2011 Fall Western Section Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 30, 2011 00:27:59

Associate secretaries:

Saturday October 22, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Category Theory in Graphs, Geometry and Inverse Problems, I
Room 310, AEB Alfred Emery Building
Organizers:
Robert Owczarek, Enfitec, Inc. owczarek@hughes.net
Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory NM
- 8:00 a.m.
  Non-commutative worlds and discrete physics.
  Louis H Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1075-81-54)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Homology of distributive lattices: splitting chain complexes.
  Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University and UG
  Krzysztof Putyra, Columbia University
  (1075-57-77)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Homology of distributive lattices: Mayer-Vietoris type sequences.
  Krzysztof K Putyra*, Columbia University
  Jozef H Przytycki, George Washington University & Gdansk University
  (1075-18-143)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Homology of a small category with functor coefficients and barycentric subdivision.
  Jing Wang*, George Washington University
  (1075-57-127)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Matching problems with compact externalities: a stability analysis.
  Simina Branzei*, Aarhus University
  Tomasz Michalak, University of Warsaw
  Talal Rahwan, University of Southampton
  Kate Larson, University of Waterloo
  Nicholas Jennings, University of Southampton
  (1075-68-58)

Saturday October 22, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Category Theory in Graphs, Geometry and Inverse Problems, II
Room 310, AEB Alfred Emery Building
Organizers:
Robert Owczarek, Enfitec, Inc. owczarek@hughes.net
Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory NM
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the geometry of a moving singularity.
  Leonardo Traversoni*, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (Iztapalapa)
  (1075-18-106)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Particle lag instability.
  Peter Vorobieff*, The University of New Mexico
  Michael Anderson, The University of New Mexico
  Joseph Conroy, The University of New Mexico
  Ross White, The University of New Mexico
  Patrick Wayne, The University of New Mexico
  Sanjay Kumar, The University of Texas - Brownsville
  C. Randall Truman, The University of New Mexico
  (1075-76-228)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The geometry of the Taylor problem in plasma physics.
  Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
  (1075-53-209)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Recent results in fluid mechanics.
  Robert M Owczarek*, Enfitek, Inc. and University of New Mexico
  (1075-76-191)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Spherical geometry of $\mathcal{D}^s(M)/\mathcal{D}^s_\mu(M)$.
  Gerard Misiolek*, University of Notre Dame
  (1075-58-49)

Sunday October 23, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Category Theory in Graphs, Geometry and Inverse Problems, III
Room 310, AEB Alfred Emery Building
Organizers:
Robert Owczarek, Enfitec, Inc. owczarek@hughes.net
Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory NM
- 8:00 a.m.
  Computability theoretic complexity of isomorphisms of countable structures.
  Valentina Harizanov*, George Washington University
  (1075-03-153)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Complete Coverage Probability Via Homology.
  Rafal Komendarczyk, Tulane University
  Jeff Pullen*, Tulane University
  (1075-55-110)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Third Power Association In Finite semifields.
  G. P. Wene*, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle,San Antonio, Texas 78249-0624
  (1075-17-245)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Graphs and non-associative algebra.
  Liudmila Sabinina*, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico
  (1075-20-181)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Generalized Bruck loops related to non-gyrocommutative gyrogroups and generalized symmetric spaces as the underlying geometry.
  Larissa Sbitneva*, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos
  (1075-08-189)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The spinor structure of the Apollonian disk packing.
  Jerzy Kocik*, Department of Mathematics, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
  (1075-51-200)

Sunday October 23, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Category Theory in Graphs, Geometry and Inverse Problems, IV
Room 310, AEB Alfred Emery Building
Organizers:
Robert Owczarek, Enfitec, Inc. owczarek@hughes.net
Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory NM
- 3:00 p.m.
  Category theory for inferring the shape of a light source from an optimized model of its shadow.
  Brian G Stafford*, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos,NM
  (1075-68-218)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Turning Bayesian model averaging into Bayesian model combination.
  James L Carroll*, LANL
  (1075-60-101)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Reconstructing tilted, axis-symmetric objects from radiographs.
  Thomas A Beery*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  (1075-62-104)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Generalization of inverse Abel transform for shifted reconstruction axis.
  Hanna E Makaruk*, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  Robert M. Owczarek, Enfitek Inc.
  (1075-68-18)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion