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2011 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
September 10-11, 2011 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1072

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

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Saturday September 10, 2011

• Saturday September 10, 2011, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sale
  Lounge, 5th Floor, Malott Hall
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lounge, 5th Floor, Malott Hall
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis, Probability, and Mathematical Physics on Fractals, I
  Room 406, Malott Hall
  Organizers:
  Luke Rogers, University of Connecticut
  Robert Strichartz, Cornell University
  Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut teplyaev@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Homotopy Critical Spectrum of a Metric Space I.
    Conrad Plaut*, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
    Jay Wilkins, University of Connecticut
    (1072-53-224)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Homotopy Critical Spectrum of a Metric Space II.
    Jay Wilkins*, University of Connecticut
    Conrad Plaut, University of Tennessee
    (1072-51-225)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    $1$-forms on fractals and harmonic spaces.
    Michael Hinz*, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Math. Institute, Jena, Germany
    (1072-60-220)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Spectral Triples on the Sierpinski gasket.
    Fabio E.G. Cipriani*, Professor of Mathematical Analysis at Politecnico of Milano - Italy
    (1072-46-254)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Differential 1-forms, their Integrals and Potential Theory on the Sierpinski Gasket.
    Fabio Cipriani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    Daniele Guido*, Univ. Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
    Tommaso Isola, Univ. Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
    Jean-Luc Sauvageot, CNRS, Paris
    (1072-46-221)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Piecewise harmonic functions, derivations and 1-forms on certain fractals.
    Marius V Ionescu, Colgate University
    Luke G Rogers*, University of Connecticut
    Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut
    (1072-28-272)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Difference Equations and Applications, I
  Room 213, Phillips Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology marsma@rit.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Decomposition possibilities for closed relations.
    Tamas Wiandt*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1072-37-92)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some iterative root-finding methods arising from matrices.
    Sam Northshield*, SUNY-Plattsburgh
    (1072-15-84)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Classical and Quantum Orthogonal Polynomial Solutions to a Class of Differential-Difference Equations.
    Daniel Joseph Galiffa*, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
    (1072-33-12)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Periodic Trichotomies.
    Frank J. Palladino*, University of Rhode Island
    (1072-39-11)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Global solutions to systems of difference equations.
    Chris D. Lynd*, University of Rhode Island
    (1072-39-35)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the global behavior of the system of piecewise linear difference equations $ x_{n+1} = \vert x_{n} \vert + ay_{n} + b \qquad \mathrm{and} \qquad y_{n+1} = x_{n} + c\vert y_{n} \vert + d $.
    Edward Grove, University of Rhode Island
    Evelina Giusti Lapierre*, Johnson and Wales University
    Wirot Tikjha, Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University
    (1072-39-24)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory and Low-dimensional Topology, I
  Room 105, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Weimin Chen, University of Massachusetts-Amherst wchen@math.umass.edu
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Contact structures, rational open books, and Dehn surgery.
    Matthew E Hedden*, Michigan State University
    Olga Plamenevskaya, Stony Brook University
    (1072-57-88)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Symplectic Calabi-Yau surfaces.
    Tian-Jun Li*, University of Minnesota
    (1072-58-40)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The sutured monopole Floer homology of M(1).
    Yi-Jen Lee*, Purdue
    Taubes, Harvard
    Kutluthan, Harvard
    (1072-57-108)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Double knot surgeries to $S^4$ and $S^2 x S^2$.
    Selman Akbulut*, Michigan State University
    (1072-57-181)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Morse 2-functions on 4-manifolds.
    David T Gay*, University of Georgia and Euclid Lab
    Robion Kirby, University of California Berkeley
    (1072-57-207)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On totally twisted Khovanov homology.
    Lawrence Roberts*, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
    (1072-57-189)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Arithmetic Groups, I
  Room 230, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
  Ken Brown, Cornell University
  Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
  Tim Riley, Cornell University tim.riley@math.cornell.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Survey of invariant orders on arithmetic groups.
    Dave Witte Morris*, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
    (1072-20-150)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Volume distortion in groups.
    Hanna Bennett*, University of Michigan
    (1072-20-239)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Recognizing 3-manifold groups.
    Daniel Groves, University of Illinois, Chicago
    Jason Fox Manning*, University at Buffalo
    Henry Wilton, University College, London
    (1072-20-76)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Torelli groups and symplectic groups.
    Allen Hatcher, Cornell University
    Dan Margalit*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1072-20-216)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Parabolic Evolution Equations of Geometric Type, I
  Room 407, Phillips Hall
  Organizers:
  Xiaodong Cao, Cornell University cao@math.cornell.edu
  Bennett Chow, University of California San Diego
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Spatial Asymptotic Behaviors of Kähler-Ricci Flows and Kähler-Einstein Metrics over Quasi-Projective Manifolds.
    Zhou Zhang*, University of Sydney, Australia
    (1072-53-86)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Smooth metric measure spaces.
    Ovidiu Munteanu*, Columbia University
    (1072-53-65)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the gap phenomena of singularities of the Ricci flow.
    Bing Wang*, Simons Center of Geometry and Physics
    (1072-35-64)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Neckpinch dynamics for asymmetric surfaces evolving by mean curvature flow.
    Dan Knopf*, University of Texas at Austin
    Zhou Gang, ETH-Zürich
    I M Sigal, University of Toronto
    (1072-35-209)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Multivariable Operator Theory, I
  Rm 203, Phillips Hall
  Organizers:
  Ronald G. Douglas, Texas A&M University
  Rongwei Yang, State University of New York at Albany ryang@albany.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Polynomially Weighted Spaces on the Unit Ball in $C^n$.
    Ronald G. Douglas*, Texas A&M University
    Kai Wang, Fudan University and Texas A&M University
    (1072-47-51)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Solving multivariable truncated moment problems through positive extensions.
    Lawrence A Fialkow*, State University of New York at New Paltz
    (1072-47-37)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Douglas Property for Multiplier Algebras.
    Tavan T Trent*, University of Alabama
    (1072-47-91)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    New estimates of essential norms of weighted composition operators between Bloch type spaces.
    Ruhan Zhao*, Department of Mathematics, SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY 14618
    Jasbir Singh Manhas, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
    (1072-47-17)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Composition operators on noncommutative Hardy spaces.
    Gelu F Popescu*, University of Texas at San Antonio
    (1072-47-41)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations of Mixed Elliptic-Hyperbolic Type and Applications, I
  Room 403, Phillips Hall
  Organizers:
  Marcus Khuri, Stony Brook University khuri@math.sunysb.edu
  Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Singularities at the Sonic Line.
    Barbara Lee Keyfitz*, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
    (1072-35-249)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The vanishing viscosity limit of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics with zero magnetic diffusivity.
    Xianpeng Hu*, New York University
    (1072-35-171)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Supercritical and critical cases for 2D and 3D BV problems for quazilinear equations of mixed elliptic-hyperbolic type.
    Nedyu I. Popivanov*, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
    (1072-35-165)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Global solutions for transonic self-similar two-dimensional Riemann problems.
    Eun Heui Kim*, California State University Long Beach
    (1072-35-83)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Self-similar solutions for the diffraction of weak shocks.
    Allen M. Tesdall*, Department of Mathematics, City University of New York, College of Staten Island
    John K. Hunter, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
    (1072-35-269)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Local and Global Groups, I
  Room 122, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Mahdi Asgari, Oklahoma State University asgari@math.okstate.edu
  Birgit Speh, Cornell University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Associated varieties, derivatives, Whittaker functionals, and rank for unitary representations of GL(n,R).
    Siddhartha Sahi*, Mathematics Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ
    Dmitry Gourevitch, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, The Weizmann Institute of Science
    (1072-22-136)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Harmonic analysis on finite and infinite dimensional Lie supergroups.
    Hadi Salmasian*, University of Ottawa
    (1072-22-162)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Branching Rules and Hibi Rings.
    Roger Howe*, Yale University
    (1072-22-148)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A series of unitary representations of the quantum SU(1,1).
    Bogdan Ion*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1072-20-149)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some function equations for Whittaker functions on $GL(n)$.
    Zhengyu Mao*, Rutgers University-Newark
    (1072-22-56)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory, I
  Room 207, Malott Hall
  Organizers:
  Paul Larson, Miami University, Ohio
  Justin Moore, Cornell University justin@math.cornell.edu
  Ernest Schimmerling, Carnegie Mellon University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On covering of the real line by translations of a compact set.
    Tomek Bartoszynski*, National Science Foundation
    Paul Larson, Miami University
    Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University and Rutgers University
    (1072-03-78)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Universal Functions.
    Arnold W. Miller*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Paul B. Larson, Miami University
    Juris Stepr{ā}ns, York University
    William A.R. Weiss, University of Toronto
    (1072-03-112)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Approximation of automorphisms of certain homogeneous structures.
    Udayan B. Darji*, University of Louisville
    (1072-03-173)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Unitary representations of $L_0(\mu, {\mathbb T})$ and of $C^0(K, {\mathbb T})$.
    Slawomir Solecki*, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
    (1072-03-202)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Aspects of Analysis and Measure Theory, I
  Room 219, Phillips Hall
  Organizers:
  Leonid Kovalev, Syracuse University lvkovale@syr.edu
  Jani Onninen, Syracuse University
  Raanan Schul, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    An Aronsson Type Approach to Extremal Quasiconformal Mappings.
    Andy Raich*, University of Arkansas
    Luca Capogna, University of Arkansas
    (1072-30-08)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Regularity of sets with quasiminimal boundary surfaces in metric measure spaces.
    Nageswari Shanmugalingam*, University of Cincinnati
    Juha Kinnunen, Aalto University
    Riikka Korte, Helsinki University
    Andrew Lorent, University of Cincinnati
    (1072-49-42)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the Riemann surface type of Random Planar Maps.
    James T Gill*, University of Washington
    Steffen Rohde, University of Washington
    (1072-30-185)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric and Algebraic Topology, I
  Room 110, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Boris Goldfarb, University at Albany, SUNY goldfarb@albany.edu
  Marco Varisco, University at Albany, SUNY
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Essential manifolds and macroscopic dimension.
    Alexander Dranishnikov*, University of Florida
    (1072-57-55)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Secondary transfer and higher torsion.
    Bernard Badzioch*, University at Buffalo, SUNY
    Wojciech Dorabiala, Penn State Altoona
    (1072-55-196)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Detecting non-trivial elements of $\pi_i (Diff(M \times S^m))$.
    Wojciech Dorabiala*, Penn State Altoona
    Bernard Badzioch, University at Buffalo
    (1072-57-197)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Kac-Moody Lie Algebras, Vertex Algebras, and Related Topics, I
  Room 231, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Alex Feingold, Binghamton University
  Antun Milas, State University of New York at Albany amilas@albany.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    An algebraic approach to genus 0 chiral conformal field theory.
    Igor Kriz*, University of Michigan
    (1072-17-10)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Structure of rational vertex operator algebras - reviving the conformal bootstrap.
    Geoffrey Mason*, UC Santa Cruz
    (1072-17-58)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dilogarithms, OPE and twisted T-duality.
    Marco Aldi*, Brandeis University
    Reimundo Heluani, IMPA
    (1072-17-118)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A classical vertex algebra constructed with the use of some logarithmic formal calculus.
    Thomas Robinson*, Rutgers University
    (1072-17-127)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Aspects of Cryptography and Cyber Security, I
  Room 132, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  Gerhard Rosenberger, Passau University and Hamburg University, Germany
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Public Key Exchange Using Matrices Over Group Rings.
    Charalambos M Koupparis*, CUNY Graduate Center, City University of New York
    Delaram Kahrobaei, CUNY Graduate Center and City Tech, City University of New York
    Vladimir Shpilrain, The City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center
    (1072-20-195)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Improving Latin square based secret sharing schemes.
    Chi Sing Chum, Computer Science Dept., Graduate Center, City University of New York
    Xiaowen Zhang*, Computer Science Dept., College of Staten Island, CUNY
    (1072-68-155)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Kleene Algebra with Tests and the Static Analysis of Programs.
    Dexter C Kozen*, Cornell University
    (1072-68-69)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Species and Hopf Algebraic Combinatorics, I
  Room 115, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A&M University maguiar@math.tamu.edu
  Samuel Hsiao, Bard College
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generic rectangulations and pattern-avoiding permutations.
    Nathan Reading*, North Carolina State University
    (1072-05-124)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Hopf Algebra of Sashes.
    Shirley E. Law*, North Carolina State University
    (1072-05-191)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Shard Intersection Order on Permutations.
    Erin Elizabeth Bancroft*, Grove City College
    (1072-05-183)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The module of affine descents.
    T. Kyle Petersen*, DePaul University
    Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A&M
    (1072-05-33)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Topology, I
  Room 104, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Tara Holm, Cornell University
  Katrin Wehrheim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology katrin@math.mit.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Transverse knot contact homology.
    Ekholm, Uppsalla
    Etnyre, Georgia Tech
    Ng, Duke
    M. Sullivan*, UMass Amherst
    (1072-57-128)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Combinatorial knot contact homology and 1-parameter families of knots.
    Jason F McGibbon*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    (1072-57-142)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cylindrical contact homology for links of simple singularities.
    Joanna K Nelson*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1072-53-39)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Khovanov-Seidel quiver algebras and bordered Floer homology.
    J. Elisenda Grigsby*, Boston College
    Denis Auroux, University of California, Berkeley
    Stephan M. Wehrli, Syracuse University
    (1072-57-129)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Speakers:
  Katrin Wehrheim,
  How to construct topological invariants via decompositions and the symplectic category.
  Bache Auditorium, Malott Hall
  Katrin Wehrheim*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1072-54-04)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 1:55 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Topology and geometry of $Out(F_n)$.
  Bache Auditorium, Malott Hall
  Mladen Bestvina*, University of Utah
  (1072-57-01)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis, Probability, and Mathematical Physics on Fractals, II
  Room 406, Malott Hall
  Organizers:
  Luke Rogers, University of Connecticut
  Robert Strichartz, Cornell University
  Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut teplyaev@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spectrum of the Laplacian on periodic and quasiperiodic planar graphs.
    Richard W Kenyon*, Brown University
    (1072-82-215)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Nodal counts of billiard eigenfunctions and critical partitions.
    Gregory Berkolaiko, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
    Peter Kuchment*, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
    Uzy Smilansky, The Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, 76100 IL
    (1072-35-77)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Eigenfunction expansions for general Laplacians.
    Daniel Hans Lenz*, Mathematisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet Jena, Ernst Abbe Platz 2, D - 07743 Jena, Germany
    (1072-47-217)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Statistical mechanics and quantum field theory on fractal structures. Application to quantum optics and superfluidity.
    Eric Y Akkermans*, Physics Department, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
    (1072-60-242)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Thermodynamics on Fractals.
    Gerald V. Dunne*, University of Connecticut
    (1072-81-80)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Dirichlet forms on a noncompact Cantor set and random walks on its defining tree.
    Jun Kigami*, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
    (1072-60-44)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Difference Equations and Applications, II
  Room 213, Phillips Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology marsma@rit.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Limits on predictability in systems of stochastic difference equations.
    Harold M Hastings*, Department of Physics, Hofstra University
    (1072-39-16)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Nonlinear Evolutionary Dynamics of a Rock-Paper-Scissors System with Periodic Coefficients.
    Rocio E. Ruelas, Center for applied Mathematics, Cornell University
    Richard H. Rand*, Dept. Mathematics, Cornell University
    David G. Rand, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University
    (1072-37-48)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hydrobiological Modeling with Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery.
    Sean Kramer*, Clarkson University Department of Mathematics
    Erik Bollt, Clarkson University Department of Mathematics
    Aaron Luttman, Clarkson University Department of Mathematics
    Ranil Basnayake, Clarkson University Department of Mathematics
    Tian Ma, Clarkson University Department of Mathematics
    (1072-37-121)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Heart Rate Variability as Determinism with Jump Stochastic Parameters.
    Jiongxuan Zheng*, Clarkson University
    Erik Bollt, Clarkson University
    Joe Skufca, Clarkson University
    (1072-37-97)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Projected Lagged-Diffusivity Fixed Point Iteration for Poisson Likelihood Image Deblurring.
    Aaron Luttman*, Clarkson University
    Johnathan Bardsley, University of Montana
    (1072-49-81)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Synchronization as a process of sharing and transferring information.
    Erik M Bollt*, Clarkson University
    (1072-37-50)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory and Low-dimensional Topology, II
  Room 105, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Weimin Chen, University of Massachusetts-Amherst wchen@math.umass.edu
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Künneth formula in monopole Floer homology.
    Jonathan Michael Bloom*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Tomasz Mrowka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Peter Ozsvath, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1072-57-107)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Lagrangians from Seiberg-Witten theory.
    Timothy Nguyen*, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
    (1072-53-154)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An index theorem for end-periodic operators.
    Tomasz Mrowka, MIT
    Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
    Nikolai Saveliev*, University of Miami
    (1072-58-245)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Coisotropic Luttinger surgery.
    Paul Kirk*, Indiana University
    Scott Baldridge, LSU
    (1072-57-60)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Satellites and the knot concordance group.
    Jennifer Hom*, Columbia University
    (1072-57-198)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Sections of surface bundles and Lefschetz fibrations.
    R. Inanc Baykur*, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn; Brandeis University
    (1072-57-233)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Aspects of Analysis and Measure Theory, II
  Room 219, Phillips Hall
  Organizers:
  Leonid Kovalev, Syracuse University lvkovale@syr.edu
  Jani Onninen, Syracuse University
  Raanan Schul, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tangents of null sets and of sets of positive measure.
    Marianna Csornyei*, University College London
    (1072-28-253)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Lipschitz Approximation to Corkscrew Domains and Harmonic Measure.
    Matthew Badger*, University of Washington
    (1072-31-19)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On weighted inequalities for singular integrals.
    Michael T. Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Eric T. Sawyer, McMaster University
    Ignacio Uriarte-Tuero*, Michigan State University
    (1072-42-73)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Multiwell Liouville Theorems and pairs of functions whose symmetric part of gradient are close.
    Andrew Lorent*, University of Cincinnati
    (1072-30-117)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Structures on Manifolds with Special Holonomy, and Applications in Physics, I
  Room 112, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Tamar Friedmann, University of Rochester
  Colleen Robles, Texas A&M University
  Sema Salur, University of Rochester salur@math.rochester.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    From singularities to algebras to pure Yang-Mills with matter.
    Tamar Friedmann*, University of Rochester
    (1072-51-246)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Small resolutions of SU(5) models in F-theory.
    Mboyo Esole*, Harvard University
    (1072-14-206)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Line bundle valued sheaf cohomology on toric varieties.
    Benjamin Jurke*, Northeastern University
    (1072-51-210)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Complete Ricci-flat Kahler metrics on resolutions of singularities.
    Bianca Santoro*, CUNY - City College
    (1072-51-264)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Regular value theorem in a fractal setting.
    Alex Iosevich*, University of Rochester
    (1072-28-177)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Arithmetic Groups, II
  Room 230, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
  Ken Brown, Cornell University
  Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
  Tim Riley, Cornell University tim.riley@math.cornell.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Filling coarse manifolds in arithmetic groups.
    Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
    Alex Eskin, University of Chicago
    Kevin Wortman*, University of Utah
    (1072-20-235)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Bounds on eigenvalues of the Laplacian for certain hyperbolic $3$--manifolds.
    Nina Juliana White*, University of Michigan
    (1072-51-145)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The automorphisms of McCullough-Miller space.
    Adam Piggott*, Bucknell University
    (1072-20-193)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Kac-Moody Lie Algebras, Vertex Algebras, and Related Topics, II
  Room 231, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Alex Feingold, Binghamton University
  Antun Milas, State University of New York at Albany amilas@albany.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Deformation theory of grading-restricted vertex algebras.
    Yi-Zhi Huang*, Rutgers University
    (1072-17-46)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On explicit realization of logarithmic modules for certain vertex algebras.
    Drazen Adamovic*, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    Antun Milas, University at Albany (SUNY)
    (1072-17-166)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Symplectic Fermions and Logarithmic CFT.
    Ingo Runkel*, University of Hamburg
    (1072-81-178)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Conformal embeddings of affine vertex operator algebras.
    Drazen Adamovic, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    Ozren Perse*, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    (1072-17-141)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On Demazure crystals for $U_q(G_2^{(1)})$.
    Kailash C. Misra*, North Carolina State University
    Rebecca L. Jayne, North Carolina State University
    (1072-17-71)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A free field type representation of elliptic $G_2$.
    Elizabeth Jurisich*, The College of Charleston
    Ben Cox, The College of Charleston
    (1072-17-179)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Aspects of Cryptography and Cyber Security, II
  Room 132, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  Gerhard Rosenberger, Passau University and Hamburg University, Germany
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Reflections on learning with errors.
    Vladimir Shpilrain*, The City College of New York
    (1072-94-104)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tree-based HB Protocols for Privacy-Preserving Authentication of RFID Tags.
    Nitesh Saxena*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
    (1072-68-68)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Algebraic properties of a lightweight block cipher.
    Kenneth R. Matheis, Center for Cryptology and Information Security, Florida Atlantic University, USA
    Rainer Steinwandt*, Center for Cryptology and Information Security, Florida Atlantic University, USA
    Adriana Suárez Corona, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
    (1072-94-203)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Naturality in Public-Key Cryptography.
    Gabriel Zapata*, The City Universtity of New York
    (1072-20-199)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A New Secret Sharing Scheme using Non-abelian Groups.
    Maggie Habeeb*, CUNY Graduate Center
    Delaram Kahrobaei, CUNY Graduate Center
    (1072-68-201)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Multivariable Operator Theory, III
  Rm 203, Phillips Hall
  Organizers:
  Ronald G. Douglas, Texas A&M University
  Rongwei Yang, State University of New York at Albany ryang@albany.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Berezin transform and Weyl-type unitary operators on the Bergman space.
    Lewis A Coburn*, SUNY Buffalo
    (1072-47-52)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Reproducing kernel for a class of weighted Bergman spaces on the symmetrized polydisc.
    Gadadhar Misra*, Indian Institute of Science
    Subrata Shyam Roy, Indian Institute of Science Education Research
    Genkai Zhang, Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University
    (1072-47-34)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Weights and essential normality of polynomial-generated submodule.
    Quanlei Fang, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bronx Community College, CUNY
    Jingbo Xia*, Department of Mathematics, SUNY at Buffalo
    (1072-47-72)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Similarity of powers and inflations.
    Gabriel T Prajitura*, SUNY Brockport
    John B Conway, George Washington University
    Alejandro Rodriguez-Martinez, Zayed University
    (1072-47-120)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Toeplitz corona problem for algebras of multipliers on a Nevanlinna-Pick space.
    Mrinal Raghupathi*, United States Naval Academy
    Ryan Hamilton, University of Waterloo
    (1072-47-122)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Parabolic Evolution Equations of Geometric Type, II
  Room 407, Phillips Hall
  Organizers:
  Xiaodong Cao, Cornell University cao@math.cornell.edu
  Bennett Chow, University of California San Diego
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Blow-ups of Type I Ricci flows.
    Joerg Enders*, Universität Potsdam, Germany
    (1072-53-205)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some problems of unique continuation arising in the study of geometric evolution equations.
    Brett Kotschwar*, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics / Arizona State University
    (1072-53-211)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Short-time existence of the Ricci flow on noncompact Riemannian manifolds.
    Guoyi Xu*, math department, University of California, Irvine, 92697, CA
    (1072-53-70)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Prescribed Ricci curvature on a solid torus.
    Artem Pulemotov*, The University of Chicago
    (1072-53-62)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Lagrangian mean curvature flow for entire graphs.
    Albert Chau*, University of British Columbia
    (1072-53-222)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Stability of symmetric spaces under Ricci flow.
    Richard H Bamler*, Stanford University
    (1072-58-152)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations of Mixed Elliptic-Hyperbolic Type and Applications, II
  Room 403, Phillips Hall
  Organizers:
  Marcus Khuri, Stony Brook University khuri@math.sunysb.edu
  Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spectral Theory for Linear Operators of Mixed Type and Applications to Nonlinear Dirichlet Problems.
    Daniela Lupo, Politecnico di Milano
    Dario D. Monticelli, Universita' di Milano
    Kevin R. Payne*, Universita' di Milano
    (1072-35-75)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Wave propagation in the cold plasma model.
    Thomas H. Otway*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Yeshiva University
    (1072-35-23)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Some mixed type problems in gas dynamics and geometry.
    Dehua Wang*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1072-35-137)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Models and flows of complex (wormlike micellar) fluids.
    Pam Cook*, University of Delaware
    Lin Zhou, N Y City College of Technology, CUNY
    Michael Cromer, C. C. Santa Barbara
    Gareth McKinley, M.I.T.
    (1072-76-123)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Riemann problem for the two-dimensional isentropic gas dynamics equations.
    Katarina Jegdic*, University of Houston - Downtown
    (1072-35-275)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Global Low-Energy Weak Solutions of the Equations of 3D Compressible Magnetohydrodynamics.
    Anthony Suen*, Indiana University Bloomington
    David Hoff, Indiana University Bloomington
    (1072-35-25)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Local and Global Groups, II
  Room 122, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Mahdi Asgari, Oklahoma State University asgari@math.okstate.edu
  Birgit Speh, Cornell University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A generalization of a result of Kohnen.
    Cesar Valverde*, Rutgers University, Newark.
    (1072-11-146)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Unramified functions on a p-adic spherical variety.
    Yiannis Sakellaridis*, Rutgers University - Newark
    (1072-22-139)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The local Langlands correspondence; from real to p-adic groups.
    Moshe Adrian*, University of Utah
    (1072-22-06)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Cohen-Macaulay property in representation theory.
    Avraham Aizenbud*, MIT
    (1072-22-95)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Automorphic Forms on Certain Symplectic Pairs.
    Lei Zhang*, Boston College
    (1072-11-101)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Relatively supercuspidal representations.
    Fiona Murnaghan*, University of Toronto
    (1072-22-53)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory, II
  Room 207, Malott Hall
  Organizers:
  Paul Larson, Miami University, Ohio
  Justin Moore, Cornell University justin@math.cornell.edu
  Ernest Schimmerling, Carnegie Mellon University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lindelof property in forcing extensions.
    Alan Dow*, UNC Charlotte
    Michael Blackmon, UNC Charlotte
    (1072-03-172)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The topology of ultrafilters as subsets of $2^\omega$.
    Andrea Medini*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    David Milovich, Texas A&M International University
    (1072-54-130)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Analytic k-gaps.
    Stevo Todorcevic*, University of Toronto and CNRS, Paris
    (1072-03-267)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Break
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Cardinal invariant properties of countable Borel equivalence relations.
    Scott Schneider*, University of Michigan
    Samuel Coskey, The Fields Institute & York University
    (1072-03-212)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Graev metrics on free products with amalgamation and HNN extensions.
    Kostyantyn Slutskyy*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1072-03-74)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Species and Hopf Algebraic Combinatorics, II
  Room 115, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A&M University maguiar@math.tamu.edu
  Samuel Hsiao, Bard College
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lagrange's Theorem for Hopf Monoids in Species.
    Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A&M University
    Aaron Lauve*, Loyola University Chicago
    (1072-05-174)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Rigidity theorem for connected, cocommutative Hopf monoids.
    Forest Fisher*, Northern Virginia Community College
    (1072-05-218)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A supercharacter theoretic Hopf Monoid of set partitions.
    Marcelo Aguiar, University of Texas A&M
    Nantel Bergeron, York University
    Nathaniel Thiem*, University of Colorado Boulder
    (1072-20-132)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Why a supercharacter theoretic Hopf Monoid of set partitions?
    Nantel Bergeron*, York University
    Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A&M
    Nathaiel Thiem, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1072-08-170)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Hopf Monoids in Graphical Species.
    Jacob Anthony White*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    (1072-05-82)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Topology, II
  Room 104, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Tara Holm, Cornell University
  Katrin Wehrheim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology katrin@math.mit.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    GKM-Sheaves and Equivariant Cohomology.
    Thomas J. Baird*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    (1072-22-113)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the integer cohomology of Hamiltonian GKM manifolds.
    Susan Tolman*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1072-53-262)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Symplectic harmonic Thom forms.
    Yi Lin*, Georgia Southern University
    (1072-53-119)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Lower bounds for Gromov width of coadjoint orbits in U(n).
    Milena D Pabiniak*, Cornell University
    (1072-51-111)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Symplectic Geometry on b-manifolds.
    Victor Guillemin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Eva Miranda, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
    Ana Rita Pires*, Cornell University
    (1072-53-147)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:15 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Contributed Paper Session, II
  Room 203, Malott Hall
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    Random walks on barycentric subdivisions and the Strichartz hexacarpet.
    Daniel J Kelleher*, University of Connecticut
    Matthew Begue, University of Maryland
    Aaron Nelson, University of Connecticut
    Hugo Panzo, University of Connectcut
    Ryan Pellico, University of Connecticut
    Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut
    (1072-28-240)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Statistical mechanics of Bose gas in Sierpinski carpets.
    Joe P. Chen*, Cornell University
    (1072-82-28)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Continued fractions and the Sierpinski gasket.
    Sam Northshield*, SUNY-Plattsburgh
    (1072-51-22)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Effects of pressure stress work and viscous dissipation in mixed convection flow along a vertical flat plate in presence of heat generation.
    Md. Khairul Bashar Md. Bashar, Sonali Bank, Cox'ss Bazar, bangladesh
    Rasel Biswas Rasel*, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
    (1072-76-20)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Annular axisymmetric stagnation flow on a moving cylinder.
    Antonio Mastroberardino*, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
    (1072-76-126)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 4:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric and Algebraic Topology, II
  Room 110, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Boris Goldfarb, University at Albany, SUNY goldfarb@albany.edu
  Marco Varisco, University at Albany, SUNY
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    On classifying free $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}$ actions on $S^n\times S^m$.
    Courtney Morris Thatcher*, Bard College at Simon's Rock
    (1072-55-229)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Semicoverings: A generalization of covering space theory.
    Jeremy T Brazas*, University of New Hampshire
    (1072-55-194)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    ${\mathbb Z}G$-modules over $CAT(0)$ spaces.
    Ross Geoghegan*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
    (1072-57-115)
• Saturday September 10, 2011, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
  Cornell Mathematics Department Reception
  Big Red Barn, Big Red Barn

Sunday September 11, 2011

• Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sale
  Lounge, 5th Floor, Malott Hall
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lounge, 5th Floor, Malott Hall
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis, Probability, and Mathematical Physics on Fractals, III
  Room 406, Malott Hall
  Organizers:
  Luke Rogers, University of Connecticut
  Robert Strichartz, Cornell University
  Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut teplyaev@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Hyperbolic duality and analysis on fractals.
    Volodymyr Nekrashevych*, Texas A&M University, College Station
    (1072-37-250)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hyperbolicity of graphs associated with fractal sets.
    Vadim Kaimanovich*, University of Ottawa
    (1072-28-247)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Differential-like structures associated with strong local Dirichlet forms.
    Masanori Hino*, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
    (1072-28-159)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Weyl's Laplacian eigenvalue asymptotics for the measurable Riemannian structure on the Sierpinski gasket.
    Naotaka Kajino*, Department of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld
    (1072-58-234)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Random walk and induced Dirichlet form on self-similar sets.
    Ka-Sing Lau*, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
    Ting-Kam Wong, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
    (1072-60-161)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Martin boundary and exit space on the Sierpinski gasket and other fractals.
    Ka-Sing Lau, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Sze-Man Ngai*, Georgia Southern University
    (1072-31-163)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Gauge Theory and Low-dimensional Topology, III
  Room 105, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Weimin Chen, University of Massachusetts-Amherst wchen@math.umass.edu
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Splicing Knot Complements and Bordered Heegaard Floer Homology.
    Matthew Hedden, Michigan State University
    Adam Simon Levine*, Brandeis University
    (1072-57-200)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On symmetries and invariant Einstein metrics on 4-manifolds.
    Ioana Suvaina*, Vanderbilt University
    (1072-53-54)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gauge theory and smooth group actions on 4-manifolds.
    Ian Hambleton*, McMaster University
    (1072-57-94)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Fukaya category of the punctured torus.
    Timothy Perutz*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1072-57-14)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Knot Floer homology and Soergel bimodules.
    Allison L Gilmore*, Princeton University
    (1072-57-251)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Generalized surgeries on 4-manifolds and surface concordance.
    Nathan S Sunukjian*, SUNY- Stony Brook
    (1072-57-186)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Arithmetic Groups, III
  Room 230, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
  Ken Brown, Cornell University
  Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
  Tim Riley, Cornell University tim.riley@math.cornell.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Dehn function of $\text{SL}(n;\mathbb{Z})$.
    Robert J Young*, University of Toronto
    (1072-20-157)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Isomorphism vs. commensurability for certain classes of groups.
    G. Arzhantseva, University of Vienna (Austria)
    J.-F. Lafont*, Ohio State University (USA)
    (1072-20-66)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Divergence in right-angled Coxeter groups.
    Pallavi Dani*, Louisiana State University
    Anne Thomas, University of Sydney
    (1072-20-100)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On restricting free factors in relatively free groups.
    Lucas Sabalka*, Binghamton University
    Dmytro Savchuk, Binghamton University
    (1072-20-153)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Local homotopy properties of asymptotic cones of groups.
    Curtis Kent*, Vanderbilt University
    (1072-20-167)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Parabolic Evolution Equations of Geometric Type, III
  Room 407, Phillips Hall
  Organizers:
  Xiaodong Cao, Cornell University cao@math.cornell.edu
  Bennett Chow, University of California San Diego
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Convergence of fundamental solutions of linear parabolic equations under Cheeger-Gromov convergence.
    Peng Lu*, University of Oregon
    (1072-53-67)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Conformal geometry and quasi-Einstein metrics.
    Jeffrey S Case*, Princeton University
    (1072-53-248)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A mean curvature type of flow and isoperimetric inequality.
    Pengfei Guan, McGill University
    Junfang Li*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1072-35-244)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ancient solutions in geometric flows.
    Natasa Sesum*, Rutgers University
    Panagiota Daskalopolous, Columbia University
    Manuel Delpino, Universidad de Chile
    (1072-35-219)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Topology, III
  Room 104, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Tara Holm, Cornell University
  Katrin Wehrheim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology katrin@math.mit.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Fibrancy of Symplectic Homology in Cotangent Bundles.
    Thomas Kragh*, MIT
    (1072-54-99)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Yang-Mills-type heat equation on gauged holomorpic maps.
    Sushmita Venugopalan*, Rutgers University
    Chris Woodward, Rutgers University
    (1072-58-110)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Semi-Infinite Cycles in Floer Theory.
    Max Lipyanskiy*, Columbia University
    (1072-51-96)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    $C^0$-limits of Hamiltonian flows and the Oh-Schwarz spectral invariants.
    Sobhan Seyfaddini*, UC Berkeley
    (1072-51-98)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Virtual fundamental cycle and reparametrizations.
    Katrin Wehrheim*, MIT
    (1072-58-90)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Aspects of Analysis and Measure Theory, III
  Room 213, Phillips Hall
  Organizers:
  Leonid Kovalev, Syracuse University lvkovale@syr.edu
  Jani Onninen, Syracuse University
  Raanan Schul, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Matching and density properties of infinitesimal isometries on 2d surfaces.
    Marta Lewicka, Rutgers University
    Reza Pakzad*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1072-53-192)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quantitative Implicit Function and Extension Theorems for Lipschitz Maps.
    Jonas Aziz Azzam*, University of Washington-Seattle
    Raanan Schul, SUNY-Stony Brook
    (1072-51-47)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Carnot-Caratheodory distance and the p-Laplace equation.
    Thomas Bieske*, University of South Florida
    (1072-35-109)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Boundary regularity of stationary biharmonic maps.
    Huanjun Gong, Fudan University
    Tobias Lamm, Goethe Universitat Frankfurt
    Changyou Wang*, University of Kentucky
    (1072-35-18)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric and Algebraic Topology, III
  Room 110, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Boris Goldfarb, University at Albany, SUNY goldfarb@albany.edu
  Marco Varisco, University at Albany, SUNY
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    $P$-adic and Universal Hyperbolic Solenoids.
    James Belk, Bard College
    Bradley Forrest*, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
    (1072-55-226)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Characteristic classes for singular spaces.
    Steven C Ferry*, Rutgers University
    (1072-57-263)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Algebras Counting Minimal Intersection and Self-Intersection Numbers of Loops on a Surface.
    Patricia Cahn*, Dartmouth College
    Vladimir Chernov, Dartmouth College
    (1072-57-188)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Higher-order intersections in low-dimensional topology.
    Rob Schneiderman*, Lehman College CUNY
    Jim Conant, UT Knoxville
    Peter Teichner, UC Berkeley and Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics Bonn Germany
    (1072-57-63)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Kac-Moody Lie Algebras, Vertex Algebras, and Related Topics, III
  Room 231, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Alex Feingold, Binghamton University
  Antun Milas, State University of New York at Albany amilas@albany.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Conformal blocks on nodal curves.
    Scott Carnahan*, IPMU, University of Tokyo
    (1072-17-125)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Supersymmetric vertex operator superalgebras and twisted constructions arising in superconformal field theory.
    Katrina D. Barron*, University of Notre Dame
    (1072-17-208)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A lightcone construction of the Tits buildings of a rank 2 hyperbolic Kac-Moody group.
    Lisa Carbone*, Rutgers University
    Alex Feingold, Binghamton University
    Walter Freyn, University of Muenster
    (1072-20-87)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    $N$-point Virasoro algebras and their modules of densities.
    Ben Cox*, The College of Charleston
    Xiangqian Guo, Zhengzhou University
    Rencai Lu, Suzhou University
    Kaiming Zhao, Wilfrid Laurier University
    (1072-17-182)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Conformal field theory and a new geometry.
    Liang Kong*, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing
    (1072-17-13)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Multivariable Operator Theory, III
  Rm 203, Phillips Hall
  Organizers:
  Ronald G. Douglas, Texas A&M University
  Rongwei Yang, State University of New York at Albany ryang@albany.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Test functions, kernel functions, interpolation and transfer-function realization for multiplier algebras: the matrix-valued setting.
    Joseph A Ball*, Virginia Tech
    Moises D Gurerra-Huaman, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
    (1072-47-15)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cyclic Vectors in Spaces of Analytic Functions on the Ball.
    Carl Sundberg*, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
    (1072-47-261)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Remarks about cyclic vectors in the Drury Arveson space.
    Stefan Richter*, University of Tennessee
    Carl Sundberg, University of Tennessee
    (1072-47-258)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Abstract Fibre Dimension.
    Xiang Fang*, Kansas State University
    (1072-47-59)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Schur-Agler class rational inner functions on the tridisk.
    Greg Knese*, University of Alabama
    (1072-47-180)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations of Mixed Elliptic-Hyperbolic Type and Applications, III
  Room 403, Phillips Hall
  Organizers:
  Marcus Khuri, Stony Brook University khuri@math.sunysb.edu
  Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Questions in centro-affine geometry.
    Deane Yang*, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
    (1072-35-204)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Hodge-Frobenius equations.
    Antonella Marini*, Yeshiva University
    Thomas H. Otway, Yeshiva University
    (1072-35-31)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Non-existence of strong regular reflections in self-similar potential flow.
    Volker W Elling*, University of Michigan
    (1072-76-79)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Existence of weak solutions to a model for sparse, one-dimensional, non-barotropic fluids.
    Matthias L Youngs*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    David Hoff, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1072-35-27)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Boundary Value Problems for Mixed Type Equations and Applications.
    Marcus A. Khuri*, Stony Brook University
    (1072-35-105)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Local and Global Groups, III
  Room 122, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Mahdi Asgari, Oklahoma State University asgari@math.okstate.edu
  Birgit Speh, Cornell University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Unifying Bruhat Order for BGB, PGB, KGB, and KGP.
    Wai Ling Yee*, University of Windsor
    (1072-22-158)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Birational Induction of Nilpotent Orbits.
    Jeffrey Adams*, University of Maryland
    (1072-22-135)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Representation Theory research.
    Peter Speh*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1072-22-169)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Character identities in twisted endoscopy.
    Paul Mezo*, Carleton University
    (1072-22-43)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Branching Rules for Supercuspidal Representations of reductive p-adic groups.
    Monica Nevins*, University of Ottawa
    (1072-22-138)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory, III
  Room 207, Malott Hall
  Organizers:
  Paul Larson, Miami University, Ohio
  Justin Moore, Cornell University justin@math.cornell.edu
  Ernest Schimmerling, Carnegie Mellon University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Isometry groups and maximal symmetry.
    Valentin Ferenczi, Universidade de Sao Paulo
    Christian Rosendal*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1072-03-156)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Centralizers of Rank-1 Homeomorphisms of Zero-dimensional Polish Spaces.
    Aaron T Hill*, University of North Texas
    (1072-03-168)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Canonizing relations on $E_0$-nonsmooth sets.
    Clinton T. Conley*, Cornell University
    (1072-03-114)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The descriptive set theory of unitary group representations.
    Simon Thomas*, Rutgers University
    (1072-03-57)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Structures on Manifolds with Special Holonomy, and Applications in Physics, II
  Room 112, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Tamar Friedmann, University of Rochester
  Colleen Robles, Texas A&M University
  Sema Salur, University of Rochester salur@math.rochester.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Equivalence of geometric structures in control theory via moving frames.
    Jeanne Clelland*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1072-53-144)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Associative submanifolds of a $G_2$ manifold.
    Selman Akbulut*, Michigan State University
    (1072-51-187)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Austere Hypersurfaces in Complex Projective Space.
    Thomas A Ivey*, College of Charleston
    (1072-53-213)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On taut, tight foliations and calibrations.
    Shuguang Wang*, University of Missouri
    (1072-51-184)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Aspects of Cryptography and Cyber Security, III
  Room 132, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  Gerhard Rosenberger, Passau University and Hamburg University, Germany
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Secure Computation.
    S. Dov Gordon*, Columbia University
    (1072-00-266)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Password-Protected Secret Sharing.
    Ali Bagherzandi, UC Irvine
    Stanislaw Jarecki*, UC Irvine
    Nitesh Saxena, NYU Polytechnic
    Yanbin Lu, UC Irvine
    (1072-68-232)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Super Summit Sets for the Multiple Conjugacy Problem in braid groups.
    David Garber*, Faculty of Sciences, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
    Arkadius Kalka, Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
    Boaz Tsaban, Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
    Gary Vinokur, Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
    (1072-20-103)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Species and Hopf Algebraic Combinatorics, III
  Room 115, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A&M University maguiar@math.tamu.edu
  Samuel Hsiao, Bard College
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A quasisymmetric function for generalized permutahedra.
    Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A&M University
    Louis Billera, Cornell University
    Caroline Klivans*, University of Chicago & Brown University
    (1072-05-140)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Schur-Weyl Duality for Complex Reflection Groups.
    Tom Halverson*, Macalester College
    (1072-05-268)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Composing species and composing coalgebras.
    Stefan Forcey*, University of Akron
    Aaron Lauve, Loyola University of Chicago
    Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
    (1072-05-227)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 9:15 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Contributed Paper Session, I
  Room 203, Malott Hall
  

  • 9:15 a.m.
    Injective Envelopes of Fréchet Spaces.
    Alexander A Katz*, St. John's University, NY, USA
    (1072-46-231)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    GNS type representations and extensions of saturated separating families of regular seminorms from real locally C*-algebras to their enveloping locally C*-algebras.
    Alexander A Katz, St. John's University, NY, USA
    Oleg Friedman*, Touro College, NY, USA/University of South Africa, Pretoria, RSA
    (1072-46-255)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Existence and uniqueness of the universal enveloping locally W*-algebra for a locally JBW-algebra.
    Alexander A. Katz, St. John's University, NY, USA
    Oleg Friedman, Touro Callege, NY, USA/University of South Africa, Pretoria, RSA
    Roman Kushnir, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
    Mark Ustayev*, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
    (1072-46-265)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On a Reformulation of the Riemann hypothesis within the Theory of Complex Dimensions in Fractal Geometry.
    Hafedh Herichi*, University of California, Riverside
    Michel. L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    (1072-46-241)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Compact Quantum Groups Arising from Quivers.
    Sorin Dascalescu, University of Bucharest, Romania
    Miodrag C Iovanov*, University of Southern California; and, University of Bucharest, Romania
    Constantin Nastasescu, Simon Stoilow Institute of the Romanian Academy
    (1072-20-26)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    (n+3)-Coloring the n-Sphere.
    Joel Clarke Gibbons*, Logistic Research & Trading Co.
    (1072-05-05)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Invited Address
  C*-algebras and group representations.
  Bache Auditorium, Malott Hall
  Nigel Higson*, Pennsylvania State University
  (1072-22-02)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis, Probability, and Mathematical Physics on Fractals, IV
  Room 406, Malott Hall
  Organizers:
  Luke Rogers, University of Connecticut
  Robert Strichartz, Cornell University
  Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut teplyaev@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spectra of Fractal Strings and Riemann Zeros.
    Hafedh Herichi, University of California, Riverside
    Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California, Riverside
    (1072-11-143)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fractal measures originating from number theory.
    Peter J Grabner*, Graz University of Technology
    (1072-11-175)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Higher-dimensional complex dynamics and spectral zeta functions of fractal Sturm-Liouville operators.
    Nishu Lal*, University of California, Riverside
    Michel Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    (1072-28-243)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Szego limit theorems on the Sierpinski gasket.
    Kasso Okoudjou*, Department of Mathematics/University of Maryland
    Luke Rogers, Department of Mathematics/University of Connecticut
    Robert Strichartz, Department of Mathematics/Cornell University
    (1072-35-45)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Pseudo-differential operators on fractals.
    Marius V Ionescu*, Colgate University
    Luke G Rogers, University of Connecticut
    Robert S Strichartz, Cornel University
    (1072-46-29)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Brownian motion on non-self-similar Sierpinski carpets.
    Benjamin Steinhurst*, Cornell University
    (1072-60-102)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Structures on Manifolds with Special Holonomy, and Applications in Physics, III
  Room 112, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Tamar Friedmann, University of Rochester
  Colleen Robles, Texas A&M University
  Sema Salur, University of Rochester salur@math.rochester.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Calibrations and Manifolds with Special Holonomy.
    Sema Salur*, University of Rochester
    (1072-53-259)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Existence of compatible contact structures on $G_2-$manifolds.
    F. Arikan, University of Rochester, USA
    H. Cho*, University of Rochester, USA
    S. Salur, University of Rochester, USA
    (1072-53-230)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Moduli Spaces of Asymptotically Cylindrical Special Lagrangian Submanifolds.
    Albert J Todd*, University of California - Riverside
    (1072-53-214)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric and Algebraic Topology, IV
  Room 110, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Boris Goldfarb, University at Albany, SUNY goldfarb@albany.edu
  Marco Varisco, University at Albany, SUNY
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The strong Atiyah Conjecture for RA Artin and Coxeter groups.
    Peter Linnell, Virginia Tech
    Boris Okun*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Thomas Schick, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen
    (1072-57-106)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Models for Taylor Polynomials of Functors.
    Brenda Johnson*, Union College
    (1072-55-238)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Deconstructing Waldhausen's $S_\bullet$ construction.
    Mark W. Johnson*, Penn State Altoona
    (1072-18-176)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Kac-Moody Lie Algebras, Vertex Algebras, and Related Topics, IV
  Room 231, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Alex Feingold, Binghamton University
  Antun Milas, State University of New York at Albany amilas@albany.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Vector-valued modular forms and the Riemann-Hilbert problem.
    Terry Gannon*, Dept of Math, U of Alberta
    (1072-11-274)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Homotopy Relations for Topological VOA.
    Anton Zeitlin*, Department of Mathematics, Yale University
    (1072-81-151)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Vertex operator algebra $1$-point functions and Jacobi forms.
    Matthew T Krauel*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (1072-81-237)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Decomposition of level-1 representations of $D_4^{(1)}$ with respect to its subalgebra $G_2^{(1)}$ in the spinor construction.
    Quincy Loney*, SUNY Cortland
    Alex J Feingold, Binghamton University
    (1072-17-228)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Vertex Operator Algebras Associated to Type G Affine Lie Algebras.
    Jonathan Axtell*, University of Connecticut
    Kyu-Hwan Lee, University of Connecticut
    (1072-17-236)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Multivariable Operator Theory, IV
  Room 132, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Ronald G. Douglas, Texas A&M University
  Rongwei Yang, State University of New York at Albany ryang@albany.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Results in Complex Analysis and Operator Theory.
    Brett D. Wick*, Georgia Insitute of Technology
    (1072-30-273)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A new joint spectrum and cyclic cohomology.
    Patrick Cade, SUNY at Albany
    Rongwei Yang*, SUNY at Albany
    (1072-47-85)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Parabolic Evolution Equations of Geometric Type, IV
  Room 105, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Xiaodong Cao, Cornell University cao@math.cornell.edu
  Bennett Chow, University of California San Diego
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Martingales on manifold with time dependent metrics.
    Hongxin Guo*, Mathematics Research Unit, the University of Luxembourg
    (1072-53-93)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Warped Product Einstein metrics and Ricci solitons.
    William Wylie*, Syracuse University
    (1072-53-256)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Eigenvalues under the Ricci flow coupled with the harmonic map flow.
    Yi Li*, Harvard University
    (1072-53-07)
• Sunday September 11, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Topology, IV
  Room 104, Rockefeller Hall
  Organizers:
  Tara Holm, Cornell University
  Katrin Wehrheim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology katrin@math.mit.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Morse theory and symplectic origami.
    Tara S Holm*, Cornell University
    Ana Rita Pires, Cornell University
    (1072-53-134)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion

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