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2010 Fall Western Section Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, October 9-10, 2010 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1063

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

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Saturday October 9, 2010

• Saturday October 9, 2010, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Book Sale and Exhibit
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory and K-theory, I
  BH 5422, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Julie Bergner, University of California Riverside jbergner@ucr.edu
  Christian Haesemeyer, University of California Los Angeles chh@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Residues and matrix factorisations in link homology.
    Daniel Murfet*, UCLA
    (1063-18-187)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On a Whitehead theorem for topological Quillen homology of algebras and modules over operads.
    John E Harper*, EPFL/University of Western Ontario
    (1063-55-14)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Algebraic K-theory and homotopy limits of Waldhausen categories.
    Andrew J. Blumberg*, University of Texas, Austin
    Michael A. Mandell, Indiana University
    (1063-19-175)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Number Theory, I
  BH 2760, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  William Duke, University of California Los Angeles wdduke@ucla.edu
  Ozlem Imamoglu, ETH Zurich ozlem@math.ethz.ch
  Kimberly Hopkins, University of California Los Angeles khopkins@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Riemann zeros and Euler's 'numeri idonei'.
    Jeffrey Stopple*, UC Santa Barbara
    (1063-11-163)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Coefficient congruences for weakly holomorphic modular forms of integral weight.
    Paul Jenkins*, Brigham Young University
    (1063-11-106)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Harmonic Maass-Jacobi forms.
    Olav K Richter*, University of North Texas
    Kathrin Bringmann, University of Cologne (Germany)
    (1063-11-90)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Phenomena: Applications of PDEs to Fluid Flows, I
  BH 5273, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrea Bertozzi, University of California Los Angeles bertozzi@math.ucla.edu
  Nebojsa Murisic, University of California Los Angeles nebo@math.ucla.edu
  David Uminsky, University of California Los Angeles duminsky@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Viscous evolution of point vortex equilibria: The collinear state.
    Fangxu Jing*, University of Southern California
    Eva Kanso, University of Southern California
    Paul K. Newton, University of Southern California
    (1063-76-245)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A generalized Birkhoff-Rott equation for the 2D active scalar problems.
    Hui Sun*, University of California, Los Angeles
    David Uminsky, University of California, Los Angeles
    Andrea Bertozzi, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1063-76-162)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    High-fidelity simulations and low-order modeling of vortex--body interactions in biomorphic locomotion.
    Jeff D. Eldredge*, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
    Chengjie Wang, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1063-76-126)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A multi-moment vortex method for 2D viscous fluids.
    David T Uminsky*, UCLA Mathematics
    Gene Wayne, Boston Unversity, Mathematics
    Alethea Barbaro, UCLA Mathematics
    Vitalii Ostrovskyi, USC Mathematics
    (1063-76-259)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stability of icosahedral configurations of point vortices on a sphere.
    Vitalii Ostrovskyi*, University of Southern California
    Paul Newton, University of Southern California
    (1063-37-263)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Metric and Riemannian Methods in Shape Analysis, I
  BH 5272, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrea Bertozzi, University of California Los Angeles bertozzi@math.ucla.edu
  Mario Micheli, University of California Los Angeles micheli@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A computable formulation of curvature for the Riemannian manifold of Landmarks.
    Mario Micheli*, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
    (1063-53-267)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Metric Geometry in Shape Analysis.
    Facundo Memoli*, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
    (1063-51-268)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Classification on the Grassmannians: Theory and Applications.
    Jen-Mei Chang*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, CSULB
    (1063-51-269)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Free Probability and Subfactors, I
  MS 5137, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Edward Effros, University of California Los Angeles ege@math.ucla.edu
  Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, University of California Los Angeles shlyakht@math.ucla.edu
  Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, University of California Berkeley dvv@math.berkeley.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Composition of subfactors, and planar algebras.
    Dietmar Bisch*, Vanderbilt University
    (1063-46-63)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Aspects of the free Riemann sphere.
    Dan-Virgil Voiculescu*, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley
    (1063-46-155)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Von Neumann algebras associated to planar algebras.
    Vaughan Jones, UC Berkeley
    Alice Guionnet, ENS Lyon
    Dimitri Shlyakhtenko*, UCLA
    Paul Zinn-Justin, Paris Sud
    (1063-46-100)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Rigidity in von Neumann Algebras and Ergodic Theory, I
  MS 5138, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Adrian Ioana, University of California Los Angeles adiioana@math.ucla.edu
  Narutaka Ozawa, Tokyo University narutaka@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp
  Sorin Popa, University of California Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
  Yehudah Shalom, University of California Los Angeles shalom@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Quasi-homomorphism rigidity with noncommutative targets.
    Narutaka Ozawa*, University of Tokyo
    (1063-22-260)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Normal Subgroup Theorem for (Dense) Commensurators of Lattices.
    Darren Creutz*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1063-37-226)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On cocycle superrigidity for Gaussian actions.
    Jesse Peterson*, Vanderbilt University
    Thomas Sinclair, Vanderbilt University
    (1063-46-242)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Strong solidity of group factors from lattices in $\rm{SO}(n,1)$ and $\rm{SU}(n,1)$.
    Thomas J Sinclair*, Vanderbilt University
    (1063-47-239)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Math Goes to the Movies
  BH 5419, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Joseph Teran, University of California Los Angeles jteran@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Crashing waves, awesome explosions, turbulent smoke and beyond: applied mathematics and scientific computing in the visual effects industry.
    Aleka McAdams*, UCLA/Walt Disney Animation/WETA
    (1063-68-281)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Numerical simulation in film production.
    Andrew Selle*, Walt Disney Animation
    (1063-68-282)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dynamic digital faces and bodies: Challenges, applications and broader impact of biomechanical modeling and simulation technology.
    Eftychios Sifakis*, University of California Los Angeles
    (1063-68-280)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An efficient multigrid method for the simulation of high resolution elastic solids.
    Yongning Zhu*, University of California Los Angeles
    (1063-68-278)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A parallel multigrid Poisson solver for fluids simulation on large grids.
    Joseph Teran*, UCLA/Walt Disney Animation
    (1063-68-283)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Asynchronous variational contact mechanics.
    Rasmus Tamstorf*, Walt Disney Animation
    (1063-68-279)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Symplectic Geometry, I
  MS 5117, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Robert Brown, University of California Los Angeles rfb@math.ucla.edu
  Ciprian Manolescu, University of California Los Angeles cm@math.ucla.edu
  Stefano Vidussi, University of California Riverside svidussi@ucr.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Fukaya categories of symmetric products and bordered Heegaard-Floer homology.
    Denis Auroux*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1063-57-45)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Holomorphic Pairs of Pants in Mapping Tori.
    Andrew Cotton-Clay*, Harvard University
    (1063-53-203)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Gauged Lagrangian Floer theory.
    Christopher T Woodward*, Rutgers Univ.
    (1063-53-216)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Probability and Related Fields, I
  MS 6229, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
  Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research peres@microsoft.com
  Sebastien Roch, University of California Los Angeles roch@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Nash Bargaining Exchange Networks: Fast Convergence of Natural Dynamics.
    Mohsen Bayati, Stanford University
    Christian Borgs, Microsoft Research
    Jennifer Chayes*, Microsoft Research
    Yashodhan Kanoria, Stanford University
    Andrea Montanari, Stanford University
    (1063-91-257)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Probability, Social Choice and Social Networks.
    Elchanan Mossel*, U.C Berkeley and Weizmann
    (1063-60-150)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Detection and Percolation on Mobile Geometric Graphs.
    Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
    Alistair Sinclair, UC Berkeley
    Perla Sousi, Cambridge University
    Alexandre Stauffer*, UC Berkeley
    (1063-60-222)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Brownian motion with variable drift: 0-1 laws, hitting probabilities and multiple points.
    Perla Sousi*, University of Cambridge
    Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
    (1063-60-208)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Almost sure process-level large deviations for random walk in random environment.
    Firas Rassoul-Agha*, University of Utah
    Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1063-60-195)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Models of Random Phenomena, I
  BH 2444, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
  Alan C. Krinik, California State Polytechnic University Pomona ackrinik@csupomona.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Disrupting Terrorist Networks.
    Susan E. Martonosi*, Harvey Mudd College
    Douglas Altner, U.S. Naval Academy
    (1063-90-41)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Near linear time perfect simulation of corrugated surfaces.
    Mark L Huber*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1063-60-60)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sequential Hypothesis Testing for Pest Count Spatial GLMM Models.
    Judy X. Li, Federal Drug Administration
    Daniel R. Jeske*, University of California, Riverside
    Jesus Lara, University of California, Riverside
    Mark Hoddle, University of California, Riverside
    (1063-62-57)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Optimization in Baseball Lineups.
    Brandi Bailes, Cal Poly Pomona
    Jenny Switkes*, Cal Poly Pomona
    (1063-60-52)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Birthdays, Coupons, Hat-checks and Schur.
    Barry C. Arnold*, University of California, Riverside
    (1063-60-23)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Mathematics of Cause and Effect.
    Judea Pearl*, Department of Computer Science, UCLA,
    (1063-91-85)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, I
  MS 5128, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Christoph Thiele, University of California Los Angeles thiele@math.ucla.edu
  Ignacio Uriarte-Tuero, Michigan State University ignacio@math.msu.edu
  Alexander Volberg, Michigan State University volberg@math.msu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Sharp norm inequalities for commutators of classical operators.
    Kabe Moen*, Washington University in Saint Louis
    David Cruz-Uribe, Trinity College
    (1063-42-107)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The multilinear strong maximal function.
    Loukas Grafakos, University of Missouri, Columbia
    Liguang Liu, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
    Carlos Pérez, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
    Rodolfo H. Torres*, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
    (1063-42-53)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Proof of the HRT conjecture for special configurations.
    Ciprian Demeter*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1063-26-50)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the finite linear independence of lattice Gabor systems.
    Ciprian Demeter, Indiana University
    S. Zubin Gautam*, Indiana University
    (1063-42-179)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extrapolation of Carleson measures and Muckenhoupt weights.
    Steve Hofmann, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Jose Maria Martell*, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
    (1063-42-72)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Harmonic measure and uniform rectifiability.
    Steven C Hofmann*, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Missouri
    (1063-42-39)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Continuous and Discrete Dynamical Systems, I
  MS 5118, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Mario Martelli, Claremont Graduate University mario.martelli@cgu.edu
  Robert Sacker, University of Southern California rsacker@usc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quantum and classical geometric phases in N-body molecular dynamics each describe the motion of a moving frame corresponding to internal angular momentum.
    F. J. Lin*, University of Southern California, Department of Mathematics
    (1063-70-19)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic equivalences for linear dynamic equations.
    Donald A Lutz*, San Diego State University
    Sigrun Bodine, University of Puget Sound
    (1063-34-40)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lyapunov Exponents and Persistence.
    Hal Smith*, Arizona State University
    Paul Salceanu, University of Louisianna at Lafayette
    (1063-39-16)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bifurcation and invariant manifolds of competition models.
    Saber N Elaydi*, Trinity University
    (1063-39-27)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stabilization Through Excitation.
    Ami E. Radunskaya*, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
    (1063-37-30)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Global Geometric Analysis, I
  MS 5127, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  William Wylie, University of Pennsylvania wylie@math.upenn.edu
  Joseph E. Borzellino, California State University San Luis Obispo jborzell@calpoly.edu
  Peter Petersen, University of California Los Angeles petersen@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discrete conformal variations of piecewise flat manifolds.
    David Glickenstein*, University of Arizona
    (1063-53-115)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Regge's Einstein-Hilbert functional on the double tetrahedron.
    Daniel Champion, University of Arizona
    David Glickenstein, University of Arizona
    Andrea Young*, University of Arizona
    (1063-52-166)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A dictionary for translating between orbifolds and Lie groupoids.
    Joseph E Borzellino, California State Polytechnic University
    Victor W Brunsden*, Penn State Altoona
    (1063-58-161)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Liouville-type Theorem for Smooth Metric Measure Spaces.
    Kevin C Brighton*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1063-53-73)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Intrinsic Flat Distance between Riemannian Manifolds with Boundary.
    Christina Sormani*, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College
    (1063-58-34)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Criminality, I
  BH 5264, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrea Bertozzi, University of California Los Angeles bertozzi@math.ucla.edu
  Martin Short, University of California Los Angeles mbshort@math.ucla.edu
  George Mohler, University of California Los Angeles georgemohler@gmail.com
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Self-exciting Hurdle Models for Terrorism.
    Michael D. Porter*, SPADAC
    Gentry White, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland
    (1063-62-221)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Self-Exciting Point Process Models of Civilian Deaths in Iraq.
    Erik Lewis*, University of California, Los Angeles
    George Mohler, University of California, Los Angeles
    P. Jeffrey Brantingham, University of California, Los Angeles
    Andrea Bertozzi, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1063-62-24)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Point process modeling and estimation of near-repeat effects in crime data.
    George O Mohler*, Santa Clara University
    (1063-62-252)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Patterns in Offender Distance Decay and the Geographic Profiling Problem.
    Mike O'Leary*, Towson University
    (1063-91-227)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorics and Probability on Groups, I
  MS 5147, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Jason Fulman, University of Southern California fulman@usc.edu
  Robert Guralnick, University of Southern California guralnic@usc.edu
  Igor Pak, University of California Los Angeles pak@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Proportions of elements of certain orders in classical groups.
    Simon D Guest*, Baylor University
    Cheryl E Praeger, University of Western Australia
    (1063-20-206)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Combinatorial and geometric methods applied to group cohomology.
    Stephen D Smith*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1063-20-51)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Overgroup lattices in finite groups.
    Michael Aschbacher*, Caltech
    (1063-20-62)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Property T for Lie algebras and expansion properties of representations.
    Efim Zelmanov*, University of California, San Diego
    (1063-16-264)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, I
  MS 5203, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Benny Sudakov, University of California Los Angeles bsudakov@math.ucla.edu
  Jacques Verstraete, University of California San Diego jbaverstraete@gmail.com
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Structure of Typical Hypergraphs with Local Constraints.
    Dhruv Mubayi*, University of Illinois-Chicago
    Jozsef Balogh, UIUC
    (1063-05-77)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Conflict-free colorings of uniform hypergraphs with few edges.
    Alexandr Kostochka*, University of Illinois
    Mohit Kumbhat, University of Illinois
    Tomasz Luczak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
    (1063-05-64)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quasi-randomness of graph balanced cut properties.
    Choongbum Lee*, UCLA
    Hao Huang, UCLA
    (1063-05-125)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Upper tails for cliques.
    Jeff Kahn*, Rutgers University
    (1063-05-136)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Nonlinear PDE, I
  BH 5280, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Susan J. Friedlander, University of Southern California susanfri@usc.edu
  Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California kukavica@usc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A degenerate diffusion with nonlocal drift: behavior of radial solutions.
    Inwon C. Kim*, UCLA
    Yao Yao, UCLA - coauthor
    (1063-35-247)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dispersive Blow-up of Nonlinear Evolution Equations.
    Jerry L. Bona*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Jean-Claude Saut, Université de Paris - Sud
    (1063-35-210)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Local Existence and Uniqueness for the Hydrostatic Euler Equations on a Bounded Domain.
    Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California
    Roger Temam, Indiana University
    Mohammed Ziane, University of Southern California
    VIad C Vicol*, University of Chicago
    (1063-35-182)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On dynamic stability and non-blow-up of a class of solutions of 3D incompressible Euler and surface QG equations.
    Thomas Y. Hou*, Caltech
    (1063-35-220)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, I
  BH 5420, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
  Carmen Caprau, California State University Fresno ccaprau@csufresno.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Curves on surfaces and Kauffman bracket state sums.
    Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
    (1063-57-58)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An action of the symmetric group on $\mathfrak{su}_3$ Khovanov homology.
    David A Clark*, Randolph-Macon College
    (1063-57-47)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  New algorithms in information science.
  MS 4000A, Math Science Building
  Stanley J. Osher*, University of California Los Angeles
  (1063-94-05)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Moduli spaces for rings and ideals.
  MS 4000A, Math Science Building
  Melanie Matchett Wood*, Stanford University
  (1063-11-04)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory and K-theory, II
  BH 5422, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Julie Bergner, University of California Riverside jbergner@ucr.edu
  Christian Haesemeyer, University of California Los Angeles chh@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quillen-Lichtenbaum phenomena in stable representation theory.
    Daniel A Ramras*, New Mexico State University
    (1063-19-113)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A cotriple model for Goodwillie Calculus and DeRham cohomology.
    Kristine E. Bauer*, University of Calgary
    Brenda Johnson, Union College
    Randy McCarthy, University of Illinois at Urbana
    (1063-55-190)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Continuous and Discrete Dynamical Systems, II
  MS 5118, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Mario Martelli, Claremont Graduate University mario.martelli@cgu.edu
  Robert Sacker, University of Southern California rsacker@usc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of a discrete two-patch model on plant-insect interactions.
    Yun Kang*, Arizona State University
    Dieter Armbruster, Arizona State University
    (1063-39-11)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fractal Geometry and Dynamical Systems: From Fractal Drums and Strings to Fractal Billiards.
    Michel L Lapidus*, University of Calfornia, Riverside
    (1063-37-88)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Return times statistics for Markov towers.
    Nicolai T Haydn*, University of Southern California
    (1063-37-122)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A dynamic dichotomy for matrix equations with non-primitive projection matrices.
    J. M. Cushing*, University of Arizona
    (1063-39-82)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Persistence and Global Stability in a Size-Structured Model with Selection and Mutation.
    Azmy S Ackleh*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Baoling Ma, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Paul Salceanu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1063-92-92)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Number Theory, II
  BH 2760, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  William Duke, University of California Los Angeles wdduke@ucla.edu
  Ozlem Imamoglu, ETH Zurich ozlem@math.ethz.ch
  Kimberly Hopkins, University of California Los Angeles khopkins@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The number of points on curves over finite fields.
    Alina Bucur*, UCSD
    Chantal David, Concordia University
    Brooke Feigon, University of East Anglia
    Matilde Lalin, Universite de Montreal
    (1063-11-148)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Gross-Zagier formula for quaternion algebras over totally real fields.
    Kristin Estella Lauter*, Microsoft Research
    Eyal Z. Goren, McGill University
    (1063-11-253)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A cotangent sum.
    J. Brian Conrey*, American Institute of Mathematics
    (1063-11-152)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Global Geometric Analysis, II
  MS 5127, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  William Wylie, University of Pennsylvania wylie@math.upenn.edu
  Joseph E. Borzellino, California State University San Luis Obispo jborzell@calpoly.edu
  Peter Petersen, University of California Los Angeles petersen@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Second variation and stability for Ricci solitons.
    Huai-Dong Cao*, Lehigh University
    Meng Zhu, Lehigh University
    (1063-53-177)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Gradient Ricci Solitons.
    Ovidiu Munteanu*, Columbia University, New York
    (1063-53-18)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Correspondences of Hypersurfaces in Hyperbolic Poincaré Manifolds and Conformally Invariant PDEs.
    Vincent Bonini*, California Polytechnic State University
    José Espinar, Departmento de Geometría y Topología, Universidad de Granada, Spain
    Jie Qing, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (1063-53-154)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    "Recent results on nonlocal almost minimal boundaries.
    M Cristina Caputo*, University of Arkansas
    Nestor Guillen, University of Texas at Austin
    (1063-35-74)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The extension results for the mean curvature flow.
    Natasa Sesum*, Rutgers University
    Nam Q Le, Columbia University
    (1063-35-38)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Criminality, II
  BH 5264, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrea Bertozzi, University of California Los Angeles bertozzi@math.ucla.edu
  Martin Short, University of California Los Angeles mbshort@math.ucla.edu
  George Mohler, University of California Los Angeles georgemohler@gmail.com
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A statistical mechanics approach to gang territoriality.
    Alethea Barbaro*, UCLA
    Lincoln Chayes, UCLA
    Maria R. D'Orsogna, CSUN
    (1063-70-273)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Simulating Gang Rivalries in Hollenbeck: An Agent-Based Approach.
    Laura M. Smith*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1063-91-114)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Optimal control of a model of offending and re-offending.
    Ashley B. Pitcher*, Centre d'Analyse et de Mathématiques Sociales, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
    (1063-49-197)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Tolerating crime to reduce crime.
    Maria R D'Orsogna*, California State University at Northridge
    Martin Short, University of California at Los Angeles
    Jeff Brantingham, University of California at Los Angeles
    (1063-91-133)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Phenomena: Applications of PDEs to Fluid Flows, II
  BH 5273, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrea Bertozzi, University of California Los Angeles bertozzi@math.ucla.edu
  Nebojsa Murisic, University of California Los Angeles nebo@math.ucla.edu
  David Uminsky, University of California Los Angeles duminsky@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Primer of Swarm Equilibria.
    Andrew J. Bernoff*, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
    Chad M. Topaz, Macalester College
    (1063-35-244)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Continuum modeling and analysis of swarming with three interaction zones.
    Louis F Rossi*, University of Delaware
    Jennifer Miller, University of Delaware
    Allison Kolpas, University of Delaware
    Plinio Juchem Neto, University of Delaware
    (1063-35-237)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Limiting PDEs for flocking models.
    Alethea Barbaro*, UCLA
    (1063-70-274)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Self-Similar Blowup Solutions to an Aggregation Equation.
    Yanghong Huang*, Simon Fraser University
    Andrea L. Bertozzi, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1063-35-232)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Instantaneous mass concentration in solutions of the aggregation equation.
    Thomas Laurent*, University of California, Riverside
    (1063-35-189)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Metric and Riemannian Methods in Shape Analysis, II
  BH 5272, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrea Bertozzi, University of California Los Angeles bertozzi@math.ucla.edu
  Mario Micheli, University of California Los Angeles micheli@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Diffeomorphic Shape Analysis of Continuous Curves.
    Shantanu Joshi*, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, School of Medicine, UCLA
    (1063-68-270)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Human Brain Mapping with Conformal Geometry and Multivariate Tensor-based Morphometry.
    Yalin Wang*, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
    (1063-68-272)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Free Probability and Subfactors, II
  MS 5137, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Edward Effros, University of California Los Angeles ege@math.ucla.edu
  Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, University of California Los Angeles shlyakht@math.ucla.edu
  Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, University of California Berkeley dvv@math.berkeley.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A non-commutative Path Space approach to stationary free Stochastic Differential Equations.
    Yoann N. Dabrowski*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1063-46-196)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Hilbert module approach to coarse embedding of groups.
    Zhe Dong, Zhejiang University
    Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1063-46-105)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Quantum symmetries in free probability.
    Stephen R Curran*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1063-46-135)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Rigidity in von Neumann Algebras and Ergodic Theory, II
  MS 5138, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Adrian Ioana, University of California Los Angeles adiioana@math.ucla.edu
  Narutaka Ozawa, Tokyo University narutaka@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp
  Sorin Popa, University of California Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
  Yehudah Shalom, University of California Los Angeles shalom@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Von Neumann algebras with unique group measure space Cartan subalgebra.
    Ionut Chifan*, Vanderbilt University
    Jesse Peterson, Vanderbilt University
    (1063-47-240)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Borel versus measure theoretic notions in the study of equivalence relations.
    Greg Hjorth*, Universtiy of Melbourne, UCLA
    (1063-03-123)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Stone--Cech boundaries of discrete groups and measure equivalence theory.
    Hiroki Sako*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo
    (1063-46-183)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Symplectic Geometry, II
  MS 5117, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Robert Brown, University of California Los Angeles rfb@math.ucla.edu
  Ciprian Manolescu, University of California Los Angeles cm@math.ucla.edu
  Stefano Vidussi, University of California Riverside svidussi@ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Heegaard Floer homology and Seiberg--Witten Floer homology.
    Cagatay Kutluhan*, Columbia University
    Yi-Jen Lee, Purdue University
    Clifford Henry Taubes, Harvard University
    (1063-57-94)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the $\mathcal{R}$-filtration for the Heegaard Floer chain complex of a branched double-cover.
    Eamonn Tweedy*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1063-57-144)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Heegaard Floer Homology and Triple Cup Products.
    Tye Lidman*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1063-57-127)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Nakai-Moishezon Theorem and Donaldson's question for almost complex structures on rational surfaces.
    Tian-Jun Li, University of Minnesota, School of mathematics
    Weiyi Zhang*, University of Michigan, Department of Mathematics
    (1063-57-121)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Large Cardinals and the Continuum, I
  BH 5252, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthew Foreman, University of California Irvine mforeman@math.uci.edu
  Alekos Kechris, California Institute for Technology kechris@caltech.edu
  Itay Neeman, University of California Los Angeles ineeman@math.ucla.edu
  Martin Zeman, University of California Irvine mzeman@math.uci.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ramsey Cardinals and the $HNN$ Embedding Theorem.
    Simon Thomas*, Rutgers University
    (1063-03-33)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Structure theorems for Tukey types of ultrafilters.
    Natasha Dobrinen*, University of Denver
    Stevo Todorcevic, CNRS, University of Paris 7
    (1063-03-218)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cardinal invariants of monotone and porous sets.
    Michael Hrusak*, Instituto de matematicas, UNAM, Mexico
    Ondrej Zindulka, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
    (1063-03-198)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Scales, the Singular Cardinal Hypothesis, and the tree property.
    Dima S Sinapova*, University of California Irvine
    (1063-03-207)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Descriptive set theory and unitary group representations.
    Greg Hjorth*, Universtiy of Melbourne, UCLA
    (1063-03-93)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorics and Probability on Groups, II
  MS 5147, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Jason Fulman, University of Southern California fulman@usc.edu
  Robert Guralnick, University of Southern California guralnic@usc.edu
  Igor Pak, University of California Los Angeles pak@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rate of escape for random walks on groups.
    Yuval Peres*, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
    James R. Lee, Computer Science Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    (1063-60-48)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cycle indices for finite orthogonal groups of even characteristic.
    Jason Fulman*, University of Southern California
    Jan Saxl, University of Cambridge
    Pham Tiep, University of Arizona
    (1063-05-56)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On residually finite hyperbolic groups.
    Mark Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
    (1063-20-124)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Eulerian quasisymmetric functions.
    John Shareshian*, Washington University
    Michelle Wachs, University of Miami
    (1063-05-266)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, II
  MS 5203, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Benny Sudakov, University of California Los Angeles bsudakov@math.ucla.edu
  Jacques Verstraete, University of California San Diego jbaverstraete@gmail.com
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The cutoff phenomenon on explicit expanders.
    Eyal Lubetzky*, Microsoft Research
    (1063-60-165)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A counterexample to the Alon-Saks-Seymour conjecture and related problems.
    Hao Huang*, University of California, Los Angeles
    Benjamin Sudakov, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1063-05-54)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Self-correcting estimates from the differential equations method.
    Tom Bohman*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Alan Frieze, Carnegie Mellon University
    Eyal Lubetzky, Microsoft Research
    (1063-05-78)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Large $B_d$-free subfamilies.
    Zoltan Furedi*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1063-05-255)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Nonlinear PDE, II
  BH 5280, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Susan J. Friedlander, University of Southern California susanfri@usc.edu
  Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California kukavica@usc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Energy conservation and blow-up of solutions for focusing Gross-Pitaevskii hierarchies.
    Thomas Chen, University of Texas at Austin
    Natasa Pavlovic*, University of Texas at Austin
    Nikolaos Tzirakis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1063-35-233)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Well-posedness in smooth function spaces for the moving-boundary 3-D compressible Euler equations in physical vacuum.
    Steve Shkoller*, University of California at Davis
    (1063-35-275)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Boundary layer analysis for 3D plane-parallel channel flows.
    Anna L Mazzucato*, Pennsylvania State University
    Xiaoming Wang, Florida State University
    Dongjuan Niu, Capital Nornal University, China
    (1063-35-168)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Models generalizing the 2D Euler and the surface quasi-geostrophic equations.
    Jiahong Wu*, Oklahoma State University
    (1063-35-99)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Initial boundary value problem for Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Plank system.
    Juhi Jang*, UC Riverside
    Hyungju Hwang, Postech, Korea
    (1063-35-271)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Probability and Related Fields, II
  MS 6229, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
  Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research peres@microsoft.com
  Sebastien Roch, University of California Los Angeles roch@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Inhomogeneous Continuity Equation with Application to Hamiltonian ODE.
    Lincoln Chayes, University of California, Los Angeles
    Wilfrid Gangbo, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Helen K Lei*, California Institute of Technology
    (1063-35-139)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Fluid Limits for Shortest Remaining Processing Time Queues.
    Amber L Puha*, California State University San Marcos
    H Chrsitian Gromoll, University of Virgina
    Douglas G Down, McMaster University
    (1063-60-212)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Uniformity of the Uncovered Set of Random Walk and Cutoff for Lamplighter Chains.
    Jason P Miller*, Stanford University
    Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
    (1063-60-265)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Spatial aspects of multiscale reaction networks.
    Lea Popovic*, Concordia University
    (1063-60-228)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Models of Random Phenomena, II
  BH 2444, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
  Alan C. Krinik, California State Polytechnic University Pomona ackrinik@csupomona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Probabilistic Approach to the Zeros of Zeta Functions.
    M M Rao*, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
    (1063-11-25)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Chaos and the Fourth Moment.
    Todd Kemp*, UCSD
    Ivan Nourdin, Universite Henri Poincare
    Giovanni Peccati, Universite du Luxembourg
    Roland Speicher, Universitat des Saarlandes
    (1063-60-248)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Bridging Scales in Kinesin Motor Models.
    John Fricks*, Penn State University
    John P Hughes, Penn State University
    William O Hancock, Penn Stat University
    (1063-60-44)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Information channels and channel operators.
    Yuichiro Kakihara*, California State University, San Bernardino
    (1063-94-59)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Performance Analysis of Compressive Spectral Clustering.
    Blake A Hunter*, University of California, Davis
    Thomas Strohmer, University of California, Davis
    (1063-15-285)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, II
  BH 5420, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
  Carmen Caprau, California State University Fresno ccaprau@csufresno.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Categorifications of the Arrow Polynomial for Virtual Knots and Links.
    Louis Hirsch Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1063-57-28)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    sl(n) link homology.
    Carmen L Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
    (1063-57-241)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Khovanov homology of virtual knots.
    Aaron Kaestner*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1063-54-191)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A dimer model for the twisted Alexander polynomial.
    Heather M. Russell*, Louisiana State University
    Moshe Cohen, Bar-Ilan University
    Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University
    (1063-57-249)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, II
  MS 5128, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Christoph Thiele, University of California Los Angeles thiele@math.ucla.edu
  Ignacio Uriarte-Tuero, Michigan State University ignacio@math.msu.edu
  Alexander Volberg, Michigan State University volberg@math.msu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Generalized Marcinkiewicz integrals.
    Mario Bonk*, UCLA
    (1063-43-134)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Random Multilinear Operators.
    Michael Christ*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1063-42-147)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Sharp weighted norm inequalities for Littlewood-Paley operators.
    Andrei Lerner*, Bar-Ilan University
    (1063-42-49)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Square function, Riesz transform and rectifiability.
    Svitlana Mayboroda*, Purdue University
    Alexander Volberg, Michigan State University
    (1063-46-71)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Around the A2 conjecture for singular integral operators.
    Carlos Perez*, University of Seville
    (1063-42-201)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Weighted and Regularity Estimates for Nonlinear PDEs on Nonsmooth Domains.
    Tadele Mengesha*, Louisina State University
    Nguyen Cong Phuc,, Louisina State University
    (1063-35-15)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:15 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  MS 5148, Math Science Building
  

  • 3:15 p.m.
    Dynamics and stability of the non-linear model for fluid coupling with 1 -D beam of changing thickness and 2-D plate.
    Emine Yasemen Kaya*, Texas Tech University
    Eugenio Aulisa, Texas Tech University
    Akif Ibraguimov, Texas Tech University
    (1063-74-142)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On real $\mathbb{B}$-$C^{\ast }$-algebras.
    Alexander A. Katz*, St. John's University, NY, USA
    (1063-46-243)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    A vector-valued embedding for Lebesgue spaces.
    Geoff Diestel*, Vancouver, WA
    (1063-42-185)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On measurable bundles of real C*-algebras.
    Alexander A. Katz, St. John's University, NY, USA
    Roman Kushnir*, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
    (1063-46-199)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Prescribing Gauss-Kronecker curvature, and the Weingarten curvature problem.
    Richard Mikula*, Lock Haven University
    (1063-35-10)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Catalog of $IJK$ and $InJnKn$Matrix Base States with $TriKets^©$.
    Michael George Dombroski*, Los Angeles City College
    (1063-81-112)
• Saturday October 9, 2010, 6:15 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
  Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics
  The cosmic distance ladder.
  Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
  Terence Tao*, University of California Los Angeles
  (1063-85-01)
  Reception following the talk.
  Schoenberg Hall, UCLA

Sunday October 10, 2010

• Sunday October 10, 2010, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Book Sale and Exhibit
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Phenomena: Applications of PDEs to Fluid Flows, III
  BH 5273, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrea Bertozzi, University of California Los Angeles bertozzi@math.ucla.edu
  Nebojsa Murisic, University of California Los Angeles nebo@math.ucla.edu
  David Uminsky, University of California Los Angeles duminsky@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Linear instability of plane parallel viscoelastic shear flows in the limit of infinite Weissenberg and Reynolds numbers.
    Ahmed Ahmed kaffel*, Virginia Tech
    Michael Renardy, Virginia Tech
    (1063-76-29)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Numerical Scheme for Particle-Laden Thin Film Flow in 2-D.
    Matthew R. Mata*, University of California, Los Angeles
    Andrea L Bertozzi, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1063-76-214)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Particle-laden viscous thin-film flows.
    Nebojsa Murisic*, Mathematics Department, University of California, Los Angles
    Andrea Bertozzi, Mathematics Department, University of California, Los Angles
    (1063-76-32)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Crossover in the coarsening rates in demixing of binary viscous fluids.
    Felix Otto, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
    Christian Seis, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
    Dejan Slepcev*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1063-35-103)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The dynamics of instability of the fluid flow over a flat plate.
    Fathi M Allan*, United Arab Emirates University
    James H Curry, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1063-76-13)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Free Probability and Subfactors, III
  MS 5137, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Edward Effros, University of California Los Angeles ege@math.ucla.edu
  Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, University of California Los Angeles shlyakht@math.ucla.edu
  Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, University of California Berkeley dvv@math.berkeley.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On free products related to the Guionnet-Jones-Shlyakhtenko construction for subfactors.
    Ken Dykema*, Texas A&M University
    (1063-46-159)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A new q-Brauer algebra and subfactors.
    Hans Wenzl*, University of California, San Diego
    (1063-46-131)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On a subfactor generalization of Wall's conjecture.
    Feng Xu*, U.C. Riverside, CA 92521
    (1063-46-110)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Rigidity in von Neumann Algebras and Ergodic Theory, III
  MS 5138, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Adrian Ioana, University of California Los Angeles adiioana@math.ucla.edu
  Narutaka Ozawa, Tokyo University narutaka@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp
  Sorin Popa, University of California Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
  Yehudah Shalom, University of California Los Angeles shalom@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Rigidity of hyperbolic lattices in the framework of integrable measure equivalence.
    Uri Bader, Technion, Haifa
    Alex Furman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Roman Sauer, Munster University
    (1063-37-116)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Measure equivalence rigidity of amalgamated free products.
    Yoshikata Kida*, Kyoto University
    (1063-37-238)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A class of group factors $L(G)$ that remember the group $G$.
    Stefaan Vaes*, K.U.Leuven
    (1063-46-117)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Symplectic Geometry, III
  MS 5117, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Robert Brown, University of California Los Angeles rfb@math.ucla.edu
  Ciprian Manolescu, University of California Los Angeles cm@math.ucla.edu
  Stefano Vidussi, University of California Riverside svidussi@ucr.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Homotopy equivalence of nearby Lagrangians.
    Mohammed Abouzaid*, Clay Math Institute / MIT
    (1063-57-46)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geometry of almost complex four manifolds.
    Tedi Draghici, Florida Internationl University
    Tian-Jun Li*, University of Minnesota
    Adriano Tomassini, University of Parma
    Weiyi Zhang, University of Michigan
    (1063-58-215)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Product formula for symplectic homology via Legendrain surgery.
    Yakov Eliashberg*, Stanford University
    (1063-57-43)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Large Cardinals and the Continuum, II
  BH 5252, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthew Foreman, University of California Irvine mforeman@math.uci.edu
  Alekos Kechris, California Institute for Technology kechris@caltech.edu
  Itay Neeman, University of California Los Angeles ineeman@math.ucla.edu
  Martin Zeman, University of California Irvine mzeman@math.uci.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Groups generated by generic measure preserving transformations.
    Slawomir Solecki*, University of Illinois
    (1063-03-86)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Polish groups acting on trees.
    Christian Rosendal*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1063-22-157)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The tree property.
    James Cummings*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1063-03-217)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fragments of Martin's Maximum in the $\mathbb{P}_{\rm{max}}$ extension.
    Paul B Larson*, Miami University
    (1063-03-219)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Natural ideals under PFA.
    Sean D. Cox*, Intitut für mathematische Logik und %Grundlagenforschung, Universität Münster
    (1063-03-184)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the strength of the negation of square.
    Grigor Sargsyan*, Mathematics Department, UCLA
    (1063-03-101)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Probability and Related Fields, III
  MS 6229, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
  Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research peres@microsoft.com
  Sebastien Roch, University of California Los Angeles roch@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of high-dimensional random convex optimization problems.
    Andrea Montanari*, Stanford University
    Mohsen Bayati, Stanford University
    David Donoho, Stanford University
    Arian Maleki, Stanford
    (1063-60-180)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The evolution of the cover time.
    Martin T. Barlow, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
    Jian Ding, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
    Asaf Nachmias, MIT, Mass., USA
    Yuval Peres*, Microsoft Research
    (1063-60-234)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cover times, blanket times, and majorizing measures.
    Jian Ding*, UC Berkeley
    James Lee, University of Washington
    Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
    (1063-60-224)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A stochastic model for phylogenetic trees.
    Rinaldo B Schinazi*, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
    Thomas M Liggett, UCLA
    (1063-60-91)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the spectral analysis of second-order Markov chains.
    Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
    Laurent Miclo, Universite de Toulouse and CNRS, France
    Jessica Zuniga*, Stanford University
    (1063-60-235)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Models of Random Phenomena, III
  BH 2444, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
  Alan C. Krinik, California State Polytechnic University Pomona ackrinik@csupomona.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Mathematical Model for Stimuli Dependent Neuron Responses.
    Joe Latulippe*, Cal Poly Pomona
    (1063-92-213)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Role of Symmetric and Asymmetric Division of Cancer Cells in Developing Drug Resistance.
    Cristian Tomasetti*, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland
    Doron Levy, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland
    (1063-60-66)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Wright-Fisher Diffusion Process and an Application to Queues and Bacterial Recombination.
    Joseph C Watkins*, Deaprtment of Mathematics, University of Arizona
    Xavier Didelot, Oxford Centre for Gene Function, University of Oxford
    Jesse E Taylor, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University
    (1063-60-229)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A PCR birth process subject to an enzyme death process.
    Randall Swift*, California State Polytechnic University Pomona
    Joe Gani, The Australian National University
    (1063-60-128)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Speed of Convergence of Certain Markov Processes to Equilibrium.
    Rabi Bhattacharya*, Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona
    (1063-60-171)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Conditional Hyperprobability.
    Mark Burgin, UCLA
    A. C. Krinik,*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, California State Polytechnic University
    (1063-60-35)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, III
  BH 5420, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
  Carmen Caprau, California State University Fresno ccaprau@csufresno.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The second quandle homology of the Takasaki quandle of an even abelian groups.
    Maciej Niebrzydowski, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
    (1063-57-75)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Categorical Quandles and Knots I: Definitions and Examples.
    Alissa S Crans*, Loyola Marymount University
    J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
    Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
    (1063-18-132)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Categorical quandles and knots, II -- the fundamental $2$-quandle and colorings.
    J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
    Alissa S. Crans, Loyola Marymount University
    Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
    (1063-57-143)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Categorical quandles and knots, III -- the fundamental 2-quandle and colorings.
    J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
    Alissa S Crans, Loyola University Marymount
    Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
    (1063-57-209)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rack modules and (t,s)-racks.
    Sam Nelson*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1063-57-211)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, III
  MS 5128, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Christoph Thiele, University of California Los Angeles thiele@math.ucla.edu
  Ignacio Uriarte-Tuero, Michigan State University ignacio@math.msu.edu
  Alexander Volberg, Michigan State University volberg@math.msu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A nonhomogeneous and bilinear outlook for sharp weighted estimates of singular operators.
    Alexander L Volberg*, Michigan State University
    (1063-42-55)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hessian inequalities and the fractional Laplacian.
    Fausto Ferrari, Università di Bologna
    Bruno Franchi, Università di Bologna
    Igor Verbitsky*, University of Missouri
    (1063-42-81)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sharp weighted inequalities for commutators.
    Maria Cristina Pereyra*, University of New Mexico
    Carlos Perez, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
    DaeWon Chung, University of New Mexico
    (1063-47-108)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Muckenhoupt-Wheeden conjecture.
    Maria Carmen Reguera*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1063-43-172)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A variational estimate for paraproducts.
    Yen Do*, Georgia Tech/IAS
    Camil Muscalu, Cornell University
    Christoph Thiele, UCLA
    (1063-42-102)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Maximal operators and differentiation theorems for sparse sets.
    Izabella Laba*, UBC
    (1063-42-262)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Continuous and Discrete Dynamical Systems, III
  MS 5118, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Mario Martelli, Claremont Graduate University mario.martelli@cgu.edu
  Robert Sacker, University of Southern California rsacker@usc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quasicontinuous functions with totally discontinuous iterates.
    Annalisa Crannell*, Franklin & Marshall College
    Sohaib Alam, U. Texas
    (1063-37-06)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Periodic Boundary Value Problems and the Fučík Spectrum under Conditions of Resonance.
    Adolfo J Rumbos*, Pomona College
    David A Bliss, Claremont Graduate University
    (1063-34-21)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Transgenic Mosquitoes and the Impact on Malaria Transmission.
    Jia Li*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (1063-92-192)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mathematical Approaches to Modeling Immune-Cancer Dynamics.
    Lisette dePillis*, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
    (1063-92-97)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Concave Monotone Systems of Mappings in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and Periodic Difference Equations.
    Selenne H Garcia-Torres, University of Southern California
    Robert J Sacker*, University of Southern California
    (1063-37-69)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Global Geometric Analysis, III
  MS 5127, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  William Wylie, University of Pennsylvania wylie@math.upenn.edu
  Joseph E. Borzellino, California State University San Luis Obispo jborzell@calpoly.edu
  Peter Petersen, University of California Los Angeles petersen@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Ricci Flow on Complete Surfaces.
    James Isenberg*, University of Oregon
    Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
    Natasa Sesum, Rutgers University
    (1063-53-111)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Formal matched asymptotics for degenerate Ricci flow neckpinches.
    Dan Knopf*, University of Texas
    (1063-53-68)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ricci soliton metrics on solvable Lie groups.
    Michael Jablonski*, University of Oklahoma
    (1063-53-151)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The second order renormalization group flow for locally homogeneous geometries on closed 3-manifolds.
    Christine M Guenther*, Pacific University
    (1063-58-173)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On The Rigidity of Riemannian Submersions of Nonnegatively Curved Manifolds.
    Curtis Pro*, University of California, Riverside
    Frederick Wilhelm, University of California, Riverside
    (1063-53-95)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory and K-theory, III
  BH 5422, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Julie Bergner, University of California Riverside jbergner@ucr.edu
  Christian Haesemeyer, University of California Los Angeles chh@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stable ${\mathbb A}^1$-homotopy theory and rational points.
    Aravind Asok*, University of Southern California
    Christian Haesemeyer, UCLA
    Fabien Morel, LMU Munich
    (1063-14-118)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Artin-Schelter regular algebras and the Steenrod algebra.
    J H Palmieri*, University of Washington
    J J Zhang, University of Washington
    (1063-16-167)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Number Theory, III
  BH 2760, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  William Duke, University of California Los Angeles wdduke@ucla.edu
  Ozlem Imamoglu, ETH Zurich ozlem@math.ethz.ch
  Kimberly Hopkins, University of California Los Angeles khopkins@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial models for p-adic Whittaker functions.
    B. Brubaker, MIT
    D. Bump, Stanford University
    S. Friedberg*, Boston College
    (1063-11-170)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Connections between automorphic forms, representations, and statistical mechanics.
    Ben Brubaker*, MIT
    Daniel Bump, Stanford University
    Solomon Friedberg, Boston College
    (1063-11-246)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, III
  MS 5203, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Benny Sudakov, University of California Los Angeles bsudakov@math.ucla.edu
  Jacques Verstraete, University of California San Diego jbaverstraete@gmail.com
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic enumeration of sparse 2-connected graphs.
    Graeme Kemkes, University of California at San Diego
    Cristiane Sato, University of Waterloo
    Nicholas Wormald*, University of Waterloo
    (1063-05-80)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On a Conjecture of Frankl and Füredi.
    Ameera Naz Chowdhury*, UC San Diego
    (1063-05-87)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Flipping edges and vertices in graphs.
    Fan Chung*, University of California, San Diego
    Ronald L. Graham, University of California, San Diego
    (1063-05-164)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Schnyder's Theorem.
    P Haxell*, University of Waterloo
    (1063-05-276)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Nonlinear PDE, III
  BH 5280, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Susan J. Friedlander, University of Southern California susanfri@usc.edu
  Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California kukavica@usc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Structural Stability of Nonlinear Flows in Porous Media.
    Luan Thach Hoang*, Texas Tech University
    Akif Ibragimov, Texas Tech University
    (1063-35-178)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Recent results on aggregation equations.
    Dong Li*, University of Iowa
    (1063-35-277)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some remarks on the aggregation equations.
    Hongjie Dong*, Brown University
    (1063-35-129)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Strong Unique Continuation and Complexity of Solutions to Parabolic Partial Differential Equations with Gevrey Coefficients.
    Mihaela Ignatova Ignatova*, University of Southern California, Department of Mathematics, Los Angeles, CA 90089
    Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California, Department of Mathematics, Los Angeles, CA 90089
    (1063-35-146)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Phase transitions in NP-complete problems: A challenge for probability, combinatorics, and computer science.
  MS 4000A, Math Science Building
  Cristopher Moore*, University of New Mexico and the Santa Fe Institute
  (1063-68-02)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Free Probability and Subfactors, IV
  MS 5137, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Edward Effros, University of California Los Angeles ege@math.ucla.edu
  Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, University of California Los Angeles shlyakht@math.ucla.edu
  Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, University of California Berkeley dvv@math.berkeley.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Operator space structures on Lp-spaces.
    Gilles Pisier*, Texas A&M University and Université Paris VI
    (1063-47-61)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The classification of finite depth subfactors---an overview and the recent developments.
    Marta Asaeda*, UC Riverside
    (1063-46-261)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Free Liberation of Projections.
    Benoit Collins, University of Ottawa
    Todd Kemp*, University of California, San Diego
    (1063-46-96)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Noncommutative diffusion semigroups.
    Marius Junge*, University of Illonois at Urbana-Champaign
    Eric Ricard, Besancon University, Franche Compte, France
    Dimitri Shlyahktenko, UCLA
    (1063-46-120)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    On the Wittstock-Schmitt matricial Riesz interpolation property, and matrix convex optimization.
    Edward G. Effros*, UCLA
    Lieven Vandenberghe, Electrical Engineering Department
    (1063-46-153)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Rigidity in von Neumann Algebras and Ergodic Theory, IV
  MS 5138, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Adrian Ioana, University of California Los Angeles adiioana@math.ucla.edu
  Narutaka Ozawa, Tokyo University narutaka@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp
  Sorin Popa, University of California Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
  Yehudah Shalom, University of California Los Angeles shalom@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Approximation properties and absence of Cartan subalgebra for free Araki-Woods factors.
    Cyril Houdayer*, CNRS-ENS Lyon
    (1063-46-158)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Brooks' Theorem for measure-preserving group actions.
    Alexander S. Kechris*, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
    (1063-37-188)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rigidity for Actions of Wreath Product Groups.
    J Owen Sizemore*, UCLA
    (1063-46-149)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    W$^*$-superrigidity for Bernoulli actions of property (T) groups.
    Adrian Ioana*, Clay Mathematics Institute
    (1063-46-256)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Models of Random Phenomena, IV
  BH 2444, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
  Alan C. Krinik, California State Polytechnic University Pomona ackrinik@csupomona.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Skew Diffusion in Highly Heterogeneous Environments.
    Edward C Waymire*, Oregon State University
    Thilanka A Appuhamillage, Oregon State University
    Vrushali A Bokil, Oregon State University
    Enrique A Thomann, Oregon State University
    Brian D Wood, Oregon State University
    (1063-60-67)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Systems of Dependent Components.
    Sheldon Ross*, University of Southern California
    (1063-60-205)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On modeling and analysing P2P networks.
    Gerardo Rubino*, INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, France
    (1063-60-26)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Sharp inequalities of Zygmund type for Riesz transforms.
    Jorge Aarao, University of South Australia, Adelaide
    Mike O'Neill*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1063-60-141)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mathematical Theory of Negative Probability and Models of Financial Processes.
    Mark Burgin, UCLA
    Gunter Meissner*, University of Hawaii
    (1063-60-31)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Variations of the Absorption Process: Probabilistic Models for q-identities in Combinatorics and Number Theory.
    Don Paul Rawlings*, Mathematics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
    (1063-60-76)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Geometric properties of the majority rule model.
    Nicolas Lanchier*, Arizona State University
    Jared Neufer, Arizona State University
    (1063-60-83)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    No-arbitrage conditions for limit-price orders.
    David German*, Claremont McKenna College
    Henry Schellhorn, Claremont Graduate University
    (1063-60-174)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Heat kernel and random matrices from compact Lie groups.
    Jason Fulman*, University of Southern California
    (1063-60-17)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory and K-theory, IV
  BH 5422, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Julie Bergner, University of California Riverside jbergner@ucr.edu
  Christian Haesemeyer, University of California Los Angeles chh@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Operations in the Homology Spectral Sequence of a Cosimplicial Iterated Loop Space.
    Philip Hackney*, University of California, Riverside
    (1063-55-84)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The étale index of division algebras.
    D. Benjamin Antieau*, UCLA
    (1063-19-156)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Global Geometric Analysis, IV
  MS 5127, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  William Wylie, University of Pennsylvania wylie@math.upenn.edu
  Joseph E. Borzellino, California State University San Luis Obispo jborzell@calpoly.edu
  Peter Petersen, University of California Los Angeles petersen@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Semi-continuity of Isometry and Automorphism Groups(joint work with K.T. Kim and S.G. Krantz).
    Robert E. Greene*, University of Claifornia ,Los Angeles
    (1063-53-160)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Toward a notion of index of critical points of distance functions.
    Fred Wilhelm*, University of California, Riverside
    Barbara Herzog, University of California, Riverside
    (1063-53-119)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Covering Spectrum.
    Christina Sormani, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College
    Guofang Wei*, UC Santa Barbara
    (1063-53-204)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Eigenvalue pinching and differential forms.
    Chadwick S Sprouse*, CSU Northridge
    (1063-53-230)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Phenomena: Applications of PDEs to Fluid Flows, IV
  BH 5273, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrea Bertozzi, University of California Los Angeles bertozzi@math.ucla.edu
  Nebojsa Murisic, University of California Los Angeles nebo@math.ucla.edu
  David Uminsky, University of California Los Angeles duminsky@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Computation of time-periodic water waves.
    Jon Wilkening*, UC Berkeley Mathematics
    (1063-76-181)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Boundary layer associated with the Darcy-Brinkman-Boussinesq model for convection in porous media.
    James P Kelliher*, University of California Riverside
    Roger M Temam, Indiana University, Institute for Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics
    Xiaoming Wang, Florida State University
    (1063-76-250)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On qualitative analyses of non-linear Forchheimer flows in porous media and application.
    Akif Ibragimov*, Texas Tech University
    Luan Hoang, Texas Tech University, Department of Mathemathematics
    Eugenio Aulisa, Texas Tech University, Department of Mathemathematics
    (1063-35-104)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Longterm dynamics for well Productivity Index for nonlinear flows in porous media.
    Lidia Bloshanskaya*, Texas Tech University
    Eugenio Aulisa, Texas Tech University
    (1063-76-138)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Symplectic Geometry, IV
  MS 5117, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Robert Brown, University of California Los Angeles rfb@math.ucla.edu
  Ciprian Manolescu, University of California Los Angeles cm@math.ucla.edu
  Stefano Vidussi, University of California Riverside svidussi@ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Deformations in Hamiltonian Floer theory and in Morse theory.
    Michael Usher*, University of Georgia
    (1063-53-176)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Non-loose Legendrian and transverse knots.
    John Etnyre*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1063-57-137)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Knot contact homology and transverse knots.
    Lenhard Ng*, Duke University
    (1063-57-169)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Monodromy invariants in the space of knots.
    Jason F McGibbon*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    (1063-57-140)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Nonlinear PDE, IV
  BH 5280, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Susan J. Friedlander, University of Southern California susanfri@usc.edu
  Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California kukavica@usc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Beale-Kato-Majda type regularity criteria for the 3D Navier-Stokes equations.
    Alexey Cheskidov*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1063-35-231)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Norm inflation for incompressible magneto-hydrodynamic system.
    Maria Elena Schonbek*, University of california Santa Cruz
    Mimi Dai, UCSC
    Jie Qing, UCSC
    (1063-35-236)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An inverse problem associated with flow maps.
    James P Kelliher*, Un
    (1063-76-251)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Extra regularity for a linear parabolic equation with drift term.
    Zhen Lei, School of Math. Fudan University
    Qi S. Zhang*, UC Riverside
    (1063-35-109)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Minimal initial data for potential Navier-Stokes singularities.
    Walter M. Rusin*, University of Southern California
    (1063-35-202)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-6:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Probability and Related Fields, IV
  MS 6229, Math Science Building
  Organizers:
  Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
  Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research peres@microsoft.com
  Sebastien Roch, University of California Los Angeles roch@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Left and Right Convergence for Sequences of Graphs with Bounded Degrees.
    Christian Borgs*, Microsoft Reserach New England
    Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research New England
    Jeff Kahn, Rutgers University
    Laci Lovasz, Eotvos University, Budapest
    (1063-05-258)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Statistical physics and computational phase transitions of the hardcore model.
    Allan Sly*, Microsoft Research
    (1063-60-186)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Reconstruction in the Potts and Hardcore models.
    Nayantara Bhatnagar*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    (1063-60-194)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Lattices, Uniform Distribution and $3\log 2-\pi^2/8$.
    Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University
    Arek Goetz, San Francisco State University
    Anthony Quas*, University of Victoria
    (1063-37-200)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Large Deviation Principle for the Erdos-Renyi Random Graph.
    Sourav Chatterjee*, New York University
    Srinivasa Varadhan, New York University
    (1063-60-89)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The genealogy of branching Brownian motion with absorption.
    Jason Schweinsberg*, University of California, San Diego
    Julien Berestycki, Universite Paris VI
    Nathanael Berestycki, University of Cambridge
    (1063-60-42)
• Sunday October 10, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, IV
  BH 5420, Boelter Hall
  Organizers:
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
  Carmen Caprau, California State University Fresno ccaprau@csufresno.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Network Topological Field Theory and Representations of Web Groups.
    Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    (1063-57-70)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Kauffman bracket skein module of $T^3$.
    Jeffrey Boerner*, Westminster College
    (1063-57-254)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Which invariants of surfaces come from TQFT?
    Paul H Drube*, The University of Iowa
    (1063-57-223)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Functorification via SLarcs.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, University of Pennsylvania
    Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
    (1063-18-225)

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