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Joint AMS-SMM International Meeting
Houston, TX, May 13-15, 2004
Meeting #998

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday May 14, 2004

Friday May 14, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration

Friday May 14, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale

Friday May 14, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Space and Time Decomposition Methods in Computational and Applied Mathematics, II
Organizers:
Roland Glowinski, University of Houston roland@math.uh.edu
Tsorng-Whay Pan, University of Houston pan@math.uh.edu
L. H\'ector Juarez V., UAM-Iztapalapa hect@xanum.uam.mx
- 8:30 a.m.
  A General and Systematic Discontinuous Galerkin Method.
  Ismael Herrera*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, (UNAM) Instituto de Geof�sica
  (998-35-81)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Numerical Method For A Fully Nonlinear Elasticity Equation.
  Edward J. Dean*, University of Houston
  Roland Glowinski, University of Houston
  (998-65-312)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Finite Element Method and Operator Splitting for a Viscous Incompressible Free Surface Flow.
  Roland Glowinski, University of Houston
  Hector Juarez*, UAM-I, Mexico
  (998-76-61)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Computational Methods for Multi-phase Multi-reaction Equilibrium Problem - Modeling Urban and Regional Aerosols.
  Jiwen He*, University of Houston
  (998-49-228)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Comparison of Some Operator Splitting Schemes.
  Francisco Javier Sanchez*, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa
  Javier Salcedo, Instituto Politecnico Nacional
  (998-65-287)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Singular Shocks.
  Richard Sanders*, University of Houston
  (998-65-166)

Friday May 14, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Coding Theory and Cryptography, III
Organizers:
Horacio Tapia-Recillas, UAM-Iztapalapa htr@xanum.uam.mx
Neal I. Koblitz, University of Washington koblitz@math.washington.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Minimum distance bounds for divisible codes.
  Iwan Duursma*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (998-94-64)
- 9:00 a.m.
  How to find smooth parts of integers.
  Daniel J. Bernstein*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (998-11-98)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Construction of Linear Codes via Grobner bases.
  Shuhong Gao*, Clemson University
  (998-94-43)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Correlation Among Signal Sets.
  Guang Gong*, University of Waterloo
  (998-94-51)
- 11:00 a.m.
  An Essay on Equivalence of Linear Codes, III.
  Jay A Wood*, Western Michigan University
  (998-94-277)

Friday May 14, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory and Combinatorics, III
Organizers:
Gelacio Salazar, IICO, UASLP gsalazar@cactus.iico.uaslp.mx
Isidoro Gitler, CINVESTAV igitler@math.cinvestav.mx
Nathaniel Dean, Texas Southern University dean_nx@tsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Recent Progress on Turan's Brickyard Problem: Improved Lower Bounds for the Crossing Numbers of $K_{m,n}$ and $K_{n}$.
  Etienne De Klerk, University of Waterloo
  John Maharry, The Ohio State University
  Dmitrii Pasechnik, J.W. Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt
  Bruce Richter, University of Waterloo
  Gelasio Salazar*, IICO-UASLP, Mexico
  (998-05-386)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Applications of the Conjecture-Making Program Graffiti.pc.
  Ermelinda DeLaVina*, University of Houston-Downtown
  (998-05-406)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On Pseudo-Transitive Graphs.
  Farhad Shahrokhi*, UNT
  (998-05-403)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A geometric construction of large vertex transitive graphs of diameter 2.
  Gabriela Araujo*, Instituto de Matem�ticas, UNAM
  Marc Noy, Universidad Polit�ctica de Catalu�a, Espa�a.
  Oriol Serra, Universidad Polit�cnica de Catalu�a, Espa�a
  (998-05-83)
- 10:30 a.m.
  New facets for the Planar Subgraph Polytope.
  Illya V. Hicks*, Texas A&M University
  (998-90-271)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Triangulations and a Generalization of Bose's Method.
  Gloria Aguilar-Cruz*, Department of Mathematics. CINVESTAV
  Feliu D. Sagols, Department of Mathematics. CINVESTAV
  (998-05-85)

Friday May 14, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, II
Organizers:
Raul Quiroga Barranco, CINVESTAV quiroga@math.cinvestav.mx
Alberto Candel, California State University, Northridge alberto.candel@csun.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Singular metrics from holomorphic maps.
  Jesus Muci\~no-Raymundo*, IMATE-Morelia, UNAM
  (998-53-255)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dynamics on the space of harmonic functions and the foliated Liouville problem.
  Renato Feres*, Washington University in St. Louis
  A Zeghib, ENS Lyon
  (998-53-263)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Two results about the moduli space of smooth Levi-flat, integrable, CR-structures on the 5-sphere.
  Laurent Meersseman, I.R.M.A.R. Universit\'e de Rennes I
  Alberto Verjosvky*, IMATE-Cuernavaca, UNAM
  (998-53-254)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Harmonic morphisms between Riemannian manifolds.
  John C. Wood*, University of Leeds, England
  (998-53-124)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Orthogonal actions in complex projective spaces and an equivariant Arnold-Kuiper-Massey Theorem.
  Dung Trang Le, Centre de Math�matiques et d'Informatique
  Jose Seade*, IMATE-Cuer, UNAM
  Alberto Verjovsky, IMATE-Cuer, UNAM
  (998-53-154)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Geometric interpretation of the $\mathbb{Q}$-rank of a locally symmetric space.
  Pralay Chatterji, Rice University
  Dave Witte Morris*, University of Lethbridge
  (998-53-132)

Friday May 14, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Homological Algebra of Commutative Rings, II
Organizers:
Srikanth Iyengar, University of Nebraska iyengar@math.unl.edu
Graham J. Leuschke, University of Toronto gleuschk@math.toronto.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Maximal Cohen-Macaulay Modules over the Generic Determinant.
  Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz*, Univ. of Toronto
  Graham Leuschke, Univ. of Toronto
  (998-13-331)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Multiplicity Bounds for Ideals linked to a Complete Intersection.
  Hema Srinivasan*, University of Missouri
  (998-13-363)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A functorial approach to modules of G-dimension zero.
  Yuji Yoshino*, Okayama University
  (998-13-211)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Koszul duality, stabilization, and derived categories.
  Roberto Martinez Villa, UNAM, Morelia
  Alex Martsinkovsky*, Northeastern University
  (998-18-181)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Extremal algebras.
  Luchezar L. Avramov, University of Nebraska
  Srikanth Iyengar, University of Missouri
  Claudia Miller*, Syracuse University
  (998-13-257)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Constructing modules of finite projective dimension.
  Greg Piepmeyer, University of Utah
  Paul C. Roberts*, University of Utah
  (998-13-171)

Friday May 14, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Harmonic and Functional Analysis, II
Organizers:
Salvador P\'erez-Esteva, UNAM-Cuernavaca salvador@matcuer.unam.mx
Carlos Bosch, ITAM bosch@itam.mx
Josefina Alvarez, New Mexico State University jalvarez@nmsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  An attempt to generalize some metric fixed point theorems to topological vector spaces.
  Helga Fetter*, Centro de Investigaci�n en Matem�ticas
  (998-46-125)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Asymptotic Uniform Convexity and Smoothness on Banach Spaces.
  Cesar L Garcia*, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
  (998-46-141)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Elliptic boundary value problems in two dimensions.
  Irina Mitrea*, Cornell University
  (998-45-167)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Herz classes and Toeplitz operators in the disk.
  Maribel Loaiza*, UNAM
  Marcos Lopez-Garcia, UNAM
  Salvador Perez-Esteva, Unidad Cuernavaca, UNAM
  (998-46-319)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the spaces $Q_\alpha(R^n)$ and their dyadic versions.
  Galia D Dafni*, Concordia University
  Jie Xiao, Memorial University
  (998-42-317)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Orlicz Bounds for Operators of Restricted Weak Type.
  Paul Alton Hagelstein*, Baylor University
  (998-42-316)

Friday May 14, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Associative Rings, II
Organizers:
Jos\'e R\'ios Montes, UNAM jrios@matem.unam.mx
M\'aria-Jos\'e Arroyo, UAM-Iztapalapa mja@xanum.uam.mx
Sergio R. L\'opez-Permouth, Ohio University slopez@math.ohiou.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Prime and Irreducible Preradicals.
  Carlos Signoret*, Universidad Aut�noma Metropolitana Iztapalapa
  (998-16-120)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Multiplicative Structure of Arbitrary Galois Extensions.
  Baoping Jia*, Maryville University of Saint Louis
  (998-16-118)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Coprime Preradicals and Modules.
  Francisco F Raggi*, Instituto de Matem�ticas, UNAM
  (998-16-180)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Divisibility and Factorization of Kernel Functors.
  Ana M. de Viola-Prioli, Universidad Simon Bolivar
  Jorge E. Viola-Prioli*, Florida Atlantic University
  (998-16-65)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Lattice of Preradicals over $\mathbb{Z}_{p^n}$.
  Rogelio Fern\'andez-Alonso*, Universidad Aut\'onoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa
  Silvia Gavito, Universidad Aut\'onoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa
  (998-06-60)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Direct sum decompositions of modules, almost trace ideals, and pullbacks of monoids.
  Alberto Facchini*, University fo Padua, Italy
  (998-16-71)

Friday May 14, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Probability and Stochastic Processes, III
Organizers:
Daniel Hern\'andez Hernandez, CIMAT dher@cimat.mx
Christian Houdre, Georgia Institute of Technology houdre@math.gatech.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The large deviation principle for M--estimators.
  Miguel A Arcones*, Binghamton University
  (998-62-63)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Existence of local time and Tanaka formula for a two-type superprocess.
  Jose Alfredo Lopez-Mimbela*, CIMAT
  (998-60-151)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Upper Estimates of Dynamic $VaR$ and Mean Loss Associated to Diffusion Processes.
  Laurent Denis, Universit\'e du Maine, France
  Bego\~{n}a Fern\'{a}ndez, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM
  Ana Meda*, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM
  (998-60-66)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Singular Control with State Constraints.
  Amarjit Budhiraja*, Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (998-60-145)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Analysis of codependence of linear fractional stable noise.
  Joshua Levy*, University of Minnesota-Morris
  (998-60-198)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On the tradeoff between endowment and investment.
  Daniel Hernandez-Hernandez*, CIMAT
  (998-60-202)

Friday May 14, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Variational Problems, III
Organizers:
Clara Garza-Hume, IIMAS, UNAM clara@uxmym1.iimas.unam.mx
Michael Wolf, Rice University mwolf@math.rice.edu
Robert M. Hardt, Rice University hardt@math.rice.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Elastica, Sessile Drops, and Exotic Containers.
  Henry C Wente*, University of Toledo
  (998-49-388)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Divergence-measure fields, sets of finite perimeter, and conservation laws.
  Monica Torres*, Northwestern University
  Gui-Qiang Chen,
  (998-35-244)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The formation of tree leaf.
  Qinglan Xia*, University of Texas at Austin
  (998-49-121)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The double-well potential and phase transitions.
  Clara Garza-Hume*, IIMAS, UNAM, Mexico
  Pablo Padilla, IIMAS,UNAM
  (998-49-241)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Topological properties of bubble clusters.
  Pablo Padilla*, IIMAS-UNAM, Mexico
  C.E. Garza-Hume, IIMAS-UNAM, Mexico
  (998-49-262)

Friday May 14, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Physics, I
Organizers:
Carlos Villegas-Blas, UNAM villegas@matcuer.unam.mx
Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor uribe@umich.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some recent developments in Segal-Bargmann analysis.
  Stephen Bruce Sontz*, Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas, A.C. (CIMAT)
  (998-81-14)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Segal-Bargmann transform for noncompact symmetric spaces.
  Brian C. Hall*, Univ. of Notre Dame
  Jeffrey J. Mitchell, Baylor University
  (998-81-352)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the quantization of the moduli space of flat SU(2)-connections on the torus.
  Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
  Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan
  (998-81-184)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Eigenfunction expansions and spectral projections for isotropic elasticity outside an obstacle.
  F Menendez-Conde*, CIMA - Universidad Aut�noma de Hidalgo
  (998-46-389)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Perturbations of Schr\"odinger Operators with a Wigner-von Neumann Like Potential Leaving the Embedded Eigenvalue Fixed.
  Jaime Cruz-Sampedro*, Universidad Aut�noma del Estado de Hidalgo
  (998-81-137)

Friday May 14, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Problems in the Analysis of Synchronous States in Networks, I
Organizers:
Kresimir Josic, University of Houston josic@ld45.math.uh.edu
Valentin Afraimovich, IICO-UASLP valentin@cactus.iico.uaslp.mx
- 9:00 a.m.
  Pinching Synchronization of Coupled Map Lattices.
  Franco Bagnoli, Dipartimento di Energetica, Universita di Firenze
  Raul Rechtman*, Centro de Investigacion en Energia, UNAM
  (998-37-395)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Coupled Cell Systems.
  Martin Golubitsky*, University of Houston
  Ian Stewart, University of Warwick
  (998-34-87)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Two-Color Patterns of Synchrony in Lattice Dynamical Systems.
  Yunjiao Wang*, University of Houston
  Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston
  (998-34-102)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Reproducibility of transient dynamics in a model of neural networks.
  V. S. Afraimovich*, IICO-UASLP
  M. I. Rabinovich, INS, UCSD
  (998-37-128)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Towards Generalized Synchronization on Strictly Different Chaotic Systems.
  R Femat*, Matem\'{a}ticas Aplicadas y Sistemas Computacionales, IPICYT
  L Kocarev, Institute for Nonlinear Science, UCSD.
  M. E. Monsivais-P\'erez, Matem\'{a}ticas Aplicadas y Sistemas Computacionales, IPICYT
  (998-93-335)

Friday May 14, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Representations of Algebras, II
Organizers:
Rita Esther Zuazua Vega, UNAM zuazua@matmor.unam.mx
Gordana G. Todorov, Northeastern University todorov@neu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Stacks of algebras and their homology.
  Nancy E Heinschel, National Security Agency
  Birge K Huisgen-Zimmermann*, University of California at Santa Barbara
  (998-16-342)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The universal cover of a preprojective algebra.
  Christof Geiss*, UNAM
  (998-16-309)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Hochschild cohomology ring of a monomial algebra.
  Edward L Green, VPI&SU
  Nicole Snashall*, University of Leicester
  Oeyvind Solberg, NTNU
  (998-16-49)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Stratifying Systems via relative projective modules.
  Eduardo Do N. Marcos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  Octavio Mendoza*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
  Edith Corina Saenz, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM
  (998-16-187)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Modules with bounded Betti numbers.
  Oeyvind Solberg*, NTNU
  (998-18-38)

Friday May 14, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, III
Organizers:
Victor N\'u\~nez, CIMAT victor@fractal.cimat.mx
Luis G. Valdez, University of Texas, El Paso valdez@math.utep.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Quadrisecants of knots with small crossing number.
  Gyo Taek Jin*, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  (998-57-421)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Closed Essential Surfaces in the Complements of Large Volume Berge Knots.
  Kenneth L Baker*, University of Texas at Austin
  (998-57-410)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An example of a hyperbolic 3-manifold realizing a bound on Dehn fillings.
  Lorena Armas-Sanabria*, UNAM
  (998-57-380)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On nonexistence of foliations.
  Sergio Fenley, Florida State University
  Rachel Roberts*, Washington University in St Louis
  John Shareshian, Washington University in St Louis
  Melanie Stein, Trinity College
  (998-57-417)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Homology and Derived Series of Groups.
  Tim D. Cochran*, Rice University
  Shelly Harvey, M.I.T.
  (998-57-427)

Friday May 14, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems, II
Organizers:
Renato Iturriaga, CIMAT renato@fractal.cimat.mx
Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin llave@mail.ma.utexas.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Domain Relaxation in Polymer Monolayers.
  James C. Alexander*, Case Western Reserve University
  Andrew Bernoff, Harvey Mudd College
  Elizabeth Mann, Kent State University
  J. Adin Mann, Case Western Reserve University
  (998-37-227)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Period-doubling cascades with external noise.
  Oliver R Diaz*, University of Texas at Austin
  (998-37-239)
- 10:00 a.m.
  C2 densely the 2-sphere has an elliptic closed geodesic.
  Gonzalo Contreras*, CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico
  Fernando Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
  (998-37-303)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Lagrangian singularities and stability for periodic orbits in Hamiltonian systems.
  D. C. Offin*, Queen's University, Canada
  (998-58-353)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Dynamics of 2D time-periodic Euler flows.
  Philip L Boyland*, University of Florida
  (998-37-409)

Friday May 14, 2004, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, II
Organizers:
Pedro Luis Del Angel R., CIMAT luis@cimat.mx
Emma Previato, Boston University ep@math.bu.edu
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
Isidro Nieto, Universidad de San Nicolas Hidalgo inieto@zeus.umich.mx
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Complexity Threshold for Real Fewnomials.
  J. Maurice Rojas*, Texas A\&M University
  Casey Stella, Texas A\&M University
  (998-14-425)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Algebraic Geometry Applications in Bayesian Model Selection.
  Luis David Garcia*, Virginia Polytechnic
  (998-14-364)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Lower Bounds for Real Polynomial Systems.
  Evgenia Soprunova*, University of Massachusetts
  (998-14-367)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The Cayley-Bacharach theorem and coding theory.
  Leah Gold, Texas A&M University
  John Little, College of the Holy Cross
  Hal Schenck*, Texas A&M University
  (998-14-372)

Friday May 14, 2004, 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Homomorphisms of commutative rings.
Luchezar L. Avramov*, University of Nebraska
(998-13-01)

Friday May 14, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Lie superalgebras associated to the adjoint representation.
Adolfo S\'anchez-Valenzuela*, Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas
(998-17-04)

Friday May 14, 2004, 3:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, I
Organizers:
Enrique Ram\'irez de Arellano, CINVESTAV eramirez@math.cinvestav.mx
John E. Fornaess, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor fornaess@umich.edu
- 3:30 p.m.
  $F(p,q,s)$ spaces and Harmonic Majorants.
  L. F. Res\'endis O.*, Universidad Aut\'onoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco
  Enrique Ramirez de Arellano, CINVESTAV-IPN
  Luis Manuel Tovar Sanchez, Escuela Superior de F\'isica y Matem\'aticas del IPN
  (998-30-69)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Characterizations for $B^{p^q}$ Spaces by Bloch Spaces in Clifford Analysis.
  Ahmed A. El-Sayed, South Valley University
  Klaus K. G\"urlebeck, Bauhaus-Universit\"at Weimar
  Lino F. Resendis, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
  Luis M. Tovar*, Instituto Polit\'ecnico Nacional
  (998-30-104)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Essentially Reductive Hilbert Modules.
  Ronald G Douglas*, Texas A & M University
  (998-47-221)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Global regularity for the $\overline{\partial}$-Neumann operator.
  Emil J. Straube*, Texas A&M University
  (998-32-229)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Report: Reviewing an example of H\"older estimates for the Cauchy-Riemann equation on complex singular spaces.
  Fermin Acosta*, ITESM-CINVESTAV
  (998-32-325)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Invariant path integrals from invariant distances.
  David E Barrett*, University of Michigan
  (998-51-368)

Friday May 14, 2004, 3:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, III
Organizers:
Miguel A. Xicot\'encatl, CINVESTAV xico@math.cinvestav.mx
Frederick R. Cohen, University of Rochester cohf@math.rochester.edu
- 3:30 p.m.
  What is the homotopy type of the space of long knots in $R^3$? or the space of closed knots in $S^3$?
  Ryan Budney*, University of Rochester
  (998-55-100)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Calculus of functors and spaces of knots.
  Ismar Volic*, University of Virginia
  (998-55-110)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Realizing Diagrams of Homotopy Groups.
  David Blanc, University of Haifa
  Mark Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
  James M Turner*, Calvin College
  (998-55-307)
- 6:00 p.m.
  On the IA-automorphisms of a free group.
  F. R. Cohen*, University of Rochester
  B. Farb, University of Chicago
  J. Pakianathan, University of Rochester
  (998-55-411)

Friday May 14, 2004, 3:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Continuous Distributed Parameters Models in Mathematical Biology, II
Organizers:
William E. Fitzgibbon, University of Houston fitz@math.uh.edu
Jorge X. Velasco Hern\'andez, Instituto Mexicana del Petroleo velascoj@imp.mx
- 3:30 p.m.
  Suppression and control of nonlinear dynamics in distributed parameter biological systems.
  Hector F Puebla*, Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo
  Roland Martin, Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo
  (998-93-281)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Mathematical Models of Prion Proliferation.
  Glenn F. Webb*, Vanderbilt University
  Meredith Greer, Bates College
  Laurent Pujo-Menjouet, Vanderbilt University
  Jan Pruss, Vanderbilt University
  (998-92-205)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Evolutional solution and characteristic patterns of a free boundary problem model of ductal carcinoma in situ.
  Yongzhi Steve Xu*, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  (998-35-186)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Modeling spread of tumors along linear and tubular structures.
  Marek Kimmel*, Rice University
  Anna Marciniak - Czochra, Heidelberg University
  (998-92-430)

Friday May 14, 2004, 3:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Physics, II
Organizers:
Carlos Villegas-Blas, UNAM villegas@matcuer.unam.mx
Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor uribe@umich.edu
- 3:30 p.m.
  Time Development of Exponentially Small Non--Adiabatic Transitions.
  George A. Hagedorn*, Virginia Tech
  Alain Joye, Universite de Grenoble I
  (998-81-135)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A Time-Independent Born-Oppenheimer Approximation with Exponentially Small Error Estimates.
  George A Hagedorn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Julio H Toloza*, Universidad Aut�noma del Estado de Hidalgo
  (998-81-95)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Low regularity solutions to a gently stochastic non-linear wave equation in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.
  Lawrence E Thomas*, University of Virginia
  Luc Rey-Bellet, University of Massachussetts
  (998-82-248)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A Sharp analog of Young's Inequality on $S^N$ and Related Entropy Inequalities.
  Eric Carlen, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Elliott Lieb, Princeton University
  Michael Loss*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (998-81-391)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Ferromagnetic ordering of energy levels.
  Bruno Nachtergaele, University of California, Davis
  Wolfgang Spitzer*, University of British Columbia
  Shannon Starr, McGill University
  (998-82-89)
- 6:00 p.m.
  An Integrable Hierarchy and Its Exact Solution.
  Zhijun Qiao*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  (998-35-57)

Friday May 14, 2004, 3:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Designing Frames and Wavelets: From Theory to Digitization, III
Organizers:
Peter R. Massopust, Tuboscope Pipeline Services pmassopust@varco.com
Manos I. Papadakis, University of Houston mpapadak@math.uh.edu
- 3:30 p.m.
  Finite frame sigma-delta quantization.
  John J Benedetto*, University of Maryland
  Alexander M Powell, Princeton University
  Ozgur Yilmaz, University of Maryland
  (998-42-19)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Symmetric MRA Tight Wavelet Frames With Three Generators and High Vanishing Moments.
  Bin Han*, University of Alberta
  Qun Mo, University of Alberta
  (998-42-29)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the role of the Zak transform in wavelet construction and design.
  Jeffrey A Hogan*, University of Arkansas
  Joseph D Lakey, New Mexico State University
  (998-42-36)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Frames with specified norms and rank-one decomposition of operators.
  Keri A Kornelson*, Texas A&M University
  David R. Larson, Texas A&M University
  (998-42-31)
- 5:30 p.m.
  BMO and affine frame operators.
  Joseph D Lakey*, New Mexico State University
  John E Gilbert, The University of Texas at Austin
  Jeffrey A Hogan, University of Arkansas
  (998-42-17)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Constructing Equiangular Tight Frames via Alternating Projection.
  Joel A Tropp*, UT-Austin
  Inderjit S Dhillon, UT-Austin
  Robert W Heath, UT-Austin
  Thomas Strohmer, UC-Davis
  (998-52-48)

Friday May 14, 2004, 3:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Problems in the Analysis of Synchronous States in Networks, II
Organizers:
Kresimir Josic, University of Houston josic@ld45.math.uh.edu
Valentin Afraimovich, IICO-UASLP valentin@cactus.iico.uaslp.mx
- 3:30 p.m.
  Analysis of synchronization in networks of weakly nonlinear oscillators using normal forms.
  Kresimir Josic*, University of Houston
  (998-37-88)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Synchronization and suppression of oscillations in an ensemble of genetic relaxation oscillators.
  Alexey Kuznetsov*, Boston University
  Mads Kaern, Boston University
  Nancy Kopell, Boston University
  (998-34-67)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Filtering chaotic maps.
  Irasema Gordillo, IICO/UASLP
  Jesus Urias*, IICO/UASLP
  (998-37-114)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Synchronization of Biochemical Cell Dynamics in Embryogenesis.
  Jose Diaz, Centro de Ciencias Fisicas, UNAM, Cuernavaca
  Gustavo Martinez-Mekler*, Centro de Ciencias Fisicas, UNAM, Cuernavaca
  (998-92-423)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Directional entropies in weakly coupled systems.
  Antonio Morante*, Universidad Aut�noma de San Luis Potos�
  (998-37-302)

Friday May 14, 2004, 3:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Curvature and Geodesics, II
Organizers:
David D. W. Bao, University of Houston bao@math.uh.edu
Lilia Del Riego, Universidad Aut\`onoma San Luis Potosi lilia@galia.fc.uaslp.mx
- 3:30 p.m.
  Conjugate Loci of pseudoRiemannian 2-step Nilpotent Lie Groups with Nondegenerate Center.
  Phillip E. Parker*, Wichita State University
  Changrim Jang, University of Ulsan
  (998-53-138)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Perelman's Work on the Formation of Singularities in Ricci Flow.
  Yu Ding*, University of California, Irvine
  (998-58-233)

Friday May 14, 2004, 3:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Representations of Algebras, III
Organizers:
Rita Esther Zuazua Vega, UNAM zuazua@matmor.unam.mx
Gordana G. Todorov, Northeastern University todorov@neu.edu
- 3:30 p.m.
  Root forms.
  Michael S Barot*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
  Jos\'e Antonio de la Pe\~na, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
  (998-16-350)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Torsion-Torsion Free Theory arising from an abelian exact subcategory closed under predecessors.
  Ron S. Gentle*, Eastern Washington University
  (998-16-377)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Extensions of an algebra by a representation-finite algebra.
  Jos\'e Antonio De la Pe\~na, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico
  Bertha Tom\'e*, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico
  (998-16-194)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Recognizing cluster algebras of finite type.
  Ahmet Seven*, Northeastern University
  (998-05-294)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On the representation dimension of certain algebras.
  Thomas Br\'ustle*, Bishop's and Universit\'e de Sherbrooke
  (998-16-123)

Friday May 14, 2004, 3:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Harmonic and Functional Analysis, III
Organizers:
Salvador P\'erez-Esteva, UNAM-Cuernavaca salvador@matcuer.unam.mx
Carlos Bosch, ITAM bosch@itam.mx
Josefina Alvarez, New Mexico State University jalvarez@nmsu.edu
- 3:30 p.m.
  Hilbert transform along curves with rational components.
  Magali Folch-Gabayet*, UNAM
  James Wright, University of Edinburgh
  (998-43-282)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Marcinkiewicz multipliers in quotients of products of Heisenberg groups.
  Ricardo A Saenz*, Universidad de Colima
  (998-43-315)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Monogenic Radon-Nikodym Property for Clifford Modules.
  Emilio Marmolejo-Olea*, IMUNAM-Cuernavaca
  Salvador Perez-Esteva, IMUNAM-Cuernavaca
  (998-46-238)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Multi-layer Spline-Wavelet Transforms and it Application in Image Processing.
  Jianzhong Wang*, Sam Houston State University
  (998-94-220)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The uniqueness of shift-generated duals for frames in shift-invariant subspaces.
  Ataollah Askari Hemmat, Vali-Asr University
  Jean-Pierre Gabardo*, McMaster University
  (998-42-218)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Finite abelian groups, wavelets, and all that.
  John E. Gilbert*, University of Texas at Austin
  Zeimowit Rzeszotnik, University of Texas at Austin
  (998-42-424)

Friday May 14, 2004, 3:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis, II
Organizers:
M\'onica Clapp, UNAM mclapp@math.unam.mx
Alfonso Castro, University of Texas at San Antonio alfonso_castro@hmc.edu
- 3:30 p.m.
  Computation of the Equivariant 1-Stem for Arbitrary Compact Lie Groups.
  Waclaw Marzantowicz, University of Poznan, Poland
  Carlos Prieto*, UNAM, Mexico
  (998-55-355)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A formula for the Maslov index and its application for semi-Riemannian geodesics.
  Alessandro Portaluri*, Univeristy of Turin, Italy
  (998-58-274)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Asymptotic behavior of solutions to the 2D Quasi Geostrophic equations.
  Maria E Schonbek*, University of California Santa Cruz
  Tomas P Schonbek, Florida Atlantic University
  (998-35-232)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Constructive solvability for semilinear wave equations.
  Dan D. Pascali*, Courant Institute, New York University
  (998-47-267)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Null controllability of a semilinear parabolic-hyperbolic cascade system.
  Enrique Fern\'andez-Cara, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
  Manuel Gonz\'alez-Burgos, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
  Luz de Teresa*, UNAM
  (998-35-131)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Discussion

Friday May 14, 2004, 3:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Associative Rings, III
Organizers:
Jos\'e R\'ios Montes, UNAM jrios@matem.unam.mx
M\'aria-Jos\'e Arroyo, UAM-Iztapalapa mja@xanum.uam.mx
Sergio R. L\'opez-Permouth, Ohio University slopez@math.ohiou.edu
- 3:30 p.m.
  (Sigma-)Cotorsion Modules and Pure-Injectivity in Locally Finitely Presented Additive Categories.
  Pedro Antonio Guil Asensio*, University of Murcia
  Ivo Herzog, Ohio State University
  (998-16-111)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Complete dimension theory of nonsingular injective modules.
  K R Goodearl*, University of California at Santa Barbara
  F Wehrung, Universite de Caen
  (998-16-264)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On rings with many uniform one-sided ideals.
  Hai Quang Dinh*, North Dakota State University
  (998-16-318)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On some ring hulls.
  Gary F. Birkenmeier, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  Jae Keol Park, Busan National University
  S. Tariq Rizvi*, The Ohio State University at Lima
  (998-16-292)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Module Hulls.
  Gary F. Birkenmeier*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  Jae Keol Park, Busan National University
  S. Tariq Rizvi, Ohio State University at Lima
  (998-16-197)

Friday May 14, 2004, 3:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Continuum Theory and General Topology (in Honor of David Bellamy's 60th Birthday), III
Organizers:
Janusz J. Charatonik, UNAM jjc@gauss.matem.unam.mx
Charles L. Hagopian, California State University, Sacramento hagopian@csus.edu
Sergio Macias, UNAM macias@servidor.unam.mx
- 3:30 p.m.
  n-fold Hyperspaces of Finite Graphs.
  Ver\'onica Mart\'inez de la Vega*, California State University, Sacramento
  (998-54-296)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Choosing A Sheltered Middle Path.
  Piotr Minc*, Auburn University
  (998-54-189)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Generalized Inverse Limits.
  Antonio Pelaez*, UNAM
  (998-54-130)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Almost continuous retracts and plane continua.
  B. D. Garrett*, Fort Worth, Texas
  (998-54-413)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Local Planarity in One-Dimensional Continua.
  Brian Raines*, Baylor University
  (998-54-272)

Friday May 14, 2004, 4:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Homological Algebra of Commutative Rings, III
Organizers:
Srikanth Iyengar, University of Nebraska iyengar@math.unl.edu
Graham J. Leuschke, University of Toronto gleuschk@math.toronto.edu
- 4:00 p.m.
  Observations on the $F$-signature of local rings of characteristic $p$.
  Yongwei Yao*, University of Michigan
  (998-13-99)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Some properties of graded local cohomology modules.
  Liana M Sega*, Michigan State University
  Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
  (998-13-337)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Torsion-free ranks of indecomposable modules.
  Ryan Karr*, Florida Atlantic University
  Lee Klingler, Florida Atlantic University
  (998-13-247)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Adjoint functors and Gorenstein Dimensions.
  Lars Winther Christensen, University of Copenhagen
  Anders Frankild*, University of Copenhagen
  Henrik Holm, University of Copenhagen
  (998-18-286)
- 6:00 p.m.
  G--dimension of Almost Finite Modules.
  Lars Winther Christensen*, University of Copenhagen
  Srikanth Iyengar, University of Missouri
  (998-13-251)

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Joint AMS-SMM International Meeting Houston, TX, May 13-15, 2004 Meeting #998

Friday May 14, 2004

Joint AMS-SMM International Meeting
Houston, TX, May 13-15, 2004
Meeting #998