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2009 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
University Park, PA, October 24-25, 2009 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1052

Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS steve.weintraub@lehigh.edu

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Sunday October 25, 2009

• Sunday October 25, 2009, 7:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Applications to Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 104, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Janet Striuli, Fairfield University jstriuli@mail.fairfield.edu
  Jooyoun Hong, Southern Connecticut State University
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Filtered Numerical Semigroups and Applications to One-Dimensional Rings.
    Lance Bryant*, Shippensburg University
    (1052-13-320)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Cohen--Macaulay algebra has only finitely many semidualizing modules.
    Lars Winther Christensen*, Texas Tech University
    Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University
    (1052-13-298)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Vanishing of self-extensions over a complete intersection.
    Jesse Burke*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1052-13-340)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ranks of indecomposable maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules.
    Andrew Crabbe*, Syracuse University
    Silvia Saccon, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
    (1052-13-190)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cohomology over short Gorenstein local rings.
    Inês Bonacho dos Anjos Henriques*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Liana M. Şega, University of Missouri
    (1052-13-125)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cellular resolutions of monomial ideals and LCM lattices.
    Sonja Mapes*, Duke University
    (1052-13-166)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Commuting Nilpotent Matrices.
    Leila Khatami*, Northeastern University
    (1052-13-271)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Registration
  Northeast entrance outside Lecture Room 100, Thomas Building
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, III
  Room 122, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington
  Diane Henderson, Pennsylvania State University dmh@math.psu.edu
  J. Douglas Wright, Drexel University
  David Ambrose, Drexel University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On spectral stability for solitary water waves.
    Robert L Pego*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Shu-Ming Sun, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
    (1052-76-264)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stability of stationary periodic solutions of the Euler equations.
    Katie L. Oliveras*, Seattle University
    Bernard Deconinck, Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
    (1052-76-214)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hamiltonian formulation for water waves on variable depth.
    Philippe Guyenne*, University of Delaware
    (1052-76-127)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Strichartz estimates for the gravity capillary equations.
    Daniel Spirn*, University of Minnesota
    J. Douglas Wright, Drexel University
    (1052-76-365)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Computation of time-periodic solutions of the vortex sheet with surface tension.
    Jon Wilkening*, UC Berkeley
    David Ambrose, Drexel University
    (1052-76-284)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Free Surface Hydrodynamics in Conformal Variables: New Results.
    Vladimir I. Zakharov*, University of Arizona
    (1052-76-175)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Microlocal Analysis and Spectral Theory on Singular Spaces, III
  Room 207, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Juan B. Gil, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona jgil@psu.edu
  Thomas Krainer, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Sharp upper bounds for resonance counting in perturbations of hyperbolic space.
    David Borthwick*, Emory University
    (1052-58-227)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Upper bounds for eigenvalues of submanifolds.
    Bruno Colbois, University of Neuchatel
    Emily B. Dryden*, Bucknell University
    Ahmad El Soufi, University of Tours
    (1052-58-231)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The regular-singular Sturm-Liouville operators and their zeta-determinants.
    Matthias Lesch, University of Bonn
    Boris Vertman*, University of Bonn
    (1052-34-232)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Automorphisms of Riemann Surfaces and Related Topics, III
  Room 117, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  S. Allen Broughton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology allen.broughton@rose-hulman.edu
  Anthony Weaver, Bronx Community College, the City University of New York
  Aaron D. Wootton, University of Portland
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Beauville surfaces and finite groups.
    Gareth A. Jones*, School of Mathematics, University of Southampton
    (1052-20-76)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The full automorphism group of a family of generalized Fermat curves.
    Yolanda Fuertes, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
    Gabino Gonzalez-Diez*, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
    Ruben A Hidalgo, UTFSM de Valparaiso
    Maximiliano Leyton, Universite Joseph Fourier, Frannce
    (1052-30-198)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Which $(2,3,r)$ triangle groups give rise to the strong symmetric genus of some finite group?
    Michael A. Jackson*, Grove City College
    (1052-20-77)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The 2-groups of odd strong symmetric genus.
    Coy L. May, Towson University
    Jay Zimmerman*, Towson University
    (1052-20-179)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Edge-transitive tessellations with non-negative Euler characteristic.
    Pisanski Tomaž*, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
    Alen Orbanić, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
    Daniel Pellicer, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
    Thomas W Tucker, Colgate University
    Arjana Žitnik, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
    (1052-05-248)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic and Profinite Groups, III
  Room 112, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Alireza Salehi-Golsefidy, Princeton University
  Martin D. Kassabov, Cornell University kassabov@math.cornell.edu
  Mikhail V. Ershov, University of Virginia
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the Mordell-Weil rank of Jacobians of principal modular curves of prime power level.
    Guillermo Mantilla*, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
    (1052-11-83)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Residual properties of 1-related groups.
    Mark Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
    (1052-20-135)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Groups with bounded generation.
    Andrei S. Rapinchuk*, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia
    (1052-20-146)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Bounded generation and second bounded cohomology of wreath products.
    Igor V. Erovenko*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Nikolay Nikolov, Imperial College, London
    B. Sury, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
    (1052-20-120)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, III
  Room 118, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  James Gillespie, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
  Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
  Simona Paoli, University of Haifa
  Donald Yau, Ohio State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Stable splittings of classifying spaces.
    Ragnarsson Kari*, DePaul University
    (1052-55-161)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The motivic fundamental group of the punctured projective line.
    Bertrand J Guillou*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1052-19-194)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the non-existence of elements of Kervaire invariant one.
    Michael Hill, University of Virginia
    Michael Hopkins, Harvard University
    Douglas Ravenel*, University of Rochester
    (1052-55-342)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-existence of Kervaire invariant one elements and a homotopy fixed point spectral sequence.
    Michael Hill*, University of Virginia
    Michael Hopkins, Harvard University
    Douglas Ravenel, University of Rochester
    (1052-55-343)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Random Dynamics: Where Probability and Ergodic Theory Meet, III
  Room 111, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Manfred Denker, Pennsylvania State University denker@math.psu.edu
  Wojbor A. Woyczynski, Case Western Reserve University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Nonlinear nonlocal evolution equations driven by Levy diffusions.
    Wojbor A. Woyczynski*, Case Western Reserve University
    (1052-60-345)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Probability Estimates for Brownian Sheets.
    Wenbo V. Li*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware
    (1052-60-216)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Correlated Brownian Motions and the Depletion Effect in Colloids [Based on joint work with Marshall Leitman (CWRU) and Jay Mann (CWRU)].
    Peter M. Kotelenez*, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Mathematics
    (1052-60-171)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the periodically forced Ornstein Uhlenbeck process with reset.
    Peter J. Thomas*, Case Western Reserve University
    (1052-60-270)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Homological Aspects of Commutative Algebra, III
  Room 125, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Amanda I. Beecher, United States Military Academy amanda.beecher@usma.edu
  Alexandre B. Tchernev, University at Albany
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Free resolutions over Koszul algebras.
    Luchezar L. Avramov, University of Nebraska
    Aldo Conca, University of Genova
    Srikanth B Iyengar*, University of Nebraska
    Yongwei Yao, Georgia State University
    (1052-13-78)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On G-regular local rings and Golod homomorphisms.
    Lars Winther Christensen, Texas Tech University
    W. Frank Moore*, Cornell University
    (1052-13-354)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Iterating the construction of the Gorenstein projectives.
    Diana White*, University of Colorado Denver
    Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University
    Tirdad Sharif, IPM
    (1052-13-294)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Hilbert scheme of the diagonal in a product of projective spaces.
    Dustin A. Cartwright*, University of Califorina, Berkeley
    Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
    (1052-13-301)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Singularities of plane curves which are parameterized by homogeneous forms of small degree.
    Andrew R Kustin*, University of South Carolina
    (1052-13-103)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The *-core of an ideal.
    Louiza Fouli, New Mexico State University
    Janet Vassilev*, University of New Mexico
    Adela Vraciu, University of South Carolina
    (1052-13-212)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Systems and Related Areas, III
  Room 217, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Sam Evans, University of Notre Dame
  Michael Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame
  Luen-Chau Li, Pennsylvania State University luenli@math.psu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Absolute Continuity of a Measure on a Homogeneous Set.
    Alexei Poltoratski, Texas A&M University
    Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
    Maxim Zinchenko*, Western Michigan University
    (1052-26-306)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    From circles to cables: closed finite-gap solutions of the Vortex Filament Flow.
    Annalisa M Calini*, Department of Mathematics, College of Charleston
    Thomas Ivey, Department of Mathematics, College of Charleston
    (1052-35-314)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Explicit multipeakon solutions of Novikov's cubically nonlinear integrable Camassa--Holm type equation.
    Jacek Szmigielski*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan
    (1052-35-65)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Abel transform as the semiclassical limit of the scattering transform for the focusing NLS.
    Alexander Tovbis*, University of Central Florida
    (1052-44-310)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Universality in the profile of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation at the first breaking curve.
    Marco Bertola*, Concordia University, Montreal
    Alexander Tovbis, University of Central Florida
    (1052-41-290)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Explicitly Solvable Nonholonomic Systems.
    Oscar E Fernandez*, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
    Anthony M Bloch, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
    (1052-70-229)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Integrable and Non-Integrable Dynamics, III
  Room 209, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Boris Khesin, University of Toronto
  Mark Levi, Pennsylvania State University
  Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University tabachni@math.psu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Dependence on initial data for solutions of the Euler equations.
    Gerard Misiolek*, University of Notre Dame
    (1052-58-295)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On Liouville integrability of h-projectively equivalent Kahler metrics.
    Peter Topalov*, Northeastern University
    Kazuyoshi Kiyohara, Okayama University
    (1052-37-263)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Experimental and theoretical results on the Koch Snowflake billiard and its associated flat surface.
    Michel L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    Robert G. Niemeyer*, University of California, Riverside
    (1052-37-38)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tire tracks geometry and Menzin's conjecture.
    Mark Levi, Penn State
    Sergei Tabachnikov*, Penn State
    (1052-53-324)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic, Contact, and Complex Structures on Manifolds, III
  Room 210, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Philippe Rukimbira, Florida International University rukim@fiu.edu
  Tedi C. Draghici, Florida International University
  Gueo V. Grantcharov, Florida International University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On a class of homogeneous spaces with nonnegative curvature.
    Megan M Kerr*, Wellesley College
    Andreas Kollross, University of Augsburg
    (1052-53-172)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Distinguished metrics conformal to Kähler metrics.
    Gideon Maschler*, Clark University
    (1052-53-278)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dirac structures and contact geometry.
    Aissa Wade*, Penn State University
    (1052-53-272)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hyperbolic curves in compact complex parallelizable manifolds.
    Mirroslav T Yotov*, Florida International University
    (1052-32-252)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A new cohomology decomposition of almost complex 4-manifolds.
    Weiyi Zhang*, University of Minnesota
    (1052-53-305)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Variations of Cohomological Spaces of Generalized Complex Structures.
    Brian Rolle*, University of California, Riverside
    Y S Poon, University of California, Riverside
    D Grandini, University of California, Riverside
    (1052-53-296)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on q-Series and Related Areas in Enumerative Combinatorics and Number Theory, III
  Room 216, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  David Little, Pennsylvania State University dlittle@math.psu.edu
  James Sellers, Pennsylvania State University
  Ae Ja Yee, Pennsylvania State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Partition Analysis and Partition Congruences.
    Peter Paule*, RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz
    Silviu Radu, RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz
    (1052-11-202)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Biranks for partitions into 2 colors.
    Frank Garvan*, University of Florida
    (1052-11-208)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    understanding the mock theta functions through the basic bilateral hypergeometric series.
    Youn-Seo Choi*, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
    (1052-11-111)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Quadratic AGM in the context of Mock Modular Forms.
    Sharon Anne Garthwaite*, Bucknell University
    (1052-11-95)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A bijective proof of Bressoud's Conjecture related to the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities.
    Shishuo Fu*, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park
    (1052-05-162)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some Fine Combinatorics.
    David Little*, Penn State University
    (1052-05-185)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Second Floor Lobby, Thomas Building
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Function Fields and their Applications, III
  Room 110, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Mihran Papikian, Pennsylvania State University papikian@math.psu.edu
  Kirsten Eisentrager, Pennsylvania State University
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Hilbert's Tenth Problem for function fields over algebraically closed fields.
    Kirsten Eisentraeger*, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1052-11-309)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Zeta Functions of Complexes.
    Ming-hsuan Kang*, Pennsylvania State University, Math Department
    (1052-20-49)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Elliptic curves of high rank and explicit points over function fields.
    Douglas Ulmer*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1052-11-224)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Reductions of elliptic curves of global function fields.
    Alina Carmen Cojocaru*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Arpad Toth, Eotos Lorand University, Budapest
    (1052-11-315)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, III
  Room 201, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Angel V. Kumchev, Towson University akumchev@towson.edu
  Michael P. Knapp, Loyola College
  Robert C. Vaughan, Pennsylvania State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Missed it by that much.
    Pradipto Banerjee, University of South Carolina
    Michael Filaseta*, University of South Carolina
    (1052-11-70)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Turan's problem on the distance to an irreducible polynomial.
    Michael J. Mossinghoff*, Davidson College
    (1052-11-187)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The fluctuations in the number of points on a family of curves over a finite field.
    Maosheng Xiong*, Dept. Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
    (1052-11-55)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On uniform bounds for lattice points in intersections of hyperbolic plane regions.
    Patrick X. Rault*, SUNY Geneseo
    (1052-11-53)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic formulas for ternary quadratic forms.
    Roger C Baker*, Brigham Young University
    (1052-11-37)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on n-Body Problems in Relativity, III
  Room 220, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Michael K. H. Kiessling, Rutgers University miki@math.rutgers.edu
  Pavel B. Dubovski, Stevens Institute of Technology
  Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Rutgers University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dynamical collapse of massive stars in the Hartee-Fock-approximation.
    Christian Hainzl*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1052-81-136)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Binary black hole collisions: techniques, status and prospects.
    Manuel Tiglio*, Center for Scientific Computing and Mathematical Modeling, and Department of Physics. University of Maryland.
    (1052-83-291)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Binary black hole as engines of both gravitational and electromagnetic emissions.
    Luis Lehner*, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics & Univ of Guelph.
    (1052-83-151)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Recent global results for the relativistic Boltzmann equation.
    Robert M. Strain*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1052-35-56)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Does Zipf's Law hold in Nuclear Fragmentation?
    Wolfgang Bauer*, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
    Kerstin Paech, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
    Scott Pratt, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
    (1052-82-123)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Difference Equations and Applications, III
  Room 208, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Michael A. Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology michael.radin@rit.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Convergence of Max-Type and Rank-Type Equations.
    Timothy Sauer*, George Mason University
    (1052-39-221)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Convergence Results on a Second-Order Rational Difference Equation with Quadratic Terms.
    Candace M. Kent*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    David M. Chan, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Norma L. Ortiz-Robinson, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1052-39-46)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Monotonic and Periodic Character of solutions of the Rational Difference Equation $x_{n+1}=\frac{A_n X_{n-1}}{1 + X_n + X_{n-1}}$.
    Nicholas A Battista*, Rochester Institute Of Technology
    Michael A Radin, Rochester Institute Of Technology
    (1052-39-72)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, III
  Room 215, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Peter McNamara, Bucknell University peter.mcnamara@bucknell.edu
  Mark Skandera, Lehigh University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Total positivity in loop groups.
    Thomas Lam, University of Michigan
    Pavlo Pylyavskyy*, University of Michigan
    (1052-05-117)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A combinatorial interpretation of coefficients arising in the quantum polynomial ring.
    Justin J. Lambright*, Lehigh University
    (1052-05-121)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Positivity results for cluster algebras.
    Gregg Musiker*, MIT
    Ralf Schiffler, University of Connecticut
    Lauren Williams, UC Berkeley
    (1052-05-71)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Cluster Monomial and Dual Canonical Bases of $\mathbb{Z}[x_{11}, ... , x_{33}]$.
    Brendon Rhoades*, MIT
    (1052-05-209)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A new construction of Kazhdan-Lusztig's representations of the Hecke algebra.
    Charles Buehrle*, Lehigh University
    (1052-05-80)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Heat Kernel Analysis, III
  Room 223, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Maria Gordina, University of Connecticut gordina@math.uconn.edu
  Laurent Saloff-Coste, Cornell University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Generalized Bochner formulas and Ricci lower bounds for sub-Riemannian manifolds of rank two.
    Fabrice Baudoin*, Purdue University
    Nicola Garofalo, Purdue University
    (1052-35-257)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generalized Bochner formulas and Ricci lower bounds for sub-Riemannian manifolds of rank two.
    Fabrice Baudoin, Purdue University
    Nicola Garofalo*, Purdue University
    (1052-51-90)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hypoelliptic heat kernel inequalities on H-type groups.
    Nathaniel Eldredge*, Cornell University
    (1052-35-62)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An analogue of the mean curvature flow in sub-Riemannian geometry.
    Luca Capogna*, University of Arkansas
    (1052-35-102)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 120, Thomas Building
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Useful Generalizations in Arguments Verifying Huppert's Conjecture.
    Thomas Philip Wakefield*, Youngstown State University
    (1052-20-267)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    A generalization of Meshulam's theorem on subsets of finite abelian groups with no 3-term arithmetic progression.
    Y.-R. Liu, University of Waterloo, Canada
    C. V. Spencer, Kansas State University , US
    X. Zhao*, University of Waterloo, Canada
    (1052-11-280)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Stochastic Immersed Boundary Method with an implicit interface formation.
    Qiang Du, Department of Mathematics, Penn State University at University Park
    Manlin Li*, Department of Mathematics, Penn State University at University Park
    (1052-35-42)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    On ideals in real locally C*- and locally JB-algebras.
    Alexander A Katz, St. John's University, NY
    Oleg Friedman*, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
    (1052-46-10)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the notion of $\Phi -$normed spaces.
    Alexander A. Katz*, St. John's University, NY
    (1052-46-11)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    On the notion of a real Hilbert module over real locally C*-algebra.
    Alexander A Katz, St. John's University, NY
    Roman Kushnir*, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
    (1052-46-14)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Mathematical Finance, III
  Room 222, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Nick Costanzino, Pennsylvania State University costanzi@math.psu.edu
  Anna L. Mazzucato, Pennsylvania State University
  Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stochastic volatility models: Parameter estimation for a reduced model.
    Ionut Florescu*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1052-60-39)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Constructing approximation algorithms for financial calculus from weak convergence results.
    Radu S Tunaru*, City University
    (1052-60-30)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bond and Stock Market Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Agents Receiving Unspanned Income.
    Kasper Larsen*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1052-91-288)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Perils of factor formation and predicting returns.
    Timothy Simin*, Smeal College of Business, PSU
    (1052-55-348)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on New Trends in Triangulated Categories and their Associated Cohomology Theories, III
  Room 119, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Sunil Kumar Chebolu, Illinois State University schebol@ilstu.edu
  Keir H. Lockridge, Wake Forest University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Vanishing Theorems for Real Algebraic Cycles.
    Jeremiah Heller*, Northwestern University
    (1052-14-155)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tiny, spectacular Galois jewels in the midst of mysterious giants.
    Jan Minac*, University of Western Ontario
    (1052-12-75)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Continuous homotopy fixed point spectra: finiteness properties and computations.
    Troy Winfree*, University of Rochester
    (1052-55-138)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Additivity of the Reidemeister trace.
    Kate Ponto*, University of Notre Dame
    (1052-55-167)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations of Mixed Elliptic-Hyperbolic Type and Applications, III
  Room 113, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Ohio State University bkeyfitz@math.ohio-state.edu
  Kevin Ray Payne, Universita' di Milano
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Pressure Gradient System.
    Yuxi Zheng*, Penn State, University Park
    Zachary Robinson, Penn State
    (1052-35-201)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Transonic two dimensional Riemann problems.
    Eun Heui Kim*, California State University Long Beach
    (1052-35-347)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    High-resolution solutions for shock formation in transonic flow.
    Allen M. Tesdall*, Department of Mathematics, City University of New York, College of Staten Island
    (1052-76-352)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Transonic regular reflection for the isentropic gas dynamics equations.
    Katarina Jegdic*, University of Houston - Downtown
    Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Ohio State University
    Suncica Canic, University of Houston
    (1052-35-351)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Diophantine approximation to curves and surfaces.
  Room 101, Thomas Building
  Robert C. Vaughan*, Penn State University
  (1052-11-05)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  N-body problems in relativity.
  Room 101, Thomas Building
  Michael K. H. Kiessling*, Rutgers University
  (1052-83-06)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, IV
  Room 24, McAllister Building
  Organizers:
  Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington
  Diane Henderson, Pennsylvania State University dmh@math.psu.edu
  J. Douglas Wright, Drexel University
  David Ambrose, Drexel University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tour of the William G. Pritchard Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, led by Diane Henderson
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Microlocal Analysis and Spectral Theory on Singular Spaces, IV
  Room 207, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Juan B. Gil, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona jgil@psu.edu
  Thomas Krainer, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Properties of the biharmonic functions: Hadamard's conjecture, regularity of the Green function and Wiener criterion.
    Svitlana Mayboroda*, Purdue University
    (1052-35-238)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Linear elliptic operators requiring indefinite terms in the quadratic Dirichlet form in order for a full coercive estimate to hold.
    Gregory Verchota*, Syracuse University
    (1052-35-239)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Pseudo-differential operators on the unit circle.
    Shahla Molahajloo*, York University
    (1052-35-241)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Automorphisms of Riemann Surfaces and Related Topics, IV
  Room 117, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  S. Allen Broughton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology allen.broughton@rose-hulman.edu
  Anthony Weaver, Bronx Community College, the City University of New York
  Aaron D. Wootton, University of Portland
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Automorphisms of Pants and Tori: Primitives and Palindromes.
    Jane Piore Gilman*, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, Newark
    Linda Keen, Mathematics Department, Lehman College, CUNY
    (1052-20-191)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Pairs of symmetries of Riemann surfaces.
    Ewa Kozlowska-Walania*, Institute of Mathematics, University of Gdansk
    (1052-30-205)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Application of theory of coverings in a study of Riemann surfaces.
    Ewa Tyszkowska*, University of Gdansk
    (1052-55-249)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Seeing symmetries of surfaces in 3-space.
    Thomas Tucker*, Colgate University
    (1052-20-110)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Towards Thomae formula for general cyclic covers of the Sphere.
    Yaacov Kopeliovich*, MEAG NY
    (1052-30-45)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Flat Surfaces, Teichmueller Discs, Veech Groups, and the Veech Tessellation.
    S. Allen Broughton*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    Christopher Judge, Indiana University
    (1052-14-87)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, IV
  Room 201, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Angel V. Kumchev, Towson University akumchev@towson.edu
  Michael P. Knapp, Loyola College
  Robert C. Vaughan, Pennsylvania State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Multiplicative mimicry and improvements of the Pólya-Vinogradov inequality.
    Leo Goldmakher*, University of Toronto
    (1052-11-149)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Zeros of partial sums of the Riemann zeta-function.
    Steve M. Gonek*, University of Rochester
    Andrew H. Ledoan, University of Rochester
    (1052-11-211)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Distribution of values of $L$-functions at the edge of the critical strip.
    Youness Lamzouri*, IAS Princeton
    (1052-11-196)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the low-lying zeros of Dedekind zeta functions associated to cubic number fields.
    Andrew Yang*, Dartmouth College
    (1052-11-91)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Integrals of Characteristic Polynomials of Unitary Matrices, and an Application to the Riemann Zeta Function.
    Donald Richards*, Penn State University
    (1052-11-60)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on n-Body Problems in Relativity, IV
  Room 220, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Michael K. H. Kiessling, Rutgers University miki@math.rutgers.edu
  Pavel B. Dubovski, Stevens Institute of Technology
  Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Rutgers University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    General-relativistic Nonlinear Electrodynamics.
    A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh*, Rutgers University -- New Brunswick
    (1052-83-289)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Panel discussion chaired by Michael K.H. Kiessling
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, IV
  Room 118, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  James Gillespie, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
  Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
  Simona Paoli, University of Haifa
  Donald Yau, Ohio State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Derivatives of the identity functor and generalizations of Milnor's invariants.
    Brian A Munson*, Wellesley College
    (1052-57-169)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the continuous cohomology of Bloch-Kato profinite groups.
    Ido Efrat, Ben-Gurion univeristy of the Negev
    Sunil Kumar Chebolu*, Illinois State Univeristy
    Jan Minac, University of Western Ontario
    (1052-55-44)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Two-track categories.
    David Blanc, University of Haifa
    Simona Paoli*, Penn State Altoona
    (1052-55-254)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An introduction to a topological Langlands program.
    Andrew Salch*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1052-55-339)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The connective K-theory of finite groups.
    Kijti Rodtes*, The University Of Sheffield
    (1052-55-25)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Secondary Cohomology and k-invariants.
    Staic D Mihai*, Indiana University
    (1052-55-181)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Function Fields and their Applications, IV
  Room 110, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Mihran Papikian, Pennsylvania State University papikian@math.psu.edu
  Kirsten Eisentrager, Pennsylvania State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Additive combinatorics in function fields.
    Craig Valere Spencer*, Kansas State University
    (1052-11-144)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Surfaces dominated by products of curves and ranks of abelian varieties.
    Lisa Berger*, Stony Brook University, Mathematics Department
    (1052-11-302)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Random Dynamics: Where Probability and Ergodic Theory Meet, IV
  Room 111, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Manfred Denker, Pennsylvania State University denker@math.psu.edu
  Wojbor A. Woyczynski, Case Western Reserve University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Multivariate Averaging.
    M. Denker*, Mathematics Department, Pennsylvania State University
    (1052-60-188)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Geometry of the Restricted Boltzmann Machine.
    Maria Angelica Cueto, University of California, Berkeley
    Jason R. Morton*, Pennsylvania State University
    Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
    (1052-60-268)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, IV
  Room 215, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Peter McNamara, Bucknell University peter.mcnamara@bucknell.edu
  Mark Skandera, Lehigh University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Eulogy for Jack Good.
    Doron Zeilberger*, Rutgers University
    (1052-05-31)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Counting facet derangements of hypercubes.
    Gary Gordon*, Lafayette College
    Elizabeth McMahon, Lafayette College
    (1052-05-67)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Descent sets of cyclic permutations.
    Sergi Elizalde*, Dartmouth College
    (1052-05-193)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Infinitely many new partition statistics.
    Gregory S. Warrington*, University of Vermont
    Nicholas A. Loehr, Virginia Tech
    (1052-05-251)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Probabilistic proofs of hook length formulas involving trees.
    Bruce E. Sagan*, Michigan State University and NSF
    (1052-05-58)
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic, Contact, and Complex Structures on Manifolds, IV
  Room 210, Thomas Building
  Organizers:
  Philippe Rukimbira, Florida International University rukim@fiu.edu
  Tedi C. Draghici, Florida International University
  Gueo V. Grantcharov, Florida International University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Informal Session
• Sunday October 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 120, Thomas Building
  

  • 3:15 p.m.
    A New Use of Group Representation Theory in Statistics.
    Arthur Berg*, Penn State University (previously, University of Florida)
    (1052-05-57)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the existence of a class of $(v, k, \lambda)$ difference sets with $k < 350$, $n=k - \lambda = m^2 , m = 8, 9, 11, 14$ and $v = 0 \pmod{68}$.
    Solomon Adegoke Osifodunrin*, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg PA
    (1052-05-344)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Analysis of Gene Expressions Using Young Tableaux.
    Sanju Vaidya*, Mercy College
    (1052-92-108)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Trajectory Controllability of Integro differential second order semilinear system in Banach space.
    Dimplekumar N. Chalishajar*, Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and Mary Baldwin College, VA
    Falguni S Acharya, Parul Insti. of Tech., Limbda, Waghodia,Vadodara, Gujarat, India
    (1052-93-109)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    The Simplest Continuous Model of Financial Chaos and Noise.
    James M. Haley*, H.J. Heinz Chair of Management, Point Park University
    (1052-00-350)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Use of Random Dynamical Systems in Computational Agent-Based Modeling.
    Andrew Clark*, Thomson Reuters
    (1052-60-335)

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