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2009 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Worcester, MA, April 25-26, 2009 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1050

Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS steve.weintraub@lehigh.edu

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Sunday April 26, 2009

• Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Registration
  Foyer of Room 102, Higgins Laboratories
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, III
  Room 104, Salisbury Laboratories
  Organizers:
  Peter Albers, Purdue University/ETH Zurich palbers@math.purdue.edu
  Basak Gurel, Vanderbilt University basak.gurel@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Target-local Gromov-compactness for J-curves.
    Joel W Fish*, Stanford University
    (1050-53-109)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A nonextension result on the spectral metric.
    Zhigang Han*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    (1050-53-10)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Floer homology of symplectic orbifolds.
    Weimin Chen*, University of Massachusetts -Amherst
    (1050-57-27)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Period Floer homology and Seieberg-Witten cohomology.
    Yi-Jen Lee*, Purdue
    C Taubes, Harvard University
    (1050-57-94)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics and intersection theory of punctured pseudoholomorphic curves.
    Richard Siefring*, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University
    (1050-53-135)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symplectic Floer homology of area-preserving surface diffeomorphisms and sharp fixed point bounds.
    Andrew Cotton-Clay*, UC Berkeley/MIT
    (1050-53-23)
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on The Mathematics of Climate Change, III
  Room 114, Higgins Laboratories
  Organizers:
  Catherine A. Roberts, College of the Holy Cross croberts@holycross.edu
  Gareth E. Roberts, College of the Holy Cross
  Mary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Challenges to physical-biological coupling in climate models.
    Amala Mahadevan*, Boston University
    (1050-76-158)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Multi-decadal Variability of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Community Climate System Model Version 3.
    Young-Oh Kwon*, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    Claude Frankignoul, LOCEAN, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
    (1050-00-114)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    How Ice Line Moves: Revisiting Budyko's Energy Balance Model.
    Esther R. Widiasih*, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    (1050-37-49)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear threshold behavior during the loss of Arctic sea ice.
    J. S. Wettlaufer*, Yale University
    (1050-86-91)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Audience discussion on the role of mathematics in climate change research, moderated by Catherine A. Roberts.
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics, III
  Room 116, Higgins Laboratories
  Organizers:
  Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
  Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Polygonal Complexes and Symmetry.
    Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
    Daniel Pellicer, University of New Brunswick
    (1050-51-81)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Highly Incident Configurations.
    Leah Wrenn Berman*, Ursinus College
    (1050-52-66)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cobinatorial structure of chiral polyhedra in the Euclidean space.
    Daniel Pellicer*, University of New Brunswick
    Asia I. Weiss, York University
    (1050-52-47)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quotient representations for uniform tilings.
    Gordon Iam Williams*, Ursinus College
    (1050-52-86)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Representable Matroids With Large Planes.
    Sandra Kingan*, Brooklyn College, CUNY
    (1050-05-55)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    More on the $11$-cell.
    Barry Monson*, University of New Brunswick
    Egon Schulte, Northeastern University
    Daniel Hay, University of New Brunswick
    (1050-51-45)
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Graph Theory, Association Schemes, and Related Topics, III
  Room 218, Higgins Laboratories
  Organizers:
  William J. Martin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute martin@wpi.edu
  Sylvia A. Hobart, University of Wyoming
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Cocliques and Polytopes.
    Chris D Godsil*, Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo
    (1050-05-110)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Directed quotient graphs of bipartite graphs.
    Leif K Jorgensen*, Aalborg University
    (1050-05-108)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Small Four Weight Spin Models.
    Ada Chan*, York University
    (1050-05-142)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hemisystems of unitary spaces.
    Tim Penttila*, Colorado State University
    (1050-05-68)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Combinatorics of Transitive Extensions.
    Mikhail H Klin, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
    Dale M Mesner, University of Nebraska
    Andrew J Woldar*, Villanova University
    (1050-05-58)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A binary linear code and its combinatorial properties.
    Junhua Wu*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (1050-05-161)
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 102, Higgins Laboratories
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis of Weakly Differentiable Maps with Constraints and Applications, III
  Room 305, Salisbury Laboratories
  Organizers:
  Fengbo Hang, Courant Institute, New York University
  Mohammad Reza Pakzad, University of Pittsburgh pakzad@pitt.edu
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Harmonic mappings between doubly connected domains.
    Tadeusz Iwaniec, Syracuse University
    Leonid V Kovalev, Syracuse University
    Jani Onninen*, Syracuse University
    (1050-30-128)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Compactness and Minimization for Two-Dimensional Skyrme Energy.
    Yisong Yang*, Department of Mathematics, Yeshiva University
    (1050-58-61)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Boundary Regularity of Biharmonic Maps.
    Tobias Lamm, University of British Columbia
    Changyou Wang Wang*, University of Kentucky
    (1050-58-123)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Hamiltonian identities for PDEs and their applications.
    Changfeng Gui*, University of Connecticut
    (1050-35-90)
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Effective Dynamics and Interactions of Localized Structures in Schrödinger Type Equations, III
  Room 105, Salisbury Laboratories
  Organizers:
  Fridolin Ting, Lakehead University fting@lakeheadu.ca
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Existence and Nonexistence of Electricity in Two-Dimensional Static Gauge Field Theories.
    Yisong Yang*, Department of Mathematics, Yeshiva University
    (1050-81-62)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Charged vortices of finite energy in the Chern-Simons-Higgs theorey.
    Robin Ming Chen*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    Yujin Guo, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    Daniel Spirn, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    Yisong Yang, Department of Mathematics, Yeshiva University
    (1050-35-122)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tunneling of solitons through potential barriers.
    Walid Abou Salem*, University of Toronto
    (1050-35-118)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The cubic fourth-order Schrodinger equation.
    Benoit Pausader*, Brown University
    (1050-35-111)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Effective Dynamics of multi-vortices in an external potential for Ginzburg-Landau Gradient flow.
    Fridolin Ting*, Lakehead University
    (1050-35-38)
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory, III
  Room 154, Higgins Laboratories
  Organizers:
  John T. Cullinan, Bard College cullinan@bard.edu
  Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Simultaneous diagonal equations of odd degrees.
    Michael P. Knapp*, Loyola College
    (1050-11-29)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Codes over $\mathbb{F}_{p^2}$ and $\mathbb{F}_p \times \mathbb{F}_p$, lattices, and theta functions.
    Caleb McKinley Shor*, Western New England College
    (1050-11-143)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Prime Divisors in Arithmetic Dynamics.
    Rafe Jones*, College of the Holy Cross
    (1050-11-129)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Specializations of finitely ramified towers of self-maps of the projective line.
    Farshid Hajir*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    John Cullinan, Bard College
    (1050-11-140)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Variants of a problem of Erdos and Romanov.
    Florian Luca*, UNAM
    (1050-11-34)
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Scaling, Irregularities, and Partial Differential Equations, III
  Room 406, Salisbury Laboratories
  Organizers:
  Umberto Mosco, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  Bogdan M. Vernescu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute vernescu@wpi.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Mixed Problem for Second Order Elliptic Systems.
    Irina Mitrea*, University of Virginia
    (1050-35-177)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Novel Finite Element Meshing Technique Driven by Fractal Koch Curves.
    Emily J. Evans*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (1050-35-180)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Moving Interfaces in Sectral Problems: Laplace Eigenvalues on Polygons and Deformed Manifolds.
    Pavel Grinfeld*, Drexel Univerosity
    Gilbert Strang, MIT
    (1050-49-156)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Approximating a SPDE with a coefficient with infinity number of scales.
    Marcus Sarkis*, WPI Department of Mathematical Sciences and IMPA
    Juan Galvis, Texas A & M Department of Mathematics
    (1050-65-146)
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 407, Salisbury Laboratories
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Parabolic problems with nonlocal conditions.
    Abdelkader Y Boucherif*, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    (1050-35-14)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    On Superquadracity.
    Shoshana - Abramovich*, Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
    (1050-26-18)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Historical and Educational Origins of Probability Theory.
    Willem J Wallinga*, University of New Hampshire
    (1050-01-22)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Exp-function method for solving nonlinear dispersive equations.
    A Bathi Kasturiarachi*, Kent State University, Stark Campus
    (1050-35-130)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nonorientable Contact Structures on 3-manifolds.
    David H Crombecque*, Muhlenberg College
    (1050-57-133)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Non-Existence Results for Coagulation Kinetics.
    Jacob C Mower*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1050-82-09)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Probability of solvability of random systems of $2$-linear equations over $GF(2)$.
    Ji-A Yeum*, The Ohio State University
    (1050-05-20)
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Lagrangian submanifolds: From physics to number theory.
  Room 115, Salisbury Laboratories
  Octav Cornea*, Université de Montréal
  (1050-53-05)
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  A rapid survey of coarse geometry.
  Room 115, Salisbury Laboratories
  Kevin Whyte*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1050-20-04)
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, IV
  Room 104, Salisbury Laboratories
  Organizers:
  Peter Albers, Purdue University/ETH Zurich palbers@math.purdue.edu
  Basak Gurel, Vanderbilt University basak.gurel@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Transverse knots and their branched covers.
    Olga Plamenevskaya*, Stony Brook University
    (1050-57-131)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Area-dependence in gauged Gromov-Witten theory.
    Eduardo Gonzalez*, University of Massachusetts Boston
    Chris Woodward, Rutgers University
    (1050-58-12)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    "Fake" symplectic manifolds via Lefschetz fibrations.
    Maksim Maydanskiy*, MIT
    (1050-53-11)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quilted disks in Lagrangian Floer theory.
    Sikimeti Ma'u*, MIT
    Katrin Wehrheim, MIT
    Chris Woodward, Rutgers University
    (1050-53-28)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Lagrangian correspondences and holomorphic quilts.
    Katrin Wehrheim*, MIT
    (1050-53-17)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Spectral measures on toric manifolds.
    Rosa Sena-Dias*, IST/MIT
    (1050-53-164)
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics, IV
  Room 116, Higgins Laboratories
  Organizers:
  Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
  Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Another Look at Matching Rules.
    Marjorie Senechal*, Smith College
    (1050-52-75)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Torohedral groups.
    Norman W. Johnson*, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
    (1050-52-74)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Tiling lattices with translates of sublattices.
    David Feldman, University of Massachusetts Lowell
    James Propp*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
    Sinai Robins, Nanyang Technological University
    (1050-05-79)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Polarity and rigidity in the plane.
    Brigitte Servatius*, WPI
    (1050-05-53)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Some new Čebyšev sets in hyperspaces.
    Robert J. MacG. Dawson*, Saint Mary's University
    (1050-51-95)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Theory and examples of ghost symmetry.
    David Richter*, Western Michigan University
    (1050-52-08)
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Scaling, Irregularities, and Partial Differential Equations, IV
  Room 406, Salisbury Laboratories
  Organizers:
  Umberto Mosco, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  Bogdan M. Vernescu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute vernescu@wpi.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Acoustic Propagation in a Random Saturated Medium: The Monophasic Case.
    Robert Pertsch Gilbert*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark,DE
    Ana Vasilic, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark,DE
    (1050-35-104)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Accommodating Irregular Subdomains in Domain Decomposition Theory.
    Olof B. Widlund*, Courant Institute
    (1050-65-178)
• Sunday April 26, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Graph Theory, Association Schemes, and Related Topics, IV
  Room 218, Higgins Laboratories
  Organizers:
  William J. Martin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute martin@wpi.edu
  Sylvia A. Hobart, University of Wyoming
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Bannai-Ito Conjecture.
    S. Bang*, Department of Mathematics/Pusan National University
    J H Koolen, Department of Mathematics/POSTECH
    V. Moulton, School of Computing Sciences/ University of East Anglia
    (1050-05-139)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    $Q$-polynomial association schemes which are not generated by a distance-regular graph.
    Jason Williford*, University of Colorado Denver
    (1050-05-103)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dual-tight cometric association schemes.
    Sho Suda, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
    Hajime Tanaka*, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
    Rie Tanaka, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
    (1050-05-116)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Euclidean designs and coherent configurations.
    Etsuko Bannai*, Retiered. Fukuoka, Japan
    (1050-05-80)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Distance-Regular Graphs Having Certain Completely Regular Subgraphs.
    Hiroshi Suzuki*, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, International Christian University
    (1050-05-93)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Terwilliger algebras of wreath products of one-class association schemes.
    Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of Baltimore
    Sung Y Song*, Iowa State University
    Rie Tanaka, Tohoku University
    (1050-05-101)

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