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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

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