AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:10
2000 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Lowell, MA, April 1-2, 2000
Meeting #952
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Saturday April 1, 2000
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Meeting Registration
2nd Floor landing, Olsen Hall -
Saturday April 1, 2000, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Room 219A, Olsen Hall -
Saturday April 1, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, I
Room 406, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Vidhu_Prasad@uml.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Typical dynamics of volume preserving homeomorphisms.
Steve Alpern, London School of Economics
Vidhu S Prasad*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
(952-37-70) -
9:00 a.m.
Flows on the Hilbert Cube.
Bill Goldbloom Bloch*, Wheaton College
(952-37-173) -
9:30 a.m.
Measures on Cantor Space.
Ethan Akin*, CUNY
(952-54-77) -
10:00 a.m.
Monothetic Polish groups.
Eli Glasner*, Harvard University and Tel Aviv University
(952-54-35) -
10:30 a.m.
Topological dynamics on moduli spaces.
Joseph P Previte, Penn State Erie, Behrend College
Eugene Z Xia*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(952-37-16)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Syzygies, I
Room 405, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Irena Peeva, Cornell University ivp1@cornell.edu
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8:30 a.m.
A Bound on the Multiplicity for Codimension 2 Lattice Ideals.
Leah H Gold*, Cornell University
(952-13-82) -
9:20 a.m.
A vanishing theorem for complete intersections.
Craig Huneke, University of Kansas
David Jorgensen, University of Texas--Arlington and University of Kansas
Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
(952-13-135) -
10:10 a.m.
Finite Determination of Infinite Complexes.
Steven D Cutkosky, University of Missouri-Columbia
Hema Srinivasan*, University of Missouri - Columbia
(952-13-112)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Vorticity in Fluid Flows: Analysis and Methods, I
Room 304, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Louis F. Rossi, University of Massachusetts at Lowell Louis_Rossi@uml.edu
Richard B. Pelz, Rutgers University pelz@jove.rutgers.edu
John Grant, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
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8:30 a.m.
KAM tori in Point Vortex models for Heat Transport in Open Ocean Convection.
Chjan C Lim*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Andrew J Majda, Courant Institute
(952-76-12) -
9:10 a.m.
Symmetry and Singularity in Incompressible Flows.
Richard B Pelz*, Rutgers University
(952-76-39) -
9:50 a.m.
The Onset of Chaos in Vortex Sheet Roll-Up.
Robert Krasny*, University of Michigan
Monika Nitsche, University of New Mexico
(952-76-59)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on PDE and Dynamical Systems, I
Room 401, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Walter L. Craig, Brown University craigw@math.brown.edu
C. Eugene Wayne, Boston University cew@math.bu.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Smoothness of holonomy map for Anosov foliations.
Misha Guysinsky*, Tufts University
(952-37-152) -
9:00 a.m.
Minimal surfaces and two-convex domains.
Ailana M Fraser*, Brown University
(952-53-128) -
9:30 a.m.
Lipschitzness of invariant foliations in hyperbolic dynamical systems.
Boris Hasselblatt*, Tufts University
(952-37-107) -
10:00 a.m.
Singular Sturm-Liouville Theory on Manifolds.
Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
Robert McOwen*, Northeastern University
(952-35-53) -
10:30 a.m.
A Hodge decomposition theorem for certain non-compact Riemannian manifolds.
Daniel W Stroock*, MIT
(952-53-37)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Volumes on Minkowski and Finsler Spaces, I
Room 305, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Juan Carlos Alvarez, Universit\'e Catholique de Louvain alvarez@agel.ucl.ac.be
Dimitri Burago, Pennsylvania State University
Gaoyong Zhang, Polytechnic University
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8:30 a.m.
Definitions of area and relationships between them.
Anthony C. Thompson*, Dalhousie University
(952-52-64) -
9:10 a.m.
Crofton formulas on projective Finsler spaces.
Juan C Alvarez*, Universite Catholique de Louvain
Emmanuel Fernandes, Universite Catholique de Louvain
(952-53-67) -
9:50 a.m.
On minimal two-dimensional surfaces in normed spaces.
Dimitri Burago*, Penn State University
(952-53-147)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Special Session on Teaching Mathematics in the New Millennium, I
Room 306, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Ronald Brent, University of Massachusetts Lowell RB733@aol.com
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8:30 a.m.
Interactive Labs in a Microworld for Abstract Algebra.
Kenneth M Levasseur*, U. of Massachusetts Lowell
(952-97-89) -
9:00 a.m.
The Many Roads to Numeracy.
Dorothy I Wallace*, Dartmouth College
(952-97-62) -
9:30 a.m.
What is a Good Preparation for College? The View from College Mathematics Departments.
Guntram Mueller*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
(952-97-148) -
10:00 a.m.
Mathematics and Science Fiction: An Interdisciplinary Course.
John D Trout*, Dartmouth College
(952-97-103)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 8:50 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Enumerative Geometry in Physics, I
Room 407, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Emma Previato, Boston University ep@bu.edu
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8:50 a.m.
Infinitesimal Variations of Hodge Structures at Infinity.
Eduardo Cattani, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Javier Fernandez*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(952-14-132) -
9:20 a.m.
Hodge integrals and Hurwitz numbers.
Ravi D Vakil*, MIT
(952-14-120) -
9:50 a.m.
A local proof of Petri's conjecture at the general curve.
Herb Clemens*, University of Utah
(952-14-58) -
10:30 a.m.
Rational Hypergeometric Functions.
Eduardo Cattani*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
(952-33-134)
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8:50 a.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariance in Convex Geometry, I
Room 404, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, Georgia Institute of Technology klain@math.gatech.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Random polytopes of points chosen from the boundary of a convex set.
Carsten H Schutt*, University of Kiel
Elisabeth M Werner, Case Western Reserve University
(952-52-10) -
9:30 a.m.
Affine surface area and polytopal approximation.
K\'aroly B\"or\"oczky, Jr.*, R\'enyi Institute of Mathematics
(952-52-27) -
10:00 a.m.
Asymptotic expansions for the expected volume of the convex hull of random points.
Christian Buchta*, University of Copenhagen
(952-52-69) -
10:30 a.m.
On Crofton's boundary theorem for the convex hull of random points.
Matthias Reitzner*, Techn. Univ. Vienna, Austria
(952-52-47)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, I
Room 408, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
M. Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@jupiter.cs.uml.edu
Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Experimental quantum cryptography systems.
Richard J Hughes*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
(952-94-26) -
9:30 a.m.
Practical quantum cryptography: Under which circumstances is it secure?
Norbert L\"utkenhaus*, Helsinki Institute of Physics
(952-81-75) -
10:00 a.m.
Optimal Encryption of Quantum Bits.
Vwani P Roychowdhury*, University of California Los Angeles
Oscar P Boykin, University of California Los Angeles
(952-81-141) -
10:30 a.m.
Schmidt Modes for Continua in the QI Context.
Konrad Banaszek*, University of Rochester
C. Law, University of Rochester
J. H Eberly, University of Rochester
(952-81-142)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry, I
Room 402, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Robert Connelly, Cornell University connelly@math.cornell.edu
Marjorie Senechal, Smith College senechal@neal.smith.edu
Robert M. Erdahl, Queen's University erdahlr@post.queensu.ca
Walter J. Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal@math.yorku.ca
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9:00 a.m.
On lattice coverings with triangles.
Istv\'an Talata*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(952-52-144) -
9:30 a.m.
Some new triangulations of the sphere.
Robert J Dawson*, St. Mary's University
(952-52-110) -
10:00 a.m.
An Infinite Family of Prototiles with Heesch Number 5.
Casey Mann*, University of Arkansas
(952-52-176) -
10:30 a.m.
Equivalence and difference for covers on the $n$-cube.
Deborah S. Franzblau*, CUNY, College of Staten Island
George Xenakis, CUNY, College of Staten Island
(952-05-155)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Traveling water waves.
Room 214, Ball Hall
Walter Craig*, Brown University
(952-35-03) -
Saturday April 1, 2000, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
$L_p$ curvature.
Room 214, Ball Hall
Erwin Lutwak*, Polytechnic University
(952-52-04) -
Saturday April 1, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariance in Convex Geometry, II
Room 404, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, Georgia Institute of Technology klain@math.gatech.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Analytic Continuation of Convex Bodies by Projection Areas.
Eric L Grinberg*, Temple University
Eric Todd Quinto, Tufts University
(952-52-158) -
3:00 p.m.
Strip Discrepancy for Nonatomic Colorings.
Allen D. Rogers*, Elmhurst College
(952-52-117) -
3:30 p.m.
A mass transport inequality for the smoothing of a convex set by Minkowski addition of a ball.
Clayton Kerce*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(952-52-137) -
4:00 p.m.
Separoids, Oriented Matroids and the linearization problem.
Javier Bracho*, University Nac. Autonoma de Mexico
(952-52-179) -
4:30 p.m.
Gaussian Processes and Intrinsic Volumes.
Richard A Vitale*, University of Connecticut
(952-52-49)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, II
Room 408, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
M. Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@jupiter.cs.uml.edu
Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
The entanglement-assisted capacity of a quantum channel.
Charles H Bennett*, IBM Research Division
(952-81-143) -
3:00 p.m.
Positive linear maps and the classification of bipartite entanglement.
Barbara M Terhal*, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
(952-81-171) -
3:30 p.m.
Entanglement Properties of Identical Quantum Systems.
Christopher A Fuchs*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
(952-15-31) -
4:00 p.m.
Maximally entangled chains.
Kevin M O'Connor, Williams College
William K Wootters*, Williams College
(952-81-97) -
4:30 p.m.
Quantum games and quantum algorithms.
David A Meyer*, University of California/San Diego
(952-81-102) -
5:00 p.m.
Quantum Entropy Inequalities and Non-Commutative Gradient Flows.
Eric A Carlen*, Georgia Tech
(952-47-145)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, II
Room 406, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Vidhu_Prasad@uml.edu
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2:30 p.m.
(Non)Invariant Measures for Quasicontinuous Maps.
Annalisa Crannell*, Franklin & Marshall
Marc Frantz, IUPUI
(952-37-11) -
3:00 p.m.
Exactness and Maximal Automorphic Factors of Unimodal Interval Maps.
Henk Bruin, California Institute of Technology
Jane M Hawkins*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(952-37-13) -
3:30 p.m.
On Nonsingualr Chacon Transformations.
Toshihiro Hamachi, Kyushu University
Cesar E. Silva*, Williams College
(952-37-87) -
4:00 p.m.
Conjugacies between ergodic transformations and their inverses.
Geoffrey Goodson*, Towson University
(952-37-36)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Special Session on Syzygies, II
Room 405, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Irena Peeva, Cornell University ivp1@cornell.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Hyperplane Arrangement Cohomology and Syzygies.
David Eisenbud, University of California, Berkeley
Sorin E Popescu*, Columbia U and SUNY at Stony Brook
Sergey Yuzvinsky, University of Oregon
(952-15-101) -
3:20 p.m.
Homological properties of powers of the maximal ideal of a local ring.
Liana M Sega*, Purdue University
(952-13-86) -
4:10 p.m.
Betti numbers of general subsets of points on projective varieties.
Mircea I Mustata*, University of California, Berkeley
(952-14-43) -
5:00 p.m.
Cohen-Macaulayness and sqaurefree modules.
Tim Roemer*, University of Essen
(952-13-153) -
5:50 p.m.
Minimum Graded Betti Numbers and Gorenstein Ideals.
Ben P Richert*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(952-13-131)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Vorticity in Fluid Flows: Analysis and Methods, II
Room 304, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Louis F. Rossi, University of Massachusetts at Lowell Louis_Rossi@uml.edu
Richard B. Pelz, Rutgers University pelz@jove.rutgers.edu
John Grant, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
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2:30 p.m.
Eulerian Computation of Flows with Concentrated Vorticity Using Vorticity Confinement.
John Steinhoff*, University of Tennessee Space Institute
Yonghu Wenren, Flow Analysis Inc.
Lesong Wang, University of Tennessee Space Institute
Meng Fan, University of Tennessee Space Institute
Min Xiao, University of Tennessee Space Institute
(952-76-61) -
3:10 p.m.
On the existence of two-dimensional, localized, rotating, self-similar vortical structures.
Louis F Rossi*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
James Graham-Eagle, University of Massachusetts Lowell
(952-76-76) -
3:50 p.m.
Nonequivalent statistical equilibrium ensembles and refined stability theorems for most probable flows.
Bruce E Turkington*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Richard S Ellis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Kyle Haven, University of Massachuestts, Amherst
(952-76-113) -
4:30 p.m.
Evolution of the Magnitude and Geometry of Vorticity During Inviscid Interaction of Vortex Rings.
John R Grant*, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Jeffrey S Marshall, University of Iowa
(952-76-154)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Volumes on Minkowski and Finsler Spaces, II
Room 305, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Juan Carlos Alvarez, Universit\'e Catholique de Louvain alvarez@agel.ucl.ac.be
Dimitri Burago, Pennsylvania State University
Gaoyong Zhang, Polytechnic University
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2:30 p.m.
Analytic Continuation of Convex Bodies and Funk's Characterization of the Sphere.
Eric L. Grinberg, Temple University
Eric Todd Quinto*, Tufts University
(952-44-38) -
3:10 p.m.
Fourier Transforms and the Holmes-Thompson Volume of Finsler Manifolds.
Juan C Alvarez, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Emmanuel Fernandes*, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
(952-53-74) -
3:50 p.m.
Double Bubbles and Crystals, Minimizing Surface Area and More General Norms.
Frank Morgan*, Williams College
(952-49-121) -
4:30 p.m.
The discrete ${\hbox{L}}^0$-Minkowski problem.
Alina Stancu*, Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
(952-52-108) -
5:10 p.m.
A new affine invariant for polytopes and Schneider's projection problem.
Erwin Lutwak, Polytechnic University
Deane Yang, Polytechnic University
Gaoyong Zhang*, Polytechnic University
(952-52-115) -
5:50 p.m.
Examples of almost Blaschke manifolds.
Carlos E Duran*, IVIC
(952-53-149)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
Special Session on Teaching Mathematics in the New Millennium, II
Room 306, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Ronald Brent, University of Massachusetts Lowell RB733@aol.com
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Enumerative Geometry in Physics, II
Room 407, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Emma Previato, Boston University ep@bu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Quantum cohomology and quantum Chow ring of the cubic threefold.
Tom B Graber*, Harvard University
Rahul Pandharipande, California Institute of Technology
(952-14-94) -
3:00 p.m.
Mirror symmetry, cohomology and the chiral ring of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in toric varieties.
Anvar R Mavlyutov*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
(952-14-165) -
3:55 p.m.
Gauge Theory Techniques in Quantum Cohomology I.
Steven Rosenberg, Boston University
Mihaela B Vajiac*, Boston University
(952-14-160) -
4:30 p.m.
Gauge Theory Techniques in Quantum Cohomology II.
Steven Rosenberg*, Boston University
Mihaela Vajiac, Boston University
(952-14-151) -
5:00 p.m.
Mirror Symmetry.
Kentaro Hori*, Harvard University
(952-81-150)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry, II
Room 402, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Robert Connelly, Cornell University connelly@math.cornell.edu
Marjorie Senechal, Smith College senechal@neal.smith.edu
Robert M. Erdahl, Queen's University erdahlr@post.queensu.ca
Walter J. Whiteley, York University whiteley@pascal@math.yorku.ca
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2:30 p.m.
Recent Results on Untangling Unknots in Space.
Godfried T. Toussaint*, McGill University
(952-52-174) -
3:00 p.m.
The Knitting Problem.
Herman Servatius*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(952-52-177) -
3:30 p.m.
Bootstrap Percolation of Convex Defects.
Mikhail Menshikov, Moscow State University and the University of Sao Paulo
Konstantin Rybnikov*, Cornell University
Stanislav Volkov, EURANDOM, the Netherlands
(952-52-168) -
4:00 p.m.
Counting parallel redrawings of equatorial polytopes.
Ethan D. Bolker*, University of Massachusetts - Boston
Victor W. Guillemin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(952-52-92) -
4:30 p.m.
Symmetric degree of freedom 1 frameworks.
Brigette Servatius*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(952-52-178)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on PDE and Dynamical Systems, II
Room 401, Olsen Hall
Organizers:
Walter L. Craig, Brown University craigw@math.brown.edu
C. Eugene Wayne, Boston University cew@math.bu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Strichartz estimates for the Schr\"odinger equation with variable coefficients in lower order terms.
Igor Rodnianski*, Princeton University
(952-35-130) -
3:30 p.m.
Discreteness of spectrum for magnetic Schroedinger operators.
Mikhail A Shubin*, Northeastern University
(952-35-34) -
4:00 p.m.
Stability of modulating fronts in the Swift-Hohenberg equation.
Guido Schneider*, University Bayreuth (Germany)
(952-35-21) -
4:30 p.m.
Propagation of singularities for the wave equation on conic manifolds.
Richard Melrose, MIT
Jared Wunsch*, Columbia University
(952-35-93) -
5:00 p.m.
From Hamiltonian Systems to Kynetic and Macroscopic Dynamic.
Claude W Bardos*, ENS Cachan -CNRS and BROWN University
(952-35-96) -
5:30 p.m.
On Skyrme and Faddeev models.
Lev Kapitanski*, Kansas State University
(952-35-72)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 1, 2000, 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Department of Mathematics Reception
Lobby, Alumni Library