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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

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

Sunday November 8, 2009

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