
  Organizers:
  Frauke Bleher, University of Iowa fbleher@math.uiowa.edu
  Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann, University of California at Santa Barbara birge@math.ucsb.edu
  Markus Schmidmeier, Florida Atlantic University markus@math.fau.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quivers with potentials and their mutations.
    Jerzy M Weyman*, Northeastern University
    (1054-16-251)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quivers with Potentials: the E-invariant.
    Harm Derksen*, University of Michigan
    Jerzy Weyman, Northeastern University
    Andrei Zelevinsky, Northeastern University
    (1054-16-206)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The rank of a quiver representation.
    Ryan Kinser*, University of Connecticut
    (1054-16-109)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    General Presentations of Algebras.
    Harm Derksen, University of Michigan
    Jiarui Fei*, University of Michigan
    (1054-16-81)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Spaces of representaions of path algebras.
    Babson*, math
    Huisgen-Zimmermann, ucsb
    (1054-16-303)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Calabi-Yau Manifolds, I
  Room 141, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Owen Dearricott, University of California Riverside owen.dearricott@ucr.edu
  Jun Li, Stanford University jli@math.stanford.edu
  Bun Wong, University of California Riverside wong@math.ucr.edu
  Yat-Sun Poon, University of California Riverside ypoon@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Incompleteness of the Weil-Petersson metric.
    Zhiqin Lu*, UCI
    (1054-53-121)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Mirror Principle Approach To Calculating Genus Zero Gromov-Witten Invariants With One Or Two Primary Field Insertions.
    Luke Cherveny*, Univ. of California - Los Angeles
    (1054-14-250)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 1130, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California nhaydn@usc.edu
  Huyi Hu, Michigan State University hu@math.msu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Symmetries can be broken when taking the first return map of a symmetric piecewise rotation.
    Arek Goetz*, San Francisco State University
    (1054-58-249)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Effect of Parametric Noise on Carrying Capacity.
    Ami E Radunskaya*, Pomona College, Claremont
    (1054-37-162)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Conjecture on the stability of periodic solutions to Ricker's equations with periodic parameters.
    Robert J Sacker, Department of Mathematics/ University of Southern California
    Hubertus F von Bremen*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics/ California State Polytechnic University Pomona
    (1054-37-145)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Dynamics of Periodically Perturbed Homoclinic Solutions.
    Qiudong Wang*, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
    (1054-37-107)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, I
  Room 138, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University San Bernardino smcmurra@csusb.edu
  James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Benjamin Finkel and the Ohio Normal University Herald.
    James J Tattersall*, Providence College
    (1054-01-110)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Vito Volterra.
    Mario U Martelli*, Claremont Graduate University
    (1054-01-99)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sums of Powers of Integers.
    Janet L. Beery*, University of Redlands
    (1054-01-56)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Intrinsic Conics of the Hyperbolic Plane.
    John Sarli*, California State University at San Bernardino
    (1054-51-32)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Green's Theorem.
    Victor L. Shapiro*, University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA
    (1054-01-21)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions Between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra, I
  Room 142, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California Santa Barbara goodearl@math.ucsb.edu
  Daniel S. Rogalski, University of California San Diego drogalsk@math.ucsd.edu
  James Zhang, University of Washington zhang@math.washington.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some twisted homogeneous coordinate rings related to superpotential algebras.
    S. Paul Smith*, Dept. of Math., University of Washington
    (1054-16-260)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Dixmier-Moeglin equivalence for twisted homogeneous coordinate rings.
    Susan J. Sierra*, Princeton University
    Jason Bell, Simon Fraser University
    Daniel Rogalski, University of California San Diego
    (1054-16-252)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generalizing Twisted Homogeneous Coordinate Rings.
    Chelsea M Walton*, University of Michigan
    (1054-16-11)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Spectra of quantum Schubert cells and quantum flag varieties.
    Milen Yakimov*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1054-16-116)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Contributed Paper Session
  Room 2132, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    An Optimal Control Problem in Pharmacokinetics.
    Mostafa Ghandehari*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Khosrow Behbehani, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1054-49-18)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Solving Nonlinear Integral Equations.
    Rod Freed*, California State University Dominguez Hills
    (1054-45-85)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An Approximate Solution for Smart Grid's Optimization Problem.
    Kourosh Modarresi*, Stanford University and SAP
    (1054-90-241)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    A proof of the Kauffman--Harary Conjecture.
    Thomas W Mattman*, California State University, Chico
    Pablo Solis, UC, Berkeley
    (1054-57-65)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Statesum Formula for the Alexander-Conway Polynomial.
    Samson Ephraim Black*, University of Oregon
    (1054-16-290)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    An Infinitude of Primes of the Form b squared plus one.
    Kent G Slinker*, Pima Community College
    (1054-11-54)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Non-convexity of the Dimension Function for Sierpiński Pedal Triangles,.
    Jiu Ding*, University of Southern Mississippi
    Yifa Tang, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science
    (1054-37-15)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Expressing the kth power sum of the nature numbers as a polynomial in the first power sum.
    Hung-ping Tsao*, Novato, CA
    (1054-05-14)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Scientific computing for movie special effects.
  Room 1020, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - North
  Joseph Teran*, University of California Los Angeles
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Representations of quivers with relations. Geometric Aspects.
  Room 1020, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - North
  Birge Huisgen-Zimmerman*, University of California Santa Barbara
  (1054-16-02)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Research Conducted by Students, II
  Room 1125, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Robert G. Niemeyer, University of California Riverside niemeyer@math.ucr.edu
  Jack R. Bennett, University of California Riverside jack@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Effects of Mandatory Homework on Mathematics Performance in an Undergraduate Calculus Course.
    Franque Michele Bains*, University of California, Riverside
    Borislava Gutarts, California State University, Los Angeles
    (1054-97-280)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Inside Factorial Domains and Related Non-Unique Factorization Topics.
    Jack R Bennett*, University of California at Riverside
    (1054-13-220)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Abelian Sheaf Complexes and Picard 2-Stacks.
    Ahmet Emin Tatar*, Florida State University
    (1054-18-216)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Derived Morita Theory for Enriched Symmetric Multicategories.
    Marcy Robertson*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1054-55-308)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Knotting Around Dimension Three: A Special Session in Memory of Xiao-Song Lin, II
  Room B118, Bourns Hall
  Organizers:
  Martin Scharlemann, University of California Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  Mohammed Ait Nouh, University of California Riverside maitnouh@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Broken fibrations on $4$-manifolds.
    Rob Kirby*, UC Berkeley
    David T. Gay, University of Cape Town
    (1054-57-224)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Skein relations and quantizations of representations of surfaces groups.
    Francis Bonahon*, University of Southern California
    Helen Wong, Carleton College
    (1054-57-159)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Networking Seifert surgeries on knots.
    Arnaud Deruelle, Institute of Natural Sciences, Nihon University
    Katura Miyazaki, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Denki University
    Kimihiko Motegi*, Department of Mathematics, Nihon University
    (1054-57-188)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the knot complement problem for non-hyperbolic knots.
    Daniel Matignon*, Université de Provence
    (1054-57-243)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Braid groups and evolution algebras.
    Jianjun Paul Tian*, Mathematics Department, the College of William and Mary
    Carolyn Troha, Mathematics Department, the College of William and Mary
    David Lutzer, Mathematics Department, the College of William and Mary
    (1054-17-84)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Girth: Discussions, Comments, and Corrections.
    Lisa Hernandez*, California Baptist University
    (1054-54-174)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis and Applications, II
  Room 2130, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Michael L. Green, California State Polytechnic University Pomona mlgreen@csupomona.edu
  Alan C. Krinik, California State Polytechnic University Pomona ackrinik@csupomona.edu
  Randall J. Swift, California State Polytechnic University Pomona rjswift@csupomona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Population-adjusted conditional autoregressive model for estimating female breast cancer mortality.
    Hoon Kim*, California State Polytechnic University
    HeeJeong Lim, California State University - Fullerton
    (1054-62-211)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Weak Radon-Nikodým derivative for Hilbert space valued measures.
    Yuichiro Kakihara*, Department of Mathematics, California State University, San Bernardino
    (1054-28-133)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hyperprobabilities.
    Mark Burgin, University of California, Los Angeles
    Alan Krinik*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    (1054-60-262)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Extending the Radon-Nikodym theorem to hypermeasures.
    Mark Burgin, University of California, Los Angeles
    Dongxin (Tony) Chen*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Alan Krinik, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    (1054-28-229)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Least squares Method for Computing a Stationary Density of the Frobenius-Perron Operator.
    Jiu Ding*, University of Southern Mississippi
    Noah Rhee, University of Missouri at Kansas City
    (1054-65-16)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras, II
  Room 172, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  Marta Asaeda, University of California Riverside marta@math.ucr.edu
  Aviv Censor, University of California Riverside avivc@math.ucr.edu
  Adrian Ioana, Clay Institute and Caltech adiioana@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Villadsen algebras.
    George A. Elliott*, University of Toronto
    (1054-46-105)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Perturbations of $E_0$-semigroups.
    Ilan Hirshberg*, Ben Gurion University
    Daniel W. Markiewicz, Ben Gurion University
    (1054-46-167)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Classification of *-homomorphisms using the Cuntz semigroup functor.
    Luis Santiago*, Autonomous University of Barcelona
    (1054-47-123)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Crossed products by free minimal actions of ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$ on finite dimensional compact metric spaces.
    N Christopher Phillips*, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon
    (1054-46-111)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Global Riemannian Geometry, II
  Room 1134, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Fred Wilhelm, University of California Riverside fred@math.ucr.edu
  Peter Petersen, University of California Los Angeles petersen@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spaces of Smooth Orbifold Mappings.
    Joseph E Borzellino*, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
    Victor Brunsden, Penn State Altoona
    (1054-57-42)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Conformal and Asymptotic Properties of Embedded Genus-$g$ Minimal Surfaces with One End.
    Jacob Bernstein*, Stanford University
    (1054-53-25)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Some constructions of biharmonic maps.
    Ye-Lin Ou*, Department of Mathematics/Texas A & M University-Commerce
    (1054-53-37)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Calabi-Yau Manifolds, II
  Room 141, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Owen Dearricott, University of California Riverside owen.dearricott@ucr.edu
  Jun Li, Stanford University jli@math.stanford.edu
  Bun Wong, University of California Riverside wong@math.ucr.edu
  Yat-Sun Poon, University of California Riverside ypoon@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Tropical Vertex.
    Mark W Gross*, UCSD
    Rahul Pandharipande, Princeton
    Bernd Siebert, University of Hamburg
    (1054-14-129)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Normal Forms for K3 Surfaces and the Kuga-Satake Hodge Conjecture via Mirror Symmetry.
    Charles F Doran*, University of Alberta
    (1054-14-231)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Combinatorics, II
  Room 268, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  Mei-Chu Chang, University of California Riverside mcc@math.ucr.edu
  Alex Gamburd, University of California Santa Cruz and Northwestern University agamburd@math.northwestern.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sparse quasi-random graphs and sequences.
    Fan Chung*, University of California, San Diego
    (1054-05-264)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    High-rank polynomial phase decompositions, with number-theoretic applications.
    Julia Wolf*, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
    (1054-11-153)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Dynamical analogues of the Mordell-Lang Conjecture and the Mumford gap principle.
    P. M. Kurlberg*, Department of Mathematics, KTH, Stockholm
    R. L. Benedetto, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Amherst College
    D. Ghioca, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Lethbridge
    T. J. Tucker, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester
    U. Zannier, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
    (1054-11-191)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Character-free approach to progression-free sets.
    Vsevolod F Lev*, The University of Haifa
    (1054-11-161)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Some remarks on van der Waerden's theorem.
    Ron Graham*, UCSD
    (1054-05-158)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, II
  Room A125, Bourns Hall
  Organizers:
  Alissa S. Crans, Loyola Marymount University acrans@lmu.edu
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Adventures in categorification.
    Mikhail Khovanov*, Columbia University
    (1054-81-78)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Categorification of Orthogonal Polynomials.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, George Washington University
    Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
    (1054-18-90)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discovering knot polynomial identities using the $D_{2n}$ planar algebras.
    Scott Morrison*, Miller Institute for Basic Research
    Emily Peters, University of New Hampshire
    Snyder Noah, Columbia University
    (1054-18-279)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The universal sl(2) foam cohomology for links via extended TQFTs.
    Carmen L Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
    (1054-57-86)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Generalized skein modules of surfaces.
    Jeffrey T Boerner*, University of Iowa
    Paul Drube, University of Iowa
    (1054-57-293)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 1130, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California nhaydn@usc.edu
  Huyi Hu, Michigan State University hu@math.msu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quantization dimension function and ergodic measure with bounded distortion.tex.
    Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury*, The University of Texas-Pan American
    (1054-37-12)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Rényi Entropy Function and the Large Deviation of Short Return Times.
    Nicolai T Haydn*, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California
    Sandro Vaienti, Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS, Marseille
    (1054-37-301)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Exponential mixing for hyperbolic flows.
    M Field*, University of Houston
    (1054-37-52)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Transitivity of Euclidean-type extensions of hyperbolic systems.
    Andrew Török*, University of Houston
    Ian Melbourne, University of Surrey, UK
    Viorel Nitica, West Chester University
    (1054-37-154)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Spectral Analysis of the Stochastic Integrate-and-Fire Oscillator.
    Peter H. Baxendale*, University of Southern California
    (1054-37-89)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A Borel-Cantelli lemma for nonuniformly expanding dynamical systems.
    Matthew Nicol*, University of Houston
    Chinmaya Gupta, University of Houston
    William Ott, University of Houston
    (1054-37-106)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 143, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Christopher Hacon, University of Utah hacon@math.utah.edu
  Ziv Ran, University of California Riverside ziv.ran@ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Multiple points in higher dimensions.
    Karen A Chandler*, University of California at Riverside
    (1054-14-311)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Chern classes identities from weak coupling limits.
    Paolo Aluffi*, Florida State Univesity
    (1054-14-114)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Feynman integrals and algebraic geometry.
    Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University
    Matilde Marcolli*, California Institute of Technology
    (1054-14-66)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, II
  Room 171, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  Vasiliy Dolgushev, University of California Riverside vasiliyd@ucr.edu
  Wee Liang Gan, University of California Riverside wlgan@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Early universe models from Noncommutative Geometry.
    Matilde Marcolli*, California Institute of Technology
    Elena Pierpaoli, University of Southern California
    (1054-58-67)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Poisson Traces and D-Modules.
    Pavel Etingof, MIT
    Travis Schedler*, MIT
    (1054-16-149)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory, II
  Room 1006, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - North
  Organizers:
  Vyjayanthi Chari, University of California Riverside vyjayanc@ucr.edu
  Wee Liang Gan, University of California Riverside wlgan@math.ucr.edu
  Jacob Greenstein, University of California Riverside jacobg@ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Faces of polytopes and Koszul algebras.
    Apoorva Khare*, Yale University
    Vyjayanthi Chari, University of California at Riverside
    Tim Ridenour, University of California at Riverside
    (1054-17-240)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Simple weight modules of affine Lie algebras.
    Dimitar Grantcharov*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Ivan Dimitrov, Queens University
    (1054-17-151)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Affine crystals for type $E$.
    Brant Jones, UC Davis
    Anne Schilling*, UC Davis
    (1054-81-20)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, II
  Room 138, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University San Bernardino smcmurra@csusb.edu
  James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Who Discovered the Icosahedron?
    John C. Baez*, U. C. Riverside
    (1054-01-71)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Definitions and Nondefinability in Geometry: Legacies of Mario Pieri and Alfred Tarski.
    James T Smith*, San Francisco State University
    (1054-01-41)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Gauss and the Sums of Three Squares.
    Lawrence A. D'Antonio*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
    (1054-01-40)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Resolvents of Polynomial Equations.
    Paul R. Wolfson*, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
    (1054-01-128)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Henri Lebesgue and Arc Length.
    Harriet M Lord*, Cal Poly Pomona
    (1054-01-141)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Hugh MacColl and Charles L. Dodgson on Axioms and Non-Euclidean Geometry.
    Francine F. Abeles*, Kean University
    (1054-01-17)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Fluid Mechanics, II
  Room 1132, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  James Kelliher, University of California Riverside kelliher@math.ucr.edu
  Qi Zhang, University of California Riverside qizhang@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The axisymmetric Euler equations with initial vorticity in borderline spaces of Besov type.
    Elaine M. Cozzi*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1054-76-209)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Scattering for fourth-order wave equations.
    Benoit Pausader*, Brown University
    (1054-35-179)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rotational Stokes waves.
    Vera Mikyoung Hur*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1054-35-75)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Bolza Control problem arising in Linearized Fluid-Structure Interaction.
    Irena Lasiecka, University of Virginia
    Amjad Tuffaha*, University of Southern California
    (1054-76-207)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Approximating long time statistical properties.
    Xiaoming Wang*, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
    (1054-76-58)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Fractal Geometry, Dynamical Systems, Number Theory and Analysis on Rough Spaces, II
  Room 1121, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Michel L. Lapidus, University of California Riverside lapidus@math.ucr.edu
  Hung Lu, Hawaii Pacific University hlu@hpu.edu
  Erin P. J. Pearse, University of Iowa erin-pearse@uiowa.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A grandcanonical multifractal formalism.
    Stephane Jaffard*, University Paris 12
    (1054-28-268)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Multifractals, Zeta Functions, and Spectra of Complex Dimensions.
    John A Rock*, California State University, Stanislaus
    (1054-00-168)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Fractal Strings, Complex Dimensions, and Adelic Structures.
    Childress P Scot*, University of California at Riverside
    (1054-46-263)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Tube formulas and self-similar tilings.
    Erin P. J. Pearse*, University of Iowa
    Michel L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    Steffen Winter, Universität Karlsruhe
    (1054-52-152)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Higher Algebraic Structures, II
  Room 173, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  John Baez, University of California Riverside baez@math.ucr.edu
  Julie Bergner, University of California Riverside jbergner@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Real Johnson-Wilson Theories.
    Maia Averett*, Mills College
    (1054-55-101)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Generating spaces for $S(n)$-acyclics.
    Aaron Leeman*, University of California, Riverside
    (1054-55-287)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Large Mapping spaces in quasi-categories.
    David I. Spivak*, University of Oregon
    Daniel Dugger, University of Oregon
    (1054-18-227)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An Application of Equivariant $\mathbb{A}^1$-Homotopy Theory to Problems in Commutative Algebra.
    T Benedict Williams*, Stanford University
    (1054-19-228)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the $K$-theory of toric varieties.
    Christian Haesemeyer*, UCLA
    Guillermo Cortinas, University of Buenos Aires
    Mark E Walker, University of Nebraska
    Charles A. Weibel, Rutgers University
    (1054-19-255)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Relations amongst motivic Hopf elements.
    Daniel Dugger*, University of Oregon
    Daniel C. Isaksen, Wayne State University
    (1054-55-297)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:15 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  Contributed Paper Session, II
  Room 2132, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  

  • 3:15 p.m.
    Algebraic Elements and Invariant Subspaces.
    Yun-Su Kim*, Department of Mathematics, University of Toledo
    (1054-47-29)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A construction of group divisible designs.
    Yaotsu Chang*, Professro, I-Shou University
    Chong-Dao Lee, Assistant Professor, I-Shou University
    Peter JS Shiue, Professor, University of Nevada
    Hao Shen, Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University
    (1054-05-257)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    "Divisibility Theory of Semi-Hereditary Bezout Rings".
    Michael Siddoway*, Colorado College
    Pham Ngoc Anh, Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    (1054-13-09)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Abelian Sheaf Complexes and Picard 2-Stacks.
    Ahmet Emin Tatar*, Florida State University
    (1054-18-19)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Converse of Abel's theorem.
    Veniamin Kisunko*, University of Toronto
    (1054-14-22)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A Mathematical Quantization of Space-Time-Matter.
    Michael G. Dombroski*, Los Angeles City College
    (1054-81-08)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Ancient Numeral System and The Great Pyramid.
    Ricie Dimatatac Bulanhagui*, Alalum, San Pascual, Batangas
    (1054-01-74)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Finite Dimensional Algebras, II
  Room 1002, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - North
  Organizers:
  Frauke Bleher, University of Iowa fbleher@math.uiowa.edu
  Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann, University of California at Santa Barbara birge@math.ucsb.edu
  Markus Schmidmeier, Florida Atlantic University markus@math.fau.edu
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    Reduction of derived Hochschild functors.
    Luchezar L. Avramov*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Srikanth B. Iyengar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Joseph Lipman, Purdue University
    Suresh Nayak, Chennai Mathematical Institute
    (1054-18-291)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Invariants of AS-Regular Algebras: Complete Intersections.
    Ellen Kirkman*, Wake Forest University
    James Kuzmanovich, Wake Forest University
    James Zhang, University of Washington, Seattle
    (1054-16-203)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Gorenstein presentations and semidualizing modules.
    David A. Jorgensen, University of Texas at Arlington
    Graham J. Leuschke*, Syracuse University
    Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University
    (1054-13-192)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Orbit closures in varieties parametrizing the objects in the derived category.
    Dag Madsen*, Syracuse University
    (1054-16-277)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the representation type of quivers.
    Calin Ioan Chindris*, University of Iowa
    (1054-16-184)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions Between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra, II
  Room 142, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California Santa Barbara goodearl@math.ucsb.edu
  Daniel S. Rogalski, University of California San Diego drogalsk@math.ucsd.edu
  James Zhang, University of Washington zhang@math.washington.edu
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    Enumeration of torus-invariant primitive ideals in quantum matrices.
    Jason P Bell*, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
    Karel Casteels, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
    Stephane Launois, Department of Mathematics, University of Kent
    (1054-16-199)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Finding generators of $H$-prime ideals in $O_q(M_{m,n}(C))$ using graph theory.
    Karel Casteels*, Simon Fraser University
    (1054-17-198)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Frobenius-Schur indicators of representations of Hopf algebras and the trace of the antipode.
    Yevgenia Kashina, DePaul University
    M. Susan Montgomery*, University of Southern California
    Siu-hung Richard Ng, Iowa State University
    (1054-16-48)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A trace-like invariant for representations of Hopf algebras.
    Andrea Jedwab*, University of Southern California
    (1054-16-136)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Cohomology of pointed Hopf algebras.
    Mitja Mastnak, Saint Mary's University
    Julia Pevtsova*, University of Washington
    Peter Schauenburg, U. Munchen
    Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M
    (1054-16-127)

Sunday November 8, 2009

• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 277, Surge Building
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 284, Surge Building
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Research Conducted by Students, III
  Room 1125, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Robert G. Niemeyer, University of California Riverside niemeyer@math.ucr.edu
  Jack R. Bennett, University of California Riverside jack@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Solution to the Nonlinear Poisson Boundary Value Problem via a Newton-imbedding Prodedure.
    Jonathan J Sarhad*, University of California, Riverside
    (1054-35-270)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Generalized L-Fractal strings.
    Hafedh Herichi*, University of California, Riverside
    (1054-46-259)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Finite Fourier Analysis and Polynomial Multiplication.
    Joe Adams*, UC Riverside
    (1054-42-34)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The rigorous Feynman path integral, analytic continuation and convolution as generalized evolution.
    Michael A Maroun*, University of California, Riverside Departments of Mathematics and Physics
    (1054-81-285)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis and Applications, III
  Room 2130, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Michael L. Green, California State Polytechnic University Pomona mlgreen@csupomona.edu
  Alan C. Krinik, California State Polytechnic University Pomona ackrinik@csupomona.edu
  Randall J. Swift, California State Polytechnic University Pomona rjswift@csupomona.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Stochastic methods and boundary behavior of harmonic functions.
    Mike O'Neill*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1054-60-118)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Spectral Representation of a Class of Nonstationary Processes.
    Randall J Swift*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    (1054-60-126)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Topics in Space-time Modelling.
    Daryl Daley*, Australian National University
    (1054-60-299)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Markov Processes Having Transition Steps of Size One & Two.
    Alan Krinik*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Ken Shun, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    (1054-60-115)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the power of a queueing system.
    Gerardo Rubino*, INRIA
    (1054-60-246)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Blind Fair Routing in Large-Scale Service Systems with Heterogeneous Customers and Servers.
    Amy R. Ward*, University of Southern California
    Mor Armony, New York University
    (1054-60-147)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras, III
  Room 172, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  Marta Asaeda, University of California Riverside marta@math.ucr.edu
  Aviv Censor, University of California Riverside avivc@math.ucr.edu
  Adrian Ioana, Clay Institute and Caltech adiioana@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Fields of Hilbert spaces over a topological space.
    Leonel Robert*, York University
    Aaron Tikuisis, University of Toronto
    (1054-46-173)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Cocycle Superrigidity for Gaussian Actions.
    Jesse Peterson*, Vanderbilt University
    (1054-46-310)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On relative property (T) and Haagerup's property.
    Ionut Chifan*, Vanderbilt University
    Adrian Ioana, UCLA
    (1054-46-76)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    II$_1$ factors with an exotic MASA.
    Cyril Houdayer, ENS Lyon
    Dimitri Shlyakhtenko*, UCLA
    (1054-46-218)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Global Riemannian Geometry, III
  Room 1134, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Fred Wilhelm, University of California Riverside fred@math.ucr.edu
  Peter Petersen, University of California Los Angeles petersen@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Positive curvature on a 3-Sasakian 7-manifold.
    Owen Dearricott*, University of California, Riverside
    (1054-53-27)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the classification of m-Quasi-Einstein metrics.
    William Wylie*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1054-53-266)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the non-existence of quasi-Einstein metrics.
    Jeffrey S Case*, University of California Santa Barbara
    (1054-53-112)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Combinatorics, III
  Room 268, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  Mei-Chu Chang, University of California Riverside mcc@math.ucr.edu
  Alex Gamburd, University of California Santa Cruz and Northwestern University agamburd@math.northwestern.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Expansion in $SL_d({\bf Z}/q{\bf Z})$, $q$ square-free.
    Péter P. Varjú*, Princeton University
    (1054-05-137)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On representations of integers in thin subgroups of SL(2,Z).
    Jean Bourgain, IAS
    Alex Kontorovich*, IAS and Brown
    (1054-11-265)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the sum of two products of sumsets in prime fields.
    Victor Garcia*, Institute of Mathematics (BOKU Wien)
    (1054-11-05)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Intersective polynomials and the primes.
    Thai Hoang Le*, UCLA
    (1054-11-271)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Finite point configurations in Euclidean and arithmetic settings.
    Alex Iosevich*, University of Missouri
    (1054-05-253)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, III
  Room A125, Bourns Hall
  Organizers:
  Alissa S. Crans, Loyola Marymount University acrans@lmu.edu
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Non-orientable surface knots in thickened 3-manifolds that have an arbitrarily large number of triple points in their projections.
    Scott Carter J*, University of South Alabama
    (1054-57-88)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A colored $\mathfrak{sl}(N)$-homology for links in $S^3$.
    Hao Wu*, The George Washington University
    (1054-57-38)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Knot symmetric quandles and their presentations.
    Seiichi Kamada*, Department of Mathematics/Hiroshima University
    (1054-57-44)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Relationship between quandle cocycle invariants and symmetric quandle cocycle invariants for oriented links.
    Kanako Oshiro*, Hiroshima University
    (1054-57-187)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Quandle and hyperbolic volume.
    Ayumu Inoue*, Department of Mathematics, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    (1054-57-185)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, III
  Room 171, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  Vasiliy Dolgushev, University of California Riverside vasiliyd@ucr.edu
  Wee Liang Gan, University of California Riverside wlgan@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Resolution of the unital-Associative Operad.
    Joseph Hirsh*, CUNY Graduate Center
    (1054-16-170)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homotopy BV and Deligne-Mumford space.
    Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole*, City University of New York
    (1054-55-210)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A geometric proof of the generalized Deligne conjecture.
    Justin D Thomas*, Northwestern University
    (1054-81-69)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory, III
  Room 1006, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - North
  Organizers:
  Vyjayanthi Chari, University of California Riverside vyjayanc@ucr.edu
  Wee Liang Gan, University of California Riverside wlgan@math.ucr.edu
  Jacob Greenstein, University of California Riverside jacobg@ucr.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Some level two representations of quiver Hecke algebras.
    Jonathan Brundan*, University of Oregon
    (1054-16-23)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ideals in parabolic subalgebras of simple Lie algebras.
    RJ Dolbin*, UC Riverside
    (1054-17-195)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    q-commuting Dunkl operators and braided Cherednik algebras.
    Arkady Berenstein*, University of Oregon
    Yuri Bazlov, University of Warwick
    (1054-20-242)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Fluid Mechanics, III
  Room 1132, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  James Kelliher, University of California Riverside kelliher@math.ucr.edu
  Qi Zhang, University of California Riverside qizhang@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Some models related to the stabilizing effect of convection in Fluid.
    M Li*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    T H Hou, California Institute of Technology
    (1054-35-275)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Well-posedness of a multidimensional aggregation equation.
    Andrea Bertozzi*, University of California Los Angeles
    Thomas Laurent, UCLA
    (1054-76-57)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Blowup in multidimensional aggregation equations.
    Thomas Laurent*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1054-35-261)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Gaussian Upper Bound of a Parabolic Equation Arising in the study of the Navier-Stokes Equations.
    Jennifer Burke Loftus*, University of California, Riverside
    (1054-35-283)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Well posedness of some stochastic geophysical models.
    Mohammed B Ziane*, University of Southern California
    Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Indiana University
    (1054-35-213)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Gevrey-class regularity for the Euler equations on a domain with boundary.
    Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California
    Vlad Vicol*, University of Southern California
    (1054-35-182)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Higher Algebraic Structures, III
  Room 173, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  John Baez, University of California Riverside baez@math.ucr.edu
  Julie Bergner, University of California Riverside jbergner@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Group Actions on Categorified Bundles.
    Weiwei Pan*, St. Marys College of California
    (1054-55-292)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    String Topology and the Based Loop Space.
    Eric J Malm*, Stanford University
    (1054-55-221)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Orbifolds and Equivariant Homotopy Theory.
    Laura Scull*, Fort Lewis College
    Dorette Pronk, Dalhousie University
    (1054-55-100)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Atiyah--Segal completion theorem in twisted $K$-theory.
    Anssi S. Lahtinen*, Stanford
    (1054-55-178)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    String Connections and Supersymmetric Sigma Models.
    Konrad Waldorf*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1054-53-189)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Monoids of moduli spaces of manifolds.
    Soren Galatius*, Stanford University
    (1054-55-142)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knotting Around Dimension Three: A Special Session in Memory of Xiao-Song Lin, III
  Room B118, Bourns Hall
  Organizers:
  Martin Scharlemann, University of California Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  Mohammed Ait Nouh, University of California Riverside maitnouh@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Handle number one links and generalized property $R$.
    Michael John Williams*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1054-57-281)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Meridionally destabilizing number of knots.
    Toshio Saito*, University of California Santa Barbara
    (1054-57-160)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Knots with small rational genus.
    Danny Calegari*, California Institute of Technology
    (1054-57-177)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Gauge-string duality and the structure of large rank Chern-Simons invariants.
    Dave Auckly*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    (1054-57-132)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Fractal Geometry, Dynamical Systems, Number Theory and Analysis on Rough Spaces, III
  Room 1121, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Michel L. Lapidus, University of California Riverside lapidus@math.ucr.edu
  Hung Lu, Hawaii Pacific University hlu@hpu.edu
  Erin P. J. Pearse, University of Iowa erin-pearse@uiowa.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Estimates for the resolvent kernel of the Laplacian on p.c.f. fractals.
    Luke G Rogers*, University of Connecticut
    (1054-30-222)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Trace of a transient random walk on a tree on the Cantor set as the Martin boundary and associated heat kernel.
    Jun Kigami*, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
    (1054-60-33)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Numerical computation of the eigenfunctions of the Kusuoka Laplacian on the Sierpinski gasket.
    Vicente Alvarez*, San Bernardino Valley College
    (1054-65-295)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Analysis on fractals, geodesic metric and noncommutative geometry.
    Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California. Riverside
    (1054-58-125)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Powers of the Laplacian on PCF Fractals.
    Marius V Ionescu*, University of Connecticut
    (1054-46-148)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Finite Dimensional Algebras, III
  Room 1002, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - North
  Organizers:
  Frauke Bleher, University of Iowa fbleher@math.uiowa.edu
  Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann, University of California at Santa Barbara birge@math.ucsb.edu
  Markus Schmidmeier, Florida Atlantic University markus@math.fau.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Endotrivial modules.
    Jon F Carlson*, University of Georgia
    Nadia Mazza, Lancaster University
    Jacques Thévenaz, EPFL
    (1054-20-124)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Auslander-Reiten theory for modules of finite complexity over self-injective algebras.
    Dan Zacharia*, Syracuse University
    (1054-16-95)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Universal deformation rings and dihedral blocks with two simple modules.
    Frauke M. Bleher, The University of Iowa
    Jennifer B. Froelich*, Dickinson College
    Giovanna Llosent, California State University, San Bernardino
    (1054-20-77)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Universal deformation rings of modules over self-injective algebras.
    Jose A. Velez*, University of Iowa, Department of Mathematics
    (1054-16-113)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A key module over pure semisimple rings.
    Nguyen Viet Dung*, Ohio University-Zanesville, USA
    (1054-16-92)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Calabi-Yau Manifolds, II
  Room 141, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Owen Dearricott, University of California Riverside owen.dearricott@ucr.edu
  Jun Li, Stanford University jli@math.stanford.edu
  Bun Wong, University of California Riverside wong@math.ucr.edu
  Yat-Sun Poon, University of California Riverside ypoon@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Teichmuller Space of Polarized Calabi-Yau Manifolds.
    Xiaofeng Sun*, Lehigh University
    (1054-53-175)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Degenerations of Calabi-Yau metrics.
    Valentino Tosatti*, Columbia University
    (1054-53-28)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 1130, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California nhaydn@usc.edu
  Huyi Hu, Michigan State University hu@math.msu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Verified Computation of Invariant Manifolds for Planar Diffeomorphisms.
    Sheldon E. Newhouse*, Michigan State University
    (1054-37-93)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Decay of correlations for some nonuniformly expanding maps.
    Huyi Hu*, Michigan State University
    Sandro Vaienti, Centre de Physique Theorique & Universite du Sud Toulon-Var
    (1054-37-294)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Oseledets regularity functions for Anosov flows.
    Slobodan N. Simić*, San Jose State University
    (1054-37-49)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Yoccoz Return Functions.
    Nathaniel D Emerson*, University of Southern California
    (1054-37-163)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions Between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra, III
  Room 142, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California Santa Barbara goodearl@math.ucsb.edu
  Daniel S. Rogalski, University of California San Diego drogalsk@math.ucsd.edu
  James Zhang, University of Washington zhang@math.washington.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Q-Commutative Power Series Rings at Roots of Unity.
    Edward S. Letzter*, Temple University
    (1054-16-143)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Goldie ranks of skew power series rings of automorphic type.
    Edward S. Letzter, Temple University
    Linhong Wang*, Southeastern Louisiana University
    (1054-16-43)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A noncommutative completion of the prime spectrum.
    Richard Vale*, Cornell University
    (1054-16-60)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lie algebras and Lie groups over noncommutative rings.
    Arkady Berenstein*, University of oregon
    Vladimir Retakh, Rutgers University
    (1054-16-104)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 10:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 143, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Christopher Hacon, University of Utah hacon@math.utah.edu
  Ziv Ran, University of California Riverside ziv.ran@ucr.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    On a conjecture of Looijenga on smoothability of cusp singularities.
    Mark W Gross*, UCSD
    Paul Hacking, University of Massachussetts, Amherst
    Sean Keel, University of Texas, Austin
    (1054-14-130)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Classification of algebraic varieties.
  Room 1020, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - North
  Christopher Hacon*, University of Utah
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Toward high genus GW-invariants of quintic Calabi-Yau threefolds.
  Room 1020, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - North
  Jun Li*, Stanford University
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Research Conducted by Students, IV
  Room 1125, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Robert G. Niemeyer, University of California Riverside niemeyer@math.ucr.edu
  Jack R. Bennett, University of California Riverside jack@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Towards Periodic Orbits of the Koch Snowflake Billiard.
    Michel L. Lapidus, UC Riverside
    Robert G. Niemeyer*, UC Riverside
    (1054-37-217)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:30 p.m.
    When DNA meets Knot Theory.
    Mayura Patankar*, University of California at Riverside
    Mohamed Ait Nouh, University of California at Riverside
    (1054-54-157)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Twisting of Knots with less than ten crossings.
    Anthony Barsha*, University of California at Riverside
    Mohamed Ait Nouh, University of California at Riverside
    (1054-54-172)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Twisting of torus knots.
    Logan Godkin*, University of California at Riverside
    Mohamed Ait Nouh, University of California at Riverside
    (1054-54-156)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Knotting Around Dimension Three: A Special Session in Memory of Xiao-Song Lin, IV
  Room B118, Bourns Hall
  Organizers:
  Martin Scharlemann, University of California Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
  Mohammed Ait Nouh, University of California Riverside maitnouh@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    K-theory in condensed matter physics.
    Michael Freedman*, Microsoft Station Q
    (1054-57-306)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Jacobi identity and the A-B slice problem.
    Slava Krushkal*, University of Virginia
    (1054-57-193)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Denseness and Zariski denseness of Jones braid representations.
    Greg Kuperberg*, UC Davis
    (1054-16-214)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Genera and degrees of Knots in $\displaystyle{CP^2}$.
    Mohamed Ait Nouh*, University of California at Riverside
    (1054-57-98)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis and Applications, IV
  Room 2130, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Michael L. Green, California State Polytechnic University Pomona mlgreen@csupomona.edu
  Alan C. Krinik, California State Polytechnic University Pomona ackrinik@csupomona.edu
  Randall J. Swift, California State Polytechnic University Pomona rjswift@csupomona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Role of Neck Linker Extension in Kinesin Stepping.
    John Fricks*, Penn State University
    Matthew Kutys, University of North Carolina
    John Hughes, Penn State University
    William Hancock, Penn State University
    (1054-92-134)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Simulation reductions for the Ising model.
    Mark L. Huber*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1054-60-119)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Many-core statistical inference of stochastic processes: a bright computational future.
    Marc A Suchard*, Department of Biomathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
    Andrew Rambaut, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh
    (1054-62-171)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Compressed Diffusion Maps.
    Blake A Hunter*, University of California, Davis
    Thomas Strohmer, University of California, Davis
    (1054-65-208)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A method to detect discordant subjects in linear mixed-effect models.
    Jungwon (Chris) Mun*, California State Polytechnic University
    (1054-60-248)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Simulation of multivariate random variables using a non-Gaussian copula.
    Amir AghaKouchak*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
    (1054-60-36)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras, IV
  Room 172, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  Marta Asaeda, University of California Riverside marta@math.ucr.edu
  Aviv Censor, University of California Riverside avivc@math.ucr.edu
  Adrian Ioana, Clay Institute and Caltech adiioana@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The extended Haagerup planar algebra.
    Stephen Bigelow, UC Santa Barbara
    Scott Morrison, UC Berkeley
    Emily Peters*, University of New Hampshire
    Noah Snyder, Columbia University
    (1054-46-196)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Free Diffusions and von Neumann Algebras.
    Jason Asher*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1054-46-284)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Another q-Brauer algebra and subfactors.
    Hans Wenzl*, University of California, San Diego
    (1054-46-204)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Global Riemannian Geometry, IV
  Room 1134, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Fred Wilhelm, University of California Riverside fred@math.ucr.edu
  Peter Petersen, University of California Los Angeles petersen@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Local Isometric Embedding in Low Codimensions.
    Gregory R. Kallo*, Cal State Univ. Dominguez Hills
    (1054-53-219)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Eigenvalue pinching with lower curvature bounds.
    Chad S Sprouse*, California State Univ. Northridge
    (1054-53-239)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The long time existence and convergence of the CR Yamabe flow.
    Pak Tung Ho*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
    (1054-53-13)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Calabi-Yau Manifolds, II
  Room 141, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Owen Dearricott, University of California Riverside owen.dearricott@ucr.edu
  Jun Li, Stanford University jli@math.stanford.edu
  Bun Wong, University of California Riverside wong@math.ucr.edu
  Yat-Sun Poon, University of California Riverside ypoon@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some Remarks on Simply Connected Calabi Yau Threefolds.
    Zhuang-dan Daniel Guan*, Department of math. UCR
    (1054-14-59)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Calabi-Yau equation on the Kodaira-Thurston manifold.
    Valentino Tosatti, Columbia University
    Ben Weinkove*, University of California, San Diego
    (1054-53-35)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Combinatorics, IV
  Room 268, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  Mei-Chu Chang, University of California Riverside mcc@math.ucr.edu
  Alex Gamburd, University of California Santa Cruz and Northwestern University agamburd@math.northwestern.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Convexity and sumsets.
    Endre Szemeredi*, Rutgers University
    Jozsef Solymosi, University of British Columbia
    (1054-05-302)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On sumsets which have large subsets with small doubling.
    Jozsef Solymosi*, University of British Columbia
    Endre Szemeredi, Rutgers University
    (1054-05-298)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Sums and Products of Distinct Sets in $\mathbb{C}$.
    Karsten O. Chipeniuk*, University of British Columbia
    (1054-05-286)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Sums of sets of primes with positive relative density.
    Mariah Hamel*, University of Georgia
    Karsten Chipeniuk, University of British Columbia
    (1054-11-288)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 143, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Christopher Hacon, University of Utah hacon@math.utah.edu
  Ziv Ran, University of California Riverside ziv.ran@ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the strange duality conjecture for elliptic K3 surfaces.
    Alina Marian, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Dragos Oprea*, University of California, San Diego
    (1054-14-47)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, IV
  Room 171, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  Vasiliy Dolgushev, University of California Riverside vasiliyd@ucr.edu
  Wee Liang Gan, University of California Riverside wlgan@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Deformations of line bundles on coisotropic subvarieties.
    Vladimir Baranovsky*, University of California - Irvine
    (1054-14-53)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Star-exponentials on a complex symplectic manifold.
    Giuseppe Dito*, Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, Université de Bourgogne
    (1054-58-68)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory, IV
  Room 1006, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - North
  Organizers:
  Vyjayanthi Chari, University of California Riverside vyjayanc@ucr.edu
  Wee Liang Gan, University of California Riverside wlgan@math.ucr.edu
  Jacob Greenstein, University of California Riverside jacobg@ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Support Varieties for Demazure Modules.
    Benjamin F Jones*, University of Georgia
    (1054-20-194)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Two Boundary Graded Centralizer Algebras.
    B Daugherty Zajj*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1054-16-183)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Gale Duality and Koszul Duality.
    Anthony Licata*, Stanford, CA
    Tom Braden, University of Massachusetts
    Nick Proudfoot, University of Oregon
    Ben Webster, MIT
    (1054-16-138)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Fluid Mechanics, IV
  Room 1132, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  James Kelliher, University of California Riverside kelliher@math.ucr.edu
  Qi Zhang, University of California Riverside qizhang@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Linear Instability for Incompressible Inviscid Fluid Flows: Two Classes of Perturbations.
    Elizabeth Thoren*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1054-76-97)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Well posedness for the linearized motion of the free surface of a gas.
    Hans Lindblad*, University of California at San Diego
    Steve Shkoller, University of California at San Diego
    (1054-76-165)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Local well-posedness for a structure-fluid interaction model.
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    Amjad Tuffaha, University of Southern California
    Mohammed Ziane, University of Southern California
    (1054-35-304)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Recent Progress on Dynamic Stability and Global Regularity of 3D Incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations.
    Thomos Y. Hou*, Caltech
    (1054-35-80)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Fractal Geometry, Dynamical Systems, Number Theory and Analysis on Rough Spaces, IV
  Room 1121, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - South
  Organizers:
  Michel L. Lapidus, University of California Riverside lapidus@math.ucr.edu
  Hung Lu, Hawaii Pacific University hlu@hpu.edu
  Erin P. J. Pearse, University of Iowa erin-pearse@uiowa.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On volume and surface area of parallel sets.
    Steffen Winter*, Universtität Karlsruhe, Germany
    Jan Rataj, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
    (1054-51-190)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Harmonic analysis of selfsimilar measures.
    Palle E. T. Jorgensen*, University of Iowa
    (1054-46-46)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Equidistribution of Galois and beta-conjugates of Parry numbers near the unit circle.
    Jean-Louis Verger-Gaugry*, Institut Fourier, CNRS, Université de Grenoble I
    (1054-11-233)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Growth Degree of Limits of Vertex Replacement Rules.
    Michelle Previte*, Penn State Erie
    Joseph P Previte, Penn State Erie
    Mary Vanderschoot, Wheaton College
    (1054-51-24)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Finite Dimensional Algebras, IV
  Room 1002, CHASS Interdisciplinary Bldg - North
  Organizers:
  Frauke Bleher, University of Iowa fbleher@math.uiowa.edu
  Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann, University of California at Santa Barbara birge@math.ucsb.edu
  Markus Schmidmeier, Florida Atlantic University markus@math.fau.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Module categories associated to the words in Coxeter groups.
    Gordana G Todorov*, Northeastern University
    Claire Amiot, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    Idun Reiten, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    (1054-16-230)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cluster-tilted algebras without clusters.
    Ibrahim Assem, Universite Sherbrooke
    Thomas Bruestle, Universite Sherbrooke
    Ralf Schiffler*, University of Connecticut
    (1054-16-140)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Complexity of finitely generated modules.
    Tom Howard*, UCSB
    (1054-16-186)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The problem of a nilpotent linear operator with two invariant subspaces.
    Audrey N. Moore*, Delaware State University
    (1054-47-258)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Slices, Tilting Sets, and Annihilating Sequences of BGP-Reflection Functors.
    Helene R Tyler*, Manhattan College
    (1054-16-164)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Higher Algebraic Structures, IV
  Room 173, Surge Building
  Organizers:
  John Baez, University of California Riverside baez@math.ucr.edu
  Julie Bergner, University of California Riverside jbergner@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    2-Quandles: Categorified Quandles.
    Alissa S. Crans*, Loyola Marymount University
    (1054-18-300)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A homotopy-theoretic view of Bott--Taubes integrals and knot spaces.
    Robin Koytcheff*, Stanford University
    (1054-55-273)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Unstable Vassiliev Theory.
    Chad D Giusti*, University of Oregon
    (1054-55-202)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    3-Categories for the Working Mathematician.
    Christopher L Douglas*, Berkeley
    Andre Henriques, Utrecht
    (1054-18-135)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Blob homology 1.
    Scott Morrison*, Miller Institute for Basic Research
    Kevin Walker, Microsoft Station Q
    (1054-18-289)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Blob Homology 2.
    Kevin Walker*, Microsoft Station Q
    (1054-55-272)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions Between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra, IV
  Room 142, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California Santa Barbara goodearl@math.ucsb.edu
  Daniel S. Rogalski, University of California San Diego drogalsk@math.ucsd.edu
  James Zhang, University of Washington zhang@math.washington.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Clifford algebras of ternary forms and vector bundles on cubic surfaces.
    Emre Coskun, University of Western Ontario, Canada
    Rajesh S Kulkarni*, Michigan State University
    (1054-16-274)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Graded Skew Clifford Algebras and their Associated Geometry.
    Thomas Cassidy, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
    Michaela Vancliff*, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1054-16-72)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $K_2$ algebras and $A_\infty$ structures.
    Pete Goetz*, Humboldt State University
    (1054-16-256)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Koszul property as a homeomorphism invariant and a measure of singularities.
    Brad S Shelton*, OR
    Hal Sadofsky, OR
    (1054-55-226)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Geometry of 'spaces' represented by triangulated categories.
    Alexander Rosenberg*, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
    (1054-18-305)

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