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2012 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
George Washington University, Washington, DC
March 17-18, 2012 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1080

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

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Please note room assignments are subject to change right up until the meeting occurs. The program published here is continually updated and may be more current than the printed program. The following material has been posted without being proofread in order to provide you with the most current information.

Special Session on Computable Mathematics (in honor of Alan Turing)

• Saturday March 17, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Computable Mathematics (in honor of Alan Turing), I
  Room 220, Funger Hall
  Organizers:
  Douglas Cenzer, University of Florida
  Valentina Harizanov, George Washington University harizanv@gwu.edu
  Russell Miller, Queens College and Graduate Center - CUNY
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    First-order and Diophantine Undecidability over function fields of positive characteristic.
    Alexandra Shlapentokh*, East Carolina University
    (1080-11-131)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Classifying $\mathcal{D}$-maximal sets.
    Peter Cholak, University of Notre Dame
    Peter Gerdes, Cambridge, MA
    Karen Lange*, Wellesley College
    (1080-03-301)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Weakening computability to classify $\Pi^0_1$ subshifts.
    Sebastian Wyman*, University of Florida
    Douglas Cenzer, University of Florida
    (1080-68-158)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Computably enumerable partial orders.
    Peter Cholak*, Notre Dame
    Damir Dzhafarov, Notre Dame
    Noah Schweber, UC--Berkeley
    Richard Shore, Cornell
    (1080-03-173)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extensions of the Turing model for relative definability.
    Mariya I. Soskova*, Sofia University
    (1080-03-278)
• Saturday March 17, 2012, 1:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Computable Mathematics (in honor of Alan Turing),II
  Room 220, Funger Hall
  Organizers:
  Douglas Cenzer, University of Florida
  Valentina Harizanov, George Washington University harizanv@gwu.edu
  Russell Miller, Queens College and Graduate Center - CUNY
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Theories of classes of structures.
    Antonio Montalban*, University of Chicago
    Asher Kach, University of Chicago
    (1080-03-328)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Spectra of orderings of groups.
    Jennifer Chubb Reimann*, University of San Francisco
    (1080-03-346)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Turing Computable Embeddings, $P$-groups, and $\Sigma^c_\alpha$ Sentences.
    S. M. VanDenDriessche*, University of Notre Dame
    (1080-03-326)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Universal computably enumerable equivalence relations.
    Uri Andrews, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Steffen Lempp*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Joseph S Miller, University of Wisconsin
    Keng Meng Ng, Nanyang Technological University
    Luca San Mauro, Scuola Normale Superiore
    Andrea Sorbi, University of Siena
    (1080-03-324)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Low for Computational Speed.
    Robertson Bayer*, UC Berkeley
    (1080-03-334)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Degree-invariant functions and uniform Borel reductions.
    Jan S Reimann*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1080-03-314)
• Sunday March 18, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computable Mathematics (in honor of Alan Turing), III
  Room 220, Funger Hall
  Organizers:
  Douglas Cenzer, University of Florida
  Valentina Harizanov, George Washington University harizanv@gwu.edu
  Russell Miller, Queens College and Graduate Center - CUNY
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Degeneration and orbits of tuples and subgroups.
    Wesley Calvert*, Southern Illinois University
    Kunal Dutta, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
    Amritanshu Prasad, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
    (1080-03-330)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Automorphisms of substructures of the lattice of subspaces of $V_{\infty }$ and derivatives.
    Rumen D Dimitrov*, Macomb
    (1080-03-313)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lowness for difference tests.
    David Diamondstone, Victoria University of Wellington
    Johanna N. Y. Franklin*, University of Connecticut
    (1080-03-284)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Compressibility of Countable Subshifts.
    Ferit Toska*, University of Florida
    Douglas Cenzer, University of Florida
    (1080-03-248)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Medvedev degrees as semantics for propositional logic.
    Paul Shafer*, Appalachian State University
    (1080-03-177)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Categoricity and relative categoricity of structures of familiar kinds.
    Jesse Johnson, University of Notre Dame
    Julia Knight*, University of Notre Dame
    Victor Ocasio, University of Notre Dame
    Jamalbek Tussupov, Gumilev Eusasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan
    Steven VanDenDriessche, University of Notre Dame
    (1080-03-308)
• Sunday March 18, 2012, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Computable Mathematics (in honor of Alan Turing), IV
  Room 220, Funger Hall
  Organizers:
  Douglas Cenzer, University of Florida
  Valentina Harizanov, George Washington University harizanv@gwu.edu
  Russell Miller, Queens College and Graduate Center - CUNY
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Computing maximal chains in wpos.
    Alberto Marcone, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Udine
    Antonio Montalbán, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago
    Richard A Shore*, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
    (1080-03-164)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Degrees that are not degrees of categoricity.
    Bernard Anderson, Gordon College
    Barbara F Csima*, University of Waterloo
    (1080-03-297)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Shift Complex Reals.
    Denis R. Hirschfeldt, University of Chicago
    Asher M. Kach*, University of Chicago
    (1080-03-322)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Partial Degree Spectra.
    Alexandra A. Soskova*, Sofia University
    (1080-03-291)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Jump degrees of torsion free abelian groups.
    Brooke M Andersen, Assumption College
    Asher M Kach, University of Chicago
    Alexander G Melnikov, University of Auckland
    Reed Solomon*, University of Connecticut
    (1080-03-218)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Turing degrees of isomorphic types of non-associative structures.
    Kai Maeda*, George Washington University
    (1080-03-318)

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